WWDC 2020: How to watch Apple event live and when it will happen

Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the keynote address during the 2019 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Apple is about to host its Worldwide Developers Conference, its biggest software event of the year.

It will bring updates to every one of its platforms, as well as potentially seeing the announcement of major changes to Apple's Macs and other products.

Will I be able to watch live?

Yes – using just about whatever platform you like. Apple will be streaming it on on its website and its own platforms, in its apps for various products, as well as on YouTube and streaming websites in China.

The simplest tool for many people is likely to be YouTube, and the link is actually up on that site already. There, you can also click to get a reminder when the event begins, so that you can jump straight into the live stream.

What time will it happen?

Everything starts at 10am in Apple's local pacific time, on Monday 22 June. That's 6pm in the UK.

It will probably last for an hour or two, depending on how much Apple has to say. Of course, it could be much shorter or longer, especially since there has never been any event of Apple's like this before.

WWDC will actually run through the whole week, though most of the events will be focused on technical sessions for developers. The second most exciting event of the week is the Platform State of the Union, which offers a deeper dive into the new updates that are revealed in the morning keynote, which will take place later on Monday.

What will be announced?

There will definitely be updates to every one of Apple's platforms, though of course how big those updates are will vary. iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, tvOS will all get their individual updates, and that has been all but confirmed in the invitations and announcements that the company has sent out.

The exact details of those updates has not yet been revealed, unlike in previous years. But rumours have suggested that iOS could get a slightly more dynamic home screen, and that there will be new fitness features coming to the Apple Watch.

But Apple often uses the event to announce hardware and other major changes, too. And this year might see the introduction of one of the most major of those changes ever: the transition away from Intel chips in its Macs to ARM ones, designed by Apple itself, in a change that is rumoured to bring vast performance improvements but will also require significant work from developers to support.