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Implement App Shortcuts with App Intents
Discover how you can create Shortcuts in your app with zero user setup.
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Complications and widgets: Reloaded
8:00 a.m.Our widgets code-along returns as we adventure onto the watchOS and iOS Lock Screen. Learn about the latest improvements to WidgetKit that help power complex complications on watchOS and can help you create Lock Screen widgets for iPhone. We’ll show you how to incorporate the latest SwiftUI views to provide great glanceable data, explore how each platform renders content, and learn how you can customize the design and feel of your content within a widget or complication.
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Dive into App Intents
8:00 a.m.Learn how you can make your app more discoverable and increase app engagement when you use the App Intents framework. We'll take you through the powerful capabilities of this Swift framework, explore the differences between App Intents and SiriKit Intents, and show you how you can expose your app's functionality to the system. We'll also share how you can build entities and queries to create rich App Shortcuts experiences. To learn more about App Intents, watch "Implement App Shortcuts with App Intents" and "Design App Shortcuts" from WWDC22.
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Enhance collaboration experiences with Messages
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can help improve communication and collaboration in your app with Collaboration in Messages. Learn how to tie a document to Messages conversations for simple sharing and discussion. Explore how you can keep everyone in the conversation up to date on the latest activity in the document. And find out how you can add customizable UI in your app to manage collaboration details and connect documents to Messages conversations and FaceTime calls. To learn more about the SharedWithYou framework, we recommend watching "Add Shared with You to your app.” For more information on adding collaboration APIs to apps that have custom collaboration infrastructure, check out "Integrate your custom collaboration app with Messages.” (Note: API will be available in an upcoming beta.)
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Get more mileage out of your app with CarPlay
8:00 a.m.CarPlay is a smarter, safer way to use your iPhone while you drive. Learn about the latest app types for CarPlay and discover how the CarPlay Simulator can help you develop and test apps without leaving your desk. We’ll also explore how navigation apps can connect with digital instrument clusters in supported vehicles.
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Implement App Shortcuts with App Intents
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can create Shortcuts in your app with zero user setup. We'll show you how App Intents can help you present custom Shortcuts views, and explore how you can add support for parameterized phrases to allow people to quickly express their intent. We'll also share how you can make your App Shortcuts discoverable with a Siri Tip, and Shortcuts links. To get the most out of this session, we recommend a basic familiarity with SwiftUI.
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Meet Focus filters
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can customize app behaviors based on someone's currently enabled Focus. We'll show you how to use App Intents to define your app's Focus filters, act on changes from the system, and present your app's views in different ways. We'll also explore how you can filter notifications and update badge counts. To get the most out of this session, we recommend first watching "Dive into App Intents" from WWDC22.
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Meet WeatherKit
8:00 a.m.WeatherKit offers valuable weather data for your apps and services to help people stay up to date on the latest conditions. Learn how to use Swift and REST APIs to access information about the current weather, 10-day hourly forecasts for temperature, expected precipitation, wind reports, the UV Index, and more. We’ll also share how WeatherKit can provide timely, hyperlocal weather information without compromising someone’s personal data or their privacy.
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What's new in App Clips
8:00 a.m.Explore the latest updates to App Clips! Discover how we’ve made your App Clip even easier to build with improvements to the size limit as well as CloudKit and keychain usage. We’ll also show you how to use our validation tool to verify your App Clip and automate workflows for your advanced App Clip experiences using App Store Connect.
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What's new in Nearby Interaction
8:00 a.m.Discover how the Nearby Interaction framework can help you easily integrate Ultra Wideband (UWB) into your apps and hardware accessories. Learn how you can combine the visual-spatial power of ARKit with the radio sensitivity of the U1 chip to locate nearby stationary objects with precision. We’ll also show you how you can create background interactions using UWB accessories paired via Bluetooth.
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What's new in SharePlay
8:00 a.m.Join us as we share the latest updates to SharePlay. We’ll show you how you can start SharePlay sessions right from your app, take you through improvements to APIs to create richer experiences, and check out enhancements to GroupSessionMessenger. We’ll also explore best practices for adding SharePlay to your app.
Labs
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App Clips lab
Tuesday @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about App Clips, including size optimization, troubleshooting, best practices, and more.
