Announcing the 2026 𝝠 Expo App Awards 🙌 The talent, the care, and the craft we see in the Expo community is staggering. There are powerful, beautiful, important apps getting built with Expo tools and services every day. The 𝝠 Expo App Awards is a celebration of the apps and the people who build them. Last year we had over 1,200 submissions and winners from big enterprises, solo devs (we hired one of them @DaehyeonMun!), and tiny startups that have grown and been acquired. The award categories are: 🏆 Expo App of the Year 🏆 Most Creative 🏆 Community's Choice 🏆 Largest Scale 🏆 Most Innovative Submission criteria is simple: if your app uses Expo you should submit it. We encourage you to explain what is special about your app in the submission form. For example, if you have unique haptics, or clever Live Activities, or a super nuanced onboarding experience please share that in your submission. Submissions begin today and go through the end of the month. Then we'll begin evaluating and announcing nominees/winners. expo.dev/awards/2026

Here's the loop we see modern apps run on: build → verify → deploy → observe → update → build again... We're (very) close to shipping some services that will make this fast, safe, and flexible. If the last year has been wild, the next year will be science fiction.

The quickest way from SDK 57 to 58 is to hand the upgrade to your coding agent. Once the Expo skills are installed, commit and tell it “Upgrade this project to the latest Expo SDK” Or you can do it by hand! Details for both approaches in the blog from @entiendoNULL and @llamaluvr: expo.dev/blog/how-to-upgrade…

🍕🍻 Tomorrow night we'll demonstrate an agentic mobile app dev workflow with our cloud simulator service. And the @AmazonAppDev team will demo how to build TV Streaming apps with AI. Free Kiro credits for all attendees...

Xcode 27 removed Simulator.app, and we know that pressing 𝚒 in Expo CLI stopped working for a lot of you. It works again now. We also put your simulators in a browser tab. Check out the full blog about 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘-𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚎-𝚑𝚞𝚋 from @krystofwoldrich: expo.dev/blog/xcode-27-devic…

We wrote a walkthrough for 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘-𝚊𝚙𝚙-𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜. It starts with a counter you can bump from Siri and ends with mail drafts that show up in Spotlight: expo.dev/blog/introducing-ex… ✍️ @WojciechDrozdz0

We shipped an alpha of 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘-𝚊𝚙𝚙-𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 in SDK 58. Would love to start hearing about use cases from anyone who has upgraded and given it a try. Docs are here: docs.expo.dev/versions/v58.0…

SDK 58 is out 🙌 This SDK is built for iOS 27. Apps on SDK 58 will be ready for Duo on day one 📖. The release also includes App Intents for Siri, 2x faster clean Android builds, faster Expo modules, and a CLI built for your coding agent. Changelog: expo.dev/changelog/sdk-58 Upgrade: 𝚗𝚙𝚡 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘@^𝟻𝟾.0.0 --𝚏𝚒𝚡

This is an exhilerating OTA Update story. TeamReach has ~800k daily active users and they cut them all over to a rebuilt Expo app in one night. Then they stayed up for 36 hours fixing all the tiny little bug reports with 12 different OTA updates (without shipping a single new build). If you've inherited an app that needs updating this is a great story for you: expo.dev/blog/teamreach-ota-…