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Catch WWDC24 recaps around the world

Join us for special in-person activities at Apple locations worldwide this summer.

Explore apps and games from the Keynote

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Today’s WWDC24 playlist: Power Up

Get ready for one last day.

And that’s a wrap!

Thanks for being part of another incredible WWDC. It’s been a fantastic week of celebrating, connecting, and exploring, and we appreciate the opportunity to share it all with you.

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Today @ WWDC24: Day 4

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Plan for platforms

Find out what’s new across Apple platforms.

Explore all platforms sessions

Guides

Sessions, labs, documentation, and sample code — all in one place.

WWDC24 iOS & iPadOS guide

WWDC24 Games guide

WWDC24 visionOS guide

WWDC24 watchOS guide

Today’s WWDC24 playlist: Coffee Shop

Comfy acoustic sounds for quieter moments.

One more to go

What a week! But we’re not done yet — we’ll be back tomorrow for a big Friday. #WWDC24

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Today @ WWDC24: Day 3

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All Swift, all day

Explore new Swift and SwiftUI sessions.

What’s new in Swift

What’s new in SwiftUI

Meet Swift Testing

Explore all Swift sessions

Guides

Sessions, labs, documentation, and sample code — all in one place.

WWDC24 Swift guide

WWDC24 Developer Tools guide

WWDC24 SwiftUI & UI Frameworks guide

Go further with Swift

Connect with Apple experts and the worldwide developer community.

Request a consultation in the WWDC labs.
Explore the Apple Developer Forums.
Connect with developers all over the world.

Today’s WWDC24 playlist: A jazz thing

Cutting-edge sounds from the global frontiers of jazz.

Explore everything announced at WWDC24 >

More to come

Thanks for being a part of #WWDC24. We’ll be back tomorrow with even more.

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Today @ WWDC24: Day 2

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Watch the Platforms State of the Union 5-minute recap

Introducing Apple Intelligence

Get smarter.

Explore machine learning on Apple platforms

Get started with Writing Tools

Bring your app to Siri

Explore all Machine Learning and AI sessions

Guides

Sessions, labs, documentation, and sample code — all in one place.

WWDC24 Machine Learning & AI guide

WWDC24 Design guide

Go further with Apple Intelligence

Today’s WWDC24 playlist: Hello sunshine

Summer sounds to change your latitude.

Learn about installing beta software

More tomorrow

Thanks for being a part of this incredible week. We’ll catch you tomorrow for another big day of technology and creativity. #WWDC24

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Find out what’s new and download beta releases

Discover the latest advancements across Apple platforms, including the all-new Apple Intelligence, that can help you create even more powerful, intuitive, and unique experiences.

To start exploring and building with the latest features, download beta versions of Xcode 16, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, tvOS 18, visionOS 2, and watchOS 11.

Learn about sharing feedback

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WWDC24 Design guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

Design

Discover how this year’s design announcements can help make your app shine on Apple platforms.

Whether you’re refining your design, building for visionOS, or starting from scratch, this year’s design sessions can take your app to the next level on Apple platforms. Find out what makes a great visionOS app, and learn how to design interactive experiences for the spatial canvas. Dive into creating advanced games for Apple devices, explore the latest SF Symbols, learn how to add personality to your app through writing, and much more.

Get the highlights

Download the design one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

Design great visionOS apps

Design advanced games for Apple platforms

Create custom environments for your immersive apps in visionOS

Explore game input in visionOS

Design Live Activities for Apple Watch

What’s new in SF Symbols 6

Design interactive experiences for visionOS

Design App Intents for system experiences

Build multilingual-ready apps

Add personality to your app through UX writing

Get started with Dynamic Type

Create custom visual effects with SwiftUI

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Ask questions and get advice about design topics on the Apple Developer Forums.

Design

Spatial computing

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

Explore a selection of developer activities all over the world during and after WWDC.

RESOURCES

Explore the latest resources

Check out updates to the Human Interface Guidelines

Find out all that’s new in the HIG.
Designing for games: Explore an all-new way to start creating games that feel comfortable and intuitive on Apple platforms.
Tab bars: iPadOS apps now give people the option to switch between a tab bar or sidebar when navigating their app. Plus, items in the tab bar can now be customized.
App icons: Learn how people can customize their Home Screens to show dark and tinted icons.
Controls: Discover how people can quickly and easily perform actions from your app from Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action button.
Widgets: Learn how to tint widgets when a person has customized their Home Screen to show dark and tinted icons.
Windows: Learn how to use volumes in visionOS to display 2D or 3D content that people can view from any angle.
Live Activities: Craft Live Activities that look and feel at home in the Smart Stack in watchOS.
Immersive experiences: Explore the latest guidance on immersion, including design environments and virtual hands.
Game controls: Learn how to design touch controls for games on iOS and iPadOS.

Posted on June 10, 2024 by — Leave a comment

WWDC24 Swift guide

WWDC24 GUIDE

Swift

Your guide to everything new in Swift, related tools, and supporting frameworks.

From expanded support across platforms and community resources, to an optional language mode with an emphasis on data-race safety, this year’s Swift updates meet you where you are. Explore this year’s video sessions to discover everything that’s new in Swift 6, find tools that support migrating to the new language mode at your own pace, learn about new frameworks that support developing with Swift, and much more.

Get the highlights

Download the Swift one-sheet.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

What’s new in Swift

What’s new in SwiftData

Migrate your app to Swift 6

Go small with Embedded Swift

A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design

Create a custom data store with SwiftData

Explore the Swift on Server ecosystem

Explore Swift performance

Consume noncopyable types in Swift

Track model changes with SwiftData history

Explore Swift on the Apple Developer Forums

FORUMS

Find answers and get advice

Find support from Apple experts and the developer community on the Apple Developer Forums, and check out the Swift Forums on swift.org.

Dive into the Swift Forums

COMMUNITY

Meet the community

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

RESOURCES

Dive into Apple Developer documentation

Discover Swift community resources

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Today @ WWDC24: Day 1

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It all starts here

Keynote

The exciting reveal of the latest Apple software and technologies. 10 a.m. PT.

Keynote

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.

Get ready for sessions >

What to do at WWDC24

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

Celebrate the 2024 Apple Design Award winners

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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.

VIDEOS

Explore the latest video sessions

What’s new in SwiftUI

What’s new in AppKit

What’s new in UIKit

SwiftUI essentials

What’s new in watchOS 11

Swift Charts: Vectorized and function plots

Elevate your tab and sidebar experience in iPadOS

Bring expression to your app with Genmoji

Squeeze the most out of Apple Pencil

Catch up on accessibility in SwiftUI

Migrate your TVML app to SwiftUI

Get started with Writing Tools

Dive deep into volumes and immersive spaces

Work with windows in SwiftUI

Enhance your UI animations and transitions

Evolve your document launch experience

Build multilingual-ready apps

Create custom hover effects in visionOS

Tailor macOS windows with SwiftUI

Demystify SwiftUI containers

Support semantic search with Core Spotlight

Create custom visual effects with SwiftUI

View discussions about SwiftUI & UI frameworks

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.