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