How do I push updates to all my Apple devices?
Generated on 7/31/2024
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To push updates to all your Apple devices, you can leverage different methods depending on the context and the type of updates you want to send.
For Live Activities
If you are looking to broadcast updates for live activities to a large audience, you can use broadcast push notifications from Apple Push Notification service (APNs). This method allows you to send a single push notification that APNs will deliver to every device with an active live activity, ensuring everyone has the up-to-date information. This is particularly useful for scenarios where many people are viewing the same event, such as a sports game score.
For more details, you can refer to the session Broadcast updates to your Live Activities.
For Device Management in Organizations
If you are managing devices in an organizational environment, you can use Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager in conjunction with a Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution. This setup allows you to manage software updates, including beta updates, across all supervised devices. You can enforce updates, manage beta program participation, and even customize the setup experience for new devices.
For more details, you can refer to the session What’s new in device management.
For Game Progress Syncing
If you are looking to sync game progress across multiple Apple devices, you can use CloudKit for cloud saves. This ensures that game progress is saved to iCloud and can be accessed from any device, allowing seamless switching between devices.
For more details, you can refer to the session Port advanced games to Apple platforms.
Relevant Sessions
- Broadcast updates to your Live Activities
- What’s new in device management
- Port advanced games to Apple platforms
These sessions provide comprehensive information on how to manage and push updates across various Apple devices and use cases.
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.
Broadcast updates to your Live Activities
With broadcast push notifications, your app can send updates to thousands of Live Activities with a single request. We’ll discover how broadcast push notifications work between an app, a server, and the Apple Push Notification service, then we’ll walk through best practices for this capability and how to implement it.
Port advanced games to Apple platforms
Discover how simple it can be to reach players on Apple platforms worldwide. We’ll show you how to evaluate your Windows executable on Apple silicon, start your game port with code samples, convert your shader code to Metal, and bring your game to Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Explore enhanced Metal tools that understand HLSL shaders to validate, debug, and profile your ported shaders on Metal.