An unofficial index of sessions from Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference held June 8 - 12, 2026.
Apple announced macOS Golden Gate (27), iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27. Siri AI was introduced, and the new Device Hub replaces Simulator. macOS Golden Gate ends support for Intel-based Macs.
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Essentials • 1:16:14
Don’t miss the exciting reveal of the latest Apple software and technologies.
Speakers: Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Greg Joswiak, Stacey Ford, Shubham Kedia, Dr. Sumbul Ahmad Desai, Raja Bose, Ann Thai, Mike Rockwell, Justin Titi, Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Beth Dakin, Cecilia Dantas, Leslie Ikemoto, Alok Deshpande
Essentials • 1:01:38
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.
Speakers: Josh Shaffer, Richard Wei, Dr. Mary Beth Kery, Lori Hylan-Cho, Cindy Barrett, Franck Ndame Mpouli, Holly Borla, Ken Orr, Kevin Cathey
Privacy & Security • 20:02
Harness App Attest to protect your app from unauthorized modification and fraud. Uncover how attackers exploit modified apps to spoof data and bypass security checks, and how App Attest defends against these threats. Learn to generate and manage App Attest keys bound to the Secure Enclave, validate attestations and assertions, and use the fraud metric to detect abuse. Discover best practices across all Apple platforms, including new signals in iOS 27 to strengthen your validation.
Speaker: Manthan Shah
App Services • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 15:10
Unlock handwriting recognition in your apps using the same powerful technology behind Apple apps like Freeform and Notes. Discover how to use handwriting recognition across a wide range of alphabets and languages, and explore new capabilities for integrating PencilKit into a wider variety of apps.
Speaker: Yichen Zhou
Safari & Web • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 16:32
Explore what’s new in WebKit — from Grid Lanes and Customizable Select, to HTML Model and Immersive Environments, and the latest for Web Extensions. You’ll also discover the work behind over 1,000 browser engine improvements that make the web more reliable.
Speaker: Jen Simmons
App Store, Distribution & Marketing • iOS • 8:14
Reimagine how you market your apps and games on the App Store by using your images and videos in new places. Discover how you can tell a richer story across the App Store with new visual placements on your product page, search results, and Apple Ads campaigns. Explore how to streamline all your visual assets in one place with the new Asset Library, as well as learn about a new tool to help you view your product page before it goes live.
Speaker: Ruhi Agarwal
Business & Education • 23:02
Discover the latest updates to declarative device management, Apple Business, and Apple School Manager. Explore how these advancements help you streamline deployment, strengthen security, and improve the experience for people using your managed devices. Whether you’re building device management solutions or managing enterprise fleets, you’ll learn practical ways to take advantage of these new capabilities.
Speaker: Cyrus Daboo
Health & Fitness • iOS, visionOS, watchOS • 12:15
HealthKit makes it easier to provide workout insights — like heart rate and cycling power zones — in your app. Learn to leverage the built-in, personalized zones or create custom ones. Discover how to use the current zone and time spent in each zone to provide meaningful guidance during and after workouts.
Speaker: Seth White
App Services • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 15:49
Explore the newest design updates and developer tools for Apple Wallet passes. Refresh your passes with beautiful new styles for rich, vibrant designs. Discover new barcode formats and a flexible pass actions API. Meet Pass Designer and Pass Builder, powerful tools that simplify designing, personalizing, and distributing your passes at scale.
Speaker: Shaun Merchant
App Store, Distribution & Marketing • 13:26
Discover how monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment give people a more affordable option to pay for your subscription and secure a longer-term commitment. Explore how to configure and test this new payment option using App Store Connect, StoreKit APIs, Xcode testing, and more. Plus, learn about improvements to offer code redemption APIs, and enhancements to the App Review submission experience.
Speaker: Sam Blum
System Services • iOS • 16:20
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.
Speaker: Chris Whitney
Developer Tools • 14:52
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.
Speaker: Avery Vine
Safari & Web • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 15:52
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.
Speaker: Aleksei Marchenko
Safari & Web • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 26:42
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.
Speaker: Kiara Rose
Accessibility & Inclusion • iOS • 20:00
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.
Speaker: Josh Hoffman
Accessibility & Inclusion • 16:25
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.
Speaker: Khin Thiri Kyaw
Accessibility & Inclusion • tvOS • 10:08
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.
Speaker: Isis Ramirez
System Services • iOS, macOS • 17:43
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.
Speaker: Yonni Luu
App Services • iOS • 15:16
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.
Speaker: Adi Ayyakad
System Services • macOS • 20:29
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.
