WWDC26-TL;DR

Category
Topic
Platform
61:38
EssentialsEssentials

Platforms State of the Union

  • Summarizes the WWDC26 platform direction: Apple Intelligence expansion, Foundation Models and Core AI, system UI refinements, Swift and SwiftUI updates, spatial computing, gaming, and Xcode productivity.
  • Key concepts include App Store, Foundation Models, Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence, Core AI, Siri, SwiftUI, HTTP.
  • Platform coverage: ios, ipados, macos, tvos, visionos, watchos.
61:38
EssentialsEssentials

Platforms State of the Union (ASL)

  • Summarizes the WWDC26 platform direction: Apple Intelligence expansion, Foundation Models and Core AI, system UI refinements, Swift and SwiftUI updates, spatial computing, gaming, and Xcode productivity.
  • Key concepts include App Store, Foundation Models, Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence, Core AI, Siri, SwiftUI, HTTP.
  • Platform coverage: ios, ipados, macos, tvos, visionos, watchos.
1:31
EssentialsEssentials

Announcing Apple’s next big step for Siri and iPhone

  • Covers image transformation with next-generation AI.
  • Covers photorealistic image generation for wallpapers, Contact Posters, and backgrounds across the system in Image Playground.
  • Covers a more conversational Siri AI with natural language abilities to edit and write emails, texts, and documents.
4:32
EssentialsEssentials

WWDC26 Platforms State of the Union Recap

  • Summarizes the WWDC26 platform direction: Apple Intelligence expansion, Foundation Models and Core AI, system UI refinements, Swift and SwiftUI updates, spatial computing, gaming, and Xcode productivity.
  • Key concepts include Foundation Models, Apple Intelligence, Dynamic Profiles, Core AI, Spatial Preview, MCP, GitHub, App Intents.
  • Platform coverage: unavailable.
20:02
App ServicesApp ServicesApp Store, Distribution & Marketing

Secure your apps with App Attest

  • App Attest helps protect an app from unauthorized modification and fraud.
  • Shows how attackers exploit modified apps to spoof data and bypass security checks, and how App Attest defends against these threats.
  • Explains how to generate and manage App Attest keys bound to the Secure Enclave, validate attestations and assertions, and use the fraud metric to detect abuse.
15:10
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksApp Services

Read between the strokes with PencilKit

  • Covers handwriting recognition in apps using the same powerful technology behind Apple apps like Freeform and Notes.
  • Shows how to use handwriting recognition across a wide range of alphabets and languages, and covers new capabilities for integrating PencilKit into a wider variety of.
  • The session moves through Handwriting recognition, Path conversion, Improved model access, Stroke slicing.
16:32
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksSafari & Web

What’s new in WebKit for Safari 27

  • Covers what's new in WebKit - from Grid Lanes and Customizable Select, to HTML Model and Immersive Environments, and the latest for Web Extensions.
  • Also covers the browser-engine quality work behind more reliable web behavior.
  • The session moves through A year of quality improvements, CSS Grid Lanes, Customizable Select, HTML Model element, Immersive Website Environments, Web Extensions, and related wrap-up guidance.
8:14
App ServicesApp ServicesDeveloper Tools

Enhance your presence on the App Store

  • Shows how to tell a richer story across the App Store with new visual placements on the product page, search results, and Apple Ads campaigns.
  • Explains how to streamline all the visual assets in one place with the new Asset Library, as well as learn about a new tool to help.
  • The session moves through New asset placements, Meet Asset Library.
23:02
App Store, Distribution & MarketingApp Store, Distribution & MarketingBusiness & Education

What’s new in managing Apple devices

  • Covers the latest updates to declarative device management, Apple Business, and Apple School Manager.
  • The session moves through Apple services, Device management, App management, Identity Integrations, Education.
  • Key concepts include App Store, Apple Intelligence, Siri, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, attestation, Safari, GitHub.
12:15
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksHealth & Fitness

Deliver workout insights with HealthKit workout zones

  • HealthKit makes it easier to provide workout insights - like heart rate and cycling power zones - in an app.
  • Explains how to leverage the built-in, personalized zones or create custom ones.
  • Shows how to use the current zone and time spent in each zone to provide meaningful guidance during and after workouts.
15:49
System ServicesSystem ServicesApp Services

What’s new in Wallet

  • Covers the newest design updates and developer tools for Apple Wallet passes.
  • Refresh passes with beautiful new styles for rich, vibrant designs.
  • Covers new barcode formats and a flexible pass actions API.
13:26
App ServicesApp ServicesApp Store, Distribution & Marketing

What’s new in Apple In-App Purchase

  • Covers how monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment give people a more affordable option to pay for the subscription and secure a longer-term commitment.
  • Explains how to configure and test this new payment option using App Store Connect, StoreKit APIs, Xcode testing, and more.
  • Plus, learn about improvements to offer code redemption APIs, and enhancements to the App Review submission experience.
16:20
System ServicesSystem Services

Rev up your CarPlay app

  • Covers new features for the CarPlay audio, navigation, voice-based conversational apps, and more.
  • Shows how to create CarPlay video apps so people can browse and watch their favorite videos in supported vehicles when parked.
  • Explains how to integrate thumbnails, media information, and voice controls in the CarPlay app.
14:52
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools

