Hey, I am looking to participate in the upcoming SSC 2026. I am confused whether I am allowed to submit an idea which is for watchOS. I know the fact that submission would be xcode project and playground correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know, we can develop prototypes for watch on playground. If anyone of you knows about this, please let me know!
Swift Student Challenge
đź‘‹ Hello
According to the regulations, you can only create the swift playground project, not the Xcode project. ( But you can still use Xcode to create a swift playground project). And the iPadOS program of the swift playground project must be submitted to the competition requirements, and the swift playground project does not support watchOS. So I think you need to create a swift playground project and develop an iPadOS app and submit it to SSC.
You can see the detailed rule information here: https://developer.apple.com/swift-student-challenge/eligibility/
I hope this will be helpful to you.
Hello @itsakhand18 and thank you @lijiaxu !
Your submission must be an app playground that's built with and runs on Swift Playground 4.6 or Xcode 26 or later. At the moment, app playgrounds do not support watchOS.
I know you asked a while ago but with the challenge beginning so soon, I wanted to confirm.
Good luck!
 Travis Trotto - DTS Engineer