11-30-22 -

Get your apps ready for the holidays
The busiest season on the App Store is almost here! Make sure your apps and product pages are up to date and ready in advance of the upcoming holidays. We’re pleased to remain open throughout the season again this year and look forward to accep...

11-28-22 -

App Store Awards 2022
For over a decade, the App Store editorial team has taken a moment at the end of the year to celebrate the very best apps and games. We’ve heralded the work of individual self-taught developers and huge international teams. With so many wonderfu...

11-28-22 -

Congratulations to the App Store Award winners
Every year, the App Store editorial team celebrates exceptional apps that improve people’s lives while showcasing the highest levels of technical innovation, user experience, design, and positive cultural impact. Join us in celebrating the work...

11-28-22 -

Theres still time to meet with App Store experts
Connect with experts online to learn how to make the most of App Store features. Discover how to attract new customers, test marketing strategies, add subscriptions, and so much more. Live presentations with Q&A are being held through Dec...

11-19-22 -

Q&A: 10 Questions with Design Evangelism
For the inaugural edition of Ask Apple, members of our Design Evangelism team got together to answer your Slack questions about design philosophy, color guidelines, keyboard shortcuts, and much more. Here are a few highlights from that conversatio...

11-08-22 -

A new week of Ask Apple starts November 14
Join us for another exciting week of the Ask Apple developer series, where you can connect directly with Apple experts. Ask about integrating the latest technologies into your apps, designing intuitive UIs, testing on the latest software, and so ...

10-28-22 -

Spotlight on: The Dynamic Island
Shape-shifting animations. Effervescent effects. And a downright playful name. “I genuinely wasn’t expecting [the Dynamic Island],” says Christian Selig, developer of popular Reddit client Apollo. “That’s what blew me away: It’s just n...

10-25-22 -

Get ready with the latest beta releases
The beta versions of iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, tvOS 16.2, and watchOS 9.2 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, mak...

10-25-22 -

New ad placements from Apple Search Ads now available on the App Store
Apple Search Ads makes it easy to promote your app on the App Store. And now with new Today tab and product page ad placements, you can drive discovery of your app in more moments across the App Store — when customers first arrive, search for...

10-24-22 -

Meet with App Store experts
Get ready to connect with experts online to learn how to make the most of App Store features. Discover how to attract new customers, test marketing strategies, add subscriptions, and so much more. Live presentations with Q&A will be held ...

10-24-22 -

SKAdNetwork 4.0 now available
The SKAdNetwork API lets advertisers measure the success of advertisements by attributing app installations to specific ad campaigns — all while maintaining user privacy. It supports multiple ad formats, including static images, videos, audio, a...

10-24-22 -

App Store Review Guideline updates now available
The App Store Review Guidelines have been updated to support new features in upcoming OS releases, better protect customers, and help your apps go through the review process as smoothly as possible. Revised in Before You Submit: “Provide App R...

10-18-22 -

App Store submissions now open for iOS16.1 and iPadOS16.1
iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, the world’s most advanced mobile operating systems, will soon be available to customers worldwide. Take advantage of Live Activities to help people stay on top of what’s happening live in your app, right from the Lo...

10-18-22 -

App Store submissions now open for watchOS9.1
Integrate new and powerful communication features in your app with watchOS 9. Deliver timely information with rich complications on more Apple Watch faces, enable sharing of your app content, let users make VoIP calls directly from Apple Watch,...

10-18-22 -

Mac App Store submissions now open for macOSVentura
macOS Ventura makes the things you do most on Mac even better, with powerful new ways to get more done, share and collaborate in your favorite apps, immerse yourself in next‑level games, and take full advantage of your other devices. Machine lea...

10-18-22 -

App Store submissions now open for tvOS16.1
Integrate your tvOS app with your iOS, iPadOS, or watchOS app to unlock new experiences on Apple TV. Adopt multiuser support to make it easier for people to enjoy your Apple TV app with improved system integration for user profiles, and customiz...

10-13-22 -

Apple Entrepreneur Camp applications now open
Apple Entrepreneur Camp supports underrepresented founders and developers with app-driven organizations as they build the next generation of cutting-edge apps and helps form a global network that encourages the pipeline and longevity of these entr...

