Meet three winners of the 2023 Swift Student Challenge

Every year, the Swift Student Challenge recognizes students all over the world who’ve created remarkable app playgrounds. The 2023 edition drew submissions from more than 30 countries and regions, and covered topics as varied as healthcare, sports,…

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Thursday @ WWDC23

Day four is here — and a fresh round of sessions, labs, and activities await.Get started with labs and sessionsCurious about the difference between the Shared Space and a Full Space in visionOS? Want to learn more about Observable? There’s a Q&A for…

Behind the Design: 2023 Apple Design Awards

Every year, the Behind the Design series takes a special look at the remarkable teams behind the Apple Design Award-winning apps and games. Read on to meet 12 incredible teams from around the world and learn how they brought their winning ideas to l…

Behind the Design: Universe

As a kid, Universe founder Joseph Cohen loved nearly everything about the internet: how it brought people together, created avenues for his twin passions of creativity and commerce, and democratized the flow of information. “I grew up in New York,” …

Behind the Design: Duolingo

What makes Duolingo such an engaging way to learn a language? The answer is hiding in plain sight. “The secret to Duolingo is that we’re not an education company. We’re a fun and motivation company,” says Ryan Sims, VP of design. “Fun is the most im…

Behind the Design: MARVEL SNAP

MARVEL SNAP reboots the entire collectible-card game universe. The game is stacked with incredible visuals, a multiverse of gameplay variations, and a “snap” mechanic — a double-or-nothing bet — that’s as simple as it is revolutionary. It’s got an e…

Behind the Design: Afterplace

At first glance, Evan Kice’s Afterplace appears to have time-traveled from the late 1980s. It’s a 2D top-down pixelated adventure game full of blocky characters, blippy music, and retro typefaces. If you were ever into the games of the era — and Kic…

Behind the Design: SwingVision

When Swupnil Sahai started creating SwingVision, he had no app-building experience — but he’d played a lot of tennis. “The initial idea was, ‘Maybe we can use the accelerometer and gyroscope on Apple Watch to figure out how fast I’m swinging, and m…

Behind the Design: Headspace

Few apps have made mindfulness as accessible as Headspace. More than a decade since its launch, the app continues to set the standard for mental health apps — an especially notable accomplishment, as it can be difficult to communicate challenging to…

Behind the Design: Any Distance

Workout tracking has never looked — or felt — like it does in Any Distance. “We’re building something for everyone, not just athletes,” says Luke Beard, the Atlanta-based designer who created this Swift app with engineer Daniel Kuntz. “We’re not ath…

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Apple Design Award winners announced

The Apple Design Awards celebrate apps and games that excel in the categories of Inclusivity, Delight and Fun, Interaction, Social Impact, Visuals and Graphics, and Innovation. Learn about the 2023 winning apps and the talented developers behind the…

Behind the Design: stitch.

For all its many genres and styles, the gaming world has been awfully threadbare when it comes to experiences about embroidery. That all changes with stitch., a charming cross between casual puzzler, meditative exercise, and afternoon craft project …

Behind the Design: Flighty

Flighty might be the easiest thing travelers navigate on their entire trip. “Travel can be a high-stress situation,” says Ryan Jones, the Austin-based developer who founded the app in 2019. “We want Flighty to work so well that it feels almost borin…

Behind the Design: Resident Evil Village

Evil has never looked better than it does in Resident Evil Village. The AAA horror adventure is a masterpiece of visual detail on Mac, a feast of creepy castles, decrepit factories, and majestically gothic villains. The game’s bleak village is thick…

Upcoming tax changes for apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions

The App Store’s commerce and payments system was built to empower you to conveniently set up and sell your products and services at a global scale in 44 currencies across 175 storefronts. Apple administers tax on behalf of developers in over 70 coun…

Get ready with the latest beta releases

The beta versions of iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, tvOS 16.6, and watchOS 9.6 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, make sure …

Get ready to help customers resolve billing issues without leaving your app

Soon it will be easier than ever for your customers to resolve payment issues, so they can stay subscribed to your content, services, and premium features. Starting this summer, if an auto-renewable subscription doesn’t renew due to a billing issue,…

Preparing for the enhanced global pricing update on May 9

The App Store’s world-class commerce and payments system provides a convenient and effective way to set equalized prices across international markets, adapt to foreign exchange rate or tax changes, and manage prices per storefront. Last month, we in…

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 wonderful ap…