A Summary of the WWDC25 Group Lab

Greetings! I am a professor of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism, and my question relates to a course I'd like to teach on the canals of Venice. Part of the course would be in our Mac lab (furnished with 15 2014-2017 iMacs), where I would like each of my 15 students to edit a single 360 video of the canals using the Immersive Environment feature in Premiere Pro / After Effects while wearing Vive headsets. According to Adobe, our iMacs fit the system requirements for using Premiere Pro and After Effects with the Vive; according to HTC, they're positive that I can do this but aren't authorized to tell me how (they also want me to reach out to HTC Arcade...?).I'm planning on installing Mac SteamVR on, and hooking up a Vive headset to, each of the computers. Thunderbolt 2 is the fastest connection on our iMacs, so I was planning on hooking up the Vives to a thunderbolt 2 to HDMI/USB adapter. I don't think I need external GPUs, because each student will only be editing/watching one 360 video (

I want to transfer a UIImage from the main application to my keyboard extension (in Swift). The only way I can think of to do this is by using app groups. (If there's another I'd love to know 🙂 ) Does anybody know how this would work? Do I need to use Core Data? Thank you!

Hi, I need to create a new users group on macos (version 10.15 and up) from terminal or from swift. The group must be hidden, not be displayed into System Preferences, similar to www group for example. I've found 2 ways to create a group from terminal: dscl and dseditgroup, but in both cases the created group is visible into the Users and Groups list from System Settings. Any suggestions how I can hide the group? Thanks

Hi,Can someone please summaries and explain the logic/process for creating a reminders app?I'm no looking for code I just need the list of frameworks and steps needed for creating a reminders app1. You fist create a calendar event (what framework/methods?).2. Than you load the calendar event (what framework/methods?).3. Than you notify the user (what framework/methods?).I know this is a very broad question but I have to start some where.Thanks

Hello,I can't delete keywords now from the active group (also I can't copy them) and can't delete inactive group — there is simply no button for that.I think that is the really necessary option.Any plans to add it?Thanks.

For an App in the PlaybackAndRecording Category, would entering a Group Activity Session change the Category and Mode since FaceTime is ongoing? will we still have access to Microphone locally using, e.g. AVAudioEngine? if yes, will the presence of FaceTime force VoiceChat mode and VPIO in our session? Thanks in advance.

I recently moved my watch app from InterfaceController to the SwiftUI LifeCycle, but I've encountered some issues. In my app, I'm using group notifications. Before I moved to the SwiftUI LifeCycle, when I received a group notification with the same thread identifier, it appeared as a stack in the notification center of the watch. When I touched the stack, it extended with individual notifications. However, after moving to the SwiftUI LifeCycle, when I touch the stack, it only shows the first notification of the stack and doesn't display the extended notifications. Do I need a custom group notification view in the SwiftUI LifeCycle, similar to the Message App? Is there any other way to use the previous static group notification view? Please help me!

So I am in a group chat with my family. We’ve had this groupchat established for a long time, and none of us have ever added anyone else to it. Somehow last night, a different family member joined our group chat and started texting us, but none of the original chat members added her, not even accidentally. This is the second time this has happened, and we have no idea how they are inserting themselves into our group chat. We are all iphone users, including the person that is somehow adding themselves to our group chat. All of us use different Apple ID accounts as well as different phone numbers, and that’s the same for the person adding themselves, so I’m truly at a loss for how this is happening.

Files can be written and read from the App Group by multipler apps. When an app is removed, its files are also removed.It looks like files in the App Group folder are owned by the app that created them. So, if app A adds a file to the App Group and then app A is removed, the file in the App Group is also removed. If App B reads that file, it better deal gracefully with it disappearing.What if a file in the App Group is created by app A and then modified by App B? Does ownship transfer to app B or remain with app A? If app A is removed after app B modifies the file, will it be removed?

Sign In With Apple has a group apps category: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/?lang=en#/dev04f3e1cfcHowever, thats the only information I could find for sign in with apple and group apps.What is the significants of group apps with sign in with apple? What does it do? How does one use it?Does it support the following use-case?: I have a primary app and a child app. If I sign in with apple with the primary app, and then i want to use the secondary app, do i have to sign in again? Or am I already signed in because I have signed in with the primary app? Or can I architect it in such a way that allows me to sign in to one of the grouped apps, and then stay signed in when using another grouped app?

My app creates new subscription groups via the app store connect api. Our end users subscribe to creators. Each creator has their own subscription group within app store connect. We will create hundreds, even thousands of subscription groups via the api over time. Does Apple have to approve each subscription group before they can be accessed via the app by end users? Or do they just approve the first one and allow us to create new subscriptions groups in real time -- over time via the API without additional approvals?

There's plenty of articles out there about programatically grouping push notifications. However I have tried setting the thread-id in the push payload when sending a push, or setting the threadIdentifier for a received push in a notification service extension to be the same for several pushes. But if within the iPhone Settings / Notifications the user selects to display pushes as List and turns off Notification Grouping, then each notification resulting from the push appears on its own separately. Is there something other than thread-id/threadidentifier that is used to programmatically group them? If not then whats the point of these as grouping and display is actually under the control of user.

I have set up a share extension in my app and I have successfully enabled app groups. The share extension grabs the URL of a webpage. I would like that URL to be passed back to my app to be upload to Google Cloud Firestore and I want to use delegates to notify my main app when the share extension has grabbed a URL. How can I use delegate methods within the app group?