APPLE VISION PRO APPS FOR ENTERPRISEIt’s one of the most memorable images from JigSpace’s early Apple Vision Pro explorations: A life-size Alfa Romeo C43 Formula 1 car, dark cherry red, built to scale, reflecting light from all around, and parked right...

Games simply don’t get much cuter than Kimono Cats, a casual cartoon adventure about two cats on a date (awww) that creator Greg Johnson made as a present for his wife. “I wanted to make a game she and I could play together,” says the Maui-based indie ...

Businesses of all kinds and sizes are exploring the possibilities of the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro — and realizing ideas that were never before possible. We caught up with two of those companies — JigSpace and PTC — to find out how they’re ap...

Discover the languages, tools, and frameworks you’ll need to build and test your apps in visionOS. Explore examples across productivity and collaboration, simulation and training, and guided work. Dive into workflows for creating or converting existing...

Apple is proud to support and uplift the next generation of student developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. The Swift Student Challenge has given thousands of students the opportunity to showcase their creativity and coding capabilities through app pl...

Ready to level up your app or game? Join us around the world for a new set of developer labs, consultations, sessions, and workshops, hosted in person and online throughout November and December.You can explore:
App Store activities: Learn about discov...

The App Store’s commerce and payments system was built to enable you to conveniently set up and sell your products and services on a global scale in 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. Apple administers tax on behalf of developers in over 70 countrie...

The beta versions of iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, macOS 14.2, tvOS 17.2, and watchOS 10.2 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And to take advantage of the advancements in the latest SDKs, make sure to...

TestFlight provides an easy way to get feedback on beta versions of your apps, so you can publish on the App Store with confidence. Now, improved controls in App Store Connect let you better evaluate tester engagement and manage participation to help y...

Watch the October 30 event at apple.com.

The Push Notifications Console now includes metrics for notifications sent in production through the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). With the console’s intuitive interface, you’ll get an aggregated view of delivery statuses and insights into va...

We’re thrilled with the excitement and enthusiasm from developers around the world at the Apple Vision Pro developer labs, and we’re pleased to announce new labs in New York City and Sydney. Join us to test directly on the device and connect with Apple...

The team behind Plex has a brilliant strategy for dealing with bugs and addressing potential issues: Find them first.
“We’ve got a pretty good process in place,” says Steve Barnegren, Plex senior software engineer on Apple platforms, “and when that’s t...

Steffan Glynn’s Automatoys is a mix between a Rube Goldberg machine and a boardwalk arcade game — and there’s a very good reason why.
In 2018, the Cardiff-based developer visited the Musée Mécanique, a vintage San Francisco arcade packed with old-time...

Find out about our latest activities (including more Apple Vision Pro developer lab dates), learn how the Plex team embraced Xcode Cloud, discover how the inventive puzzle game Automatoys came to life, catch up on the latest news, and more.Meet with Ap...

The beta versions of iOS 17.1, iPadOS 17.1, macOS 14.1, tvOS 17.1, and watchOS 10.1 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And to take advantage of the advancements in the latest SDKs, make sure to...

Join us around the world for a variety of sessions, consultations, labs, and more — tailored for you.Apple developer activities are for everyone, no matter where you are on your development journey. Activities take place all year long, both online and ...

Offering your app or game for pre-order is a great way to build awareness and excitement for your upcoming releases on the App Store. And now you can offer pre-orders on a regional basis. People can pre-order your app in a set of regions that you choos...

iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, tvOS 17, and watchOS 10 will soon be available to customers worldwide. Build your apps and games using the Xcode 15 Release Candidate and latest SDKs, test them using TestFlight, and submit them for review to the App St...

Apple Entrepreneur Camp supports underrepresented founders and developers, and encourages the pipeline and longevity of these entrepreneurs in technology. Building on the success of our alumni from cohorts for female*, Black, and Hispanic/Latinx founde...

A brand‑new App Store will launch with Apple Vision Pro, featuring apps and games built for visionOS, as well as hundreds of thousands of iPad and iPhone apps that run great on visionOS too. Users can access their favorite iPad and iPhone apps side by ...

Watch the replay from September 12 at apple.com.

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support upcoming features and updated policies, and to provide clarification. The revisions include:

Definitions, Section 3.3.39: Specified requirements for use of the Journaling Sugges...

As CEO of Flexibits, the team behind successful apps like Fantastical and Cardhop, Michael Simmons has spent more than a decade minding every last facet of his team’s work. But when he brought Fantastical to the Apple Vision Pro labs in Cupertino this ...

As announced in April, your customers will soon be able to resolve payment issues without leaving your app, making it easier for them to stay subscribed to your content, services, and premium features.Starting August 14, 2023, if an auto-renewable subs...

Apple is committed to protecting user privacy on our platforms. We know that there are a small set of APIs that can be misused to collect data about users’ devices through fingerprinting, which is prohibited by our Developer Program License Agreement. ...

Join us for online sessions August 1 through 24 to learn about the latest App Store features and get your questions answered. Live presentations with Q&A are being held in multiple time zones and languages.
Explore App Store pricing upgrades, inclu...

Apple Vision Pro compatibility evaluationsWe can help you make sure your visionOS, iPadOS, and iOS apps behave as expected on Vision Pro. Align your app with the newly published compatibility checklist, then request to have your app evaluated directly ...

The App Store’s commerce and payments system was built to empower you to conveniently set up and sell your products and services on a global scale in 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. When tax regulations or foreign exchange rates change, we someti...

The App Store was created to be a safe and trusted place for users to get apps, and a great business opportunity for developers. Apple platforms and the apps you build have become important to many families, as children use our products and services to...

