What is the most important ios update
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The most important iOS update presented at WWDC 2024 includes several key features and improvements across various sessions. Here are some highlights:
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UIKit Enhancements:
- Document Launch Experience: Redesigned for document-based apps to showcase their distinctive identity with full control over launch views and template document creation.
- Updated Tab and Sidebar: Major updates to tabs and sidebars for a more streamlined user interface.
- Fluid Transitions: Support for new fluid transitions across the system.
- SwiftUI Animations in UIKit: Improved integration between UIKit and SwiftUI.
- What’s new in UIKit
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Device Management:
- MDM Enrollment: New exceptions for enrolling MDM on newly set up devices without causing a security delay.
- Proprietary In-House Apps: Installing these apps with a new team identity will require a device restart.
- Safari Management: New configuration options for managing Safari extensions across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
- What’s new in device management
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Privacy Enhancements:
- Contacts Access Permission: More transparency and control over sharing contacts, with a new two-stage prompt for apps requesting ongoing access.
- Bluetooth and Local Network Access: Improved transparency and control.
- What’s new in privacy
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Controls API:
- Customizable Controls: New API to create controls that can be added to the control center or assigned to the action button on iPhone 15 Pro.
- Platforms State of the Union
These updates collectively enhance the user experience, improve app management, and provide better privacy controls in iOS 18.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
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 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 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.
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 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.
Use HDR for dynamic image experiences in your app
Discover how to read and write HDR images and process HDR content in your app. Explore the new supported HDR image formats and advanced methods for displaying HDR images. Find out how HDR content can coexist with your user interface — and what to watch out for when adding HDR image support to your app.