WWDC 2026 Wishlist
07 Jun 2026
This is my sometimes annual post on WWDC Eve, on what I’d like to see this year from Apple’s developer conference
I’m usually disappointed, and it was interesting to look at my prediction for WWDC 2024. Lots of hope for AI features, and lots of stuff still not delivered.
1. AI (Again, Again)
Apple really are massively behind in AI right now, but supposedly this is the year they finally get it right, and we will get an actually functional Siri and useful integrations.
Apple have signed a deal with Google to use Gemini, so it will be very interesting to see what they’ve actually done
My particular wishes are …
Much improved on-device LLM developer functionality
Earlier in the year I used Apple Intelligence to add daily summaries in my Sideboard app, which was a pretty underwhelming experience - the summaries are actually pretty useless ☹️
However this is a perfect case for seeing if the new Gemini-backed, on-device tools have improved in iOS 27. They really need to!
MCP support in Siri
I’m sure this won’t happen, but I don’t just want App integration in Siri, I want external MCP server support too. Not everything is an app, and the other main AI providers allow you to do this
2. Full support for reminders in EKEventKit
I’m in the middle of making a new app to make it easy to quickly add reminders
I’m back replacing Todoist with Apple Reminders as my task list, but miss Todoist’s fast way of adding tasks - so I’m making my own app to do this
Not sure this will ever ship (but I’m using it every day!), but the creaking EkEventKit - the official API for dealing with reminders - is missing support for lots of the newer reminder properties (tags etc.)
There really is no excuse for not updating this API, again really hoping this is the year
3. Improved SwiftUI on Mac
I actually really like SwiftUI, and it’s great you can (mostly) share UI code across Apple’s different platforms with it (mostly) working
That’s a lot of “mostly”s though, and Apple needs to make the code just look better on the Mac, and not have some truly ugly implementations on their core OS.
Conclusion
Realised the general tone this year is one of frustration with Apple, a general lack of quality in what they have shipped (or not) in the last few years
Not hopeful about most of my hopes, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised this year?
Post-WWDC scorecard
I’ll update here post-WWDC with my scorecard