And as you can see here, they can also be animated for that little extra special something.

I've seen them used in a foreground style for a text, which is pretty cool.

Also on buttons in like an animated border around a button.

And even that new Siri animation looks like a mesh gradient to me.

And when done subtly, I think these look amazing.

My worry, though, is now that it's so easy, we're just going to see mesh gradients everywhere.

So my advice, use them sparingly, keep it subtle.

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We can now transition from one view to another using a zoom transition.

And when you use this, it replaces the old slide in from the left transition with a zoom.

And when you tap the back button, it collapses back into the item that it came from.

And this zoom transition also works with sheets or full screen covers.

And it just feels so natural on a grid UI to zoom in out of the item and then collapse back into the item when you tap on it.

I'm a huge fan of this edition.

I'm going to be using it in many, many places.

But again, use it when appropriate.

Don't overdo it.

I am in love with SF Symbols, and they just keep getting better year after year.

And that's no different this year with SF Symbols 6.

We get 800 new symbols, which brings the count up to over 6,000, as well as new animations like wiggle.

Breathe.

And rotate, which rotates intelligently, it doesn't rotate the entire symbol, just rotates the appropriate element of the symbol.

And the dot replace animation gets replaced with magic replace.

And as you see here, it just intelligently changes icons, like if a badge pops up on the same icon or a slash goes through it.

Just a nice little touch.

So more symbols, more animations.

Love it.

On iPad, the tab bar over on the side can now float up at the top, freeing up all that screen real estate for your content.

And the user gets to pick and choose what goes into that floating tab bar so they can put what they use most up there and hide things they don't often use.

And you can even adapt a similar behavior on Mac OS by styling the tab bar to appear as a segment to control in the toolbar.

For the iPads, this is a way better experience, in my opinion, and I can't wait to build this into Creator View.

Speaking of building things into Creator View, you know, sometimes it's just the little things in life that are just oh so sweet.

And this next improvement is a small one, but I love it.

You can now indicate sheet size on the iPad.

For example, you can indicate .form so you get a proper size sheet for a form, not this gigantic, unnecessary sheet for a small form.

Now I know this small form could be a popover view like you see like on the Calendar app, but it's just to demonstrate how ridiculous the sheet size is.

But no more, no more.

We can indicate .form to get a much smaller, more reasonable sheet size.

Or better yet, you can specify a custom size to make it however you like.

So no more giant sheets for everything on iPad.

This is great.

The new text format for date reference is awesome.

As you can see on the screen, you pass the text in two dates, right?

We have current date and next song date, and it can generate a reference, offset or timer based on those two dates in a wide variety of formats.

As you see here on the screen, this builds on the relatively new formatter API that was introduced in iOS 15.

And if you haven't worked with that yet or checked it out, definitely go to gosh darn format syntax, scroll through there.

Like, it's amazing how powerful these are.

I use them extensively in my apps, and it's just been such a time saver.

They're so nice to use.

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