Apple WWDC as it happened: Tech giant updates every product it makes and releases new HomePod Siri speaker

Apple CEO Tim Cook walks off stage after speaking during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West centre (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Apple just updated every single one of its products. And released some new ones as well.

The company is holding its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, and kicked it off with its most wide-ranging event of the year.

As well as updating the software for all of its products, as it always does, the company showed off. That included updates to the iPad and Mac line – but most of all was the Siri speaker, a talking music system for the home.

Find full coverage on each of those releases – iOS 11, the new macOS, a new Siri and the HomePod speaker – below.

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Key Points

• Apple launches Siri home speaker alongside updated Mac and iPad hardware
• Software revealed for all of Apple's platforms: iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS

[5 June 2017 11:10 · Andrew Griffin]

Here's everything Apple is going to release – it's just about everything, apart from new iPhones http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-wwdc-live-updates-iphone-mac-software-future-tim-cook-keynote-tech-san-jose-a7773141.html

[5 June 2017 13:44 · Andrew Griffin]

The Apple Store is down! (As it always is.) http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-wwdc-store-down-iphone-siri-speaker-ipad-mac-expected-time-date-a7773481.html

[5 June 2017 14:42 · Andrew Griffin]

Every year, Apple gives out jackets to WWDC attendees. This year's are better than ever – and come with pins 

[5 June 2017 14:50 · Andrew Griffin]

There'll be no iPhone at WWDC, and never is. But we might get a good look at what it's going to look like: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/iphone-8-apple-wwdc-ios-11-release-date-keynote-latest-rumours-san-jose-live-a7773666.html

[5 June 2017 16:14 · Andrew Griffin]

Some people are worried because 32-bit apps appear to be disappearing from the App Store. Apple has subtly warned this might happen for a while, and now it is – large swathes of the App Store is probably going to be unavailable once iOS 11 arrives.

For the time being, they're still available through the App Store – so long as you have a direct link, rather than looking through search. And it's not like Apple will start removing the files from your phone.

But it is likely that they'll stop working completely once iOS 11 arrives in September, after it's unveiled today.

In fact, though, it probably won't make a great deal of difference. App developers have known about the change for a long time, and devices now show a warning alert every time someone tries to open a 32-bit app. As such, it's likely only to be old and neglected apps that disappear from the store, if Apple does decide to ban 32-bit ones.

[5 June 2017 16:51 · Andrew Griffin]

David Phelan, The Independent's man on the ground in San Jose, is waiting in the queue outside for the keynote

[5 June 2017 16:52 · Andrew Griffin]

And here he is slightly closer

[5 June 2017 17:10 · Andrew Griffin]

Here's how to watch along at home: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/apple-wwdc-live-stream-time-latest-updates-ios-11-iphone-ipad-mac-tv-tim-cook-san-jose-a7774076.html

[5 June 2017 17:19 · Andrew Griffin]

Everyone is running very fast into the room where the keynote will be held, and being told to slow down. (Still another 40 minutes left, but there's a lot of seats – some of them good and some of them much less good.) 

Dave Lee

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5:18 PM - 05 Jun 2017

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