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Starting today, organizations and educational institutions can purchase subscriptions to apps in volume with multiseat purchasing. This makes it easy for organizations that use Apple Business or Apple School Manager to discover and purchase your auto-renewable subscription. Organizations can purchase the seats they need through a single Apple In-App Purchase, then assign and manage those seats using their existing device management tools. Organizations can also add and remove seats at any tim

The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification.App Review Guidelines
Before You Submit: Added links to additional documentation.1.2: Clarified app content and app types that are subject to this guideline, and potential Developer Code of Conduct violation for failing to implement appropriate safeguards or remediating violations after notice.
2.3.14: New guideline covering creative assets.
2.5.19: New guideline clarifies long-sta

The App Review Guidelines are a core part of the safe and trusted experience that the App Store strives to offer users around the world — and the foundation of that trust is clear standards that are consistently enforced. As outlined in our App Review Guidelines, pornographic material has long been prohibited on the App Store — this includes apps that generate nudity or sexually explicit imagery, such as “nudification” apps that create sexual

iPhone Duo will be available to customers starting October 23, 2026. To get your apps and games ready today, you can:Build or recompile with XcodeRecompile existing apps with Xcode 27.1, which adds development support for iPhone Duo. Use Device Hub to visualize how your apps behave on iPhone Duo across all poses and orientations.
Get the latest version of Xcode
Register to attend an iPhone Duo workshop
Learn more about iPhone Duo
Prepare your App Store pro

Make your apps and games stand out with new creative assets on the App Store and asset management tools in App Store Connect.Market your app or game in new waysUse new creative assets on your product page headers and in search result assets to highlight your brand, promote seasonal offerings, showcase new content, and more. These new image and video assets complement your existing app previews and screenshots to give your app additional visibility across the App Store. Take a

We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function properly on the Mac. Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing history—without users’

The original Developer ID Certification Authority (Sub-CA) expires on February 1, 2027. Certificates issued by this authority will stop working on that date.What to do:
Check if you’re affected. In Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, look for certificates expiring on or before February 1, 2027. See Replacing Developer ID certificates issued from the previous Sub-CA for help identifying your certificate’s authority.Create a

Discover how you can expand the reach of your subscriptions with new features in iOS 27. You can start preparing today by making sure your apps use StoreKit 2 to handle your Apple In-App Purchases. Request access to Bundles and SuitesOffer multiple subscriptions as a single Apple In-App Purchase in your apps with new Bundles and Suites capabilities. With Bundles, people can access multiple subscriptions in one purchase — across a single app, multiple apps from the same

As part of agreements with select European competition authorities, Apple is introducing changes to its App Tracking Transparency framework in the European Union. Beginning with iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, developers will have the option to use an alternative version of the App Tracking Transparency system prompt in the EU. The requirements for when you must seek permission to track users will remain the same. Due to legal requirements, only the alternative version of the system pro

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27 will soon be available to customers worldwide, which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of the latest Apple technologies and innovations like Apple Intelligence, the Foundation Models framework, design updates, new App Store features, and more. Download the Xcode 27 Release Candidate. Build your apps and games using the latest SDKs, test with TestFligh

In 2020, we introduced Apple silicon for Mac computers, providing Rosetta as a translation layer during the transition period. As announced at WWDC last year, we’re now concluding this transition.What this means for developers who have macOS apps:
macOS 26.4 or later: Users may receive a system notification when launching apps that rely on Rosetta, alerting them to update to an Apple silicon native version.macOS 27: Final release to support Rosetta — Intel-only ap

Swiggy began as a humble food delivery service. Today, it’s India’s leading on-demand convenience platform, one that offers everything from groceries via Instamart to restaurant bookings via Dineout. And since 2024, it’s been powered by native tools that create seamless mobile experiences for an audience that numbers in the millions. We caught up with Swiggy’s iOS development team to discuss performance metrics, proactive technology adoption, and the surprising ways trans

Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com. What you need to do Developers with apps or websites that use Sign in with Apple should

Attachment 14 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been added to specify updated terms for apps in the European Union, including alternative distribution, alternative payments, and business terms.These terms will go into effect on October 1, 2026. Please review the changes and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms.Translations of the updated agreement will be available on the Apple Developer website within one month.