Translate your app using agents in Xcode

  • Walks through strategies for reviewing translated output and iterating on the localizations, so developers can deliver a tailored experience to people around the world.
  • The session moves through Add translations, Review and iterate, Best practices.
  • Key concepts include LLMs, App Store, TestFlight, TRANSLATION, AGENTS, SwiftUI.
15:52
Spatial ComputingSpatial ComputingSafari & Web

Get started with the HTML Model Element

  • Explains how the model element brings interactive 3D content to websites - now on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
  • Covers tools for creating and optimizing 3D assets.
  • Covers model element features and see how web standards are shaping the future of 3D on the web.
26:42
App Store, Distribution & MarketingApp Store, Distribution & MarketingSafari & Web

Create web extensions for Safari

  • Introduces Safari web extensions by building and testing one from the ground up - no Xcode required.
  • Covers how content blocking, page modification, native messaging, and the permissions mode work together to create a powerful, privacy-preserving browsing experience across platforms.
  • The session moves through Get started, Block content, Modify webpages, Package and distribute, Communicate with an app.
20:00
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksAccessibility & Inclusion

Enhance the accessibility of your reading app

  • Explains how to create robust reading experiences for VoiceOver, Speak Screen, and more.
  • Find out how to provide intuitive text selection, clear navigation between lines and paragraphs, and continuous reading across individual elements and multiple pages.
  • The session moves through Characteristics, Standard views, Custom text.
16:25
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksAccessibility & Inclusion

Refine accessibility for custom controls

  • Covers the full potential of interactive app elements by making them accessible to everyone.
  • Breaks down how people understand and use controls with VoiceOver and other assistive technologies, exploring a variety of input methods like actions, the passthrough gesture.
  • Covers several custom controls and the accessibility refinements that make them work better with assistive technologies.
10:08
Audio & VideoAudio & VideoAccessibility & Inclusion

Prepare your tvOS apps for Dynamic Type

  • Dynamic Type empowers people to comfortably read and interact with an app by letting them choose the text size that works best for them.
  • Explains how to prepare a tvOS app for Dynamic Type with font scaling and layout adaptation.
  • Also shows how grids, carousels, and other media-heavy layouts can remain usable at larger text sizes.
17:43
Developer ToolsDeveloper ToolsSystem Services

Meet the new MetricKit

  • Find and fix performance problems faster than ever.
  • The session moves through Metrics, Diagnostics, Context.
  • Key concepts include MetricKit, StateReporting, iOS 27, MetricManager, MXMetricManager, Metal, MetricReport, StateEntry.
15:16
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksApp Services

Live Activities essentials

  • Covers an app experience with Live Activities.
  • Covers many of the places where Live Activities appear, including a new style in the Dynamic Island that delivers more information when iPhone is used in.
  • Explains how to tailor the Live Activity for each space, structure the content and data, and drive real time updates from start to finish using ActivityKit.
20:29
System ServicesSystem Services

Expand the capabilities of your Virtualization app

  • Covers powerful new capabilities in macOS 27 to the Virtualization app.
  • Shows how to automate the setup of macOS guests through user account setup on first boot.
  • Covers advanced workflows that involve passthrough of USB accessories to virtual machines, as well as custom network topologies and port forwarding.
17:18
System ServicesSystem ServicesApp Services

Create live communication experiences

  • LiveCommunicationKit transforms the real-time communication apps into integrated experiences.
  • Steps through framework integration for incoming, outgoing, and group conversations.
  • The session moves through Incoming conversations, Outgoing conversations, Groups.
18:11
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningDeveloper Tools

Create UI prototypes using agents in Xcode

  • Explains how to prototype an app using agents in Xcode.
  • Covers techniques for using AI to prototype interactions, iterate on layouts, and generate creative solutions to design challenges.
  • Explains how to evaluate agent-generated UI ideas and refine them into polished, people-centered app experiences.
14:01
App ServicesApp ServicesBusiness & Education

What’s new in assessment on macOS

  • Covers the Automatic Assessment Configuration framework on macOS to deliver secure tests for education apps.
  • Explains how to leverage new APIs to create a secure, configurable testing environment that incorporates more system-level features on Mac.
  • Find out how built-in system prechecks and accessibility controls make it easier than ever to deliver a reliable exam experience.
13:37
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Run local agentic AI on the Mac using MLX

  • Run AI agents locally with privacy, low latency, and offline access.
  • Covers how MLX advancements and Mac hardware make powerful agentic workflows possible entirely on-device.
  • Covers local coding agents, Xcode integration, multi-Mac scaling, and tool integration with MLX.
22:06
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Explore distributed inference and training with MLX

  • Scale the machine learning workloads across multiple Macs using MLX.
  • Explains how to tackle interconnect efficiency, large model inference, request batching, and distributed training challenges.
  • Covers how a few Macs on the desk can replace expensive cloud infrastructure for demanding AI workloads.
15:58
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningGraphics & Games

Design immersive environments for visionOS apps and the spatial web

  • Explains how developers can create photoreal visionOS environments for apps, websites, and SharePlay experiences.
  • Covers design principles for immersive environments, including reference capture, high-fidelity CG preparation, and production workflows for visionOS and the spatial web.
  • The session moves through Pre-production, Production, Post-production.
15:46
App ServicesApp ServicesAI & Machine Learning

What’s new in image understanding

  • Covers powerful image understanding with the latest Vision framework and Foundation Models framework updates.
  • Combine the new image support in Apple Foundation Model together with OCR, barcode scanning and their own tools to deliver LLM-powered visual understanding in an app.
  • The session moves through Segment images with tap-to-segment, Image inputs for Foundation Models, Image-based tool calling, Vision on watchOS.
27:23
App ServicesApp ServicesAI & Machine Learning

