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Apple's WWDC 2024 introduced several updates and features related to WatchKit and watchOS 11. Here are some key highlights:
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Live Activities on Apple Watch: With watchOS 11, live activities from your iOS app are now available in the smart stack on Apple Watch. This allows users to track the progress of events or tasks directly from their watch. Developers can customize these live activities for Apple Watch to enhance user experience. You can learn more about this in the session Bring your Live Activity to Apple Watch.
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Widgets and Interactivity: watchOS 11 introduces new APIs for creating interactive widgets. The Accessory Widget Group API allows developers to create widgets with up to three different pieces of content, enhancing glanceability and interactivity. This is covered in the session What’s new in watchOS 11.
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Smart Stack Enhancements: The smart stack on Apple Watch has been improved to make it more intelligent and actionable. Developers can specify relevant contexts for their widgets, such as time of day or location, to ensure they appear when most useful. This is discussed in the session Platforms State of the Union.
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Designing for Apple Watch: The session Design Live Activities for Apple Watch provides guidelines on how to design effective live activities for the Apple Watch, leveraging features like the smart stack and dynamic island.
These updates provide developers with new tools and opportunities to create more engaging and contextually aware experiences on Apple Watch.
Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
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 watchOS 11
Explore new opportunities on Apple Watch, including bringing Double Tap support to your watchOS app, making your Smart Stack widgets even more relevant and interactive, and displaying your iOS Live Activities in the Smart Stack.
Design Live Activities for Apple Watch
Starting in watchOS 11, Live Activities from your iOS app will automatically appear in the Smart Stack on a connected Apple Watch. Learn how to optimize the layout of your Live Activity for the wrist, and provide the right level of information and interactivity at the right time.
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.