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Learn how Device Hub can accelerate your development workflows. We’ll take a tour of its features and show you how to diagnose and reproduce issues quickly with devices and simulators.

Explore techniques to build powerful shortcuts using your app’s content. New automations unlock additional ways to integrate your app with the system. Refine how your App Entity is presented to LLMs using the new “Use Model” transcript feature. Store rich information from your app inside shortcuts that is synced across devices. Learn how to combine these features to create intelligent, powerful automations that integrate seamlessly with content and features from your app.

Private Cloud Compute lets you access powerful, frontier-class models while protecting user privacy. Explore how it works and how to access it using the Foundation Models framework. Discover best practices for checking availability and handling graceful fallbacks in your apps.

Liquid Glass unifies Apple platform design language while providing a more dynamic and expressive user experience. Get to know the design principles of Liquid Glass, explore its core optical and physical properties, and learn where to use it and why.

Snippets are compact views invoked from App Intents that display information from your app. Now, snippets can allow your app to bring even more capability to Siri, Spotlight, and the Shortcuts app by including buttons and stateful information that offer additional interactivity as part of an intent. In this session, you’ll learn best practices for designing snippets, including guidance on layout, typography, interaction, and intent types.

Discover how to bring PaperKit to your iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS apps. We’ll cover how to seamlessly integrate PencilKit drawing with markup features like shapes and images, and how to customize the user interface. Learn best practices for forward compatibility, and discover advanced customization options to create truly unique markup experiences in your apps.

Tour the latest updates to machine learning and AI frameworks available on Apple platforms. Whether you are an app developer ready to tap into Apple Intelligence, an ML engineer optimizing models for on-device deployment, or an AI enthusiast exploring the frontier of what is possible, we’ll offer guidance to help select the right tools for your needs.

Bring Live Activities into the Smart Stack on Apple Watch with iOS 18 and watchOS 11. We’ll cover how Live Activities are presented on Apple Watch, as well as how you can enhance their presentation for the Smart Stack. We’ll also explore additional considerations to ensure Live Activities on Apple Watch always present up-to-date information.

Learn about the new Contacts authorization modes and how to improve Contacts access in your app. Discover how to integrate the Contact Access Button into your app to share additional contacts on demand and provide an easier path to Contacts authorization. We’ll also cover Contacts security features and an alternative API to be used if the button isn’t appropriate for your app.