Subscribe to the Tech Newsletter Bundle for exclusive scoops, insights and analysis on all things Apple and technology.Apple Inc.’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference will do little to assuage fears that the iPhone maker is a laggard in AI.

Apple Intelligence, the star of last year's WWDC, should be back for the 2025, as Apple looks to regain some momentum for its suite of AI tools after a rocky start. New hardware could appear, too, though that's a remote possibility this time around.

A prime example is Microsoft Recall, a feature meant to record the user's screen and index the information to make it searchable with AI. It was announced in May 2024 and initially supposed to be released to the public in June 2024, but was delayed several times for privacy reasons, finally launching in preview in April 2025.