app-clips

Lightweight, instantly-available versions of your iOS app for in-the-moment experiences or demos. Targets iOS 26+ / Swift 6.3 unless noted. An App Clip is a separate target in the same Xcode project as your full app: Use Swift packages or shared source files. Add files to both targets, or use the APPCLIP active compilation condition: Prefer local Swift packages for shared modules — add the package as a dependency of both targets. Create a shared asset catalog included in both targets to avoid duplicating images and colors. App Clips receive an NSUserActivity of type NSUserActivityTypeBrowsingWeb on launch. Handle it with onContinueUserActivity : For UIKit scene-based apps, implement scene(_:willConnectTo:options:) for cold launch and scene(_:continue:) for warm launch. Key rule: The full app must handle all invocation URLs identically — when a user installs the full app, it replaces the App Clip and receives all future invocations.