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What you need to know

  • Winners of the Swift Student Challenge have begun to receive their swag.
  • Winners have been sent AirPods Pro, clothing, and other accessories.
  • WWDC22 will kick off on June 6.

WWDC is just around the corner and some of the lucky winners of the 2022 Swift Student Challenge have begun to receive their free swag, including WWDC22 merch and new earbuds.

People sharing their new Apple gear online show a new WWDC22-branded sweatshirt as well as a hat and smaller merch that includes some WWDC trading cards. Winners have also been given a free pair of AirPods Pro, too.

Winners of the gear were tasked with submitting a coding project that was created in Swift Playgrounds, with winners chosen and informed last week. More details are available on the Swift Student Challenge webpage.

We continue our long-standing support of students around the world who love to code with this year's exciting Swift Student Challenge. Showcase your passion for coding by creating an incredible Swift Playgrounds app project on the topic of your choice. Winners will receive exclusive WWDC22 outerwear, a customized pin set, and one year of membership in the Apple Developer Program.

The WWDC event proper will kick off on Monday, June 6 when Apple streams its opening keynote. We expect to see the announcement of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9 during that event — with an outside chance that a new MacBook Air could also make an appearance.

All of the new software will likely get an initial beta release, made available to developers, on Monday while the updates will be made available to everyone later this year.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.