The Hallway Track

Apple

39 tracked signals on Apple.

Get your subscriptions ready for iOS 27

Apple · Apple Developer News · Sep 16, 2026

Apple introduces new subscription features in iOS 27.

“You can start preparing today by making sure your apps use StoreKit 2 to handle your Apple In-App Purchases.”
Get ready for iPhone Duo

Apple · Apple Developer News · Sep 09, 2026

Apple announces the iPhone Duo and related developer resources.

Reference on-screen content in your app

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Sep 04, 2026

Apple introduces View Annotations API for enhanced app interactions.

“Hey Siri, send this photo to Kevin and say, 'Rachel got us some paper to practice our folds. What color would you like?'”
Hello Developer: September 2026

Apple · Apple Developer News · Sep 02, 2026

Apple announces new developer events and updates to App Store Connect analytics.

Apple is getting this wrong

OpenAI · OpenAI Blog · Aug 03, 2026

OpenAI publicly calls Apple's lawsuit baseless and releases internal documentation to rebut claims

One framework. Access to new models.

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jul 27, 2026

Apple Foundation Models adds six new model backends including Anthropic and Google integrations

“Models from Anthropic and Google will all be available soon.”
Use any LLM through one Swift API

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 11, 2026

Apple's Foundation Models Framework now lets apps call any server LLM, including Claude and Gemini, via one Swift API.

“This makes the Foundation Models Framework the best way to run any large language model in your app.”
Meet new APIs for iPhone Duo

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Sep 11, 2026

Apple introduces new APIs for iPhone Duo development.

“That's nothing I love more than a new API.”
Image understanding with on-device AI

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 11, 2026

Apple's on-device Foundation Models framework gains multimodal image understanding and Vision Framework integration.

“This opens up new categories of experiences you can build with image understanding. It's as simple as attaching an image to your prompt.”
Game Porting Toolkit now includes AI coding skills

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 27, 2026

Apple's Game Porting Toolkit now uses AI coding agents to accelerate game porting

“dramatically cuts the time it takes to bring games to Apple platforms by adding AI skills for coding agents”
New ways to build for visionOS 27

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jul 22, 2026

Apple's Reality Composer Pro 3 uses AI to generate 3D spatial scenes from natural language prompts

“Now just describe what you want and AI brings it to life.”
Music Understanding: analyze music easily

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jul 17, 2026

Apple's new Music Understanding framework analyzes songs on-device with three lines of code.

“Your app can now understand music and it takes zero machine learning experience to set it up. All you need is three lines of code.”
Adopt Memory Integrity Enforcement and Pointer Authentication

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 28, 2026

Apple releases Memory Integrity Enforcement using hardware memory tagging to neutralize memory corruption exploits

“Use the default system allocator with no wrappers, no caches, or even custom implementations.”
Surprise and shine

Apple · Apple Developer News · Aug 26, 2026

Apple announces a special event on September 9 at 10 a.m. PT.

Eliminate bounds safety vulnerabilities in C and C++

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 28, 2026

Apple's bounds safety extension for C/C++ eliminates exploitable out-of-bounds memory vulnerabilities at compile time

“Entire classes of vulnerabilities need to be eliminated so that even when bug exists, they cannot be exploited.”
Write security-sensitive code in Swift

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 28, 2026

Swift addresses all five memory safety axes that C and C++ leave entirely unprotected

“a memory safety bug anywhere, say, in your C and C++ code can make the program do almost anything”
Smooth gameplay, no tweaks! Cyberpunk 2077 on Mac

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 21, 2026

CD Projekt Red built device-specific presets for Cyberpunk 2077 on Mac using MetalFX Upscaling.

“Click play, drop into Night City, and enjoy the game.”
Design with SwiftUI | Meet with Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 14, 2026

Apple WWDC session teaches SwiftUI app design via navigation, layout, and visual design principles

“it is incredibly helpful to go through this exercise”
A guide to layout in SwiftUI | Meet with Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Aug 14, 2026

Apple WWDC session covers SwiftUI layout fundamentals for cross-platform UI development

“strong UI layout fundamentals are the foundation that make this possible”