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Explore new features for your CarPlay audio, navigation, voice-based conversational apps, and more. Discover how to create CarPlay video apps so people can browse and watch their favorite videos in supported vehicles when parked. Learn how to integrate thumbnails, media information, and voice controls in your CarPlay app.

Find out how Xcode and coding agents help you translate String Catalogs using the context of your app. We’ll walk through strategies for reviewing translated output and iterating on your localizations, so you can deliver a tailored experience to people around the world.

Learn how the model element brings interactive 3D content to your websites — now on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Discover tools for creating and optimizing 3D assets. Explore model element’s features and see how web standards are shaping the future of 3D on the web.

Get started with Safari web extensions by building and testing one from the ground up — no Xcode required. Explore how content blocking, page modification, native messaging, and the permissions mode work together to create a powerful, privacy-preserving browsing experience across platforms.

Learn how to create robust reading experiences for VoiceOver, Speak Screen, and more. Find out how to provide intuitive text selection, clear navigation between lines and paragraphs, and continuous reading across individual elements and multiple pages.

Unlock the full potential of your app’s interactive elements by making them accessible to everyone. We’ll break down how people understand and use controls with VoiceOver and other assistive technologies, exploring a variety of input methods like actions, the passthrough gesture, and direct touch. Join us for an in-depth exploration of several example controls as we refine and elevate the accessibility experience in each one.

Dynamic Type empowers people to comfortably read and interact with your app by letting them choose the text size that works best for them. You’ll learn how to get your app ready for Dynamic Type on tvOS through practical techniques for implementing font scaling and adapting your layouts for larger content. You’ll also discover how to optimize your media-focused interfaces like grids and carousels, ensuring a great experience for everyone who relies on different text sizes.

Find and fix performance problems faster than ever. Join us to explore how MetricKit equips you with vital performance metrics and actionable diagnostics to help you understand exactly where your app has opportunities for improvements. We’ll also cover how to intersect your app’s metrics and diagnostics by app state by using the StateReporting framework, providing you with the full picture to investigate optimizations in your app’s experience.

Elevate your app experience with Live Activities. Explore many of the places where Live Activities appear, including a new style in the Dynamic Island that delivers more information when iPhone is used in landscape. Learn how to tailor your Live Activity for each space, structure your content and data, and drive real time updates from start to finish using ActivityKit and push notifications.

Bring powerful new capabilities in macOS 27 to your Virtualization app. Discover how to automate the setup of macOS guests through user account setup on first boot. We’ll explore advanced workflows that involve passthrough of USB accessories to virtual machines, as well as custom network topologies and port forwarding. You’ll also learn about recent improvements that can enrich the experience of running your app’s virtual machines.

LiveCommunicationKit transforms your real-time communication apps into integrated experiences. We’ll show you how to deliver a rich, native conversation UI that puts your app right where people need it: from a full-screen presentation on the Lock Screen to seamless multitasking with the Dynamic Island. Join us as we step through integrating the framework for incoming, outgoing, and group conversations.

Learn how to prototype your app using agents in Xcode. Explore techniques for using AI to prototype interactions, iterate on layouts, and generate creative solutions to design challenges. You’ll learn how to evaluate ideas critically and refine them into polished, people-centered experiences for your app.

Explore the Automatic Assessment Configuration framework on macOS to deliver secure tests for education apps. Learn how to leverage new APIs to create a secure, configurable testing environment that incorporates more system-level features on Mac. Find out how built-in system prechecks and accessibility controls make it easier than ever to deliver a reliable exam experience.

Run AI agents locally with privacy, low latency, and offline access. Dive into how MLX advancements and Mac hardware make powerful agentic workflows possible entirely on-device. You’ll explore code agents such as OpenCode, see how they integrate into Xcode, learn techniques for multi-Mac scaling, and discover how to integrate tools seamlessly — without ever leaving your machine.

Scale your machine learning workloads across multiple Macs using MLX. Learn how to tackle interconnect efficiency, large model inference, request batching, and distributed training challenges. Discover how a few Macs on your desk can replace expensive cloud infrastructure for demanding AI workloads.

Learn how you can create photoreal visionOS environments for your apps, websites, and SharePlay experiences. Discover the design principles that make environments feel truly immersive and find out how you can create or capture reference materials, prepare high-fidelity CG assets, and craft real-time effects such as motion and lighting.

Unlock powerful image understanding with the latest Vision framework and Foundation Models framework updates. The new tap-to-segment request lets you segment images in new ways, and Vision now supports watchOS. Combine the new image support in Apple Foundation Model together with OCR, barcode scanning and your own tools to deliver LLM-powered visual understanding in your app.

Bring your app’s content and actions to Siri with App Intents. Model your data using App Entities, adopt App Schemas to enable powerful system actions, and support natural language interactions powered by Apple Intelligence. Explore how to enable semantic search, perform actions across apps, and create contextual experiences using onscreen awareness and content transfer. Find out best practices and testing tools to build fast, reliable Siri experiences.

Explore what’s new in the Foundation Models framework. Learn how to access Private Cloud Compute, integrate third-party and open source models, and work with vision capabilities. Discover context management APIs, built-in semantic search, and powerful primitives for creating agentic experiences in your apps.

Learn how to take your intelligence features further with Foundation Models framework primitives for dynamic context and agentic workflows. We’ll walk through engineering shared context, setting up privacy boundaries, and managing key value caching. Discover how to orchestrate smooth handoffs between local and server models.

Explore the enhanced FoundationModels instrument in Xcode to inspect behavior and optimize the performance of agentic flows. Learn how to inspect prompts, analyze latency, and trace control flow in advanced use cases that leverage multiple LanguageModelSessions and profiles.

Level up basic search into a retrieval-augmented system using SpotlightSearchTool and LanguageModelSession. Explore Core Spotlight integration, delegate-based hydration patterns, and how metadata quality impacts your search results. Learn how to use custom PipelineStages for tasks like sentiment analysis. Discover best practices for indexing and building flexible, context-rich search experiences in your app.

Dive deep into fundamental design principles for Apple platforms.

Explore practical approaches to branding using typography, color, components, and interactions that balance the familiar with the unique.

Discover how you can use ScriptGraph in Reality Composer Pro 3 to create no-code 3D content for your apps and games. Learn how to take advantage of visual nodes to build animations, create interactive moments, and incorporate SwiftUI elements to add speech bubbles and other UI to your experience.

Discover Music Understanding, a new framework that lets your app analyze audio across six dimensions, on device: key, rhythm, structure, pace, instrument activity, and loudness. And use the Music Understanding Lab sample app to visualize each result.

Bring the power of Apple Music into your app using MusicKit. We’ll cover authorization, subscription-status checks, music selection, playback control, and cross-storefront song sharing. Learn how to use the new Music Picker to let people browse the Apple Music catalog and their personal libraries. We’ll also break down the differences between SystemMusicPlayer and ApplicationMusicPlayer, and show you how to observe playback state.

Make your video content more accessible with generated subtitles — a powerful new feature that can transcribe spoken audio or translate subtitles from another language, using on-device models. Explore caption style preview, which lets people customize and preview subtitle styles during playback, and dive into implementation details for AVKit, AVPlayerLayer, and the Media Accessibility framework.

Discover the latest productivity enhancements in Xcode 27. Accelerate your development workflow through customization, coding agents, and Device Hub. Explore updates in localization, performance, and testing tools to refine your apps further.

Learn how you can use coding agents in Xcode in your development process. We’ll explore multiple ways of working with agents with tips to take you from creating an initial prototype to polishing a refined app. Discover how Xcode’s coding assistant adapts to help you stay engaged with the creative work that makes coding fun, whether you’re building an app solo or working with a team.

Discover the latest updates to Xcode Cloud that quickly get you started building and delivering your apps. Learn essential Xcode Cloud concepts, set up cloud build and tests simply by connecting your source repository, and configure for app distribution when you’re ready to ship. Find out how webhooks and management tools extends Xcode Cloud’s capabilities, supporting your most advanced workflows.

Build engaging live experiences with gRPC in your Swift app and backend. gRPC is an open-source RPC framework designed for high-performance, bidirectional streaming APIs. Explore how the gRPC Swift package provides a modern, safe runtime built with Swift concurrency. Learn how integrated tools streamline your workflow and help you deliver real-time features with ease.

Tackle app responsiveness issues with a clear workflow. Explore the Swift Concurrency instrument, Time Profiler, and System Trace to pinpoint bottlenecks. Discover how to use top functions and run comparisons to measure your improvements and confirm your fixes. And learn about other enhancements in Instruments which make each iteration of this cycle faster than ever, so you can deliver a smoother user experience in less time.

Follow along as we build a game of Solitaire to explore the latest drag-and-drop capabilities in SwiftUI. We’ll show you how to use the new reordering API to let people arrange content, implement drag containers to move multiple items at once, and customize the drag-and-drop lifecycle to fit your app’s rules. To get the most out of this session, watch “Meet Transferable” from WWDC22.

Discover how to incrementally adopt SwiftUI in your existing AppKit or UIKit app. We’ll show you how to use the Observation framework to automatically update your views, integrate SwiftUI components into an existing view hierarchy, and bring gesture recognizers into SwiftUI. We’ll also explore how to add complete SwiftUI scenes to your app without changing your overall architecture.

Experience SwiftData in action as we add persistence to an existing app. We’ll show you how to define your data models and seamlessly integrate persistent data with SwiftUI. You’ll also learn foundational skills for managing your app’s state using this expressive, declarative API.

Widgets highlight your app’s most important content across the system, providing people with another opportunity to engage. Discover the different types of widgets and explore the qualities that make them memorable. Learn how to create widgets, keep them up to date, and offer ways for people to customize them through App Intents and dynamic styling.

Discover the latest updates to UIKit. Learn how to update your iPhone app layouts to work great when resized with iPhone Mirroring and on iPad. Explore new APIs for tab and navigation bars, find out how to prepare your app for new Apple Intelligence capabilities, and get introduced to a skill for your coding agent of choice that helps modernize your codebase.

Discover the latest advancements in RealityKit designed to make your apps and games more immersive and realistic than ever. Explore powerful new capabilities including interactive cloth simulations, NavMesh pathfinding, mixed reality lighting, and customizable reverb meshes for enhanced spatial audio. Elevate your visual fidelity with improved shadows, character rendering enhancements, and support for Gaussian splatting.

Unlock powerful new features in Reality Composer Pro 3 for building spatial experiences. Learn how you can add content, visual effects, lighting, and interactivity to your immersive scenes — all without leaving the editor. Discover how to iterate quickly using AI-assisted features right within the editor.

Discover how Reality Composer Pro 3 empowers you to build bigger, more ambitious spatial projects. Learn about creating project-specific plugins that let you edit custom components, run custom systems, and build your own ScriptGraph nodes—giving you complete control over your spatial authoring workflow.

Check out how the new Spatial Preview framework brings content from your Mac directly into visionOS. Discover how to build dynamic workflows with live-syncing and bidirectional editing across both platforms. Learn about the SpatialPreview API, device discovery, 2D and 3D session integration, and new Quick Look capabilities to elevate your Mac apps spatially.

Find out how visionOS is advancing object tracking and spatial accessory input. Discover new ways to track moving and handheld objects, allowing you to bridge the physical and digital worlds. Learn about new supported classes of spatial accessories and what is needed to build your own custom accessories to enable unique interaction models in your apps.

Learn how to bring structured 3D models to life in visionOS. We’ll cover USDZ preparation, show you how to manipulate individual entities within hierarchical assemblies, and inspect the internal components within a model with a cross-sectional plane. Create stunning exploded-view animations for design review and collaboration experiences on Apple Vision Pro.

Dive into the latest advances in Universal Scene Description (USD) support on Apple platforms, including Swift-based USDKit, the new spatial preview API, and enhanced spatial web capabilities. Discover how the latest updates to the OpenUSD standard add support for accessibility, Gaussian splats, and compressed geometry. We’ll also walk through the expanded USD editing and rendering tools in Preview for Mac, showing you how to leverage these capabilities in your own apps.

Find out how foveated streaming delivers remotely rendered scenes to Apple Vision Pro in full fidelity. Explore how this framework combines native visionOS capabilities with third-party streaming technologies completely wirelessly, demonstrated using an OpenXR scene and NVIDIA CloudXR. Learn about the FoveatedStreaming framework, integration with the NVIDIA CloudXR SDK, and how dynamically foveated streaming provides benefits while still preserving privacy.

Build next-generation apps, games, and spatial experiences using new capabilities in visionOS 27. Explore the different pathways you can use to build experiences on visionOS — from using native Apple tools and frameworks, to streaming immersive content from a Mac or PC, leveraging third-party engines, or porting existing iOS apps. Discover how to elevate your spatial computing projects with the latest advances in 3D content creation, immersive media, and object tracking.

Bring your AppKit app up to date with modern macOS conventions. Dive into handling input with control events and gesture recognizers, moving beyond traditional tracking loops. Enhance keyboard navigation in your app, implement graceful state restoration after restarts, and take advantage of new corner concentricity APIs that let your interface blend seamlessly with the macOS aesthetic.

The names of your products, features, and labels can determine how people understand and navigate your app. Explore the principles behind thoughtful naming in app design, examine the patterns used across Apple apps, and learn how to make naming decisions with intention.

Explore new patterns and best practices when implementing search in your app. Discover how search plays a key role in helping people find and navigate content, and find out how to integrate search across different navigation models and Apple platforms.

Meet AppIntentsTesting, a new framework for validating your App Intents through the same infrastructure used by Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight. Discover how to execute intents, inspect results, and test entities and queries — all without requiring UI automation. Find out how to verify integrations like View annotations and Spotlight indexing, helping you catch bugs early in your development workflow.

Gain insight on how visual intelligence can transform content discovery in your app. Explore how to define entities, process images, and handle multiple result types effectively. Learn best practices for optimizing speed and relevance, and discover how intents enable direct actions like opening or playing content with a single tap.

Learn how to evaluate model-driven experiences using the Evaluations framework. In a probabilistic world, unit tests alone won’t suffice. Discover how to define metrics, automatically grade outputs, and aggregate statistics to ensure your AI-powered features perform reliably across Apple’s platforms.

Learn how to leverage advanced features of the Evaluations framework to build robust evaluations for your app. Explore evaluating flows with tool calling and dynamic conditions, and how to define what correct behavior means for your use case. Discover how to generate synthetic data, use judges effectively, and validate your datasets for reliable results.

Discover how to build a camera app that launches instantly so people never miss the perfect shot. Explore how to optimize the entire camera launch sequence — from app startup to first preview frame. Ensure your app has a polished camera experience by learning about new API’s that deliver faster launches, and best practices for smooth preview rendering and maintaining sustainable performance.

Capture super high resolution photos in your app using AVFoundation. Learn when to use the three different options to capture images — RAW, exposure-bracketed, and fully processed. Walk through configuring photo capture for 24MP and 48MP images across the Main, Tele, and Ultra Wide cameras. And discover how deferred photo processing keeps your app responsive as more photos are taken.

Harness the power of version 9 of the Core Image RAW processing APIs to dramatically improve image quality in your apps, with improved sharpness and more defined color, while using the Apple Neural Engine for optimal performance. Take advantage of the CIRAWFilter API to let your users edit RAW photos by changing exposure, noise reduction, sharpness, contrast and more. And explore new CIImageProcessor APIs that optimize performance by giving you precise control over tile sizing and buffer management.

Discover how you can use the power of Retention Messaging to reach subscribers before they cancel. Learn how to configure this feature in App Store Connect and add subscription offers, as well as leverage the Retention Messaging API to deliver real-time messaging and alternative options that encourage people to stay subscribed to your app or game.

Get a first look at Now Playing — a Swift framework that connects your app’s media playback to system surfaces like the Lock Screen, Control Center, Dynamic Island, and CarPlay. Discover how to publish playback state and respond to commands using its observable API. Explore remote playback sessions, a new capability that lets your app represent media playing on external devices and bring full playback controls to those same system surfaces.

Build adaptive web layouts that embrace content of all shapes and sizes. Explore how Grid Lanes lets you arrange differently-shaped elements into clean, flexible designs with simple CSS. And find out how flow-tolerance helps you refine accessibility while keeping your layouts malleable.

Learn how to unlock full control of styling select menus on the web. The HTML select element is getting a major upgrade with a new CSS appearance value, and new pseudo-elements. Discover how the select options can contain rich content with new possibilities in HTML. Build selects that match your design system, while keeping all the accessibility and robustness of the default element.

Transport your website’s visitors into virtual environments in Apple Vision Pro using the new Immersive API in JavaScript. Explore how to request immersive transitions from an inline model element, create compelling immersive experiences using features like video docking, and optimize performance for rich, real-world-scale experiences — all with just a few lines of code running on your website.

Discover the inner workings of lazy stacks in SwiftUI. We’ll explore how LazyVStack and LazyHStack estimate sizes, lazily load subviews, and prefetch content to deliver smooth scrolling experiences. We’ll also cover advanced performance optimizations, state management best practices, and tips for precise programmatic scrolling. To get the most out of this session, we recommend basic familiarity with SwiftUI layout using stacks.

Discover how to craft rich, custom experiences by creatively composing SwiftUI layout and graphics APIs. We’ll show you how to break down complex designs and use a creative pipeline to chain simple building blocks together. Learn how to draw with layer shaders, animate with timelines, and anchor views with alignment guides.

Discover Core AI, Apple’s new framework for on-device AI model deployment. Tour the ecosystem, from Python libraries for converting, authoring, and optimizing models, to a Swift API for simple plug-and-play inference and advanced use cases with strict latency and memory requirements. Explore the new Core AI models repository with ready-to-run examples for popular architectures. See how deep Xcode integration, including ahead-of-time model compilation, streamlines the workflow so you can deliver smarter, more responsive app experiences.

Dive into the complete custom model deployment workflow for Apple silicon with the new Core AI framework. Discover powerful techniques for authoring models using custom Metal kernels, alongside platform-aware compression strategies. The new Core AI Debugger offers deep intrinsic analysis, and AI-assisted workflows guide you from initial concept to optimized on-device execution.

Discover a curated collection of popular open-source models — including Qwen, Mistral, SAM3, and more — optimized for Apple silicon using the new Core AI Framework. Learn how to download, run, and benchmark models on your Mac, and integrate them into your app with just a few lines of code. Explore a new workflow for model compilation and on-device specialization to speed up first-time model load. Find out how to profile and optimize runtime performance with Core AI tools in Xcode.

Bring NumPy-style computing natively to Swift with MLX Swift. Discover how to eliminate cross-language friction in your machine learning workflows by handling image processing, tensor operations, and neural network training in a single, type-safe environment. Explore the APIs that let you leverage GPU acceleration while enjoying the compiler, tooling, and debugging experience you already know.

Unlock powerful machine learning performance with the Metal Tensor API and Metal Performance Primitives (MPP) Tensor Ops library. Discover how to create portable operations that take advantage of Neural Accelerators in Apple M5 and A19 GPUs. Learn to build custom machine learning kernels for your Core AI applications, and find out how to work effectively with quantized data formats and GPU memory optimization.

Explore all the new ways to leverage Apple Foundation Models on macOS. The Foundation Models SDK for Python lets you integrate with popular tooling and evaluation packages in the Python ecosystem. Find out how to use the brand new fm command introduced in macOS 27 to streamline scripting, automate model workflows, and accelerate your development process.

Learn comparative evaluation techniques to guide your prompt engineering and select the right model for your app. Explore how to baseline performance, expand your evaluation strategy, and convert results to JSON for integration with other tools. Discover when to apply different prompting strategies and how to iteratively refine prompts for best results.

Go behind the scenes of live Apple Immersive Video production. Discover how to package immersive video, spatial audio, and scene metadata for transport over IP networks using the SMPTE 2110 standard. Harness Apple’s Immersive Media Support, Video Toolbox, and AVFoundation frameworks to power real-time Apple Immersive Video workflows. To get the most out of this session, watch “Learn about Apple Immersive Video technologies” from WWDC25.

Extend the Foundation Models framework by implementing a LanguageModelExecutor for new models. Explore how to interface with the LanguageModelSession’s transcript, manage session state effectively, and optimize KV cache utilization. Find out how to support custom segment types and unlock advanced capabilities for your generative AI features.

Supercharge your iOS camera app with Center Stage using AVCapture APIs with the front camera on iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air. Explore how APIs enable zoom and rotate options, for more flexible ways to frame selfies and videos and to automatically get everyone in a group shot. Integrate Center Stage for video calls to automatically adjust the framing, so you’re front and center for virtual meetings and FaceTime calls. And learn how to stabilize your video for real-time video conferencing.

Polish how your app works with Siri using advanced App Intents APIs. Learn techniques that let people accomplish more with just their voice, help Apple Intelligence find your content, and provide context for on-screen awareness so Siri understands what’s happening in your app.

Dive deep into an Xcode project showing how you can make your app available to Siri. Learn how to adopt App Schemas to let people ask questions about calendar events and take natural language actions like scheduling. Discover best practices for making content available in the Spotlight semantic index and providing context for on-screen awareness.

Level up your App Intents adoption with advanced features to make it faster, more flexible, and more relevant. Find out how ValueRepresentation and RelevantEntities make your content more discoverable and allow it to travel across apps, EntityCollection improves performance, and SyncableEntity let you scale across devices. Explore richer parameter types including union values and long-running intents that handle cancellation gracefully.

Explore how to evaluate threats from indirect prompt injection, such as data exfiltration and unintended actions. Discover system safeguards and security best practices for using App Intents and the Foundation Models framework, including mitigations such as user confirmations, secure prompt design, and authentication.

Go behind the scenes and learn from CD PROJEKT RED how Cyberpunk 2077 came to Mac, setting a new standard for AAA gaming on macOS. Explore how the team leveraged Apple’s robust hardware, software, and development tools to bring this high-fidelity experience to life. Learn how you can apply similar techniques to your games. Find out how the innovative ‘For this Mac’ preset automatically optimizes graphical settings to balance visual fidelity and frame rate across the Mac lineup.

Kickstart your game’s journey to Apple platforms with new agentic skills in Game Porting Toolkit 4 that can dramatically accelerate the process of porting your game. Explore how to work alongside your AI coding assistant to adopt Metal 4, integrate MetalFX, and tune your game for Apple hardware. Find out how agents can autonomously troubleshoot GPU rendering issues using Metal debugging tools, empowering you to focus on what matters most.

Dive deeper into the techniques you can use to create compelling touch experiences for your games. We’ll share expert insights from indie to AAA game development, explore best practices for intuitive touch controls, and show you how to take advantage of Apple technologies like Touch Controller framework and Metal for great performance.

Discover how to integrate machine learning into your real-time rendering pipeline using Metal 4. We’ll explore practical adoption patterns and best practices for achieving production-quality results with MetalFX neural denoising, featuring real-world insights from Maxon’s Redshift Live. Learn how to train and deploy a neural tone mapper using the ML command encoder inline with your graphics work. Finally, dive into the new tensor API to build and evaluate small, specialized neural networks directly within your shaders.

Get started with Channel Sounding to bring distance and direction awareness to your Bluetooth accessories. Dive into the new Nearby Interaction and Core Bluetooth APIs, and walk through the accessory-side changes you’ll need. Optimize power consumption while ensuring a smooth, responsive experience.

Discover how to combine the convenience of built-in text views with the control of TextKit. We’ll show you how new APIs make it easy to extend UITextView and NSTextView with custom behaviors like line numbers and collapsible sections. We’ll also explore the TextKit architecture and walk through new caching and reuse policies for text attachments. To get the most out of this session, watch “Meet TextKit 2” from WWDC21 and “What’s New in TextKit and text views” from WWDC22.

Craft a canvas-based application with PaperKit. Explore the new data model APIs that let you access, create, and modify markup elements. Learn how to add custom controls and annotations, and discover best practices for integrating these features into your app to build a fully featured creative canvas.

Enable high-quality image creation in your app using Image Playground. With a new generative model that runs on Private Cloud Compute, users can make images in virtually any style, including photorealistic, in your app. You can also specify dimensions for use in even more places, and allow people to modify images using natural language descriptions and touch. Explore how to adopt Image Playground, generate images from descriptions and photos, and manage feature availability in your app.

Unlock native Apple In-App Purchases for your Unity game with the new StoreKit plug-in. Reduce download sizes with the new Background Assets plug-in, which delivers language-specific asset packs so each player gets just what they need. Plus, a new Steam Asset Converter helps you migrate existing builds.

Uncover how Trust Insights can help protect people from social scams and coercion. Explore how this new framework uses privacy-preserving machine learning to detect when someone may be coached into risky actions. Find out how to integrate Trust Insights into your app, interpret its signals, and design thoughtful interventions that safeguard people while respecting their privacy.

Track down hard-to-find game performance issues with powerful Metal tools. Discover how to collect rich performance data using Game Performance Overview in Instruments, run background traces with metalperftrace on macOS and Control Center on iOS, and use the new StateReporting API to correlate metrics directly to your game’s runtime state. Turn hours of telemetry into clear, actionable insights.

Meet container machines, a new tool included in Container that offers a lightweight persistent Linux environment on Mac. Explore how container machines work and how the design of Containerization allows for a performant and seamless experience when developing for Linux on macOS.

Discover how to reach more customers by offering subscriptions to groups and organizations. The Group Purchases feature lets a single subscriber buy multiple seats and invite others directly from your app. Volume Purchasing through Apple Business and Apple School Manager puts your subscriptions in front of enterprise and education buyers who already procure apps at scale. Learn how to offer these subscriptions and the options to configure availability and pricing in App Store Connect.

Discover how to build rich interactivity and stunning visual effects entirely within Reality Composer Pro using its powerful suite of graph-based tools. Learn to craft dynamic materials with Shader Graph, blend skeletal animations with Animation Graph, and simulate particle effects with Compute Graph. Go further by wiring up app interactivity with Script Graph, coordinating scene events with Sequencer, and designing intelligent NPC behaviors with Behavior Trees — all without leaving the editor.

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Meet the Games app – a new destination for players to keep up with what’s happening in their games, discover new ones, and play with friends, all in one place. Learn how to set up your game for optimal visibility in the Games app, integrate Game Center to enable social play, and keep players coming back with In-App Events.

Learn how to bring your Live Activities and widgets to CarPlay and CarPlay Ultra so people can view progress of their activities and see relevant information at a glance. Explore new template options available to all CarPlay apps, and learn how navigation apps can provide turn-by-turn metadata for display in the car’s instrument cluster or HUD.

Learn about new features in AdAttributionKit, including how to measure overlapping re-engagement conversions and customize ad attribution rules for your app. Gain insight on a new postback property you can use to measure the success of ad campaigns across countries and regions. We’ll also demonstrate new functionality and best practices for testing your AdAttributionKit implementation. To get the most out of this session, we recommend first watching “Meet AdAttributionKit.”

Discover how the latest enhancements and APIs in visionOS 26 expand access and extend enterprise capabilities announced last year. Learn how these all-new features make it easy to build model training workflows, enhance video feeds, and enable you to align coordinate systems over a local network to develop collaborative experiences in your in-house app.

Use Accessibility Nutrition Labels on your App Store product page to highlight the accessibility features supported by your app. You’ll learn how to evaluate your app’s accessibility features — such as VoiceOver, Larger Text, Captions, and more — and choose accurate and informative Accessibility Nutrition Labels. You’ll also find out how to approach accessibility throughout the design phase.

Learn how to optimize your app for maximum battery life. Discover how to identify the root cause of power issues in your app — whether you can reproduce the issue while connected to Xcode or on the go. Find out how to measure power use so you can make better decisions about new features and proactively build more efficient apps.

Discover background execution advancements and understand how the system schedules runtime. We’ll discuss how to get the most out of background runtime to allow your app to deliver features in the background while maintaining a great foreground experience. We’ll also cover how APIs provide background runtime for your app, and how each API is tailored for different use cases — including new APIs in iOS and iPadOS 26 that let your app finish tasks as your app transitions from the foreground to the background.

Learn how to create peer-to-peer network connections with Wi-Fi Aware. We’ll also cover how to share videos in real time, transfer large files, and control accessories with improved bandwidth and lower latency. And you’ll learn how to use DeviceDiscoveryUI, AccessorySetupKit, and the Network framework to use Wi-Fi Aware in your app.

Learn how to integrate accessibility features that take full advantage of the power and flexibility of macOS. Go beyond the basics to learn how to support VoiceOver and Voice Control, improve the layout of your views, explore how assistive technologies navigate your content, and more.

Learn how Digital Credentials can enhance online identity verification flows. We’ll cover how websites can integrate the Digital Credentials API to enable requesting information from IDs in Wallet. We’ll also explore how apps can provide their own identity documents for online verification using the new IdentityDocumentServices framework.

Learn how the latest web technologies in Safari and WebKit can help you create incredible experiences. We’ll highlight different CSS features and how they work, including scroll driven animation, cross document view transitions, and anchor positioning. We’ll also explore new media support across audio, video, images, and icons.

Learn about the APIs in the NetworkExtension framework that give your app the power and flexibility to extend the system’s core networking features — like implementing network content filters, creating and managing VPN configurations, and more. In iOS, iPadOS and macOS 26, you can now build robust content filters that make traffic decisions using the entire URL — not just the hostname — all without compromising privacy and security. We’ll start by briefly covering many of the key use cases for the NetworkExtension framework, including network relays and VPN. Then, we’ll dive into the new URL filter API and its key components, including Private Information Retrieval, Privacy Pass, and more.

Learn how Declarative Web Push can help you deliver notifications more reliably. Find out how to build on existing standards to be more efficient and transparent by design while retaining backwards compatibility with original Web Push.

Learn how the WebGPU API provides safe access to GPU devices for graphics and general-purpose computation. We’ll also explore the WGSL shading language to write GPU programs. And we’ll dive into best practices to achieve optimal performance while using minimal power across desktop and mobile devices.

Discover the latest spatial features for the web on visionOS 26. We’ll cover how to display inline 3D models with the brand new HTML model element. And we’ll share powerful features, including model lighting, interactions, and animations. Learn how to embed newly supported immersive media on your web site, such as 360-degree video and Apple Immersive Video. And get a sneak peek at adding a custom environment to your web pages.

Assistive Access is a distinctive, focused iOS experience that makes it easier for people with cognitive disabilities to use iPhone and iPad independently. In iOS and iPadOS 26, you can customize your app when it’s running in Assistive Access to give people greater ease and independence. Learn how to tailor your app using the AssistiveAccess SwiftUI scene type, and explore the key design principles that can help you create a high-quality Assistive Access experience for everyone.

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.

Learn about the App Intents framework and its increasingly critical role within Apple’s developer platforms. We’ll take you through a ground-up introduction of the core concepts: intents, entities, queries, and much more. You’ll learn how these pieces fit together and let you integrate your app through Apple’s devices, from software features like Spotlight and Shortcuts to hardware features like the Action button. We’ll also walk through how App Intents is your app’s gateway to integrating with Apple Intelligence going forward.

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.

Learn how to build privacy into your apps from the planning stages through deployment. We’ll cover practical ways to integrate privacy at each step of the development lifecycle, focusing on data minimization, on-device processing, and transparency and control. You’ll discover how to use Apple’s tools and frameworks to protect user data and create a privacy-respecting app experience.

Discover the latest updates for the App Store Server API, App Store Server Notifications, and App Store Server Library to help manage customer purchase data directly on your server and deliver great In-App Purchase experiences. We’ll cover updates to appAccountToken and signature signing, new fields in signed transaction and renewal info, and new APIs. Then, we’ll show how to generate a promotional offer signature on your server, and how to use the Send Consumption Information endpoint.

Network framework is the best way to make low-level network connections on Apple platforms — and in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 26, it’s a perfect fit for your structured concurrency code. We’ll explore how you can make connections, send and receive data and framed messages, listen for incoming connections, and browse the network for services. We’ll also cover key best practices along the way.

Learn how to improve your app’s audio recording functionality. Explore the flexibility of audio device selection using the input picker interaction on iOS and iPadOS 26. Discover APIs available for high-quality voice recording using AirPods. We’ll also introduce spatial audio recording and editing capabilities that allow you to isolate speech and ambient background sounds — all using the the AudioToolbox, AVFoundation, and Cinematic frameworks.

Explore the new monetization, subscription, and offer analytics coming to App Analytics. We’ll cover how powerful, new data visualizations and automated reports can help you make data-driven decisions that drive revenue growth, and discuss how to pair these metrics with acquisition features such as custom product pages to optimize and improve your monetization strategy.

Learn how to customize capture controls in your camera experiences. We’ll show you how to take photos with all physical capture controls, including new AirPods support, and how to adjust settings with Camera Control.

Learn to optimize your game engine with the latest advancements in Metal 4. We’ll cover how to unify your command encoding to minimize CPU overhead, scale up your graphics resource management to support massive scenes and maximize your memory budget, and load large libraries of pipeline states quickly.

Learn how you can design beautiful widgets for visionOS 26 that blend effortlessly into someone’s surroundings. Discover how you can add depth to your widget design and customize materials, sizes, and styles for spatial computing. We’ll share how to adapt your existing widgets for visionOS, or design new widgets that feel like real objects.

Learn how to support EnergyKit in your app so people can optimize electricity usage at home. This can help people run appliances or charge EVs during times when electricity is cleaner and cheaper. Get details about onboarding, generating a charging schedule, and providing energy usage insights back to people through electricity usage feedback.

Designed for IT administrators, MDM developers, and identity providers, this session covers the latest updates to Declarative Device Management, Apple Business Manager, Apple School Manager, Platform Single Sign-On, and more. Learn how these advancements streamline deployment, strengthen security, and improve the user experience.

Develop generative AI features for your SwiftUI apps using the Foundation Models framework. Get started by applying the basics of the framework to create an awesome feature. Watch step-by-step examples of how to complement the models with tools you build, stream results, and apply further optimizations for great performance.

Learn about how building App Intents that make actions available and work best with the new features in Shortcuts and Spotlight on Mac. We’ll show you how your actions combine in powerful ways with the new Apple Intelligence actions available in the Shortcuts app. We’ll deep-dive into how the new “Use Model” action works, and how it interacts with your app’s entities. And we’ll discuss how to use the App Intents APIs to make your actions available in Spotlight.

Learn how to seamlessly combine machine learning into your graphics applications using Metal 4. We’ll introduce the tensor resource and ML encoder for running models on the GPU timeline alongside your rendering and compute work. Discover how shader ML lets you embed neural networks directly within your shaders for advanced effects and performance gains. We’ll also show new debugging tools for Metal 4 ML workloads in action using an example app.

With Writing Tools, people can proofread, rewrite, and transform text directly within your app. Learn advanced techniques to customize Writing Tools for your app. Explore formatting options and how they work with rich text editing. If you have a custom text engine, learn how to seamlessly integrate the complete Writing Tools experience, allowing edits directly within the text view.

Discover how SwiftUI leverages Swift concurrency to build safe and responsive apps. Explore how SwiftUI uses the main actor by default and offloads work to other actors. Learn how to interpret concurrency annotations and manage async tasks with SwiftUI’s event loop for smooth animations and UI updates. You’ll leave knowing how to avoid data races and write code fearlessly.

Join us to learn the core Swift concurrency concepts. Concurrency helps you improve app responsiveness and performance, and Swift is designed to make asynchronous and concurrent code easier to write correctly. We’ll cover the steps you need to take an app through from single-threaded to concurrent. We’ll also help you determine how and when to make the best use of Swift concurrency features – whether it’s making your code more asynchronous, moving it to the background, or sharing data across concurrent tasks.

Learn how to optimize your app’s user experience with Swift concurrency as we update an existing sample app. We’ll start with a main-actor app, then gradually introduce asynchronous code as we need to. We’ll use tasks to optimize code running on the main actor, and discover how to parallelize code by offloading work to the background. We’ll explore what data-race safety provides, and work through interpreting and fixing data-race safety errors. Finally, we’ll show how you can make the most out of structured concurrency in the context of an app.

Learn about the latest advancements in the Vision framework. We’ll introduce RecognizeDocumentsRequest, and how you can use it to read lines of text and group them into paragraphs, read tables, etc. And we’ll also dive into camera lens smudge detection, and how to identify potentially smudged images in photo libraries or your own camera capture pipeline.

Explore new tools for building spatial experiences using SwiftUI. Learn the basics of 3D SwiftUI views on visionOS, customize existing layouts with depth alignments, and use modifiers to rotate and position views in space. Discover how to use spatial containers to align views in the same 3D space, helping you create immersive and engaging apps.

Discover how to seamlessly blend SwiftUI and RealityKit in visionOS 26. We’ll explore enhancements to Model3D, including animation and ConfigurationCatalog support, and demonstrate smooth transitions to RealityView. You’ll learn how to leverage SwiftUI animations to drive RealityKit component changes, implement interactive manipulation, use new SwiftUI components for richer interactions, and observe RealityKit changes from your SwiftUI code. We’ll also cover how to use unified coordinate conversion for cross-framework coordinate transformations.

Explore all the new enhancements available in the App Intents framework in this year’s releases. Learn about developer quality-of-life improvements like deferred properties, new capabilities like interactive app intents snippets, entity view annotations, how to integrate Visual Intelligence, and much more. We’ll take you through how App Intents is more expressive than ever, while becoming even easier and smoother to adopt. We’ll also share exciting new clients of App Intents this year like Spotlight and Visual Intelligence, and learn to write app intents that work great in those contexts.

The BNNS Graph Builder API now enables developers to write graphs of operations using the familiar Swift language to generate pre- and post-processing routines and small machine-learning models. BNNS compiles graphs ahead of execution and supports real-time and latency-sensitive use cases such as audio processing. In this session, we revisit last year’s bit-crusher example and simplify the Swift component by removing the reliance on a separate Python file and instead implement the audio effect entirely in Swift. The BNNS Graph Builder API is also suited to pre-processing image data before passing that data to a machine learning model. The session also includes a demonstration of clipping the transparent pixels from an image with an alpha channel.

Discover the new SpeechAnalyzer API for speech to text. We’ll learn about the Swift API and its capabilities, which power features in Notes, Voice Memos, Journal, and more. We’ll dive into details about how speech to text works and how SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber can enable you to create exciting, performant features. And you’ll learn how to incorporate SpeechAnalyzer and live transcription into your app with a code-along.

Discover how iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 26 enhance passkeys. We’ll explore key updates including: the new account creation API for streamlined sign-up, keeping passkeys up-to-date, new ways to drive passkey upgrades through automatic passkey upgrades and passkey management endpoints, and the secure import/export of passkeys. Learn how these improvements enhance user experience and security, and how to implement these updates in your apps to provide a smoother, more secure authentication experience. To get the most out of this video, first watch “Meet passkeys” from WWDC22.

Learn how to build a rich text experience with SwiftUI’s TextEditor API and AttributedString. Discover how you can enable rich text editing, build custom controls that manipulate the contents of your editor, and customize the formatting options available. Explore advanced capabilities of AttributedString that help you craft the best text editing experiences.

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.

Update your UIKit app to take full advantage of the new design system. We’ll dive into key changes to tab views, split views, bars, presentations, search, and controls, and show you how to use Liquid Glass in your custom UI. To get the most out of this video, we recommend first watching “Get to know the new design system” for general design guidance.

