Category: Apple Developer News

Developer Technical Support open hours

Tuesday @ 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Request an appointment with an Apple Developer Technical Support engineer to ask a question about existing Apple frameworks, APIs, and tools. Get expert technical guidance about optimizing your code, understanding crashes, and best practices for implementing Apple technologies in your app. For questions about frameworks and API introduced at WWDC22, please register for a technology-specific WWDC22 lab, WWDC22 Digital Lounges activities, or visit the Apple Developer Forums.

Accessibility design lab

Friday @ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Learn how you can make your apps accessible and simple to use for everyone. Attend an accessibility design lab to better understand how people who use Apple’s accessibility features will navigate your products. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Appointments are 30 minutes long, and are limited to one per person per lab for the duration of the conference. If you do not receive an appointment, you can submit a request again on another day.

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Q&A: Education technologies

Thursday @ 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Join the Education team for a 2 hour text-based Q&A on the technologies available to education developers. Bring your questions about Sign in with Apple at Work & School, the Roster API, ClassKit, the Schoolwork and Classroom apps, Automatic Assessment Configuration, Apple School Manager, Shared iPad, Mobile Device Management, and more. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.

What’s new with in-app purchase

8:00 a.m.

Learn how you can make your in-app purchase experience even better on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. We’ll take you through enhancements to StoreKit 2 and App Store Server API, and explore improvements to App Store Server Notifications. Discover how you can verify app purchases with App Transaction API, add properties to your StoreKit models, incorporate SwiftUI-friendly APIs and StoreKit Messages, and preserve applicationUsername in transactions. For those working server-side, we’ll show you how to make the most of App Store Server Notifications, additional ways to retrieve user transaction history, and recovery steps when your server experiences an outage.

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Accessibility design lab

Friday @ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Learn how you can make your apps accessible and simple to use for everyone. Attend an accessibility design lab to better understand how people who use Apple’s accessibility features will navigate your products. Come prepared with a working prototype, development build, or your released app. Appointments are 30 minutes long, and are limited to one per person per lab for the duration of the conference. If you do not receive an appointment, you can submit a request again on another day.

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Core Audio lab

Wednesday @ 10:00 – 12:00 p.m.

Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about Audio Units, Workgroups, HAL, Toolbox APIs, CoreMIDI, AVAudioEngine, AVF APIs Catalyst apps, Spatial Audio, SoundAnalysis, or AUVoiceIO.

Shared with You, Sharing, Connectivity, Messages Collaboration lab

Wednesday @ 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more. Chat with Apple engineers from the Messages, Shared with You, Messages Collaboration, Share Sheet, UIActivityViewController, Watch Connectivity, and Multipeer Connectivity teams.

Plug-in and play: Add Apple frameworks to your Unity game projects

8:00 a.m.

Help make your Unity app or game an even better experience on Apple platforms. Learn how you can add Apple technologies directly to your projects with six plug-ins: Apple.Core, Game Center, Game Controller, Accessibility, Core Haptics, and PHASE. We’ll show you how you can add new gameplay mechanics, make your games more accessible, and tap into the latest Apple features and services.

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Join developers worldwide from June 6 to 10 for an inspiring week of technology and community. Get a first look at Apple’s latest platforms and technologies in sessions, explore the newest tools and tips, and connect with Apple experts in labs and digital lounges. All online and at no cost.

In addition to the online conference, Apple will host a special day for developers and students at Apple Park on June 6 to watch the keynote and State of the Union videos together, along with the online community. Space is limited and details on how to apply to attend will be provided soon.

Wherever you watch from, get ready for a fantastic WWDC.

Talented students can showcase their creativity for the opportunity to receive an award in the Swift Student Challenge.

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Last year, Apple announced an update coming to the App Store in early 2022 that would allow developers of “reader” apps to include an in-app link to their website for account creation and management purposes. Starting today, with the update of App Store Review guideline 3.1.3(a), developers of reader apps can now request access to the External Link Account Entitlement. This entitlement lets reader apps link to a website that is owned or maintained by the developer, so that users can create or manage their account outside of the app. Reader apps are apps that provide one or more of the following digital content types — magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, or video — as the primary functionality of the app.

Learn about the External Link Account Entitlement