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WidgetKit and Complications lab
Tuesday @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about WidgetKit and Complications including Lock Screen widgets, migrating from ClockKit, timelines, and more.
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Notifications and Focus lab
Tuesday @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.Want to learn more about Focus, Notification Service Extensions, or other UserNotifications APIs? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things notifications and Focus.
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StoreKit and in-app purchase lab
Tuesday @ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest StoreKit APIs, in-app purchases, best practices, and more.
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Shortcuts lab
Tuesday @ 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.Want to learn more about App Shortcuts, the Shortcuts app, or other Shortcuts functionality? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things Shortcuts.
Digital Lounges
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Meet the Presenter: Implement App Shortcuts with App Intents
Tuesday @ 11:00 - 12:00 p.m.Meet the team behind “Implement App Shortcuts with App Intents” and join a text-based watch party for the session, followed by a short Q&A. The watch party begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!
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Meet the Presenter: Complications and widgets: Reloaded
Tuesday @ 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.Meet the presenters of “Complications and widgets: Reloaded” and join a text-based watch party for the session, followed by a short Q&A. The watch party begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!
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Meet the Presenter: Dive into App Intents
Tuesday @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.Meet the team behind “Dive into App Intents” and join a text-based watch party for the session, followed by a short Q&A. The watch party begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!
Sessions
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Add Live Text interaction to your app
8:00 a.m.Learn how you can bring Live Text support for still photos or paused video frames to your app. We'll share how you can easily enable text interactions, translation, data detection, and QR code scanning within any image view on iOS, iPadOS, or macOS. We'll also go over how to control interaction types, manage the supplementary interface, and resolve potential gesture conflicts. To learn more about capturing and interacting with detected data in live camera feeds, watch "Capture machine-readable codes and text with VisionKit" from WWDC22.
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Add Shared with You to your app
8:00 a.m.Shared with You helps people easily find content in your app that someone has shared with them in Messages. Learn how you can support Shared with You in your app and continue the messaging experience right with the content. We'll show you how pinning can give implicit Shared with You permission and can elevate content to be automatically shared. We'll also go over how to present Shared with You content in a Shared with You shelf and visually represent shared items with a Shared with You attribution view.
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Design App Shortcuts
8:00 a.m.Learn how you can surface great features from your app directly in Siri, Spotlight, and the Shortcuts app. We'll introduce you to App Shortcuts, provide best practices to help you evaluate features in your app that would work well as App Shortcuts, and take you through the process of creating one of your own. Learn how to create clear and memorable names, design custom visuals, collect required information, and create discoverable shortcuts
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Display ads and interstitials in SharePlay
8:00 a.m.Find out how you can deliver a coordinated playback experience in SharePlay when your app delivers different ad schedules to each participant. We'll explore how to build playback experiences with stitched-in ads and scheduled HLS interstitials, and share tips and best practices.
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Integrate your custom collaboration app with Messages
8:00 a.m.Discover how the SharedWithYou framework can augment your app's collaboration infrastructure. We'll show you how to send secure invitations to collaborative content and synchronize participant changes. We'll also cover displaying content updates within the relevant conversation. For an introduction to SharedWithYou, watch "Add Shared with You to your app" from WWDC22. For an overview of the collaboration UI APIs, watch "Enhance collaboration experiences with Messages" from WWDC22. (Note: API will be available in an upcoming beta.)
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Meet Background Assets
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can use the Background Assets framework to download large files directly from your CDN and improve the initial launch experience of your apps and games. We’ll show you how to schedule background downloads during initial app install, app updates, and periodically as someone uses the app. We’ll also explore how you can manage scheduled downloads to make sure people have the content they want, when they want it.
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Support multiple users in tvOS apps
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can create personalized, individual experiences in your tvOS app. We’ll show you how you can offer a single checkbox to store profile data, game save states, and more, providing each person with the same level of data separation they'd have on a personal device like iPhone. We’ll also explore how the new user-independent keychain can help you maintain your existing sign on experience for multiple people in the same household.
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What's new with SKAdNetwork
8:00 a.m.SKAdNetwork helps advertisers measure the success of ad campaigns while maintaining user privacy. We'll explore the latest updates to ad attributions including hierarchical source IDs, hierarchical conversion values, multiple conversions, and SKAdNetwork attributions for web ads. We'll also take you through the importance of crowd anonymity and how you can validate SKAdNetwork impressions through testing in Xcode 13.
