The 2018 developers conference season is coming to a close. We've heard from Microsoft and Google already, Monday, June 4th is Apple's turn to trot out its plans for the next year or so. Apple typically saves its premiere announcements like new iPhones for later in the year, using its World Wide Developers Conference to offer a look at what's coming to the devices many people already own. Usually that's in the form of MacOS and iOS updates, though last year we also met Apple's HomePod smart speaker and a 10.5-inch iPad Pro. In advance of the 2018 conference, here's a look back at what we saw last year and what we expect for Monday's events.

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference starts Monday in San Jose. Here are a few of the areas we'll be watching closely. Siri Speaker: Will Apple challenge Amazon's Echo? The possibility of a "Siri Speaker" is one of the biggest rumors coming into the event. The general consensus is that Apple needs to expand its virtual assistant into this growing area, possibly with the help of its Beats brand and technology.

This includes the future of messaging, photos, maps, and more. Apple's Photos app will create automatic folders and videos from your work (Photo: Jefferson Graham) SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple spent two hours at the WWDC developer conference updating us on enhancements for mobile devices, computers, the Apple TV set-top box and the Apple Watch. The new software enhancements will be available for us in the fall. Apple's Photo app has hundreds, if not thousands, of photos taken by us, and locating them is a chore. So in a nod to rival Google Photos, Apple is going to use machine learning to use facial recognition to organize faces and identify places.

This includes the future of messaging, photos, maps, and more. Apple's Photos app will create automatic folders and videos from your work (Photo: Jefferson Graham) SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple spent two hours at the WWDC developer conference updating us on enhancements for mobile devices, computers, the Apple TV set-top box and the Apple Watch. The new software enhancements will be available for us in the fall. Apple's Photo app has hundreds, if not thousands, of photos taken by us, and locating them is a chore. So in a nod to rival Google Photos, Apple is going to use machine learning to use facial recognition to organize faces and identify places.

This includes the future of messaging, photos, maps, and more. SAN FRANCISCO – Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference took place in San Francisco Monday morning, where the company introduced significant upgrades to iOS and its other operating systems, including redesigns to Apple Music and Messages. Apple also opened three key features – Siri, Maps and Messages – to third party developers and created the Home app to make for easier control of HomeKit using an iPhone, iPad or Watch. Details of the new features, plus reactions from our staff and other attendees, can be found in the live blog of the conference below. Thanks the audience and Apple community and ends WWDC.

Kevin Lynch, Apple's vice president of technology, previewed a new operating system for the Apple Watch that will make the wearable operate faster and will include new health, fitness and navigation capabilities when it becomes available in the fall. Users have noted the device's slow load time for apps as one of its major shortcomings, but Lynch said "in watchOS 3, your favorite apps should respond instantly."

SAN FRANCISCO -- Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is taking place in San Francisco, where Tim Cook and other executives are expected to reveal changes to Apple operating systems, give Siri a bigger role, and make the App Store more compelling for developers. We'll be live-blogging here, as our reporters at the Bill Graham Auditorium, follow the coverage. Thanks the audience and Apple community and ends WWDC. App varies from teaching young people simple code to introducing more complicated coding features. "Swift Playground will revolutionize the way people learn to code," Cook said.

Apple is set to unveil a new and improved Siri, the personal digital assistant, and widen its reach, to Mac computers and third-party apps. Apple will stage the Worldwide Developer's Conference at the Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco (Photo: Jefferson Graham) LOS ANGELES -- Monday, Apple gives a sneak peak at changes to its mobile IOS operating system and features for the Apple Watch and Apple TV. The event is WWDC, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which attracts over 5,000 folks who make apps and software for Apple devices to hear the latest about where Apple is headed. USA TODAY will be covering WWDC, with reporters Edward C. Baig, Marco della Cava, Jon Swartz and myself, so be sure to stick with us for the latest. The keynote starts at 10 a.m.