June 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple supercharges its instruments and applied sciences for builders to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Entry to the on-device Apple Intelligence mannequin, massive language mannequin integration in Xcode, and a chic new software program design throughout Apple platforms give builders every little thing they should construct stunning trendy apps with velocity and confidence
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment introduced new applied sciences and enhancements to its developer instruments to assist builders create extra stunning, clever, and interesting app experiences throughout Apple platforms. A good looking new software program design brings extra focus to content material, and delivers extra expressive and pleasant experiences throughout iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26,1 whereas conserving all of them immediately acquainted. The Basis Fashions framework joins a set of instruments that permit builders to faucet into on-device intelligence, and Xcode 26 leverages massive language fashions like ChatGPT, giving them entry to Xcode’s Coding Instruments and different clever options.
These new assets be part of the in depth and repeatedly evolving set of applied sciences Apple affords builders, together with over 250,000 APIs that allow builders to combine their apps with Apple’s {hardware} and software program options. These APIs span a variety of capabilities, equivalent to machine studying, augmented actuality, well being and health, spatial computing, and high-performance graphics. With every platform launch, Apple expands and refines its applied sciences and instruments to help builders in bringing their concepts to life and delivering wealthy, responsive, and optimized experiences throughout Apple platforms.
“Builders play a significant position in shaping the experiences prospects love throughout Apple platforms,” stated Susan Prescott, Apple’s vice chairman of Worldwide Developer Relations. “With entry to the on-device Apple Intelligence basis mannequin and new intelligence options in Xcode 26, we’re empowering builders to construct richer, extra intuitive apps for customers in all places.”
New Design with Liquid Glass
The elegant new design offers builders the chance to make their apps extra expressive and pleasant, whereas being immediately acquainted. It’s crafted with a brand new software-based materials referred to as Liquid Glass, which mixes the optical qualities of glass with a way of fluidity. This beautiful new materials extends from the smallest components customers work together with daily — like buttons, switches, sliders, textual content, and media controls — to bigger components, together with tab bars and sidebars for navigating apps.
Native frameworks like SwiftUI give builders every little thing they should undertake the brand new design of their apps. The common design permits builders to convey larger focus to their customers’ content material, establishing a constant expertise when creating throughout Apple’s platforms.
With the all-new Icon Composer app, builders and designers are empowered to create visually charming app icons that improve their app’s id. This highly effective device helps create a constant visible id for app icons by annotating layers for a number of rendering modes, with superior options that embrace blurring, adjusting translucency, testing specular highlights, and previewing icons in varied tints.
Basis Fashions Framework
With the Basis Fashions framework, builders will be capable to construct on Apple Intelligence to convey customers new experiences which can be clever, accessible once they’re offline, and that defend their privateness, utilizing AI inference that is freed from value.
The framework has native help for Swift, so builders can simply entry the Apple Intelligence mannequin with as few as three strains of code. Guided technology, device calling, and extra are all constructed into the framework, making it simpler than ever to implement generative capabilities proper into an present app. For instance, Automattic is utilizing the framework in its Day One journaling app to convey customers privacy-centric intelligence options.
“The Basis Mannequin framework has helped us rethink what’s doable with journaling,” stated Paul Mayne, head of Day One at Automattic. “Now we are able to convey intelligence and privateness collectively in ways in which deeply respect our customers.”
Xcode 26
Xcode 26 is full of intelligence options and experiences to assist builders make their concepts a actuality.
Builders can join massive language fashions straight into their coding expertise to put in writing code, assessments, and documentation; iterate on a design; repair errors; and extra. Xcode has built-in help for ChatGPT, and builders can use API keys from different suppliers, or run native fashions on their Mac with Apple silicon, to decide on the mannequin that most closely fits their wants. Builders can begin utilizing ChatGPT in Xcode without having to create an account, and subscribers can join their accounts to entry extra requests.2
Coding Instruments assist builders keep within the circulation and be extra productive of their duties. Accessible from wherever in a developer’s code, Coding Instruments present steered actions like producing a preview or a playground, or fixing a difficulty, and may deal with particular prompts for different duties proper inline.
Xcode 26 comes with further options to maintain builders targeted and productive, like a redesigned navigation expertise, enhancements to the localization catalog, and improved help for Voice Management to dictate Swift code and navigate the Xcode interface completely by voice.
App Intents
App Intents lets builders deeply combine their app’s actions and content material with system experiences throughout platforms, together with Siri, Highlight, widgets, controls, and extra.
This yr, App Intents good points help for visible intelligence. This permits apps to supply visible search outcomes inside the visible intelligence expertise, permitting customers to go straight into the app from these outcomes. As an example, Etsy is leveraging visible intelligence to boost the person expertise in its iOS app by facilitating sooner and extra intuitive discovery of products and merchandise.
“At Etsy, our job is to seamlessly join consumers with inventive entrepreneurs around the globe who supply extraordinary objects — lots of that are arduous to explain. The power to fulfill consumers proper on their iPhone with visible intelligence is a significant unlock, and makes it simpler than ever for consumers to shortly uncover precisely what they’re searching for whereas straight supporting small companies,” stated Etsy CTO Rafe Colburn.
