when will UIKit die
Asked on 06/16/2025
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UIKit is not going to "die" anytime soon. In fact, it continues to evolve with new features and improvements. At WWDC 2025, Apple introduced several updates to UIKit, including enhancements for modern patterns, best practices, and deeper interoperability with SwiftUI. For example, iOS 26 requires the adoption of the UI Scene lifecycle, which is a significant architectural change for UIKit apps. Additionally, UIKit now supports new design elements like Liquid Glass, and there are improvements in animations and automatic observation tracking.
For more details on the latest updates to UIKit, you can refer to the session 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.
What’s new in UIKit
Explore everything new in UIKit, including tab and document launch experiences, transitions, and text and input changes. We’ll also discuss better-than-ever interoperability between UIKit and SwiftUI animations and gestures, as well as general improvements throughout UIKit.
Make your UIKit app more flexible
Find out how your UIKit app can become more flexible on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro by using scenes and container view controllers. Learn to unlock your app’s full potential by transitioning from an app-centric to a scene-based lifecycle, including enhanced window resizing and improved multitasking. Explore enhancements to UISplitViewController, such as interactive column resizing and first-class support for inspector columns. And make your views and controls more adaptive by adopting new layout APIs.