Unleash your creativity with new RealityKit features that can help you build rich 3D content for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and visionOS. Learn how you can access ARKit data directly through RealityKit. Explore how you can interact with your 3D content more naturally using the object manipulation feature. Discover some new APIs for scene understanding, environment blending, instancing and much more, all using an interactive sample.

Understand SceneKit deprecation and explore how to transition your 3D projects to RealityKit, Apple’s recommended high-level 3D engine. We’ll clarify what SceneKit deprecation means for your projects, compare key concepts between the two engines, and show you how to port a sample SceneKit game to RealityKit. We’ll also explore the potential of RealityKit across all supported platforms to help you create amazing 3D experiences with your apps and games.

Learn how you can integrate spatial accessories into your app. Display virtual content, interact with your app, track them in space, and get information on interactions for enhanced virtual experiences on visionOS.

Discover exciting new APIs to enhance windows, volumes, and immersive spaces in your visionOS app. Fine tune the behavior of your scenes when relaunched or locked in place. Make volumes adapt to their surroundings with clipping margins and snapping. Stream immersive content from Mac to Vision Pro. Elevate your existing UIKit-based apps with volumes and immersive spaces.

Discover how to use class inheritance to model your data. Learn how to optimize queries and seamlessly migrate your app’s data to use inheritance. Explore subclassing for building model graphs, crafting efficient fetches and queries, and implementing robust schema migrations. Understand how to use Observable and persistent history for efficient change tracking.

Discover the latest improvements in Metal rendering for immersive apps with Compositor Services. Learn how to add hover effects to highlight your app’s interactive elements, and how to render in higher fidelity with dynamic render quality. Find out about the new progressive immersion style. And explore how you can bring immersive experiences to macOS apps by directly rendering Metal content from Mac to Vision Pro.

Discover MLX LM – designed specifically to make working with large language models simple and efficient on Apple silicon. We’ll cover how to fine-tune and run inference on state-of-the-art large language models on your Mac, and how to seamlessly integrate them into Swift-based applications and projects.

Learn how to deliver age-appropriate experiences in your app with the new Declared Age Range API. We’ll cover how parents can allow their child to share an age range with an app to ensure a safe experience in a privacy-preserving way. We’ll also explore how this framework can help you tailor your app’s content and features based on a user’s age, and show you how to implement age gates, understand caching, and respect user privacy while creating safer and more engaging experiences.

Discover how to add effects like frame rate conversion, super resolution, and noise filtering to improve video editing and live streaming experiences. We’ll explore the ML-based video processing algorithms optimized for Apple Silicon available in the Video Toolbox framework. Learn how to integrate these effects to enhance the capabilities of your app for real-world use cases.

Level up with the Foundation Models framework. Learn how guided generation works under the hood, and use guides, regexes, and generation schemas to get custom structured responses. We’ll show you how to use tool calling to let the model autonomously access external information and perform actions, for a personalized experience.

Learn how to build advanced multiview playback experiences in your app. We’ll cover how you can synchronize playback between multiple players, enhance multiview playback with seamless AirPlay integration, and optimize playback quality to deliver engaging multiview playback experiences.

Discover how to create advanced interactions for your visionOS apps. We’ll explore how you can design compelling custom hover effects and animations, avoid common mistakes, take advantage of interactions like Look to Scroll, and build intuitive media controls with persistence effects.

Learn about the different ways you can create and present immersive video experiences within your app. We’ll explore the diverse media types available in visionOS 26, including profiles for 180°, 360°, and wide FOV video; options for creating and playing Apple Immersive Video; and expanded capabilities for 2D, 3D, and spatial video. Discover which profiles are best for your app and its content.

Discover how you can use procedural tools to create beautiful immersive environments for your visionOS app or game. We’ll share the building blocks for creating a high-quality environment, then dive deep into the optimization process. Learn how to use a series of Apple-provided workflows for Houdini to reduce your scene’s polygon count, clean up geometry, package UV maps, and create USD assets to import into Reality Composer Pro or your game engine of choice.

Discover the new SwiftUI instrument. We’ll cover how SwiftUI updates views, how changes in your app’s data affect those updates, and how the new instrument helps you visualize those causes and effects.

Learn how you can mix Swift and Java in a single codebase. We’ll introduce the swift-java interoperability project, which allows you to use Swift in Java programs or vice versa. We’ll show you how to use the tools and libraries offered by swift-java to write safe and performant code that interoperates between these two runtimes.

Learn how to optimize your app for Apple silicon with two new hardware-assisted tools in Instruments. We’ll start by covering how to profile your app, then dive deeper by showing every single function called with Processor Trace. We’ll also discuss how to use CPU Counters’ modes to analyze your code for CPU bottlenecks.

Learn how to mix C, C++, and Swift while improving the safety of your apps. We’ll show you how to find where unsafe C and C++ APIs are called in your Swift code, how to call them more safely, and how to make your app’s existing C and C++ code safer by default.

Discover ways to improve the performance and memory management of your Swift code. We’ll explore ways to refine your code – from making high-level algorithmic changes to adopting the new InlineArray and Span types for finer control over memory and allocations.

MLX is a flexible and efficient array framework for numerical computing and machine learning on Apple silicon. We’ll explore fundamental features including unified memory, lazy computation, and function transformations. We’ll also look at more advanced techniques for building and accelerating machine learning models across Apple’s platforms using Swift and Python APIs.

Discover how understanding disability can help you create better apps for everyone. Find out how to make your apps more inclusive by supporting multiple types of interaction, providing customization, and adopting accessibility APIs.

Explore exciting new features in visionOS 26. Discover enhanced volumetric APIs and learn how you can combine the power of SwiftUI, RealityKit and ARKit. Find out how you can build more engaging apps and games using faster hand tracking and input from spatial accessories. Get a sneak peek at updates to SharePlay, Compositor Services, immersive media, spatial web, Enterprise APIs, and much more.

Learn how to create shared experiences for people wearing Vision Pro in the same room. We’ll show you how to integrate SharePlay and leverage ARKit in your app, introduce the updated window sharing flows for nearby and FaceTime participants, and cover new API designed for seamless collaboration. Discover best practices to make your collaborative features stand out, easily discoverable, and engaging for people together in the same space.

Discover how the Cinematic Video API enables your app to effortlessly capture cinema-style videos. We’ll cover how to configure a Cinematic capture session and introduce the fundamentals of building a video capture UI. We’ll also explore advanced Cinematic features such as applying a depth of field effect to achieve both tracking and rack focus.

Discover the new Medications API in HealthKit. Explore an example app that uses the new API, learn how to access medications and doses, and find out how your app will manage authorization for this new kind of data.

Learn best practices for building a great workout experience for iOS. Review the life cycle of a workout session, explore the differences between workouts on Apple Watch and iPhone, and find out how to use Live Activities and Siri to pump up your app’s Lock Screen experience.

Building on Background Assets, this session will introduce the new capability to download asset packs of content for games and other applications. Learn how Apple can host these asset packs for you or how to manage self-hosting options. We’ll delve into the native API integration and the corresponding App Store implementations, providing you with the tools to enhance your app’s content delivery and user experience.

Get the latest updates for App Store Connect, including the new web UI for build delivery and enhancements to TestFlight notifications. We’ll also discuss new app discovery features and enhancements, such as keywords for custom product pages, Accessibility Nutrition Labels, and age ratings updates. Additionally, learn about new functionalities like In-App Purchase offer codes and review summarization tools.

Discover the new features in watchOS 26 and learn how to integrate them into your watchOS and iOS apps. Explore the ARM64 architecture, and dive into the new design system. We’ll also share updates for widgets and insights on how to bring controls to Apple Watch.

Great apps feel clear, intuitive, and effortless to use. In this session, you’ll discover how app design can elevate functionality, communicate purpose, guide people through your content, and use components thoughtfully to keep the experience simple without losing impact. This session is for designers and developers of all skill levels — as well as anyone curious about design.

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With the new design system across platforms, now’s a perfect time to revisit the writing in your UI too. Learn how a few small changes, like removing repetition and leading with benefits, can quickly enhance the usability and clarity of your app.

Focused on feature discovery, the TipKit framework makes it easy to display tips in your app. Now you can group tips so features are discovered in the ideal order, make tips reusable with custom tip identifiers, match the look and feel to your app, and sync tips using CloudKit. Learn how you can use the latest advances in TipKit to help people discover everything your app has to offer.

SwiftUI makes it easy to build amazing experiences that are accessible to everyone. We’ll discover how assistive technologies understand and navigate your app through the rich accessibility elements provided by SwiftUI. We’ll also discuss how you can further customize these experiences by providing more information about your app’s content and interactions by using accessibility modifiers.

Dynamic Type lets people choose their preferred text size across the system and all of their apps. To help you get started supporting Dynamic Type, we’ll cover the fundamentals: How it works, how to find issues with scaling text in your app, and how to take practical steps using SwiftUI and UIKit to create a great Dynamic Type experience. We’ll also show how you can best use the Large Content Viewer to make navigation controls accessible to everyone.

Discover how to use HealthKit to create experiences that take full advantage of the spatial canvas. Learn the capabilities of HealthKit on the platform, find out how to bring an existing iPadOS app to visionOS, and explore the special considerations governing HealthKit during a Guest User session. You’ll also learn ways to use SwiftUI, Swift Charts, and Swift concurrency to craft innovative experiences with HealthKit.

Check out the latest in creating, customizing, and scheduling workouts using WorkoutKit. Sprint through the latest in pace and power alerts and expanded support for distance goals. And keep the momentum going with the benefits of custom step names.

Learn how to adapt your high-end game so it feels at home on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. We’ll go over how to make your game look stunning on different displays, tailor your input and controls to be intuitive on each device, and take advantage of Apple technologies that deliver great player experiences.

Discover how to create visually rich and performant customized app environments for Apple Vision Pro. Learn design guidelines, get expert recommendations, and explore techniques you can use in any digital content creation tool to begin building your immersive environment.

Learn how to capture high dynamic colors using ScreenCaptureKit, and explore new features like HDR support, microphone capture, and straight-to-file recording.

Discover how simple it can be to reach players on Apple platforms worldwide. We’ll show you how to evaluate your Windows executable on Apple silicon, start your game port with code samples, convert your shader code to Metal, and bring your game to Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Explore enhanced Metal tools that understand HLSL shaders to validate, debug, and profile your ported shaders on Metal.

Get ready to extend your Metal experiences for visionOS. Learn best practices for integrating your rendered content with people’s physical environments with passthrough. Find out how to position rendered content to match the physical world, reduce latency with trackable anchor prediction, and more.

Discover how to design and implement great input for your game in visionOS. Learn how system gestures let you provide frictionless ways for players to interact with your games. And explore best practices for supporting custom gestures and game controllers.

Starting in watchOS 11, Live Activities from your iOS app will automatically appear in the Smart Stack on a connected Apple Watch. Learn how to optimize the layout of your Live Activity for the wrist, and provide the right level of information and interactivity at the right time.

Find out how you can use object tracking to turn real-world objects into virtual anchors in your visionOS app. Learn how you can build spatial experiences with object tracking from start to finish. Find out how to create a reference object using machine learning in Create ML and attach content relative to your target object in Reality Composer Pro, RealityKit or ARKit APIs.

Discover how the Timeline view in Reality Composer Pro can bring your 3D content to life. Learn how to create an animated story in which characters and objects interact with each other and the world around them using inverse kinematics, blend shapes, and skeletal poses. We’ll also show you how to use built-in and custom actions, sequence your actions, apply triggers, and implement natural movements.

Harness the power of RealityKit through the process of building a spatial drawing app. As you create an eye-catching spatial experience that integrates RealityKit with ARKit and SwiftUI, you’ll explore how resources work in RealityKit and how to use features like low-level mesh and texture APIs to achieve fast updates of the users’ brush strokes.

Explore how Quick Look in visionOS can elevate file preview and editing experiences in your app. We’ll cover the integration of in-app and windowed Quick Look, as well as a brand-new API that customizes the windowed Quick Look experience in your app. We’ll also share the latest enhancements to viewing 3D models within Quick Look.

Explore updates to Universal Scene Description and MaterialX support on Apple platforms. Discover how these technologies provide a foundation for 3D content creation and delivery, and learn how they can help streamline your workflows for creating great spatial experiences. Learn about USD and MaterialX support in RealityKit and Storm, advancements in our system-provided tooling, and more.

Discover how area mode for Object Capture enables new 3D capture possibilities on iOS by extending the functionality of Object Capture to support capture and reconstruction of an area. Learn how to optimize the quality of iOS captures using the new macOS sample app for reconstruction, and find out how to view the final results with Quick Look on Apple Vision Pro, iPhone, iPad or Mac. Learn about improvements to 3D reconstruction, including a new API that allows you to create your own custom image processing pipelines.

Take passes and payments to the next level with new enhancements to Wallet and Apple Pay. Make your event tickets shine with rich pass designs in Wallet, and bring great Apple Pay experiences to even more people with third-party browser support. We’ll also look at how to disburse funds with Apple Pay on the Web and highlight new API changes that help you integrate Apple Pay into even more purchasing flows.

Learn how to incorporate mental health and wellbeing into your app using HealthKit. There are new APIs for State of Mind, as well as for Depression Risk and Anxiety Risk. We’ll dive into principles of emotion science to cover how reflecting on feelings can be beneficial, and how State of Mind can be used to represent different types of mood and emotion.

Learn how to engage customers with App Store Offers using App Store Connect, as well as the latest StoreKit features and APIs. Discover how you can set up win-back offers (a new way to re-engage previous subscribers) and generate offer codes for Mac apps. And find out how to test offers in sandbox and Xcode to make sure they work smoothly.

Dive into the architecture for the next generation of CarPlay. Learn how your vehicle system works with iPhone to create a single cohesive experience that showcases the best of your car and iPhone. Learn how UI is rendered and composited, and explore ways to configure and customize a special experience for each vehicle model. This session is intended for automakers and system developers interested in the next generation of CarPlay.

Explore the design system at the heart of the next generation of CarPlay that allows each automaker to express their vehicle’s character and brand. Learn how gauges, layouts, dynamic content, and more are deeply customizable and adaptable, allowing you to express your own design philosophy and create an iconic, tailored look. This session is intended for automakers, system developers, and anyone designing a system that supports the next generation of CarPlay.

Discover how you can monitor, analyze, and improve user experience with the new media performance APIs. Explore how to monitor AVPlayer performance for HLS assets using different AVMetricEvents, and learn how to use these metrics to understand and triage player performance issues.

Explore how HLS Interstitials can help you seamlessly insert advertisements into your HLS content. We’ll also show you how to use integrated timeline to tune your UI experience and build SharePlay for interstitials.

Extend your media viewing experience using Reality Composer Pro components like Docking Region, Reverb, and Virtual Environment Probe. Find out how to further enhance immersion using Reflections, Tint Surroundings Effect, SharePlay, and the Immersive Environment Picker.

Learn how AVExperienceController can enable playback of multiple videos on Apple Vision Pro. Review best practices for adoption and explore great use cases, like viewing a sports broadcast from different angles or watching multiple games simultaneously. And discover how to design a compelling and intuitive multiview experience in your app.

Discover the new observability features in CloudKit Console. Learn how to use Telemetry and Logging to troubleshoot and optimize your app. Find out how to set up alerts to monitor your application’s behavior and notifications to stay on top of the container events that are most important to you.

Learn how to provide semantic search results in your app using Core Spotlight. Understand how to make your app’s content available in the user’s private, on-device index so people can search for items using natural language. We’ll also share how to optimize your app’s performance by scheduling indexing activities.

Learn how to use SiriKit and App Intents to expose your app’s functionality to Siri and Apple Intelligence. Discover which intents are already available for your use, and how to adopt App Intent domains to integrate actions from your app into the system. Find out what metadata to provide, how to make your entities searchable with Spotlight, how to integrate your app with in-app search, and much more.

Every app has a personality that comes across in what you say — and how you say it. Learn how to define your app’s voice and modulate your tone for every situation, from celebratory notifications to error messages. We’ll help you get specific about your app’s purpose and audience and practice writing in different tones.

Learn about the latest management capabilities for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS, then discover the latest changes to Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager. We’ll also share updates to Activation Lock, SoftwareUpdate, and Safari management.

iPadOS 18 introduces a new navigation system that gives people the flexibility to choose between using a tab bar or sidebar. The newly redesigned tab bar provides more space for content and other functionality. Learn how to use SwiftUI and UIKit to enable customization features – like adding, removing and reordering tabs – to enable a more personal touch in your app.

Learn how to develop custom hover effects that update views when people look at them. Find out how to build an expanding button effect that combines opacity, scale, and clip effects. Discover best practices for creating effects that are comfortable and respect people’s accessibility needs.

Discover powerful new ways to customize volumes and immersive spaces in visionOS. Learn to fine-tune how volumes resize and respond to people moving around them. Make volumes and immersive spaces interact through the power of coordinate conversions. Find out how to make your app react when people adjust immersion with the Digital Crown, and use a surrounding effect to dynamically customize the passthrough tint in your immersive space experience.

Learn how to optimize your machine learning and AI models to leverage the power of Apple silicon. Review model conversion workflows to prepare your models for on-device deployment. Understand model compression techniques that are compatible with Apple silicon, and at what stages in your model deployment workflow you can apply them. We’ll also explore the tradeoffs between storage size, latency, power usage and accuracy.

Learn how to train your models on Apple Silicon with Metal for PyTorch, JAX and TensorFlow. Take advantage of new attention operations and quantization support for improved transformer model performance on your devices.

Meet the Constant Color API and find out how it can help people use your app to determine precise colors. You’ll learn how to adopt the API, explore its scientific and marketing potential, and discover best practices for making the most of the technology.

The Vision Framework API has been redesigned to leverage modern Swift features like concurrency, making it easier and faster to integrate a wide array of Vision algorithms into your app. We’ll tour the updated API and share sample code, along with best practices, to help you get the benefits of this framework with less coding effort. We’ll also demonstrate two new features: image aesthetics and holistic body pose.

Discover how intelligent tracking in DockKit allows for smoother transitions between subjects. We will cover what intelligent tracking is, how it uses an ML model to select and track subjects, and how you can use it in your app.

Meet the RealityKit debugger and discover how this new tool lets you inspect the entity hierarchy of spatial apps, debug rogue transformations, find missing entities, and detect which parts of your code are causing problems for your systems.

Discover how to read and write HDR images and process HDR content in your app. Explore the new supported HDR image formats and advanced methods for displaying HDR images. Find out how HDR content can coexist with your user interface — and what to watch out for when adding HDR image support to your app.

Learn the essential features and design philosophy of the Swift programming language. We’ll explore how to model data, handle errors, use protocols, write concurrent code, and more while building up a Swift package that has a library, an HTTP server, and a command line client. Whether you’re just beginning your Swift journey or have been with us from the start, this talk will help you get the most out of the language.

Dive into an end-to-end workflow for optimized 3D asset creation. Discover best practices for optimizing meshes, materials, and textures in your digital content creation tool. Learn how to harness shader graph, baking, and material instances to enhance your 3D scene while optimizing performance. Take advantage of native tools to work more effectively with your assets and improve your app’s performance.

Learn how to use custom spatial Persona templates in your visionOS SharePlay experience to fine-tune the placement of Personas relative to your app. We’ll show you how to adopt custom spatial Persona templates in a sample app with SharePlay, move participants between seats, and test your changes in Simulator. We’ll also share best practices for designing custom spatial templates that will make your experience shine.

Elevate your accessory setup experience with AccessorySetupKit. Display a beautiful pairing dialog with an image of your Bluetooth or Wi-Fi accessory — no trip to the Settings app required. Discover how to improve privacy by pairing only your app with an accessory. And learn how you can migrate existing accessories so they can be managed by AccessorySetupKit.

Explore new opportunities on Apple Watch, including bringing Double Tap support to your watchOS app, making your Smart Stack widgets even more relevant and interactive, and displaying your iOS Live Activities in the Smart Stack.

SwiftUI helps you build great apps on all Apple platforms and is the preferred toolkit for bringing your content into the living room with tvOS 18. Learn how to use SwiftUI to create familiar layouts and controls from TVMLKit, and get tips and best practices.

Find out how your journaling app can display journaling suggestions with richer content from the system. Explore new types of available content like state of mind data, reflection prompts, and support for third-party media content and motion-based activities.

Discover how you can use BNNSGraph to accelerate the execution of your machine learning model on the CPU. We will show you how to use BNNSGraph to compile and execute a machine learning model on the CPU and share how it provides real-time guarantees such as no runtime memory allocation and single-threaded running for audio or signal processing models.

Location authorization is turning 2.0. Learn about new recommendations and techniques to get the authorization you need, and a new system of diagnostics that can let you know when an authorization goal can’t be met.

New in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and visionOS 2, the PencilKit tool picker gains the ability to have completely custom tools, with custom attributes. Learn how to express your custom drawing experience in the tool picker using the same great tool picking experience available across the system. Discover how to access the new features of the Apple Pencil Pro, including roll angle, the squeeze gesture, and haptic feedback.

Discover how Swift balances abstraction and performance. Learn what elements of performance to consider and how the Swift optimizer affects them. Explore the different features of Swift and how they’re implemented to further understand the tradeoffs available that can impact performance.

Learn how to accelerate your machine learning transformer models with new features in Metal Performance Shaders Graph. We’ll also cover how to improve your model’s compute bandwidth and quality, and visualize it in the all new MPSGraph viewer.

Discover how to bring Genmoji to life in your app. We’ll go over how to render, store, and communicate text that includes Genmoji. If your app features a custom text engine, we’ll also cover techniques for adding support for Genmoji.

Get started with an overview of machine learning frameworks on Apple platforms. Whether you’re implementing your first ML model, or an ML expert, we’ll offer guidance to help you select the right framework for your app’s needs.

Elevate your spatial computing experience using RealityKit audio. Discover how spatial audio can make your 3D immersive experiences come to life. From ambient audio, reverb, to real-time procedural audio that can add character to your 3D content, learn how RealityKit audio APIs can help make your app more engaging.

Learn how FinanceKit lets your financial management apps seamlessly and securely share on-device data from Apple Cash, Apple Card, and more, with user consent and control. Find out how to request one-time and ongoing access to accounts, transactions, and balances — and how to build great experiences for iOS and iPadOS.

Go beyond detecting cats and dogs in images. We’ll show you how to use Vision to detect the individual joints and poses of these animals as well — all in real time — and share how you can enable exciting features like animal tracking for a camera app, creative embellishment on an animal photo, and more. We’ll also explore other important enhancements to Vision and share best practices.

Discover how to reduce the footprint of machine learning models in your app with Core ML Tools. Learn how to use techniques like palettization, pruning, and quantization to dramatically reduce model size while still achieving great accuracy. Explore comparisons between compression during the training stages and on fully trained models, and learn how compressed models can run even faster when your app takes full advantage of the Apple Neural Engine.

Learn how to speed up machine learning features in your app with the latest Core ML execution engine improvements and find out how aggressive asset caching can help with inference and faster model loads. We’ll show you some of the latest options for async prediction and discuss considerations for balancing performance with overall memory usage to help you create a highly responsive app. Discover APIs to help you understand and maximize hardware utilization for your models.

Discover the latest enhancements to accelerated ML training in Metal. Find out about updates to PyTorch and TensorFlow, and learn about Metal acceleration for JAX. We’ll show you how MPS Graph can support faster ML inference when you use both the GPU and Apple Neural Engine, and share how the same API can rapidly integrate your Core ML and ONNX models.

Discover how you can bring Calendar into your app and help people better manage their time. Find out how to create new events from your app, fetch events, and implement a virtual conference extension. We’ll also take you through some of the changes to calendar access levels that help your app stay connected without compromising the privacy of someone’s calendar data.

Discover how you can use the latest features in iPadOS to improve your document-based apps. We’ll show you how to take advantage of UIDocument as well as existing desktop-class iPad and document-based APIs to add new features in your app. Find out how to convert data models to UIDocument, present documents with UIDocumentViewController, learn how to migrate your apps to the latest APIs, and explore best practices.

Learn how to design great interactions for eyes and hands. We’ll share the design principles for spatial input, explore best practices around input methods, and help you create spatial experiences that are comfortable, intuitive, and satisfying.

Explore the types of shared activities you can create in your visionOS apps and find out how your apps can use Spatial Persona templates to support meaningful interactions between people. Discover how to design your UI around a shared context, handle immersive content in a shared activity, and more.

Discover how you can use ARKit’s tracking and scene understanding features to develop a whole new universe of immersive apps and games. Learn how visionOS and ARKit work together to help you create apps that understand a person’s surroundings — all while preserving privacy. Explore the latest updates to the ARKit API and follow along as we demonstrate how to take advantage of hand tracking and scene geometry in your apps.

Learn how to use Quick Look on visionOS to add powerful previews for 3D content, spatial images and videos, and much more. We’ll show you the different ways that the system presents these experiences, demonstrate how someone can drag and drop Quick Look content from an app or website to create a separate window with that content, and explore how you can present Quick Look directly within an app.

Discover how you can use the GroupActivities framework to build unique sharing and collaboration experiences for visionOS. We’ll introduce you to SharePlay on this platform, learn how to create experiences that make people feel present as if they were in the same space, and explore how immersive apps can respect shared context between participants.

Explore how you can use Unity to create engaging and immersive experiences for visionOS. We’ll share how Unity integrates seamlessly with Apple frameworks, take you through the tools you can use to build natively for the platform, and show you how volume cameras can bring your existing scenes into visionOS windows, volumes, and spaces.

Discover how you can bring your app’s AR experience to visionOS. Learn how ARKit and RealityKit have evolved for spatial computing: We’ll highlight conceptual and API changes for those coming from iPadOS and iOS and guide you to sessions with more details to help you bring your AR experience to this platform.

Discover how you can bring your existing Unity VR apps and games to visionOS. We’ll explore workflows that can help you get started and show you how to build for eyes and hands in your apps and games with the Unity Input System. Learn about Unity’s XR Interaction Toolkit, tips for foveated rendering, and best practices.

Find out how you can take control of RealityKit rendering to improve the look and feel of your apps and games on visionOS. Discover how you can customize lighting, add grounding shadows, and control tone mapping for your content. We’ll also go over best practices for two key treatments on the platform: rasterization rate maps and dynamic content scaling.

Find out how you can develop great gaming experiences for visionOS. We’ll share some of the key building blocks that help you create games for this platform, explore how your experiences can fluidly move between levels of immersion, and provide a roadmap for exploring ARKit, RealityKit, Reality Composer Pro, Unity, Metal, and Compositor.

Discover how you can use RealityKit Trace to improve the performance of your spatial computing apps. Explore performance profiling guidelines for this platform and learn how the RealityKit Trace template can help you optimize rendering for your apps. We’ll also provide guidance on profiling various types of content in your app to help pinpoint performance issues.

Learn how you can create powerful apps and games for visionOS by optimizing for performance and efficiency. We’ll cover the unique power characteristics of the platform, explore building a performance plan, and share some of the tools and strategies to test and optimize your apps.

Discover how AVCapture and PhotoKit can help you create more responsive and delightful apps. Learn about the camera capture process and find out how deferred photo processing can help create the best quality photo. We’ll show you how zero shutter lag uses time travel to capture the perfect action photo, dive into building a responsive capture pipeline, and share how you can adopt the Video Effects API to recognize pre-defined gestures that trigger real-time video effects.

Learn how you can discover and connect to external cameras in your iPadOS app using the AVFoundation capture classes. We’ll show you how to rotate video from both external and built-in cameras, support external microphones with USB-C, and perform audio routing. Explore telephony support, tunings for optimal echo cancellation, and best practices for external camera adoption.

Get ready to launch into space — a new SwiftUI scene type that can help you make great immersive experiences for visionOS. We’ll show you how to create a new scene with ImmersiveSpace, place 3D content, and integrate RealityView. Explore how you can use the immersionStyle scene modifier to increase the level of immersion in an app and learn best practices for managing spaces, adding virtual hands with ARKit, adding support for SharePlay, and building an “out of this world” experience!

Discover the latest updates to Wallet and Apple Pay. Learn how to take advantage of preauthorized payments, funds transfer, and Apple Pay Later merchandising to create great Apple Pay experiences in your app or for the web. Explore improved support for Mail, Messages, Safari, and third-party apps in Wallet Order Tracking, and find out how you can add more information to an order’s transaction or receipt details. And we’ll introduce you to Tap to Present ID on iPhone (or ID Verifier), a new way to accept IDs in Wallet using iPhone — no additional hardware needed.

Learn about the latest improvements to Safari extensions. We’ll take you through new APIs, explore per-site permissions for Safari app extensions, and share how you can make sure your extensions work great in both Private Browsing and Profiles.

Explore the latest advancements in CSS. Learn techniques and best practices for working with wide-gamut color, creating gorgeous typography, and writing simple and robust code. We’ll also peer into the future and preview upcoming layout and typography features.

Learn about the latest image formats and video technologies supported in Safari 17. Discover how you can use JPEG XL, AVIF, and HEIC in your websites and experiences and learn how they differ from previous formats. We’ll also show you how the Managed Media Source API draws less power than Media Source Extensions (MSE) and explore how you can use it to more efficiently manage streaming video over 5G.

Bring modern, high-end games to Mac and iPad with the powerful features of Metal and Apple silicon. Discover the game porting toolkit and learn how it can help you evaluate your existing Windows game for graphics feature compatibility and performance. We’ll share best practices and technical resources for handling audio, input, and advanced display features.

Discover how the Metal shader converter streamlines the process of bringing your HLSL shaders to Metal as we continue our three-part series on bringing your game to Mac. Find out how to build a fast, end-to-end shader pipeline from DXIL that supports all shader stages and allows you to leverage the advanced features of Apple GPUs. We’ll also show you how to reduce app launch time and stutters by generating GPU binaries with the offline compiler.

Discover how you can support Metal in your rendering code as we close out our three-part series on bringing your game to Mac. Once you’ve evaluated your existing Windows binary with the game porting toolkit and brought your HLSL shaders over to Metal, learn how you can optimally implement the features that high-end, modern games require. We’ll show you how to manage GPU resource bindings, residency, and synchronization. Find out how to optimize GPU commands submission, render rich visuals with MetalFX Upscaling, and more.

Discover how to optimize your GPU renderer using the latest Metal features and best practices. We’ll show you how to use function specialization and parallel shader compilation to maintain responsive authoring workflows and the fastest rendering speeds, and help you tune your compute shaders for optimal performance.

Discover how you can enhance the visual quality of your games and apps with Metal ray tracing. We’ll take you through the fundamentals of the Metal ray tracing API. Explore the latest enhancements and techniques that will enable you to create larger and more complex scenes, reduce memory usage and build times, and efficiently render visual content like hair and fur.

Discover the latest updates to the App Store Server API and App Store Server Notifications. Explore the current API offerings and learn how to track subscription status with notifications, work with transactions on your server, and efficiently recover missed notifications. We’ll also show you how your server can support apps using StoreKit or StoreKit 2, and share an important deprecation in the API and suggested migration workflow.

Discover the App Store Server Library and learn how you can take advantage of resources and configurations for your apps. We’ll show you how to set up the library, call the App Store Server API, verify App Store Server Notifications, and use app receipts. Explore insights and best practices for using App Store Server API endpoints, verifying App Store signed data, and migrating away from verifyReceipt.

Discover how you can integrate CarPlay into modern vehicle systems. We’ll show you how to adjust CarPlay for any high-resolution display — regardless of configuration or size. Learn how you can use CarPlay-supplied metadata and video streams to show information on additional displays, and find out how advances in wireless connectivity, audio, and video encoding can help prepare your vehicle system for the next generation of CarPlay.

The SwiftUI team is back in the coding “kitchen” with powerful tools to shape your app’s focus experience. Join us and learn about the staple ingredients that support focus-driven interactions in your app. Discover focus interactions for custom views, find out about key-press handlers for keyboard input, and learn how to support movement and hierarchy with focus sections. We’ll also go through some tasty recipes for common focus patterns in your app.

Learn how to identify, load, display, and create High Dynamic Range (HDR) still images in your app. Explore common HDR concepts and find out about the latest updates to the ISO specification. Learn how to identify and display HDR images with SwiftUI and UIKit, create them from ProRAW and RAW captures, and display them in CALayers. We’ll also take you through CoreGraphics support for ISO HDR and share best practices for HDR adoption.

Elevate your app’s data persistence with improvements in Core Data. Learn how you can use composite attributes to create more intuitive data models. We’ll also show you how to migrate your schema through disruptive changes, when to defer intense migrations, and how to avoid overhead on a person’s device.

Join us for an exciting update to RoomPlan as we explore MultiRoom support and enhancements to room representations. Learn how you can scan areas with more detail, capture multiple rooms, and merge individual scans into one larger structure. We’ll also share workflows and best practices when working with RoomPlan results that you want to combine into your existing 3D model library.

Learn about the latest updates to the visual language of App Shortcuts and find out how to design your shortcut to appear as a top hit in Spotlight. We’ll share how shortcuts can appear on iOS or iPadOS, and show you how to customize the visual appearance of a shortcut, personalize its order, select its correct behavior, and increase discoverability.

Explore the latest updates to Managed Apple IDs and learn how you can use them in your organization. Take advantage of additional apps and services available to Managed Apple IDs, discover the Account-Driven Device Enrollment flow, and find out how to use access management controls to limit the devices and Apple services that Managed Apple IDs can access. We’ll also show you how to federate with your identity provider to automate creation and sync with your directory.

Discover how you can bring AVFoundation, AVFAudio, and AudioToolbox to your apps on tvOS and create camera and microphone experiences for the living room. Find out how to support tvOS in your existing iOS camera experience with the Device Discovery API, build apps that use iPhone as a webcam or FaceTime source, and explore special considerations when developing for tvOS. We’ll also show you how to enable audio recording for tvOS, and how to use echo cancellation to create great voice-driven experiences.

Get ready to explore Safari’s rich set of tools for web developers and designers. Learn how you can inspect web content, find out about Responsive Design Mode and WebDriver, and get started with simulators and devices. We’ll also show you how to pair with Vision Pro, make content inspectable in your apps, and use Open with Simulator in Responsive Design Mode to help you test your websites on any device.

Learn how to improve the security of your Mac app by adopting environment constraints. We’ll show you how to set limits on how processes are launched, make sure your Launch Agents and Launch Daemons aren’t tampered with, and prevent unwanted code from running in your address space.

Discover how you can use sound to enhance the experience of your visionOS apps and games. Learn how Apple designers select sounds and build soundscapes to create textural, immersive experiences. We’ll share how you can enrich basic interactions in your app with sound when you place audio cues spatially, vary repetitive sounds, and build moments of sonic delight into your app.

Discover best practices when creating 3D content for Quick Look on visionOS. We’ll explore a few different ways to prepare your models for Quick Look, cover important considerations for 3D quality and performance, and show you how to use Reality Composer Pro and Reality Trace to inspect and fine-tune your content.

Learn how you can use HLS Interstitials with AirPlay to create seamless transitions for your video content between advertisements. We’ll share best practices and tips for creating a great experience when sharing content from Apple devices to popular smart TVs.

Learn how Xcode Cloud can help teams of all shapes and sizes in their development process. We’ll share different ways to configure actions to help you create simple yet powerful workflows, and show you how to extend Xcode Cloud when you integrate with additional tools.

Discover the web for visionOS and learn how people can experience your web content in a whole new way. Explore the unique input model powering this platform and learn how you can optimize your website for spatial computing. We’ll also share how emerging standards are helping shape 3D experiences for the web.

Discover how you can create incredible photo and video experiences in your camera app when integrating with DockKit-compatible motorized stands. We’ll show how your app can automatically track subjects in live video across a 360-degree field of view, take direct control of the stand to customize framing, directly control the motors, and provide your own inference model for tracking other objects. Finally, we’ll demonstrate how to create a sense of emotion through dynamic device animations.

Discover how you can use Core Media IO to easily create macOS system extensions for software cameras, hardware cameras, and creative cameras. We’ll introduce you to our modern replacement for legacy DAL plug-ins — these extensions are secure, fast, and fully-compatible with any app that uses a camera input. We’ll take you through the Core Media IO APIs and share how they can support camera manufacturers, video conferencing apps with special effects features, creative app ideas, and more.

PHPicker provides simple and secure integration between your app and the system Photos library. Learn how SwiftUI and Transferable can help you offer integration across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS.

Learn about the latest updates to Vision APIs that help your apps recognize text, detect faces and face landmarks, and implement optical flow. We’ll take you through the capabilities of optical flow for video-based apps, show you how to update your apps with revisions to the machine learning models that drive these APIs, and explore how you can visualize your Vision tasks with Quick Look Preview support in Xcode.

Meet the Data Scanner in VisionKit: This framework combines AVCapture and Vision to enable live capture of machine-readable codes and text through a simple Swift API. We’ll show you how to control the types of content your app can capture by specifying barcode symbologies and language selection. We’ll also explore how you can enable guidance in your app, customize item highlighting or regions of interest, and handle interactions after your app detects an item.

Learn how you can bring Live Text support for still photos or paused video frames to your app. We’ll share how you can easily enable text interactions, translation, data detection, and QR code scanning within any image view on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS. We’ll also go over how to control interaction types, manage the supplementary interface, and resolve potential gesture conflicts.

Learn how Core ML works with the CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine to power on-device, privacy-preserving machine learning experiences for your apps. We’ll explore the latest tools for understanding and maximizing the performance of your models. We’ll also show you how to generate reports to easily understand your model performance characteristics, help you gain insight into your models with the Core ML Instrument, and take you through API enhancements to further optimize Core ML integration in your apps.

Learn how ShazamKit can help you build custom catalogs and support exact matching of any audio source within your app — all on-device. Find out how you can easily generate audio signatures and build catalogs at scale through the new ShazamKit CLI. We’ll also show you how you can quickly update your app to sync with large amounts of audio content like multiple seasons of a TV show or multiple episodes of a podcast, and we’ll share updates to the ShazamKit API and SHMediaItems to help your apps respond precisely to key moments in audio sources using time ranges.

Find out how to design or optimize your app or game for Arabic. Whether you’re planning a first release or improving an existing app or game, we’ll help you learn best practices and tips for UI design for Arabic speakers. Learn how to create beautiful Right to Left layouts with UI components and iconography, discover the nuances of Arabic script and typography in product design, and explore Arabic numerals.

SKAdNetwork helps advertisers measure the success of ad campaigns while maintaining user privacy. We’ll explore the latest updates to ad attributions including hierarchical source IDs, hierarchical conversion values, multiple conversions, and SKAdNetwork attributions for web ads. We’ll also take you through the importance of crowd anonymity and how you can validate SKAdNetwork impressions through testing in Xcode 13.

Discover the latest tools to help you test your in-app purchases and subscriptions. We’ll show you how to bring your products from App Store Connect into StoreKit Testing in Xcode, learn about improvements to the transaction manager, and explore your in-app purchase flow in Xcode Previews. We’ll also take you through best practices when setting up an Apple ID for the sandbox environment, and show you how to create tests for refund requests, price increase consent, billing retry, and much more.