Build intelligent Siri experiences with App Schemas

  • Bring an app content and actions to Siri with App Intents.
  • Model the data using App Entities, adopt App Schemas to enable powerful system actions, and support natural language interactions powered by Apple Intelligence.
  • Explains how to enable semantic search, perform actions across apps, and create contextual experiences using onscreen awareness and content transfer.
21:13
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

What’s new in the Foundation Models framework

  • Covers what's new in the Foundation Models framework.
  • Explains how to access Private Cloud Compute, integrate third-party and open source models, and work with vision capabilities.
  • Covers context management APIs, built-in semantic search, and powerful primitives for creating agentic experiences in apps.
21:43
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Build agentic app experiences with the Foundation Models framework

  • Explains how to take the intelligence features further with Foundation Models framework primitives for dynamic context and agentic workflows.
  • Walks through engineering shared context, setting up privacy boundaries, and managing key value caching.
  • Shows how to orchestrate smooth handoffs between local and server models.
14:20
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Debug and profile agentic app experiences with Instruments

  • Covers the enhanced FoundationModels instrument in Xcode to inspect behavior and optimize the performance of agentic flows.
  • Explains how to inspect prompts, analyze latency, and trace control flow in advanced use cases that leverage multiple LanguageModelSessions and profiles.
  • The session moves through LLM app development mindset, Inspect and diagnose an agentic experience, Recording a trace with Instruments, Navigating the Instruments UI, Performance metrics.
16:25
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

LLM search using Core Spotlight

  • Level up basic search into a retrieval-augmented system using SpotlightSearchTool and LanguageModelSession.
  • Covers Core Spotlight integration, delegate-based hydration patterns, and how metadata quality impacts the search results.
  • Explains how to use custom PipelineStages for tasks like sentiment analysis.
17:16
Accessibility & InclusionAccessibility & InclusionDesign

Principles of great design

  • Dive deep into fundamental design principles for Apple platforms.
  • The session moves through Intro, Purpose, Agency, Responsibility, Familiarity, Flexibility, and related wrap-up guidance.
  • Key concepts include AirPods.
17:26
DesignDesign

Communicate your brand identity on iOS

  • Covers practical approaches to branding using typography, color, components, and interactions that balance the familiar with the unique.
  • The session moves through Intro, Components, Content, Color, Typography, Iconography.
  • Key concepts include SwiftUI, iOS 26, Dynamic Type.
18:53
Developer ToolsDeveloper ToolsGraphics & Games

Design no-code games with Reality Composer Pro 3

  • Shows how to use ScriptGraph in Reality Composer Pro 3 to create no-code 3D content for apps and games.
  • Explains how to take advantage of visual nodes to build animations, create interactive moments, and incorporate SwiftUI elements to add speech bubbles and other UI to.
  • The session moves through Meet ScriptGraph, A wish.., Build the game, Advanced techniques.
16:40
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningAudio & Video

Meet the Music Understanding framework

  • Covers Music Understanding, a new framework that lets an app analyze audio across six dimensions, on device: key, rhythm, structure, pace, instrument activity, and loudness.
  • And use the Music Understanding Lab sample app to visualize each result.
  • The session moves through Musical features, Framework integration, Music Understanding Lab.
21:06
SwiftSwiftAudio & Video

Integrate MusicKit into your app

  • Bring the power of Apple Music into an app using MusicKit.
  • Covers authorization, subscription-status checks, music selection, playback control, and cross-storefront song sharing.
  • Explains how to use the new Music Picker to let people browse the Apple Music catalog and their personal libraries.
11:00
Accessibility & InclusionAccessibility & InclusionAudio & Video

Discover generated subtitles and subtitle styles

  • Covers video content more accessible with generated subtitles - a powerful new feature that can transcribe spoken audio or translate subtitles from another language, using on-device models.
  • Covers caption style preview, which lets people customize and preview subtitle styles during playback, and dive into implementation details for AVKit, AVPlayerLayer, and the Media Accessibility.
  • The session moves through Media authoring, Subtitle generation methods, Availability and support, Presenting subtitles in an app, Subtitle style preview, Demo.
28:00
SwiftSwiftDeveloper Tools

What’s new in Xcode 27

  • Covers the latest productivity enhancements in Xcode 27.
  • Accelerate the development workflow through customization, coding agents, and Device Hub.
  • Covers updates in localization, performance, and testing tools to refine apps further.
24:03
SwiftSwiftDeveloper Tools

Xcode, agents, and you

  • Explains how developers can use coding agents in Xcode in the development process.
  • The session moves through Meet the app, Covers, Build, Refine, Orchestrate.
  • Key concepts include SwiftData, SwiftUI, InsightsView.
17:09
SwiftSwiftDeveloper Tools

Get the most out of Device Hub

  • Explains how Device Hub can accelerate development workflows.
  • The session moves through Device Hub overview, Control, Organize, Configure, Reproducing a bug, Devicectl.
  • Key concepts include Device Hub, CoreLocation, Drag and Drop, UIKit.
13:49
SwiftSwiftDeveloper Tools

Build, deliver, and automate with Xcode Cloud

  • Find out how webhooks and management tools extends Xcode Cloud capabilities, supporting the most advanced workflows.
  • The session moves through Essential concepts, Getting started, Distribution, Webhooks, Additional repositories.
  • Key concepts include Xcode Cloud, TestFlight, App Store.
32:45
Developer ToolsDeveloper ToolsSwift

