what's new? give me a summary
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Here's a summary of what's new from the recent WWDC sessions:
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UIKit: Enhancements include support for a new design system with vibrant materials like Liquid Glass, improvements for adapting content across devices, new APIs for the menu bar on iPadOS, and architectural advancements. What’s new in UIKit
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Swift: Swift 6.2 introduces workflow improvements for writing, building, and debugging code, new library APIs, and language features that enhance concurrency and performance. What’s new in Swift
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SwiftUI: New APIs make working with SwiftUI easier, including custom container views, improved interoperability, and enhancements for crafting immersive experiences. What’s new in SwiftUI
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ARKit: Latest improvements include room and object tracking capabilities, and advancements in hand tracking for spatial computing experiences. Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit
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Wallet: New features allow adding event information to tickets, upgrading boarding passes with a new design, and a new API for automatically adding passes to Wallet. What’s new in Wallet
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watchOS 11: Enhancements include more actionable widgets, new navigation options with double tap, and updates in HealthKit and WorkoutKit. What’s new in watchOS 11
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visionOS 26: System features include advanced machine learning updates and new APIs for immersive media and spatial web experiences. What’s new in visionOS 26
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StoreKit and In-App Purchase: New features in StoreKit include enhancements to the core framework, new ways to merchandise subscriptions, and improved testing experiences in Xcode. What’s new in StoreKit and In-App Purchase
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App Store Connect: Improvements include features to help discover apps, manage apps more effectively, and new analytics metrics to help grow your app. What’s new in App Store Connect
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Safari and WebKit: New features aim to enhance web experiences with updates in animation, layout, visual effects, and media handling. What’s new in Safari and WebKit
These updates reflect Apple's ongoing efforts to enhance developer tools and frameworks, making it easier to create innovative and efficient applications across their platforms.
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.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll talk about workflow improvements that make you more productive, and new and modernized library APIs for fundamental programming tasks. We’ll show examples of Swift adoption throughout more layers of the software stack. Finally, we’ll explore new language features for both improving approachability of concurrency, and achieving peak performance when you need it.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll briefly go through a history of Swift over the past decade, and show you how the community has grown through workgroups, expanded the package ecosystem, and increased platform support. We’ll introduce you to a new language mode that achieves data-race safety by default, and a language subset that lets you run Swift on highly constrained systems. We’ll also explore some language updates including noncopyable types, typed throws, and improved C++ interoperability.