If you want to develop software for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS or visionOS, read this overview of Apple’s Developer Program. Members of the Apple Developer Program have access to resources for developing and distributing software for Apple platforms.

Casey Liss, developer of a new app, Callsheet, that makes looking up movie and show trivia trivially easy. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Planet of the Apps is a series of interviews with app developers about making, marketing and maintaining apps in ...

Apple will let developers distribute iOS app directly from their own website – but only in the EU. Credit: Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Apple has recently been making big changes to how it runs its core platforms in order to comply with the ...

Apple said Thursday it will make sweeping changes to its iOS Developer Program license "to relax some restrictions we put in place earlier this year," specifically in sections 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.3.9. "In particular, we are relaxing all restrictions on the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Developers will need to adhere to some strict rules from Apple, though. Developers will need to adhere to some strict rules from Apple, though. is a senior correspondent ...

Editors' Note: Apple released the iOS 26 public beta on July 24, and you can read our guide on how to download the iOS 26 public beta if you want to update to the new software. What follows are instructions for the developer beta, which should continue to ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Only a few days after releasing iOS 18.4 to the general public, Apple has now dropped the first ...