Learn how you can migrate to the latest App Store Server APIs and incorporate App Store Server Notifications. We’ll help you get started with these tools and provide best practices to make the most of managing in-app purchases on your server. Discover how you can sign JSON Web Tokens, verify signed transactions, and migrate from verifyReceipt.

Explore enhancements to device management across Apple platforms. Improve device deployment workflows using the latest version of Apple Configurator for iPhone. Learn about identity technologies and MDM protocol updates for macOS, iOS and iPadOS. We’ll also share an exciting change in how we provide device management documentation.

Discover how you can simplify development of your device management solution with the declarative approach. We’ll take you through the latest updates to platform support and explore protocol enhancements for status and predicates.

Discover how you can use WidgetKit to create beautiful complications on watch faces. We’ll introduce you to the watchOS-specific features found in WidgetKit, and help you migrate from existing ClockKit complications.

Learn how you can support Sign In with Apple for Managed Apple IDs in organizational settings. We’ll introduce you to Sign In with Apple at Work & School and explore how education apps can harness the power of this REST API to streamline the import process for student and class information. We’ll also share how to configure Access Management controls for these features within Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager.

It’s time to supercharge the interface of your iPad app with SwiftUI lists and tables. We’ll show how you can add selection interactions and context menus and help people who use your app be more productive. We’ll also give you best practices on structuring your navigation and explore how you can avoid modality using split views to ensure a top-notch desktop-class iPad experience.

Discover the latest SwiftUI APIs to help you present windows within your app’s scenes. We’ll explore how scene types like MenuBarExtra can help you easily build more kinds of apps using SwiftUI. We’ll also show you how to use modifiers that customize the presentation and behavior of your app windows to make even better macOS apps.

Discover how you can use Metal to accelerate your PyTorch model training on macOS. We’ll take you through updates to TensorFlow training support, explore the latest features and operations of MPS Graph, and share best practices to help you achieve great performance for all your machine learning needs.

Meet the Game Center activity dashboard and discover how it can help your game reach new players. We’ll introduce you to the dashboard and profiles and explore how they can track player achievements, high scores, and leaderboard changes for your game. We’ll also show you how to add Game Center to your Unity game project using the Game Center plug-in.

Help make your Unity app or game an even better experience on Apple platforms. Learn how you can add Apple technologies directly to your projects with six plug-ins: Apple.Core, Game Center, Game Controller, Accessibility, Core Haptics, and PHASE. We’ll show you how you can add new gameplay mechanics, make your games more accessible, and tap into the latest Apple features and services.

Harness the full potential of Apple silicon in your app with Metal 3. We’ll introduce you to the latest features, improvements, and tooling. We’ll also explore how you can use advanced features and compiler tools to load resources faster, compile shader binaries at build time, process complex geometry with mesh shaders, render high-resolution graphics in less time, train machine learning networks faster, and more.

Learn how you can bring desktop-class features to your iPad app. Explore updates to UINavigationBar that bring more discoverability and customizability to your app’s features. Find out how the latest updates to UIKit can help make it easier and faster for people to explore content in your app. Lastly, we’ll share a few updates on how it’s easier than ever to bring your iPad app to the desktop with Mac Catalyst.

Discover advanced desktop-class editing features that can help people accelerate their productivity in your app. Learn how you can provide more interactions inline with your UI to help people quickly access editing features and make your iPadOS app feel right at home on macOS with Mac Catalyst. We’ll also explore the highly-customizable find interaction and learn how the system UI can help people consistently find content in your app.

Learn how to take advantage of the power of SwiftUI in your UIKit app. Build custom UICollectionView and UITableView cells seamlessly with SwiftUI using UIHostingConfiguration. We’ll also show you how to manage data flow between UIKit and SwiftUI components within your app.

Discover how the Shortcuts app uses both SwiftUI and AppKit to create a top-tier experience on macOS. Follow along with the Shortcuts team as we explore how you can host SwiftUI views in AppKit code, handle layout and sizing, participate in the responder chain, enable navigational focus, and more. We’ll also show you how to host AppKit views, helping you migrate existing code into a SwiftUI layout within your app.

Discover all the different ways you can transform your iOS app into a great macOS experience. We’ll explore best practices for bringing your app to the Mac, whether you ship an iPad app for M1 Macs or build something for all Macs using Mac Catalyst. Learn about the latest tools, options, and APIs to help you deliver enhanced experiences. We’ll also show you how you can optimize your app for the Mac, and find out how desktop class iPad features automatically transform into Mac-native options when built using Mac Catalyst.

Don’t be captured by CAPTCHAs! Private Access Tokens are a powerful alternative that help you identify HTTP requests from legitimate devices and people without compromising their identity or personal information. We’ll show you how your app and server can take advantage of this tool to add confidence to your online transactions and preserve privacy.

Find out how network latency can affect your apps when trying to get full benefit out of modern network throughput rates. Learn about changes you can make in your app and on your server to boost responsiveness, and prepare your app for improvements coming to the Internet that will offer even lower end-to-end delays.

Discover the latest ways to ensure that DNS — the foundation of internet addressing — is secure within your app. Learn how to authenticate DNS responses in your app with DNSSEC and enable DNS encryption automatically with Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR).

Learn how you can increase responsiveness and eliminate hangs in your app and make even better experiences. Hang out with the Performance Tools team as we explore how you can track down these issues — and even stop them from occurring in the first place. We’ll take you through the latest detection mechanisms for iOS to help track hangs during pre-release testing, show you how to identify issues in release builds using the Xcode Organizer, and more.

Discover how you can limit your power usage and help people get even more out of your app. We’ll show you how you can reduce battery drain from your app by making four key changes to your code. Learn how to add Dark Mode to your app and benefit from OLED displays, audit frame rates from secondary animations, limit background data processing, and defer long running tasks.

Discover PDFKit — a full-featured framework that helps your app view, edit, and save PDF documents. We’ll take you through the latest features in PDFKit, including support for live text and forms, creating PDFs from images, building interactive overlays, and saving annotations.

Discover how the SharedWithYou framework can augment your app’s collaboration infrastructure. We’ll show you how to send secure invitations to collaborative content and synchronize participant changes. We’ll also cover displaying content updates within the relevant conversation.

Shared with You helps people easily find content in your app that someone has shared with them in Messages. Learn how you can support Shared with You in your app and continue the messaging experience right with the content. We’ll show you how pinning can give implicit Shared with You permission and can elevate content to be automatically shared. We’ll also go over how to present Shared with You content in a Shared with You shelf and visually represent shared items with a Shared with You attribution view.

Discover how you can help improve communication and collaboration in your app with Collaboration in Messages. Learn how to tie a document to Messages conversations for simple sharing and discussion. Explore how you can keep everyone in the conversation up to date on the latest activity in the document. And find out how you can add customizable UI in your app to manage collaboration details and connect documents to Messages conversations and FaceTime calls.

At Apple, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right, and protecting people’s privacy is at the center of everything we do. Discover how our engineering teams build privacy into all of our products and developer frameworks, and learn about the technologies and patterns you can adopt in your apps to build trust and protect your customers.

Bring better notifications to your websites and web apps in Safari on macOS with Web Push. We’ll show you how you can remotely send notifications to people through the web standards-based combination of Push API, Notifications API, and Service Workers.

Learn how to add your own tools directly into Web Inspector using the latest Web Extensions APIs. We’ll show you how to create your own tab in Web Inspector, evaluate JavaScript in the inspected page, and use the result to help you troubleshoot and identify potential problems.

Learn how you can unleash powerful rendering techniques like ray tracing when you go bindless with Metal 3. We’ll show you how to make your app’s bindless journey a joy by simplifying argument buffers, allocating acceleration structures from heaps, and benefitting from the improvements to the Metal’s validation layer and Debugger Tools. We’ll also explore how you can command more CPU and GPU performance with long-term resource structures.

Discover MetalFX, a new API that provides platform optimized graphics effects for Metal applications. With MetalFX Upscaling, your application can now render frames at a lower resolution, reducing rendering time, without compromising rendering quality. We’ll also show you how and when to use its two effects: spatial upscaling, which delivers substantial performance gains, and temporal AA and upscaling, which delivers the highest quality rendering.

Discover how you can use fast resource streaming in Metal 3 to quickly load assets. We’ll show you how to use an asynchronous set-it-and-forget-it workflow in your app to take advantage of the speed of SSD storage and the throughput of Apple silicon’s unified memory architecture. We’ll also explore how you can create separate queues that run parallel to — and synchronize with — your GPU render and compute work. Finally, we’ll share how to designate assets like audio with high-priority queues to help you load data with lower latency.

Learn how to simplify your ray tracing code and increase performance with the power of Metal 3. We’ll explore the GPU debugging and profiling tools that can help you tune your ray tracing applications. We’ll also show you how you can speed up intersection tests and reduce shader code memory accesses and indirections with per-primitive data in an acceleration structure. And we’ll help you implement faster acceleration structure builds and refits to reduce load times and per-frame overhead.

Learn how Apple platforms calculate and allocate memory for your game. We’ll show you how to use Instruments and the Game Memory template to profile your game, take a memory graph to monitor current memory use, and analyze it using Xcode Memory Debugger and command line tools. We’ll also explore Metal resources in Metal Debugger and provide tips and tricks to further help you optimize memory usage.

Discover how to develop your app so that it can be localized into “right-to-left” languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. We’ll take you through important considerations for these languages, share solutions to challenges, and provide best practices for delivering a great right-to-left experience in your app.

Discover how you can use the latest authorization-focused APIs in LocalAuthentication to protect the privacy and security of people’s data. We’ll show you how LocalAuthentication can authorize access to secrets, keys, and other sensitive resources in your app, all while reducing complexity and relying on the security and usability of common local authentication methods such as Touch ID and Face ID.

Notarization works in tandem with macOS to help people safely download software for their Mac outside of the App Store. Learn about the required transition from altool to notarytool and how the Xcode GUI can help you achieve better overall performance when notarizing your app. We’ll also share information about APIs for interacting with the Notary service from any internet-connected machine.

EDR is Apple’s High Dynamic Range representation and rendering pipeline. Explore how you can render HDR content using EDR in your app and unleash the dynamic range capabilities of HDR displays on iPhone and iPad. We’ll show how you can take advantage of the native EDR APIs on iOS, provide best practices to help you decide when HDR is appropriate, and share tips for tone-mapping and HDR content rendering. We’ll also introduce you to Reference Mode and highlight how it provides a reference response to enable color-critical workflows such as color grading, editing, and content review.

Discover how you can add support for rendering in Extended Dynamic Range (EDR) from a Core Image based multi-platform SwiftUI application. We’ll outline best practices for displaying CIImages to a MTKView using ViewRepresentable. We’ll also share the simple steps to enable EDR rendering and explore some of the over 150 built-in CIFilters that support EDR.

We’ll take you through the latest updates to CloudKit Console and discover how you can explore and debug your containers on the web like never before. Learn more about Act as iCloud, which helps you query records and view data from the perspective of another account. Discover how to share zones of records, and provide better collaboration between participants. And find out how to hide inactive containers. We’ll also share a few tips on getting the most out of CloudKit Console.

Discover how you can manage and automate your iCloud containers using CKTool JS. We’ll show you how to configure CKTool JS to manage your containers’ schemas, modify records with ease, and manipulate data on the fly. We’ll also explore how you can integrate CKTool JS into your automation and tooling workflows.

We’re coming in loud and clear to help you bring walkie-talkie communication to your app — over! Discover how you can add prominent system UI to your Push to Talk app, enabling rapid communication with the tap of a button. We’ll introduce you to the PushToTalk framework and show you how to configure your apps to transmit and receive audio — even from the background.

Join us as we explore the three parts of the development cycle that can help you optimize your Core Data and CloudKit implementation. We’ll show you how you can analyze your app’s architecture and feature set to verify assumptions, explore changes in behavior after ingesting large data sets, and get actionable feedback to make improvements to your workflow.

Learn how you can cleanly migrate Core Data schemas after updating your app, and breeze through data model changes. We’ll show you how you can take advantage of built-in migration tools to keep your data storage up to date, and let Core Data analyze your schema to infer data model migrations. We’ll also provide best practices, help you tackle tough migration challenges, and discover how Core Data schemas can interact with CloudKit to support easy migrations in the cloud.

Learn how you can provide safe and fast authentication in your app using Sign in with Apple. We’ll show you how you can upgrade password-based accounts into secure, single-tap login credentials, and explore how you can seamlessly handle changes to user sessions in your app. We’ll also help you take advantage of Sign In with Apple across the web and on other platforms.

Discover how you can build more refined and powerful augmented reality apps with ARKit 6. We’ll explore how you can create AR experiences rendered in 4K HDR and take you through camera settings customizations for your app. We’ll also share how you can export high-resolution still images from an ARKit session, take advantage of Plane Estimation and Motion Capture, and add AR Location Anchors in new regions.

RoomPlan can help your app quickly create simplified parametric 3D scans of a room. Learn how you can use this API to easily add a room scanning experience. We’ll show you how to adopt this API, explore the 3D parametric output, and share best practices to help your app get great results with every scan.

Follow along as we demonstrate how you can use Object Capture and RealityKit to bring real-world objects into an augmented reality game. We’ll show you how to capture detailed items using the Object Capture framework, add them to a RealityKit project in Xcode, apply stylized shaders and animations, and use them as part of an AR experience. We’ll also share best practices when working with ARKit, RealityKit, and Object Capture.

Discover the fundamentals of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) and learn how it can help you build great 3D assets and workflows. We’ll introduce you to the core concepts behind USD and explore how you can integrate the format into your content creation pipeline. We’ll also show you how to harness the power of USD by using composition to create flexible and versatile assets.

Discover best practices and techniques to help craft magical AR experiences for iPhone and iPad. We’ll provide guidance to help you determine if AR is a good fit for your experience, explore examples of great AR apps, and take you through key considerations when designing for augmented reality.

PhotoKit can help you build rich, photo-centric features. Learn how you can easily track changes to image assets with the latest APIs in PhotoKit. We’ll introduce you to the PHPhotoLibrary change history API and demonstrate how you can persist change tokens across launches to help your app recognize additions, deletions, and updates to someone’s photo library.

Your wrist has never been more productive. Discover how you can use SwiftUI and system features to build a great productivity app for Apple Watch. We’ll show you how you can design great work experiences for the wrist, and explore how you can get text input, display a basic chart, and share content with friends.

Find out how Bluetooth devices can send timely and relevant alerts to Apple Watch. We’ll show you how to take advantage of periodic data in complications, explore background peripheral discovery, and help you learn how to use characteristic monitoring in watchOS. We’ll also share best practices and design guidance for creating a great Bluetooth accessory.

Discover how you can design and build a great SharePlay experience. We’ll show you how to identify activities in your app that can help bring everyone together — even while they’re apart. Learn best practices to help you design for group activities, create intuitive interactions, and build support for different types of experiences.

Join us as we share the latest updates to SharePlay. We’ll show you how you can start SharePlay sessions right from your app, take you through improvements to APIs to create richer experiences, and check out enhancements to GroupSessionMessenger. We’ll also explore best practices for adding SharePlay to your app.

Discover the latest advancements in tooling to help you generate, inspect, and convert Universal Scene Description (USD) assets. We’ll learn about updates to these tools and help you integrate them into your content creation pipeline. We’ll also explore the power of USD Hydra rendering, and show how you can integrate it into your own apps.

Background Tasks help apps respond to system events and keep time-sensitive data up to date. Learn how you can use the SwiftUI Background Tasks API to handle tasks succinctly. We’ll show you how to use Swift Concurrency to handle network responses, background refresh, and more — all while preserving performance and power.

Learn how to use Managed Device Attestation to ensure only legitimate devices can connect to your servers while attackers are thwarted. We’ll take you through an overview of how attestations provide strong evidence about managed devices. We’ll also explore how to use attestations and private keys generated by the Secure Enclave to secure communications to services such as MDM, VPN, and Wi-Fi.

HLS Content Steering dynamically steers clients to different servers based on load and redundancy. We’ll take you through the latest updates to this framework and explore how you can introduce dynamically spawned CDNs to existing HLS clients with Pathway Cloning. We’ll also share how you can achieve global traffic steering with bucket-based Steering Server rules and more.

HLS Interstitials can help you create seamless transitions in video content between advertisements, other interstitials, and your HLS streams. Learn how you can optimize your ad inventory, fine-tune interstitial presentation with SNAP-IN/OUT when using HLS, and more.

Find out how you can use the latest iOS and iPadOS system media players to build amazing media apps. We’ll share how we designed the updated player and give you best practices and tips to help you design media experiences of your own. We’ll also explore Live Text for video and show you how to integrate interstitials and playback speed controls into your apps.

Explore the Apple Music API and MusicKit client frameworks. Learn how you can integrate Apple Music features into your web service or Android app, make requests to the Apple Music API to discover and fetch content, and personalize the experience for subscribers.

Discover the latest updates and improvements to the Advanced Video Quality Tool (AVQT). We’ll take you through the interactive reports feature and help you learn how to identify video quality-related issues. We’ll also explore extended support for raw formats, show you how to evaluate specific scenes within a video, and explore how you can use AVQT for Linux to analyze videos on Linux servers and online in the cloud.

Discover techniques for building rich, accessible web apps with custom controls, SSML, and the dialog element. We’ll discuss different assistive technologies and help you learn how to use them when testing the accessibility of your web apps.

Discover how you can support complex screen capture experiences for people using your app with ScreenCaptureKit. We’ll explore many of the advanced options you can incorporate including fine tuning content filters, frame metadata interpretation, window pickers, and more. We’ll also show you how you can configure your stream for optimal performance.

Learn how ScreenCaptureKit can deliver high-performance screen capture for your macOS screen sharing applications, video conferencing apps, game streaming services, and more. We’ll explore the building blocks of this API, learn how to configure streams to capture on-screen video and audio content, and share tips for integrating it into your existing apps.

Discover how you can create compute workloads that scale efficiently across Apple GPUs. Learn how to saturate the GPU by improving your work distribution, minimize GPU timeline gaps with effective pipelining and concurrent dispatches, and use atomic operations effectively. We’ll also take you through the latest counters and tools in Xcode and Instruments that can help you optimize spatial and temporal memory access patterns.

Your C++ games and apps can now tap into the power of Metal. We’ll show you how metal-cpp helps you bridge your C++ code to Metal, explore how each manages object lifecycles, and demonstrate utilities that can help these language cooperate in your app. We’ll also share best practices for designing app architecture to elegantly integrate Objective-C and C++ together.

Meet Metal mesh shaders — a modern and flexible pipeline in Metal for GPU-driven geometry creation and processing. We’ll explore how this API can improve and add flexibility to your render pipeline, and share some of the opportunities that GPU-driven work can create. Discover how you can create procedural geometry — like hair rendering — on the GPU using mesh shaders, and build single render passes without additional compute passes or intermediate buffers. We’ll also show you how to improve scene processing and rendering through GPU-driven meshlet culling.

Learn more about App Tracking Transparency and how it helps people using your app have choice and control over tracking. App Store Policy now requires that all apps receive permission through the AppTrackingTransparency framework in order to track people’s data. We’ll explain how this policy defines tracking, whether your app needs to adopt this framework, and how to implement it effectively.

Privacy Nutrition Labels help people understand your app’s privacy practices. Discover how you can take inventory of your current data habits and learn best practices for creating your app’s Privacy Nutrition Label on your App Store product page.

Discover how you can create Shortcuts in your app with zero user setup. We’ll show you how App Intents can help you present custom Shortcuts views, and explore how you can add support for parameterized phrases to allow people to quickly express their intent. We’ll also share how you can make your App Shortcuts discoverable with a Siri Tip, and Shortcuts links.

The Apple Design Awards honors excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. Watch along as we reveal and celebrate the 2022 winners.

Discover the latest updates to Create ML. We’ll share improvements to Create ML’s evaluation tools that can help you understand how your custom models will perform on real-world data. Learn how you can check model performance on each type of image in your test data and identify problems within individual images to help you troubleshoot mistaken classifications, poorly labeled data, and other errors. We’ll also show you how to test your model with iPhone and iPad in live preview using Continuity Camera, and share how you can take Action Classification even further with the new Repetition Counting capabilities of the Create ML Components framework.

Learn more about Apple Business Essentials — a complete solution that brings together device management, 24/7 support, and cloud storage for your small business. We’ll explore how you can use features like Collections to manage apps and settings for every iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV in your organization. Find out how you can get started and review how Apple Business Essentials works for you and your employees.

Find out how you can build apps that help people manage their relationship with their device — all while putting privacy first. We’ll take you through the Screen Time API and share how you can use features like core restrictions and device activity reports to create great experiences while providing measurable control for the device’s owner, parents, and guardians.

Learn how you can highlight your app’s Now Playing information on every platform. We’ll take you through an overview of media metadata, learn how it gets represented in areas like the Lock Screen and Control Center, and show you how to write and publish effective media metadata for your content. We’ll also explore how your app can respond to commands from other devices such as HomePod.

Learn how you can create integrated content experiences across multiple devices. We’ll introduce you to DeviceDiscoveryUI, which makes it easy to set up communication pathways and connect Apple TV with other devices like iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. We’ll also explore common scenarios and provide best practices to help you enable frictionless device-to-device connectivity.

SMS message filter extensions can help people manage Messages by filtering SMS messages from unknown senders. Discover how to create apps with message filter extensions that automatically categorize SMS messages into folders and sub-folders based on message contents and other heuristics.

Get ready to tune up your iPad app’s toolbars with SwiftUI. We’ll show you how you can structure toolbars to take advantage of the space available on iPad and help people maximize their productivity. We’ll also take you through customization, explore the latest ways you can represent documents, and more.

Learn how you can build reliable endpoint security products like anti-virus software, endpoint detection and response, and data leakage prevention solutions for macOS. We’ll take you through the latest enhancements to Endpoint Security APIs: Learn how you can support more security events and use advanced muting capabilities in your app. We’ll also explore a standalone tool to help you perform introspection from the command line.

Discover how you can enhance and personalize your app using MusicKit. We’ll take you through the latest additions to the MusicKit framework and explore how you can bring music content to your app through requests, metadata, and more.

Learn how you can easily prototype and build apps with Swift Playgrounds. We’ll show you how to create an app from a blank project, build its interface with SwiftUI, and use Swift Package Manager to add extra functionality from an open source package. We’ll also explore how you can debug issues using Previews and the console and take you through submitting an app to App Store Connect for distribution via TestFlight.

Learn how you can build guided instructional content designed for Swift Playgrounds. Follow along with us as we explore how you can add a guide to a completed sample code project. We’ll demonstrate how to add tasks to your learning center to show off relevant code and optional experiment tasks that encourage learners to extend the project with code of their own.

Discover how you can create effective testing plans for Xcode Cloud, Apple’s continuous integration and continuous delivery service. We’ll show you how testing can be an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly. Learn how you can author fast, reliable, and efficient tests for Xcode Cloud, avoid irrelevant failures, and verify your code changes quickly.

Discover how you can get the most out of Xcode Cloud, Apple’s continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service. We’ll take you through an overview of Xcode Cloud and how it connects with Xcode and App Store Connect. We’ll also explore the Xcode Cloud Usage Dashboard in App Store Connect, and learn how you can use this tool to help optimize your build and release process across multiple team projects.

Learn how you can use Apple’s continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service with development teams of any size to help you deliver high-quality apps. We’ll show you how to integrate Xcode Cloud into your team’s existing app development process and efficiently use Xcode Cloud in your CI/CD practice. We’ll also demonstrate how you can use the App Store Connect API to integrate Xcode Cloud with an issue tracker, explore code dependency management, and share best practices.

Discover how you can use AVFoundation to keep people focused on your media app’s content — not your loading spinner. We’ll show you how to support a responsive and fluid interface in your app, all while you create rich audiovisual compositions, load audiovisual assets, and prepare media thumbnails. Find out how you can perform these tasks on your app’s main thread while I/O processes in parallel, learn how to get top-notch playback performance when loading data from custom storage, and more.

Find out how you can deliver a coordinated playback experience in SharePlay when your app delivers different ad schedules to each participant. We’ll explore how to build playback experiences with stitched-in ads and scheduled HLS interstitials, and share tips and best practices.

Discover how you can create personalized, individual experiences in your tvOS app. We’ll show you how you can offer a single checkbox to store profile data, game save states, and more, providing each person with the same level of data separation they’d have on a personal device like iPhone. We’ll also explore how the new user-independent keychain can help you maintain your existing sign on experience for multiple people in the same household.

Learn how you can restore someone’s in-app purchases access proactively when they first open your app. We’ll show you how you can deliver instant access to existing subscriptions using StoreKit or StoreKit 2 and cover best practices for both your client and server implementations. Find out more about how you can determine customer purchase state and create a personalized onboarding experience for your app.

Discover how you can take advantage of advanced camera capture features in your app. We’ll show you how to use the LiDAR scanner to create photo and video effects and perform accurate depth measurement. Learn how your app can use the camera for picture-in-picture or multitasking, control face-driven autofocus and autoexposure during camera capture, and more. We’ll also share strategies for using multiple video outputs so that you can optimize live preview while capturing high-quality video output.

تعرّف على المبادئ الأساسية لتصميم الواجهات الرقمية باللغة العربية. سواء كنت تود تصميم تطبيق أو لعبة خصيصًا للاستخدام العربي، أو تود ترجمة تطبيق من لغة أخرى إلى العربية، سنقدم لك أفضل الطرق للوصول إلى تصميم مثالي يخدم المحتوى العربي. تعلم أيضا تأثير اتجاه اللغة على اتجاه القوالب والأيقونات، وسمات الخط العربي الجيد للاستخدام الرقمي، وصيغ الأرقام العربية وتأثيرها على واجهة المستخدم.

Learn how you can take advantage of AVFoundation and Metal to build an efficient EDR pipeline. Follow along as we demonstrate how you can use AVPlayer to display HDR video as EDR, add playback into an app view, render it with Metal, and use Core Image or custom Metal shaders to add video effects such as keying or color management. Whether you develop games or pro apps, we’ll help you decide which frameworks to use and share best practices for selecting transports, colorspaces, and pixelbuffer formats.

Discover how Vision can provide expert image recognition and analysis in your app to extract information from documents, recognize text in multiple languages, and identify barcodes. We’ll explore the latest updates to Text Recognition and Barcode Detection, show you how to bring all these tools together with Core ML, and help your app make greater sense of the world through images or the live camera.

Take advantage of Shazam’s exact audio matching capabilities within your app when you use ShazamKit. Learn how you can harness the immense Shazam catalog to create all sorts of experiences, including quickly recognizing the exact song playing in the background of a video captured by your app, offering dynamic visual effects based on the music playing in a room, or even syncing with external audio to provide companion app experiences. We’ll also show you how you can build custom catalogs within ShazamKit to match with any audio source — all on device.

Bring custom audio matching to your app with ShazamKit. Discover how you can use Shazam’s exact audio matching to recognize audio against any source when you use custom catalogs on device.

Learn how you can interact with Video Effects in Control Center including Center Stage, Portrait mode, and Mic modes. We’ll show you how to detect when these features have been enabled for your app and explore ways to adopt custom interfaces to make them controllable from within your app. Discover how to enable 10-bit HDR video capture and take advantage of minimum-focus-distance reporting for improved camera capture experiences. Explore support for IOSurface compression and delivering optimal performance in camera capture.

Discover how to you can add intelligence to your widgets in Smart Stacks. We’ll show you how to use the new Widget Suggestions API in tandem with Smart Rotate to create more valuable widget experiences for people throughout the day. Whether you inform the system of new, timely information or teach the system to learn common patterns, adopting these APIs can help people discover your widget and allows you to influence how the system surfaces content from your app around system spaces.

Discover best practices, tools, and techniques to help craft the best possible Mac Catalyst app. We’ll take you through key considerations when you bring your iPad app to macOS, explore detailed code examples for refining your interface and experience, and show you how to distribute your Mac app to everyone.

It’s easier than ever to offer your existing iPad and iPhone apps on Macs with M1. We’ll show you how to bring your app to macOS, and explore how the system automatically bridges various features of your app to work on the Mac. We’ll also provide guidance on best practices in your iPad app, combined with improvements in macOS Monterey — like Apple Pay support, improved AV handling, and shortcuts — to provide the fullest experience on Macs with M1.

Every app uses Buttons. With iOS 15, you can adopt updated styles to create gorgeous buttons that fit effortlessly into your interface. We’ll explore features that make it easier to create different types of buttons, learn how to provide richer interactions, and discover how you can get great buttons when using Mac Catalyst.

Power up your online gaming experience with GameKit and adopt features like multiplayer, leaderboards, and achievements in your game. We’ll take you through the latest improvements to Game Center, including player matching and multiplayer APIs, and explore how you can boost discovery of your game.

Recurring leaderboards are a great way to encourage players to keep coming back to your game. Code along with us as we take you through how to set up a recurring leaderboard, both within App Store Connect and in your game itself.

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Code along with us and build a working care pilot app. Explore best practices for onboarding and consent with ResearchKit, and find out how your app can require participants to sign consent documents by leveraging CareKit’s store and UI components.

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Continue coding along with us and explore how you can make it easier than ever to schedule surveys for your study participants. You’ll also learn advanced techniques for crafting evolving regiments in CareKit and see how ResearchKit’s active tasks can help capture important measurements out of clinic.

Build the next generation of augmented reality apps with ARKit 5. Explore how you can use Location Anchors in additional regions and more easily onboard people into your location-based AR experience. Learn more about Face Tracking and Motion Capture. And discover best practices for placing your AR content in the real world. We’ll also show you how you can integrate App Clip Codes into your AR app for easy discovery and precise positioning of your virtual content.

Creating engaging AR experiences has never been easier with RealityKit 2. Explore the latest enhancements to the RealityKit framework and take a deep dive into this underwater sample project. We’ll take you through the improved Entity Component System, streamlined animation pipeline, and the plug-and-play character controller with enhancements to face mesh and audio.

Create stunning visuals for your augmented reality experiences with cutting-edge rendering advancements in RealityKit. Learn the art of writing custom shaders, draw real-time dynamic meshes, and explore creative post-processing effects to help you stylize your AR scene.

Discover the flexibility, versatility and power of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) for your 3D workflows. Learn how you can use the USD file format in your professional workflows for macOS: Scan 3D models of your real-world objects using Object Capture, utilize the potential of third-party digital content creation tools, and build high-quality rendered sequences.

Discover simple ways to bring your Object Capture assets to AR Quick Look while optimizing for visual quality and file size. Explore ways you can integrate AR Quick Look and Object Capture to help create entirely new experiences.

Explore how geometry-aware audio can help you build complex, interactive, and immersive audio scenes for your apps and games. Meet PHASE, Apple’s spatial audio API, and learn how the Physical Audio Spatialization Engine (PHASE) keeps the sound aligned with your experience at all times — helping you create spatial soundscapes and scenes during the development process, rather than waiting until post production. We’ll take you through an overview of the API and its classes, including Sources, Listeners, Acoustic Geometry, and Materials, and introduce the concept of Spatial Modeling. We’ll also show you how to quickly combine PHASE’s basic building blocks to start building an integrated audio experience for your app or game.

It’s time to up your input game: Learn about the latest improvements to virtual and physical game controllers for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Meet the virtual on-screen controller, which turns touch input into game controller input, and find out how to add controller sharing features to your app. We’ll also show you how to support adaptive trigger technology found in DualSense controllers, provide best practices for controller support, and take you through some common pre-flight checks around accessible and customizable input before submitting to the App Store.

At Apple, we believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. Learn about our four pillars of privacy, how we brought these principles together to design iCloud Private Relay, and how you can approach building privacy in your app in line with those fundamentals. Explore how you can build data minimization, on-device processing, transparency and control, and security protections right into your app.

CloudKit provides a secure, convenient, and reliable cloud database for your apps — and it’s only getting better. Discover how you can unravel your threads with support for async/await and convenience API additions. We’ll also show you how to encourage collaboration between people using your app through sharing entire record zones of data, and explore how to adopt CloudKit features like encrypted values and help protect sensitive data within your app.

Quickly discover how to identify priorities when viewing power and performance regressions. Learn how to track metrics that have regressed with device-and percentile-specific information, so you can focus your efforts on optimization and save valuable development time. We’ll also show you how to track down common anti-patterns in your app that wear out device storage, help you customize your workflows, and add App Store Connect APIs to help you stay up to date on your app’s real-world performance.

Find out how you can securely request access to someone’s verifiable health records and incorporate that data safely into your app. The Health app helps people download, view, and share their health records, including their COVID-19 immunization and test results — and iOS 15 brings support for the SMART Health Card, a verifiable health record that incorporates the FHIR health data standard. We’ll show you how your app can go about requesting access to this record and how you can verify the signature of the file using CryptoKit and the issuer’s public key.

Discover how Core Data can surface data from your app in Spotlight with as little as two lines of code. Learn how to make that data discoverable in Spotlight search and to customize how it is presented to people on device. Lastly, we’ll show you how to implement full-text search within your app, driven completely with the data indexed by Spotlight.

Never again miss anyone’s great moment in your game or app. Learn about ReplayKit’s latest update — clips screen recording — which provides your app with a rolling buffer of past video and audio samples. When memorable moments happen, discover how you can record and save it for people, and find out how you can surface those clips when they’re most relevant. Lastly, we’ll take you through integrating ReplayKit into your iOS and macOS apps.

Learn how you can support on-device verification codes in your app or website for a more secure sign-in experience. We’ll explore the latest updates to the iCloud Keychain password manager and discover how verification codes, AutoFill, iCloud Keychain sync, and two-tap setup simplify the multi-step sign-in process. We’ll show you how to support this process in your apps and websites.

Discover how to keep your accounts, apps, and content protected. We’ll explore the tools Apple has built to help developers keep their apps and systems safe and secure, and show you how to safeguard against attackers, bad actors and nefarious activity to help protect your ecosystem.

Discover how CloudKit Console can help you better interact with your containers. We’ll show you how to put the database app to work and define, modify, and deploy schema changes with confidence. You’ll learn how to craft queries in the query builder and filter your records with ease. And we’ll explore how to use telemetry and log data to gain new insights into your app behavior over time.

It’s never been easier to test your CloudKit containers. We’ll introduce you to cktool, a command-line utility that makes quick work of CloudKit configuration, and learn about the new schema language that allows you to rapidly prototype and evolve containers. We’ll also show you how to combine these tools and configure your containers before running tests in Xcode.

Go beyond the basics to deliver an exceptional accessibility experience. Learn how to use the new SwiftUI Previews in Xcode to explore the latest accessibility APIs and create fantastic, accessible apps for everyone. Find out how you can customize the automatic accessibility built into SwiftUI to make your own custom controls accessible. Explore best practices and identify where to improve your app’s navigation experience using grouping and focus. And help supercharge navigation for VoiceOver users with the addition of rotors.

iPhone and iPad support numerous input modes for those with motor impairments, including touch interaction modification, Switch Control, and Full Keyboard Access. We’ll explore how people can interact with their devices solely through keyboard input, working through a real-life example to discover key APIs. We’ll also take you through some best practices for supporting motor accessibility when you integrate Full Keyboard Access in your apps.

Learn how to present complex data through VoiceOver with the Accessibility Custom Content API. Discover how you can deliver accessibility information in a concise form, and only when someone wants it. We’ll show you how you can integrate AXCustomContent and help people who want VoiceOver enabled to navigate your data-rich apps in an efficient manner.

Charts are an essential tool for understanding data, and critical to understanding ourselves, our health, our finances, and our world. Find out how you can make charts accessible in your apps to people with vision impairments through audio graphs and sonified data. And we’ll show you how to improve your charts for accessibility through universal design principles and system accessibility settings.

In a managed device environment, you often need to control the pace of software updates while you test the latest operating systems within your company or education institution. Discover the tools you have at your disposal to defer, deploy, and enforce software updates.

Discover the latest advancements in key device management capabilities for your organization or MDM solution. Explore the refreshed device management Settings on iOS and iPadOS, an all-new return to service functionality for macOS, and other updates to device management across Apple platforms.

The future of device management is here: Learn how you can support mobile device management while allowing individual devices to be autonomous and proactive, bringing both increased performance and scalability. We’ll show you how you can incorporate this declarative model in your MDM solution.

Learn how User Enrollment helps you support “bring your own device” deployments in your business or enterprise environment. We’ll explore data separation, enhancements to Managed Apple IDs and how you can use the new account-based onboarding in your organization.

Discover the Apps and Books Management API and explore how you can assign an organization’s owned apps and books to managed users and devices. Learn about the latest API improvements and find out how you can subscribe to and receive notifications around asset counts, assignments, and registered users in your organization. And discover how you can take advantage of asynchronous processing to significantly reduce the number of requests you need to make for large assignments.

Learn how you can create seamless transitions between advertisements and your HLS streams. We’ll show you how to incorporate HLS tags and AVFoundation APIs to create media experiences that move easily between your primary content and mid-rolls, and provide best practices for playing these streams in your app.

Discover how you can use HLS playlist tags and the Steering Manifest format with your content to help dynamically update CDN redundancy policies tuned for each viewer. Learn how to load balance, set failover, and more.

Discover how you can create streaming media content that seamlessly transitions between episodes, songs, scenes, and individual resources. With gapless HLS playback, you can stitch together multiple pieces of content on the fly to create customized workouts, design interactive content, tell compelling stories, and more. We’ll show you how you can provide faithful continuity for streaming music, event recordings, and pre-recorded video and provide a captivating viewing experience within your app.

Discover how you can use AVFoundation APIs to highlight different variants of your content within your app. We’ll show you how you can inspect HLS content using these APIs for different video characteristics, including attributes like SDR/HDR, FPS, and the like. And we’ll explore the AVAssetVariant, which represents streaming and offline content.

Learn how the Advanced Video Quality Tool (AVQT) can help you accurately assess the perceptual quality of your compressed video files. Utilizing the AVFoundation framework, AVQT supports a wide range of video formats, codecs, resolutions and frame-rates in both the SDR and HDR domains, which results in easy and efficient workflows — for example, no requirement to decode to a raw pixel format.

Discover the latest updates to AVFoundation, Apple’s framework for inspecting, playing, and authoring audiovisual presentations. We’ll explore how you can use AVFoundation to query attributes of audiovisual assets, further customize your custom video compositions with timed metadata, and author caption files.

Discover how to achieve smooth screen updates on all Apple platforms that support dynamic display timing. Learn techniques for pacing full-screen game updates on Adaptive Sync displays in macOS, and find out how Low Power Mode and other system states affect frame rate availability on ProMotion displays. We’ll also share best practices for driving custom drawing using display link APIs.

Optimize your high-end games for Apple GPUs: We’ll show you how you can use our rendering and debugging tools to eliminate performance issues and make your games great on Apple platforms. Learn from our experiences working with developers at Larian Studios and 4A Games as we help them optimize their games for Apple GPUs.

Achieve photorealistic 3D scenes in your apps and games through ray tracing, a core part of the Metal graphics framework and Shading Language. We’ll explore the latest improvements in implementing ray tracing and take you through upgrades to the production rendering process. Discover Metal APIs to help you create more detailed scenes, integrate natively-supported content with motion, and more.

