
App Intents is a new Swift-only framework designed to make it faster and easier to build great actions - and you can use it to build new App Shortcuts. Help users quickly accomplish tasks related to your app by voice or tap. Write your code once for iOS 16 and watchOS 9, and share infrastructure with your existing Home Screen widgets.

Now you can use WidgetKit to build complications for Apple Watch and widgets on the Lock Screen for iPhone, embracing SwiftUI and extending the glanceable experience. Take control of your app’s navigation with a new stateful navigation API, build the layout that works best for your app with all-new custom layouts, and use SwiftUI more seamlessly in UIKit apps with new UICollectionView custom cell support. This year, SwiftUI is more powerful, flexible, and easier to adopt. You can learn it once and apply it everywhere. SwiftUI is the modern way to build great-looking user interfaces across all Apple platforms. The latest updates also include improvements to generics syntax and under-the-hood performance improvements when building and launching apps. Swift is a powerful programming language now features built-in support for regular expressions, all-new regex builders, and package plugins to create and share custom tooling. Bring widgets to the Lock Screen, take advantage of enhancements in Maps, let people conveniently complete tasks using Siri with new App Shortcuts, make it simpler to share your content, and so much more.

The SDK for iOS 16 provides an abundance of exciting new APIs and capabilities that help you empower people to do more, more easily.
