Apple adds product page headers and custom image/video assets for App Store search results at WWDC26.
“You can use an impactful image or video to make your app stand out in the search results.”
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Apple's WWDC26 session covers building Live Activities that sync across iPhone, Watch, Mac, and CarPlay in iOS 27.
“Live activities are a great way for apps to provide timely and glancible updates for something that's happening right now.”
Apple rebuilt MetricKit from the ground up in iOS 27 with a modern Swift-first API for app performance monitoring.
“In iOS 27, the framework has been rebuilt from the ground up with a contextually rich and expressive modern Swift First API.”
Apple design evangelists outline foundational principles—purpose, agency, and forgiveness—for building great experiences on Apple platforms.
“design is making something with intention. It's focusing on what's most important to people so you can build something they will truly value.”
Apple launches Apple Business platform and declares declarative management the production standard for device management.
“Declarative management isn't something on the road map anymore. It's here. It's shipping. It's in production across fleets around the world.”
Apple integrates heart rate and cycling power workout zones into HealthKit for iOS 27 and watchOS 27.
“Workout zones turn raw data like heart rate samples into actionable training guidance.”
Apple's Raw 9 pipeline uses a tiled Core ML model combining demosaic and denoise for raw image processing.
“It is built atop a tiled Core ML model that combines demosaic with denoise”
Apple introduces Live Communication Kit at WWDC26 for native conversation UI integration.
“Live Communication Kit is the modern way to create communication apps that integrate with these system experiences.”
Apple's WWDC26 session shows how to incrementally adopt SwiftUI inside existing AppKit and UIKit apps.
“Swift UI was designed from the beginning to work great alongside AppKit and UIKit, just like Swift was designed to work together with Objective C.”
Apple's WWDC26 adds on-device AI-generated subtitles via speech transcription and translation for video playback.
“Apple AI generated subtitles can be created live locally on the device as the media plays.”
SwiftUI tutorial shows how to compose advanced graphics effects by chaining modifiers as a pipeline.
“The advance lies in the construction, not the uh complexity.”
Apple unveils on-device Music Understanding framework for musical intelligence across all Apple platforms.
“It gives you access to on-device musical intelligence across all Apple platforms.”
Apple introduces AppIntentsTesting, a new framework for testing App Intents adoption in apps.
“App Intense testing is a brand new framework that lets you test all of that and more.”
Apple introduces Core AI, a suite for optimizing, converting, and deploying models including LLMs on Apple Silicon.
“It includes a Swift package for running LLMs in your app. But at its core, it's an open-source repository of models that are ready to go, including generative architectures like cutting-edge large language models.”
Apple's App Attest helps servers verify apps run unmodified on genuine Apple hardware to block fraud.
“Appest can help ensure that your app is running on genuine Apple hardware.”
Apple demonstrates how to integrate MusicKit, its Swift framework, into apps at WWDC 2026.
“MusicKit is a Swift framework for Apple platforms that offers a set of APIs for your apps to access and play music.”
Apple's App Intents framework gains new capabilities for entities, native types, and longer-running intents in its 2027 releases.
“App Intense has been the engine behind some of the most delightful experiences on Apple platforms and is now a key pillar of Apple intelligence.”
Apple's Reality Composer Pro 3 adds visual no-code tools for animation graphs, behavior trees, and particle effects in spatial scenes.
“These tools let you alter functionality, animation, particle effects, and customize the look of your scene, all within the editor, making it fast to prototype and iterate on your ideas.”
Safari 27 beta adds 60+ new WebKit features with a year focused on improving existing web platform quality.
“We put our focus there this year rather than on implementing a whole lot of brand new ones.”
Apple opens its Private Cloud Compute server LLM to third-party developers via the Foundation Models framework at WWDC26.
“And now, by changing just one line of code, you can switch to the new server model on PCC.”
Apple's WWDC26 introduces an immersive web API letting websites embed 3D environments viewable in visionOS Safari.
“a whole new way to tell stories to your audience and engage your customers like never before”
Apple's 2027 releases add sectioned queries, custom type storage, and change-observation APIs to SwiftData.
“In Apple's 2027 releases, query add support for sectioning.”
Apple's Xcode 27 adds built-in support for kicking off and working with coding agents in the editor.
“Xcode 27 makes it super easy to kick off tasks with coding agents, quickly iterate on new project ideas, and its workspace is more customizable than ever.”
Apple's WWDC26 session details new Virtualization framework APIs for automating Mac guest provisioning and advanced VM capabilities
“The virtualization framework now lets your app specify provisioning options when a virtual Mac is started.”