Discover how you can combine ray tracing with your rasterization engine to implement simplified graphics techniques and elevate visuals in your app or game. We’ll explore how you can use natural algorithms to accurately simulate the interplays of light, and learn how to take advantage of the latest tools in Xcode to capture, inspect, and debug your ray-traced scenes.

Metal Performance Shaders Graph is a compute engine that helps you build, compile, and execute customized multidimensional graphs for linear algebra, machine learning, computer vision, and image processing. Discover how MPSGraph can accelerate the popular TensorFlow platform through a Metal backend for Apple products. Learn how to add control flow to your graphs, manage the graph compilation for optimal performance, and use the MPSGraph operations to accelerate the hardest compute applications with only a few lines of code.

Discover how to optimize your image processing app for Apple silicon. Explore how to take advantage of Metal render command encoders, tile shading, unified memory architecture, and memoryless attachments. We’ll show you how to use Apple’s unique tile based deferred renderer architecture to create power efficient apps with low memory footprint, and take you through best practices when migrating your compute-based apps from discrete GPUs to Apple silicon.

Explore how Xcode can help you take your Metal debugging, profiling and asset creation workflows to the next level. Discover the latest tools for ray tracing and GPU profiling, and learn about Metal Debugger workflows. We’ll also show you how to use the Texture Converter tool, which supports all modern GPU texture formats and can easily integrate into your multi-platform asset creation pipelines.

Supporting low latency encoders has become an important aspect of video application development process. Discover how VideoToolbox supports low-delay H.264 hardware encoding to minimize end-to-end latency and achieve new levels of performance for optimal real-time communication and high-quality video playback.

Discover how you can add Core Image kernels written in the Metal Shading Language into your app. We’ll explore how you can use Xcode rules and naming conventions for Core Image kernels written in the Metal Shading Language, and help you make sense of Metal’s Stitchable functions and dynamic library features to benefit Core Image kernels.

When you support ProRAW in your app, you can help photographers easily capture and edit images by combining standard RAW information with Apple’s advanced computational photography techniques. We’ll take you through an overview of the format, including the look and feel of ProRAW images, quality metrics, and compatibility with your app. From there, we’ll explore how you can incorporate ProRAW into your app at every stage of the production pipeline, including capturing imagery with AVFoundation, storage using PhotoKit, and editing with Core Image.

EDR is Apple’s High Dynamic Range representation and rendering pipeline. Explore how you can render HDR content using EDR in your app and unleash the dynamic range capabilities of your HDR display including Apple’s internal displays and Pro Display XDR.

Discover the latest updates to managing in-app purchases on your server. Explore how you can use servers to track status changes, handle refunds, and manage subscriber status. Learn about App Store server APIs around status and in-app purchase transactions, and find out how App Store server notifications can help you track more customer lifecycle events. We’ll also take you through managing Family Sharing for in-app purchases, and the latest improvements to testing in-app purchases in the sandbox environment.

Great customer support is critical to running a successful business on the App Store. Discover how you can provide a frictionless support experience to customers who make in-app purchases, including APIs that make it easy for customers to manage or cancel their auto-renewable subscription, or request refunds from directly within your app. We’ll cover best practices for handling refunds, as well as additional APIs that can help you better support your customers.

Discover how you can understand and diagnose memory performance problems with Xcode. We’ll take you through the latest updates to Xcode’s tools, explore Metrics, check out the memgraph collection feature in XCTest, and learn how to catch regressions using a Performance XCTest.

Find out how you can use the FileProvider framework to build a comprehensive cloud sync solution. We’ll show you how to approach building a file provider extension, and explore how you can effortlessly integrate your extension with file system features such as safe save, disk space management, Finder integration and more.

Learn how you can design your app to support SharePlay experiences. We’ll show you how you can bring people together in your app using the Group Activities framework, and adapt your design to focus on group-first content sharing. And we’ll explore ideas and iteration around apps and functions you can create for people using SharePlay on a FaceTime call.

Go beyond basic streaming and interaction and discover how you can build advanced SharePlay experiences using the full power of the Group Activities framework. We’ll show you how to adapt a simple drawing app into a real-time shared canvas, explore APIs like GroupSessionMessenger — which helps send and receive custom messages between participants in the group — and learn how to put the finishing touches on a custom SharePlay experience.

Create SharePlay experiences that people can enjoy on the web and in your companion app. Learn how you can use the Group Activities framework in combination with a companion website to bring SharePlay to Safari, letting people connect with each other for enjoyable group interactions — even if they haven’t yet downloaded your app from the App Store.

Discover how to use the AudioDriverKit API to consolidate your Audio Server plug-in and DriverKit extension into a single package. Learn how you can simplify audio driver installation with an app instead of an installer package and distribute your driver through the Mac App Store. And we’ll take you through how the Core Audio HAL interacts with AudioDriverKit and discover best practices for audio device drivers.

Find out how you can use Apple TV’s redesigned playback interface to build great media experiences in your apps. Learn how the latest interface helps people access relevant controls and information while maintaining focus on content. We’ll show you how you can adopt AVPlayerViewController and other APIs for your tvOS app to help people find, play, and enjoy content.

Discover how you can iterate upon your interfaces even more quickly when building your apps. Learn how you can modernize your UI with the latest button styles and table view cell content configurations, both of which give you greater control directly inside of Interface Builder. We’ll show you how you can preview common customizations with accessibility overrides — such as dynamic type size and increased contrast — all without leaving the canvas. We’ll also take you through hierarchical symbols to easily add a splash of color to reinvigorate your app. Whether you’re just starting out or have been developing apps for years, learn best practices for creating great interfaces with tips and tricks sprinkled along the way.

Whether you’re curating packages for your team, for education purposes, or to share with other developers, Swift Package Collections can help you discover, explore and import new packages into your project. Discover improvements in the Swift Package workflow using Collections, and learn how you can curate, create, sign, and share your own Swift Package Collections.

Discover how Xcode can automatically track down infinite loops, unused code, and other issues before you even run your app. Learn how, with a single click, Xcode can analyze your project to discover security issues, logical bugs, and other hard-to-spot errors in Objective-C, C, and C++. We’ll show you how to use the static analyzer to save you time investigating bug reports and improve your app’s overall quality.

Learn how Xcode Organizer makes it easier and faster to triage and fix crashes. We’ll explore how you can get access to crash information and feedback from your TestFlight testers just moments after they occur. And we’ll show you how to analyze crashes, view metrics, and even share crash information among your team.

Discover how to distribute your apps directly to App Store Connect and all the distribution methods supported in Xcode. Explore how to automate distribution for your apps, and learn about improvements to the distribution workflow like cloud signing, app record creation, and build number management.

Learn how you can interact with devices in UI Tests in Xcode 13. Discover newly-automatable input methods including iPadOS pointer, watchOS Digital Crown, and enhanced macOS trackpad scrolling APIs.

Discover how you can help people watch or listen to content all in sync with SharePlay and the Group Activities framework. We’ll show you how to adapt a media app into a synchronized, SharePlay-enabled experience for multiple people. Learn how to add Group Activities to your app, explore the Picture in Picture layout, and find out how the playback coordinator object can help you fine-tune playback across multiple devices.

The Metal shading language is a powerful C++ based language that allows apps to render stunning effects while maintaining a flexible shader development pipeline. Discover how to more easily build and extend your render pipelines using Dynamic Libraries and Function Pointers. We’ll also show you how to accelerate your shader compilation at runtime with Binary Function Archives, Function Linking, and Function Stitching.

The Accelerate framework helps you make large-scale mathematical computations and image calculations that are optimized for high-performance, low-energy consumption. Explore the latest updates to Accelerate and its Basic Neural Network Subroutines library, including additional layers, activation functions, and improved optimizer support. Check out improvements to simd.h that include better support for C++ templates. Discover support for Apple Encrypted Archive, an extension to Apple Archive that combines compression with powerful encryption and a digital signature. And learn how you can keep data your safe and secure without compromising on performance.

CPU performance and network throughput rates keep improving, but the speed of light is one limit that isn’t going any higher. Learn the APIs and best practices to maximize your app’s responsiveness and efficiency by keeping network round-trip times low and minimizing the number of round trips when performing network operations.

Discover how to use App Attest and DeviceCheck, Apple’s powerful anti-fraud tools, created to safeguard your apps and content. Unlock the secrets of deploying App Attest by incorporating it into your app to block unauthorized modifications of your app and content. We’ll also show you how to use DeviceCheck to ensure you can distinguish between customers who have received premium content in your app, and those who have attained it through illegitimate means.

Your app can take full advantage of the powerful camera systems on iPhone by using the AVCapture APIs. Learn how to choose the most appropriate photo or video formats for your use cases while balancing the trade-offs between photo quality and delivery speed. Discover some powerful new algorithms which can help you deliver greatly improved photo quality when you use video formats in your app.

Discover how you can create custom iconography with the latest rendering modes in SF Symbols 3. We’ll help you learn how to draw, edit, and annotate symbols, as well as explore more advanced techniques to improve the design process.

Learn how you can create colorized symbols with SF Symbols 3 and customize them to match the visual design of your app’s interface. We’ll take you through the latest UIKit and AppKit APIs for integrating colorized symbols, as well as best practices for implementation.

The ClassKit framework can help surface educational activities within your app to teachers using the Schoolwork app. Discover how you can provide teachers with greater insights into student learning by adopting the latest file-based API to report student progress data within your app. We’ll also show you how to use ClassKit to report out different data types, and how to test your implementation in developer mode.

Improve the keyboard experience in your iPad and Mac Catalyst app. Discover how you can accelerate access to key features with the hardware keyboard, and navigate through your views and view controllers. Learn how to customize which elements are keyboard navigable, as well as how to customize the tab loop.

Notarization works in tandem with macOS to help people safely download software for their Mac outside of the App Store. Discover how notarytool can help you quickly and easily notarize your Mac app for distribution. We’ll show you how you can now notarize your apps with just a single command, and how to bring notarization into your continuous integration workflows.

Discover how spatial audio can help you provide a theater-like experience for media in your apps and on the web. We’ll show you how you can easily bring immersive audio to those listening with compatible hardware, and how to automatically deliver different listening experiences depending on someone’s bandwidth or connection — all with little to no change to your code. And gain recommendations on how you can tailor the experience in your app and use spatial audio to tell stories in new, exciting ways.

Get to know Xcode Cloud, Apple’s continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for building apps and frameworks for all Apple platforms. Find out how Xcode Cloud can improve both the productivity of your team and the quality of your products. We’ll show you how to start your first build, use a build report to fix issues, and collaborate with your team.

Learn how Xcode Cloud workflows can help you and your team automate building, analyzing, testing, archiving, and distributing your apps and frameworks. They are flexible, extensible, and can be configured around your team’s development and distribution process. Find out the basics of Xcode Cloud Workflows, discover how to configure them from end to end, and check out recommended workflows to get you started with Apple’s continuous integration system.

Xcode Cloud integrates with Apple Developer tools and services, all major source control management services, and even social collaboration tools like Slack. If your development process relies on additional tools and external services, however, you can fine-tune your workflows and the behavior of your build.

Learn how you can support Live Text and intelligently pull information from the camera to fill out forms and text fields in your app. We’ll show you how to apply content filtering to capture the correct information when someone uses the camera as keyboard input and apply it to a relevant UITextField, helping your app input data like phone numbers, addresses, and flight information. And we’ll explore how you can create a custom interface, extend other controls like UIImageViews to support this capability, and more.

Discover how you can deliver rich app experiences that include animation, sound, and haptics on iPhone. Learn key concepts for designing multimodal experiences within the Core Haptics framework. We’ll take you through our sample HapticRicochet app — where haptic and sound feedback is designed in harmony with key interactive moments — and show you how to create magical and delightful experiences.

Find out how people can use Face ID or Touch ID on their iOS or iPadOS device to authorize purchases and sign into your tvOS app. Discover how you can simplify sign in for people using your app and help them get to the content they want to enjoy, faster. We’ll show you how to set up a simplified sign in process and share some best practices about creating great sign in experiences for Apple TV.

Learn how ResearchKit and CareKit can work together to take the tedium out of paper surveys. Join us for the last part of our code along as we put the finishing touches on our care pilot app. Explore how you can use advanced CareKit APIs to customize the appearance and behavior of task cards, find out how to plot answers to ResearchKit surveys in CareKit charts, and discover how you can use ResearchKit to present engaging educational content.

Actions are the building blocks of shortcuts. They allow people to take advantage of your app’s functionality even when they’re not looking at your app’s interface. We’ll show you how to design actions that are useful, easy-to-use, and can be incorporated into powerful multi-step shortcuts. You’ll also explore enhancements around publishing and sharing shortcuts, ensuring that people can access your app in the way they want across all of Apple’s platforms.

Unleash the full potential of your shaders and implement modern rendering techniques by adding Argument Buffers to adopt bindless rendering. Learn how to make your entire scene and resources available to the GPU to make the most out of raytracing and rasterization pipelines.

Discover how you can take your app’s health monitoring to the next level with motion data. Meet Walking Steadiness for iPhone and the six-minute-walk metric for Apple Watch: Walking Steadiness can help your app interpret someone’s quality of walking and risk of falling, while the six-minute-walk metric — along with the HealthKit estimate recalibration API — can track changes to walking endurance following acute events like surgery. We’ll show you how you can support these metrics and help provide actionable health data to people who use your app, helping improve patient care and clinical trials, especially as more services must be delivered remotely.

Learn about enhancements to Picture in Picture and full screen improvements on macOS. Explore the new content source API, and learn how AVPictureInPictureController supports AVSampleBufferDisplayLayer, as well as recommended steps for an app to provide a seamless full screen experience on macOS or in a Mac Catalyst app.

Discover how you can use the Apple Music API to fetch music catalog metadata for your app. Explore the latest updates to the API as well as some advanced techniques for shaping your requests and highlighting the right metadata for a project.

Discover how you can cross-reference Apple Music content within your app using the Apple Music API. We’ll show you how to reference content across different geographical regions, map explicit to clean-equivalent content, fetch catalog and library relationships, and how to match content using the UPC code.

Apple Configurator is now more capable than ever. Whether you’re provisioning iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS devices in your organization or servicing existing macOS devices, learn how Apple Configurator can help with key workflows. And, coming to iPhone in iOS 15, discover how you can bring Automated Device Enrollment to even more macOS devices.

The enhanced and new APIs in HomeKit enable smart home developers to integrate with the new Matter protocol in the most convenient way. Tour the Matter protocol, and discover how to set up and manage Matter accessories on our platforms and within your smart home apps.

The Apple Design Awards honors excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. Watch along as we reveal and celebrate the 2021 winners.

Dan Harris is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the co-anchor of ABC’s weekend editions of Good Morning America. After having a nationally-televised panic attack in 2004, he found himself on a long and often bizarre journey that ended with him discovering mindfulness meditation. Dan will share his story, which has led to his authoring two books and creating a popular podcast and app that have helped many (including previous non-believers like himself) improve their lives. He will be joined by Jeff Warren, renowned meditation teacher and Dan’s co-author of the bestselling book Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics, to offer practical steps that anyone can take to manage the wide-ranging stresses and anxieties of today’s world to become 10% happier.

Fascinated by aerospace engineering and fighter jets from the age of 11, MIT graduate Tiera Fletcher followed her passion. At 22, she landed her dream job working on NASA’s Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket created in history. Learn what it’s like to design components of a 322-foot-tall, 8.8-million-pounds-of-thrust-producing rocket intended to journey humans into deep space — including the moon, Mars, and beyond.

How do you approach creating apps for everyone? Learn from developers who are blind or deaf themselves as they discuss the process of making technology accessible. Discover how their unique perspectives have sparked innovation at their companies and helped make their apps even more inclusive.

Switch Control is a powerful accessibility technology for anyone with very limited mobility. The feature is available natively on iOS, and you can create an even better Switch Control experience in your app with tips, tricks, and a few APIs. We’ll walk you through how people use Switch Control, as well as provide best practices for supporting it in your app effectively.

Learn how to integrate and load Core Image kernels written in the Metal Shading Language into your application, and discover how you can apply these image filters to create unique effects. Explore how to use Xcode rules and naming conventions for Core Image kernels written in Metal Shading Language. We’ll explain how to best use Core Image APIs effectively and optimally with Metal and the Metal Shading Language.

Augment your app’s accessibility experience with speech synthesis: Discover the best times and places to add speech APIs so that everyone who uses your app can benefit. Learn how to use AVSpeechSynthesizer to complement assistive technologies like VoiceOver, and when to implement alternative APIs. And we’ll show you how to route audio to the appropriate source and create apps that integrate speech seamlessly for all who need or want it.

Discover how to build Action Classification models in Create ML. With a custom action classifier, your app can recognize and understand body movements in real-time from videos or through a camera. We’ll show you how to use samples to easily train a Core ML model to identify human actions like jumping jacks, squats, and dance moves. Learn how this is powered by the Body Pose estimation features of the Vision Framework. Get inspired to create apps that can provide coaching for fitness routines, deliver feedback on athletic form, and more.

Discover how to tailor your Mac Catalyst app so that it looks and feels even more at home on the Mac by using the new “Optimize Interface for Mac” option in Xcode. Explore new layout and appearance options for Catalyst apps, and learn how they can provide you with graphical performance gains, sharper text, and an interface designed specifically for Apple’s desktops and laptops. We’ll show you how to take advantage of these options and provide best practices for organizing your code when developing for multiple platforms.

Analyze aggregated power and performance data from multiple versions of your app with just a few clicks. We’ll introduce you to the latest version of the Xcode Organizer and its interactive interface, where you can easily compare and contrast app metrics across releases. Explore disk write diagnostics and scroll hitch metrics, and learn how you can use these to offer better performance, reduce battery consumption, and improve device health for people using your app.

Learn foolproof ways to surface your app’s actions in the Shortcuts app — and help people quickly set up powerful, personalized shortcuts using system intelligence. We’ll detail how to configure your intents to appear in the new Automation Suggestions, explore how the system surfaces your app’s actions for people based on their everyday app usage, and show you how you can make sure your app appears in all the right places within the Shortcuts app.

Find and fix rendering and optimization issues in your Core Image pipeline with Xcode environment variable. Discover how you can set the environment variable for visualizing your Core Image graphs. You’ll learn how to generate Core Image graphs and how to interpret them to discover memory, color, and performance issues and better improve and optimize your Core Image pipeline.

Make decoding and displaying ProRes content easier in your Mac app: Learn how to implement an optimal graphics pipeline by leveraging AVFoundation and VideoToolbox’s decoding capabilities. We’ll share best practices and performance considerations for your app, show you how to integrate Afterburner cards into your pipeline, and walk through how you can display decoded frames using Metal.

Provide a more versatile experience when you optimize your iPad or Mac Catalyst app for indirect input from trackpads and mice. Discover how to make your app responsive to new events from these devices. Learn how to work with pointer movement, enable pointer locking, handle scroll input and trackpad gestures, and accept or reject events on your gesture recognizers. We’ll also show you how to implement advanced features like changing gesture behaviors with keyboard modifiers or pointing device buttons to delight pro users and bring a richer experience to your app.

When people use hardware keyboards with your app, they’re not only getting a more tactile and familiar typing experience — they can quickly navigate or use keyboard shortcuts, too. Discover how you can best support hardware keyboards for your iPadOS and Mac Catalyst apps: We’ll demystify the responder chain and show you best practices for implementing custom keyboard shortcuts. Learn how easy it is to get up and running with common system keyboard shortcuts, use modifier flags with gesture recognizers, and leverage the raw keyboard event API to respond to key down and key up events.

Local network privacy provides added transparency when apps connect to devices on a person’s home network. If your app interacts with devices using Bonjour or other local networking protocols, you must add support for local network privacy permissions in iOS 14. Learn more about the new permission flow and follow along as we guide you through the necessary steps to update your app. We’ll also provide you with some best practices to help you create a frictionless privacy experience.

Leverage local push connectivity and deliver notifications from your application server to devices on networks without an internet connection. Learn how to construct notifications for apps running in restricted network environments, helping people communicate with the same reliability and experience they would expect when connected to the internet. We’ll explore the technical details for this technology, when you might want to use it, and how to implement it in your app.

Discover how you can integrate custom rotors and help people who use VoiceOver navigate complex situations within your app. Learn how custom rotors can help people explore even the most intricate interfaces, explore how to implement a custom rotor, and find out how rotors can improve navigation for someone who relies on VoiceOver.

Make your Mac Catalyst app accessible to all — and bring those improvements back to your iPad app. Discover how a great accessible iPad app automatically becomes a great accessible Mac app when adding support for Mac Catalyst. Learn how to further augment your experience with support for mouse and keyboard actions and accessibility element grouping and navigation. And explore how to use new Accessibility Inspector features to test your app and iterate to create a truly great experience for everyone.

Empower your organization with the right tools while protecting privacy and security. Discover Apple’s identity management tools for enterprise, and how they can help you create a smoother experience for users when signing in to devices, apps and websites. We’ll show you how to take advantage of Federated Authentication and Single Sign-on extensions, including changes to Apple’s built-in Kerberos extension. And explore our other platform tools for enterprise users, including macOS account types and Shared iPad for Business.

Get your game’s interface ready for Game Center. We’ll show you how to deliver personalized touches to the GameKit interface that provide a rich experience for players, with features like achievements, leaderboards, and multiplayer gaming. Learn how to customize your game’s access point, design collectible card-style achievements and multiple leaderboards, and adapt your interface for all platforms and orientations.

Discover how to deploy Core ML models outside of your app binary, giving you greater flexibility and control when bringing machine learning features to your app. And learn how Core ML Model Deployment enables you to deliver revised models to your app without requiring an app update. We’ll also walk you through how you can protect custom machine learning models through encryption, and preview your model performance in Xcode.

With Core ML you can bring incredible machine learning models to your app and run them entirely on-device. And when you use Core ML Converters, you can incorporate almost any trained model from TensorFlow or PyTorch and take full advantage of the GPU, CPU, and Neural Engine. Discover everything you need to begin converting existing models from other ML platforms and explore how to create custom operations that extend the capabilities of your models.

With the Create ML framework you have more power than ever to easily develop models and automate workflows. We’ll show you how to explore and interact with your machine learning models while you train them, helping you get a better model quickly. Discover how training control in Create ML can customize your training workflow with checkpointing APIs to pause, save, resume, and extend your training process. And find out how you can monitor your progress programmatically using Combine APIs.

Discover techniques for streaming high-quality audio to bandwidth-limited networks and new audio codec support. We’ll share some best practices for supporting the xHE-AAC, FLAC, and Apple Lossless Audio audio codecs, including limited support for multichannel AAC.

System Extensions improve the reliability and security of macOS. Learn about the modern replacement for Kernel Authorization KPIs and discover tips for making a great security product with the Endpoint Security framework.

Picture in Picture is coming to Apple TV: With simultaneous video playback and the ability to swap between full screen content and Picture in Picture, you’ve never had more multitasking flexibility within your tvOS app. Discover how you can add AVPictureInPictureController to your project, leverage familiar APIs to create custom playback interfaces, and implement the best playback experience possible for people using your app. We’ll also show you how to migrate away from the “swipe up” gesture to activate customOverlayViewController, as AVPlayerViewController now uses that gesture in tvOS 14.

HealthKit provides you the tools to smartly manage health data anywhere, whether across multiple HealthKit-enabled devices such as iPhone and Apple Watch or with an external server to share data across a care team. In this session, we’ll dive into managing data versions via HealthKit’s built-in sync identifier metadata, how to detect changes in health data using an HKAnchoredObjectQuery, and cover best practices for ensuring you’re always working with the right data everywhere.

It’s more important than ever to consider vulnerabilities and potential threats and recognize where you should apply safeguards in your app. Understand how to identify potential risks through threat modeling and how to avoid common anti-patterns. Learn coding techniques and how to take advantage of platform-supplied protections to help you mitigate risk and protect people while they’re using your app.

Discover how organizations like Box are adapting to changing conditions in the business world and remote work. Listen to Apple’s Vice President of Cloud Services Mike Abbott and Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie chat about the modern working environment, how cloud-based apps are helping people transition to collaborating remotely, and techniques that enterprise developers can use to help their organization innovate in challenging situations.

Core NFC helps you scan and write to NFC tags in your apps, helping people get more from objects like parking meters, scooter rentals, car charging stations, and more. Learn about Core NFC’s support for the ISO15693 protocol and new tag capabilities, and find out more about syntax improvements for Swift.

Keep code out of the kernel and give your customers a more secure and reliable experience with accessories using DriverKit. Discover how to create low-level drivers that support PCI devices or SCSI controllers. And find out how you can achieve great performance with DriverKit on macOS Big Sur.

Build enterprise apps for your employees to help them solve problems and streamline everyday tasks. See how to build custom apps designed for your workforce. Learn how to identify great mobile use cases, have your employees drive the design process, use key Apple frameworks, and rapidly iterate with Xcode.

Discover how Apple’s system administrators remotely deploy Apple devices to their teams, ensuring a zero-touch deployment. Learn how to configure the setup experience, control and manage devices effectively, and discover practices around security and management.

Fine-tune your audio app or plug-in for Apple silicon Macs: We’ll show you how to register your realtime threads using Audio Workgroups and make your app sing. Learn more about the power efficiency of System on a Chip (SoC) and how you can take advantage of new APIs to improve the speed and sound of your apps and plug-ins.

Deliver live and on-demand audio and video to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, PC, and Apple TV with HTTP Live Streaming (HLS). Learn about tools and features to help improve the authoring of your HLS streams and provide low-latency delivery and better audio performance to people watching or listening to your content. We’ll also walk you through creating Low-Latency HLS test streams, integrating audio codecs, and creating master playlists.

Stereo recording is a powerful way to deliver immersive sound to listeners, fans, and family — and your app can use the built-in microphones on iPhone or iPad to record it. Discover how AVAudioSession can help you capture stereo audio from a mobile device, address the new special consideration called “input orientation,” and learn how to adopt this API in your app to provide a better recording experience.

Apple has added Low-Latency extensions to the HTTP Live Streaming protocol that combine the quality and scalability of HLS with a stream delay of two seconds or less. Learn about the most recent developments in LL-HLS and how it allows you to make your video delivery competitive with broadcast and improve social media integration.

Learn how to implement Blocking Preload Hints for Low-Latency HLS to reduce delivery latency and improve the reliability of your video and audio streams. Discover how to integrate LL-HLS with CMAF Chunk delivery and unify your delivery across streaming formats.

Discover Playlist Delta Updates, an HLS feature that optimizes the delivery of live streams with large playback windows and lots of metadata. We’ll show you how Playlist Delta Updates can reduce overheard when producing live streams, provide higher-quality variants for people with slower connections, and integrate advertising.

Blocking Playlist Reload is a required component of Low-Latency HLS that improves segment discovery time in live streams and addresses the common problem of stale playlists when delivering through an HTTP cache. Learn how to use Blocking Playlist Reload to reduce streaming latency and improve CDN performance for both low-latency and regular live HLS streams.

Find out how to integrate advertising into your Low-Latency HLS streams through server-side ad insertion. We’ll show you how to segment your ad content, and examine how ad insertion works with LL-HLS features such as Blocking Playlist Reload and Blocking Preload Hints.

Reality Converter and Reality Composer make preparing augmented reality assets for your iOS or iPadOS app easier than ever. Discover how you can convert existing 3D assets into USDZ, bring them into Reality Composer to create AR experiences, and integrate with an existing Xcode project or export to AR Quick Look. We’ll detail how to work with assets in a variety of popular 3D formats, build and test your AR scenes, and integrate with your artist’s workflow.

Create visually stunning, high-performance apps and games when you combine the power of Apple GPUs with Metal, the modern foundation for GPU-accelerated graphics on Apple platforms. Discover the architecture and capabilities of the Apple GPU and how Metal harnesses its tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR) architecture to achieve measurable performance gains in apps and games. In this session, we’ll discuss the efficiency of Apple GPUs and show how TBDR applies to an array of modern rendering techniques.

GPU counters can help you precisely measure GPU utilization to pinpoint bottlenecks and optimize workloads for your Metal apps and games. We’ll walk you through the tools available in the Metal System Trace instrument and Metal Debugger in Xcode 12 to profile your graphics workload, and show you how to use collected data to discover underused and overworked stages of your GPU pipeline. Discover how you can act on that data to improve your app’s capabilities.

AR Quick Look adds a new dimension to online shopping: We’ll show you how to easily showcase your products in augmented reality for a “try before you buy” experience. Discover how to display a product banner in AR Quick Look, integrate Apple Pay, or display custom actions like “add to cart”.

Learn how to locate graphics issues in minutes with Metal’s debugging and performance optimization tools in Xcode 12. We’ll show you how to diagnose problems quickly using Metal Debugger. Discover the new summary view, which suggests ways to improve memory usage, bandwidth, performance, and implementation of the Metal API.

RealityKit is Apple’s rendering, animation, physics, and audio engine built from the ground up for augmented reality: It reimagines the traditional 3D renderer to make it easy for developers to prototype and produce high-quality AR experiences. Learn how to effectively implement each of the latest improvements to RealityKit in your app. Discover features like video textures, scene understanding using the LiDAR scanner on iPad Pro, Location Anchors, face tracking, and improved debugging tools.

Discover proposed schema and structure updates to the Universal Scene Description (USD) standard. Learn how you can use Reality Composer to build AR content with interactive properties like anchoring, physics, behaviors, 3D text, and spatial audio that exports to USDZ. And, discover streamlined workflows that help you bring newly-created objects into your app.

Let’s rumble! Discover how you can bring third-party game controllers and custom haptics into your games on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. We’ll show you how to add support for the latest controllers — including Xbox’s Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 and Adaptive Controller — and map your game’s controls accordingly. Learn how you can use the Game Controller framework in tandem with Core Haptics to enable rumble feedback. And find out how you can take your gaming experience to the next level with custom button mapping, nonstandard inputs, and control over specialty features like motion sensors, lights, and battery level.

Power up your shader pipeline with enhancements to the Metal shader compilation model — all leading to a dramatic reduction in Pipeline State Object (PSO) loading time, especially upon first launch. Learn about explicit PSO caching and sharing of GPU binaries using Metal binary archives and dynamic libraries. And we’ll detail the toolchain to create libraries and improve your shader compilation workflow.

Track down even the trickiest GPU-side programming errors with enhanced reporting in Xcode 12. While Metal’s API validation layer can catch most problems in a project, GPU errors can cause a host of difficult-to-debug issues.

Level up your iPad games and add in keyboard, mouse, and trackpad controls. Discover how to use the Game Controller framework to augment your existing titles, bring over games from other platforms, or dream up entirely new interaction experiences. Learn how to integrate keyboard and “delta” mouse coordinate events for player motion, and disable pointer system gestures like the Dock or Control Center to take full advantage of full screen gameplay.

Level up your Game Center integration and enable players to compare scores on leaderboards, earn valuable achievements, and engage with other players. Organize special events like weekly championships, daily showdowns, or 1-hour competitions using recurring leaderboards. Create up to 100 unique achievements for your game. And we’ll show you how to set up real-time or turn-based multiplayer matches for your Game Center players.

Meet the Tile Based Deferred Rendering (TBDR) GPU architecture for Apple silicon Macs — the heart of your Metal app or game’s graphics performance. Learn how you can translate or port your graphics-intensive app over to Apple silicon, and how to take advantage of TBDR and Metal when building natively for the platform. We’ll look at how TBDR compares with the Immediate Mode Rendering pipeline of older Macs, go through common issues you may face when bringing an app or game over, and explore how to offer incredible performance when building with the native SDK.

Apple silicon Macs are a transformative new platform for graphics-intensive apps — and we’re going to show you how to fire up the GPU to create blazingly fast apps and games.

Learn how you can integrate ReplayKit into your Mac apps and games to easily share screen recordings or broadcast live audio and visuals online. We’ll show you how to capture screen content, audio, and microphone input inside your Mac apps, and even broadcast your video to a live audience.

CarPlay is the smarter, safer way for people to use iPhone in the car. We’ll show you how to build great apps for the car screen, and introduce you to developing CarPlay apps in categories like EV charging, parking, and quick food ordering. We’ll also share how existing audio and communication apps can take advantage of improvements to the CarPlay framework to create a more flexible UI.

Deliver a smooth streaming audio experience straight to the wrist. We’ll talk about some of the new things for building great streaming apps unique to Apple Watch. Learn how to integrate more audio formats, deliver streams more efficiently through new codecs, and add encrypted content to expand your app’s media library.

We’ve made significant strides in bringing crucial device management features to macOS. Discover how these features can help you manage your all your devices using the same tools and technologies. Get details on changes coming this year and how they will impact your deployment workflows, as well as some new management capabilities you can use to secure iOS and iPadOS devices in your organization.

Bring stylized effects to your photos and videos with Style Transfer in Create ML. Discover how you can train models in minutes that make it easy to bring creative visual features to your app. Learn about the training process and the options you have for controlling the results. And we’ll explore the real-time performance of these models by demonstrating three of them simultaneously in ARKit.

Serverless functions are increasingly becoming popular for running event-driven or otherwise ad-hoc compute tasks in the cloud, allowing developers to more easily scale and control compute costs. Discover how to use the new Swift AWS Lambda Runtime package to build serverless functions in Swift, debug locally using Xcode, and deploy these functions to the AWS Lambda platform. We’ll show you how Swift shines on AWS Lambda thanks to its low memory footprint, deterministic performance, and quick start time.

Share your living room — not your Apple TV apps. When you support profiles within your app, you can customize your experience for each person who uses Apple TV within the same house. Discover how the “Runs as Current User” feature lets someone interact with your app, download local content, and log into iCloud or Game Center, all without affecting their family or housemates. We’ll show you how to implement this capability in your app, save recent data before switching profiles, handle notifications, and safeguard privacy.

Discover how Core Data can help you adopt the CloudKit public database in your app with as little as one line of code. Learn how to easily manage the flow of data through your app and in and out of CloudKit. We’ll show you how to combine the complementary power of Core Data and the CloudKit public database to allow people to access — and contribute to — data, such as high scores or application templates.

Discover how to play HLS audio or video without an internet connection in your app by downloading HLS content for offline consumption using AVFoundation. Explore best practices for working with your HLS content while offline, learn how to use FairPlay Streaming to protect your offline audio and video, and hear updates on our media download policies.

Explore how you can leverage the Natural Language framework to better analyze and understand text. Learn how to draw meaning from text using the framework’s built-in word and sentence embeddings, and how to create your own custom embeddings for specific needs.

Discover StoreKit Testing in Xcode — a local environment for testing your in-app purchases without needing to connect to App Store servers. We’ll show you how to set up a test environment, create a StoreKit configuration file, and prepare to validate receipts locally. We’ll also explain how to test a variety of in-app purchase scenarios and automate those tests with the StoreKitTest framework, and cover the latest improvements to testing in the sandbox environment.

Explore the latest features and improvements for Safari and WebKit. We’ll walk you through updated web APIs, CSS and media features, JavaScript syntax, and more to help you build great experiences for people when they use your website, home screen web apps, or embedded WebKit views.

When you adopt the Account Authentication Modification Extension, you can provide people with fast, easy account security upgrades to use Sign in with Apple and strong passwords in the iCloud Keychain Password Manager. We’ll show you how to add these upgrade flows to your app with the Account Authentication Modification Extension, the AuthenticationServices Framework API, and best practices required for a smooth password transition.

Apple Business Manager is the best way to manage and deploy business apps to your employees and customers. Whether you’re a developer, business owner, or IT administrator, we’ll showcase the benefits of Custom apps for each role and provide guidance on each step in the process — from app creation to distribution.

Learn how FHIRModels creates native data models for all FHIR resources, provides data validation to enforce resource integrity, and prevents the creation of structurally invalid resources — across multiple versions of the FHIR specification. Whether you’re working with clinical data obtained from HealthKit or direct from a clinical system, FHIRModels makes FHIR easy to handle.

The ClassKit framework helps you surface educational activities within your app to teachers through the Schoolwork app. Discover how to provide a richer assignment experience for students and teachers through enhanced metadata properties and progress reporting. We’ll also show you how the new ClassKit Catalog APIs decouple management of your content from that of your app and improve overall discoverability.

Learn how to bring Computer Vision intelligence to your app when you combine the power of Core Image, Vision, and Core ML. Go beyond machine learning alone and gain a deeper understanding of images and video. Discover new APIs in Core Image and Vision to bring Computer Vision to your application like new thresholding filters as well as Contour Detection and Optical Flow. And consider ways to use Core Image for preprocessing and visualization of these results.

Discover the Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) Graph, which extends Metal’s Compute capabilities to multi-dimensional Tensors. MPS Graph builds on the highly tuned library of data parallel primitives that are vital to machine learning and leverages the tremendous power of the GPU. Explore how MPS Graph can help express sophisticated and dynamic neural network training architectures and optimize across them to get acceleration on the GPU.

The Apple Design Awards recognize excellence in design and innovation for apps and games across all of Apple’s platforms. Meet the 2020 winners.

Ever wondered which is more fun — filming in a hot tub or filming in a VR suit? The cast and creators of the Apple TV+ hit show Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet answer questions from the Apple developer community. Join Rob McElhenney (executive producer/co-creator and Ian Grimm), Charlotte Nicdao (Poppy), Imani Hakim (Dana), Danny Pudi (Brad), and Megan Ganz (executive producer/co-creator) as they review one of their favorite scenes and answer submitted questions.

Eric Holder was the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, having served from 2009 to 2015. The first Black American to hold the position, Holder’s six-year tenure also makes him one of the longest-serving occupants of the office. Currently a partner in Covington & Burling, he’s served in government for more than 30 years, including appointments by Presidents Obama, Clinton, and Reagan. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, will interview the former Attorney General on the topic of race in America. This wide-ranging discussion will touch on the fight for equal justice, how technology can empower people to change the world for the better, and ways to help in this moment.

Join us as we surprise the 2020 winners of the Apple Design Awards. The Apple Design Awards recognize excellence in design and innovation for apps and games across all of Apple’s platforms.

Take a journey through the creation of an educational game that brings together Core ML, ARKit, and other app frameworks. Discover opportunities for magical interactions in your app through the power of machine learning. Gain a deeper understanding of approaches to solving challenging computer vision problems. See it all come to life in an interactive coding session.

The Indoor Maps Program enables organizations with large public or private spaces to deliver user experiences that provide precise indoor location information and present stunning indoor maps. Discover the overall process in the indoor map enablement workflow then take deep dive into the technical details on how MapKit and MapKit JS use powerful APIs and geo-standards to rapidly integrate indoor maps into your app and website.

Many Watch faces in watchOS 6 allow for customizing the tint color of content, allowing for even more personalization of Apple’s most personal device. Discover how you can use ClockKit data providers to offer full color and tint-ready options for each complication family type. This gives customers the ability to get up to date, important information at a glance, no matter which Watch face they choose.

Photos captured in Portrait Mode on iOS 12 contain an embedded person segmentation matte that made it easy to create creative visual effects like background replacement. iOS 13 leverages on-device machine learning to provide new segmentation mattes for any captured photo. Learn about the new semantic segmentation mattes available to you from both AVCapture and Core Image to isolate a person’s hair, skin, and teeth. Using any of these individual mattes or combining all of them, your app can now offer a tremendous amount of photo editing control.

