Apple Sending WWDC 2025 Invites to Special Event Lottery Winners

[MacRumors]

Apple plans to hold a WWDC keynote viewing party for select students and developers on Monday, June 9, with a limited number of invites available for an in-person Apple Park event. Apple accepted applications for attendance until yesterday, and the company is now sending out notices to those who have been selected to go via its lottery process.

The event is set to include WWDC-related special activities like the keynote viewing, the Platforms State of the Union, Apple Design Awards, Apple Park tours, and a dinner. Developers and students will also have opportunities to interface with Apple engineers and experts.

Current Apple Developer Program members, Apple Developer Enterprise Program members, Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni, and Swift Student Challenge winners from 2023 to 2025 were eligible to apply, with attendees chosen by random selection.

There is no cost to attend the Apple Park special event, but Apple does not cover transportation or lodging. Out-of-state attendees will need to purchase airfare, hotel accommodations, and transportation to Apple Park.

WWDC 2025 will take place from June 9 to June 13. Developers that were not selected to attent the Apple Park event can watch the keynote, get help from Apple engineers, and watch WWDC sessions online through the Apple Developer website and app.

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[iBreatheApple]

Can’t wait for them to talk about the upcoming full iOS 18 release 🫠

 

[WilliApple]

Still didn't get an invitation or a denial email yet.
Does this mean I am denied or not necessarily?

Update: I was denied

 

[dominiongamma]

Can’t wait for them to talk about the upcoming full iOS 18 release 🫠

I wonder if they’re gonna have the guts to bring up Siri during this keynote

 

[vegetassj4]

I wonder if they’re gonna have the guts to bring up Siri during this keynote

CUPERTINO, California—October 4June 9, 201125 iOS 18 also introduces Siri™Pro™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. Siri understands context allowing you to speak naturally when you ask it questions, for example, if you ask “Will I need an umbrella this weekend?” it understands you are looking for a weather forecast. Siri is also smart about using the personal information you allow it to access, for example, if you tell Siri “Remind me to call Mom when I get home” it can find “Mom” in your address book, or ask Siri “What’s the traffic like around here?” and it can figure out where “here” is based on your current location. Siri helps you make calls, send text messages or email, schedule meetings and reminders, make notes, search the Internet, find local businesses, get directions and more. You can also get answers, find facts and even perform complex calculations just by asking.

 

[Plutonius]

I would rather win a MacRumors give away .

 

[chrono1081]

Yet again I lose the lottery.

 

[Aeronauts]

Not quite the same since they switched to a keynote video but still a must watch for me. We should have a sweepstake for how many times Tim Cook will say the words amazing and magical.

 

[antiprotest]

🥱​

 

[ThailandToo]

Yet again I lose the lottery.

I wonder how many people/developers actually “win” the lottery? It wouldn’t surprise me if they just hand select all the people they want to be there. I mean how does Jon Gruber always get to go? I get it, blogger. What does Apple care about? MONEY. I would say the developers that are making AAPL the most money are the “winners” of the lottery. In whatever case it is, just state 100 lucky winners the remainder will all be our top producing developers.

 

[crisss1205]

I wonder how many people/developers actually “win” the lottery? It wouldn’t surprise me if they just hand select all the people they want to be there. I mean how does Jon Gruber always get to go? I get it, blogger. What does Apple care about? MONEY. I would say the developers that are making AAPL the most money are the “winners” of the lottery. In whatever case it is, just state 100 lucky winners the remainder will all be our top producing developers.

Media is a separate system.

But I got an invite as a developer and by no means do I bring Apple money. I think the last app I actually submitted to the App Store personally was years ago and they were all free. Outside the $99 membership they don't make anything off of me.

 

[Astuces iOS]

I didn’t ask for that… I don’t want to come to USA…

 

[ThailandToo]

Media is a separate system.

But I got an invite as a developer and by no means do I bring Apple money. I think the last app I actually submitted to the App Store personally was years ago and they were all free. Outside the $99 membership they don't make anything off of me.
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Congratulations. I still would like to know how many developers are getting in without having an “in?”

 

[mattaaron]

I wonder how many people/developers actually “win” the lottery? It wouldn’t surprise me if they just hand select all the people they want to be there. I mean how does Jon Gruber always get to go? I get it, blogger. What does Apple care about? MONEY. I would say the developers that are making AAPL the most money are the “winners” of the lottery. In whatever case it is, just state 100 lucky winners the remainder will all be our top producing developers.

Not true at all, it's all random and I'm sure outside of the random picks certain select to get a special invite (obviously).

I attended WWDC a few years back when Apple Vision Pro was announced, and I'm no one special. Matter of fact, I have never developed an App, nor done any work within Xcode, I had paid for the yearly developer fee for 2 years in a row prior to "winning" the lottery.

But I will say, attending WWDC was the best experience in my life. I met that Fred guy who's in all the WWDC videos (gray hair), I saw Apple unveil the Vision Pro with a live audience, hearing silence, excitement then gasping when they got to pricing. I went around the Apple Park, and when you show up to the event you're greeted by clips/cheers by TONS of people like you're a celebrity, it was just so freaking cool.

It motivated me to get back into learning coding for a good month or two, but things got caught up and I got scared of AI (making it harder to become a entry/JR level Swift developer with AI around the corner).

Anyway, sorry for the long text... just got a little worked up when I saw someone think it wasn't random and I can speak from experience it is random Also I have a lot of iOS buddies who have been developers for years and never got an invite (and here I am, got one an not a developer)

 

[WilliApple]

But I got an invite as a developer and by no means do I bring Apple money. I think the last app I actually submitted to the App Store personally was years ago and they were all free. Outside the $99 membership they don't make anything off of me.

Apple should require devs to have released an update for an app within the past year next year. This is a developer event, not a consumer event...

 

[crisss1205]

Apple should require devs to have released an update for an app within the past year next year. This is a developer event, not a consumer event...

I personally haven’t submitted any apps recently, but the company I work for on the other hand has, with millions of downloads.

It’s not like they have extensive labs anymore.

 

[AndiG]

Will we see another Apple intelligence hoax? Something awesome and unbelievable that is never going to turn into a real feature? Or will mother nature finally return?

 

[Spacegray]

I've been on this forum too long, I guess. For a moment i saw "Special Display Lottery Winners".

 

[SoldOnApple]

I wonder if we'll see a Vision product the average person can actually afford.

 

[Green Valkyrie]

Got an invite! Did not expect that.

Now to book flights and accommodation. I hear SF has taken a turn for the worse since my laat visit back in 2011, any recommendations on where to stay appreciated. Also on what related events are worth attending.

Can't wait

 

[JitteryJimmy]

Ah, fondly remembering the days when we would travel to far-flung places for a work-related conference.

Those days are dead.

 

[MisterSavage]

I went around the Apple Park, and when you show up to the event you're greeted by clips/cheers by TONS of people like you're a celebrity, it was just so freaking cool.

Nobody warned me they did this and they cheered when I got out of my Uber at the visitor center. I was so confused.

 

[mpe]

I was lucky and got invited 👍