Swift 6.2
Swift 6.2 introduces highly effective options to boost efficiency, concurrency, and interoperability with different languages like C++, Java, and JavaScript. And now, in collaboration with the open-source group, Swift 6.2 good points help for WebAssembly.
Constructing upon Swift 6’s strict concurrency checking, Swift 6.2 simplifies writing single-threaded code. Builders can now configure modules or particular person information to run on the principle actor by default, eliminating the necessity for extra annotations.
Containerization Framework
The Containerization framework allows builders to create, obtain, or run Linux container photos straight on Mac. It’s constructed on an open-source framework optimized for Apple silicon and offers safe isolation between container photos.
Instruments and Assets for Video games
Recreation Porting Toolkit 3 offers builders with up to date instruments for evaluating and profiling their sport. Builders can now customise the Steel Efficiency HUD, and get onscreen insights and steering for optimizing graphics code for the very best efficiency within the analysis surroundings. And builders can use Mac Distant Developer Instruments for Home windows to construct Mac video games on a distant Mac of their present improvement workflows.
Steel 4 is designed completely for Apple silicon, and units the stage for the following technology of video games on Apple platforms with help for superior graphics and machine studying applied sciences.
Builders can now run inference networks straight of their shaders to compute lighting, supplies, and geometry, enabling extremely sensible visible results for his or her video games. MetalFX Body Interpolation generates an intermediate body for each two enter frames to realize larger and extra secure body charges, and MetalFX Denoising makes real-time ray tracing and path tracing doable in essentially the most superior video games.
The Apple Video games app offers gamers a brand new all-in-one vacation spot for all of their video games and the buddies they play them with on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It additionally introduces a brand new devoted app for builders to reengage their present gamers and entice new ones.
Challenges give gamers a brand new strategy to compete with buddies in score-based showdowns, turning single-player video games into shared experiences. Builders which have Recreation Middle leaderboards for his or her video games can simply add challenges, providing gamers much more methods to rally a gaggle, crown a winner, and have a rematch.
Recreation Overlay enhances in-game engagement by integrating Recreation Middle options straight into gameplay. Gamers can entry their subsequent achievement and up to date scores, and see which buddies are at present enjoying, making it straightforward to begin a chat — all with out leaving the sport. Gamers may modify settings and look at the most recent In-App Occasions, conserving them related and in management with out breaking immersion.
Managed Background Property simplifies asset internet hosting for builders, giving them management over how their app or sport downloads property. Builders can self-host or go for Apple-Hosted Background Property, the place Apple handles internet hosting. Each Apple Developer Program membership consists of 200GB of Apple internet hosting capability for the App Retailer. Apple-Hosted Background Property will be submitted individually from an app construct.
Instruments to Assist Shield Children On-line
To make sure children have satisfying, enriching, and applicable in-app experiences, builders can make the most of a variety of instruments — together with parental controls and the Delicate Content material Evaluation framework — to boost little one security and guarantee privateness. Constructing on these present instruments, builders can use the brand new Declared Age Vary API to ship age-appropriate content material based mostly on a person’s age vary. When builders implement this API, dad and mom can permit their youngsters to share their age vary with out disclosing a birthdate or different delicate info, enabling builders to tailor experiences accordingly. The characteristic is constructed round privateness: Age vary information is shared provided that dad and mom select to permit it, and so they can disable sharing at any time.
New App Retailer Accessibility and App Retailer Join Options
New Accessibility Vitamin Labels for App Retailer product pages assist customers study which accessibility options are supported earlier than they obtain an app or sport.
Builders can now share info in App Retailer Join about their app or sport’s help, equivalent to whether or not it consists of VoiceOver, Voice Management, Bigger Textual content, Captions, and extra. An Accessibility Vitamin Label will seem on their app’s product web page, particular to every platform it helps. Builders may add a URL on their app’s App Retailer product web page that hyperlinks customers to a web site with extra particulars.
The App Retailer Join app on iOS and iPadOS has been up to date to let builders view TestFlight screenshots and crash suggestions, along with receiving push notifications when beta testers present suggestions. The App Retailer Join API helps these enhancements, and introduces the flexibility for builders to create webhooks to get real-time updates, and help for Apple-Hosted Background Property and Recreation Middle configuration.
Availability
At this time’s updates be part of the ever-expanding assortment of clever and highly effective instruments and applied sciences Apple offers to builders. The Apple Intelligence options detailed require supported units, which embrace all iPhone 16 fashions, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPad mini (A17 Professional), and iPad and Mac fashions with M1 and later which have Apple Intelligence enabled and Siri and machine language set to the identical supported language: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese language (simplified). Extra languages might be coming by the top of this yr: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese language (conventional), and Vietnamese. For extra info, go to apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to vary. Some options is probably not accessible in all languages or areas, and availability might fluctuate attributable to native legal guidelines and laws. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
All of those options can be found for testing beginning at the moment via the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta might be accessible via the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At this time, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
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