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PRESS RELEASE June 7, 2021
Cupertino, California Apple today unveiled new tools and technologies designed to help developers create more engaging app experiences and make it even easier to build high-quality apps. Xcode Cloud brings together the multiple tasks and tools required to build, test, and deliver apps using powerful cloud services, enabling individual developers and teams to be more productive and provide great apps to their users. With In-App Events and Custom Product Pages, the App Store now provides all-new ways for developers to promote their apps and connect with users. Swift takes a massive leap forward with concurrency support built into the language, and augmented reality (AR) technologies make it easier than ever to build immersive content in apps or on the web.

Xcode Cloud

Additional Developer Tools and APIs

  • Xcode 13 adds powerful new team development features that are perfect for working with Xcode Cloud, as well as with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab collaboration features.
  • With SharePlay, popular apps like Disney+, ESPN+, HBO Max, Hulu, MasterClass, Paramount+, TikTok, and Twitch are building new types of shared experiences for users on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.1
  • Third-party video-calling apps can take advantage of the latest FaceTime enhancements, including Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum Audio, and Portrait mode.
  • Messaging apps including Slack and WeChat can now share user status in conversations; apps like Uber Eats can have Siri announce incoming messages; and new Notification APIs enable high-priority and communication notifications from apps like Chase Mobile and Zomato to break through Do Not Disturb or a Focus.
  • New camera APIs allow for better fused images and add the ability to capture high-quality stills and 1080p video in the same session.
  • Apple Watch developers like Breakpoint Studio, Pandora, Qardio, and more are now creating new app experiences that offer a deeper level of customization, and are more responsive to their users’ environment.
  • With TestFlight on the Mac, developers can test in-app purchases and other great Mac app features.
  • StoreKit 2, which ensures in-app purchases are safe and secure for customers, now features new APIs for handling product entitlements and subscriber status, and testing support in both Xcode and the Apple sandbox environment.
  • Web developers including Grammarly and Honey are now building extensions in Safari that are available across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Developers can even create new, powerful extensions in the Mail app.
  • Third-party navigation apps will be able to show a map view in a vehicle’s instrument cluster display, and a new CarPlay simulator for Mac will vastly improve testing efficiency.
  • Apps can offer the theater-like experience of spatial audio and place sounds all around to bring their content to life. And Physical Audio Spatialization Engine makes it easy for game developers to render true-to-life audio across all of Apple’s platforms.
  • ShazamKit enables developers to integrate audio recognition technology directly from Shazam into their apps, making it possible not only to match music to Shazam's vast catalog of songs, but also to match any prerecorded audio to custom results developers create.

Images of Apple’s New Developer Tools and Technologies

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