Monthly Update – February 2025

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