macOS 13 lets you build immersive, next-level games, and offers powerful new capabilities for your apps. Machine learning enhancements make it even easier to provide intelligent experiences. Continuity Camera provides access to camera input, features, and effects on iPhone. And SharePlay lets people share synchronized experiences in your app while connecting via Messages. Learn about the latest key technologies.
Metal powers hardware-accelerated graphics on Apple platforms by providing a low-overhead API, rich shading language, tight integration between graphics and compute, and an unparalleled suite of GPU profiling and debugging tools. Now with Metal 3, you can create next-generation Mac games that run effortlessly from MacBook Air to Mac Studio, thanks to Apple silicon. Use new features, like MetalFX Upscaling, to provide breathtaking visuals at high frame rates and the fast resource loading API to quickly access rich textures and minimize loading.
On macOS 13, Continuity Camera lets people use iPhone as a camera for their Mac. This feature works automatically across all apps, and you can take it even further. New APIs power automatic camera input switching, provide access to the Desk View camera stream, and let you use AVCapture to access iPhone Camera features, such as flash mode, high-resolution capture, and photo quality prioritization.
Core ML adds new instruments and performance reports in Xcode, so you can analyze your ML-powered features. Optimize your Core ML integration with new Float16 data types, efficient output backings, sparse weight compression, in-memory model support, and new options to restrict compute to the CPU and Neural Engine.
In the Create ML app, explore key evaluation metrics and their connections to specific examples from your test data to help identify challenging scenarios and further investments in data collection to help improve model quality. Preview your model’s predictions on live video from your iPhone camera. And use the new Create ML Components framework to define your own custom model and training pipelines by combining a rich set of ML building blocks.
Bring people together by offering SharePlay support in your apps. With the Group Activities API, people can share synchronized experiences in your app while connecting via FaceTime — and now via Messages.
Use the new Shared with You framework and Collaboration API to bring your app’s collaboration experiences into Messages and FaceTime, and highlight content from your app that people shared in Messages in a new Shared with You section within your app.
Bring valuable weather information to your apps and services through a wide range of data that can help people stay up to date, safe, and prepared. It’s easy to use WeatherKit in your apps with a platform-specific Swift API, and on any other platform with a REST API.
The latest desktop-class features in iPadOS 16 translate beautifully onto macOS 13. Your Mac app’s toolbars are automatically optimized and document-based apps gain key features, such as menu items and the ability to rename the document in the toolbar. And you can use new Mac Catalyst APIs to enhance multiwindow behaviors, add custom views to your toolbars, and more.
Based on industry standards for account authentication, passkeys replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs, making them easier to use and far more secure. Adopt passkeys to give people a simple, secure way to sign in to your apps and websites across platforms — with no passwords required.
Discover even more new and updated technologies across Apple platforms, so you can create your best apps yet.
