Coincidentally, we noticed one other rumor earlier right this moment suggesting a brand new MacBook Air may very well be on the best way. This was based mostly on retailer pages discovered on B&H Photograph’s website that talked about a 14-inch MacBook Air (opens in new tab) and a brand new 13-inch MacBook Professional (opens in new tab), plus a Mac mini M2 and a mysterious “Mac mini tower” utilizing an Apple M1 Professional chip. 

Nevertheless, these rumors have now been dismissed, with B&H’s senior supervisor of internet artistic content material Shawn C. Steiner (opens in new tab) saying the photographs aren’t actual and had been “Preemptively made earlier than the final occasion and never correctly eliminated. All guesses based mostly on rumors.”

Here is a take a look at the display the Apple Retailer is at the moment displaying. There is no additional data on this past what Apple says, which is unsurprisingly obscure: “Creating information. We’re making updates to the Apple Retailer. Test again after the occasion, streaming on apple.com or on the Apple TV app.”

Breaking: OK, that is huge — the Apple Retailer is down proper now (opens in new tab). 

That is vital, as a result of as MacRumors’ Sami Fathi (opens in new tab) tweets above, this solely tends to occur when new {hardware} is on the best way.

So, that MacBook Air 2022 is trying like a lock, proper?

In fact the strongest {hardware} rumor round WWDC issues the brand new MacBook Air 2022.

That is tipped to get a serious design overhaul for the primary time in years, with thinner show bezels, an oblong rounded chassis, new shade choices and extra. However there may very well be extra to this improve than only a design refresh; it is also rumored to get a brand new Apple M2 chip, a Mini-LED show and new ports, amongst different treats.

We have rounded up all the highest rumored MacBook Air 2022 options forward of right this moment’s WWDC keynote.

There’s one other doable announcement at WWDC 2022, and it pertains to Apple’s efforts in combined actuality. Rumors counsel there’s an Apple VR/AR headset within the works, and whereas few count on an indication of the system — it’s supposedly not transport till 2023 — Apple might nonetheless unveil instruments for constructing apps that benefit from AR.

Such a transfer may very well be so simple as releasing a brand new model of ARKit, the developer instruments Apple already provides for creating AR-friendly iPhone apps. However there’s additionally a chance of a preview of realityOS, the rumored software program that will energy any Apple VR/AR gear.

It’s value taking note of any AR information at WWDC because it might give us a greater thought of simply what Apple is planning for subsequent yr.

Within the buildup to WWDC, probably the most talked-about rumors is new multitasking options for the iPad, coming through iPadOS 16. Apple routinely beefs up the multitasking capabilities of its tablets — final yr’s iPadOS 15 replace made it simpler to leap into Cut up Display screen or Slide Out views with completely different apps — however this yr’s effort sounds a bit of bit completely different.

Particularly, Apple insiders predict a extra desktop-like expertise for working a number of apps without delay and leaping between the completely different apps. One rumor factors to resizable app home windows, precisely like those you may have on the Mac. 

Mark Gurman of Bloomberg has essentially the most full take a look at iPadOS 16’s rumored multitasking revamp (opens in new tab), no less than till Apple fills within the particulars throughout right this moment’s keynote.

The lock display with widgets characteristic might set the stage for Apple so as to add always-on show assist to some iPhone 14 fashions within the fall. (The guess is that this is perhaps an iPhone 14 Professional-only functionality.) However even when that’s the case, Apple is unlikely to say the iPhone 14 by title. A teaser just like the one Google pulled off at Google I/O for the Pixel 7 simply isn’t a part of Apple’s playbook.

Which isn’t to save lots of that there will not be hints about what’s coming within the fall contained in Apple’s iOS 16 preview. Right here’s a take a look at what WWDC might inform us concerning the upcoming iPhone.

However that’s not the one rumored change to iOS 16, which appears like fairly a considerable replace. 

We’ve received a round-up of the high rumored options for iOS 16 together with updates to notifications and Messages. We’ve additionally heard that new apps may very well be showing in iOS 16, although there aren’t any specifics on what these apps may handle. That didn’t cease us from making a few guesses about some iOS 16 modifications.

The largest anticipated change coming to iOS 16 this yr may very well be the power so as to add widgets to the lock display. 

Particularly, Apple goes to create new wallpapers you’ll be able to choose on your lock display, and a few will embrace widgets that presumably present the present temperature, upcoming appointments or any of the opposite at-a-glance data you’ve been in a position to place on your own home display since iOS 14.

Just like the final two years, WWDC is a digital occasion, with the shows — together with right this moment’s keynote — streaming on-line. However it could be extra correct to explain WWDC as principally digital.

A handful of builders shall be attending the WWDC keynote in-person, and Apple’s on-campus shows aren’t simply restricted to the keynote. The corporate can be displaying off its new Developer Middle.

Apple touts the Developer Middle, which is positioned close to the Apple Park campus, as a spot the place builders can meet with and be taught from the corporate’s engineers and designers. There are sufficient little touches to heat the center of even essentially the most jaded Apple Geek, together with rooms named after the completely different macOS variations.

Good morning and welcome to Tom’s Information’s WWDC 2022 stay weblog. 

We’ll be rounding up all of the last-minute rumors and leaks forward of right this moment’s occasion — and there are many these — then bringing you all of the information because it occurs from 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. BST. Stick to us and you will not miss a factor.