WWDC25

Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.

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 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 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.”

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 latest improvements and new APIs in Apple Pay. You’ll discover enhancements to the Apple Pay eCommerce experience, like the new dynamic payment button, and learn how to take advantage of enhanced support for preauthorized payments. We’ll cover brand-new features coming to order tracking in Wallet, and recommendations to help your orders look their best. We’ll also dive into FinanceKit’s new background delivery APIs, allowing financial management apps to get the latest data, even when they’re not active.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Learn how to get started leveraging the powerful new features of Metal 4 in your existing Metal apps. We’ll cover how Metal enables you to get the most out of Apple silicon and program the hardware more efficiently. You’ll also learn how Metal 4 provides you with new capabilities to integrate machine learning into your Metal code.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Explore the features of Game Center and learn how to get started. We’ll show you best practices for implementing achievements, challenges, leaderboards, and activities to maximize your game’s discoverability, attract new players, and increase engagement.

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.

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.

Discover how the ManagedApp framework helps your app adapt to managed environments. We’ll show you how to receive configuration data, manage app secrets securely, and tailor your app’s behavior based on organization-provided settings. We’ll also walk through real-world examples to show how you can build more flexible, manageable apps for enterprise and education environments.

Discover the latest updates to MapKit and MapKit JS. We’ll introduce a new type of directions — cycling — and show you how to enable 3D Look Around imagery on the web. Learn how the new Geocoding API supports conversion between coordinates and addresses, and how to use the Address Representations API to get the most appropriate address for a region. Then we’ll wrap it up with a new way of referencing places that ensures your app will work seamlessly with App Intents.

Dive deeper into the latest advancements in Metal 4. We’ll introduce the new ray tracing features that help bring your most complex and visually rich workloads to Apple silicon. Discover how MetalFX can help scale workloads by upscaling renderings, interpolating frames, and denoising scenes.

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.

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.

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 to make your games shine on the unified gaming platform. We’ll give you a map of the technologies you can use to level up your game and further improve your player experience. Get an overview of the fundamental tools essential to build, debug, and profile your game.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

There’s so much to dive into at WWDC25. Here’s a quick guide to help get you started.

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.