Apple Treats returns with new kind of the episode – monthly updates. Or bi-monthly. Depends. Nevertheless, here are some news for Apple developers happened in 2025 so far.


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Podcast host:

Danis Tazetdinov: associate principal software engineer at EPAM Systems, Twitter @edeniska, Mastodon @Deniska@mastodon.social.


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And here are the topics covered in this episode.


UK government orders Apple to create and provide iCloud backdoor


Apple brings Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro with visionOS 2.4 beta 1


Apple announces iPhone 16e


Apple announces Powerbeats Pro 2 headphones with heart rate monitoring


Apple releases Invites app


Swift Student Challenge


Illinois residents now could use Apple Wallet to store their Driver’s License


Asahi Linux developer lead resigns due to burnout and disagreements with Linux maintainers


Parallels introduces x86 emulation support on Apple Silicon


Apple releases iOS 18.3.1, macOS Sequoia 15.3.1 and other platforms


Apple publishes iOS and iPadOS adoption statistics


Another alternative iOS marketplace launches in Europe


EU alternative iOS marketplace hosts adult-content application


New legal requirements in App Store in Vietnam and South Korea


Trader status becomes mandatory on App Store for EU app distribution


Apple announces price and tax updates for several regions in App Store


Apple announces updates on cryptography algorithms and certificates on App Store services


Apple Push Notification service now provides more authentication key options


Apple announces Advanced Commerce API


Swift Build is now open source


Swift team announces gRPC Swift 2 library


Visual Studio Code Swift extension is now published on marketplace


Apple now allows to migrate digital purchases between Apple accounts


Emerge Tools announce Build Distribution service