Tab Bars can’t grow with dynamic text, but the Large Content Viewer helps them to be seen by people with low vision. iOS 13 brings this feature to custom tab bars. Learn how to enable Large Content Viewer on your custom tab bars and ensure the right vector image is featured in the heads-up display.

Dive into implementation best practices for Subscription Offers using StoreKit and server-side logic. Learn how to generate signatures, determine customer eligibility, and reduce churn, plus gain insights into strategies for distributing offers to your customers and utilizing Subscription Offers to give your subscribers the best experience.

Swift is now the language of choice for a number of major frameworks across all of Apple’s platforms, including SwiftUI, RealityKit and Create ML. Join us for a review of Swift 5.0 and an exploration of Swift 5.1, new in Xcode 11. Find out about the latest advancements in performance and safety. Discover new features in the language, and how they have enabled the development of these new frameworks.

Introducing Swift Playgrounds 3: the latest iteration of the revolutionary app for iPad that makes coding in Swift interactive and fun. Discover how you can use your own playgrounds to rapidly iterate on code that uses device features. Find out how the new modules feature both helps organize your own code and provides new opportunities for playground book authors.

Keep up with the latest enhancements to C, Objective-C, and C++ made possible by advancements in the Clang compiler and LLVM. Find out about new static analyzer features and how to use them to improve your code. Learn how to take advantage of new optimizations for code size.

Learn how to add useful tracing to your reusable classes, subsystems, or frameworks. By making it easy to trace your code, you provide adopters with valuable insight and confidence. We’ll show you best practices for tracing your Swift and Objective-C code, building custom instruments, and visualizing data in Instruments 11. Share your expertise in a tools experience so others can understand the contracts of your APIs and avoid anti-patterns that impact performance.

Custom instruments make it possible to profile your app your way, telling the story of what your app is doing at runtime. At the center of each custom instrument is a modeler. Find out how to build your own modelers that translate from signpost output to the data you want to show in your instrument. Learn how the Instruments rules engine works and how to optimize your instrument for maximum efficiency. This session builds on Creating Custom Instruments from WWDC 2018.

AirPlay lets you share videos, photos, music, and more from Apple devices to your Apple TV, favorite speakers, and popular smart TVs. Learn how to deliver the best possible experience for AirPlay video, including automatic route selection for long form content, remote control, now playing metadata, and video quality considerations.

AVKit is a high-level framework for building media user interfaces, complete with playback controls, chapter navigation, Picture-in-Picture, audio routing, support for subtitles and closed captioning, Siri and Now Playing integration, and support for keyboard, Touch Bar, and remote control. Learn best practices in how to integrate these technologies into your own apps on iOS, tvOS, and iPad apps on Mac.

With the addition of alpha channel support for HEVC video, you can now composite video over custom backgrounds in both your apps and on the web. Learn how to author compatible media, and the best practices for playback.

Apple platforms provide a comprehensive set of audio frameworks and technologies that are essential to creating a rich app experience. Learn about which frameworks and APIs are recommended to ensure that your app is well positioned for the future.

AVAudioEngine enables the realtime capture, processing, and playback of audio. Learn how to take advantage of enhancements to this powerful API, such as support for voice processing and spatial rendering mode selection, in your own audio app.

With system-wide Dark Mode support in iOS and macOS, you’ll want to make sure your web content is appropriately styled to reflect your users’ preference. Learn techniques to ensure your content looks its best when presented in Safari, embedded in other apps such as Mail, or when used in your apps. Discover the details and best practices for this new pillar in responsive web design.

As a developer of web content, you play an important role in fulfilling customer expectations for a high performance web experience while minimizing power use across all their devices. Discover new insights on how you can improve the power efficiency of your webpages in Safari, or embedded web content in your apps, by using this powerful new tool in Web Inspector. Learn new strategies to help you deliver dynamic experiences that use less CPU and save battery life.

Metal is the GPU-accelerated graphics and compute framework that helps developers build everything from pro apps to console-style games. Learn how to apply Metal features to implement modern graphics techniques including deferred and tiled-forward rendering. See how GPU-driven capabilities enable Metal to schedule work for itself, allowing complete scenes and compute workloads to be built and executed with little to no CPU interaction. Understand how GPU Families make it easier for you to build apps that scale across Apple platforms, and explore how Metal lets your apps and games realize entirely new levels of performance and capability.

Universal Scene Description (USD) enables the robust description of 3D scenes and empowers engineers and artists to seamlessly collaborate across the creative workflow. Get introduced to the powerful capabilities of USD and explore its incredible scalability. Gain a deeper understanding of how USD assets are created and learn about delivering usdz content for use with ARKit and RealityKit.

Optimizing performance, memory, and bandwidth are important considerations for resource-intensive Metal apps and games. Learn key best practices to streamline your rendering and attain high frame rates. Understand powerful tools that can help you pinpoint expensive or unexpected GPU work. Dive into GPU capabilities that can yield performance gains and get expert guidance about using memory efficiently.

Metal is the platform-optimized graphics and compute framework at the heart of GPU acceleration on Apple platforms. Learn key aspects of the Metal architecture that support the techniques for modern high-performance pro applications and workflows. Learn how to leverage Metal capabilities to optimize performance and maintain a steady frame rate in video editing pipelines. Understand how to leverage CPU and GPU parallelism, and dive into best practices for efficient data throughput.

Reality Composer is a tool that lets anyone quickly prototype and build AR scenes ready to integrate into apps or experience with AR Quick Look. Walk through the powerful and intuitive capabilities of Reality Composer and discover hundreds of ready-to-use virtual objects in its built-in AR library. See how easy it is to build animations and interactions to enrich your 3D content, and get details about integrating Reality files right into your apps.

Metal is the modern foundation for GPU-accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, superseding OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and OpenCL. Get introduced to the architecture and feature set of Metal and learn a step-by-step approach for transitioning OpenGL-based apps to the Metal API.

AR Quick Look is a built-in viewer for experiencing high-quality content in 3D and AR. See how integration with Reality Composer enables rich, interactive experiences to be displayed and shared more easily than ever before. Explore rendering improvements and multiple object viewing, then dive into the practical application of AR Quick Look in retail, education, and more.

Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) harness the massive parallelism of the GPU to dramatically accelerate calculations at the heart of modern ray tracing and ray casting techniques. Understand how MPS accelerates calculations for dynamic scenes, and dive into practical examples for implementing soft shadows, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. Learn how to enable hybrid rendering applications, and explore new techniques to extend your app across multiple GPUs.

Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) includes a highly tuned library of data parallel primitives vital to machine learning and leveraging the tremendous power of the GPU. With iOS 13 and macOS Catalina, MPS improves performance, enables more neural networks, and is now even easier to use. Learn more about these advances in MPS and gain a practical understanding of how to implement innovative techniques such as Style Transfer.

With iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and tvOS 13, the Game Controller framework adds support for several well-known console game controllers. Get briefed about the newly-added controllers and understand how their inputs are delivered. Learn recommended best practices for handling optional buttons, and understand the right approach for support on macOS.

One of the next steps in modernizing and improving the security and reliability of macOS is to provide a better architecture for kernel extensions and drivers. Learn how to make this transition with System Extensions and DriverKit.

Privacy is a more important issue than ever for your users. Learn about new features and privacy engineering techniques that can help you earn customer trust, create more personal experiences, and improve user engagement.

Learn about powerful new APIs in macOS that you can use to create apps that extend and customize the networking capabilities of macOS without using kernel extensions.

Streaming audio on Apple Watch allows customers to enjoy your content wherever they go without their iPhone. Learn about the streaming APIs brought over from iOS to allow watchOS apps to create independent audio consumption experiences. Find out how to set up your audio session for streaming and explore best practices to provide the best experience for people moving between different network conditions.

Learn how to adopt privacy-enhancing changes in Core Bluetooth. Discover new possibilities with LE 2Mbps, advertising extensions, BR/EDR, and dual-mode devices. Understand how to debug your Core Bluetooth communication with the improvements to PacketLogger.

Apps on tvOS entertain, inform, and inspire with their content and interactive experiences. tvOS 12 brings new technologies that help make these experiences even more enjoyable and engaging. Get an introduction to focus engine support for non-UIKit apps, new UI elements, and Password AutoFill. Learn how to bring it all together to create incredible tvOS apps and experiences.

Gain insights into the latest in Cocoa frameworks for macOS. Hear about Dark Mode, control tinting, contextual workflows for Touch Bar and Finder, and other improvements in AppKit, Foundation, and related areas. Get an overview and guide to the sessions that we have this year covering advancements in Cocoa.

Hear from the Apple design team about the principles and concepts that anchor Dark Mode. Learn the basics of enhancing your app with this new appearance, and add an experience that people are sure to love.

MapKit JS brings Apple Maps to your website. See how MapKit JS provides map rendering that is optimized for various browsers and devices, and supports native gestures such as pinch-to-zoom, two-finger rotate, and more. Learn how to add annotations and overlays, and how to use JavaScript interfaces to Apple Maps services such as Search and Directions to deliver an amazing map experience on your website.

Learn how to update your audio or navigation app to support CarPlay. Apps in CarPlay are optimized for use in the car, and automatically adapt to available vehicle screens and input controls. Audio apps can deliver music, news, podcasts, and more. With the new CarPlay framework, Navigation apps can provide detailed maps, destination search, turn-by-turn guidance, and user notifications.

The new ClassKit framework lets you organize educational content in your app so that teachers can discover and assign specific activities and view students’ progress in the new Schoolwork app. Learn how to adopt ClassKit to your content structure, declare assignable content, and share student progress on activities teachers assign in Schoolwork.

Last year we introduced the Files App and an easy way to view, edit, and share documents within your application. Learn best practices for implementing this technology, how to effectively manage documents in your app, and how to avoid common document manager pitfalls. Hear about the difference between a Document Browser and a Document Picker and when to use them. Gain a better understanding into how this technology works in a sandbox. Learn how to give your customers a great experience, beginning at sign-in and continuing throughout your app!

Step deeper into Dark Mode adoption in your macOS application. Learn about the powerful Cocoa technologies at the core of Dark Mode, and take a detailed look at the APIs and best practices for adapting to this beautiful new look.

Whether it’s for UI elements or a fundamental part of your application, at some point, you have to handle images. This session is packed with engaging insight into how images are handled in iOS including discussion of UIImage, UIImageView, custom drawing in UIKit, plus advanced CPU and GPU techniques that can help you maximize performance and minimize memory footprint.

A lot can go wrong when loading data into your app. Whether you work directly with JSON and property lists, or with higher-level APIs such as NSCoding and Codable, learn how to defend your customers and secure your code against invalid or malicious data. Avoid fatal assumptions by validating payload structure, type information and domain correctness, to turn the data you work with into data you can trust.

When you imagine building a new app, what do you think about? Models, views, and controllers deserve their prominent place in the design process, but we don’t often give the same attention to the underlying work our apps need to do. Understand how to identify and optimize the algorithms in your app, and discover how implementing algorithms as generic protocol extensions results in efficient, effective, and maintainable code.

As your app gains more customers and becomes more feature-rich, you may find yourself with new problems to solve. Core Data is a powerful tool that has changed a lot over the years. Learn about the new best practices in Core Data, such as how to use concurrency and persistent history, and discover how to test for, and resolve, common problems using familiar technologies.

VoiceOver provides spoken descriptions and braille output of onscreen elements. Learn how to go beyond the visuals to identify VoiceOver and functional issues to help improve the experience for all users.

Learn how to use assets to bring visually compelling and data efficient artwork to your apps, leveraging new features in iOS 12. Gain insight into organizing, optimizing, and authoring artwork assets by using asset catalogs to their fullest. Learn techniques to better streamline workflows between designers and developers. Ensure better app delivery and a smaller footprint, maximizing target audiences of your app with full artwork asset fidelity.

People expect long battery life on their mobile devices, and apps play a vital role in achieving that experience. Understand how app behavior affects battery consumption, and learn strategies to conserve energy while providing the best experience for your app. Find out how Xcode Energy Reports can help you tune your app to use the least amount of power possible.

Go beyond the basics and create apps with an exceptional accessibility experience. Learn how to design elements that appear in your app for maximum clarity and accessibility. Discover how to enhance the way users interact with your app even when presenting custom views, or drawing complex UI.

Get a fresh look at the HomeKit APIs. Understand how Siri and the Apple Home App use Action Sets and Accessory Services & Characteristics to provide a great home automation experience.

Business Chat is a powerful way for organizations to connect with customers directly from within Messages. Whether you are a Customer Service Platform provider, a brand looking to integrate chat for customer communication, or a brand app developer looking to extend your iOS app to enhance Business Chat conversations, you’ll receive concrete guidance and learn the baseline requirements necessary to ensure you are ready to go live.

Safari and WebKit are continually evolving with new features, APIs, and cutting edge web standards. Learn about this year’s biggest feature highlights, designed to help you create richer experiences with better performance and security — whether you are developing content for a browser or developing an app with embedded web content.

Speech can enhance the audio experience of your app, whether you are generating spoken feedback for accessibility, or providing critical information beyond simple alerts or notifications. AVSpeechSynthesizer produces synthesized speech from text and allows you to control and monitor the progress of ongoing speech. Learn the ins and outs of AVSpeechSynthesizer and how to add computer-generated speech output to your app.

Quicklook Previews are an easy way preview documents in your app. Hear about the basics as well as some advanced implementations. Learn to present a variety of types of documents from within your app without reinventing the wheel, and make sure your custom file format works great with the built-in support offered by iOS.

With TVMLKit you can quickly and easily develop tvOS apps that deliver intuitive and engaging media experiences. Learn about enhancements to data binding that allow you to separate your application logic and user interface, and new features and functions to customize the media playback experience.

watchOS 5 brings web content to Apple Watch by rendering rich HTML in Messages and Mail. Gain insights into how watchOS maintains compatibility with existing web content, and find out what you can do to optimize your web content for Apple Watch.

Drag and Drop is a powerful API that allows apps to share and communicate data. No matter how you decide to implement Drag and Drop, there’s a way to make it work for people with accessibility needs. Learn the details as we dive into accessible Drag and Drop for iOS.

App Store Connect is constantly evolving to improve the experience of managing and deploying your app on App Store. Learn about the new App Store Connect API for managing frequently modified data such as users and groups, see the latest updates to Sales Trends and Analytics reporting, and TestFlight features enhanced to help you test and deploy your next masterpiece.

Learn about new management capabilities for iOS, macOS, and tvOS, tool evolution over the past year, and important changes coming this fall. You’ll discover how new MDM features help administrators manage devices more effectively, how educators can enhance the classroom learning environment, and how app developers can make their app a better fit for education and enterprise customers.

The new App Store Connect API provides a familiar and highly readable REST API designed to facilitate the automation of many tasks you would typically perform through the Apple Developer website and the App Store Connect browser interfaces. Learn how this API allows you to manage your apps and testers for TestFlight, create code signing resources, download reports, and even manage your organization. See how this API leverages JWT authentication and a JSON payload for all transactions to make this new service easy to integrate with your existing automated workflows.

Search Ads is a great way to help people discover your app in App Store search results. Learn how new market expansion will give you greater opportunities to reach high quality customers. See how Search Ads Advanced new creative variations will help make your app promotion even more effective.

Discover major advancements in Xcode playgrounds. Learn advanced tips and techniques, hear about new and often overlooked workflows, and rediscover the tools provided when coding in playgrounds.

The LLVM suite of compiler tools in Xcode 10 have new language features, improved diagnostics, and more powerful optimizations. Find out about improvements to ARC for Objective-C, keep up with the newest additions to C++, get an overview of new and improved diagnostics and static analyzer checks, and learn about how LLVM compiler technology is delivering faster build times and better runtime performance for your apps.

Understand how custom instruments are useful and when they should be used. Get an in-depth view of the architecture of custom instruments and how to create them. Understand the attributes of a good instrument. Dive into advanced modeling and how to use the CLIPS language.

Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary iPad app to teach coding with the powerful Swift programming language. Learn how to create your own content for Swift Playgrounds using the new template, and find out how to use the subscription format to host your own feed online for others to access.

Sudden app crashes are a source of bad user experience and app review rejections. Learn how crash logs can be analyzed, what information they contain and how to diagnose the causes of crashes, including hard-to-reproduce memory corruptions and multithreading issues.

Discover how memory graphs can be used to get a close up look at what is contributing to an app’s memory footprint. Understand the true memory cost of an image. Learn some tips and tricks for reducing the memory footprint of an app.

Xcode integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab to help you manage your source code, back up your files, and collaborate with others. Find out how to easily see the changes in your project right in the source editor, and learn how to use Xcode for common source control workflows with Git. See how conflicts occur, how to resolve them, and how to avoid them before they even happen.

Podcasts are created and enjoyed by millions of people around the world. With the addition of Podcast Analytics, podcasters can gather actionable and insightful intelligence into how their show is consumed, while respecting the privacy of their listeners. Learn how to interpret and use these new analytics to improve your show.

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is used to stream live and on-demand content to global audiences. Discover how to adjust and tune stream authoring and delivery elements to improve the viewing experience. Learn how to accurately measure your streaming performance, identify optimization opportunities, and implement changes to your HLS streams that can significantly improve the user experience.

The TrueDepth camera in the iPhone X streams high-quality depth data in real time allowing you to enhance your photo and video apps in fun and creative ways. Dive deep into the principles and best practices for working with depth data, learn how to use the new Portrait Segmentation API for still images, and see how these techniques can create special effects like background replacement and perspective changes.

Apps in watchOS 5 have control over audio playback like never before. With a full-fledged background mode for local audio playback using AVFoundation, people can listen to content on the go right from Apple Watch. Learn how to use the new volume control and how to respond to MediaRemote commands. Dive into best practices for getting audio onto Apple Watch with URLSession and update progress when using WatchConnectivity to transfer files from iPhone. Explore how to control playback on iPhone from your app with the new Now Playing view.

Make your apps even better through improved integration with Photos on macOS. We’ll dive deep into the Photos Project Extension API that was introduced in macOS High Sierra and update you on what’s new. You’ll also learn best practices for handling file promises and image URLs to better handle drag & drop from Photos to your app.

MusicKit has enabled the creation of new, compelling, and engaging Apple Music powered app experiences. With the introduction of MusicKit on the web, as a developer, you can now bring Apple Music powered experiences to the web. Learn how to use declarative markup or javascript to enable Apple Music on your website.

AVContentKeySession allows for the management of FairPlay content decryption keys for HTTP Live Streaming. It offers a simplified key loading process that provides applications with control over the lifecycle of content keys, and features such as dual-expiry keys for offline movie rentals. Learn about best practices and recommended patterns for adopting this API.

MapKit JS uses the JWT standard for ensuring a secure connection between your site and the MapKit JS services. Learn how to create, protect, and use site-specific keys to ensure only your servers are accessing APIs linked to your domain.

ReplayKit 2 provides built-in services for broadcasting your screen from iOS and tvOS to viewers online. See how broadcasts can be started right within Control Center or from standard UI included in your own apps and games. Hear about developing broadcast extensions for ReplayKit 2 and get best practices for handling account sign-in.

With iOS 12, ARKit includes a built-in viewer for displaying and sharing high-quality 3D content using Pixar’s usdz file format. Get introduced to the capabilities of AR Quick Look and see how to easily integrate AR into your app. Learn best practices for preparing 3D models for AR, and see how to deliver usdz content for viewing across Safari, Mail, Messages, and other built-in apps.

Metal is the foundation for accelerated graphics and compute on Apple platforms, enabling your apps and games to tap into the incredible power of the GPU. Get introduced to essential Metal capabilities and understand the recommended approach for transitioning OpenGL-based apps onto the Metal API.

Developed by Apple, SwiftShot is an energetic and immersive multiplayer AR game built with key iOS technologies. Glimpse behind the curtain and see how SwiftShot was designed and developed using ARKit, SceneKit, and Swift. Understand the intricacies of designing great gameplay for AR, and learn practical techniques for multiplayer synchronization and physics simulation.

Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) harnesses the massive parallelism of the GPU to dramatically accelerate calculations at the heart of modern ray tracing and ray casting techniques. See how ray tracing can provide greater realism in 3D scenes through improved shading, soft shadows, and global illumination. Understand how MPS accelerates ray-triangle intersections while enabling dynamic scene updates, and learn how to extend your app across multiple GPUs for even greater performance.

Metal 2 is Apple-designed graphics software that lets developers build console‑style games. Learn key aspects of the Metal architecture that support the techniques for modern high-performance game rendering. See how Metal now enables the GPU to schedule work for itself, allowing complete scenes and compute workloads to be built and executed with little to no CPU interaction. Understand how the seamless integration of Metal 2 with the A11 Bionic chip lets your apps and games realize entirely new levels of performance and capability.

Metal provides powerful tools for analyzing shader behavior and optimizing performance. Dive into troubleshooting vertex-stage problems with new geometry viewing capabilities in Xcode. Use the shader debugger to step through vertex, fragment, and compute shader execution line-by-line. Get details about analyzing GPU workload, and check out shader profiler enhancements for A11 Bionic.

Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) includes a highly tuned library of machine learning primitives leveraging the tremendous power of the GPU. With iOS 12 and macOS Mojave, MPS adds capabilities to accelerate the computationally intensive task of training a neural network. Learn performance optimizations for inference, and understand the training process for both convolutional and recurrent neural networks (CNNs and RNNs).

With ARKit your app can see the world and place virtual objects on horizontal and vertical surfaces and recognize images and objects. Go beyond the API to gain insights into the innovative methods and techniques underlying these capabilities. See how ARKit combines device motion with the camera to provide accurate tracking and plane detection. Get a deeper understanding of persistence and multi-device AR and learn the recommended approach for image tracking and object detection.

On macOS, Metal 2 adds specialized support for virtual reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs. Learn about new features and optimizations to take advantage of these technologies within your Metal 2-based apps and games. Understand best practices for scheduling workloads across multiple GPUs and techniques for frame pacing while multi-threading.

Realize the full potential of your Metal-based games by tackling common issues that cause frame rate slowdowns, stutters, and stalls. Discover how to clear up jitter and maintain a silky-smooth frame rate with simple changes in frame pacing. Get introduced to new tools for analyzing rendering passes and pinpoint expensive or unexpected work. Learn how to avoid thread stalls and get specific advice about handling thermal notifications.

Learn how to use sophisticated Signal and Image Processing techniques to bring higher performance to your apps while lowering battery consumption. See compelling use cases for the Accelerate framework with interactive demos. Explore using simd—a valuable addition that effortlessly brings vector programming to your apps.

Create ML is a new framework designed to help you easily build machine learning models using Swift and Xcode. Designed for Simplicity and Performance. Learn how you can build customized models from data that will enable new and powerful features in your apps using Create ML.

Learn about the latest updates in StoreKit, including offering introductory pricing for subscriptions, requesting ratings and reviews, promoting your in-app purchases within the App Store, and developing in the sandbox environment. Dive deep into best practices for processing transactions and validating receipts.

HealthKit provides a consolidated repository for a variety of data including health records containing information such as lab results, immunizations, and medications downloaded directly from institutions. Discover new health records classes and types created to provide easy access to high-level record types without preventing access to the underlying raw data. Learn new authorization techniques that allows your app to access health record data for analysis and presentation in a manner that respects your customer’s privacy.

Tracking workouts with Apple Watch is popular with fitness professionals and novices alike. See how the new workout API streamlines the entire lifecycle of a workout, complete with ability to restart a session after a crash to prevent you from losing data. Learn how the new workout classes, types, and queries provide quick access to baseline sample data you would typical calculate without limiting access to the fine grained samples you may occasionally require.

Introduced just one year ago, Core ML has already revolutionized the way apps can benefit from machine learning, by enabling fast and private on device machine learning features for your app. Find out how new Core ML features let you reduce the size of models, make them more flexible, and dramatically improve performance.

The Core ML tools ecosystem gives you many options for building and optimizing models to meet your app requirements. Learn how to add flexibility to existing models, quantize them, and take advantage of Core ML’s support for customization.

Turi Create is an open source toolset for creating Core ML models, for tasks such as image classification, object detection, style transfers, recommendations, and more. Learn how you can use Turi Create to build models for your apps.

Natural Language is a redesigned framework designed to provide high-performance, on-device APIs for fundamental NLP tasks across all Apple platforms. Through the deep integration of the framework with Core ML and Create ML, you now have the ability to train custom NLP models to perform many different inferences and leverage the power of NLP in your apps. Join us for this exciting session to learn all the details and to see it in action.

Learn what Apple has been doing to help your app get the most out of the network with the least effort. Let Apple’s networking APIs do the heavy lifting for you. Learn best practices for getting top networking performance from your app using the URLSession APIs.

The new Network.framework API gives you direct access to the same high-performance user-space networking stack used by URLSession. If you’re considering using Berkeley Sockets in your app or library, learn what better options are available to you.

Vision is a high-level framework that provides an easy to use API for handling many computer vision tasks. We’ll dive deep into a particularly powerful feature of Vision—tracking objects in video streams. Learn best practices for using Vision in your app. Gain a greater understanding of how request handlers function in terms of lifecycle, performance, and memory utilization.

Using Core ML models in Vision makes the creation of powerful Computer Vision applications easy. Learn how easy it is to use custom trained classifiers and object recognition models in a live camera capture. In addition, you’ll learn about the latest additions to the Vision Framework along with a deeper dive into some its fundamentals.

At Apple, we believe in building products with both great features and great privacy. Learn how to apply privacy engineering techniques to your apps so you can build trust with users to unlock better experiences and engagement. And find out how new privacy features can benefit you and your users.

Core Image is the essential framework for handling image processing tasks in your photo and video apps. In this session, we’ll explore new additions to the framework that allow you to achieve great performance in your filter chains and custom CIKernels. We’ll also demo a new approach to prototyping in Core Image through the use of an interactive Python environment. Through these techniques you’ll discover new ideas for building new creative effects as well as practical approaches to batch processing images for tasks such as image compositing and data boosting for machine learning.

Password AutoFill delivers the ability to fill passwords seamlessly within iOS apps and Safari. Join us to learn how app developers who provide credential management can surface their credentials during sign-in within apps and on the web.

Discover the techniques used to create the fluid gestural interface of iPhone X. Learn how to design with gestures and motion that feel intuitive and natural, making your app a delight to use.

Designing for AR can be intimidating and discovering design flaws late in the process can be costly. See how low-tech traditional prototyping techniques can help you validate and refine your AR app and game design ideas.

Make your apps even more powerful and expressive with Apple Pencil. Learn Apple Pencil design best practices such as correctly balancing touch and pencil interactions, fully harnessing Apple Pencil sensors, and creating more efficient and natural user flows.

Maps are powerful tools for conveying information. Learn key cartographic principles that will help you create beautiful, useful maps so that your users can get the most out of your apps.

Ideas can live or die by their presentation. Learn indispensable and proven techniques for presenting your design work to better communicate your objectives and receive helpful, valuable and constructive feedback.

Logging in to an app is a source of friction that can lead to user abandonment. Password AutoFill is a new feature in iOS 11 that makes logging in easy by putting users’ passwords directly on the keyboard in your login UI. Learn how to guarantee that Password AutoFill works in your app to make logging in a frictionless experience for your users.

Join us for this annual session to learn about enhancements in Cocoa. Catch up on the latest APIs for Touch Bar, performance improvements like copy-on-write collections, new features such as document sharing, Swift improvements for key paths and archiving, and many other refinements to AppKit and Foundation APIs. Get an overview of many topics and a guide to important related sessions throughout the week.

Discover how to enhance app intelligence by using machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Learn how to use our performant on-device NLP APIs to break text into sentences and tokens, identify people and places mentioned in the text (typed, transcribed speech/handwriting). The NLP APIs can be used standalone or as a preprocessing framework for machine-learning based text modeling tasks. The APIs are available in many languages across all Apple platforms, thereby providing homogeneous text processing for consistent user experience. Open up your imagination as we walk you through hypothetical apps that harness the power of NLP to enhance the overall app experience.

tvOS allows you to deliver incredible apps and games for the big screen with the tvOS SDK. Gain insights into new tvOS 11 capabilities and enhancements such as Right-to-Left support, image overlays, background app updates, and user interface style improvements. And with the new AVKit capabilities you can take your media playback experience even further.

Join the Core Data engineering team and learn about the new features in Core Data. See how you can easily and automatically include your data in Spotlight to allow users to find content even if it’s stored in Core Data. Learn about new options for indexing your data, and hear the details on a new feature for tracking changes over time.

Touch Bar replaces the function keys that have long occupied the top of your keyboard with a versatile MultiTouch input device that features a Retina display. AppKit provides powerful APIs to let you easily leverage the power of Touch Bar in your applications. Learn how to use Touch Bar in your application to add context sensitive commands and flexible content to your user experience. This session will cover the basic concepts, design considerations, standard controls, IB support, and API that you will need to get started using Touch Bar.

Whether you’re building apps for iOS, macOS, watchOS, or tvOS, a lot of the functionality you get from Apple’s SDKs comes from the Foundation framework. Join the Foundation engineering team to hear about the improvements they’ve been working on. Learn how significant changes to key paths can help make your code safer with strong type checking in Swift. Hear all about how the new archiving API can help you safely convert your native Swift types to and from external formats like JSON. Gain insights into performance enhancements that will help make your app even more efficient.

Dive deep into the new Drag and Drop APIs in iOS 11. Learn what users will come to expect of your draggable views and how to best deal with the asynchronous nature by which data gets dropped into your app. We’ll also show you how to make your Drag and Drop look great using the advanced visual appearance tweaks that we offer.

SiriKit provides a powerful and intuitive way to expose your app’s functionality through Siri. Learn how to use the all-new lists and notes domain to jot down notes or complete tasks quickly. See how easy it is to display your app’s visual codes for others to scan. And, using SiriKit’s new intent parameters, it’s easy to customize even more of the UI for your app within Siri. Explore these and numerous other new features that SiriKit brings to iOS 11.

Discover what’s new in accessibility in iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS. Learn how to audit an App for accessibility, and take advantage of new assistive features. Topics include how to best customize how Voice Over describes an App UI to the user, how to enhance the accessibility user experience with new features like Drag and Drop, and how to take advantage of sophisticated accessibility APIs to solve common issues.

watchOS 4 introduces numerous enhancements to the application lifecycle of an app on Apple Watch. This session will outline when your app has runtime, how much time it has, and how to maximize your opportunities to create a great experience on Apple Watch. Learn about background modes new to watchOS 4 and find out how taking snapshots with background app refresh have been simplified.

As a game developer, you may know your game like the back of your hand, but could you play it with your eyes closed? Apple devices come standard with award-winning accessibility features that let people with disabilities experience everything Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV have to offer. Media apps and games require specific considerations and approaches to allow for all people to engage fully with your content. Gain deep insights into the key approaches and technologies to make your apps seamlessly functional for a broad range of users.

AppKit offers numerous ways to easily present your data. Join our framework engineers for a guided tour of versatile standard view classes you can put to work in your own macOS apps. Hear about NSStackView, NSTableView, NSCollectionView, and other container views in AppKit. Explore the interesting features and benefits of each, and examine real-world use cases to help you choose the most suitable building blocks for your apps’ user interfaces.

Touch user interactions are fundamental to the user experience on iOS. Learn how to master the power of UIKit’s gesture recognizer system in your application. Find out how to integrate with the new Drag and Drop features and the system gestures. Get some great tips for debugging your custom built interactions.

WKWebView allows you to seamlessly integrate web content into your app. Learn how new features in WKWebView allow you to manage cookies, filter unwanted content, and give you more control over loading web content.

HealthKit has become the standard for apps that help you manage and track your health on iOS and watchOS. Learn about new HealthKit data types in iOS 11, how to create and access workout route data, how to avoid duplication of health data, and enhancements made in HealthKit to support people managing diabetes.

Look behind the scenes into how system applications enhance their Touch Bar content with more than the basic controls. Learn about NSScrubber, customizing the text bar, candidate list item, event handling, layout, animations, and more. Leverage the full power of the Touch Bar to take your Mac app to the next level.

Discover new APIs for UICollectionView and UITableView designed to make drag and drop easy to implement in your apps. Learn how to quickly adopt drag and drop in collection and table views, create polished animations, and adopt new features to keep your app fluid and responsive during asynchronous data transfers.

Focus interaction is the primary interaction model for UIKit-based apps on tvOS. Learn about new focus animation APIs, custom sounds, support for SceneKit and SpriteKit games, and new debugging tools for your development workflows. Gain insight into how to get the most from these new technologies in your apps.

Safari View Controller brings Safari’s features into your app for browsing the web and logging in with 3rd party services. Learn how to use new APIs to customize Safari View Controller’s UI to fit your app’s style.

The CloudKit Dashboard has been completely overhauled to aid you throughout your development lifecycle of building, testing, operating, and supporting your CloudKit-backed applications. See the new functionality, including fetching changes and modifying sharing relationships right from the Dashboard. Gain insights from real-time server logs into events across all of your users—including CloudKit push notifications—to facilitate debugging and customer support.

Drag and Drop is the front end of a simple concept: transferring data. Whether it is in app or between apps, this data transfer is backed by item providers. Learn how item providers work and how to implement your own providers to facilitate efficient data transfers from your App.

People love Siri so it’s essential to use SiriKit optimally for your app to provide a great Siri experience. Learn how to solve common pitfalls related to contact resolution, using Touch ID, and more. Find out how UI tests can benefit your SiriKit extension and how they can speed up the development process by automatically giving Siri text to process.

Document based apps have never been better with the new consistent system-provided user interface for opening and creating documents. This session will go into detail of how your document based app can leverage this functionality to provide a great user experience. See how to customize the UI so it fits perfectly inside your app. Get details about making your documents look their best with the new QuickLook APIs for generating thumbnails and for showing custom previews of your own files formats.

Fundamental to the iOS Search Experience, Core Spotlight is now available on macOS. Using the same APIs that are available for iOS, Core Spotlight lets you index your app’s contents without requiring on-disk files. Learn how to provide rich custom Quick Look previews on both macOS and iOS so your users can see the content right in their search results. Get details about how your Core Spotlight items on iOS can participate in the new Drag and Drop feature.

Whether you’re a medical researcher or a care provider, the CareKit and ResearchKit open source projects are designed to be the quickest path to delivering a customized iOS app to your candidates or patients. These frameworks are constantly gaining features and functionality from both Apple and the community. Discover the latest active-tasks, care modules, and tools designed to allow medical professionals the ability prototype their own care app.

With a completely redesigned App Store for iMessage and new App Drawer, discovering, installing, and using iMessage apps has never been easier. And now with live message views people can benefit and interact with your iMessage app directly in the transcript. Get the details on how your app can streamline the message sending experience with the new direct send functionality. Hear about important best practices like making the best use of summary text, optimizing snapshots of your iMessage app, and more in order to provide an outstanding user experience.

iOS and macOS have a wide range of graphics and animation technologies for bringing your app designs to life. Get to know the full graphics stack, from the high-level tools in UIKit and AppKit all the way down to low-level frameworks like Metal. Dive deep into Core Animation and learn the techniques used by Apple engineers to build responsive, engaging UI across the ecosystem.

Gain tips from seasoned framework engineers about how to get the most out of your Cocoa development efforts. For example, find out how you can get perfect hashing behavior from NSDictionary with a simple API. From best practices to lesser known APIs, there is something for everyone to learn.

MapKit makes it easy to embed a fully interactive and configurable map directly into your app. Lean about new capabilities to tailor the look of the map view and annotations, more manageable controls and new features that make dealing with a large number of annotations a snap.

People expect long battery life on their mobile devices, and apps play a vital role in achieving that experience. Learn strategies to conserve energy while providing the best experience for your app. Find out about the key areas that affect energy consumption of an app as well as how to best use the available APIs to optimize battery life. Master energy debugging tools to make your app more energy efficient.

The CareKit open source project provides customizable modules for delivering an app that puts a patient’s care plan and adherence tracking in the palm of their hands. Connecting patient care apps to the care team is critical for monitoring adherence and providing updates is crucial. Until now, every implementation required custom integration. Learn how the new CareKit Bridge API abstracts the communication to the back end and provides a simple mechanism for plugging in your custom or third-party provided cloud connectors.

The enhanced PDFKit framework lets your app perform essential operations, such as authoring, modifying, and displaying Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Previously available only on macOS, this powerful framework is now available on iOS 11. Gain insights and best practices on how to use this technology within your own apps.

Go beyond the basics and provide a first class text input experience in your app. Learn best practices and how to expand your app by supporting text input traits and QuickType. Get tips on how to optimize your UI when incorporating the system keyboard into your layout. Discover how to create a custom keyboard and upgrade it to a system-wide keyboard extension.

File providers are front and center in the new Files app and system-provided document browser, empowering users to work on their documents in the cloud without the confusion of multiple copies or different versions. Hear details about how your cloud services can integrate with this new functionality. See how to provide an efficient and seamless user experience. If you are an app developer, learn the details about how file providers work and hear about exciting opportunities to take advantage of service-specific APIs from cloud storage providers.

Border crossings can be smooth and efficient or slow and tedious. The boundary between an app and a framework is analogous, but inefficiencies may not always be obvious. Whether it’s passing data to an API or understanding how to stay on the fast path while rendering text, we’ll explore various aspects of how an app can work efficiently with underlying frameworks. If you build your own frameworks, gain valuable insights into how your clients can be as efficient as possible.

With Dynamic Type, people choose their preferred text size and iOS switches fonts automatically as needed. Understand why Dynamic Type is important and how to support it when displaying text. Learn what’s new in iOS 11, and master the frameworks and tools that make it easy to support Dynamic Type in your app.

Design features such as the tvOS Top Shelf and Universal Links help customers immerse themselves in your content more quickly and easily. Learn how to create seamless app launch experiences when deep linking into content of UIKit or TVMLKit apps.

Help your users share the great content in your app by using the built-in iOS sharing functionality. Learn how timing, placement and context of sharing can drive engagement and acquire new users.

Expand the reach of your apps by building them for a worldwide audience. Learn how to create localized tvOS apps that perform seamlessly regardless of country and language. Gain insights into such topics as handling server-side content, matching preferred languages, and localizing images and text direction.

Unwanted SMS and MMS messages are a persistent, frustrating nuisance. Identity Lookup is a new framework that allows you to participate in the process of filtering incoming messages. Get the details of how to identify and prevent these unsolicited messages. Understand the options for on-device detection as well as more dynamic server-based integration in order to ensure a better user experience.

Learn about deep linking and how universal links can be used to make your app’s content and functionality accessible throughout iOS.

Consistent and intuitive control of media playback is key to many apps on tvOS, and proper use and configuration of MPNowPlayingInfoCenter and MPRemoteCommandCenter are critical to delivering a great user experience. Dive deeper into these frameworks and learn how to ensure a seamless experience whether your app is being controlled using Siri, the Siri Remote, or the iOS Remote app.

