Apple announced some big updates for developers on Monday, dropping new AI frameworks and a major overhaul to its development environment, Xcode. The tech giant is leaning heavily agentic coding, introducing deep artificial intelligence tools designed to automate and streamline how apps get built.

Apple® today introduced new intelligence capabilities, expanded productivity features in Xcode®, and platform improvements that make apps faster, more adaptive, and easier to build.

New AI frameworks, agentic coding in Xcode and deeper Siri integration lead Apple’s biggest developer-focused announcements at WWDC 26

Apple said the study found that for more than 90 per cent of the billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem, developers did not pay any commission to Apple

Ahead of WWDC, Apple has announced that its App Store ecosystem facilitated US$1.4 trillion in developer billings and sales globally in 2025.

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Apple released Xcode 26.3 this week with direct integration for Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, marking a significant push into autonomous AI coding. The update transforms Apple's development environment from a code suggestion tool to a ...