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Platforms State of the Union

The newest advancements on Apple platforms. 1 p.m. PT.

Platforms State of the Union

Meet this year’s winners >

Where to watch

Sessions drop today

The full lineup of sessions arrives after the Keynote. And you can start exploring the first batch right after the Platforms State of the Union.

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What to do at WWDC24

The Keynote is only the beginning. Explore the first day of activities.

Celebrate the 2024 Apple Design Award winners

Photo of the 2024 Apple Design Award winners.

The Apple Design Awards recognize unique achievements in app and game design — and provide a moment to step back and celebrate the innovations of the Apple developer community.

More to come

Thanks for reading and get some rest! We’ll be back tomorrow for a very busy Day 2. #WWDC24

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WWDC24 SwiftUI & UI Frameworks guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

SwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Design and build your apps like never before.

With enhancements to live previews in Xcode, new customization options for animations and styling, and updates to interoperability with UIKit and AppKit views, SwiftUI is the best way to build apps for Apple platforms. Dive into the latest sessions to discover everything new in SwiftUI, UIKit, AppKit, and more. Make your app stand out with more options for custom visual effects and enhanced animations. And explore sessions that cover the essentials of building apps with SwiftUI.

Get the highlights

Download the SwiftUI one-sheet.

View discussions about SwiftUI & UI frameworks

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Connect with Apple experts and other developers on the Apple Developer Forums.

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Dive into documentation

Level up the accessibility of your SwiftUI app.
Interact with nearby points of interest.
Build a document-based app with SwiftUI.
Customize window styles and state-restoration behavior in macOS.
Enhance your app’s content with tab navigation.
Create visual effects with SwiftUI.
Unify your app’s animations.
Find all of this year’s SwiftUI, AppKit, and UIKit updates.
Explore updates in the Human Interface Guidelines (HIG).

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WWDC24 Developer Tools guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

Developer Tools

Explore a wave of updates to developer tools that make building apps and games easier and more efficient than ever.

Watch the latest video sessions to explore a redesigned code completion experience in Xcode 16, and say hello to Swift Assist — a companion for all your coding tasks. Level up your code with the help of Swift Testing, the new, easy-to-learn framework that leverages Swift features to help enhance your testing experience. Dive deep into debugging, updates to Xcode Cloud, and more.

Get the highlights

Download the developer tools one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

Meet Swift Testing

What’s new in Xcode 16

Go further with Swift Testing

Xcode essentials

Run, Break, Inspect: Explore effective debugging in LLDB

Break into the RealityKit debugger

Demystify explicitly built modules

Extend your Xcode Cloud workflows

Analyze heap memory

Explore developer tools on the forums

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Find support from Apple experts and the developer community on the Apple Developer Forums.

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Dive into documentation

Expand your tool belt with new and updated articles and documentation.

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WWDC24 iOS & iPadOS guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

iOS & iPadOS

Your guide to all the new features and tools for building apps for iPhone and iPad.

Learn how to create more customized and intelligent apps that appear in more places across the system with the latest Apple technologies. And with Apple Intelligence, you can bring personal intelligence into your apps to deliver new capabilities — all with great performance and built-in privacy. Explore new video sessions about controls, Live Activities, App Intents, and more.

Get the highlights

Download the iOS & iPadOS one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

Bring your app to Siri

Discover RealityKit APIs for iOS, macOS, and visionOS

Explore machine learning on Apple platforms

Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS

Extend your app’s controls across the system

Streamline sign-in with passkey upgrades and credential managers

What’s new in App Intents

Squeeze the most out of Apple Pencil

Meet FinanceKit

Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS

Build a great Lock Screen camera capture experience

Design App Intents for system experiences

Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents

Broadcast updates to your Live Activities

Unlock the power of places with MapKit

Implement App Store Offers

What’s new in Wallet and Apple Pay

Meet the Contact Access Button

What’s new in device management

View discussions about iOS

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Connect with Apple experts and other developers on the Apple Developer Forums.

View discussions about iPadOS

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Get a head start with sample code

Dive into documentation

Discover WidgetKit for controls.
Find out how to set up broadcast push notifications, send channel management requests to APNs, and send broadcast push notification requests to APNs.
Check out the new LockedCameraCapture, Media Accessibility, AccessorySetupKit, and Contact Provider frameworks.
Explore object tracking with ARKit.
Learn how to elevate your iPad app with the tab sidebar, as well as with a floating tab bar and integrated sidebar, using SwiftUI or UIkit.

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WWDC24 Machine Learning & AI guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

Machine Learning & AI

Bring personal intelligence to your apps.

Apple Intelligence brings powerful, intuitive, and integrated personal intelligence to Apple platforms — designed with privacy from the ground up. And enhancements to our machine learning frameworks let you run and train your machine learning and artificial intelligence models on Apple devices like never before.