What’s new in Swift

  • Reviews current Swift language, library, and tooling updates.
  • Covers the latest language advancements, including updates for everyday ergonomics, improved concurrency, and safer high-performance code.
  • Covers workflow and language interoperability improvements and updates in embedded Swift.
24:25
Developer ToolsDeveloper ToolsSwift

Build real-time apps and services with gRPC and Swift

  • Build engaging live experiences with gRPC in the Swift app and backend.
  • GRPC is an open-source RPC framework designed for high-performance, bidirectional streaming APIs.
  • Covers how the gRPC Swift package provides a modern, safe runtime built with Swift concurrency.
21:25
Developer ToolsDeveloper ToolsSwift

Migrate to Swift Testing

  • Explains how to fearlessly adopt Swift Testing alongside the XCTests using test framework interoperability.
  • Covers best practices and patterns for incrementally introducing advanced testing features that accelerate development and increase coverage.
  • The session moves through Swift Testing basics, Migration strategy, Test framework interoperability, Interoperability modes, Common migration patterns, Parameterized tests, and related wrap-up guidance.
26:43
SwiftSwiftDeveloper Tools

Profile, fix, and verify: Improve app responsiveness with Instruments

  • Tackle app responsiveness issues with a clear workflow.
  • Covers the Swift Concurrency instrument, Time Profiler, and System Trace to pinpoint bottlenecks.
  • Shows how to use top functions and run comparisons to measure the improvements and confirm the fixes.
28:15
App ServicesApp ServicesDesign

What’s new in SwiftUI

  • Covers the latest additions to SwiftUI and how they can improve apps.
  • Introduces a new Document protocol, direct disk access, snapshot-based diffing, and APIs for reordering content in lists and grids.
  • Also covers expanded presentation APIs, swipe actions on any view, AsyncImage caching, and lazy state initialization for Observable types.
15:21
App ServicesApp ServicesSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Code-along: Build powerful drag and drop in SwiftUI

  • Builds a Solitaire game while covering the latest drag-and-drop capabilities in SwiftUI.
  • To get the most out of this session, watch "Meet Transferable" from WWDC22.
  • The session moves through Reordering, Drag multiple items, Drag configuration.
14:03
App ServicesApp ServicesSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Use SwiftUI with AppKit and UIKit

  • Shows how to incrementally adopt SwiftUI in the existing AppKit or UIKit app.
  • Also explains how to add complete SwiftUI scenes to an app without changing the overall architecture.
  • The session moves through Observation in AppKit, Hosting SwiftUI in AppKit, AppKit gestures in SwiftUI, SwiftUI in the main menu, SwiftUI scenes in AppKit.
12:53
SwiftSwiftSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

What’s new in SwiftData

  • Covers the latest enhancements to SwiftData.
  • The session moves through Sectioning the fetches, Using custom types, Observing data stores with ResultsObserver, Observing history with HistoryObserver.
  • Key concepts include SwiftData, SwiftUI, ResultsObserver, HistoryObserver, SampleTrips, DataStore, TripListView, ModelContext.
22:35
SwiftSwiftSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Code-along: Add persistence with SwiftData

  • Adds persistence to an existing app with SwiftData, showing the model and state changes along the way.
  • Also covers foundational state-management patterns for SwiftData apps.
  • The session moves through Identify relevant state, Define the schemas, Define model relationships, Update the view layer.
20:20
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

WidgetKit foundations

  • Widgets highlight an app most important content across the system, providing people with another opportunity to engage.
  • Covers widget types and the qualities that make widgets memorable.
  • Explains how to create widgets, keep them up to date, and offer ways for people to customize them through App Intents and dynamic styling.
16:03
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Modernize your UIKit app

  • Covers the latest updates to UIKit.
  • Explains how to update the iPhone app layouts to work great when resized with iPhone Mirroring and on iPad.
  • Covers new APIs for tab and navigation bars, find out how to prepare an app for new Apple Intelligence capabilities, and get introduced to a skill.
23:51
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Explore advances in RealityKit

  • Covers the latest advancements in RealityKit designed to make apps and games more immersive and realistic than ever.
  • Covers powerful new capabilities including interactive cloth simulations, NavMesh pathfinding, mixed reality lighting, and customizable reverb meshes for enhanced spatial audio.
  • Covers visual fidelity with improved shadows, character rendering enhancements, and support for Gaussian splatting.
16:44
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Iterate your spatial scenes faster with Reality Composer Pro 3

  • Covers powerful new features in Reality Composer Pro 3 for building spatial experiences.
  • Explains how developers can add content, visual effects, lighting, and interactivity to the immersive scenes - all without leaving the editor.
  • Shows how to iterate quickly using AI-assisted features right within the editor.
22:02
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Extend Reality Composer Pro 3 functionality with Xcode

  • The session moves through Extending the editor, Custom components and systems, Controlling the water surface, Custom animation actions, Custom Script Graph nodes.
  • Key concepts include Reality Composer Pro, ScriptGraph, RealityKit, Reality File, RCPCustomComponents, Script Graph, SwiftUI, RealityComposerPro.
  • Platform coverage: visionos.
14:45
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Discover the Spatial Preview framework

  • Check out how the new Spatial Preview framework brings content from the Mac directly into visionOS.
  • Shows how to build dynamic workflows with live-syncing and bidirectional editing across both platforms.
  • Covers the SpatialPreview API, device discovery, 2D and 3D session integration, and new Quick Look capabilities to elevate Mac apps spatially.
14:05
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Explore enhancements to visionOS object tracking

