WWDC21

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Accessibility

  • Create Accessible Experiences for watchOS

    Learn how to make your watchOS app more accessible.

    iOS watchOS

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  • Creating Accessible Views

    Make your app accessible to everyone by applying accessibility modifiers to your SwiftUI views.

    iOS macOS

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  • WWDC21 Challenge: Large Text Challenge

    Design for large text sizes by modifying the user interface.

    iOS

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  • WWDC21 Challenge: Speech Synthesizer Simulator

    Simulate a conversation using speech synthesis.

    iOS

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  • WWDC21 Challenge: VoiceOver Maze

    Navigate to the end of a dark maze using VoiceOver as your guide.

    iOS

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Audio & Video

  • Applying Biquadratic Filters to a Music Loop

    Change the frequency response of an audio signal using a cascaded biquadratic filter.

    macOS

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  • Building a Custom Catalog and Matching Audio

    Display lesson content that’s synchronized to a learning video by matching the audio to a custom reference signature and associated metadata.

    iOS

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  • Creating an Audio Device Driver

    Create a configurable audio input source as a driver extension that runs in user space.

    macOS DriverKit

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  • Creating an Audio Server Driver Plug-in

    Build a virtual audio device by creating a custom driver plug-in.

    macOS

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  • Playing Video Content in a Standard User Interface

    Play media fullscreen, embedded inline, or in a floating picture-in-picture window using a player view controller.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Supporting Coordinated Media Playback

    Create synchronized media experiences that enable users to watch and listen across devices.

    iOS

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  • Working with Overlays and Parental Controls in tvOS

    Add interactive overlays, parental controls, and livestream channel flipping using a player view controller.

    tvOS

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App Services

  • Booking Rides with SiriKit

    Add Intents extensions to your app to handle requests to book rides using Siri and Maps.

    iOS

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  • Build Mail App Extensions

    Create app extensions that block content, perform message and composing actions, and help message security.

    macOS

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  • Delivering Rich App Experiences with Haptics

    Enhance your app’s experience by incorporating haptic and sound feedback into key interactive moments.

    iOS

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  • Implementing a Store In Your App Using the StoreKit API

    Offer in-app purchases and manage entitlements using signed transactions and status information.

    iOS

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  • Implementing Proximity-Based Interactions Between Devices

    Learn how to interact with a nearby device by measuring the distance between a watch and a paired iPhone.

    iOS watchOS

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  • Implementing Spatial Interactions with Third-Party Accessories

    Establish a connection with a nearby accessory to begin periodically receiving its distance from the user’s device.

    iOS

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  • Loading and Displaying a Large Data Feed

    Consume data in the background, and lower memory use by batching imports and preventing duplicate records.

    iOS macOS

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  • Offering Apple Pay in Your App

    Collect payments with iPhone and Apple Watch using Apple Pay.

    iOS watchOS

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  • Providing Hands-Free App Control with Intents

    Resolve, confirm, and handle intents without an extension.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Soup Chef: Accelerating App Interactions with Shortcuts

    Make it easy for people to use Siri with your app by providing shortcuts to your app’s actions.

    iOS Mac Catalyst watchOS

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  • Using MusicKit to Integrate with Apple Music

    Find an album in Apple Music that corresponds to a CD in a user’s collection, and present the information associated with the album.

    iOS

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Augmented Reality

  • Building an Immersive Experience with RealityKit

    Use systems and postprocessing effects to create a realistic underwater scene.

    iOS

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  • Creating a Photogrammetry Command-Line App

    Generate 3D objects from images using RealityKit Object Capture.

    macOS

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  • Taking Pictures for 3D Object Capture

    Capture high-quality images with depth and gravity data to use with RealityKit Object Capture.

    iOS

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  • Tracking Geographic Locations in AR

    Track specific geographic areas of interest and render them in an AR experience.

    iOS

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  • WWDC21 Challenge: Framework Freestyle

    Create an AR experience that randomly selects a programming framework and maps it onto the user’s face.

    iOS

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Business and Distribution

  • Displaying an Indoor Map

    Use the Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) to show an indoor map with custom overlays and points of interest.

    iOS

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Developer Tools

  • SlothCreator: Building DocC Documentation in Xcode

    Build DocC documentation for a Swift package that contains a DocC Catalog.

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Graphics & Games

  • Adding Recurring Leaderboards to Your Game

    Encourage competition in your games by adding leaderboards that have a duration and repeat.

    iOS

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  • Control the Ray Tracing Process Using Intersection Queries

    Explicitly enumerate a ray’s intersections with acceleration structures by creating an intersection query object.

    iOS macOS

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  • Creating a Game with SceneUnderstanding

    Create AR games and experiences that interact with real-world objects on LiDAR-equipped iOS devices.

    iOS

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  • Processing HDR Images with Metal

    Implement a post-processing pipeline using the latest features on Apple GPUs.

    iOS macOS tvOS

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  • Recording and Streaming Your macOS App

    Share screen recordings, or broadcast live audio and video of your app, by adding ReplayKit to your macOS apps and games.

    macOS

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  • Rendering Reflections in Real Time Using Ray-Tracing

    Render realistic real-time lighting by dynamically generating reflection maps using a ray-tracing compute pass.

    macOS

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  • Supporting Game Controllers

    Add a virtual controller to your game that is an onscreen software emulation of a physical controller.

    iOS macOS tvOS

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Health & Fitness

  • Accessing Data from a SMART Health Card

    Query for and validate a verifiable clinical record.

