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Identifiable Information in WWDC 2024 Sessions

Several sessions at WWDC 2024 discussed the use of unique identifiers in various contexts. Here are some key points:

  1. MapKit:

    • Place ID: Introduced as a unique identifier for places, which can be used to reference places represented by map items in the MapKit framework and by place in MapKit JS. These identifiers are unique and remain valid over time, making them useful for persisting and sharing data.
    • Unlock the power of places with MapKit (00:00:56)
  2. TipKit:

    • Custom Identifiers: Allows tips to be reused based on their content. Custom identifiers can be based on concrete elements like user IDs or trail names, enabling TipKit to make tips eligible based on events across multiple app launches.
    • Customize feature discovery with TipKit (00:05:12)
  3. Core Spotlight:

    • Unique Identifiers: When creating a CS searchable item, a unique identifier should be stored in your app's persistent storage solution to recover the full item data.
    • Support semantic search with Core Spotlight (00:02:13)
  4. FinanceKit:

    • Account Identifiers: Each account has a local unique identifier, which is also present in every transaction and balance, making it easy to associate these objects with their containing account.
    • Meet FinanceKit (00:01:48)
  5. App Intents:

    • Uniform Type Identifiers: Used to label files or data with a type, making entities meaningful to the device and allowing for standardized data sharing.
    • What’s new in App Intents (00:05:00)
  6. SwiftData:

    • Unique Macro: A new schema macro that allows you to construct a compound constraint on persistent models, ensuring that combinations of model properties remain unique.
    • What’s new in SwiftData (00:02:43)
  7. AdAttributionKit:

    • Marketplace Identifier: Carries the identifier of the marketplace where the conversion occurred, such as the Apple App Store.
    • Meet AdAttributionKit (00:08:34)

These sessions highlight the importance of unique identifiers in various frameworks and tools, ensuring data integrity, reusability, and meaningful integration across different components of an app.

Customize feature discovery with TipKit

Customize feature discovery with TipKit

Focused on feature discovery, the TipKit framework makes it easy to display tips in your app. Now you can group tips so features are discovered in the ideal order, make tips reusable with custom tip identifiers, match the look and feel to your app, and sync tips using CloudKit. Learn how you can use the latest advances in TipKit to help people discover everything your app has to offer.

Meet FinanceKit

Meet FinanceKit

Learn how FinanceKit lets your financial management apps seamlessly and securely share on-device data from Apple Cash, Apple Card, and more, with user consent and control. Find out how to request one-time and ongoing access to accounts, transactions, and balances — and how to build great experiences for iOS and iPadOS.

What’s new in privacy

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.

Meet AdAttributionKit

Meet AdAttributionKit

Introducing AdAttributionKit, a new iOS framework for privacy-preserving ad attribution. Learn how AdAttributionKit supports re-engagement, click-through attribution (including support for custom creative), JWS formatted impressions and postbacks, and more. We’ll provide insight into testing your AdAttributionKit implementation and deep-dive into code snippets and best practices for adopting AdAttributionKit.

What’s new in App Intents

What’s new in App Intents

Learn about improvements and all-new features with App Intents, and discover how this framework can help you expose your app’s functionality to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and more. We’ll show you how to make your entities more meaningful to the platform with the Transferable API, File Representations, new IntentFile APIs, and Spotlight Indexing, opening up powerful functionality in Siri and the Shortcuts app. Empower your intents to take people deep into your app with URL Representable Entities. Explore new techniques to model your entities and intents with new APIs for error handling and union values.

Support semantic search with Core Spotlight

Support semantic search with Core Spotlight

Learn how to provide semantic search results in your app using Core Spotlight. Understand how to make your app’s content available in the user’s private, on-device index so people can search for items using natural language. We’ll also share how to optimize your app’s performance by scheduling indexing activities. To get the most out of this session, we recommend first checking out Core Spotlight documentation on the Apple Developer website.

Unlock the power of places with MapKit

Unlock the power of places with MapKit

Discover powerful new ways to integrate maps into your apps and websites with MapKit and MapKit JS. Learn how to save and reference unique places using Place ID. Check out improvements to search that make it more efficient to find relevant places. Get introduced to the new Place Card API that lets you display rich information about places so customers can explore destinations right in your app. And, we’ll show you quick ways to embed maps in your website with our simplified token provisioning and Web Embed API.

What’s new in SwiftData

What’s new in SwiftData

SwiftData makes it easy to add persistence to your app with its expressive, declarative API. Learn about refinements to SwiftData, including compound uniqueness constraints, faster queries with #Index, queries in Xcode previews, and rich predicate expressions. Join us to explore how you can use all of these features to express richer models and improve performance in your app. To discover how to build a custom data store or use the history API in SwiftData, watch “Create a custom data store with SwiftData” and “Track model changes with SwiftData history”.