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What’s new in Wallet and Apple Pay
8:00 a.m.Discover the latest updates to Wallet & Apple Pay. We'll show you how to support Orders in Wallet for your apps and websites and securely validate someone's age and identity with the Identity Verification API. We'll also explore PassKit support for SwiftUI, and discuss how you how you can improve your Apple Pay experience with Automatic Payments.
Labs
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Drawing and Text Input lab
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 12:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about Quick Note, PencilKit, Scribble, Keyboard, and other input topics.
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CarPlay lab
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.CarPlay is a smarter, safer way to use your iPhone in the car. Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about creating CarPlay apps. And if you're an automaker, find out how to support the latest CarPlay features in your cars.
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Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents lab
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 12:00 p.m.Want to learn more about App Shortcuts, Siri, App Intents, or other Siri functionality? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents.
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WeatherKit lab
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about WeatherKit, best practices, and more.
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CloudKit lab
Wednesday @ 10:00 - 1:00 p.m.Want to learn more about CKTool JS, zone sharing, Act as iCloud, or other CloudKit functionality? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things CloudKit.
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Shared with You, Sharing, Connectivity, Messages Collaboration lab
Wednesday @ 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more. Chat with Apple engineers from the Messages, Shared with You, Messages Collaboration, Share Sheet, UIActivityViewController, Watch Connectivity, and Multipeer Connectivity teams.
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Wallet and Apple Pay lab
Wednesday @ 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more.
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SharePlay lab
Wednesday @ 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.Have a question about SharePlay and Group Activities? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more.
Digital Lounges
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Study Hall: WidgetKit workshop
Wednesday @ 9:00 - 6:00 p.m.Take a glance at today's WidgetKit challenge, won't you? With glanceable experiences coming to the Lock Screen in iOS 16, today's the perfect time to try building your very own Lock Screen widget. Visit the WidgetKit Study Hall to collaborate on the “WidgetKit workshop” coding challenge. Ask questions, connect with other developers, and share your creations.
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Q&A: WidgetKit
Wednesday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about WidgetKit during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
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Q&A: App Clips
Wednesday @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about App Clips during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
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Q&A: Shortcuts
Wednesday @ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about Shortcuts during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
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Meet the Presenter: Design App Shortcuts
Wednesday @ 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.Meet the team behind “Design App Shortcuts” and join a text-based watch party for the session, followed by a short Q&A. The watch party begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!
Sessions
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Go further with Complications in WidgetKit
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can use WidgetKit to create beautiful complications on watch faces. We'll introduce you to the watchOS-specific features found in WidgetKit, and help you migrate from existing ClockKit complications. For more on WidgetKit, watch “Complications and Widgets: Reloaded” from WWDC22.
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Make a great SharePlay experience
8:00 a.m.Discover how you can design and build a great SharePlay experience. We'll show you how to identify activities in your app that can help bring everyone together — even while they're apart. Learn best practices to help you design for group activities, create intuitive interactions, and build support for different types of experiences.
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What's new in MapKit
8:00 a.m.Come along with us as MapKit enters a new dimension. We'll show you how you can upgrade your app to use the latest map and support the highly-detailed 3D City Experience. Learn how you can visualize data using overlays while ensuring they integrate smoothly into the 3D map. We’ll also cover how to create interactive and immersive experiences with Selectable Map Features and Look Around APIs.
Labs
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Wallet and Apple Pay lab
Thursday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more.
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Nearby Interaction lab
Thursday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about your app and the latest Nearby Interaction APIs, best practices, and more.
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App Clips lab
Thursday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about App Clips, including size optimization, troubleshooting, best practices, and more.
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App Store Server APIs and Notifications lab
Thursday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about your app, the latest APIs, best practices, and more.
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EventKit lab
Thursday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the EventKit frameworks.
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WidgetKit and Complications lab
Thursday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about WidgetKit and Complications including Lock Screen widgets, migrating from ClockKit, timelines, and more.
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Core Motion lab
Thursday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about your app and the Core Motion APIs, best practices, and more.
