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Cupertino, California — Swift Playgrounds, an innovative new iPad app from Apple that makes learning to code easy and fun for everyone, is now available on the App Store. With Swift Playgrounds, real coding concepts are brought to life with an interactive interface that allows students and beginners to explore working with Swift, the easy-to-learn programming language from Apple used by professional developers to create world-class apps.
The Swift Playgrounds app is approachable enough for students with no previous programming experience to begin exploring key coding concepts, but also powerful enough for skilled programmers to experiment and express their creativity using Swift.
“Everyone should have the opportunity to learn coding, and we are excited to bring Swift Playgrounds to the next generation of programmers looking for a fun and easy way to explore key coding concepts using real code,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “More than 100 schools around the world have already committed to adding Swift Playgrounds to their fall curriculum, and we can’t wait to see what students create with it.”
Messages gets a massive update with more animated and personalized ways to message friends and family using full-screen effects, Tapback and more. iOS 10 brings the power of the App Store to Messages, creating fun new ways to communicate with friends using apps that let you send stickers, edit photos, send payments or schedule dinner or a movie, all from within Messages. Using emoji is more fun than ever, with predictions that present the perfect emoji as you type, a new tap to replace feature that lets you “emojify” any message and new emoji that appear three times larger.
Just days after the release of iOS 10, iPhone and iPad users are already livening up their conversations with new, animated stickers from thousands of apps on the App Store — all available right from within Messages. Discover, download, and launch new stickers by tapping on the App Store icon right from within Messages. Simply tap to send a sticker or tap and hold to peel and place a sticker directly on top of a message bubble, photo or another sticker. You can even touch and hold on the sticker to adjust its size.
Available for the first time with iOS 10, here’s a selection of some of the first sticker packs launching in the App Store for iMessage.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.
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Apple is already powering its operations in the US, China and 21 other countries with 100 percent renewable energy; and, in 2015, powered 93 percent of its operations around the world with renewable energy.
The company continues to invest in high-quality, clean energy projects to help it meet and maintain its goal, and Jackson announced today that Apple has completed construction on its latest renewable energy project — a 50-megawatt solar farm in Arizona. Apple worked with local utility Salt River Project on the solar array, which will provide renewable power to Apple's global command data center in Mesa, Arizona. That’s equal to the energy use of over 12,000 Arizona homes.
Next up is Scottish producer and DJ Calvin Harris beginning at 4 p.m. EDT / 1 p.m. PDT on September 23. Festival coverage on Apple Music includes playlists featuring this year’s performing artists, live tracks from festival alumni, and music by headliners and support acts.
Elton John: September 18
The 1975: September 19
Alicia Keys: September 20
OneRepublic: September 21
Calvin Harris: September 23
Robbie Williams: September 25
Bastille: September 26
Britney Spears: September 27
Michael Bublé: September 28
Chance the Rapper: September 30