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 sublime new software program design throughout Apple platforms give builders every thing they should construct lovely trendy apps with velocity and confidence
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment introduced new applied sciences and enhancements to its developer instruments to assist builders create extra lovely, clever, and interesting app experiences throughout Apple platforms. A phenomenal 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 protecting all of them immediately acquainted. The Basis Fashions framework joins a collection 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 sources be a part of the in depth and repeatedly evolving set of applied sciences Apple gives 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, resembling 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,” mentioned Susan Prescott, Apple’s vp 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 all over the place.”
New Design with Liquid Glass
The elegant new design provides 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 attractive new materials extends from the smallest components customers work together with each day — 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 thing they should undertake the brand new design of their apps. The common design permits builders to carry 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 fascinating app icons that improve their app’s identification. This highly effective instrument helps create a constant visible identification 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 of construct on Apple Intelligence to carry 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 assist for Swift, so builders can simply entry the Apple Intelligence mannequin with as few as three traces of code. Guided technology, instrument 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 carry customers privacy-centric intelligence options.
“The Basis Mannequin framework has helped us rethink what’s doable with journaling,” mentioned Paul Mayne, head of Day One at Automattic. “Now we will carry 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 immediately into their coding expertise to write down code, checks, and documentation; iterate on a design; repair errors; and extra. Xcode has built-in assist 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 circulate and be extra productive of their duties. Accessible from wherever in a developer’s code, Coding Instruments present recommended actions like producing a preview or a playground, or fixing a problem, and also can deal with particular prompts for different duties proper inline.
Xcode 26 comes with further options to maintain builders centered and productive, like a redesigned navigation expertise, enhancements to the localization catalog, and improved assist for Voice Management to dictate Swift code and navigate the Xcode interface solely 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 12 months, App Intents features assist for visible intelligence. This allows apps to supply visible search outcomes inside the visible intelligence expertise, permitting customers to go immediately into the app from these outcomes. As an example, Etsy is leveraging visible intelligence to reinforce the consumer expertise in its iOS app by facilitating quicker and extra intuitive discovery of products and merchandise.
“At Etsy, our job is to seamlessly join customers with inventive entrepreneurs all over the world who supply extraordinary objects — lots of that are laborious to explain. The power to fulfill customers proper on their iPhone with visible intelligence is a significant unlock, and makes it simpler than ever for patrons to shortly uncover precisely what they’re in search of whereas immediately supporting small companies,” mentioned Etsy CTO Rafe Colburn.
Swift 6.2
Swift 6.2 introduces highly effective options to reinforce efficiency, concurrency, and interoperability with different languages like C++, Java, and JavaScript. And now, in collaboration with the open-source group, Swift 6.2 features assist 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 recordsdata to run on the primary actor by default, eliminating the necessity for added annotations.
Containerization Framework
The Containerization framework allows builders to create, obtain, or run Linux container pictures immediately on Mac. It’s constructed on an open-source framework optimized for Apple silicon and gives safe isolation between container pictures.
Instruments and Assets for Video games
Sport Porting Toolkit 3 gives builders with up to date instruments for evaluating and profiling their sport. Builders can now customise the Metallic Efficiency HUD, and get onscreen insights and steerage for optimizing graphics code for the very best efficiency within the analysis atmosphere. And builders can use Mac Distant Developer Instruments for Home windows to construct Mac video games on a distant Mac of their present growth workflows.
Metallic 4 is designed solely for Apple silicon, and units the stage for the subsequent technology of video games on Apple platforms with assist for superior graphics and machine studying applied sciences.
Builders can now run inference networks immediately 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 attain greater and extra steady body charges, and MetalFX Denoising makes real-time ray tracing and path tracing doable in probably the most superior video games.
The Apple Video games app provides 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 associates in score-based showdowns, turning single-player video games into shared experiences. Builders which have Sport Heart leaderboards for his or her video games can simply add challenges, providing gamers much more methods to rally a bunch, crown a winner, and have a rematch.
Sport Overlay enhances in-game engagement by integrating Sport Heart options immediately into gameplay. Gamers can entry their subsequent achievement and up to date scores, and see which associates are at the moment enjoying, making it straightforward to begin a chat — all with out leaving the sport. Gamers also can regulate settings and consider the newest In-App Occasions, protecting them linked 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 Youngsters On-line
To make sure children have pleasing, enriching, and acceptable in-app experiences, builders can make the most of a spread of instruments — together with parental controls and the Delicate Content material Evaluation framework — to reinforce baby 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 primarily based on a consumer’s age vary. When builders implement this API, mother and father can permit their youngsters to share their age vary with out disclosing a birthdate or different delicate data, enabling builders to tailor experiences accordingly. The characteristic is constructed round privateness: Age vary knowledge is shared provided that mother and father select to permit it, and so they can disable sharing at any time.
New App Retailer Accessibility and App Retailer Join Options
New Accessibility Diet 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 data in App Retailer Join about their app or sport’s assist, resembling whether or not it consists of VoiceOver, Voice Management, Bigger Textual content, Captions, and extra. An Accessibility Diet Label will seem on their app’s product web page, particular to every platform it helps. Builders also can 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 assist for Apple-Hosted Background Property and Sport Heart configuration.
Availability
As we speak’s updates be a part of the ever-expanding assortment of clever and highly effective instruments and applied sciences Apple gives 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 system language set to the identical supported language: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese language (simplified). Extra languages will likely be coming by the top of this 12 months: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese language (conventional), and Vietnamese. For extra data, go to apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to alter. Some options might not be accessible in all languages or areas, and availability could differ attributable to native legal guidelines and rules. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
All of those options can be found for testing beginning right this moment via the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta will likely 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. As we speak, 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 folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
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