10-11-22 -

Introducing Ask Apple
Join us for Ask Apple, a new series for developers to connect directly with Apple experts. Ask about integrating the latest technologies into your apps, designing intuitive UIs, testing on the latest software, and so much more.Ask Apple runs for ...

10-10-22 -

What's new in Camera and Photos
Discover how you can build rich photography apps with the latest Camera capture capabilities and by integrating with the system Photos library. We’ll take you through updates to the built-in Photos Picker, PhotoKit framework, and Camera APIs for...

10-10-22 -

Explore Live Activities and the Dynamic Island
Live Activities display your app’s most current data on the iPhone Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, helping people keep track of tasks and events that they care about. Discover how you can use ActivityKit to build compelling Live Activitie...

10-10-22 -

What's new in watchOS
Apple Watch development has never been simpler with watchOS 9: Discover how you can more easily accomplish common tasks in Xcode, including file management and icon design. Explore the latest native controls like sharing features and steppers, che...

10-10-22 -

Glance at WidgetKit
Learn how you can create great glanceable experiences with WidgetKit. We’ll show you how you can build a complication for Apple Watch and provide the same great experience for the iPhone Lock Screen. Discover how you can migrate your complicatio...

10-10-22 -

Dive deep with SwiftUI
Whether you’re creating a new app or adding features like Swift Charts or widgets to an existing project, discover how the latest updates to SwiftUI can help you build powerful and flexible user interfaces. Explore improvements to SwiftUI’s sy...

10-10-22 -

Get started with App Intents
Learn how you can speed up common tasks for people using your app when you use the App Intents framework. Discover how you can programmatically bring your app’s content and functionality to system services like Siri and the Shortcuts app. We’l...

10-10-22 -

Get started with Swift concurrency
Swift offers built-in support for asynchronous and concurrent code to help you optimize parallelization of tasks — especially on machines with more cores. With Swift concurrency, you can ensure small tasks that require UI updates can be prioriti...

09-19-22 -

Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-apppurchases
As early as October 5, 2022, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Chile, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Sweden, Vietnam, and all territories that u...

09-19-22 -

Behind the Design: Rebel Girls
Like the groundbreaking women it spotlights, the Rebel Girls app has a remarkable story. It began a mere six years ago with a book called Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Written and art-directed by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo, the prem...

09-14-22 -

Develop for Live Activities with iOS16.1beta and Xcode14.1beta
Discover how you can build Live Activities for your apps using the new ActivityKit framework, now available in iOS 16.1 beta and Xcode 14.1 beta. Live Activities help people keep track of your app’s content with real time updates. Your app...

09-14-22 -

Get ready with the latest beta releases
The beta versions of Xcode 14.1, iOS 16.1, iPadOS 16.1, tvOS 16.1, and watchOS 9.1 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, mak...

09-12-22 -

WeatherKit subscriptions now available
WeatherKit brings valuable weather information to your apps and services through a wide range of data that can help people stay up to date, safe, and prepared. It’s easy to use WeatherKit in your apps for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16...

09-12-22 -

Behind the Design: Overboard!
The murder mystery game Overboard! is a whodunit with a killer twist: You done it… and now you have to get away with it. In Overboard!, you play not as the detective but the murderer most foul — Veronica Villensey, a fading 1930s starlet who�...

09-08-22 -

Get ready for iOS 16, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9
Now that you’ve watched September's Apple Event, get ready for the release of iOS 16, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9. Learn how you can submit apps for each platform and explore how you can support the latest software features in your apps and games. Su...

08-30-22 -

Xcode Cloud subscriptions now available
Xcode Cloud, the continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode, accelerates the development and delivery of high-quality apps. Get started by configuring a workflow in Xcode and receive 25 compute hours per month at no cost until th...

08-29-22 -

The Xcode Cloud toolkit
Build, test, and distribute great apps using Apple’s continuous integration and delivery service, Xcode Cloud. This toolkit provides you with all the information you need to manage and optimize your workflow. Learn how to set up your first workf...

