Category: Apple Developer News

Join us for an exhilarating week of technology and community. Be among the first to learn the latest about Apple platforms, technologies, and tools. You’ll also have the opportunity to engage with Apple experts and other developers. All online and at no cost.

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Keynote and State of the Union

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting reveals and new opportunities. Join the developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms, directly from Apple Park.

Keynote

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off with exciting news, inspiration, and new opportunities. Join the worldwide developer community for an in-depth look at the future of Apple platforms, directly from Apple Park.

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Platforms State of the Union

Learn about the latest tools, technologies, and advancements to help you create even better apps across Apple platforms, including the all-new visionOS.

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Apple Design Awards

The Apple Design Awards celebrate apps and games that excel in the categories of Inclusivity, Delight and Fun, Interaction, Social Impact, Visuals and Graphics, and Innovation. Join us in congratulating this year’s finalists and winners.

June 5, 6:30 p.m. PT.

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Sessions

Learn how to create your most innovative apps and games yet by taking advantage of the latest updates on Apple platforms. New videos and transcripts will be posted daily from June 6 through 9. Watch on the web or in the Apple Developer app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV.

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Labs

Get one-on-one guidance from Apple engineers, designers, and other experts. Learn how to implement new Apple technologies, explore UI design principles, improve your App Store presence, and much more.

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Activities

Join Apple engineers, designers, and other experts for Q&As, Meet the Presenter, icebreakers, and more.

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Forums

Connect with the community on the Apple Developer Forums. Find WWDC23 content quickly and easily by searching conference-specific tags.

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Beyond WWDC

Discover even more opportunities for learning, networking, and fun outside of the conference.

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Stay connected

We’ll be posting WWDC announcements leading up to and during the conference.

Check your email settings in your Apple Developer account. Check your notification settings in the Account tab.

Watching session videos, viewing related documentation and sample code, and posting on the forums are available to anyone. To request a lab appointment or sign up for activities, you must be a current member of the Apple Developer Program or Apple Developer Enterprise Program, or a 2023 Swift Student Challenge applicant.

The Xcode 15 beta supports the latest SDKs for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. This version of Xcode helps you code and design your apps faster with enhanced code completion, interactive previews, and live animations. Use Git staging to craft your next commit without leaving your code. Explore and diagnose your test results with redesigned test reports with video recording. And start deploying seamlessly to TestFlight and the App Store from Xcode Cloud.

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Check out the session schedule to plan your week! Sessions will be posted daily and will include links to resources and forums tags. And you can now request one-on-one lab appointments to get your questions answered, whether you’re just starting out or need to solve an advanced issue.

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The App Store’s commerce and payments system was built to empower you to conveniently set up and sell your products and services at a global scale in 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. Apple administers tax on behalf of developers in over 70 countries and regions and provides you with the ability to assign tax categories to your apps and in‑app purchases. Periodically, we update your proceeds in certain regions based on changes in tax regulations.

On May 31, your proceeds from the sale of apps and in‑app purchases (including auto‑renewable subscriptions) will be adjusted to reflect the tax changes listed below. Prices will not change.

• Ghana: Increase of the VAT rate from 12.5% to 15%.
• Lithuania: Reduction of the VAT rate from 21% to 9% for eligible e‑books and audiobooks.
• Moldova: Reduction of the VAT rate from 20% to 0% for eligible e‑books and periodicals.
• Spain: Digital services tax of 3%.

Due to changes to tax regulations in Brazil, Apple now withholds taxes for all App Store sales in Brazil. We’ll administer the collection and remittance of taxes to the appropriate tax authority on a monthly basis. You can view the amount of tax deducted from your proceeds starting in June 2023 with your May earnings. Developers based in Brazil aren’t impacted by this change.

Once these changes go into effect, the Pricing and Availability section of My Apps will be updated in App Store Connect. As always, you can change the prices of your apps and in‑app purchases (including auto‑renewable subscriptions) at any time. And now you can change them for any storefront with 900 price points to choose from.

