Video, Photos & Camera

This area provides the frameworks for capturing, processing, presenting, and managing photo and video media across Apple platforms. Its frameworks span the full media pipeline, from low-level timing and pixel-buffer primitives and hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding to high-level capture sessions, editing, playback UI, and access to the user's photo library. Together they let apps record from cameras and the screen, compose and edit audiovisual assets, play media with system controls and Picture-in-Picture, and read or modify photos and videos with privacy-preserving access.