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Shared with You, Sharing, Connectivity, Messages Collaboration lab
Thursday @ 10:00 - 1:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more. Chat with Apple engineers from the Messages, Shared with You, Messages Collaboration, Share Sheet, UIActivityViewController, Watch Connectivity, and Multipeer Connectivity teams.
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CloudKit lab
Thursday @ 10:00 - 1:00 p.m.Want to learn more about CKTool JS, zone sharing, Act as iCloud, or other CloudKit functionality? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things CloudKit.
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Drawing and Text Input lab
Thursday @ 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about Quick Note, PencilKit, Scribble, Keyboard, and other input topics.
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WeatherKit lab
Thursday @ 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about WeatherKit, best practices, and more.
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SiriKit for Media, Messaging, and Phone lab
Thursday @ 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.Want to learn more about media intents, communication intents, or other SiriKit functionality? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things SiriKit for media, messaging, and calling.
Digital Lounges
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Meet the Presenter: What's new in MapKit
Thursday @ 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.Stream a live rewatch of "What's new in MapKit" with the presenters as they explore MapKit with the developer community. Join a real-time text conversation during the rewatch and participate in a short Q&A afterwards. The rewatch begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!
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Q&A: App Intents
Thursday @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about App Intents during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
Sessions
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Build device-to-device interactions with Network Framework
8:00 a.m.Learn how you can create integrated content experiences across multiple devices. We’ll introduce you to DeviceDiscoveryUI, which makes it easy to set up communication pathways and connect Apple TV with other devices like iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. We'll also explore common scenarios and provide best practices to help you enable frictionless device-to-device connectivity.
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Efficiency awaits: Background tasks in SwiftUI
8:00 a.m.Background Tasks help apps respond to system events and keep time-sensitive data up to date. Learn how you can use the SwiftUI Background Tasks API to handle tasks succinctly. We’ll show you how to use Swift Concurrency to handle network responses, background refresh, and more — all while preserving performance and power.
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What's new in PDFKit
8:00 a.m.Discover PDFKit — a full-featured framework that helps your app view, edit, and save PDF documents. We'll take you through the latest features in PDFKit, including support for live text and forms, creating PDFs from images, building interactive overlays, and saving annotations.
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What's new in Screen Time API
8:00 a.m.Find out how you can build apps that help people manage their relationship with their device — all while putting privacy first. We’ll take you through the Screen Time API and share how you can use features like core restrictions and device activity reports to create great experiences while providing measurable control for the device’s owner, parents, and guardians.
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What's new in WKWebView
8:00 a.m.Explore the latest updates to WKWebView, our framework for incorporating web content into your app’s interface. We’ll show you how to use the JavaScript fullscreen API, explore CSS viewport units, and learn more about find interactions. We’ll also take you through refinements to content blocking controls, embedding encrypted media, and using the Web Inspector.
Labs
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SharePlay lab
Friday @ 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.Have a question about SharePlay and Group Activities? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the latest APIs, best practices, and more.
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Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents lab
Friday @ 9:00 - 12:00 p.m.Want to learn more about App Shortcuts, Siri, App Intents, or other Siri functionality? Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about all things Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents.
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Background Assets lab
Friday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about your app and the Background Assets APIs, best practices, and more.
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SKAdNetwork and Private Click Measurement lab
Friday @ 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about SKAdNetwork and Private Click Measurement, best practices, and more.
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Screen Time API lab
Friday @ 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.Request an appointment with an Apple engineer for guidance and conversation about the Screen Time API, best practices, and more.
Digital Lounges
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Q&A: App Clips
Friday @ 10:00 - 12:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about App Clips during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
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Q&A: WidgetKit
Friday @ 11:00 - 1:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about WidgetKit during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
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Q&A: CarPlay
Friday @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.Ask Apple engineers about CarPlay during this 2 hour text-based Q&A. Stop in to request guidance on a code-level question, ask for clarifications, or learn from others in a group setting.
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Meet the Presenter: Building Device-to-Device Experiences with Network Framework
Friday @ 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.Stream a live rewatch of "Building Device-to-Device Experiences" with the presenter. Join a real-time text conversation during the rewatch and participate in a short Q&A afterwards. The rewatch begins 5 minutes after the start of this activity — so don’t be late!