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As it does seemingly every year, Apple has introduced new features with iOS 26 and macOS 26 that target existing third-party apps. Here’s what got hit at 2025’s WWDC.

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Just some of the apps that Apple has Sherlocked at WWDC 2025

It’s a historical aberration to keep calling it Sherlocking — the name comes from 2001 when Apple updated its Sherlock search app to include features from a developer’s app called Watson. In that case, Watson was destroyed, and a term was born.

It does stick, though. When a Mac user says it, you automatically know what they mean, and what the topic is about.

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