  • Find out how visionOS is advancing object tracking and spatial accessory input.
  • Covers new supported classes of spatial accessories and what is needed to build their own custom accessories to enable unique interaction models in apps.
  • The session moves through Object tracking, Spatial accessories, Creating a spatial accessory, Plug-and-play accessories, Implementing in an app.
25:16
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Collaborate on structured 3D models in visionOS

  • Explains how to bring structured 3D models to life in visionOS.
  • Covers exploded-view exploded-view animations for design review and collaboration experiences on Apple Vision Pro.
  • The session moves through Asset preparation, Manipulating the hierarchy, Interactive clipping, Autoexpansion.
14:33
Spatial ComputingSpatial ComputingGraphics & Games

Discover USDKit and what’s new in OpenUSD

  • Covers the latest advances in Universal Scene Description (USD) support on Apple platforms, including Swift-based USDKit, the new spatial preview API, and enhanced spatial web capabilities.
  • Covers how the latest updates to the OpenUSD standard add support for accessibility, Gaussian splats, and compressed geometry.
  • The session moves through OpenUSD: Industry Foundation and New Standards, Gaussian Splats and Particle Fields, Introducing USDKit, 3D Editing in Preview and New Renderers, Spatial Preview: Live Collaboration Between Mac and Vision Pro, USD on the Web: The Safari Model Tag, and related wrap-up guidance.
14:22
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Use foveated streaming to bring immersive content to visionOS

  • Find out how foveated streaming delivers remotely rendered scenes to Apple Vision Pro in full fidelity.
  • Covers how this framework combines native visionOS capabilities with third-party streaming technologies completely wirelessly, demonstrated using an OpenXR scene and NVIDIA CloudXR.
  • Covers the FoveatedStreaming framework, integration with the NVIDIA CloudXR SDK, and how dynamically foveated streaming provides benefits while still preserving privacy.
32:35
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Build next-generation experiences with visionOS 27

  • Covers next-generation apps, games, and spatial experiences using new capabilities in visionOS 27.
  • Covers the main paths for building visionOS experiences, from native Apple frameworks to third-party engines and streamed immersive content.
  • Shows how to elevate the spatial computing projects with the latest advances in 3D content creation, immersive media, and object tracking.
18:01
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Modernize your AppKit app

  • Bring the AppKit app up to date with modern macOS conventions.
  • Covers handling input with control events and gesture recognizers, moving beyond traditional tracking loops.
  • Enhance keyboard navigation in an app, implement graceful state restoration after restarts, and take advantage of new corner concentricity APIs that let the interface blend seamlessly.
15:04
DesignDesign

Craft clear names for features and labels in your app

  • The names of the products, features, and labels can determine how people understand and navigate an app.
  • Covers thoughtful naming in app design, patterns used across Apple apps, and ways to make naming decisions with intention.
  • The session moves through Criteria, Process, Evaluation.
16:17
EssentialsEssentialsDesign

Design intuitive search experiences

  • Covers new patterns and best practices when implementing search in an app.
  • Covers how search helps people find and navigate content, plus how to integrate search across navigation models and app layouts.
  • The session moves through Search field, Patterns and placement, Best practices.
25:57
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Validate your App Intents adoption with AppIntentsTesting

  • Introduces AppIntentsTesting, a new framework for validating App Intents through the same infrastructure used by Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.
  • Shows how to execute intents, inspect results, and test entities and queries - all without requiring UI automation.
  • The session moves through Meet CometCal: the first test, How AppIntentsTesting works, Testing entity queries, Combining multiple intents, Test-only intents, Testing Spotlight indexing, and related wrap-up guidance.
17:45
App ServicesApp ServicesAI & Machine Learning

Best practices for integrating visual intelligence in your app

  • Gain insight on how visual intelligence can transform content discovery in an app.
  • Explains how to define entities, process images, and handle multiple result types effectively.
  • Covers best practices for optimizing speed and relevance, and covers how intents enable direct actions like opening or playing content with a single tap.
25:46
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Meet the Evaluations framework

  • Explains how to evaluate model-driven experiences using the Evaluations framework.
  • In a probabilistic world, unit tests alone won't suffice.
  • Shows how to define metrics, automatically grade outputs, and aggregate statistics to ensure the AI-powered features perform reliably across Apple platforms.
21:28
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Create robust evaluations for agentic apps

  • Explains how to leverage advanced features of the Evaluations framework to build robust evaluations for an app.
  • Covers evaluating flows with tool calling and dynamic conditions, and how to define what correct behavior means for the use case.
  • Shows how to generate synthetic data, use judges effectively, and validate the datasets for reliable results.
25:20
Audio & VideoAudio & VideoPhotos & Camera

Build a responsive camera app that launches quickly

  • Shows how to build a camera app that launches instantly so people never miss the perfect shot.
  • Explains how to optimize the entire camera launch sequence - from app startup to first preview frame.
  • Ensure an app has a polished camera experience by learning about new API that deliver faster launches, and best practices for smooth preview rendering and maintaining.
17:58
Photos & CameraPhotos & Camera

Implement high resolution photo capture

  • Capture super high resolution photos in an app using AVFoundation.
  • Explains when to use the three different options to capture images - RAW, exposure-bracketed, and fully processed.
  • Walk through configuring photo capture for 24MP and 48MP images across the Main, Tele, and Ultra Wide cameras.
16:28
Photos & CameraPhotos & Camera

