Apple says iPhone and iPad apps will show up on the visionOS App Store from the get-go

Whereas Apple’s famed Imaginative and prescient Professional headset shouldn’t be accessible for buy, the corporate is ensuring that customers get loads of apps to make use of after they lastly get it. The corporate stated in the present day that iPhone and iPad apps will present up on the visionOS’ App Retailer on the launch day.

This implies builders gained’t need to do further work to port their present apps. Apple stated that this fall, it would launch a developer beta model of the visionOS together with the App Retailer.

“By default, your iPad and/or iPhone apps will likely be printed routinely on the App Retailer on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Most frameworks accessible in iPadOS and iOS are additionally included in visionOS, which implies practically all iPad and iPhone apps can run on visionOS, unmodified. Clients will be capable of use your apps on visionOS early subsequent yr when Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional turns into accessible,” the corporate stated in a submit.

Apple introduced the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset on the Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC) in June. Later that month, the corporate launched the Imaginative and prescient Professional SDK for builders to mess around with totally different components of the visionOS. In July, Apple began accepting functions for issuing a developer package on mortgage. The corporate has additionally been internet hosting in-person developer labs for Imaginative and prescient Professional in Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.

The Cupertino-based tech large stated that whereas iPhone and iPad apps will present up on the VisionOS App Retailer routinely, builders can use the SDK so as to add 3D components and help for hand gestures to make the apps “really feel extra pure” on the gadget.

In a latest interview with Digital Tendencies, Steve Sinclair, senior director of product advertising and marketing for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional stated that the variety of SDK downloads has “exceeded” the corporate’s expectations.

Nevertheless, due to the restricted location of developer labs for in-person expertise and a constrained dev package program, plenty of builders need to work with the simulator more often than not. Sinclair stated that to have an unlimited array of apps offering totally different experiences, Apple will “have to make it [the Vision Pro] accessible to each single one in every of our builders.”