You can now add your own controls to the control center

🔖 Works via App Intents

Syntax is similar to Intents, but you configure via ControlWidgetConfiguration

👶 SwiftUI animations can now be called in the UIKit. And custom animations too

🤝 Ready-to-use text formatter UI

You can customize which actions take how much space

Presented as a regular controller. Manage via delegates

New frm FinanceKit - you can pull transactions, balances and orders. But only from Apple Apple Card and Cash 🤷‍♂️

🐤 It would be cool to make a global API for finance trackers - a common protocol. Users would be able to migrate between apps, use different clients, etc.

Now that would be a breakthrough

You can apply for the featured directly at 👨‍💻 Connect. Will be added in autumn

Previously, the reviewers themselves decided for which featured and in which region, but now it is specified by the developer himself

Another cool thing is that you will be able to see the status of the application, whether it was approved or not

👨‍💻 Mobile Connect will have animation blanks for your updates

This could already be done on the web, here's a link to the configurator

What's new here is that media is generated in the mobile app and linked to events. We released a new version — here are ready-made sources for Instagram

👨‍💻 Now you need one screenshot pack for iPhone. If you have an iPad, one more for it. Available in the fall

Optionally you can upload all sizes like before

💡 TipKit has introduced sync via CloudKit, it is enough to specify the container ID:

try Tips.configure([
   .cloudKitContainer(
      .named("your-id")
   )
])

More tips can be queued (see screenshot). Works via TipGroup

🐤 Backward compatibility is not available, so although it's convenient - but don't touch

🏓 New framework for visionOS TabletopKit (visionOS 2.0+)

This is a prefab for tabletop games. The surface tracking and game classes are already ready, all you have to do is react to user actions

☑️ Sample project by url

💳 StoreKit has new Win-Back offers. If user cancel subscription — you offer him a discount

🐤 Who is experienced, knows - such systems doing manually. You track event, then send a push or mail. But it is a ready-made system

🏆 Optionally you can show the offer on the app page, in the search and even featured it (if Apple apply it)

Updated document-based apps homepage (see screenshot)

👔 Top header can be customized, but elements will be like on the screen - background, buttons, etc.

👶 If written in SwiftUI, there is no backward compatibility - you need DocumentGroupLaunchScene iOS 18+. If UIKit — you will get new homepage

New modal transition. For SwiftUI & UIKit. iOS 18+ of course

controller.preferredTransition = .zoom { _ in }

🐤 The concept is like Hero (here's url link if you haven't come across it), but Hero works better

💾 In the 3rd beta, they added a dark theme to all icons. Apple's apps on top and below with generated icons

🐤 Doesn't work perfectly for all icons, but still a great (developers won't be able to update the apps until September)

The iOS 18 design system has been released for 🎨 Figma

A lot of things are missing. There are more templates and elements in the Sketch. It's a beta, so more will be added

🎛 But Figma did a thoughtful thing - they added a relevant url to guides to each group of elements

🎛 How to add your controls to the Сontrol Сenter. The concept is the same as with Widgets and Live Activity

You create a new StaticControlConfiguration. If you remember, Widgets have their own configurator, LA has its own configurator too. And they are all next to each other

And Intents are responsible for actions as for Live Activity. Even the protocols are the same

🐤 Controls are basically widgets that can be resized. They could have made it a Widget and everything would work

You're unlikely to do apps for 🍎 tvOS, but there's a problem

Before tvOS 18, Tru-Way was TVML. This is something like SwiftUI — a declarative concept, and the UI is drawn by the system. There were even templates screens!

But now TVML has been deprecated, and the new true-way is 👶 SwiftUI

The problem is that SUI is fine for iOS, but for tvOS it’s a nasty and buggy thing. At WWDC they said that everything was fixed, but I don’t believe it at all

🎛 Live Activity is now available for Live Channels. You subscribe a user to a channel, your server sends 1 notification, and LA will be updated for everyone

Is that cool? Yeah. Update by timeline? Still not available

My review 🎟 wwdc24 is completed. If someone wants to read it first, here is a link to the first post. And also useful on the topic:

🤝 Text version of video sessions

📖 Summary by categories from Apple

🔨 Code examples from wwdc24

📦 Cocoapods is going into maintenance mode. Everything works, but they won't develop it

The team recommends switching to 📦 Swift Package Manager

💾 Presented iPhones with a shutter button. If you have a camera app, add new controls

🎛 Guides by the url. In short, remove the buttons on preview and move them to the new menu. For icons you can use only SF Symbols.

⚠️ The most important thing is that such controller is only for camera apps. It is possible to add it somewhere else, but it is trickly and potential HIG reject