Enhance RAW image processing with Core Image

  • Harness the power of version 9 of the Core Image RAW processing APIs to dramatically improve image quality in apps, with improved sharpness and more defined color, while using the.
  • Take advantage of the CIRAWFilter API to let users edit RAW photos by changing exposure, noise reduction, sharpness, contrast and more.
  • The session moves through How Core Image supports RAW, The evolution of RAW support, RAW 9 overview, RAW 9 quality improvements, Enable and edit RAW 9 with CIRAWFilter API, RAW 9 performance overview, and related wrap-up guidance.
15:10
App ServicesApp ServicesApp Store, Distribution & Marketing

Explore Retention Messaging in App Store Connect

  • Shows how to use the power of Retention Messaging to reach subscribers before they cancel.
  • Explains how to configure this feature in App Store Connect and add subscription offers, as well as leverage the Retention Messaging API to deliver real-time messaging.
  • The session moves through Retention Messaging in App Store Connect, Real-time Retention Messaging, Retention Messaging comparison.
11:02
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningSystem Services

What’s new in Shortcuts

  • Covers techniques to build powerful shortcuts using an app content.
  • New automations unlock additional ways to integrate an app with the system.
  • Refine how an app Entity is presented to LLMs using the new "Use Model" transcript feature.
12:36
Audio & VideoAudio & Video

Meet the Now Playing framework

  • Introduces Now Playing - a Swift framework that connects app media playback to system surfaces like the Lock Screen, Control Center, Dynamic Island, and CarPlay.
  • Shows how to publish playback state and respond to commands using its observable API.
  • Covers remote playback sessions, a new capability that lets an app represent media playing on external devices and bring full playback controls to those same system.
10:25
DesignDesignSafari & Web

Learn CSS Grid Lanes

  • Build adaptive web layouts that embrace content of all shapes and sizes.
  • The session moves through CSS Flexbox and Grid, CSS Grid Lanes, Build a Grid Lanes container, Implement brick variation, Experiment with different layouts, Control individual items, and related wrap-up guidance.
  • Key concepts include CSS Grid Lanes, JavaScript, Safari.
9:30
DesignDesignSafari & Web

Rediscover the HTML select element

  • Explains how to unlock full control of styling select menus on the web.
  • The HTML select element is getting a major upgrade with a new CSS appearance value, and new pseudo-elements.
  • Covers how the select options can contain rich content with new possibilities in HTML.
10:58
System ServicesSystem ServicesAI & Machine Learning

Build with the new Apple Foundation Model on Private Cloud Compute

  • Covers how it works and how to access it using the Foundation Models framework.
  • Covers best practices for checking availability and handling graceful fallbacks in apps.
  • The session moves through What is Private Cloud Compute, Integrating PCC with Foundation Models, Deciding between on-device and PCC, Reasoning levels and context size, Evaluating and combining models, Handling usage limits.
19:09
Spatial ComputingSpatial ComputingSafari & Web

Explore immersive website environments in visionOS

  • Transport the website visitors into virtual environments in Apple Vision Pro using the new Immersive API in JavaScript.
  • Explains how to request immersive transitions from an inline model element, create compelling immersive experiences using features like video docking, and optimize performance for rich, real-world-scale.
  • The session moves through Meet the immersive API, Preview environments inline, Go immersive, Optimize the experience, Image controls.
21:10
DesignDesignSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Dive into lazy stacks and scrolling with SwiftUI

  • Covers the inner workings of lazy stacks in SwiftUI.
  • Covers how LazyVStack and LazyHStack estimate sizes, lazily load subviews, and prefetch content to deliver smooth scrolling experiences.
  • Also covers advanced performance optimizations, state management best practices, and tips for precise programmatic scrolling.
17:55
DesignDesignSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Compose advanced graphics effects with SwiftUI

  • Shows how to craft rich, custom experiences by creatively composing SwiftUI layout and graphics APIs.
  • Explains how to draw with layer shaders, animate with timelines, and anchor views with alignment guides.
  • The session moves through Design breakdown, Cover art and shader effects, Driving animation with time, Time-synced transcript view, Floating timestamps with alignment guides, Creative pipelines.
20:43
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Meet Core AI

  • Covers Core AI, Apple new framework for on-device AI model deployment.
  • Tour the ecosystem, from Python libraries for converting, authoring, and optimizing models, to a Swift API for simple plug-and-play inference and advanced use cases with strict.
  • Covers the new Core AI models repository with ready-to-run examples for popular architectures.
29:21
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Dive into Core AI model authoring and optimization

  • Covers the complete custom model deployment workflow for Apple silicon with the new Core AI framework.
  • Covers powerful techniques for authoring models using custom Metal kernels, alongside platform-aware compression strategies.
  • The session moves through Models and skills, Python workflow, Model optimization, Core AI Debugger, Advanced authoring, Custom Metal kernels, and related wrap-up guidance.
23:44
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Integrate on-device AI models into your app using Core AI

  • Covers a curated collection of popular open-source models - including Qwen, Mistral, SAM3, and more - optimized for Apple silicon using the new Core AI Framework.
  • Explains how to download, run, and benchmark models on the Mac, and integrate them into an app with just a few lines of code.
  • Covers a new workflow for model compilation and on-device specialization to speed up first-time model load.
14:31
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningSwift

