uikit at WWDC26
Asked on 2026-09-13
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For UIKit at WWDC26, the most relevant session is:
- Modernize your UIKit app — this session covers the big UIKit updates for 2026, including:
- new app adaptivity requirements
- fully resizable iPhone apps
- new APIs for tab bars, navigation bars, and menus
- support for Apple Intelligence
- an agentic coding skill to help automate modernization work
If you want, I can also summarize the key UIKit changes across WWDC24, WWDC25, and WWDC26.
Modernize your UIKit app
Discover the latest updates to UIKit. Learn how to update your iPhone app layouts to work great when resized with iPhone Mirroring and on iPad. Explore new APIs for tab and navigation bars, find out how to prepare your app for new Apple Intelligence capabilities, and get introduced to a skill for your coding agent of choice that helps modernize your codebase.
What’s new in UIKit
Modernize your app with the latest APIs in UIKit, including enhanced menu bar support, automatic observation tracking, a new UI update method, and improvements to animations. We’ll also cover how you can include SwiftUI scenes in your UIKit app and explore SF Symbols, HDR color pickers, and more.
Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit
Discover how to incrementally adopt SwiftUI in your existing AppKit or UIKit app. We’ll show you how to use the Observation framework to automatically update your views, integrate SwiftUI components into an existing view hierarchy, and bring gesture recognizers into SwiftUI. We’ll also explore how to add complete SwiftUI scenes to your app without changing your overall architecture.