What's New / App Services, Foundation & Diagnostics

App Services, Foundation & Diagnostics

+309 New~21 Deprecated−6 Removed21 frameworks

MetricKit adds 107 diagnostic and metric types; the Swift standard library gains BorrowingSequence, SpanIterator, and 34 new Observation tracking APIs.

MetricKit
+107

MetricKit collects on-device performance metrics and diagnostic reports from an app: CPU time, launch and resume timing, disk and memory usage,…

AutomaticAssessmentConfiguration
+49

AutomaticAssessmentConfiguration configures locked assessment sessions on Apple platforms, restricting access to system features and other apps…

Swift
+44

The standard library's collection and sequence machinery: the protocols and adapter types that define how values are iterated and how spans of…

Observation
+34

Observation provides the tracking machinery behind the @Observable macro, watching property access and mutation on reference types so dependents…

CoreData
+15

Core Data is Apple's object graph and persistence framework.

Photos
+12~2

Photos (PhotoKit) is Apple's framework for reading, writing, and managing the user's photo and video library, including assets, collections, and…

AppManagedFeatures
+12

AppManagedFeatures is an app extension point for feature activation.

Foundation
~9−1

Foundation provides base types and services for Apple platform code, including value types like Data, resource loading through Bundle, and…

PhotosUI
+8~2

PhotosUI provides SwiftUI and UIKit components for picking and displaying photo library content, including the system photo picker and views for…

_Concurrency
+7

_Concurrency is the Swift standard library module for structured concurrency: async/await, tasks, task groups, and the cancellation machinery that…

ManagedApp
+6

ManagedApp handles managed app configuration and feedback delivered by MDM.

StickerKit
+1−5

StickerKit provides interfaces for editing stickers and avatars on Apple platforms, including an avatar editor view controller surface implied by…

_PhotosUI_SwiftUI
+3~2

_PhotosUI_SwiftUI is a Swift cross-import overlay, not a standalone framework.

CoreFoundation
~5

CoreFoundation is Apple's C-based framework of opaque types and utility APIs: collections, strings, run loops, and plug-ins.

UniformTypeIdentifiers
+3

UniformTypeIdentifiers identifies file formats and data types on Apple platforms through UTType values.

CloudKit
+2

CloudKit stores structured records and binary assets in iCloud containers, syncs them across a user's devices, and shares them between users.

ManagedAppDistribution
+1~1

ManagedAppDistribution provides APIs for apps distributed and managed by an organization's MDM.

XCUIAutomation
+2

XCUIAutomation is the UI testing API for Apple platforms, used from XCTest UI test targets to drive and query app interfaces.

AlarmKit
+1

AlarmKit is Apple's framework for scheduling and managing alarms and countdown timers.

LinkPresentation
+1

LinkPresentation fetches and presents metadata for URLs, generating the link previews shown in Messages and other apps.

SharedWithYou
+1

SharedWithYou is Apple's framework for surfacing content shared with the user and presenting it in a Shared with You section, with APIs to track…

← All categories