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For iOS 17, here are some of the key updates and features that were highlighted at WWDC:
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UIKit Enhancements:
- Improvements to transitions and animations.
- Updates to tab bars and the document launch experience.
- Enhanced integration between UIKit and SwiftUI.
- What’s new in UIKit
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Privacy Updates:
- Improved transparency and control over access to local network, Bluetooth, and contacts.
- New flow for sharing contacts, providing options for limited or full access.
- What’s new in privacy
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StoreKit and In-App Purchase:
- Deprecation of the original API for in-app purchases, with a strong recommendation to update to StoreKit 2.
- Introduction of Winback offers to help recover churned subscribers.
- What’s new in StoreKit and In-App Purchase
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Device Management:
- New exceptions for enrolling in MDM on newly set up devices.
- Requirements for installing proprietary in-house apps using a new team identity.
- What’s new in device management
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Journaling App Enhancements:
- Landscape support for the journaling suggestion picker.
- New asset types for journaling suggestions.
- Enhanced suggestions for your journaling app
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Live Activities on Apple Watch:
- Support for live activities on Apple Watch, leveraging existing work done for the dynamic island on iOS.
- Customization options for live activity views on Apple Watch.
- Bring your Live Activity to Apple Watch
These updates provide a broad range of new features and improvements that developers can leverage to enhance their apps on iOS 17.

What’s new in StoreKit and In-App Purchase
Learn how to build and deliver even better purchase experiences using the App Store In-App Purchase system. We’ll demo new StoreKit views control styles and new APIs to improve your subscription customization, discuss new fields for transaction-level information, and explore new testability in Xcode. We’ll also review an important StoreKit deprecation.

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.

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.

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.

What’s new in AppKit
Discover the latest advances in Mac app development. Get an overview of the new features in macOS Sequoia, and how to adopt them in your app. Explore new ways to integrate your existing code with SwiftUI. Learn about the improvements made to numerous AppKit controls, like toolbars, menus, text input, and more.

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.

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.

Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.