Speaker: Ronnie Misra
App Services • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 17:18
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.
Speaker: Yaseen Mahmoud
Design • iOS, macOS • 18:11
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.
Speaker: Sam Iglesias
Business & Education • iOS, macOS • 14:01
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.
Speaker: Chris Zielinski
AI & Machine Learning • macOS • 13:37
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.
Speaker: Angelos Katharopoulos
AI & Machine Learning • macOS • 22:06
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.
Speaker: Tatiana Likhomanenko
Design • visionOS • 15:58
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.
Speaker: Michael Breymann
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 15:46
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.
Speaker: Megan Williams
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 27:23
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.
Speaker: Daniel Niemeyer
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 21:13
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.
Speakers: Erik Hornberger, Zhen Li
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 21:43
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.
Speakers: Erik Hornberger, Oliver O'Neill
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS • 14:20
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.
Speaker: Erik Rosa
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS • 16:25
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.
Speaker: Jennifer Moore
Design • 17:16
Dive deep into fundamental design principles for Apple platforms.
Speakers: Linda Dong, Doug LeMoine
Design • iOS • 17:26
Explore practical approaches to branding using typography, color, components, and interactions that balance the familiar with the unique.
Speaker: Sarah McClanahan
Design • iOS, visionOS • 18:53
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.
Speaker: Saschka Unseld
Audio & Video • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 16:40
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.
Speaker: Conner Richardson
Audio & Video • 21:06
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.
Speakers: Cathy Foss, Alan Chu
Audio & Video • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 11:00
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.
Speaker: James Bailey
Developer Tools • 28:00
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.
Speakers: Breckin Loggins, Jake Sawyer
Developer Tools • 24:03
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.
Speakers: Maxwell Oury, Devin Green
Developer Tools • 17:09
Learn how Device Hub can accelerate your development workflows. We’ll take a tour of its features and show you how to diagnose and reproduce issues quickly with devices and simulators.
Speakers: Hassan ElDesouky, Matt Marks
Developer Tools • 13:49
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.
Speaker: Tony Huang
Swift • 32:45
Join us for an update on Swift. Discover the latest language advancements, including updates for everyday ergonomics, improved concurrency, and safer high-performance code. Explore workflow and language interoperability improvements and updates in embedded Swift.
Speakers: Becca Royal-Gordon, Evan Wilde
Swift • 24:25
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.
Speaker: George Barnett
Swift • 21:25
Learn how to fearlessly adopt Swift Testing alongside your XCTests using test framework interoperability. Discover best practices and patterns for incrementally introducing advanced testing features that accelerate development and increase coverage.
Speaker: Jerry Chen
Developer Tools • 26:43
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.
Speakers: Artem Razvodov, Harjas Monga
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • 28:15
Explore the latest additions to SwiftUI and discover how they can improve your apps. We’ll introduce a new Document protocol with direct disk access and snapshot-based diffing for building high-performance apps; new APIs for reordering content in lists, grids, and sections; and toolbar enhancements including visibility priority and auto-minimizing behavior. We’ll also cover expanded presentation APIs — including swipe actions on any view — plus AsyncImage caching improvements and lazy state initialization for Observable types.
Speakers: Julia Vashchenko, Steven Peterson
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 15:21
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.
Speaker: Jack Wiig
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • iOS, macOS • 14:03
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.
Speaker: David Nadoba
App Services • 12:53
Discover the latest enhancements to SwiftData. We’ll show you how to persist custom and third-party types using Codable, and group fetched data into sections in your SwiftUI app. We’ll also explore how to observe data store changes anywhere else using ModelResultsObserver and HistoryObserver, giving you the flexibility to drive powerful state objects, integrate with delegate-based architectures, and react precisely to model updates.
Speaker: Thomas Bartelmess
App Services • 22:35
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.
Speaker: Matthew Turk
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 20:20
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.
Speaker: Jonathan Long
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 16:03
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.
Speaker: Michael Ochs
Spatial Computing • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 23:51
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.
Speaker: Dennis van Ee
Spatial Computing • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 16:44
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.
Speaker: Jean-Philippe Grenier
Spatial Computing • visionOS • 22:02
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.
Speaker: Niklas Gray
Spatial Computing • macOS, visionOS • 14:45
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.
Speaker: Quincy Jermyn
Spatial Computing • iOS, visionOS • 14:05
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.
Speaker: Nathan Kong
Spatial Computing • visionOS • 25:16
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.
Speaker: Bill Dudney
Graphics & Games • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 14:33
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.
