{"id":124911,"date":"2021-09-14T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=s6627lek"},"modified":"2021-09-14T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T19:21:35","slug":"app-store-submissions-now-open-for-watchos-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/14\/app-store-submissions-now-open-for-watchos-8\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store submissions now open for watchOS 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/app-store-submissions-now-open-for-watchos-8.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Deliver even more powerful and personal apps for Apple&nbsp;Watch with the new capabilities of watchOS&nbsp;8. With the Always-On Retina Display, your apps are always available at a quick glance. Gather HealthKit data and connect to Bluetooth peripherals in the background, delivering up-to-date information to your complications. AssistiveTouch makes your apps more accessible than ever. And the powerful new SwiftUI Canvas API lets you take advantage of the GPU in Apple&nbsp;Watch for rich programmatic drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Build your apps using Xcode&nbsp;13 Release Candidate, test them on devices running watchOS&nbsp;8 Release Candidate and submit them for review. Starting April&nbsp;2022, all watchOS apps submitted to the App&nbsp;Store must be built with Xcode&nbsp;13 and the watchOS&nbsp;8&nbsp;SDK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/watchos\/submit\/\"><span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">Learn more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deliver even more powerful and personal apps for Apple&nbsp;Watch with the new capabilities of watchOS&nbsp;8. With the Always-On Retina Display, your apps are always available at a quick glance. Gather HealthKit data and connect to Bluetooth peripherals in the background, delivering up-to-date information to your complications. AssistiveTouch makes your apps more accessible than ever. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}