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WWDC 2025 Includes In-Person Apple Park Event - Here's How to Attend

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Apple's 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference will primarily be hosted online so that all developers worldwide can attend and interface with Apple employees, but there is an in-person component in the form of a special event at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.

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Apple is hosting a keynote viewing party that some developers and students will be able to attend. The event will include the keynote and Platforms State of the Union, plus attendees will be able to meet with Apple experts in labs, explore Apple's campus, and participate in special activities.

At the 2024 WWDC event, developers and students were provided with refreshments to kick off the day, followed by the keynote event. Apple's Platforms State of the Union followed, and then there were Apple Park tours to choose from. The day ended with the Apple Design Awards and a dinner event.

Who Can Attend

Current Apple Developer Program or Apple Developer Enterprise Program members can apply to attend, as can Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni and Swift Student Challenge winners from 2023 to 2025.

350 Swift Student Challenge winners for 2025 are set to be announced on Thursday, March 27. 50 Distinguished Winners will receive an invite to a special three-day experience that includes the special event on June 9, and Distinguished Winners will not need to enter the lottery. The 300 other Swift Student Challenge winners will be able to attend if they win a spot in the lottery.

Both adults and children aged 13 to 17 can apply, but children will need to be accompanied by a legal guardian.

Lottery Selection

Because there is limited space at the Apple Park campus, Apple will choose attendees through a random lottery. Apple says that special event passes are allocated by a random selection process, and tickets are nontransferable.

How to Register to Go

If you're eligible to enter the lottery, you can apply on Apple's developer website. Apple is accepting special event pass requests until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 2.

Those who apply will be notified of their request status by the end of the day on Thursday, April 3.

Cost

While Apple is not charging for the viewing event at Apple Park, attendees will need to cover their own travel fees, including plane tickets and accommodations at nearby hotels.

Media Attendees

Apple has not yet sent out media invites, but it is likely that select members of the media will be invited to the Apple Park special event.

WWDC 2025 Dates and Viewing Info

WWDC 2025 will take place from Monday, June 9 to Friday, June 13. Developers who are not selected to attend Apple's special event can watch the June 9 keynote on Apple's website or on YouTube.

For those unable to watch the live stream, or who prefer to read a text version of the announcements, we'll have WWDC 2025 live coverage here on MacRumors.com and through our MacRumorsLive Twitter account, so make sure to follow.

Apple also plans to share all of the WWDC sessions and events in its Developer app and on its Apple Developer YouTube channel.

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Serious question - what was the point of constructing Steve Jobs theatre if its never going to be utilised? What a shame. I'm sure they use it internally and perhaps I'm not aware of other events. I miss the excitement exuded from a live audience!

If Apple want to show they still have vigor, they ought to bring back a strong in-person presentation, even if there is more of an online focus for developers worldwide.

Perhaps they'll consider this for their next big hardware launch? I think they need to be doing more to keep consumers engaged and interested in Apple products as the gold standard they are meant to be.
 
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Cupertino and Infinite Loop are great places to visit. Good to know there is a live event there. I'd go there if i were an Apple developer. Even as a tourist still a nice place. Shame they closed the merch shop
 
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4k78 said:
They need to have in person events. Not the overproduced crap we get now.
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redheeler said:
Apple forces the developers to return to office, yet the keynotes are still the crappy 2020 pandemic-style ones. Four possible timelines and we got the worst one.
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The more scripted it is the less can go wrong. That is why they porbably kept at it. That is also why they could present the still not functioning APPLE INTELLIGENCE... ;p
 
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Good to know. Will be nice if Apple has a lottery system that allows/invites normal customers to view Apple launch events.
 
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Overseas attendees watch out for border checks if you have Trump memes in your iPhone 😂
 
Can't wait to see what the future holds for Apple....and by that I mean things that won't be available for 2-3 years from now that they'll be debuting.
 
ButterF1ngers said:
Serious question - what was the point of constructing Steve Jobs theatre if its never going to be utilised? What a shame. I'm sure they use it internally and perhaps I'm not aware of other events. I miss the excitement exuded from a live audience!

If Apple want to show they still have vigor, they ought to bring back a strong in-person presentation, even if there is more of an online focus for developers worldwide.

Perhaps they'll consider this for their next big hardware launch? I think they need to be doing more to keep consumers engaged and interested in Apple products as the gold standard they are meant to be.
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And the irony of the name. One of the best presenters in modern history and they don't do presentations in the theater named after him.

His presentations were always great especially when they didn't go exactly according to plan. We don't want to see glossy made up scenarios where everything works unrealistically perfectly. We want to see the actual product being used in the real world in less than ideal environments. The environments we all actually live in every day.
 
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4k78 said:
They need to have in person events. Not the overproduced crap we get now.
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Yup. Really hoped this prerecorded BS would go away once they finally gave up on people caring about Covid. They've just gotten lazy.
 
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They need to have in person events. Not the overproduced crap we get now.
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Alas, even the live in-person Apple events are now overproduced theatre. At a recent live developer event next to the Apple Park visitor center, the presenter was reading "Hello, my name is ..." off of two large teleprompter displays in the back of the theatre. Even the jokes were scripted. You get to hear Apple engineers talking as themselves in the hallway between scheduled sessions. Not good ...
 
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