Apple is making changes to its business terms for apps in the European Union, following close collaboration with the European Commission. The changes reduce complexity by moving every developer that distributes apps in the EU to a single set of business terms.Under the new business terms, Apple will charge a commission on the sale of digital goods and services. The Core Technology Fee, a per-install fee for developers who achieve extraordinary scale, will be replaced by the Core Technology Commi

Apple generates appropriate age ratings based on your answers to the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect. In compliance with local regulatory requirements, apps in the Games and Entertainment categories distributed on the App Store in Korea receive a region-specific age rating based on these answers. We’re making two changes to age ratings in the Republic of Korea: one taking effect today and the other later this year. First, starting today, if your app has receive

As we announced in June, Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store. With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals to highlight your brand, seasonal offerings, exciting new content, and more. Your creative assets can be used across the App Store in multiple places, including your product page header, search results, In-App Events, and more.To help you plan your images and videos ahead of the fall launch, review our new App Store ass

As announced in June, new Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media.To support this, the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect now includes questions about your app’s social media capabilities. A social media capability is defined as the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with use

As part of a recent agreement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica), Apple is introducing changes to iOS that create new options for developers' apps in Brazil. Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, operate alternative app marketplaces, process app payments for digital goods and services outside of Apple In-App Purchase in iOS, and more. The new options for downloading apps f

Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com.New addresses generated for both features will be issued on the new domain. For example:
Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com.iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses, previously issued on icloud.com, will be issued on p

As we continue to refine our approach to image generation, the ImageCreator class is being discontinued and will no longer work in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27 or later. When we introduced the Image Playground framework, we included the ImageCreator class as a way for apps to generate images programmatically using the on-device image generation model.If your app uses the ImageCreator class, here's what to expect:
Beta OS releases: Your code will continue to co

What’s new in iPadOS 27Unlock the full potential of iPadOS.Foundation Models frameworkThe Foundation Models framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to the same on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence. You can now work with any language model, including Apple Foundation Models, cloud models like Claude and Gemini, or any other provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.Multimodal prompts let you pass images alongside text so your app can reason ab

What’s new in iOS 27Level up your iOS apps and games.Foundation Models frameworkThe Foundation Models framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to the same on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence. You can now work with any language model, including Apple Foundation Models, cloud models like Claude and Gemini, or any other provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.Multimodal prompts let you pass images alongside text so your app can reason about vi

Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms and create even more unique, intelligent experiences in your apps and games with major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools, and services. The latest SDKs bring incredible new features, including platform design refinements, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, and new AI development frameworks.Explore what’s newInstall the latest beta softwareBrowse documentation and sample code

New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media. Time Allowances are developed based on expert research and tailored to a child’s age to give parents a helpful starting point. Parents can adjust these settings based on what they determine is best for their child. Time Allowance categories are different from categori

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms.Apple Developer Program License Agreement
Sections 3.1, 14.8: Specified requirements for providing information and responding to questions about developer identity, including in the context of export compliance.
Definitions, Section 3.3.3(N): Clarif

What’s new in XcodeExplore the tools to build the next great apps and games.Xcode 27Bring your ideas to life faster using coding agents in Xcode, powered by the model of your choice. Customize Xcode to the way you work. Manage all your devices in one place with Device Hub. Refine your apps further with updates to performance and testing tools. And bring your app to even more people around the world with enhancements to localization.
Xcode's coding assistant now supports multiple ways of wo

What’s new in in watchOS 27Explore the latest in watchOS.Intelligent ExperiencesBring intelligent features to your apps with the Foundation Models framework — power glanceable summaries, workout feedback, and smart replies while keeping user data private. Use the Vision framework on watchOS to bring image understanding to the wrist: smart-crop a photo so the subject fills the smaller display, or read a barcode from a saved document, all processed privately on device.What’s

What’s new in visionOS 27Learn to create for the infinite canvas.RealityKit enhancementsWith RealityKit, you can build interactive, high-fidelity spatial experiences that seamlessly blend with the real world.
This year, exciting new features make those experiences even more immersive.
Physical space lighting now blends virtual illumination with real-world environments, allowing virtual objects to cast light onto physical surfaces. When you combine this with the new Projective Textures