WWDC23 is almost here. We’ll be kicking off with the Apple Keynote on June 5 at 10:00 a.m. PT. Watch online at apple.com or in the Apple Developer app. You can even use SharePlay to watch with friends.

Activities are now open for sign-up for eligible developers. Designed to connect you with the developer community and Apple experts, they’ll feature Q&As, Meet the Presenters, and community icebreakers in online group chats.

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Get ready for a world without passwords.

Passkeys are a replacement for passwords, offering a faster, easier, and more secure sign-in experience for your apps and websites. They’re strong, resistant to phishing, and designed to work across Apple devices and nearby non-Apple devices. Best of all, there’s nothing for people to create, guard, or remember.

To help explain how to implement passkeys, the Apple privacy and security team hosted a Q&A to answer common questions about device support, use cases, account recovery, and more. Here are some highlights from that conversation.

How do passkeys work?

Passkeys are based on public key cryptography, which matches a private key saved on a device with a public key sent to a web server. When someone signs in to an account, their private key is verified by your app or website’s public key. That private key never leaves their device, so apps and websites never have access to it — and can’t lose it or reveal it in a hacking or phishing attempt. There’s nothing secret about the public key; it offers no access to anything until paired with the private key.

Which devices support passkeys?

Passkeys work on devices running a minimum of iOS 16 on iPhone 8; iPadOS 16 on iPad 5th generation, iPad mini 5th generation, iPad Air 3rd generation, all iPad Pro models that offer Touch ID or Face ID; macOS Ventura; and tvOS 16. Passkeys are also supported in Safari 16 on macOS Monterey and Big Sur.

When Touch ID or Face ID can’t be used, people can enter their device passcode or system password to authenticate passkey credentials.

How do I adopt passkeys?

The first step is to adopt WebAuthn on your back-end server and add our platform-specific API to your app. Take a deeper dive into next steps by watching the video below:

Meet passkeys

It’s time for a security upgrade: Learn how to add support for passkeys to create a quick and easy sign in experience for people, all while offering a radical increase to account security. Passkeys are simple and strong credentials built to eliminate phishing attacks. We’ll share how passkeys…

What happens if a device is lost or stolen?

Data remains safe. Passkeys are end-to-end encrypted through iCloud Keychain and require biometrics, such as Face ID or Touch ID, or the device passcode to decrypt them. Without these, passkeys remain securely stored on the lost device. For extra peace of mind, you can always remotely wipe your device with Find My.

What does account recovery look like for someone who’s only ever signed in with a passkey?

The recovery method is independent of the authentication mechanism. Apps and websites are welcome to maintain the same recovery methods they use today (such as sending a link in an email to create a new passkey). Recovery will likely be a much less common scenario with passkeys, which are saved by the device. There’s nothing for a human to forget.

Can someone have multiple passkeys for my app; for instance, passkeys generated from multiple devices?

Yes, someone can have one passkey per account per platform. In the special case that someone has more than one account for an app, they’ll have discrete passkeys for each account too.

What’s the difference between passkeys and multifactor authentication?

Multifactor authentication adds additional layers of security on top of an existing password, but generally still leaves the possibility of phishing. Since passkeys eliminate the most pressing problems with passwords and are resistant to phishing, additional user-visible steps aren’t needed.

Is it possible to use an email address as the visible account identifier instead of a username?

Yes, it’s definitely possible. Our videos and documentation use usernames and email addresses as examples. Nothing about account identifiers has to change.

Resources

Meet passkeys

It’s time for a security upgrade: Learn how to add support for passkeys to create a quick and easy sign in experience for people, all while offering a radical increase to account security. Passkeys are simple and strong credentials built to eliminate phishing attacks. We’ll share how passkeys…

Spotlight on: Passkeys

Find out how Instacart, Kayak, and Robinhood are helping unlock a password-free future.

Passkeys overview

About the security of passkeys

Supporting passkeys

Connecting to a service with passkeys

Get to know Developer Mode

Meet Developer Mode — required on iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9 to install, run, and debug your apps during development. We’ll show you how you to opt in to Developer Mode on your devices, and how to enable Developer Mode in your automation workflows.