Explore numerical computing in Swift with MLX

  • Bring NumPy-style computing natively to Swift with MLX Swift.
  • Shows how to eliminate cross-language friction in the machine learning workflows by handling image processing, tensor operations, and neural network training in a single, type-safe environment.
  • The session moves through MLX Swift and the Apple ecosystem, MLX Swift, Mandelbrot, Heat distribution, Faster convergence with SOR, Curve fitting, and related wrap-up guidance.
16:13
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesAI & Machine Learning

Optimize custom machine learning operations with Metal tensors

  • Covers powerful machine learning performance with the Metal Tensor API and Metal Performance Primitives (MPP) Tensor Ops library.
  • Shows how to create portable operations that take advantage of Neural Accelerators in Apple M5 and A19 GPUs.
  • Explains how to build custom machine learning kernels for the Core AI applications, and find out how to work effectively with quantized data formats and GPU.
16:36
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Build AI-powered scripts with the fm CLI and Python SDK

  • Covers all the new ways to leverage Apple Foundation Models on macOS.
  • Find out how to use the brand new fm command introduced in macOS 27 to streamline scripting, automate model workflows, and accelerate the development process.
  • The session moves through Introducing the fm CLI and Python SDK, Command line tool, Fm respond and structured output, Automating file management with fm, Python SDK, Prompting, tool calling and guided generation, and related wrap-up guidance.
26:41
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Improve your prompts by hill-climbing with Evaluations

  • Covers comparative evaluation techniques to guide prompt engineering and select the right model for an app.
  • Explains how to baseline performance, expand the evaluation strategy, and convert results to JSON for integration with other tools.
  • Covers when to apply different prompting strategies and how to iteratively refine prompts for best results.
16:23
Spatial ComputingSpatial ComputingAudio & Video

Build live production tools for Apple Immersive Video

  • Go behind the scenes of live Apple Immersive Video production.
  • Shows how to package immersive video, spatial audio, and scene metadata for transport over IP networks using the SMPTE 2110 standard.
  • To get the most out of this session, watch "Learn about Apple Immersive Video technologies" from WWDC25.
20:41
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Bring an LLM provider to the Foundation Models framework

  • Extend the Foundation Models framework by implementing a LanguageModelExecutor for new models.
  • Explains how to interface with the LanguageModelSession transcript, manage session state effectively, and optimize KV cache utilization.
  • Find out how to support custom segment types and unlock advanced capabilities for the generative AI features.
17:44
Photos & CameraPhotos & Camera

Support the Center Stage front camera in your iOS app

  • Covers an iOS camera app with Center Stage using AVCapture APIs with the front camera on iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air.
  • Covers how APIs enable zoom and rotate options, for more flexible ways to frame selfies and videos and to automatically get everyone in a group shot.
  • And Explains how to stabilize the video for real-time video conferencing.
24:08
App ServicesApp ServicesAI & Machine Learning

Explore advanced App Intents features for Siri and Apple Intelligence

  • Covers techniques that let people accomplish more with just their voice, help Apple Intelligence find the content, and provide context for on-screen awareness so Siri understands.
  • The session moves through Customize how Siri responds, Visual responses, Interaction donations, Confirmations and entity ownership, Semantic index with IndexedEntity, Structured search with IntentValueQuery, and related wrap-up guidance.
  • Key concepts include App Intents, Siri, Apple Intelligence, App Schemas, AirPods, DisplayRepresentation, AddToPlaylistIntent, OwnershipProvidingEntity.
24:20
App ServicesApp ServicesAI & Machine Learning

Code-along: Make your app available to Siri

  • Dive deep into an Xcode project showing how developers can make an app available to Siri.
  • Explains how to adopt App Schemas to let people ask questions about calendar events and take natural language actions like scheduling.
  • Covers best practices for making content available in the Spotlight semantic index and providing context for on-screen awareness.
18:02
App ServicesApp ServicesAI & Machine Learning

Discover new capabilities in the App Intents framework

  • Level up App Intents adoption with advanced features to make it faster, more flexible, and more relevant.
  • Covers richer parameter types including union values and long-running intents that handle cancellation gracefully.
  • The session moves through Share entities across apps with ValueRepresentation, Register relevant entities with RelevantEntities, Handle entities efficiently with EntityCollection, Use entities across devices with SyncableEntity, Richer parameter types, Union value parameters, and related wrap-up guidance.
25:12
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningPrivacy & Security

Secure your app: mitigate risks to agentic features

  • Explains how to evaluate threats from indirect prompt injection, such as data exfiltration and unintended actions.
  • Covers security practices for App Intents and Foundation Models, including user confirmations, secure prompt design, and mitigations for agentic workflows.
  • The session moves through Risks, Threat modeling, Implementing mitigations, Foundation Models, App Intents.
27:54
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningGraphics & Games

Bringing Cyberpunk 2077 to Mac

  • Go behind the scenes and learn from CD PROJEKT RED how Cyberpunk 2077 came to Mac, setting a new standard for AAA gaming on macOS.
  • Covers how the team leveraged Apple robust hardware, software, and development tools to bring this high-fidelity experience to life.
  • Explains how developers can apply similar techniques to games.
28:00
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningGraphics & Games

Speedrun your game port with agentic coding

  • Shows how to accelerate a game port to Apple platforms with new agentic skills in Game Porting Toolkit 4 that can dramatically accelerate the process of porting the game.
  • Explains how to work alongside the AI coding assistant to adopt Metal 4, integrate MetalFX, and tune the game for Apple hardware.
  • The session moves through Porting assistant workflow, Windowing and frame pacing, Scene rendering with Metal 4, Debugging with GPU command-line tools, Game controllers and MetalFX.
24:23
Graphics & GamesGraphics & Games

