Apple Developer App Gets Liquid Glass Makeover and New WWDC 2026 Stickers

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its Apple Developer app, introducing a Liquid Glass redesign and giving developers some WWDC-themed stickers that can be used in the Messages app.

The Apple Developer app has a revamped Liquid Glass icon that reintroduces some older design elements while adopting the translucent Liquid Glass aesthetic. The icon has a pencil, paintbrush, and ruler that form the "A" shape, which is a departure from the prior version with a more generic design.

There are also Liquid Glass design elements in the app, with Apple adopting a translucent navigation bar with a Liquid Glass slider, and a separate search button.

The stickers include a 50th anniversary design, a skull with an Apple eyepatch, a juice box, California poppies, and holographic-style hello and WWDC 26 options. The stickers are all animated.

Apple says the app also includes list filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, along with preferred topics. Image capture during enrollment has also been improved.

Thank you for your feedback! New in this release:

- Refreshed look with Liquid Glass.
- List filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, and preferred topics.
- Improved reliability of image capture during enrollment.
- Bug fixes and various other enhancements.

The Apple Developer app is available to download for free. Ahead of WWDC 2026, it will be updated with new session information and an option to watch the keynote event on June 8.

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[iZac]

( Moof! )

 

[ps3zocker]

This should have been the iOS 26 App Store icon.

 

[infinitedreams]

They finally remembered they had a developer app

 

[Astuces iOS]

Liquid assssssss... wait why they don't change the App Store logo, the dev app looks better !

 

[platinumaqua]

Where do I go to get those glass pencils and paintbrushes?

 

[Acidsplat]

They wanted developers to adopt Liquid Glass... so they waited almost until next WWDC to update their own developer app with it?

 

[turbineseaplane]

Do people use stickers in messages?

I think I did it one time by accident, but I just do not get it.

Is it instead of emoji reactions or in addition to?

 

[RedWeasel]

Hey it only took them a year to update their own super trivial developer app to their new design language, cut the guys some slack...

Apple says the app also includes list filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, along with preferred topics.

We're talking high tech here...

 

[sw1tcher]

Apple, don't forget to renew your tags.

 

[Abydos]

stickers, the last one I had said "Nixon now more than ever"

 

[gummybear2026]

I want the sticker with the middle finger for Liquid Glass!

 

[Orizaba]

Perhaps the new developer icon is a preview of the updated design language for iOS 27? If so, I like it! The animated stickers look great too.

 

[Zachari]

Apple is disgustingly inconsistent nowadays.

 

[mretondo]

Do people use stickers in messages?

I think I did it one time by accident, but I just do not get it.

Is it instead of emoji reactions or in addition to?

My sister uses them all the time and some other of my friends.

 

[Dj64Mk7]

I love love love how this new app icon is blending the old with the new, in a way that basically starts to bring us full-circle after nearly 20 years.

Hopefully it’s symbolic of a new generation that “gets it” again!

That being said, some texture on the ruler would have been nice…

 

[nortonandreev]

Never understood what’s the purpose of this app (a developer here).

 

[mlayer]

Clarus with four legs and a wagging tail 💕, hooray!

 

[SSDGUY]

Apple got bored with functional no-frills UI with minimal eye-candy, so they made Apple Vista.

 

[TheColtr]

I really like that they brought back the pencil, paint brush and ruler. Maybe that’s a sign of more detail coming back to the design after much of the personality has been removed over the years.

 

[ttyRazor]

Liquid assssssss... wait why they don't change the App Store logo, the dev app looks better !

Hopefully this makes it to the real App Store icon in 27 and signals an end to icons abstracted to meaninglessness (I’m looking at you, Tahoe Disk Utility)

 

[minik]

I like them, that’s all.

 

[RedWeasel]

I really like that they brought back the pencil, paint brush and ruler. Maybe that’s a sign of more detail coming back to the design after much of the personality has been removed over the years.

We'll see. If you look at the new Creator Studio icons (i.e. Logic Pro, Final Cut etc.), they seem to go in the opposite direction. No detail anymore, just symbolic hints.

 

[Brettka7]

And a return to the search bar separated from the other 4 buttons… I prefer the separated look, but I hope they just choose one for iOS 27 instead of flip-flopping.

 

[svish]

Good to know about the changes. Looking forward to seeing all the announcements at WWDC.