Q&A with the SharePlay team

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SharePlay is each astir creating meaningful shared experiences successful your app. By taking vantage of SharePlay, your app tin supply a real-time transportation that synchronizes everything from media playback to 3D models to collaborative tools crossed iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. We caught up with the SharePlay squad to inquire astir creating large SharePlay experiences, spatial Personas, that magic “shockwave” effect, and more.

How does a idiosyncratic commencement a SharePlay experience?

Anyone tin statesman a radical enactment by starting a FaceTime telephone and past launching a SharePlay-supported app. When they do, a notification astir the radical enactment volition look connected each participants’ screens. From there, participants tin articulation — and travel and spell — arsenic they like. You tin besides commencement a radical enactment from your app, from the stock sheet, oregon by adding a SharePlay fastener to your app.

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How tin I usage SharePlay to support media playback successful sync?

SharePlay supports coordinated media playback utilizing AVKit. You tin usage the strategy coordinator to synchronize your ain subordinate crossed aggregate participants. If you person an ad-supported app, you tin synchronize some playback and advertisement breaks. SharePlay besides provides the GroupSessionMessenger API, which lets participants pass successful near-real time.

What’s the quality betwixt SharePlay and Shared with You? Can they enactment together?

SharePlay allows radical to stock affluent experiences with each other. Shared with You helps marque app contented that radical are sharing successful Messages disposable to your app. For example, if a radical chat is discussing a comic meme video from your app, adopting Shared with You would let your app to item that contented successful the app. And if your app supports SharePlay, you tin aboveground that applicable contented arsenic an enactment for watching together.

Separately, Shared with You offers ways to initiate collaboration connected shared, persisted contented (such arsenic documents) implicit Messages and FaceTime. You tin take to enactment SharePlay connected that collaborative content, but if you do, see the ephemerality of a SharePlay acquisition compared to the persistence of collaboration. For example, if your papers is simply a presentation, you whitethorn privation to leverage Shared with You to get editors into the abstraction portion utilizing SharePlay to motorboat an interactive presumption mode that conscionable isn’t imaginable with surface sharing alone.

What’s the easiest mode for radical to stock content?

When your app lets your strategy cognize that your existent presumption has shareable contented connected screen, radical who bring their devices unneurotic tin seamlessly stock that contented — overmuch similar NameDrop, which presents a little “shockwave” animation erstwhile they do. This method supports the discrete actions of sharing documents, initiating SharePlay, and starting a collaboration. This tin besides link your contented to the strategy stock expanse and assistance you exposure shareable contented to the Share paper successful visionOS.

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Can idiosyncratic connected iPhone articulation a SharePlay league with idiosyncratic connected Apple Vision Pro?

Yes! SharePlay is supported crossed iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS. That means radical tin ticker a amusement unneurotic connected Apple TV+ and support their playback synchronized crossed each platforms. To enactment a akin playback concern successful your app, ticker Coordinate media playback successful Safari with Group Activities. If you’re looking to support your app’s ocular consistency crossed platforms, cheque retired the Group Session Messenger and DrawTogether illustration project. Remember: SharePlay keeps things synchronized, but your UI is up to you.

How bash I get started adopting spatial Personas with SharePlay successful visionOS?

When you adhd Group Activities to your app, radical tin stock successful that enactment implicit FaceTime portion appearing windowed — fundamentally the aforesaid SharePlay acquisition they’d spot connected different platforms. In visionOS, you person the quality to make a shared spatial acquisition utilizing spatial Personas successful which participants are placed according to a template. For example:

side-by-side, conversational, and surround.

Using spatial Personas, the situation is kept accordant and participants tin spot each others’ facial expressions successful existent time.

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How bash I support ocular and spatial consistency with each participants successful visionOS?

FaceTime successful visionOS provides a shared spatial discourse by placing spatial Personas successful a accordant mode astir your app. This is what we notation to arsenic “visual consistency.” You tin usage SharePlay to support the aforesaid contented successful your app for each participants.

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Can some a model and a measurement beryllium shared astatine the aforesaid clip successful a SharePlay session?

No. Only 1 model oregon measurement tin beryllium associated with a SharePlay session, but you tin assistance the strategy take the due model oregon volume.

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How galore radical tin enactment successful a radical activity?

SharePlay supports 33 full participants, including yourself. Group activities connected visionOS involving spatial Personas enactment 5 participants astatine a time.

Do iOS and iPadOS apps that are compatible with visionOS besides enactment SharePlay successful visionOS?

Yes. During a FaceTime call, your app volition look successful a window, and participants successful the FaceTime telephone volition look adjacent to it.