Redesigned from the ground up, the new App Store provides a fresh approach to marketing your app. Learn how the new functionality, enhanced editorial features, and the thinking that drove the visual changes are all designed to make your apps and in-app purchase more discoverable and appealing to your customers.

iTunes Connect has been updated to make the experience of delivering your app to the new App Store even better. Learn about new and updated meta-data requirements, capabilities to support promotion of in-app purchases and techniques for handling customer reviews. Discover how new TestFlight features and deployment options can help you test and deploy your next masterpiece.

Starting with an expert guide to implementing the In-App Purchase workflow, learn about Promoted In-App Purchases and how to use the new StoreKit APIs. Find out what’s involved for your server and apps. And finally, get the details and guidance on asking for Ratings and Reviews, and responding to Reviews.

Platform features and tools make it easy to configure, deploy and manage Apple devices in organizations of all sizes. Discover new and updated configuration capabilities for each platform, updated app deployment techniques and tool changes that make low-bandwidth updates more accessible. Learn how educational institutions can use the advancements in Apple School Manager and Classroom to make configuring student devices even easier.

Gain an understanding of the pros and cons of server- versus app-based receipt validation, and how to implement this critical functionality for your In-App Purchases. Get the latest news, and valuable tips for keeping subscribers and managing subscriptions. Learn about a major improvement to In-App Purchases: Server-to-Server Notifications. And finally, get detailed instructions for testing with the In-App Purchase sandbox.

Build world-ready apps using Xcode by following some simple steps to manage strings and assets, and display your user interface. Take your localized apps even further with new technologies and features in Xcode 9. Learn how Xcode 9 helps you design, localize, and test your app in multiple languages.

Swift 4 continues the evolution of the safe, fast, and expressive language, with better performance and new features. Learn about the new String and improved generics, see how Swift 4 maintains support for your existing Swift 3 code, and get insight into where Swift is headed in the future.

Learn about new advances in Xcode’s support for code signing, including more powerful distribution signing, better integration with Xcode Server, and more control for working with manual signing assets.

Xcode 9 introduces wireless development for iOS and tvOS. Discover how to configure and use wireless development with your devices. Learn about Xcode’s latest debugging features — including debugging workflow enhancements, and new view debugging support for view controllers, SpriteKit and SceneKit — now with no strings attached.

Learn about the new tools in Xcode 9 for exploring the source control history of your projects. See how Xcode integrates with GitHub, and discover how the new source control navigator makes it easy to browse branches, tags, and detailed history and commit information.

Learn how to use Xcode 9 runtime tools to help find issues and bugs, ranging from missing and unintended UI updates to integer overflows and data races on collection APIs. Hear about the new Undefined Behavior Sanitizer and Main Thread Checker runtime tools in Xcode 9, and the improvements to Address and Thread Sanitizers.

Undefined behavior in programming languages can introduce difficult to diagnose bugs and even lead to security vulnerabilities in your App. Learn more about undefined behavior, the tools available in Xcode 9 that address it, and why Swift is safer by design.

Learn more about the new features in Swift Playgrounds, such as support for localized content and user-added pages. Learn how to leverage these new features to build engaging content in the latest playground book format. Harness external accessories using the new PlaygroundBluetooth framework, and take advantage of new frameworks added in iOS 11.

Xcode 9 has new APIs for structuring your test logging and including your own attachments and screenshots, as well as new support for parallel device and simulator testing. Learn how to write UI tests that target multiple applications, and find out ways to improve the performance of your UI tests.

Localizing a playground book is more than just translation. Explore best practices, potential problem areas, and the unique challenges of localizing educational content. Understand how a localized playground book is structured and hear about the lessons learned by the people who made it happen.

The Apple LLVM compiler in Xcode 9 has new language features, improved diagnostics, and more powerful optimizations. Keep up with the newest additions to Objective-C and C++, get an overview of new and improved warnings and static analyzer checks, and learn about how the LLVM compiler technology is delivering faster build times and better runtime performance for your apps.

Auto Layout enables you to easily create robust layouts for your apps. Hear details about new and existing techniques for building layouts in Interface Builder. Learn how to build more dynamic layouts and handle state changes using priorities and size classes. Find out how iOS 11 support for dynamic type and safe areas can ensure your content can be viewed by anyone.

Teaching can be difficult and teaching programming can be even harder — it’s abstract and concrete at the same time, and you must help the learner build a mental model of what code really does. Find out how the Swift Playgrounds content team works through the teaching process, from idea to finished playground. We’ll cover lessons learned building the Learn to Code series, and tips and methods we’ve developed to streamline our current workflow. Come away with valuable teaching insights and a great head start on building your own instructional content.

Apple platforms provide a comprehensive set of audio frameworks that are essential to creating powerful audio solutions and rich app experiences. Come learn about enhancements to AVAudioEngine, support for high-order ambisonics, and new capabilities for background audio recording on watchOS. See how to take advantage of these new audio technologies and APIs in this session.

Get introduced to the new API for the Apple Music subscription service. Learn how to add Apple Music playback in your own app, and discover how to search the catalogue, manage playback queues, and engage with playlists and recommendations.

High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) are powerful new standards-based technologies for storing and delivering images and audiovisual media. Get introduced to these next generation space-saving codecs and their associated container formats. Learn how to work with them across Apple platforms and how you can take advantage of them in your own apps.

HTTP Live Streaming allows you to stream live and on-demand content to global audiences. Learn about great new features and enhancements to HTTP Live Streaming. Highlights include support for HEVC, playlist metavariables, IMSC1 subtitles, and synchronized playback of multiple streams. Discover how to simplify your FairPlay key handling with the new AVContentKeySession API, and take advantage of enhancements to offline HLS playback.

Learn all about newest APIs in Photos on iOS and macOS, providing better integration and new possibilities for your app. We’ll discuss simplifications to accessing the Photos library through UIImagePickerController, explore additions to PhotoKit to support new media types, and share all the details of the new Photos Project Extensions which enable you to bring photo services to Photos for Mac.

Vision is a new, powerful, and easy-to-use framework that provides solutions to computer vision challenges through a consistent interface. Understand how to use the Vision API to detect faces, compute facial landmarks, track objects, and more. Learn how to take things even further by providing custom machine learning models for Vision tasks using CoreML.

Portrait mode on iPhone 7 Plus showcases the power of depth in photography. In iOS 11, the depth data that drives this feature is now available to your apps. Learn how to use depth to open up new possibilities for creative imaging. Gain a broader understanding of high-level depth concepts and learn how to capture both streaming and still image depth data from the camera.

When using Portrait mode, depth data is now embedded in photos captured on iPhone 7 Plus. In this second session on depth, see which key APIs allow you to leverage this data in your app. Learn how to process images that include depth and preserve the data when manipulating the image. Get inspired to add creative new effects to your app and enable your users to do amazing things with their photos.

AirPlay allows you to wirelessly stream content from your iOS device or Mac. Now with AirPlay 2, you can fill the home with multi-room audio. Learn how AirPlay 2 synchronizes playback and provides an even more reliable audio experience, and how to incorporate support for AirPlay 2 into your app.

Get all the details on how to access the latest capabilities of Core Image. Learn about new ways to efficiently render images and create custom CIKernels in the Metal Shading Language. Find out about all of the new CIFilters that include support for applying image processing to depth data and handling barcodes. See how the Vision framework can be leveraged within Core Image to do amazing things.

High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) are powerful new standards-based technologies for storing and delivering images and video. Gain insights about how to take advantage of these next generation formats and dive deeper into the APIs that allow you to fully harness them in your apps.

Podcasts reach millions of listeners around the world every year. iOS 11 upgrades the Apple Podcasts app to support new feed structures for serialized shows. Discover how to publish your own podcast and take advantage of all the features and capabilities in this comprehensive podcasting session.

Learn the essential details of the new High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) and discover which capabilities are used by Apple platforms. Gain deep insights into the container structure, the types of media and metadata it can handle, and the many other advantages that this new standard affords.

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) reliably delivers media content across a variety of network and bandwidth conditions. However, there are many factors that can impact stream delivery, such as server or encoder failures, caching issues, or network dropouts. Learn the best-practice behaviors that your servers should adopt to maximize reliability, and gain a practical understanding of the errors your app may encounter and how to handle them.

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) reliably delivers video to audiences around the world. Key to this reliability is a comprehensive set of tools to help you author, deliver, and validate the HLS streams you create. See what’s new in these tools, learn the latest authoring recommendations, and how they apply to advances in HLS such as support for HEVC and IMSC1.

Metal 2 provides near-direct access to the graphics processor (GPU), enabling your apps and games to realize their full graphics and compute potential. Dive into the breakthrough features of Metal 2 that empower the GPU to take control over key aspects of the rendering pipeline. Check out how Metal 2 enables essential tasks to be specified on-the-fly by the GPU, opening up new efficiencies for advanced rendering.

ARKit provides a cutting-edge platform for developing augmented reality (AR) apps for iPhone and iPad. Get introduced to the ARKit framework and learn about harnessing its powerful capabilities for positional tracking and scene understanding. Tap into its seamless integration with SceneKit and SpriteKit, and understand how to take direct control over rendering with Metal 2.

Metal 2 provides powerful and specialized support for Virtual Reality (VR) rendering and external GPUs. Get details about adopting these emerging technologies within your Metal 2-based apps and games on macOS High Sierra. Walk through integrating Metal 2 with the SteamVR SDK and learn about efficiently rendering to a VR headset. Understand how external GPUs take macOS graphics to a whole new level and see how to prepare your apps to take advantage of their full potential.

Discover tips and tricks gleaned by the Swift Playgrounds Content team for working more effectively with SceneKit on a visually rich app. Learn how to integrate animation, optimize rendering performance, design for accessibility, add visual polish, and understand strategies for creating an effective workflow with 3D assets.

Check out the new capabilities of ReplayKit 2 and see how to access its rich functionality right from Control Center. Learn about in-app capture, giving apps direct sample-level access to their audio and screen output. Get details about developing a live broadcast extension, and discover how apps can be coupled to a preferred broadcast provider.

Developing Metal 2-based apps is even easier with the redesigned tools for debugging and profiling in Xcode. Dive into the enhanced Metal Frame Debugger and explore techniques for fine-tuning graphics and compute workloads. Learn about accessing detailed GPU performance counters, and check out new support in Metal System Trace for optimizing VR apps.

Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) provides a highly tuned library of functions that extend the power of the GPU for more than just graphics. With Metal 2, MPS comes to the Mac along with an expanded set of capabilities. Learn how to tap into the latest image processing operations, perform linear algebra operations, and accelerate machine learning algorithms via new primitives and a graph API to build and execute neural networks on the GPU.

SpriteKit makes it easy to create high-performance, power-efficient 2D games and more. See how to take SpriteKit objects into Augmented Reality through seamless integration with ARKit. Learn about mixing 2D and 3D content and applying realistic transformations. Take direct control over SpriteKit rendering and walk through offline rendering into a Metal texture.

Model I/O makes it easy to bridge the divide between artists’ tools and your custom engine. See how to build a Model I/O-powered art pipeline to bring assets from content creation tools into a Metal 2-based renderer. Learn strategies for baking 3D content into structures optimal for real-time rendering, and best practices for working with animation data, common mesh and model formats, textures, and materials.

Security standards are continuing to evolve to counter emerging threats, and so too must your apps if you want to best protect your users and their data. Learn about new developments in certificate handling, TLS, and certificate status checking on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS that impact your apps.

Protecting user privacy is a core principal in the Apple ecosystem. Learn what that means for the way you design and implement your apps, and learn about privacy-related changes, including new APIs, in the next versions of iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.

Machine learning opens up opportunities for creating new and engaging experiences. Core ML is a new framework which you can use to easily integrate machine learning models into your app. See how Xcode and Core ML can help you make your app more intelligent with just a few lines of code.

Discover how enhancements in authorization simplify accessing sensitive and historical motion data. Learn how to use DeviceMotion effectively and how to leverage SensorRecorder to capture hours of motion data. Walk through adding immersive motion controls to enhance an existing game.

Learn about the new types of HomeKit accessories supported in iOS 11, new accessory setup options, and how enhancements to triggers make it possible to automatically run scenes based on who is home, only at certain times, and with more types of accessories. Understand how improvements to the HomeKit protocol greatly improve the responsiveness of HomeKit accessories. Discover how HomeKit accessory development is now open for experimentation & exploration.

Find out how Apple’s networking libraries and frameworks are taking advantage of new and improved protocols to deliver better connectivity and performance for your apps. In this first of two sessions, we’ll cover ECN, IPv6, Network Extensions, and Multipath protocols.

Local and push notifications enable your app to keep users informed with timely and relevant content, by displaying messages and accepting users’ actions, or playing distinctive sounds, or updating the badge on your app icon. Service extensions enable your app to decrypt and augment push notification content before being displayed. Find out what’s new and get expert advice on implementing user notifications in your app.

Learn about important improvements to URLSession. Find out how to use new URLSession APIs to better handle connectivity fluctuations, to schedule background session tasks, and to receive progress reports for session tasks. Plus, gain insights into valuable best practices, tips, and news about ongoing work with emerging network technologies.

Dive deeper into the details of the new Core ML framework. Explore how machine learning model development and app development fit together. Take a closer look at how models are represented and how models can be converted from popular machine learning and deep learning libraries, and learn about the performance optimizations Core ML does behind the scenes.

Learn about Sparse Matrix Solvers in the Accelerate framework. In addition, find out how Accelerate’s Basic Neural Network Subroutines (BNNS), vDSP, simd and other subframeworks give you fast, energy-efficient signal and image processing and handle large-scale mathematical computations.

Discover how watchOS 4 makes it possible for a watchOS app to communicate with Bluetooth Low Energy accessories. Learn about changes to Core Bluetooth that improve reliability and enable high performance streaming connections with Bluetooth Low Energy Accessories. Understand the best practices in Bluetooth Low Energy accessory design.

Location technologies are core to delivering context-based services within your app. Discover how advances in the Core Location Framework APIs provide new and more performant features in a manner designed to provide confidence for you privacy-conscious users. See how changes in iOS 11 provide clearer communication to your users of when their location is being queried and allows them to provide more granular access authorization to your app.

The Apple File System (APFS) is a modern file system, optimized for responsiveness on Flash/SSD storage, and designed for extensibility, security, and data integrity. APFS is now the default filesystem on iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Learn about what’s new for APFS on the Mac and how to take advantage of its new features in your apps.

iOS provides several techniques for keeping your app front and center. Whether you’re building a kiosk, hospitality check-in, or educational assessment app, choosing the right app-lock technique is critical. From Guided Access to Automatic Assessment Configuration you’ll learn which approach works best for your unique experience.

Wireless CarPlay is perfect for any trip. Get in your car without taking your iPhone out of your bag or pocket, and start experiencing CarPlay effortlessly. Learn how to design your CarPlay system to connect wirelessly to iPhone. Understand hardware requirements, best practices for a great user experience, and how to optimize the pairing and reconnection process.

Understand how to enable your audio, messaging, VoIP calling or automaker app for CarPlay. Audio, messaging and VoIP calling apps use a consistent design that’s optimized for use in the car. Automaker apps provide vehicle specific controls and displays to keep drivers connected without leaving CarPlay. Explore best practices and learn about the tools and frameworks for CarPlay apps.

Design is not just about what people see, it’s also about what they hear. Learn about how sound design can help you create a more immersive, usable and meaningful user experience in your app or game, and get a glimpse of how the sounds in Apple products are created.

Learn techniques for determining which Apple platforms are right for your app and how to create a great user experience by designing for the unique capabilities and strengths of each platform.

By understanding the range of abilities and capabilities of the people who use our apps, you can design robust apps that work for everyone. Learn how designing for accessibility and inclusiveness can do social good, widen participation, and enable everyone to benefit.

Creating a great Watch experience involves planning and attention to detail. Learn how to focus your development for Apple Watch to ensure that the experience is timely and contextually relevant for your users. Walk through a case study of the WWDC Watch app and gain insights from the development team’s experience across three versions of the app. Finally, learn design and technical tips for making your watchOS app the best it can be.

Good communication between designers and engineers is the key to building great products. Discover how production and specification techniques can improve communication, build trust, and help design and development teams work together to build better apps.

See how the updates to UIKit controls and text styles in iOS 11 can help you design an app with a stronger visual hierarchy, clearer navigation, and a simpler interface that’s easier to use.

Great games transport us into another world where we can reign over a kingdom, fight epic battles, or become a pinball wizard. Learn on-boarding and UI design best practices that will enable everyone to lose themselves in your game and have fun.

Designing for multiple screen sizes can seem complicated, difficult, and time-consuming. Learn how size classes, dynamic type, and UIKit elements help your app to scale elegantly, save you time, and make your app look amazing on whatever device people are using.

Learn how to create clear, informative, and helpful alerts that will make your app easy and enjoyable to use. Get valuable insights about the proper role for alerts, actionable guidance about writing effective alerts, and techniques for avoiding common pitfalls.

Choosing a custom font for your app can be a daunting task involving both functional and stylistic decisions. Gain a solid understanding of fundamental font design characteristics such as proportion and contrast. Learn how to apply this knowledge when deciding which font is right for your app.

Discover the keys to creating informative, useful and beautiful rich notifications in iOS. Get practical and detailed guidance about how to design short looks, long looks, and quick actions that will make your app’s notifications something people look forward to receiving.

The worldwide reach of the App Store means that your app can be enjoyed by people from around the globe. Explore ways to make your app useful and appealing to as many people as possible. And pick up simple techniques for avoiding common issues when reaching a global audience.

iMessage Apps help people easily create and share content, play games, and collaborate with friends without needing to leave the conversation. Explore how you can design iMessage apps and sticker packs that are perfectly suited for a deeply social context.

Wide color displays allow your app to display richer, more vibrant and lifelike colors than ever before. Get a primer on color management, the Display P3 color space, and practical workflow techniques for producing more colorful images and icons.

An app icon is the face of your app on the home screen. Learn key design principles for creating simple, unique, meaningful and beautiful app icons. Gain simple but effective techniques for testing your app icon for clarity and immediate recognizability.

Glyphs are a powerful communication tool and a fundamental element of your app’s design language. Learn about important considerations when conceptualizing glyphs and key design principles of crafting effective glyph sets for spaces inside and outside of your app.

Explore the new accessibility features for iOS, tvOS, and macOS. Gain specific knowledge of how best to adapt your app to make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their physical or learning abilities. Learn from the experts about advanced accessibility topics and how best to structure your app interface for accessibility.

macOS brings many new enhancements such as automatic window tabbing, enhanced color reproduction, and improved presentation of right-to-left languages. Get introduced to new APIs for these features and more, such as NSGridView and NSMeasurement. Learn about new conventions for APIs in Swift and Objective-C. This is your first stop to discover exciting new features in Cocoa sessions throughout the week.

Messages allows your apps to create an expressive experience within a conversation. Get an overview of the iMessage App architecture. See how Xcode can easily create a simple sticker pack with your art. Learn how to make an iMessage app that has a custom sticker grid and can make any image you create into a sticker. Go beyond the basic sticker and create animated stickers. Learn how to perfect your iMessage app presentation and layout.

The UIKit framework provides the crucial infrastructure needed to construct and manage iOS apps, and UIKit continues to advance the state of the art for app design with many new features. Dive straight into new features across the iOS frameworks that allow your apps to take advantage of many new system services, as well as to offer services to other apps. This is your first stop to discover the many sessions to see about harnessing the power of iOS 10.

Apps are quickly changing how we experience TV today, and tvOS is the foundation upon which new apps and ideas are being built. Take your app to the next level with great new features in tvOS 10. Learn all about the new interface appearance APIs, support for badging and notifications, and more.

Underlying nearly every iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS application sits the Foundation framework. See how improvements to the fundamental set of API in Foundation will improve the experience of using Swift for the entire Cocoa and Cocoa Touch SDK. Learn how Foundation framework’s new value types, adoption of standard library protocols, additional type safety, better generics, and custom operators will also make your own Swift code safer, faster, and more expressive.

watchOS 3 brings together notifications, complications, and the new Dock to keep your apps glanceable and responsive. Find out about the new additions to watchOS to create stunning visuals and learn about new snapshotting APIs to ensure your app is up to date when people glance at their wrist. Take a tour of watchOS 3 enhancements with us and find out which sessions you won’t want to miss throughout the week.

HealthKit offers more than ever to developers joining in Apple’s vibrant health and fitness ecosystem. Discover new ways to integrate the popular activity-tracking features of Apple Watch with your own app. Learn how to contribute to an even more complete picture of users’ health data by reading and writing Health Documents from your organization. Review core concepts for working with HealthKit and explore best practices for managing data to ensure your users enjoy a seamless experience.

Learn how to make your tvOS interface more dynamic, intuitive, and high-performing with tips and tricks learned in this session.

Quick interactions are essential for creating a compelling Apple Watch app. Gain insights into new gesture, Digital Crown, navigation, and notification APIs, and see how to use these API alongside SceneKit and SpriteKit to create rich, glanceable interfaces. Explore how this expanded toolbox can help make your watch apps quick and responsive.

Join us for an introduction to TVMLKit, a template-based UI layout technology that is part of tvOS. Learn about new features coming in tvOS 10, as well as best practices in architecting your application, styling and customization of templates, and media playback.

The best way to avoid technical debt is to incrementally build-up technical credit. This session builds on last year’s Modernizing Existing Apps with Swift presentation to show you how you can continue modernizing your codebase while adopting best practices and adding new feature work.

Learn how to bring your Content Blocker App Extensions to macOS and how to expose your application’s abilities through Safari with Safari App Extensions. Safari App Extensions let you take full advantage of web technologies, Cocoa, and other system frameworks that you already use in your app on macOS.

The focus interaction model is a critical component of an engaging and intuitive experience on tvOS. Learn more about how it works, some additions and changes to the API, as well as tips and tricks for making your tvOS app even better.

iOS 10 introduces SiriKit, a new framework enabling apps to integrate with Siri. Simply by speaking, your apps can send messages, place calls, send payments, and more. Learn how SiriKit helps you create new experiences on iOS and explore design principles for creating a great Siri experience.

Keeping your Apple Watch app up to date is key to creating a great experience on watchOS 3. Learn how to use the new background tasks to keep your complications and the new watchOS 3 Dock snapshots consistent with your app’s underlying model. Discover how to get the most from NSURLSessions and Watch Connectivity to keep data fresh and glanceable.

UICollectionView is a powerful class allowing your app to manage and customize the layout of views. iOS 10 brings enhancements for better performance, easier layout and brings features you’ve been looking for. Learn how to make your apps richer and faster by using new features in UICollectionView and its sibling, UITableView.

Learn essential best practices for using event input from Apple Pencil in your drawing apps. Gain a practical understanding of the concepts behind efficient and accurate touch event processing. Get details about the touch input pipeline on iOS and how to take advantage of it in all your apps.

Using On-Demand Resources allows you to create smaller app bundles, enable faster downloads, and add more content than ever before on iOS and tvOS. Learn the recommended approach for delivering apps packaged with On-Demand Resources. Explore strategies for pre-fetching content and understand how to optimize the first-launch experience.

In this first part of a two part series, explore the motivation and concepts necessary to take advantage of trait collections. Walk through building an interface in Xcode and learn from the experts how to take advantage of new features to more easily create your app for different device sizes and configurations.

Search APIs make it easy for users to discover information in your app and the app itself. New features expand the search capabilities allowing users to search directly in your app and enable you to search your own app index. Learn about the latest API updates and the new privacy-friendly method for improving the ranking of your app content.

Messages apps allow people to collaborate by using your app. Learn how people can work together to accomplish a task within the conversation. Customize the appearance of the messages your app can send. Learn about how to manage your app state in one-to-one and group conversations to provide an engaging and collaborative experience.

Learn by example how to integrate SiriKit into your app. See how easily you can create your first Intents extension to expose your app’s core functionality in Siri. Find out how to bring your app’s user interface into Siri, creating a unique and recognizable experience for your customers.

CloudKit is the framework that powers iCloud services on all of Apple’s platforms. Learn about the new features that have been added over the past year, and dive deep into the new sharing APIs that lets you share private data between iCloud users.

A well performing Watch app begins with great app architecture. Join us to discover strategies you can apply to keep your app responsive, lower your app’s resume time, and stay memory efficient. Learn how we used these same principles in the Stocks app to enhance the user experience for watchOS 3.

3D Touch adds a completely new dimension to the iOS user interface and introduces an entirely new way to interact with your iPhone. Explore the existing API and get introduced to additions in iOS 10 that allow you to push the boundaries of 3D Touch. Learn about best practices for incorporating 3D Touch into your apps, how to add support for Quick Actions, Peek, and Pop.

Learn about advanced techniques in TVML based apps, such as bridging between native and javascript code, creating your own custom views for use inside of templates, creating your own custom templates, how to introduce UIKit view controllers alongside TVMLKit based templates, and additional best practices you can apply to your apps.

CallKit is a new framework that lets your VoIP app integrate tightly with the native Phone UI. Learn how you can have your incoming calls displayed fully on the lock screen. Get details on how people can choose to use your app when making calls from the native Phone app’s contacts, favorites, and recents. See how adopting CallKit lets your app coexist seamlessly with other active calls, and allow your calls to interact with CarPlay and Bluetooth accessories.

Building a great international user interface goes beyond just translating your app. Explore new and improved APIs in iOS, macOS, and watchOS, and learn how Xcode 8 makes it easy to provide directional images to build first class apps for RTL languages. Hear from experts on how to fine-tune your international UI to create a seamless bidirectional experience and take your app in a new direction.

In this second part of a two part series, go beyond the basics in understanding how to make your apps adaptive. Learn through practical examples how to extend your application interfaces using UIKit. Get introduced to best practices for structuring your app for flexible interface designs. Learn from the experts what to keep in mind as you build apps for the future, today.

ResearchKit is an open source framework you can use to build compelling apps that gather and present meaningful data used in medical research. Learn about new capabilities, how to create and extend surveys, how to create active tasks that use touch or other built-in and third-party accessory features, and how to effectively participate in the community.

HealthKit provides robust tools for building great workout apps for Apple Watch. Learn how your workout app can collect data from Watch sensors, run and analyze data in real-time in the background, and contribute to Activity rings. Gain insights into creating a great standalone Watch experience and see how to display your workouts within the Health app and the Activity app on iOS.

Get details about new features of Auto Layout in Xcode, Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Explore the new NSGridView, allowing your Cocoa app to easily build grid interfaces. Dive deeper into new tools that enable you to quickly diagnose layout issues in your interface. Learn about the new features in Xcode to quickly build adaptive interfaces.

CareKit is a new open source framework designed to help you create personal care apps that can monitor, present and share personal health information. Learn how to create and extend Care Cards and an Insight Dashboard, and to package information for sharing with families or professional caregivers.

The Foundation framework, which includes the root object class, classes representing basic data types such as strings and byte arrays, and collection classes for storing other objects, has added new support for specifying Units and Measurements. Understand how to model your measurements and convert within dimensions. Learn from the experts how to use and surface Units and Measurements in your interfaces.

Examine the technologies that make a modern macOS app. Come learn from the experts how to harness the power of Cocoa to build powerful, immersive apps. Whether you’re a seasoned Cocoa developer or new to the platform, this session is for you.

iOS and macOS can proactively promote your app and data, thereby increasing user engagement. See how adopting a few simple APIs to inform the OS about your app’s capabilities can lead to your app being suggested in various places like the app switcher, on the lock screen, Contacts, and more.

Launched last year with iOS 9 and macOS El Capitan, the new Transit feature in Apple Maps is customized for each city where it’s available. Hear about how the Apple Maps team ensures a great customer experience through a combination of transit agency data, field survey, and close attention to the unique transit culture of each city. If you’re a transit agency, learn about how you can help to ensure your customers have the most reliable information in Apple Maps.

Core Data is a framework that you can use to manage the model layer objects in your application, providing generalized and automated solutions to common tasks associated with object life cycle, object graph management, and persistence. Learn about the latest advancements in and explore best practices for taking full advantage of this powerful framework.

Search Ads provides a new way to increase awareness of your apps in App Store search results. Learn how sponsored ads in App Store search work, see a preview of the powerful targeting options, reporting and attribution features and how quick and easy it is to get started.

Learn about the latest developments in managing Apple devices in large organizations including Classroom and Shared iPad for Education. Learn the latest techniques to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps and bulk configure devices with ease.

Even consumer-focused apps are used by people in business and education. See how minor changes can fine tune your app to meet the needs of these large organizations. Learn best practices for synching user-specific content on Shared iPad and how to add deep-link support for Classroom app, authentication integration via Touch ID, AppConfig driven customization, and much more.

iTunes Connect has been updated to make your experience with delivering apps to the App Store even better. Learn about time-saving improvements to managing screenshots, new ways to stay up to date with the iTunes Connect for iOS app, and upcoming features to help you gain insights into your data in App Analytics.

Xcode provides powerful options for managing projects for small and large development teams. Learn how new features in Xcode simplify the process of certificate management, app signing and configuration of your project’s build settings.

Hear about the newest features in Swift 3, the third major release of the safe, fast, and expressive language, and the first major release built with the open source community. Gain insight into the latest changes in Xcode including enhanced migration support to help move your code to Swift 3. Learn how you can get involved in the open source community at Swift.org.

Updated to include the latest features, syntax and best practices for Swift 3, this session introduces the basics of the Swift programming language. Learn the recommended manner in which to declare variables, define functions, work with fundamental value types, protocols, generics, and more. Explore some of the great features that make Swift a safe, fast, and expressive language.

The Apple LLVM compiler in Xcode 8 adds new language features, improved diagnostics, and more powerful optimizations. Get an overview of some new Objective-C and C++ features and learn how to use advanced optimizations to speed up your apps.

Launching an App is a complicated and subtle process and the ramifications on launch times of different App design patterns are often non-obvious. Come learn what happens in the time between when an App begins launching and when the main() function gets control and how that time relates to the code and structure of your App. Learn about the inner details of the dynamic loader, dyld, and best practices for structuring your code to perform at its best from the very start.

Making your app accessible helps you reach all of your potential users. Get introduced to the new Accessibility Inspector and learn how it streamlines finding and fixing accessibility issues across all Apple platforms. Go beyond the basics with our experts as they guide you through the process of optimizing accessibility for your app

Learn more about Swift Playgrounds, the new iPad app that teaches coding using the powerful Swift programming language. Explore the featured content, complete with puzzles that help you master each coding concept. Learn more about the coding features of Swift Playgrounds and see how the editing experience was re-imagined for touch. Learn to use the included templates to build playgrounds and look at the available features in the new playground book format.

Take an advanced class in Testing and Xcode Server. You’ll gain an in-depth knowledge on the lifecycle of a test, how they’re are hosted, and how using modern observation can help you make bulletproof tests for your app. Then, learn about changes in Xcode Server that make continuous integration easier than ever, including configuring your own user for testing, enhancements to issue tracking, email notifications and support for crash logs.

Discover Xcode’s enhancements for debugging autolayout issues at runtime. Learn how issues inside complex GKStateMachine objects can be easily debugged at runtime. Gain insight into finding performance bottlenecks inside SpriteKit and SceneKit apps more easily with the enhanced FPS gauge. Understand how to fix leaked and abandoned memory in your app by inspecting the heap from within your typical Xcode debugging workflow.

Join engineers from the Instruments team for another focused look at the System Trace Instruments profiling template and how to get the most out of it. Discover how threads, virtual memory, and locking interact to affect performance. Dive deep for a practical look at how you can improve your app’s responsiveness and keep your users engaged.

Xcode 8 makes it easier to find several new categories of bugs with improvements in Runtime Sanitization and the Clang Static Analyzer. The Thread Sanitizer will help you find data races and other concurrency bugs. The static analyzer has been extended to search for localizability issues, check nullability, and find memory leaks in MRR code.

Xcode enables you to create great apps for Apple platforms. This session will introduce you to the basics of creating a project with Xcode, and more. You’ll learn how to comfortably navigate your project and gain insights into working with workspaces, targets, and schemes. We’ll introduce you to version control workflows, and walk through using Xcode’s source editors and design tools. Join us if you’re new to Apple platforms or want to learn more about using Xcode.

Learn about all of the new, and a few existing, features of Xcode source editor. See how you can make the most of new code completion features, Swift image and color literals, and snippets. We’ll also show how to add commands to the source editor with new Xcode Extensions that you can distribute on the Mac App Store.

While the Swift language makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by design, Swift being open source means you can use it on an even broader range of platforms, from mobile devices to the desktop and in the cloud. Come for an overview of available projects at Swift.org and examples of the community in action.

Spend an hour with the team responsible for the technology behind Xcode’s debugger: LLDB. Find out what’s new, what’s been there all along that you didn’t know about, and how best to take advantage of it all. This session will cover a range of topics with tips for both newcomers and experienced developers.

The Web Inspector provides some sleek new tools to help you understand your app’s web content performance and memory usage. Explore how you can use Web Inspector’s new memory and JavaScript profiling tools to debug web content on iOS and macOS. Discover new features and learn best practices to maximize your effectiveness with the Web Inspector tools.

People love to take pictures with iPhone. In fact, it’s the most popular camera in the world, and photography apps empower this experience. Explore new AVFoundation Capture APIs which allow for the capture of Live Photos, RAW image data from the camera, and wide color photos.

Become a News Publisher. Apple News allows you to monetize your stories and find new readers. Learn how to sign up and discover how easy it is to integrate with your existing CMS or author stories using the News Publisher authoring tool.

AVFoundation is a powerful framework for media operations, providing capture, editing, playback, and export. Learn about new APIs and methods for media playback. Create seamless loops, simplify your playback logic with “autowait”, and see how to deliver an even faster playback startup experience.

HTTP Live Streaming offers a reliable media playback experiences over a wide variety of network conditions. Join us to learn how to deliver offline playback using the same media assets you already host for online playback. See new additions to the HLS protocol, such as support for fragmented MP4 and in-playlist metadata.

iOS 10 and macOS 10.12 brings a powerful set of new APIs to work with many types of photos. Explore using Core Image to process RAW image files from many popular cameras and recent iOS devices. See how to edit and enhance Live Photos directly within your app.

AVKit on tvOS offers an intuitive user interface for interaction with your media on this powerful new platform. AVKit is built on AVFoundation, which gives you access to the full potential of platform services for operating on time-based audiovisual media. Learn how to leverage the new content proposal APIs, and how to create a seamless interstitial playback experience. Management of media metadata and chapter navigation will also be covered.

iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS offer a rich set of tools and APIs for recording, processing, and playing back audio in your apps. Learn how to choose the right API for your app, and the details on implementing each of them in order to deliver an outstanding audio experience.

Apple News beautifully introduces new readers to your stories. Learn about Apple News Format and how it can be used to author rich, responsive stories that intelligently adapt to all screen sizes. Discover the many features of Apple News including interactive galleries, video, audio, and animations which help to make your content more engaging than ever.

iOS 10 brings a brand new Speech Recognition API that allows you to perform rapid and contextually informed speech recognition in both file-based and realtime scenarios. In this video, you will learn all about the new API and how to bring advanced speech recognition services into your apps.

HTTP Live Streaming enables the reliable delivery of media content over a wide variety of network conditions. Learn best practices in HLS authoring, see how to verify your streams using the HTTP Live Streaming tools, and apply the results to improve the performance of your streams.

Continue your learning from Session 501: Advances in iOS Photography, with some additional details on scene monitoring and resource management in AVFoundation’s powerful new AVCapturePhotoOutput API.

ReplayKit is an easy-to-use framework that enables players to share gameplay recordings or broadcast live games to players and viewers online. Watch how live broadcasting can help build community and create new fans for your apps and games. Understand the APIs to include player commentary via the microphone and front-facing camera on iPhone and iPad, and check out new support for ReplayKit on Apple TV.

Metal provides the best access to the GPU on iOS, tvOS, and macOS, enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps and games. Get introduced to the essential concepts behind Metal, its low-overhead architecture, streamlined API, and support for efficient multi-threading. Start learning how to code with Metal in a walkthrough of rendering a basic scene.

Building on the fundamentals, dive into the specifics of constructing games and graphics apps with Metal. Learn about scene management and understand how to manage and update Metal resources. Understand the rendering loop, command encoding, and multi-thread synchronization.

Metal is the powerful low-overhead graphics and compute technology designed to unlock the power of the GPU. Check out the latest additions to the Metal frameworks and get details about supporting tessellation in your apps and games. Discover how to take control over synchronization and learn how to use resource heaps for even more efficient memory usage. See what’s new in Metal debugging and profiling tools and gain insight into analyzing and optimizing performance.

Discover enhancements to the Metal shading language and how to use function specialization to improve performance while reducing the number of shader configurations in your app. Take advantage of resource read-writes to enable amazing new rendering techniques, understand how to support wide color, and accelerate your deep learning algorithms using the Metal Performance Shaders framework.

The Metal shading language is an easy-to-use programming language for writing graphics and compute functions which execute on the GPU. Dive deeper into understanding the design patterns, memory access models, and detailed shader coding best practices which reduce bottlenecks and hide latency. Intended for experienced shader authors with a solid understanding of GPU architecture and hoping to extract every possible cycle.

Apple TV presents an incredible opportunity for developers to create new games made for the living room. See how the Game Controller framework can tap into the Siri Remote to harness touch and the built-in accelerometer and gyroscope to deliver engaging gameplay. Learn how to fully integrate MFi controllers, and understand best practices for developing titles that require a game controller.

SceneKit is a fully featured high-level graphics framework enabling your apps and games to create 3D animated scenes and effects. Witness the biggest leap forward in SceneKit yet with the introduction of its new Physically-Based Renderer (PBR). Dive into new APIs for accurate materials, physically-based lights, HDR effects, and enhancements in Model I/O. Walk through an example game using PBR and see how to integrate its workflow into your development.

SpriteKit adds new features to make it even easier to create high-performance, power-efficient 2D games. See how tile maps enable you to lay out large scenes quickly and check out new APIs for warp transformations and custom shader attributes. Learn about focus-based interactions on Apple TV, rendering on Apple Watch, and new tools built right into Xcode for measuring performance and integrating with GameplayKit.

Dive into the latest additions to Game Center, Apple’s social gaming network. Check out new capabilities for persistent game sessions and how they provide added flexibility for single-player, real-time multiplayer, and turn-based games. Learn about changes that streamline Game Center and a new way to send game invites and join multiplayer matches.

watchOS 3 adds a lineup of technologies for developing games that are responsive, lightweight, and fun. Gain insights into techniques for creating great games for Apple Watch. Discover how to take advantage of gesture recognizers and the Digital Crown for gameplay, SpriteKit and SceneKit for 2D and 3D graphics, and Game Center for turn-based multiplayer games.

The Apple File System (APFS) is the next-generation file system designed to scale from an Apple Watch to a Mac Pro. APFS is optimized for Flash/SSD storage, and engineered with encryption as a primary feature. Learn about APFS benefits versus HFS+ and how to make sure your file system code is compatible.

The StoreKit API allows apps to request payment for additional functionality or content. Hear about the latest changes to StoreKit including Swift 3.0 APIs, updates to Subscriptions and using StoreKit with iMessage apps. Learn best practices for receipt management and Sandbox testing.

This year, Apple Pay is coming to the web with Safari on both macOS and iOS. Now you can experience the convenience and security of Apple Pay in your store, in your app, and on your website. Discover how easy it is to set up Apple Pay on the web, and learn how designing for Apple Pay can increase conversions, user engagement, and customer satisfaction.

