What design updates are coming in iOS 18
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iOS 18 introduces several design updates and enhancements. Here are some of the key changes:
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App Icons and Widgets Customization:
- App icons and widgets can now appear in light, dark, or tinted versions. A tinted version of your app icon will automatically be available to users after they upgrade to iOS 18. This ensures a consistent visual experience across the home screen (Platforms State of the Union).
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UIKit Enhancements:
- Document Launch Experience: Redesigned launch experience for document-based apps, allowing full control over launch views and support for template document creation (What’s new in UIKit).
- Tabs and Sidebar: Major updates to tabs and sidebar, including a new syntax in SwiftUI for tab views and new API in UIKit to better describe app hierarchy (What’s new in UIKit).
- Fluid Transitions: Support for new fluid transitions across the system (What’s new in UIKit).
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Controls API:
- New controls API allows creating controls that can be added to the control center, assigned to the action button on iPhone 15 Pro, or appear on the lock screen. This makes frequent tasks from your apps faster and easier to access (Platforms State of the Union).
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Tab and Sidebar Experience:
- Updated look for the tab bar, which now shares a safe area with the navigation bar for a more integrated appearance. Toolbar items from the navigation bar will automatically move to overflow if there's not enough room (Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS).
These updates aim to enhance the user interface, making it more customizable and delightful to use. For more detailed information, you can refer to the sessions mentioned above.
What’s new in UIKit
Explore everything new in UIKit, including tab and document launch experiences, transitions, and text and input changes. We’ll also discuss better-than-ever interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI animations and gestures, as well as general improvements throughout UIKit.
What’s new in device management
Learn about the latest management capabilities for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, then discover the latest changes to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. We’ll also share updates to Activation Lock, SoftwareUpdate, and Safari management.
What’s new in privacy
At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. Learn about new and improved permission flows and other features that manage data in a privacy-preserving way, so that you can focus on creating great app experiences.
Bring your Live Activity to Apple Watch
Bring Live Activities into the Smart Stack on Apple Watch with iOS 18 and watchOS 11. We’ll cover how Live Activities are presented on Apple Watch, as well as how you can enhance their presentation for the Smart Stack. We’ll also explore additional considerations to ensure Live Activities on Apple Watch always present up-to-date information.
Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS
iPadOS 18 introduces a new navigation system that gives people the flexibility to choose between using a tab bar or sidebar. The newly redesigned tab bar provides more space for content and other functionality. Learn how to use SwiftUI and UIKit to enable customization features – like adding, removing and reordering tabs – to enable a more personal touch in your app.
Enhanced suggestions for your journaling app
Find out how your journaling app can display journaling suggestions with richer content from the system. Explore new types of available content like state of mind data, reflection prompts, and support for third-party media content and motion-based activities.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.