Make your game great with touch

  • Dive deeper into the techniques developers can use to create compelling touch experiences for games.
  • The session moves through Set up a touch controller, Design flexible layouts, Design fluid interactions, Provide rich feedback.
  • Key concepts include Metal, GCController, UIKit, UIView, touchController, TCControlImage, TCControlContents.
22:16
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine LearningGraphics & Games

Build real-time neural rendering pipelines with Metal

  • Shows how to integrate machine learning into the real-time rendering pipeline using Metal 4.
  • Covers practical adoption patterns and best practices for achieving production-quality results with MetalFX neural denoising, featuring real-world insights from Maxon Redshift Live.
  • Explains how to train and deploy a neural tone mapper using the ML command encoder inline with the graphics work.
8:12
System ServicesSystem Services

Find your accessory with Bluetooth Channel Sounding

  • Introduces Channel Sounding to bring distance and direction awareness to Bluetooth accessories.
  • Covers the new Nearby Interaction and Core Bluetooth APIs plus the accessory-side changes needed for Channel Sounding.
  • Covers power optimization while keeping the accessory experience smooth and responsive.
23:46
App ServicesApp ServicesSwiftUI & UI Frameworks

Elevate your app’s text experience with TextKit

  • Shows how to combine the convenience of built-in text views with the control of TextKit.
  • Also covers TextKit architecture plus caching and reuse policies for text attachments.
  • To get the most out of this session, watch "Meet TextKit 2" from WWDC21 and "What New in TextKit and text views" from WWDC22.
7:39
SwiftUI & UI FrameworksSwiftUI & UI FrameworksApp Services

Unwrap PaperKit

  • Craft a canvas-based application with PaperKit.
  • Explains how to add custom controls and annotations, and covers best practices for integrating these features into an app to build a fully featured creative canvas.
  • The session moves through Data model, Elements, Adornments.
14:11
AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning

Create high-quality images using Image Playground

  • Enable high-quality image creation in an app using Image Playground.
  • With a new generative model that runs on Private Cloud Compute, users can make images in virtually any style, including photorealistic, in an app.
  • Developers can also specify dimensions for use in even more places, and allow people to modify images using natural language descriptions and touch.
9:59
App ServicesApp ServicesApp Store, Distribution & Marketing

Unlock in-game content with StoreKit and Background Assets

  • Covers native Apple In-App Purchases for a Unity game with the new StoreKit plug-in.
  • Reduce download sizes with the new Background Assets plug-in, which delivers language-specific asset packs so each player gets just what they need.
  • The session moves through Background Assets, Localized asset packs, Convert Steam depots to asset packs, Unity plug-ins, StoreKit and Background Assets sample code, Game presence.
13:57
Business & EducationBusiness & EducationPrivacy & Security

Meet Trust Insights

  • Shows how Trust Insights can help protect people from social scams and coercion.
  • Covers how this new framework uses privacy-preserving machine learning to detect when someone may be coached into risky actions.
  • Find out how to integrate Trust Insights into an app, interpret its signals, and design thoughtful interventions that safeguard people while respecting their privacy.
21:01
Developer ToolsDeveloper ToolsGraphics & Games

Find and fix performance issues in your Metal games

  • Track down hard-to-find game performance issues with powerful Metal tools.
  • Shows how to collect Metal game performance data with Instruments, metalperftrace on macOS, and Control Center traces on iOS.
  • Turn hours of telemetry into clear, actionable insights.
11:07
SwiftSwiftSystem Services

Discover container machines

  • Introduces container machines, a new tool included in Container that offers a lightweight persistent Linux environment on Mac.
  • Covers how container machines work and how the design of Containerization allows for a performant and seamless experience when developing for Linux on macOS.
  • The session moves through Containerization, Design principles, Container machine, Demo.
7:56
Business & EducationBusiness & EducationApp Store, Distribution & Marketing

Offer subscriptions to groups and organizations

  • Shows how to reach more customers by offering subscriptions to groups and organizations.
  • The Group Purchases feature lets a single subscriber buy multiple seats and invite others directly from an app.
  • Volume Purchasing through Apple Business and Apple School Manager puts the subscriptions in front of enterprise and education buyers who already procure apps at scale.
21:52
Graphics & GamesGraphics & GamesSpatial Computing

Supercharge your spatial workflows with Reality Composer Pro 3

  • Shows how to build rich interactivity and stunning visual effects entirely within Reality Composer Pro using its powerful suite of graph-based tools.
  • Explains how to craft dynamic materials with Shader Graph, blend skeletal animations with Animation Graph, and simulate particle effects with Compute Graph.
  • Go further by wiring up app interactivity with Script Graph, coordinating scene events with Sequencer, and designing intelligent NPC behaviors with Behavior Trees - all without.
1:24
EssentialsEssentials

Get ready for WWDC26

  • Summarizes everything Apple has to offer - and make the most of every session, lab, and moment.
  • Platform coverage: ios, ipados, macos, tvos, visionos, watchos.
5:52
EssentialsEssentials

Dub Dub Daily: Day 2

  • The biggest announcements of WWDC26, all in one place.
  • Catches up on the main announcements, the themes shaping the conference, and a guest discussion about Platforms State of the Union.
  • Key concepts include SOTU, YouTube, BiliBili, Core AI, Foundation Models, Private Cloud Compute.