Get the latest news and updates from the Wallet and Apple Pay teams. Learn how to integrate Apple Pay into more places than ever before including watchOS, iOS Messages and Intents extensions. Learn about new tools to make testing and developing your Apple Pay-enabled apps even easier. We’ll also cover new features in Wallet for retailers, banks, and card issuers.

Have you saved our 63-page iOS security white paper to your Reading List but find yourself too busy making great apps to get through it? You can keep your good intentions to devour every last detail, but meanwhile come join us for an illuminating talk on why we care so deeply about security as a design philosophy central to all our iOS products.

Designing security into your app requires that you follow secure coding practices and use the security features that are built into the operating system. Learn about new developments in Security on iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS that impact your apps. Hear about best practices for developing and distributing secure apps and protecting people’s data.

Push and locally scheduled notifications can provide people with timely information and provide them with the ability to take appropriate actions in response. Hear about the new APIs to schedule, respond to, and manage delivery of notifications. Learn how to write an extension to decrypt and augment push notifications before they are displayed.

3D Touch on Notifications provides users with access to media attachments and live content. See how your app can take advantage of this new functionality to provide a rich interactive experience within the notification itself.

Learn about new developments in Privacy on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS that impact you and your apps. Explore techniques to respect your users’ privacy while building great features into your apps.

Learn what’s new with HomeKit in iOS 10 including support for new types of accessories such as cameras and doorbells, enhancements in remotely connecting with accessories, how set up of Wi-Fi HomeKit accessories has been greatly improved, and how to write HomeKit enabled tvOS Apps.

NSURLSession provides a rich set of methods to support uploading and downloading content via HTTP and newer HTTP-based protocols, authentication with web servers, local caching of resources, and transfers that occur in the background while your app isn’t running — simplifying the complexities of modern day networking. Learn about new enhancements in HTTP/2, introspection capabilities with networking metrics, and security and privacy enhancements for you and your customers.

Discover the fascinating details behind the display of color on Apple platforms. Go beyond the basics and learn how your apps can take advantage of a wider and deeper representation of color on iOS and macOS. Gain specific insights from the experts on optimizing your artwork asset pipeline and explore new API to develop more vivd, true to life experiences.

Core Motion enables your applications to access a wide array of sensors on iOS and watchOS devices. Discover how steps and activity detection can be used with user elevation changes to develop fitness apps. Explore ways to observe wrist rotation and effort and translate them to immersive health and fitness experiences.

The next wave of the Internet’s evolution is happening now. You’ll learn best practices for supporting IPv6, restricting cellular usage, and using Quality of Service to create a fast lane for your iOS apps. Discover how to support a multilingual Internet by using UTF-8, and how new internationalized domain names and email addresses affect you.

The Accelerate framework gives you fast, energy efficient signal and image processing and linear algebra libraries. Learn about new libraries dedicated to high performance neural networks and numerical integration.

Discover how to give users a great location-aware experience while conserving power across all Apple platforms. Learn best practices for using Core Location, how an App can use and manage Circular and Beacon Regions, defer or pause location updates, and how to use Visit Monitoring to determine the interesting places the user has been. Get an overview of how a user authorizes an App’s use of location services.

Gain specific insights into tuning your application for better I/O performance. Learn best practices to reduce local storage operations and trim your memory usage. Get details on how to update your app to increase responsiveness and extend battery life.

Swift 3 provides new interfaces that make it easier than ever to write applications with Grand Central Dispatch. Learn the basics of GCD and best practices on how to use it to architect your Swift application. You’ll also hear about new APIs and other GCD improvements.

CarPlay is a smarter, safer way to use your iPhone in the car. Learn how CarPlay works and how to design your car’s infotainment system to work seamlessly with iPhone. Understand best practices for a great user experience that integrates CarPlay with the car’s native system.

Learn how CarPlay integrates with your car’s infotainment system. Understand how CarPlay is designed to work with your car’s resources including the display, speakers, microphone, user inputs, steering wheel controls, instrument cluster and sensors.

Starting with a review of the HTTP/2 based provider API, you will learn about an important new feature: Token Based Authentication. Learn to connect to APNs using authentication tokens for sending pushes via the HTTP/2 API, relieving you of the overhead associated with maintaining valid certificates.

AirPrint works everywhere, including Enterprise environments. Learn how to deploy AirPrint in the Enterprise, how to set up an AirPrint Bluetooth Beacon which is new in iOS 10, and how to make sure your users take full advantage of AirPrint features.

Inclusive design means making your app intuitive, appropriate, and delightful for a global audience and people who have accessibility challenges. Learn easy-to-follow techniques for making your app culturally relevant and accessible through use of type, layout, color and iconography.

Change the way the world experiences television through apps that are designed to be immersive, intuitive and easy to use. Learn best practices and techniques to take advantage of the big screen and the Siri Remote.

Typography is essential to an app’s form and function. Learn principles of good typography and techniques to apply them to your work. Make the most of the advanced features in our system fonts, and learn best practices for using custom fonts.

watchOS 3 represents a big leap forward for Apple Watch and the apps that run on it. Performance improvements, powerful graphics and animation capabilities, deeper access to device capabilities, and a refined navigation model lay the foundation for designing useful and stunning Apple Watch apps. Learn best practices and techniques for making complications, notifications and apps that are highly actionable, glanceable and responsive.

You’re familiar with Keynote for making presentations, but it’s also a powerful tool for exploring, iterating and refining user interface layouts and workflows. Learn techniques and best practices for using Keynote to quickly and persuasively express your product ideas by building realistic and tangible design comps and user flows.

When Debbie Sterling heard from Steve Jobs at her Stanford graduation that she should “never settle” until she found her true passion, she took this to heart. After graduating from Stanford with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design, she had firsthand knowledge of how significantly men outnumber women in science, technology, engineering and math. Debbie then became obsessed with the notion of “disrupting the pink aisle” with a toy that would introduce girls to the joy of engineering at a young age. Industry leaders told her the idea would fail, but less than three years after launching GoldieBlox on Kickstarter, she has made significant strides in her quest to bridge the gender gap in STEM: she has launched massively successful viral videos, a Superbowl ad that brought mainstream awareness to her mission, an award-winning iOS app and GoldieBlox presence in more than 6,000 retail stores worldwide. Debbie has also recently been selected to join the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship, a select group ‘committed to helping develop the next generation of entrepreneurs around the world.’ Hear Debbie’s story of challenging the status quo, achieving audacious goals, and igniting a national conversation about breaking gender stereotypes.

iOS has transformed the lives of many users with a range of physical and learning disabilities. Learn how to create apps that leverage the power and simplicity of Apple’s assistive technologies to make them accessible to the broadest audience possible. Hear about the latest advancements in iOS accessibility and how you can take advantage of them today.

Cocoa is a powerful set of frameworks on which OS X is built. Gain an overview of the advances in AppKit, Foundation, and related frameworks. Find out what technologies you need to focus on and what techniques you should adopt to develop state of the art apps for OS X. Start here for a high level view of what’s changed, and get pointers to relevant sessions for more depth.

HealthKit is Apple’s framework to centralize the data storage of personal health information. Hear about the latest enhancements to the framework, supporting new types of data, efficiently deleting objects, and integrating HealthKit into your Apple Watch app.

Building on the strong accessibility support in iOS, Apple Watch offers assistive features like VoiceOver and Zoom. Gain insights into how these accessibility features work on Apple Watch, and how to make sure your app can be accessible to all users.

iOS 9 on iPad introduces the ability to view and interact with more than one app at a time. Discover how to update your code to take advantage of enhancements to multitasking and how to participate in Slide Over and Split View. Learn specifics about how to architect your app and understand best practices for adapting to a dynamically sized interface.

See what’s new in MapKit. Learn about improvements to existing APIs and new ways of incorporating transit ETAs and Flyover map views in your app.

watchOS 2 provides a new architecture that runs your WatchKit extension directly on Apple Watch. Take an in-depth look at how this new architecture works. Learn how to migrate existing WatchKit apps to watchOS 2, how to support both versions of watchOS, and hear about updates to Glances and Notifications.

Move beyond architecture changes for Watch apps and explore the different ways you can use the Digital Crown to enhance your apps. Find out how to create persistent app experiences to keep your Watch app at the ready for users and learn how to use the playback and recording APIs to add audio and video to your Watch apps.

Making your app’s information available to users on Apple Watch is even easier in watchOS 2. Learn how to create custom complications for Watch faces using the new ClockKit framework and see how to provide data through numerous templates using text and images.

HomeKit is Apple’s framework that enables apps to easily and securely interact with HomeKit enabled accessories such as lights, locks, thermostats and more. Learn about the improvements to HomeKit, including support for new accessory types, easy ways to setup and remotely manage accessories.

iOS 9 on iPad introduces the ability to view and interact with more than one app at a time. Learn advanced techniques for efficiently sharing resources and presenting media while other apps are in the foreground. Tap into the potential of Picture in Picture to allow your video content to play above other apps, and explore multitasking best practices for creating great experiences in this environment.

Multitasking in iOS 9 allows two side-by-side apps and the Picture-in-Picture window to simultaneously run onscreen at the same time. Discover essential techniques for designing efficient, responsive apps to give your users a fluid, immersive experience with Slide Over, Split View, and Picture-in-Picture.

ResearchKit is an open source framework introduced by Apple that allows researchers and developers to create powerful apps for medical research. Learn how to easily create visual consent flows, real-time dynamic active tasks, and surveys using a variety of customizable modules that you can build upon and share with the community.

iOS 9 introduces On Demand Resources, enabling the efficient delivery of rich games and full featured applications using dynamically loaded content. Significantly reduce the time between purchasing and running an app from the App Store, while also decreasing the required storage space by downloading and retaining only content that is necessary. Dive into the latest enhancements in app packaging and learn the APIs to allow your app to acquire only its essential resources.

Storyboards are a great way to build the user interface and flow of your application on iOS and OS X. Gain an understanding of how to effectively organize your storyboards, define segues for your interface, and easily unwind transitions. Dive into a detailed discussion of the new APIs, and hear tips on how to create great user interfaces.

Advanced layouts and animations are essential to your app’s interface. Gain insights into group layout mechanics and the new element animation APIs introduced in WatchKit for watchOS 2. Understand how to create layouts that work well with animations and learn other techniques to add liveliness to your apps.

The new Force Touch trackpad adds a whole new dimension to user interactions. OS X 10.11 introduces system controls that support pressure behaviors. Understand how to integrate with these behaviors and support them in custom controls. See how to use the Taptic Engine to provide subtle physical feedback based on trackpad input. Hear best practices for adopting new swiping gestures.

Auto Layout is a powerful constraint-based layout engine that can drive complex and dynamic interfaces on both iOS and OS X. Learn about the new UIStackView, now your first stop for interfaces built with Auto Layout. See how to build self-sizing views using Auto Layout, and gain critical insights into the inner workings of Auto Layout.

Continue your pursuit of Auto Layout mastery. Gain high level insight into how Auto Layout works, and strategies for debugging layout issues. Learn how to use new APIs for constraint creation and layout guides to build more complex layouts.

Learn about the latest enhancements to the Core Data framework. Hear how to efficiently delete objects, ensure uniqueness, and easily migrate your persistent stores to new locations.

Full screen windows enable people to focus on the task at hand by removing extra system UI and deferring to more of the content they care about. OS X 10.11 adds new flexibility to how these full screen windows can be configured and controlled. Hear from the experts how to get your Mac app ready to take advantage of this new functionality. Learn key strategies to making your window content be adaptive depending on the space available.

iOS 9 brings complete right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, and other languages. Going beyond basic text, your app’s entire interface can now flip to provide a native right-to-left experience. Learn what behavior you get for free from UIKit, and hear details about adding right-to-left support in custom interfaces. Hear from experts about how to evaluate the readiness of your app for these languages. Understand best practices to avoid common pitfalls and to create a seamless bi-directional app.

Whether it’s getting contact information, managing a social graph, or adding a new friend, Contacts are a critical piece of many apps. OS X El Capitan and iOS 9 now share a new Contacts API. Understand the design, goals, and benefits of this new framework. Gain critical insights into how to make a smooth transition for your app to this new framework.

App extensions allow powerful ways to expose your application’s abilities throughout iOS and other apps. Discover best practices for various extension types and see how to effectively communicate between your extension and its parent application or the network. Learn techniques for using the shared keychain and see how to improve discovery of your share and action extensions.

NSCollectionView has been displaying grids of views for many years. OS X 10.11 brings a major update to the capabilities of NSCollectionView. Much of the design of UICollectionView in iOS is now available for OS X apps. Understand the details of the enhancements and how you can harness them in your apps.

With the majority of Apple’s market outside of the US, it’s critical to learn about the latest advancements in Internationalization support to make your app truly localized. Gain insight into best practices for using formatters to display information correctly, how to easily handle pluralization in any language, how to avoid the most common localization pitfalls, and much more. Whether you are looking to significantly expand your market or want to take advantage of powerful new features for all languages, you don’t want to miss this session.

Apple Watch apps should load quickly and be responsive to users. Learn tips and tricks for optimizing your existing apps and gain insights specific to communicating between Apple Watch and iPhone, creating responsive layouts, decreasing loading times, and more.

Dynamic interfaces create fluid and rich interactions. Hear about new dynamic behaviors that have been added in UIKit and how to take advantage of them in your applications. Gain a practical understanding of how to integrate dynamics with AutoLayout. Learn about enhancements to UI Kit Visual Effects.

NSProgress lets you easily and accurately report the progress of work in your app. Understand the concepts behind progress reporting and how to design code that accurately and efficiently reports its progress. Gain specific insights on how to receive progress updates from framework APIs, fold that into your own progress reporting, and show that progress in your app. Hear from the experts about best practices and how to master the NSProgress APIs.

UIDocument is a robust way to model user-generated content in your app. See how to easily integrate your app’s documents with iCloud, file extensions, and document browsers. Learn how to build a document-based app from the ground up.

Learn about the latest developments in managing Apple devices in large organizations. Learn the latest techniques to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps and bulk configure devices with ease.

iTunes Connect is the gateway to sharing your creativity on the App Store. Learn about new opportunities to get your products out on Apple Watch. See how the latest improvements to TestFlight as well as other new upcoming features on the iTunes Connect, will help you make the most of Apple’s digital storefront.

App Analytics is the powerful new tool inside iTunes Connect. Get a walk through of the metrics related to user engagement, marketing campaigns, monetization and more. Gain valuable insights from data that only Apple provides, so you can build better iOS apps and a more informed app business.

Get more acquainted with iTunes Connect, your gateway to the App Store. Dive into unique services like TestFlight for beta testing and Transporter to help automate metadata setup for your apps. Discover the power of adding rich media to your app store page, the benefits of broadening your distribution path globally, and the abundance of help resources.

Automation is the life blood of any organization, providing speed, accuracy, and the ability to efficiently scale in-house processes. See how the automation technologies in OS X can easily and quickly configure shared-use iOS devices, generate, update, and distribute company documents and provide reliable desktop solutions for the back-office. With tools like Automator, AppleScript, and the new JavaScript for Automation (JXA), creating problem-solving solutions has become even easier and even more interesting.

Discover new features that make it easier than ever to craft Objective-C APIs that work beautifully in Swift, as well as new Swift language features that provide even better interoperability. Apple engineers will also discuss enhancements to Apple’s SDKs that improve the Swift experience.

Enhancements to LLDB simplify life for Swift and Objective-C developers alike. Experienced developers will find new powers within the debugging console, and learn more about the connection between the debugger and Swift REPL. Newcomers will get insight into the range of possibilities hidden behind the LLDB prompt.

See how you can incrementally add Swift into your existing Objective-C codebase and app development workflow. Learn how to leverage Swift’s powerful language features to develop robust applications that are faster to write and easier to maintain.

The app distribution pipeline is becoming more powerful and flexible. Learn to create full featured apps that are delivered to users devices with new App Thinning features such as slicing and ODR. See how to integrate these new features into your continuous integration and testing processes, and discover workflows for creating on-demand, tailored content.

Learn about the new features in Xcode playgrounds such as inline results, auxiliary sources and resources, multiple pages, and markup for formatted text. Find out how to explore programming problems in a playground, and create engaging experiences for teaching and learning.

Apps that stand out must be attractive, intuitive, and easy to use. Interface Builder experts will give you the skills to turn your idea into a world class app. Learn to use the new stacks feature, create adaptable interfaces, employ asset catalogs, and design custom UI to build an outstanding app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Hear from the experts about how you can write faster Swift code and use Instruments to identify performance bottlenecks. Dive deep into specific techniques that will help you produce the most efficient code possible.

Xcode 7 includes new code coverage features to help you design a powerful test harness for your app. Learn all about coverage along with integration and improvements with Xcode Server.

Learn about time profiling down to the disassembly level to help you investigate the minute details of your application that affect its performance and responsiveness.

Learn about exciting new features in WebKit and Safari that will help you make your content feel alive. See compelling new interactions made possible by the Force Touch trackpad and enhanced scrolling support. Expand your design toolkit with high performance filters for stunning image and backdrop effects, and embrace the connected living room with updated AirPlay support.

FairPlay streaming provides industrial-grade protection for audio and video content. Learn how to implement and deploy FairPlay streaming to protect content when using HTTP Live Streaming.

iAd is Apple’s advertising platform, designed to enable developers to monetize and promote their apps in over 100 countries. See how iAd technologies built into iOS make it easy to enable advertising to generate revenue, identify user segments for re-engagement and understand the impact of your marketing campaigns. Learn how to promote your app to new users and create targeted campaigns designed to re-engage those you already have.

The new SFSafariViewController class enables you to deliver interactive web content in your app just like Safari, including the key Safari UI elements already familiar to your users. See how to easily bring Safari features like Reader and AutoFill into your app, and provide a great web viewing experience with fewer lines of code.

Safari has a powerful new interface for designing responsive web experiences. Explore this great new feature and other new capabilities and improvements to the Web Inspector—WebKit’s built-in development tool. Discover how you can use Safari and Web Inspector to powerfully and efficiently design, debug, and optimize for the web.

Learn how to use the new AVMutableMovie class to modify media files and simplify your editing workflows. See how to support segment-based editing and discover the power of sample reference movies.

See what’s new in Core Audio. Learn about enhancements to AVAudioEngine such as Compressed audio format support, more flexible node connections and new Sequencer functionality. Learn how to take advantage of digital audio between your OS X and iOS devices via Lightning. Learn best practices and what’s new in AVAudioSession.

Learn about using Audio Unit Extensions to provide your App with sophisticated audio manipulation and processing capabilities. Explore the architecture and fundamentals of an App that uses Audio Unit Extensions, and how your app can benefit from their power.

Learn how to increase app engagement by using universal links to lead users directly to your App when they tap links to your website. Discover how Smart App Banners and Shared Web Credentials give your users the most integrated mobile experience possible.

The newly-unified architecture of Core Image gives iOS and OS X apps access to even more image processing power. Learn about new CIFilters and enhancements to the CIKernel language. See how to use Core Image with AV Foundation and Metal to expand the capabilities of your app.

Safari in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan delivers new ways for your app to extend Safari’s behavior. Learn how to create Shared Links and Content Blocking extensions for iOS and OS X, and about changes to the Safari Extension development process.

Model I/O provides a seamless infrastructure for accessing and managing 3D models. Its high-performance architecture supports reading and writing popular mesh and model formats, textures, and materials. Get introduced to the Model I/O framework and learn key details about its integration with SceneKit, MetalKit, and GLKit.

Metal provides extremely efficient access to the GPU through its streamlined API and high-performance architecture. Check out what’s new in Metal and dive into support for Metal on OS X. Understand enhancements to the Metal memory model and learn how to prepare assets for delivery in Metal-based apps and games.

SpriteKit provides everything you’ll need to build 2D games with high-performance graphics and engaging gameplay. Check out new APIs for managing a virtual camera and delivering spatial audio. See the all-new timeline-based Actions editor built right into Xcode, and learn about deep integration with Metal, SceneKit, GameplayKit, and more.

ReplayKit provides an easy-to-use framework that lets players record their gameplay — amazing plays, great victories, or solutions to tough challenges — and share video with other players and viewers online. Get introduced to the ReplayKit framework and see how to enable its capability for sharing game video and audio in your games and other apps. Then get the latest news about Game Center, Apple’s social gaming network. Learn about the new model for pre-release testing with Game Center and enhancements for multiplayer games.

SceneKit is a high-level graphics framework that helps you create 3D animated scenes and effects in your apps. See how to take advantage of the new capabilities and performance gains enabled by SceneKit’s new Metal-based renderer. Check out the innovative Scene Editor, enabling you to build game levels and other scenes directly within Xcode. Learn about new features for realistic shading, enhancements for physics, and dynamic spatial audio.

Your app can be ready to harness the power of Metal starting with just a few lines of code. Get introduced to the new MetalKit framework and learn its simple API for model and texture loading, animation control, and other common tasks. Plug into Metal Performance Shaders and access a powerful library of image-processing operations tuned for Apple hardware.

Dive into the tools and technologies used to construct the DemoBots developer sample. Gain a practical understanding of how DemoBots implements its gameplay logic with GameplayKit and visuals using SpriteKit. See how the sample integrates On Demand Resources and other system services.

Learn best practices to maximize the efficiency of your Metal based apps and attain high frame rates. Gain insight into powerful tools for analyzing and optimizing performance for both the CPU and GPU. Discover how to identify bottlenecks, tune performance hot-spots, and overcome any hurdles that could keep your app from reaching its potential.

Passbook is now Wallet. Wallet stores your coupons, boarding passes, event tickets, and even the credit and debit cards you use with Apple Pay. In iOS 9, Wallet makes the Apple Pay experience even better and integrates more with Apple Watch. Learn about the Wallet app, new kinds of passes, and how your app can integrate and interact with Wallet.

Apple Pay is the easy, secure, and private way to pay for physical goods and services within apps on iPhone 6, iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 3. Find out how you can increase conversion rates in your checkout experience by integrating with Apple Pay APIs. And learn more about what’s new with Apple Pay within apps in iOS 9.

Learn about new developments in Privacy in iOS, OS X, and watchOS that impact your apps. Hear about best practices for delivering great features and respecting your customers’ privacy.

CloudKit is the framework that powers iCloud on iOS, OS X, and now iCloud on the web. Hear how we’ve been working to make CloudKit more accessible to all your users with the web services API and Javascript library. Learn about reporting available in the updated Dashboard and the new, more flexible public database storage pricing.

See what’s new in Core Motion. Learn how your application can take advantage of the motion sensors on iOS devices. Walk through new features of the pedometer and learn how to use the altimeter to take your app to the next level. Get personal with motion APIs and sensor data on the Apple Watch. Run through a demo that uses motion-context awareness to make an application feel smarter!

Your reputation depends on protecting your users’ data. Do this by taking advantage of the Security frameworks built into iOS, OS X and watchOS. Find out about new developments in Security and learn the best practices to develop secure apps and protect your users’ data.

Learn why efficient software is the key to long battery life for both OS X and iOS devices. We’ll explore where the energy in our batteries goes, how Apple hardware and software efficiently manage energy, and how you can make your code most efficient to ensure long battery life.

Learn how to debug energy issues in your app. See the energy debugging tools on iOS and walk through debugging common energy issues in a sample app.

Making your app more discoverable leads to more downloads and generates revenue. iOS 9 adds a variety of ways to surface the rich content in your app making search results more relevant. Understand how you can enhance search results with App History and CoreSpotlight. See how small changes on your website can produce better Safari suggestions. Gain insights into how deep app links can bring people directly where they want to go in your app, making your app’s content even more discoverable and searchable than content on the traditional web.

CloudKit.js is the new library that provides web access to your app data stored in iCloud. Explore the new web service APIs and learn how to extend your iOS or OS X apps to the web using CloudKit.

Learn about App Transport Security, HTTP/2 protocol support, new NSURLSession API, and best practices for networking in apps, extensions, and WatchKit apps.

The Accelerate framework gives you fast, energy efficient signal and image processing and linear algebra libraries. Learn about a new library, dedicated to high performance compression. simd.h, introduced in iOS 8 and OS X 10.10, is the unified 2d and 3d math library for graphics and games. Find out how you can use simd.h and what’s new in iOS 9 and OS X 10.11.

Getting information to your Watch app is crucial. Learn how to leverage NSURLSession to get your data from the Internet. Tap into the new WatchConnectivity framework for device to device communication and transferring of data. See real-world examples and learn best practices to understand when to use your WatchKit extension and when to leverage your iPhone app.

Learn what’s new in Core Location. Discover how to use Core Location with Apple Watch, and how to make the best use of location services to develop powerful and compelling apps.

The Network Extension framework allows apps to customize and extend the core networking features of iOS and OS X. Learn how to use new VPN features and NetworkExtension API to create network security solutions for education and enterprise.

watchOS and iOS Multitasking place increased demands on your application’s efficiency and responsiveness. With expert guidance from the GCD team, learn about threads, queues, runloops and best practices for their use in a modern app. Take a deep dive into QoS, its propagation and advanced techniques for debugging your GCD-enabled app.

IPv6 is growing exponentially and carriers worldwide are moving to pure IPv6 APNs. Learn about new tools to test your apps for compatibility and get expert advice on making sure your apps work in all network environments. iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 now support the latest TCP standards. Hear from the experts on TCP Fast Open and Explicit Congestion Notification, and find out how it benefits your apps.

Remote notifications are sent by your server to the Apple Push Notification service, which pushes the notifications to each device. Your app may take different actions, such as displaying a message to the user or downloading new data. Find out about important changes to the provider protocol. Learn about enhancements to the way your app can respond to notifications.

Design for tomorrow’s products today. See examples of how Apple and partners designed software for Apple Watch and other products before they even existed. Learn techniques for designing and prototyping so you can create great apps for hardware accessories and new products before they are available.

Apple Watch represents a new chapter in the way people relate to technology. It’s the most personal device Apple has ever designed, and it enables new ways to receive information and to interact with apps. Learn about the foundations on which Apple Watch was designed and how they lead to Apple Watch apps that complement the iPhone, support lightweight interaction and deliver timely and relevant information to the wrist. Discover how to create usable and beautiful apps, notifications and glances through effective use of typography, information design, layout, animation, and color.

Animation is a powerful tool for creating a delightful and intuitive app experience. We will show you how to get started with animations, how to make them effective for your user interface, and how to save time coding by building animations into interactive prototypes.

Fonts lay at the intersection of design and engineering. Get introduced to typographic principles and how they apply to the San Francisco fonts. Hear what makes this family of fonts unique and how to effectively take advantage of their advanced features. Learn best practices when designing and implementing interfaces with text.

Get essential design guidance for creating Apple Watch apps that support quick and efficient interaction, make accessing features and information more convenient, and compliment their companion iOS apps. Learn key tips about information architecture, layout, typography, color and app icon design that will make your app easy to use, beautiful and delightful.

The modern WebKit framework enables developers to integrate web content into their native app experience with more features and fewer lines of code. Dive into the latest WebKit enhancements including modern Objective-C features such as blocks and explicit object types, advanced bridging between JavaScript and Objective-C, increased JavaScript performance via WebKit’s super-fast JIT, and more—all delivered in an API unified for both iOS and OS X.

OS X is known for its unsurpassed level of accessibility. Find out about an all-new OS X accessibility API to make adding accessibility support to your apps even easier. Discover how to add support for VoiceOver, Switch Control, automation and other assistive-technology clients to work with your OS X applications. Learn advanced techniques to make complex controls accessible with only a few lines of code.

Take a tour of the new appearances and behaviors that Cocoa supports and learn how easy it is to adopt them when you use standard Cocoa classes. Get an overview of the changes to Cocoa and find out how to make your app fit in and feel familiar to people using OS X Yosemite.

iOS offers unmatched accessibility support that can help you reach a wider audience. Join us for an exploration of the features that iOS offers for users with specific needs, in areas such as vision, hearing, movement, and learning. Learn how to leverage existing and new UIAccessibility APIs in iOS 8, including expanded support for low vision users, to ensure that your app’s features are available to all users.

Learn about the key concepts and principles that will enable you to make your app intuitive and approachable. Gain insights into how you can harness UI animations to help people stay oriented, get clear and meaningful feedback, and navigate with ease.

Learn how to build your OS X application using storyboards, view controllers, and gesture recognizers. See how these OS X enhancements can simplify complex user interaction controller code. Gain a practical understanding with a high level introduction to Xcode’s Interface Builder integration and dive deep into a detailed discussion of the new APIs with tips to create great apps for OS X.

iOS 8 introduces HomeKit, a high-level device connectivity framework enabling apps to interact with physical accessories in the world around us. Learn the objects that define these devices, see how to control them, and discover how to create a full device control experience for the home.

Building your apps to be flexible enough to be used in different orientations and on different devices is crucial. Learn about the enhancements that have been made to UIKit view controllers to make it even easier for you to adapt your user interface to any size or orientation. See how to effectively use size classes to ensure a great user experience for any context and find out how Xcode can help you create and test your apps for different sized devices.

Take the plunge into advanced extension concepts such as creating custom action extensions. Dive deep into extension architecture to learn how to provide a consistent experience between extensions and your app. See how to utilize extensions with Safari to bridge the gap between your websites and native apps, and discover how to make great extensions that users will love.

Being successful with In-App Purchases requires much more than just having a store within your app. A well-designed experience motivates customers to purchase, offers them the items that they want based on what’s happening, communicates item details and pricing clearly, and provides vital feedback about the purchasing process. Learn key design techniques, how best to communicate when new content and subscriptions become available, how to handle large sets of In-App content, and important StoreKit tips.

Handoff allows people to seamlessly move activities between devices and pick up right where they left off. Learn how to save, transfer, and restore user activities in apps of all architectures. See how easy it is to add Handoff support to your iOS and OS X apps to make your user experience even better.

OS X Yosemite introduces a refined new look, and Cocoa provides you with a rich set of APIs and facilities to embrace this new look in your application. Discover how to properly use these APIs to bring the refinement, translucency, and vibrancy of OS X Yosemite to your apps. Dive deep into a number of case studies demonstrating applications with different designs and needs.

iAd technologies built into iOS let you easily include advertising in your app. Discover what’s new in the iAd Framework, including multi-view banner strategies, full screen and video interstitials, and best practices to ensure optimal ad performance. You’ll also learn how to implement iAd App Attribution to help you accurately measure the lifetime value of newly acquired customers.

Make better apps by trying things out first, before you write any code. Get a glimpse of Apple’s prototyping process and the range of tools and techniques we use, some of which might surprise you.

Learn about the latest enhancements to the Core Data framework. Hear how to efficiently update your objects, execute simultaneous operations, and extend the framework to support your custom requirements.

iOS 8 brings dynamic type front and foremost throughout UIKit classes. Learn about extensive enhancements made to table views and collection views, empowering you to create dynamically sized cells and exercise greater control over layouts. Find out how to align user expectations from their settings to your UI.

Developing apps for OS X Yosemite is easier than ever with new enhancements to Cocoa. Learn how to use these new tools and APIs to develop a modern OS X app. Explore what’s now available in Cocoa and learn to harness and implement these key technologies to make your app at once totally modern and familiar to people using it on OS X Yosemite.

Learn how to effectively introduce new users to the capabilities and features of your app or game in a way that will draw them in the very first time and then keep them coming back.

Come hear the advancements in document handling in iOS 8. See how easy it is to use the new Document Picker UI. Learn how to share documents between apps, and even provide documents to other apps from your custom data store.

Earn commission while linking to iTunes music, apps, books, and more. Get an overview of the new global iTunes Affiliate Program and see how simple it is to get started linking to iTunes content using iOS APIs and SmartApp Banners, creating iTunes Radio stations, and much more.

Get acquainted with the new iTunes Connect—your hub for publishing on the App Store. Learn about new ways to market with App Bundles and App Previews and how to make even better apps with App Analytics and TestFlight Beta Testing.

Using the StoreKit framework properly and optimizing the user experience of your In-App store is vital in order to never miss out on a sale or confuse people. Learn valuable techniques for a trouble free browsing and purchasing experience, and to ensure your app gets through the app submission process smoothly.

Spark interest in your app by showing a compelling video preview highlighting the magic moments that make your app unique. Learn how to plan, create and publish your App Preview using Apple’s tools, guidelines and best practices.

Receipts provide a valuable record of the sale for an app or for any In-App Purchases made from within an app. You can add receipt validation code to your app to prevent unauthorized purchases and protect your content. Learn how to verify exactly what people have paid for and how to validate these transactions.

Automation in OS X has always been about power and choice. Scriptable applications, including Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and the Finder, can already be automated using a variety of languages, including AppleScript, Objective-C, Perl, Python, and Ruby. With OS X Yosemite, application scripting support has been added to another popular language, JavaScript. JavaScript for Automation (JXA) extends the standard JavaScript environment provided by the JavaScriptCore framework with support for querying and controlling all of the scriptable applications running in OS X. JXA scripts are supported at all layers of the system and can be invoked from the command-line, from the system-wide Script Menu, and can even be distributed as code-signed applications.

Xcode is the development environment for creating amazing apps for iOS and OS X. Start the week by watching the Xcode team demonstrate the latest features and workflows in Xcode 6. This session also provides a complete overview of the in-depth developer tools topics covered at WWDC 2014.

Swift is Apple’s brand-new programming language for writing great iOS and OS X apps. Learn the basics of the language. See how to declare variables, use the fundamental data types, declare functions, and implement classes. Explore some of the great features that make Swift a safe, modern, and extremely powerful language.

Explore the modern features of the Swift programming language. Learn about object initialization, closures, and optionals. See how you can perform pattern matching using Swift’s powerful switch statements.

Dive deep into Swift! Explore some of its more powerful features, like operator overloading, string interpolation, and advanced pattern matching. Learn how to take advantage of generics to write terse and expressive code.

Swift makes it faster, easier, and more fun than ever to write Cocoa apps. See how you can integrate Swift alongside your existing Objective-C code. Learn how design patterns translate between languages and how you can start integrating Swift into your apps today.

Swift and Objective-C work together at multiple levels to ensure that you can create great apps for iOS and OS X. Dive deep with us to see how to use fundamental Core Foundation and C types in your Swift code. Learn how bridging values work and gain a practical understanding of how Swift and Objective-C can accelerate your app development.

Playgrounds are a new and innovative way to explore the Swift programming language. Explore how Playgrounds provide new workflows, enable rapid development, help you conveniently step through your code to diagnose bugs, and make it easier than ever to learn new concepts.

Learn how to use LLDB, Apple’s state-of-the-art debugger. Learn how to analyze stack traces and diagnose bugs. See how you can test your hypotheses and explore your app’s state with the Swift REPL.

Explore LLDB’s powerful features that help you more quickly debug your Swift code. Learn about LLDB’s support for protocols, generics, optionals, and mixed-language source code.

Interface Builder makes it easy to create world-class interfaces using the design canvas. Learn how to use storyboards to arrange the views of your app, use Auto Layout to adapt to changes, and see how to easily make connections between your UI and your implementation on both iOS and OS X.

Your app deserves a global audience, and iOS, OS X, and Xcode 6 make it easy to design and test applications in multiple languages. Discover how you can easily add and manage localized content, preview and test with different languages, and export and import content for localizers to translate.

Xcode provides a powerful debugging user interface backed by the new state-of-the-art LLDB debugger. Discover how you can more easily explore and fix your user interfaces, add custom Quick Look support for your own classes and get deeper insight into how and from where your app is enqueuing work.

Unit testing is an essential tool to consistently verify your code works correctly. Learn how Xcode 6 takes this to the next level with support for performance testing, baselining, and integration with Xcode bots to continually monitor your performance over time and devices.

Xcode bots provide a seamless way to continually build, analyze, and test your applications across many devices. See the Xcode team show how to set up and configure bots, review unit and performance testing data, and set up custom triggers and integration points.

Frameworks are a great way to share code between your apps and their extensions. Learn how you can convert your static libraries into frameworks. Go in-depth on how to best organize and share your code between your projects so you can increase code reuse.

The Apple LLVM compiler continues to evolve, with support for 64-bit iOS products, powerful new optimizations, and other new features. Learn about some of the advanced technology that the compiler uses to increase the performance of your code, and get details on how to take advantage of the latest features in the compiler.

See what’s new in Core Audio for iOS and OS X. Be introduced to the powerful new APIs for managing audio buffers, files, and data formats. Learn how to incorporate views to facilitate switching between inter-app audio apps on iOS. Take an in depth look at how to tag Audio Units and utilize MIDI over Bluetooth LE.

Dive deeper into the new Objective-C based audio graph system in AV Foundation. Learn how apps can utilize rich audio services from simple audio playback tasks to complex audio rendering chains, including effects and 3D spatial rendering for games.

Media playback just got easier and more powerful with the introduction of AVKit on iOS. Hear how AVKit provides view-level services that give you access to the modern media capabilities of AV Foundation. Learn the best practices for playing audiovisual media on iOS and OS X.

With the increasing popularity of media on the web, content providers find themselves confronted by an over-abundance of formats, codecs and technologies competing for their attention. See how to use the latest HTML5 technologies in WebKit and Safari to make it easier to deliver media to your users and explore the performance and user experience tradeoffs you’ll need to keep in mind when deciding between building for simplicity and fine-grained control.

Rich metadata, such as time, date, location, and user defined tags, are particularly useful for time-based media. Discover how to harness static and timed metadata in your AV Foundation apps. See how to write metadata into media and read it during playback. Gain knowledge of best practices for privacy and protecting user data.

While a modern digital presence combines both apps and traditional web sites, people expect a coherent, seamless, and device-optimized experience in each case. Learn techniques and best practices for successfully making transitions between iOS and OS X apps and the web. Gain insights into the appropriate web standards you can use to make your web content look and work optimally in Safari.

Learn about using manual controls to manipulate focus, exposure, and white balance. Take control of the camera’s focus position, ISO, shutter speed, temperature, tint, and more. Learn how to use the new iOS 8 exposure bracketing API to enable powerful creative and computational photography applications. Discover view-level services for capturing audio and video on OS X.

WebGL allows you to create amazing content that lifts off the page. Learn how to use WebGL to create immersive online experiences, display three-dimensional models with real-time interactivity and use image processing techniques typically thought of as unavailable on the web.

iAd Workbench makes it simple to create and manage mobile ad campaigns that reach the right audience for your apps, products or brands. Discover how features such as new creative executions, enhanced targeting and pricing capabilities and access via API’s make iAd Workbench more effective and easy to work with. Learn how app download attribution and custom audience segments can provide insights into your audience, deliver customized messages and realize long term value.

iOS 8 introduces two frameworks for managing the photo library and enhancing editing in photo, video, and camera apps. Get introduced to the Photos Framework and see how it enables you to build first-class photo browsing and editing apps. Learn about photo editing extensions with the PhotosUI framework and see how to include your own editing features into the built-in Photos app.

Web Inspector, the powerful debugging tool in WebKit, is now available to JavaScriptCore-based apps. Find out how to leverage Web Inspector in your WebKit- and JavaScriptCore-based apps on iOS and OS X. Gain an overview of what’s new in the JavaScript language and how to use modern JavaScript in your apps.

