We’re halfway through may and this year’s World Wide Developer Conference at Apple is set to kick off in roughly a month, and the latest update dropped for the Apple Developer app contains new WWDC ’25 stickers.

As rumors circulate online about what’s potentially on the horizon between devices and operating systems, one thing has been mentioned frequently about both iOS 19 and macOS 16 – it would be a UI design overhaul. In the grid below the existing Developer app icon was filled in for the 12th and blank spot.

• Am I seeing this right..? Is that a new finder icon or a Genmoji made for WWDC?
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• It would be a bold change, but Apple has made changes to its finder “face” icon over the years. An entertaining thought nonetheless – what if it’s different but it doesn’t look either like the sticker or as we know it?
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• Before Mac OS X, the finder icon was either a flat-colorful two tone blue or was monochrome, depending on whether or not your Macintosh was capable of displaying color.
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• With the unveiling of Mac OS X, Apple updated the finder icon with color gradients, soft beveled edges, giving the appearance of an embossed icon or something between 2D/3D.
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• When Mac OS X Panther whooshed in with the brushed metal, the old Finder icon was swept away with Jaguar. The icon sheds the beveled design on the top 50% in favor of a clear border.
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• Yosemite introduced a more flat design with some shadows and mild embossing.
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• macOS Big Sur introduced a more refined, rounded version in line with the OS’s redesign.

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What should we expect at WWDC 2025?

As the Apple Silicon era draws upon its 5th year, Intel Macs are still on a current operating system – macOS Sequoia. It is not unreasonable to assume macOS 16.0 will drop all Intel Macs altogether, however, speculation and a pinch of hope remains for the 2025 macOS release to retain support.

• macOS 16, visionOS 3, iOS 19 betas, watchOS 12, and possibly new hardware releases however nothing is truly known at this time. Who knows? There might be.. “one more thing…”
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• We’ll find out the name of the new macOS.
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• Rumors speculate the existing visionOS is to influence macOS, iOS, and iPadOSs design in a few ways: increased transparency, a focus more on content, button/tab rounding, pop out menus, and an overall new design language.
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  • The last major design overhaul was macOS Big Sur, in line with the debut of the first Apple Silicon Macs on the market.
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• It is rumored Apple Intelligence will be leveraged to increase battery life.
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What do you think?

What do you think will show up at WWDC 2025? Share a comment below, or if we missed something.