What was revealed in WWDC24?
Asked on 06/11/2025
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At WWDC24, several exciting announcements and updates were revealed:
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Apple Intelligence: A new personal intelligence system was introduced, bringing powerful generative models to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This system enhances capabilities for understanding and generating language and images, with a strong focus on privacy and personal context.
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Xcode Previews: Xcode Previews now features a dynamic linking architecture, improving workflow efficiency by using the same build artifacts for previews and builds. A new previewable macro allows for dynamic properties like state to be used directly in previews.
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Swift and SwiftUI Enhancements: Swift is expanding to Windows and Linux, and Swift Assist can help transform ideas into code. SwiftUI has gained new customizations for app appearance, including custom hover effects for visionOS and new text renderer APIs for advanced visual effects.
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RealityKit and VisionOS: New APIs for low-level mesh and textures enhance app visuals, and RealityKit content can now be inspected more easily. VisionOS 2 introduces enhanced support for volumetric apps and new enterprise APIs.
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Gaming: With advancements in Metal and Apple silicon, Apple devices are becoming a unified gaming platform capable of running console-class games.
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OS Updates: The latest OS releases include numerous new features, with Vision Pro taking spatial computing to a new level. Over 1000 apps were available on the App Store shortly after VisionOS's release.
These updates and more were discussed in the Platforms State of the Union session.