Discover how to use AV Foundation and Video Toolbox to access hardware accelerated encoding and decoding services. Gain best practices for when it is appropriate to use a high-level or low-level API for encoding or decoding. Learn about multi-pass export for improved H.264 encoding and see how to use it in your app.

Core Image lets you create amazing effects in your camera and image editing apps. Learn about the advances in Core Image for iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. Get introduced to writing custom image processing filters for iOS and see how they can be used in Photos extensions. Walk through the enhancements for working with large images, and get details about the newest filters and detectors.

Dive deeper into creating your own custom Core Image filters for iOS. Learn about writing filter kernels and get details about the Core Image kernel language. See how to use custom filters in your apps or make them available to other apps via extensions.

The increasing complexity of modern web applications brings increased challenges to ensuring your web app is usable by everyone. Discover how accessibility benefits everyone, and why it’s worth the effort. Learn advanced tips and techniques, and discover new developer tools for increasing productivity and avoiding common pitfalls.

As your user base grows, so will the variety of devices you’ll need to support. People expect modern web sites to be fast, visually appealing, and rich functionally, regardless of a device’s performance characteristics, resolution or size. Learn how to use the latest web technologies in WebKit and Safari to create engaging, attractive, and adaptive layouts across all devices.

The new Mac Pro enables you to unleash the power of dual workstation-class GPUs and multiple CPU cores in ways that just weren’t possible until now. Gain a deeper understanding of the integration between OpenCL and OpenGL and see how to tap into the parallel compute and rendering power of the Mac.

Kick off the game development sessions of WWDC 2014 by gaining insight into the key ingredients needed to create a great game for iOS. Understand the importance of harnessing the full capabilities of the platform to create a richer gameplay experience. Get practical guidance about game production and distribution, and learn the design and platform conventions that will make your game even more engaging.

Metal provides extremely efficient access to the graphics and compute power of the A7 chip. Get introduced to the essential concepts behind Metal, its low-overhead architecture, streamlined API, and unified shading language. See how Metal lets you take your iOS game or app to the next level of performance and capability.

Start learning how to code with Metal in this step-by-step walkthrough of basic scene rendering. See the code you need to get your first Metal-based application up and running. Explore how to create graphics and compute shaders and efficiently animate scenes.

Building on the fundamentals, learn how to create advanced games and graphics applications with Metal. See how to construct your rendering pipeline, understand how to use compute and graphics together, and discover how to optimize your Metal-based app.

SpriteKit provides everything you need for high-performance 2D games to animate sprites, simulate physics, and create stunning graphics effects. Check out new APIs for enhanced shading and lighting, advances in physics and collisions, constraints and inverse kinematics, integration with SceneKit, and powerful editing tools built right into Xcode 6.

Gain a deeper understanding of the best practices to follow when building a SpriteKit based game. Get tips about game construction and see how to map the logical elements of your game into SpriteKit. Learn how data driven techniques can speed your development cycle, and discover how to achieve maximum performance for rendering, physics, and animation.

Now available for iOS and OS X, SceneKit is an inventive high-level graphics framework enabling your apps to efficiently load, manipulate, and render 3D scenes. Get reintroduced to SceneKit and check out how your apps can take advantage of its latest capabilities. Learn about advanced capabilities for physics and animation, support for subdivision surfaces, new rendering effects, integration with SpriteKit, and much more.

Dive into the practical workflow of developing a 3D side-scrolling game using SceneKit. See how to get started, and learn about tools for managing game assets, creating particle systems, and editing nodes. Understand how SceneKit integrates with your art pipeline and learn how to implement lighting, shadows, and other visual effects. Come away from the session with a demo game in-hand and ready to play.

The Game Controller framework enables games to integrate with MFi game controllers and take advantage of exciting new modes of input. Check out the latest additions and get expert advice about best practices to follow when adding game controller support to your titles. Understand how to avoid common pitfalls and gain key insights into what it takes to create an experience that’s intuitive and fun.

Core Motion leverages the M7 motion coprocessor and other built-in sensors to provide support for step counting and motion tracking. See examples of Core Motion based apps in action. Learn how health and fitness apps use pedometer information to give users performance and workout results, and how journaling apps use motion classification to tag the day’s activities.

Learn how to create app-enabled accessories. Understand your options for designing accessories that connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or the Lightning connector. Learn how to develop accessories that work with HealthKit and HomeKit.

Learn about the latest developments in managing Apple devices in an enterprise environment. Learn how MDM can be used to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps, and remotely wipe devices, and how these capabilities can be integrated with in-house or third-party server solutions.

The Accelerate framework has always provided fast, energy efficient signal and image processing and linear algebra libraries. Learn about new interfaces that are easier to adopt and give you the same speed, and about new primitives that make it easier to write your own vector code for iOS and OS X.

Learn about data security, enterprise authentication, integration with back-end systems, app configuration methods, and the latest technologies for interacting with documents, accessories, and more. Get helpful tips for constructing your apps to meet the needs of schools and educators, as well as key requirement from IT. Perfect for everyone looking to get their apps in the hands of business professionals, educators, and students worldwide.

Learn how to provision and deploy apps across your enterprise. Leverage key Apple programs such as the Volume Purchase Program and the iOS Developer Enterprise Program to get the right apps in the hands of your employees, contractors, and partners. Learn how to manage certificates and provisioning profiles to deploy your apps, and take advantage of mobile device management (MDM) tools to provide a seamless experience for your users. Gain insight into the complete app management lifecycle; from signing your in-house apps in Xcode, to distributing, managing, and revoking apps across your workforce.

Find out how your app can use new functionality in Core Location to do automatic check-in or journal the user’s location. Learn how location authorization is changing to give the user more precise control of what location services an App is authorized is use, and what this means for developers and users.

The NSURLSession class provides powerful HTTP networking features in iOS and OS X. Learn about new NSURLSession capabilities and hear expert advice on practical, efficient and high performance networking for your apps.

iOS 8 makes it possible for an iOS app to determine its precise indoor position in supported venues. Learn best practices on how your app can take advantage of indoor positioning. Discover how indoor positioning and iBeacon complement each other, and understand the best use cases for both technologies. As a venue, find out how you can get involved and signup to enable indoor positioning.

Multipeer Connectivity comes to OS X. You can now discover and communicate with nearby devices on OS X and iOS. See what is new. Learn about best practices and advanced topics, such as writing cross platform code, customizing discovery and handling certificates.

People expect long battery life on both their iOS devices and Mac laptops and your apps play a vital role in ensuring long battery life. Get an overview of energy efficiency best practices and learn about new APIs in iOS and OS X that help you to minimize the energy impact of your code.

The Keychain has always been the most secure place to store passwords and other sensitive data. iOS 8 introduces significant new security features. Discover how to integrate Touch ID into your apps using the Keychain and the new LocalAuthentication framework. Learn about other Keychain enhancements, including how to tie data to the user’s passcode.

Go in-depth into specific API and design patterns you can use to avoid consuming excessive energy as well as tools that can help you diagnose issues.

Local and push notifications let background or inactive apps notify users that an event of interest has occurred, or that an app has new information for them. See how to configure interactive notifications to let users act on notifications from banners, alerts, in notification center and on the lock screen. Learn how to trigger notifications using geofences and iBeacons, and discover the new API’s for registering for user notifications and remote pushes.

Finding and diagnosing application bugs can be very difficult. Activity Tracing is a new technology that can dramatically improve your speed and efficiency finding bugs in your code. Log trace messages to an auto-generated ring buffer while associating them with the originating user action. Reduce the time sifting through unrelated log messages trying to understand what was going on when the failure happened.

Learn about new iOS and OS X privacy features and get details on new and updated APIs. Hear best practices for delivering great features and respecting your customers’ privacy.

With Student Accounts and Family Sharing, kids under age 13 can now have fully-featured accounts for buying apps and In-App Purchases. However, regulations in the US and other countries limit what information you can collect from kids without parental permission. Learn about the new account programs, whether and how to check the age of your app’s user, what you can and can’t do without parental permission, and how to request parental consent if you need to.

AirPrint is widely supported by all the well-known printer companies. Learn how quick and easy it is to support AirPrint in your app. Discover what’s new and improved in the iOS printing system.

Cocoa is a powerful set of frameworks on which OS X is built. Gain an overview of the advances in AppKit, Foundation, and related frameworks. Find out what technologies you need to focus on and what techniques you should adopt to develop state of the art apps for OS X.

UIKit Dynamics makes it easy to create animated view interactions and transitions to delight your users. Discover how animators and behaviors work by learning how to add subtle and meaningful dynamics to your app, making it stand out on the App Store.

Core Data is a powerful way for your app to store data locally or in iCloud. Learn about the latest advancements in Core Data for iOS, OS X, and iCloud. We’ll examine changes to Core Data’s use of SQLite and discuss improvements for iCloud at length.

Join us for an in-depth tour of the stunning and completely re-imagined iOS 7. See how the principles that guided the new design made our apps more useful, simple and beautiful. Learn how you can take advantage of iOS 7 to create a deeper and more engaging user experience.

Improved battery life and system responsiveness are important features in OS X 10.9. Learn how App Nap helps your application become a good power citizen. This session will dive into the details of how App Nap works, explore the API to tell the system when your application has important work to be done, and learn techniques using Xcode and other tools to pinpoint high power usage.

Learn strategies to squeeze the best performance from Core Data, including concurrency, advanced fetch request options, text searching, and object model design considerations. Master Instruments to find out how to see what is really going on behind the scenes.

Smooth animations and great performance are key to developing a state of the art app. Learn best practices when using animations with Auto Layout, see unique animations in OS X and understand how to create similar effects in your apps, and gain insight into common pitfalls.

UIKit provides powerful customization capabilities for iOS views and controls. Learn how to customize the look and feel of your app to embrace the new UI of iOS 7 and see how to effectively use tinting and images to create an immersive, high quality user experience.

Creating a responsive app requires fast drawing and smooth scrolling. Discover techniques to optimize drawing, find out best practices for handling layers, and learn how to combine those techniques with new features to achieve smooth scrolling.

Learn how to leverage your existing iOS codebase to bring applications to the Mac. UIKit on iOS and AppKit on the Mac share a common heritage and many similarities. Below both of them, sit many frameworks that are shared. Learn design patterns that will make the conversion easier, discover tips and tricks of the conversion process, and explore Mac-only technologies that are important to include.

Making your app support users in multiple countries and languages is easy with the built-in power of iOS and OS X. Walk through the basics of internationalization and localization, gain insight into common pitfalls, and learn best practices when targeting an international audience.

Go beyond the basics to learn how to combine dynamic behaviors to create rich interactions. Discover how to apply dynamics to view controllers, collection views, and your own view subclasses to create engaging layouts and transitions. Learn best practices to keep your app responsive and performing well.

State Restoration makes for a seamless experience when people returns to your app. Find out what’s new in State Restoration and learn about new capabilities in iOS 7 to restore model objects, system view controllers, and discover techniques to transition smoothly when views may have changed while people have been using other apps.

Choosing the right fonts and using them effectively are key to engaging your users. Gain a practical understanding of how fonts work in Text Kit, learn best practices for using system-provided and bundled fonts, and discover how to give users more control over their content with text styles.

Designing a great user interface for your iOS app requires tremendous care, creativity, continual iteration, and a solid understanding of platform conventions and UI design best practices. Learn techniques to avoid common UI pitfalls and gain key insights into what it takes to create an app that is intuitive and beautiful.

Working with dates and times can be tricky and yet it’s vital that they’re handled correctly. Simple date calculations can be surprisingly challenging and getting the calculations right in every case isn’t easy. Hear about new APIs that simplify common operations and best practices for handling common tasks correctly.

Learn from the experts about the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch classes you may not even know exist, as well as some very obscure but extremely valuable classes that are favorites of the presenters.

Learn about an exciting new approach to managing Apple devices in an enterprise environment. Learn how MDM can be used to wirelessly configure settings, monitor compliance with policies, install apps, and remotely wipe devices, and how these capabilities can be integrated with in-house or third-party server solutions.

Business and education markets are a growing audience for iOS apps. With new capabilities in iOS 7 and a few key concepts you can fine tune your app to meet the needs of large organizations. Learn about data security, authentication, integration with enterprise systems, app configuration and customization, and the distribution options available to you. This session is not just for enterprise developers, but for all developers looking to extend their reach and get their apps in the hands of business professionals, educators, and students worldwide.

Passbook is the easiest way for users to keep track of their boarding passes, event tickets, coupons and more. See how to streamline the process of adding multiple passes to Passbook in a single operation. Find out how to optimize location relevance using iBeacons. Learn about all of the improvements in Passbook that give you more control and flexibility in your passes.

Implementing a rich Passbook experience requires coordination between your application, back end server and point of redemption. Hear how the Apple Store engineering team rolled out gift card passes used in the Apple Retail stores. Get best practice advice and pointers from the Passbook engineering team about how to avoid pitfalls during development to ensure your users get the most out of Passbook.

Learn about the latest improvements to Map Kit, including end-to-end directions and customized map view callouts. Find out how you can snapshot maps in various ways to optimize your content or use maps in new ways. And now, Map Kit is also available for OS X, so you explore how to enhance your Mac apps with maps.

In-App Purchase continues to be a terrific mechanism for selling products, services and subscriptions directly from your app. Get all the details you need to implement a digital storefront in your OS X or iOS app. Hear how you can now take advantage of subscriptions in OS X and hear best practices for how to capitalize on selling digital products in your app.

iTunes Connect is critical element of deploying your app on the App Store. Hear about all the latest improvements including configuring Game Center options and new options for managing apps across teams. Take a deep dive into how you can dramatically improve your workflow for managing metadata, localization, app assets, and more.

Core Location offers a variety of ways you can find out where your users are and when they are on the move. Hear an update on changes to Core Location and dive deep into the new world of beacon regions. Leveraging Bluetooth Low Energy, iBeacons open up a whole new dimension in region monitoring. Gain a practical understanding of how you can efficiently create beacon regions for important locations so your app can be alerted when users enter them, and techniques for detecting proximity to physical objects.

The App Store, Mac App Store and In-App Purchases support a wide range of business models to generate revenue from your digital products. Whether you offer a paid app or a free app with In-App Purchases, you need to protect yourself by verifying receipts for those purchases. Get all the details on how receipt validation is changing in iOS and hear best practices for combating fraud.

iOS 6 introduced a 3D view in Maps and now your app can take advantage of this view as well using Map Kit. Dive deep into how to use 3D mode for Map Views and how you can use it to build dramatic cinematic views to engage your users. Understand how to control the viewport in order to look at specific points on a map from particular angles and how to work with annotations in 3D. See how you can create snapshot of map views for flexibility and performance.

Enrich the user experience in your apps by leveraging key iOS technologies in innovative ways. The Apple Store app engineering team will show you how they used Push Notifications, Core Location, Region Monitoring, and Bluetooth to create compelling product pickup and in-store experiences for their customers. Learn tips, tricks, and best practices, and see how you can also offer great experiences in your apps around event notifications, welcoming users to locations of interest, and enabling rich user interactions with their surroundings.

Xcode is the development environment for creating amazing apps for OS X and iOS. Start the week by watching the Xcode team demonstrate the latest features and enhanced workflows in Xcode 5. This session is a great overview of the many in-depth Developer Tools topics covered at WWDC 2013.

Xcode has a wealth of features to help you be more productive than ever before. Join engineers from the Xcode team as they teach the basics of using Xcode, demonstrate power-user workflows, and help you get the most out of your development environment.

Apple continues to invest in the LLVM compiler technology, and that investment has been paying off in spades. Get details on the latest improvements to the compiler and static analyzer. See how to get the most out of these tools with settings in Xcode.

New account management features in Xcode 5 make it easier than ever to sign and package your app. Join Xcode engineers as they take a brand new project through to App Store submission. See how the new capabilities editor makes it simple to add iCloud, Passbook, and other features and entitlements entirely within the Xcode environment.

Objective-C is continuing to evolve as a powerful object-oriented programming language. Technologies like Automatic Reference Counting let you build more robust and easier to maintain code. Modules make it easier than ever to reference framework classes. See how this new technology will help keep your project organized and how you can take advantage of it. Find out about all the newest features and improvements to Objective-C.

The Interface Builder feature built into Xcode makes it easy to create world-class interfaces using a design canvas. Learn how to use storyboards to arrange the views of your app, and employ Auto Layout to ensure your design adapts to changes in screen size, orientation, and localization. See how to easily wire up connections between your beautiful UI and your implementation code using the Assistant editor.

Auto Layout’s powerful constraint-based engine enables a single user interface to work beautifully on both iOS 6 and iOS 7, and respond dynamically to changes in the size of controls, rotation, or localization. See how the improvements to Auto Layout in Xcode 5 make it even easier to quickly build flexible, modern interfaces.

Xcode includes a powerful graphical debugger backed by the new, state-of-the-art LLDB debugging engine. Discover how you can detect and fix your performance problems earlier, configure advanced breakpoints, easily explore your variables within the editor, and take advantage of the new XPC debugging support built right into Xcode.

The Apple LLVM compiler has evolved at a staggering pace, providing remarkably quick compile times and generating lightning-fast code. Hear from the experts on how LLVM technologies can help you write better code. Dive deep into specific techniques to see how you can produce the most efficient code possible.

Unit testing is an essential tool to consistently verify that your code works correctly. Learn how Xcode 5 makes it dramatically easier to create, edit, execute, and understand your tests.

Using memory responsibly can be the key to stability and ensuring a great user experience. Get a look at new memory tools and learn helpful patterns for dealing with common memory issues specific to reference counting in Objective-C.

Unit tests are great, but to get the most value from them you need to test continuously. Xcode bots make testing easy, as they automatically build, analyze, test, and archive your project in a repeatable manner. See the Xcode team give a start-to-finish demonstration of setting up the new continuous integration support in Xcode.

Dive deep into using LLDB via the terminal interface and within Xcode’s graphical debugger. See the latest features, improvements, and advanced techniques to help you track down bugs more efficiently than ever before.

Learn how Xcode’s source control features can help you work more efficiently with your team, juggle numerous development branches, find and fix bugs, and better understand the history of your code with the Version editor.

When you have a problem, there are numerous avenues to get help, from communicating with Apple to reaching out to your fellow developers for their advice. Gain insight from Apple engineers into how your bug reports make a difference in the software we ship. Understand the different ways you can help us help you with your questions about shipping your apps on the App Store, getting Technical Support, or how to make the most out of seed releases.

In a major update and enhancement to its native scripting language, OS X delivers a new plugin architecture for AppleScript, enabling easy development and access to custom sets of functions and methods. Each individual AppleScript Library, saved as an AppleScript script file, can publish its own scripting terminology, and contain dozens of routines written in native AppleScript or the incredibly powerful AppleScriptObjective-C. Scripting just got a whole lot better!

The Automation technologies in OS X continue to improve with each release, and the new automation features of OS X provide great examples. Highlights include new notification actions and commands, built-in developer code-signing for AppleScript applets and droplets, and new innovative and versatile AppleScript Libraries that easily extend application and OS scripting functionality.

Scene Kit is a high-level Objective-C framework that enables your app to efficiently load, manipulate, and render 3D scenes. Check out what’s new in Scene Kit and understand how your apps can take advantage of the latest additions. Learn how to extend Scene Kit rendering with custom OpenGL shaders, see how to integrate morphing and skinning, and dive into advanced image effects.

The Game Controller framework in iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 enables games to integrate with physical game controllers and take advantage of exciting new modes of input. Learn how to add support for MFi game controllers with physical d-pads, buttons, triggers, joysticks, and more. Understand the approach for discovering and connecting to controllers and how to support both wireless and form-fitting controller types. See how to map physical controls to game inputs, and get expert advice about the best practices to follow in your titles.

Sprite Kit is a powerful graphics framework ready-made for developing 2D action games, platformers, puzzle games, and much more. Get introduced to the Sprite Kit API and learn key details about controlling and rendering sprites. Discover how to leverage built-in physics support to make animations look real, and learn about using particle systems to create essential game effects such as fire, snow, explosions, and smoke. This is the first of two must-attend sessions for all developers creating games for iOS or OS X.

Dive into the practical workflow of developing a 2D adventure game using Sprite Kit. See how to get started, and learn about tools for optimizing image assets, creating particle systems, and building game levels. Understand how Sprite Kit integrates with your art pipeline and get expert guidance to share with your artists. Come away from the session with a fully functioning game in-hand and its code explained.

Make your games even better by taking advantage of Game Center, Apple’s social gaming network. Learn about the latest additions to Game Center and enhancements to the Game Center user interface. Discover new techniques for tracking scores and expanding your leaderboards. Encourage interaction between your players by integrating challenges into your game.

OpenGL ES provides access to the exceptional graphics power of iOS devices. See how the innovations in iOS 7 deliver incredible graphics in games and other mobile 3D applications. Learn about advanced effects enabled by the latest extensions, and get specific tips and best practices to follow in your apps.

Turn-based gaming has taken off with the addition of asynchronous multiplayer gaming in Game Center. Dive into the latest developments in turn-based play. See how to add in-game trading, player chat, negotiations, and much more by using exchanges. Learn about the API and gain insight into managing game states and multiple game sessions.

OpenGL is the foundation for GPU-accelerated graphics on OS X, enabling a broad range of applications including games, animation software, and imaging solutions. See how your apps can deliver incredible visuals and high performance using the OpenGL 4.1 Core Profile. Learn how to take advantage of multiple GPUs and access the computational capabilities of OpenCL.

OpenCL lets your application unleash the parallel computing power of modern GPUs and multicore CPUs. Learn how use OpenCL to accelerate a wide range of compute-intensive tasks found in applications today. Explore the tight integration between OpenCL and OpenGL and see how to tap into the full processing capabilities of the Mac.

Core Image lets you create incredible visual effects in your photo and video apps. Learn how to harness the new filters added in iOS 7 and OS X 10.9. Check out the seamless integration with OpenGL and OpenCL on the Mac. Understand recommended practices for using Core Image efficiently and see how to maximize its powerful features.

Whether you publish a web site or embed web views in your Mac or iOS application, this is where you can learn about new and upcoming web technologies in Safari and WebKit. Find out how to take advantage of new HTML, CSS, and JavaScript capabilities to interact better with Apple devices and deliver a richer browsing experience for users.

Web Inspector is a powerful tool for understanding the behavior of your web site. Gain an overview of everything Web Inspector can do. Explore the user interface and learn about features that will make your life easier. Learn how to connect the Safari Web Inspector to your iPhone or iPad for on-device testing. Find out how to inspect, tweak, optimize, and debug the web content in your web, Mac, or iOS app.

Core Audio is the professional-grade technology for playing, processing and recording audio on iOS. Learn how your apps can take advantage of the latest advances in Core Audio. Discover how to send and receive audio between multiple apps, allowing for advanced mixing, effects, and sound generation.

Dig deeper into the many enhancements and new features that Safari has added to Web Inspector. Learn how to use them for more advanced inspection, tweaking, profiling, and debugging of your web content on iOS and the Mac. If web technologies are at the core of your web, Mac, or iOS app, this session will show you how Web Inspector can help you get the results you want.

Powered by iAd, iAd Workbench makes it easy to create and manage mobile campaigns optimized to drive downloads of your app. Learn the entire workflow for promoting app downloads from selection of an Apple designed or custom banner to reviewing an active campaign and optimizing for performance.

iBooks Author lets you use a drag-and-drop interface to create rich and immersive books for the iBookstore. Discover best practices for book design and asset preparation, and learn how to use the iBooks Author interface efficiently to develop your book. See how to enhance your book with rich media such as audio, video, and animations, plus get tips for testing your book before submitting it to the iBookstore.

AV Foundation is the recommended framework for working with time-based audiovisual media. Learn how to transition your QuickTime or QTKit based media app to AV Foundation and understand the key concepts underlying the modern media architecture of OS X. Explore how AV Kit makes it easy to play modern media in your OS X apps by providing view-level services for playback, standard navigation controls, chapter selection, and support for subtitles.

People want a great web experience that doesn’t drain their battery and provides the ultimate in scrolling responsiveness. Find out how you can tune your content for optimum performance and efficiency. Learn how to work with Safari techniques and web features that help you save power. Discover how to get the smoothest possible scrolling for your content.

AV Foundation automatically selects appropriate audio and subtitle tracks in your media. Learn how media selection works and find out how to author media with accessibility features like subtitles and closed captions. Go beyond the basics to use AV Foundation for customizing subtitle appearance and presentation.

iAd Producer’s drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to deliver highly interactive iAd rich media ads, iBooks Author HTML5 widgets, and more. Discover how the refined environment for actions and objects, an expanded library of customizable interactive objects, integration of iAd Blueprints, and widget templates increase your efficiencies and creative possibilities.

AV Foundation provides your application with access to the powerful camera imaging sensors built-in to all iOS devices. iOS 7 enables finer grained control over the capture format, support for zoom, built-in barcode recognition, and enhancements to autofocus. If your application uses the camera on iOS you want to attend.

iAd Producer’s visual design approach belies its advanced customization and development capabilities. We’ll go beyond drag-and-drop to discover powerful iAd JS classes, show you how to create dynamic data-driven objects, and demonstrate debugging and performance optimization techniques you can use right away.

AV Foundation provides powerful services for editing video and audio in your iOS or OS X apps. See the tremendous control and flexibility AV Foundation offers. Learn how custom compositors create new possibilities for advanced transitions and effects. Gain expert insight into best practices for integrating compositions into your app and working with audio mixes.

iAd technologies built-in to iOS let you easily incorporate advertising into your app. Come to discover what’s new in the iAd Framework, multi-view banner strategies, effective integration with Storyboards, and more. You’ll walk away with actionable implementation best practices and the tactics necessary to ensure maximum ad performance.

Learn how to prepare your website for push notifications. See how to sign up your users to receive notifications even when your site is not running in Safari. Find out about best practices for managing notifications across both the web and your applications.

Introducing a new Objective-C API to JavaScriptCore. iOS developers can now integrate scripting into their apps without having to bundle custom language interpreters. This API builds on top of the existing C API to JavaScriptCore available on Mac, and makes programming with JavaScript much easier and less error-prone.

Learn about services that allow apps to interact with accessories. Understand your options for designing hardware solutions, including the latest on Wi-Fi, AirPlay, Bluetooth, and the Lightning connector.

Helping users get the most out of their battery is a cornerstone of modern application development. Join Vice President of Software Technology, Bud Tribble, and get a rare tour through the latest energy-efficient Apple hardware, learn about new features and API in OS X that help prolong battery life, and discover how your app can become even more energy efficient by adopting the latest best practices and API.

Core Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy enable a new category of Bluetooth accessories which have an incredibly long battery life. With CoreBluetooth, iOS apps can talk with shoes to find out how far they’ve run and jumped, make toys come to life, fly a paper airplane, find car keys and remote controls, open a door lock, and find out why a check engine light is on. Learn what’s new in CoreBluetooth and the new ways that iOS apps can interact with Bluetooth Low Energy accessories.

Apps on OS X must share a common pool of system resources. Learn the tips and tools for making the best use of these shared resources to improve both your performance and the performance of your user’s systems. See how to investigate your app’s impact on system memory use and disk I/O, and learn techniques for doing work in the background without impacting performance.

The Foundation networking APIs provide powerful networking solutions for your app. Learn about the new NSURLSession API that lets you do out-of-process networking and configuration options. Learn how to create a NSNetService based server. Learn the best practices for HTTP authentication, proxies, and scheduling.

OS X Kernel Extensions are used to deliver device drivers and other kernel-level support software. Learn what is new with Kext development, including how to sign your kext, how to use lldb for kernel debugging, and how to build and deploy kexts for multiple releases of OS X.

Multipeer Connectivity is a new networking framework that enables discovery of, and communication with, nearby devices. Learn the basics, hear about the best practices, and see how writing networking code can be easy, fun, and powerful.

The iOS and OS X keychains are designed to protect sensitive data such as passwords, keys, and credentials. Learn why the keychain provides more security than other methods of storing data, when it’s appropriate to use the keychain, and how to use the keychain for common tasks such as saving passwords and importing and exporting certificates in various formats.

Discover how you can use App Sandbox to protect your app’s users from unintentional bugs or deliberate attempts to compromise security. Understand sandboxing’s security goals, how applications and their data are isolated from each other, and how to express the resources your application needs. Learn about App Sandbox-related APIs and entitlements, and how to adopt them for your app to meet the Mac App Store Guidelines.

AirPrint is the iOS and OS X printing system, a revolutionary printing architecture that makes printing easy for users and app developers. Learn all about AirPrint, how it has grown, and best practices for adding printing to iOS apps.

Your apps play a vital role in maximizing battery life. Learn how to use Power Tools and new APIs to write energy-efficient code. Find out if your app is using excessive CPU or timers, and how to adopt design patterns that will avoid these problems.

The Accelerate framework contains signal and image processing, matrix, and linear algebra computation. Learn about new signal and image processing functionality. Find out how you can use the Accelerate framework to achieve dramatic improvements in performance and energy consumption.

Learn about new iOS and OS X privacy features and get details on new and updated APIs. Hear best practices for delivering great features and respecting your customers’ privacy.

iOS devices are incredibly popular for users with special needs. Learn how to take advantage of the accessibility APIs so that everyone is able to use your apps. Gain insight into the best practices for making your apps work with VoiceOver and how to integrate accessibility features into your apps. Come learn how to make even an interactive game (The NSZombie Apocalypse!) work well with VoiceOver.

All software projects start somewhere and evolve through the accumulation of your effort, changes in technology, bug fixing, and the addition of features you could not have foreseen when the project began. This session discusses this process and provides you with ideas which can help you build your software projects to last.

Give your users the best experience by taking advantage of High Resolution on OS X. Learn how to move your applications to High Resolution, create crisp application assets, and find out how to avoid common pitfalls.

Core Data is a powerful framework on OS X and iOS for automatic persistence and object graph management. Master the techniques you need to get the most out of Core Data. Learn the best practices for working with nested managed object contexts, passing data between threads, and how to use Instruments to identify and fix performance bottlenecks in your app.

Many applications need to analyze or process the text that they are working with. With so many languages in the world this can be a daunting task. Learn how to process and analyze text in world-ready ways. See how to use the linguistic APIs offered on both iOS and OS X to iterate through text, evaluate regular expressions, and do linguistic analysis of the text you operate on.

Examine tips and tricks on how to customize UIKit controls. Learn best practices on how to create assets for customizing the appearance of your app and how other apps use the appearance proxy on iOS to create an immersive user experience.

Learn how to effectively use layer-backed views in AppKit to get smooth animations and fast performance. See how to take advantage of new Mountain Lion enhancements added to NSView, especially for updating Core Animation layers.

UIDocument provides a powerful way to adopt iCloud Storage on iOS. Learn how UIDocument can help your document-based app more easily adopt iCloud Storage and understand the key concepts for working with documents and storage in iCloud.

Collection views in iOS 6 allow you to move beyond table views to create rich displays for ordered data. Dive deeper into the capabilities of collection views and learn how to write customized layouts that push the boundaries of interfaces in your applications.

Learn how to leverage what’s new in iOS to improve the onscreen keyboard and text editing experience for your users. Make your app shine for users around the world with support for Asian languages, split and undocked keyboard interaction, rich text editing, and more.

Designing a great user interface is essential to the success of any iPhone or iPad app. Learn techniques to avoid common UI pitfalls and gain key insights into what it takes to create an app that is intuitive and beautiful.

Scroll views can be used in many different ways to create familiar and immersive user experiences. Come see what’s new with scroll views, learn how to present scrolling content in a page view controller, and even how to enhance your OpenGL games with scroll views.

NSDocument provides a powerful way to adopt iCloud Storage on OS X. Learn how NSDocument can help your document-based app more easily adopt iCloud. Dive into Auto Save, learn to work with versions, and understand the app-centric open panel and user workflows.

Your application’s launch is the first chance for your app to impress users. Learn how to use this time effectively to create the best possible user experience, while launching and configuring your application efficiently and consistently.

Learn practical techniques on font and layout handling with Core Text in iOS and OS X. See how to address commonly encountered issues, increase your app’s performance, and learn about font embedding and support.

Core Data is a powerful way for your app to store data in iCloud. Dive into a step by step, real-world primer for adopting iCloud in your Core Data app, from configuring your persistent store for iCloud, to migrating existing content, and how to have your app behave throughout its lifecycle. A must attend session for any developer interested in Core Data and iCloud.

Learn advanced techniques for creating sophisticated and dynamic layouts in OS X and iOS apps using the auto layout system. You’ll receive tons of useful examples, see "how we did that," and learn valuable best practices and debugging techniques. If you are new to auto layout, you might want to attend the Introduction to Auto Layout session first.

See what’s new with gestures in AppKit. This includes new gestures for Quick Look and smart magnification, as well as new facilities for zooming and swiping. In addition, learn best practices to future proof your gesture implementation as AppKit continues to evolve.

Auto layout is a powerful constraint-based layout engine that can handle an amazing variety of user interfaces. This session pulls together API and technique to demonstrate how to build a wide range of interfaces. Learn how to construct common layout scenarios. From simple "button and text field" layouts all the way up to dynamic splitviews with interface elements that are dependent on each other, you will learn crucial skills to implement any type of user interface.

Gestures are an integral part of the user experience on iOS. Learn key practices for controlling gesture interactions in your applications and avoiding common pitfalls. Tap into advanced techniques like curve smoothing and low-pass filters to create fun and intuitive interfaces in your apps.

AirPrint is the iOS printing system, a revolutionary printing architecture that makes printing easy for users and app developers. Learn all about AirPrint and best practices for adding printing to iOS apps.

Creating an app that performs well is essential to making your users happy. Learn the techniques that will make your app launch faster, display graphics smoothly, and respond to the user immediately. A must attend session for all iOS developers.

View controllers are a key part of an iOS app’s infrastructure. Learn how best to take advantage of these versatile objects by examining what problems they were invented to address, how they’ve matured over the past releases, and how to be best prepared for where they’re going next.

This is a practical session about writing applications that store files in iCloud but don’t use AppKit and UIKit’s convenient built-in document classes. Learn how apps that need to manage their own files and directories independently can take advantage of NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter. See how your app can use the tips and techniques in this session to better integrate with iCloud.

Users love apps with beautiful user interfaces that are fast and responsive. Discover how to make your animations smooth, learn how to draw more efficiently, and gain insight into the process of graphics optimization.

Go beyond the basics of rotations and learn best practices for getting maximum performance and smooth transitions between interface orientations. See when and how to use rasterization and snapshotting to create gliding animations, gain insight as to how the render server model works, and understand how some of the built-in apps on iOS get their visual effects.

New in Mountain Lion, NSXPCConnection and related API provide an Objective-C interface to the XPC system for interprocess communication. Discover how your objects and protocols work together with the API to provide an infrastructure that’s easy to use in a Cocoa application or Foundation-based utility. Learn how you can factor your program into separate processes to make it more robust and more secure.

Using memory responsibly can be the key to a great user experience for your iOS app. Get a detailed look at how virtual and real memory work on iOS, discover key ways in which the system handles memory pressure, and learn what you can do to use memory even more effectively. A must-attend session for all iOS developers.

iPhoto for iOS incorporates a number of innovative UI design ideas and interesting animations. See how some of these came into being, as well as some of the tricks used to bring the interface to life through animation.

With users spread all around the globe, it’s more important than ever to pay attention to how they expect to see information in your apps. Formatting currency and dates in the user’s preferred way can make the difference between a frustrating experience and a great app. Handling different locales properly doesn’t take a lot of work and can broaden the reach of your application. Come see how you can add an international flair to your app today.

Dive deeper into making your apps stunning for high resolution on OS X. Learn how to work with OpenGL surfaces and bitmaps, handle custom layer trees, set up notifications for resolution changes, and examine how to get great performance when laying out different types of content onscreen in a high resolution environment.

Map Kit allows you to embed standard or customized maps directly in your application. Now Map Kit lets you leverage Apple’s beautiful new vector based Maps. Come learn how to integrate your app with the built in Maps application.

Passbook is an exciting new way for users to quickly access scannable barcodes and other information useful for real-world actions, such as boarding a flight, entering a show, or redeeming a coupon. Learn how you can easily create passes and push them to the Passbook app.

In-App Purchase has proven to be a tremendous way to sell products, services, and subscriptions directly inside your app. With new support for selling products that are hosted securely by Apple, you have even more options for how to deliver your content to users in a highly scalable fashion. See how you can even sell other products like music, movies, books, and apps without the user even leaving your application.

Location Services provides a variety of services to know where you are, where you’re headed, and when you’ve arrived. Come hear details about improvements to the CoreLocation framework in iOS and exciting new additions in OS X. Learn tips to let you get the most out of the framework in a power-efficient and user friendly way.

Event Kit provides access to users’ Calendar Events and now allows access to Reminders as well, on both iOS and OS X. Be sure to pencil this session in to hear from the experts on how to fetch and write Calendar Events and Reminders, and how to make the best use of the Event Kit framework.

The App Store has over 600,000 applications and they all got there by going through iTunes Connect. Come see what’s new in iTunes Connect and Application Loader for app developers. Get detailed information about new Game Center and In-App Purchase support. Hear tips and tricks to avoid app review issues, learn about updates to iTunes Connect Mobile, and much more.

The new Social framework and sharing features in both iOS and OS X provides integration with Facebook, Twitter, and Sina Weibo. Single Sign On support built into the OS makes it easier than ever to take advantage of APIs provided by these social networks. Learn how to share diverse types of information using the built-in share sheet that supplies an easy to use and consistent interface for the integrated social networking services.

Newsstand is the best way to provide periodical content to iOS users. With automatic background downloading, integration with auto-renewable subscriptions and simple content management users love the apps on their Newsstand shelves. Gain insights into best practices for building a great Newsstand application and learn how to avoid some of the common pitfalls.

Selling subscriptions to content and services has never been easier than with In-App Purchase. Understand what each subscription type is, what you can use them for and gain insight into how to best manage your subscriptions in iTunes Connect. Learn from the experts on how making changes to your subscriptions are seen by users and how they affect things like renewals and restoring transactions to devices.

Passbook passes can be updated dynamically, ensuring your users always have the most recent information. Building on the basics covered in Introducing Passbook, come to this session to see how you can add new passes and access your application’s passes using the PassKit framework. Learn what you need to do on your server to support updating your passes automatically using push notifications.

Custom B2B apps can be built to address a unique business need, integrate with a unique back-office environment, or deliver a custom interface for your business customer. Custom B2B apps can be published privately through iTunes Connect to business customers who are enrolled in the App Store Volume Purchase Program for Business. Learn how Custom B2B apps can be developed for businesses of all sizes and easily distributed to users.

Xcode is the development environment for creating amazing Mac, iPhone, and iPad applications. Start the week by watching the Xcode and LLVM teams demonstrate the latest features, and enhanced workflows. This session is a great introduction to the many in-depth Developer Tools topics at WWDC 2012 and is a must-attend for all developers.

Xcode delivers a wealth of features to help you be more productive than ever before. Join engineers from the Xcode team as they teach time-saving tips and demonstrate workflows geared toward the power user, to help you work faster and more efficiently.