Speaker: Lee Kerley
Spatial Computing • visionOS • 14:22
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.
Speaker: Adrian Biagioli
Spatial Computing • visionOS • 32:35
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.
Speaker: Norman Wang
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • macOS • 18:01
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.
Speaker: Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay
Design • 15:04
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.
Speaker: Heej Jones
Design • iOS, macOS • 16:17
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.
Speaker: Robert Hanley
AI & Machine Learning • iOS • 25:57
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.
Speaker: Venkatesh Sriram
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS • 17:45
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.
Speaker: David Munechika
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 25:46
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.
Speakers: Rob Rhyne, Yada Chuengsatiansup
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 21:28
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.
Speakers: Ada Wong, Kyle Murray
Photos & Camera • iOS • 25:20
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.
Speaker: Jake Baron
Photos & Camera • iOS • 17:58
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.
Speaker: Mohit Setia
Photos & Camera • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 16:28
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.
Speaker: David Hayward
App Store, Distribution & Marketing • iOS, tvOS, visionOS • 15:10
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.
Speaker: Tori Shurman
System Services • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 11:02
Explore techniques to build powerful shortcuts using your app’s content. New automations unlock additional ways to integrate your app with the system. Refine how your App Entity is presented to LLMs using the new “Use Model” transcript feature. Store rich information from your app inside shortcuts that is synced across devices. Learn how to combine these features to create intelligent, powerful automations that integrate seamlessly with content and features from your app.
Speaker: Duraid Abdul
Audio & Video • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 12:36
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.
Speaker: Leonardo Formaggio
Safari & Web • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 10:25
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.
Speaker: Brandon Stewart
Safari & Web • iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS • 9:30
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.
Speaker: Tim Nguyen
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 10:58
Private Cloud Compute lets you access powerful, frontier-class models while protecting user privacy. Explore how it works and how to access it using the Foundation Models framework. Discover best practices for checking availability and handling graceful fallbacks in your apps.
Speaker: Louis D'hauwe
Safari & Web • visionOS • 19:09
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.
Speaker: Jean Haberer
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • 21:10
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.
Speaker: Rens Breur
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • 17:55
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.
Speaker: Haotian Zheng
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, watchOS • 20:43
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.
Speaker: Ben Levine
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, watchOS • 29:21
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.
Speakers: Sachin Joglekar, Nicole Amenta
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, watchOS • 23:44
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.
Speaker: Carina Peng
Swift • macOS • 14:31
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.
Speaker: David Koski
AI & Machine Learning • 16:13
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.
Speaker: Shiyao Ge
AI & Machine Learning • macOS • 16:36
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.
Speaker: Eric Gourlaouen
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 26:41
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.
Speaker: Marcus Jackson
Audio & Video • macOS, visionOS • 16:23
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.
Speaker: Jared King
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 20:41
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.
Speaker: Christopher Webb
Photos & Camera • iOS • 17:44
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.
Speaker: Tracy Cai
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, visionOS • 24:08
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.
Speaker: Antonio Cancio
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS • 24:20
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.
Speaker: Justin Kang
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, visionOS • 18:02
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.
Speaker: Moe Mehrabi
Privacy & Security • 25:12
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.
Speakers: Dr. Willy R. Vasquez, Dr. Akshay Wadia
Graphics & Games • macOS • 27:54
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.
Speakers: Paweł Sasko, Garrett Austin
Graphics & Games • iOS, macOS • 28:00
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.
Speaker: David Srour
Graphics & Games • iOS, macOS • 24:23
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.
Speaker: Keyi Yu
Graphics & Games • iOS, macOS • 22:16
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.
Speaker: Yulia Kuznetcova
System Services • iOS • 8:12
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.
Speaker: Gretchen Walker
SwiftUI & UI Frameworks • 23:46
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.
Speaker: Tarun Uday
App Services • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 7:39
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.
Speaker: Matt Tonkin
AI & Machine Learning • iOS, macOS, visionOS • 14:11
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.
Speaker: Antonio Chiappetta
App Store, Distribution & Marketing • 9:59
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.
Speaker: Sam Blum
Privacy & Security • iOS • 13:57
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.
Speaker: Mike Armstrong
Graphics & Games • iOS, macOS • 21:01
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.
Speaker: Ruiwei Bu
Developer Tools • macOS • 11:07
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.
Speaker: Michael Crosby
App Store, Distribution & Marketing • 7:56
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.
Speaker: Andrew Johnson
Spatial Computing • iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS • 21:52
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.
Speaker: Vincent Zikang Li