New
- Support for Xcode 27.3 and the 27.3 SDKs – Guidance is updated for the Xcode 27.3 beta and includes 27.3 additions and changes:
storekit-ref– Multi-seat subscriptions with per-seat pricing, and the pricing model that replaces the deprecated billing propertiesfoundation-models-ref– The on-device model on Apple TV, and session state that instructions and tools sharelive-activities– Live Activities started by a Mac app, which a sandboxed app can’t start yet on the macOS 27.3 betatoolbarsanduikit-modernization– Separate toolbars for navigation stacks stacked in one split-view column, in SwiftUI, UIKit, and Mac Catalystswift-testing– UI tests written with Swift Testingiphone-duo– Folding and unfolding iPhone Duo from a UI testtouch– Turning off system touch gestures during a critical interaction, and the touch rules in Xcode’s own guidetransferable-ref– Drag and drop that keeps an item’s identitypasskeys– Asking people to set up the email address that receives their sign-in codes before you send onefundamentals– Reference sex for choosing clinical ranges, and hip circumferencecamera-capture-ref– Camera direction on tvOS and visionOScallkit-livecommunicationkit– Live Caller ID server changesxcode-mcp-ref– Xcode MCP tool changes, including filtered build settings and simulator-only device interactionswiftui-26-ref– Data detection in native Mac appsapp-schemas-ref– The Video schema domain
- Siri AI – Axiom now covers bringing an app’s own actions and content to Siri AI in the Siri AI Developer Preview:
siri-ai– Tool intents, generable entities, entity properties, card snippets, and App Skills, with rules from testing on devicessiri-evaluations-ref– Writing and running SiriEvaluations scenarios on a device, including the Macsiri-ai-auditor– Scans an app for what keeps Siri from finding, choosing, or running its actions/axiom:siri– Runs the source audit, build, metadata analyzer, and App Skills check in one pass
- App Intents mistakes that compile – The new
app-intentsskill covers intents that build cleanly and then fail when Siri or Shortcuts runs them, from a dependency a cold launch never registers to a build that ships no App Intents metadata.
Updated
- App Intents reference –
app-intents-refnow documents which surface (Shortcuts, Spotlight, Siri AI tools, or schema intents) uses which entity lookup, and which schemas a Siri flow needs together.
Full Changelog: v27.7.3...v27.8.0