What's new this year?
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This year at WWDC, Apple introduced a plethora of new features and enhancements across various platforms and frameworks. Here are some of the highlights:
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UIKit:
- Redesigned launch experience for document-based apps.
- Major updates to tabs and sidebar.
- Support for new fluid transitions across the system.
- Enhanced integration between UIKit and SwiftUI.
- Numerous general enhancements and API additions.
- What’s new in UIKit
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Wallet and Apple Pay:
- Updates to Apple Pay on the web, allowing use on any non-Safari browser by scanning a code with an iPhone.
- Enhancements to the Wallet pass experience.
- What’s new in Wallet and Apple Pay
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SwiftUI:
- New features to make apps feel brand new, including a new tab view, beautiful mesh gradients, and snappy controls.
- Improvements to foundational building blocks and new tools for crafting immersive experiences.
- Enhancements for watchOS and visionOS.
- What’s new in SwiftUI
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Apple Intelligence:
- Introduction of Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system with powerful generative models for understanding and generating language and images.
- Deep integration into features and apps across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
- Platforms State of the Union
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StoreKit and In-App Purchase:
- New features for the subscription store view.
- Enhancements to StoreKit testing in Xcode.
- What’s new in StoreKit and In-App Purchase
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Device Management:
- New features for managing Apple devices in education and enterprise.
- Updates to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager.
- Platform-specific management updates.
- What’s new in device management
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App Store Connect:
- New ways to help get apps discovered on the App Store.
- Enhancements in TestFlight for app testing.
- New features to enhance customer reach.
- What’s new in App Store Connect
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Reality Composer Pro:
- New features such as video docking, deployment to iOS and macOS, and VisionOS environment authoring.
- Full body inverse kinematics API and blend shape animation.
- Compose interactive 3D content in Reality Composer Pro
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ARKit:
- Latest improvements for spatial computing experiences.
- New room tracking and object tracking capabilities.
- Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit
These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the new features and enhancements introduced this year. For more detailed information, you can explore the individual sessions mentioned above.
What’s new in SwiftUI
Learn how you can use SwiftUI to build great apps for any Apple platform. Explore a fresh new look and feel for tabs and documents on iPadOS. Improve your window management with new windowing APIs, and gain more control over immersive spaces and volumes in your visionOS apps. We’ll also take you through other exciting refinements that help you make expressive charts, customize and layout text, and so much more.
What’s new in App Store Connect
Explore new features for discovery, testing, and marketing. Find out how to nominate your apps for featuring on the App Store, share exciting moments (like a version launch) with marketing assets generated for you, deep link to specific content in your app from custom product pages, use the latest enhancements to TestFlight, and more.
Compose interactive 3D content in Reality Composer Pro
Discover how the Timeline view in Reality Composer Pro can bring your 3D content to life. Learn how to create an animated story in which characters and objects interact with each other and the world around them using inverse kinematics, blend shapes, and skeletal poses. We’ll also show you how to use built-in and custom actions, sequence your actions, apply triggers, and implement natural movements.
What’s new in Wallet and Apple Pay
Take passes and payments to the next level with new enhancements to Wallet and Apple Pay. Make your event tickets shine with rich pass designs in Wallet, and bring great Apple Pay experiences to even more people with third-party browser support. We’ll also look at how to disburse funds with Apple Pay on the Web and highlight new API changes that help you integrate Apple Pay into even more purchasing flows.
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 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.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit
Learn how to create captivating immersive experiences with ARKit’s latest features. Explore ways to use room tracking and object tracking to further engage with your surroundings. We’ll also share how your app can react to changes in your environment’s lighting on this platform. Discover improvements in hand tracking and plane detection which can make your spatial experiences more intuitive.
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.