    iOS

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  • Build a Workout App for Apple Watch

    Create your own workout app, quickly and easily, with HealthKit and SwiftUI.

    iOS watchOS

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ML & Vision

  • Applying Matte Effects to People in Images and Video

    Generate image masks for people automatically by using semantic person-segmentation.

    iOS

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  • Classifying Live Audio Input with a Built-in Sound Classifier

    Detect and identify hundreds of sounds by using a trained classifier.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Locating and Displaying Recognized Text

    Configure and perform text recognition on images to identify their textual content.

    macOS

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Photos & Camera

  • AVCam: Building a Camera App

    Capture photos with depth data and record video using the front and rear iPhone and iPad cameras.

    iOS

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  • AVCamBarcode: Detecting Barcodes and Faces

    Identify machine readable codes or faces by using the camera.

    iOS

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  • Selecting Photos and Videos in iOS

    Improve the user experience of finding and selecting assets by using the Photos picker.

    iOS

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Privacy & Security

  • Connecting to a Service with Passkeys

    Allow users to sign in to a service without typing a password.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Simplifying User Authentication in a tvOS App

    Build a fluid sign-in experience for your tvOS apps using AuthenticationServices.

    tvOS

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Safari & Web

  • Adopting Declarative Content Blocking in Safari Web Extensions

    Block web content with your web extension using the declarative net request API.

    iOS macOS

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  • Adopting New Safari Web Extension APIs

    Improve your web extension in Safari with a non-persistent background page and new tab-override customization.

    iOS macOS

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Swift

  • Updating an App to Use Swift Concurrency

    Improve your app’s performance by refactoring your code to take advantage of asynchronous functions in Swift.

    iOS watchOS

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SwiftUI & UI Frameworks

  • Add Rich Graphics to Your SwiftUI App

    Make your apps stand out by adding background materials, vibrancy, custom graphics, and animations.

    iOS macOS

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  • Adjust Your Layout with Keyboard Layout Guide

    Dynamically respond to keyboard movement by using the tracking features of the keyboard layout guide.

    iOS

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  • Adopting Drag and Drop in a Table View

    Demonstrates how to enable and implement drag and drop for a table view.

    iOS

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  • Building High-Performance Lists and Collection Views

    Improve the performance of lists and collections in your app with prefetching and image preparation.

    iOS

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  • Building a Great Mac App with SwiftUI

    Create engaging SwiftUI Mac apps by incorporating side bars, tables, toolbars, and several other popular user interface elements.

    macOS

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  • Building and Improving Your App with Mac Catalyst

    Improve your iPadOS app with Mac Catalyst by supporting native controls, multiple windows, sharing, printing, menus and keyboard shortcuts.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Customize and Resize Sheets in UIKit

    Discover how to customize sheets in UIKit.

    iOS

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  • Fruta: Building a Feature-Rich App with SwiftUI

    Create a shared codebase to build a multiplatform app that offers widgets and an App Clip.

    iOS macOS

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  • Navigating an App’s User Interface Using a Keyboard

    Navigate between user interface elements using a keyboard and focusable UI elements in iPad apps and apps built with Mac Catalyst.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Organize Your User Interface with a Stack View

    Group individual views in your app’s user interface into a scrollable stack view.

    macOS

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  • Restoring Your App’s State

    Provide continuity for the user by preserving current activities.

    iOS

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  • Using Suggested Searches with a Search Controller

    Create a search interface with a table view of suggested searches.

    iOS

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  • Using TextKit 2 to Interact with Text

    Interact with text by managing text selection and inserting custom text elements.

    macOS

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System Services

  • Connecting a Network Driver

    Create an Ethernet driver that interfaces with the system’s network protocol stack.

    macOS DriverKit

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  • Displaying Human-Friendly Content

    Convert data into readable strings or Swift objects using formatters.

    iOS macOS

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  • Encrypting and Decrypting a Single File

    Encrypt a single file and save the result to the file system, then decrypt and recreate the original file from the archive file using Apple Encrypted Archive.

    macOS

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  • Encrypting and Decrypting a String

    Encrypt the contents of a string and save the result to the file system, then decrypt and recreate the string from the archive file using Apple Encrypted Archive.

    macOS

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  • Encrypting and Decrypting Directories

    Compress and encrypt the contents of an entire directory or decompress and decrypt an archived directory using Apple Encrypted Archive.

    macOS

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  • Implementing Interactions Between Users in Close Proximity

    Enable devices to access relative positioning information.

    iOS

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  • Interacting with Bluetooth Peripherals During Background App Refresh

    Keep your complications up-to-date by reading values from a Bluetooth peripheral while your app is running in the background.

    iOS watchOS

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  • Receiving Voice and Text Communications on a Local Network

    Provide voice and text communication on a local network isolated from Apple Push Notification service by adopting Local Push Connectivity.

    iOS macOS

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  • Sharing CloudKit Data with Other iCloud Users

    Create and share private CloudKit data with other users by implementing the sharing UI.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Sharing Your Location to Find a Park

    Ask for location access using a customizable location button.

    iOS

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  • Showcase App Data in Spotlight

    ​Index app data so users can find it by using Spotlight search. ​​

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Synchronizing a Local Store to the Cloud

    Share data between a user’s devices and other iCloud users.

    iOS Mac Catalyst

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  • Syncing Files on macOS

    Create an extension to sync files to the cloud.

    macOS

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