What’s new in SwiftUIDive into the latest features and capabilities of SwiftUI. The 2027 releases bring major upgrades to SwiftUI, a powerful new Document API, expanded toolbar controls, and significant performance improvements to build times and data flow.Xcode 27 agent skillsXcode 27 helps you adopt new SwiftUI APIs and best practices with a set of skills that you can use in the coding assistant. The skills apply SwiftUI conventions throughout your code, and guide you through the new API

What’s new in in SwiftDiscover updates to Swift and related tools and frameworks.Swift 6.4Swift 6.4 delivers improvements designed for developers at every level. A set of ergonomic refinements remove everyday friction, including simplified availability syntax with anyAppleOS and finer-grained control over warnings with the @diagnose attribute. Asynchronous code is now supported in defer statements, guaranteeing cleanup runs whether a function returns or throws. A new iteration protocol ext

What’s new in MetalExplore the latest in Metal tools, technologies, and resources.Do more with Metal 4.1
New quantized tensor formats and support for scale factors allow you to easily express quantized data. Leverage native support in Metal performance primitives to efficiently compress weights and take advantage of the Neural Accelerators on the M5 Pro and M5 Max.Optimize custom machine learning operations with Metal tensorsBoost your graphics performance with the M5 and A19 GPU

What’s new in macOS 27Take full advantage of the powerful capabilities of Mac.Foundation Models frameworkThe Foundation Models framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to the same on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence. You can now work with any language model, including Apple Foundation Models , cloud models like Claude and Gemini, or any other provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.Multimodal prompts let you pass images alongside text so yo

What’s new in AI & Machine learningBring personal intelligence to your apps.Foundation Models frameworkThe Foundation Models Framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to the same on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence. You can now work with any language model, including Apple Foundation Models, cloud models like Claude and Gemini, or any other provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.Multimodal prompts let you pass images alongside text so your a

What’s new in GamesCreate the next generation of games.Game Porting Toolkit 4Game Porting Toolkit 4 dramatically cuts the time, effort, and cost of bringing your game to Apple platforms.
A new companion repository on Apple's GitHub brings together open-source agent skills and sample code to help you leverage AI coding agents throughout the porting process, so you can produce higher-quality ports and ship on Apple platforms faster.
New agent skills provide best practices and deep Metal know

What’s new in DesignExplore the latest design guidance and resources.Platform design and Liquid GlassApple platforms have a unified language that elevates the content people care about most. It maintains the distinct qualities that make each platform unique and makes apps feel expressive, delightful, and focused.New platform design refinements improve consistency, readability, and accessibility, and introduce ways for apps to adapt across devices and screen sizes. And new and updated desig

What’s new in Apple IntelligenceDive into the latest Apple Intelligence technologies and capabilities.Foundation Models frameworkThe Foundation Models Framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to the same on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence. You can now work with any language model, including Apple Foundation Models, cloud models like Claude and Gemini, or any other provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.
Multimodal prompts let you pass ima

App Store What’s NewDive into powerful new tools to help you distribute and market your apps and games like never before. New creative assets enable richer app presentation with images and videos across the App Store, while expanded subscription options — including group purchases, volume purchasing, and 12-month commitment plans — offer more flexibility for monetization. Plus, new tools that make it easier to build and distribute your games on Apple platforms, as well as help

Due to a recent court ruling lifting an injunction on Texas law SB 2420, new Apple Accounts in Texas are now subject to the law, which introduced age assurance requirements for app marketplaces and developers. As previously announced, this includes age assurance and parent or guardian consent on behalf of minors under the age of 18 for downloads, Apple In-App Purchases, and significant changes associated with an app. Parents or guardians will also be able to revoke their consent for any app

Apple Developer Centers are dedicated spaces designed for in-person developer sessions, labs, workshops, and appointments across a wide range of Apple technologies and platforms.With locations in Cupertino, Shanghai, Bengaluru, and Singapore, these purpose-built facilities bring expert guidance and hands-on learning directly to the developer community. Later this year, Apple will open its fifth Developer Center in Berlin, offering developers throughout Europe even greater access to Apple experts