08-29-22 -

Behind the Design: (Not Boring) Habits
Few things are more emotionally gratifying than checking something off a to-do list (well, for some of us, anyway). But if that sort of thing pleases you currently, wait until you get a load of the (Not Boring) Habits approach. The app’s checkb...

08-26-22 -

WWDC22 video subtitles now in more languages
You can now watch the Keynote, Platforms State of the Union, and nearly 200 sessions from this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference with Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese subtitles. Available on the web or the Apple Developer�...

08-24-22 -

Apple Event: September 7
Join us for a special Apple Event on September 7 at 10 a.m. PT. Watch it live at apple.com.

08-22-22 -

Behind the Design: Lego Star Wars: Castaways
The world of Lego Star Wars: Castaways contains many wonders — amazing animation, delightful storylines, and pitch-perfect physical comedy. Perhaps the most impressive among them, however, is this: If you had a big enough pile of bricks (and a b...

08-19-22 -

Upcoming tax and price changes for apps and in-app purchases
Starting next week, prices of apps and in-app purchases (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) on the App Store will increase in Ghana and Turkey. In Ghana, these increases also consider a new value-added tax of 12.5% and additional levies of ...

08-15-22 -

Behind the Design: Slopes
It is a demonstrable fact of app development that most great ideas arrive in late-night diners. At least, that’s how it went for Curtis Herbert — creator and mastermind behind the ski-tracking app Slopes. One evening during a winter trip to t...

08-09-22 -

Theres still time to meet with App Store experts
Connect with experts online to learn how to make the most of App Store features. Discover how to attract new customers, test marketing strategies, add subscriptions, and so much more. Live presentations with Q&A are being held throughout ...

08-08-22 -

Behind the Design: Marvel Future Revolution
Marvel Future Revolution pulls off a balancing act that’s nothing short of heroic. Netmarble’s open-world superhero MMORPG is a massive Marvel mashup that unites heroes and villains from all universes, timelines, and realities for a giant free...

08-01-22 -

Apple Entrepreneur Camp applications open for female, Black, and Hispanic/Lat...
Apple Entrepreneur Camp supports underrepresented founders and developers of app-driven organizations as they build the next generation of cutting-edge apps and helps form a global network that encourages the pipeline and longevity of these entrep...

08-01-22 -

Behind the Design: Odio
Max Frimout is an audio engineer for Odio, and it’s his job to transport you and your ears to a different world. From his home studio in the Netherlands — stocked with keyboards, instruments, and a tangle of wires and boards more suited to a ...

07-27-22 -

Live Activities now available in beta
Live Activities help people stay on top of what’s happening in your app in real time, right from the Lock Screen. You can now get started with Live Activities and the new ActivityKit framework, which are available in the beta 4 version of iOS 16...

07-26-22 -

Meet with App Store experts
Get ready to connect with experts online to learn how to make the most of App Store features. Discover how to attract new customers, test marketing strategies, add subscriptions, and so much more. Live presentations with Q&A will be held t...

07-25-22 -

Behind the Design: Wylde Flowers
Lots of games defy easy explanation, but Wylde Flowers is a particularly rare bloom. This charming Apple Design Award-winning game is a cross-pollination of farming simulation, eerie mystery, optional love story, and exploration of tolerance and u...

07-19-22 -

Upcoming transition from the XML feed to the App Store Connect API
The App Store Connect REST API lets you customize and automate tasks across developer tools, giving you greater flexibility and efficiency in your workflows. Starting in November 2022, you’ll need to use this API instead of the XML feed to autom...

07-18-22 -

Behind the Design: Procreate
Procreate needs little introduction. For more than a decade, the world-class design app has served anyone looking to create high-caliber art: pro designers, calligraphers, influencers, schools making prom flyers, and pretty much everyone in betwee...

07-11-22 -

Behind the Design: A Musical Story
Press play on Charles Bardin’s A Musical Story, and you might find yourself traveling back in time. “It’s all about the freedom of ‘70s music,” says Bardin, the French composer/developer who created the Apple Design Award-winning game al...