Now it’s even easier to design your apps quickly and accurately with new and updated design resources for creating apps on Apple platforms.

visionOS design library and templates for Figma and Sketch.


iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 design kits for Figma and Sk...

You can now start creating cutting-edge spatial computing apps for the infinite canvas of Apple Vision Pro. Download Xcode 15 beta 2, which includes the visionOS SDK and Reality Composer Pro (a new tool that makes it easy to preview and prepare 3D cont...

With the visionOS SDK, developers worldwide can begin designing, building, and testing apps for Apple Vision Pro.
For Ryan McLeod, creator of iOS puzzle game Blackbox, the SDK brought both excitement and a little nervousness. “I didn’t expect I’d ever...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for an amazing week. We hope you found value, connection, and fun. You can continue to:
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The final day of WWDC is upon us — but before we power down, here's a look at some of the activities and sessions available today.Get ready for day fiveWe’ve saved some of the best for last. Pop into Slack to learn more about Metal, meet some super Swi...

Every year, the Swift Student Challenge recognizes students all over the world who’ve created remarkable app playgrounds.
The 2023 edition drew submissions from more than 30 countries and regions, and covered topics as varied as healthcare, sports, en...

Day four is here — and a fresh round of sessions, labs, and activities await.Get started with labs and sessionsCurious about the difference between the Shared Space and a Full Space in visionOS? Want to learn more about Observable? There’s a Q&A fo...

Browse new and updated documentation and sample code to learn about the latest technologies, frameworks, and APIs introduced at WWDC23. You’ll find new ways to enhance your apps targeting the latest platform releases.
Explore highlights of new technolo...

Two days are in the books — and there’s so much more to come. Get ready for another big day at WWDC.Dive into sessions and activitiesStart off in Slack, where you can connect with Apple engineers and designers on spatial design, WidgetKit, machine lear...

Welcome to day two of WWDC! There’s more than ever to explore this week: Xcode is getting updated, SwiftUI is getting animated, and — did we mention? — apps are getting a lot more spatial. Here’s a guide to what happened yesterday and what’s on tap tod...

Online labs and activities are a great way to connect with Apple engineers, designers, and experts all week long.One-on-one labsGet personalized guidance about development basics, complex concepts, and everything in between. Learn how to implement new ...

Every year, the Behind the Design series takes a special look at the remarkable teams behind the Apple Design Award-winning apps and games. Read on to meet 12 incredible teams from around the world and learn how they brought their winning ideas to life...

As a kid, Universe founder Joseph Cohen loved nearly everything about the internet: how it brought people together, created avenues for his twin passions of creativity and commerce, and democratized the flow of information. “I grew up in New York,” Coh...

MARVEL SNAP reboots the entire collectible card game universe.
The game is stacked with incredible visuals, a multiverse of gameplay variations, and a “snap” mechanic — a double-or-nothing bet — that’s as simple as it is revolutionary. It’s got an ency...

What makes Duolingo such an engaging way to learn a language? The answer is hiding in plain sight. “The secret to Duolingo is that we’re not an education company. We’re a fun and motivation company,” says Ryan Sims, VP of design. “Fun is the most impor...

At first glance, Evan Kice’s Afterplace appears to have time-traveled from the late 1980s. It’s a 2D top-down pixelated adventure game full of blocky characters, blippy music, and retro typefaces. If you were ever into the games of the era — and Kice v...

When Swupnil Sahai started creating SwingVision, he had no app-building experience — but he’d played a lot of tennis.
“The initial idea was, ‘Maybe we can use the accelerometer and gyroscope on Apple Watch to figure out how fast I’m swinging, and mayb...

Few apps have made mindfulness as accessible as Headspace.
More than a decade since its launch, the app continues to set the standard for mental health apps — an especially notable accomplishment, as it can be difficult to communicate challenging topic...

Workout tracking has never looked — or felt — like it does in Any Distance.
“We’re building something for everyone, not just athletes,” says Luke Beard, the Atlanta-based designer who created this Swift app with engineer Daniel Kuntz. “We’re not athlet...

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. Learn about the 2023 winning apps and the talented developers behind them.D...

For all its many genres and styles, the gaming world has been awfully threadbare when it comes to experiences about embroidery. That all changes with stitch., a charming cross between casual puzzler, meditative exercise, and afternoon craft project — a...

Flighty might be the easiest thing travelers navigate on their entire trip. “Travel can be a high-stress situation,” says Ryan Jones, the Austin-based developer who founded the app in 2019. “We want Flighty to work so well that it feels almost boringly...

Evil has never looked better than it does in Resident Evil Village.
The AAA horror adventure is a masterpiece of visual detail on Mac, a feast of creepy castles, decrepit factories, and majestically gothic villains. The game’s bleak village is thick wi...

For a creative guy, Luke Spierewka, founder of the Poland-based game studio Afterburn, is certainly a fan of limitations.
“We make comfy puzzle games that convey an idea quickly,” he says, “but they’re all about using a limited amount of something, wh...

Endling is all about survival in a changed world — and it’s a powerful mix of medium and message.
The game is a gorgeous adventure in which you play as a fox navigating a land charred by environmental disaster and human impact. Endling is not subtle — ...

What’s it like to develop for visionOS? For Karim Morsy, CEO and co-founder of Algoriddim, “it was like bringing together all of the work we've built over many years.”
Algoriddim’s Apple Design Award-winning app djay has long pioneered new ways for mus...

Get ready to design and build an entirely new universe of apps and games for Apple Vision Pro. Find out how developers of apps like djay, Blackbox, JigSpace, and XRHealth are starting to build for spatial computing.
We'll show you how you can prepare f...

Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms. With an incredible new opportunity in spatial computing in visionOS, new features in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, and major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools and services...