Anything new for swift playgrounds on iPad
Asked on 06/17/2025
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Yes, there are new features for Swift Playgrounds on iPadOS. In the session titled "Evolve your document launch experience," it was mentioned that Swift Playgrounds has adopted a new launch experience. This includes a character named Byte, which guides and encourages developers as they learn Swift. The app's launch experience now features foreground and background accessories, allowing for a more personalized and engaging start. Playgrounds opens a selection of coding tutorials, and users can create a new app and open the editor with a tap of a button. The background can be customized with a plain color, gradient, image, or custom view. You can learn more about this in the session Evolve your document launch experience (00:01:08).
Evolve your document launch experience
Make your document-based app stand out, and bring its unique identity into focus with the new document launch experience. Learn how to leverage the new API to customize the first screen people see when they launch your app. Utilize the new system-provided design, and amend it with custom actions, delightful decorative views, and impressive animations.
What’s new in Xcode
Discover the latest productivity and performance advancements in Xcode 26. Learn how to leverage large language models in your development workflow. Explore editing and debugging enhancements, improved performance and testing tools, and Swift Build - the open-source build system engine used by Xcode.
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.