Get the highlights

Download the Machine Learning & AI one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

Get the most out of Apple Intelligence by diving into sessions that cover updates to Siri integration and App Intents, and how to support Writing Tools and Genmoji in your app. And learn how to bring machine learning and AI directly into your apps using our machine learning frameworks.

Explore machine learning on Apple platforms

Bring your app to Siri

Bring your app’s core features to users with App Intents

Bring your machine learning and AI models to Apple silicon

Get started with Writing Tools

Deploy machine learning and AI models on-device with Core ML

Support real-time ML inference on the CPU

Bring expression to your app with Genmoji

What’s new in App Intents

What’s new in Create ML

Design App Intents for system experiences

Discover Swift enhancements in the Vision framework

Meet the Translation API

Accelerate machine learning with Metal

Train your machine learning and AI models on Apple GPUs

Dive into Machine learning and AI on the forums

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Connect with Apple experts and other developers on the Apple Developer Forums.

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Dive into documentation

Build a search interface for your app.
Bring Writing Tools to your app with UITextView for UIKit and NSTextView for AppKit.
Add expression to your app with Genmoji using NSAdaptiveImageGlyph in UIKit and AppKit.
Integrate machine learning models into your app using Core ML.
Create your own machine learning models using Create ML.
Discover all of the latest Core ML updates.
Find out what’s new in the Vision framework.

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WWDC24 Games guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

Games

Create the next generation of games for millions of players worldwide.

Learn how to create cutting-edge gaming experiences across a unified gaming platform built with tightly integrated graphics software and a scalable hardware architecture. Explore new video sessions about gaming in visionOS, game input, the Game Porting Toolkit 2, and more.

Get the highlights

Download the games one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

Render Metal with passthrough in visionOS

Meet TabletopKit for visionOS

Port advanced games to Apple platforms

Design advanced games for Apple platforms

Explore game input in visionOS

Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS

Accelerate machine learning with Metal

View discussions about games

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Connect with Apple experts and other developers on the Apple Developer Forums.

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Get a head start with sample code

Dive into documentation

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WWDC24 watchOS guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

watchOS

Your guide to all the new features and tools for building apps for Apple Watch.

Learn how to take advantage of the increased intelligence and capabilities of the Smart Stack. Explore new video sessions about relevancy cues, interactivity, Live Activities, and double tap.

Get the highlights

Download the watchOS one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

What’s new in watchOS 11

Bring your Live Activity to Apple Watch

What’s new in SwiftUI

SwiftUI essentials

Design Live Activities for Apple Watch

Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI

Build custom swimming workouts with WorkoutKit

Demystify SwiftUI containers

View discussions about watchOS

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Connect with Apple experts and other developers on the Apple Developer Forums.

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Dive into documentation

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WWDC24 sessions schedule, lab requests, guides, and documentation now available

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WWDC24 is here! Here’s how to make the most of your week:

Watch daily sessions.
Request one-on-one online lab appointments with Apple experts.
Check out curated guides to the week’s biggest announcements.
Dive into new and updated documentation.

Learn more

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WWDC24 visionOS guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

visionOS

The infinite canvas is waiting for you.

In this year’s sessions, you’ll get an overview of great visionOS app design, explore object tracking, and discover new RealityKit APIs. You’ll also find out how to build compelling spatial photo and video experiences, explore enterprise APIs for visionOS, find out how to render Metal with passthrough, and much more.

Get the highlights

Download the visionOS one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

Design great visionOS apps

Explore object tracking for visionOS

Compose interactive 3D content in Reality Composer Pro

Discover RealityKit APIs for iOS, macOS, and visionOS

Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit

Enhance your spatial computing app with RealityKit audio

Build compelling spatial photo and video experiences

Meet TabletopKit for visionOS

Render Metal with passthrough in visionOS

Explore multiview video playback in visionOS

Introducing enterprise APIs for visionOS

Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces

Build a spatial drawing app with RealityKit

Optimize for the spatial web

Explore game input in visionOS

Create custom environments for your immersive apps in visionOS

Enhance the immersion of media viewing in custom environments

Design interactive experiences for visionOS

Create custom hover effects in visionOS

Optimize your 3D assets for spatial computing

Discover area mode for Object Capture

Bring your iOS or iPadOS game to visionOS

Build immersive web experiences with WebXR

Get started with HealthKit in visionOS

What’s new in Quick Look for visionOS

What’s new in USD and MaterialX

Customize spatial Persona templates in SharePlay

Create enhanced spatial computing experiences with ARKit

Break into the RealityKit debugger

What’s new in SwiftUI

View discussions about visionOS

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Connect with Apple experts and other developers on the Apple Developer Forums.

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of activities hosted by developer organizations during and after WWDC.