What’s New in iOS 18
Apple introduced iOS 18 in WWDC 2024 as part of its annual developer’s conference, alongside macOS, tvOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
Utilizing our app’s latest features and capabilities in each major OS release gives us a competitive advantage. Here are the reasons why Apple chose to improve particular domains in the SDK – market research or technology trends are good enough reasons to adopt new technologies.
However, to understand iOS 18 improvements, we first must understand the background for this version – that’s one of this chapter’s goals.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding iOS 18 background
- Exploring Swift Testing
- Learning about the new Swift Data improvements
- Trying the new zoom transition
- Adding a floating tab bar to our iPad apps
- Having more control over scroll views in SwiftUI
- Changing the text rendering behavior
- Positioning...
