What’s new in animations?

New High-Level Transitions: Introduced new transitions for navigation and presentations, including a new zoom transition in iOS 18. This transition allows a cell to morph into the incoming view and is continuously interactive, enabling users to grab and drag it around during the transition. (Enhance your UI animations and transitions)
SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit Integration: Improved integration between SwiftUI animations and UIKit/AppKit, allowing for more seamless and powerful animations across these frameworks. (Enhance your UI animations and transitions)
Interactive Spring Animations: New interactive spring animations that carry forward with continuous velocity, enhancing the fluidity of animations. (Enhance your UI animations and transitions)

New Animation Presets: Introduced new universal animation presets such as Wiggle, Rotate, and Breathe. These presets allow for more expressive animations to elevate app interfaces. (What’s new in SF Symbols 6)
- Wiggle: Highlights changes or calls to action by oscillating a symbol in any direction or angle.
- Rotate: Spins parts of a symbol around a designated anchor point.
- Breathe: Smoothly scales a symbol up and down to indicate ongoing activity.
Enhanced Existing Presets: Updates to existing presets, including a new magic replace behavior for the default replace animation, which smoothly animates badges and slashes. (What’s new in SF Symbols 6)

Blend Shape Animation: New features for blending between different shapes using blend shape animation.
Skeletal Poses and Animation: Animate objects by rotating joints to pose them into various positions. (Compose interactive 3D content in Reality Composer Pro)

SwiftUI Enhancements: SwiftUI now allows setting up animations on UIKit or AppKit views and driving them with SwiftUI, including fully custom animations. (Platforms State of the Union)

These sessions provide a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in animations across various Apple platforms and tools.