what is new in UIKit 2025 wwdc?

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At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced several new features and enhancements for UIKit. Here are the key updates:

  1. New Design System: UIKit now supports a new design system centered around a material called Liquid Glass. This material is translucent, dynamic, and features effects like specular highlights and refraction. It is applied to various components such as navigation bars, search fields, alerts, popovers, and split views. The design aims to provide a more vibrant and fluid user experience.

  2. Improved Transitions and Interactions: Slide transitions in UIKit are now fluid and interruptible, allowing users to interact with content without waiting for animations to complete. This enhances the responsiveness of apps.

  3. New Tools and Effects: New tools like the Background extension view and a glass material for custom components have been introduced. Additionally, a new scroll edge effect allows content to gracefully fade as it scrolls under glass platters, improving the legibility of bar buttons and other controls.

  4. Architectural Improvements: UIKit now includes built-in support for Swift observable objects, integrating Swift observation at its core. This allows for automatic tracking of observable view references and dependencies, streamlining code and improving performance.

  5. Menu Bar on iPadOS: New UIKit APIs have been introduced for the menu bar, a familiar macOS element that is now available on iPadOS.

For a comprehensive overview of these updates, you can watch the session What’s new in UIKit (00:59).

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What’s new in UIKit

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.

Build a SwiftUI app with the new design

Build a SwiftUI app with the new design

Explore the ways Liquid Glass transforms the look and feel of your app. Discover how this stunning new material enhances toolbars, controls, and app structures across platforms, providing delightful interactions and seamlessly integrating your app with the system. Learn how to adopt new APIs that can help you make the most of Liquid Glass.

Build a UIKit app with the new design

Build a UIKit app with the new design

Update your UIKit app to take full advantage of the new design system. We’ll dive into key changes to tab views, split views, bars, presentations, search, and controls, and show you how to use Liquid Glass in your custom UI. To get the most out of this video, we recommend first watching “Get to know the new design system” for general design guidance.