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PHPicker is the simplest and most secure way to integrate the Photos library into your app — and it’s getting even better. Learn how to handle ordered selection of images in your app, as well as pre-selecting assets any time the picker is shown. And for apps that need to integrate more deeply with PhotoKit, discover how you can use PHCloudIdentifier to sync photo project content across devices, helping people easily transition their image work between iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Explore the latest advancements in Mac app development with AppKit. We’ll show how you can enhance your app’s design with new control features and SF Symbols 3, build powerful text experiences using TextKit 2, and harness the latest Swift features in your app.

Learn how to build a document-based app entirely in SwiftUI! We’ll walk you through the DocumentGroup API and how it composes with your App and Scenes, allowing you to add out-of-the-box support for document management — such as document browsing and standard commands — no heavy lifting required. You’ll learn to set up Universal Type Identifiers as well as gain understanding into what makes a top-notch document-based app.

Make over your Mac apps: Discover how you can embrace the new design of macOS Big Sur and adopt its visual hierarchy, design patterns, and behaviors. We’ll explore the latest updates to AppKit around structural items and common controls, and show you how you can adapt more customized interfaces with just a bit of adoption work. And find out how you can incorporate custom accent colors and symbols to further personalize your app.

Let people select photos and videos to use in your app without requiring full Photo Library access. Discover how the PHPicker API for iOS and Mac Catalyst ensures privacy while providing your app the features you need.

When you create a Safari Web Extension, you can help people get common online tasks done more quickly and efficiently. We’ll show you how to build a new Safari Web Extension and host it on the App Store, as well as how to use the safari-web-extension-converter tool to migrate existing extensions from other web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, or Edge with very little effort.

watchOS 6 enables a whole new level of watchOS experiences by allowing fully independent apps and apps built just for Apple Watch, and by bringing the App Store to Apple Watch. Discover how to leverage the power of many iOS frameworks and technologies, now on watchOS, to create fully independent experiences on Apple Watch.

Learn about the latest APIs in AppKit and associated frameworks. Get an overview of the enhancements coming in macOS Catalina to help you save time, take advantage of the latest hardware, and add polish to your application.

Dive into the details about what it means to support multitasking in iOS 13. Understand how previous best practices fit together with new ideas. Learn the nuances of structuring your application to support multiple windows, and how to instantiate your UI, handle windows coming and going, and manage your app’s underlying window resources.

We are on a journey to continuously improve macOS security, with a particular focus on preventing malware and protecting user data. Join us on the next step and learn more about what’s new in Gatekeeper—for keeping malware out of macOS—as well as new protections that help keep users’ data and activity under their control.

Learn how to use signposts and logging to measure performance. Understand how the Points of Interest instrument can be used to examine logged data. Get an introduction into creating and using custom instruments.

CloudKit keeps app data updated across iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and the web so you can focus on building your app. Hear best practices from the CloudKit engineering team about how to take advantage of the APIs and push notifications in order to provide your users with the best experience. Learn about the ways Apple apps use CloudKit and how you can apply the same approaches in your app.

CloudKit makes it easy to store and retrieve any kind of data from iCloud. Dive into the API with the CloudKit framework team as they explore some of its lesser-known features, explore best practices around subscriptions and queries, and reveal its hidden gems.

CloudKit is the framework that powers iCloud on iOS and OS X, now available directly in your app. Learn how you can take advantage of its feature-rich API to store and query your own custom data and assets in iCloud.

Dive deep into CloudKit! Learn how to perform advanced operations on records and store private data and gain a deeper understanding about custom record zones, ensuring data integrity, and effectively modeling your data.

iCloud Storage enables apps to store documents and settings across iOS and OS X. Discover how iCloud Storage works, learn about the latest advancements in development and debugging for iCloud and the Key-Value Store, and learn how your app can use iCloud to store documents and settings today.