The delightful game puffies.

developer Lykke Studios spent months fine-tuning these small moments.

Available on: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV Team size: 88 Based in: Thailand and CyprusDownload puffies.

from Apple Arcade >“We always start with a material that we like,” says Lykke Studios founder Jakob Lykkegaard.

“We scrapped the entire code base and started over again until it felt right.”That pursuit of perfection is threaded throughout the game’s design.

In this edition: Join us on bilibili and LinkedIn.

Catch up on essential sessions before WWDC26.

Build a travel app with sample code.

Browse the latest edition of our new design gallery.

Learn about the biggest-ever update to Analytics in App Store Connect.

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Plane Finder is a sparkling example of what happens when a small team grows with a platform.

Launched in 2009, Plane Finder didn’t scale over the years by adding headcount, vendors, or complexity.

Plane FinderAvailable on: iPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch Team size: 88 Based in: UKDownload Plane Finder from the App Store >Take us back to 2009.

Plane Finder is known for adopting Apple technologies and features — like ARKit, MapKit, and Liquid Glass — early.

We’re working on an internal project code-named “Plane Finder Double Glazed” — the next iteration with wider UI changes that we held back initially.

Infinity Nikki is a literally glowing example of what video game graphics can be.

The fifth in a series of dress-up titles from Infold Games, Infinity Nikki is also the first to embrace elements of RPG action-adventure.

Douhu, lead gameplay systems designer for outfitsThis is the first Nikki game to include action-adventure elements and light combat.

Ade: Infinity Nikki introduces a revolutionary material system.

Visual richness in Infinity Nikki extends well beyond fabric.

To help your apps and games reach more people worldwide — especially in India — App Store Connect now supports localized metadata for 11 new languages, bringing the total number of supported localizations to 50.

You can now provide localized metadata — such as your app name, description, screenshots, and more — in App Store Connect.

When you localize your metadata, it helps make your app relevant to potential users across languages and cultures, and provides an opportunity to grow your business.

You can add localized metadata with your next version submission for each platform you support and use new localized App Store badges in your marketing communications.

Learn how to localize your app…

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to support new features, updated policies, and clarifications.

Definitions, Section 3.3.3(B), Section 3.3.7(K): Specified requirements for use of the Foveated Streaming framework and clarified data privacy requirements.

Definitions, Section 3.3.3(Q): Specified requirements for use of the Family Controls framework.

Definitions, Section 3.3.7(J): Specified requirements for use of the Accessory Notifications framework and Accessory Live Activities framework.

Translations of the updated agreement will be available on the Apple Developer website within one month.

The beta versions of iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and watchOS 26.5 are now available.

Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases.

And make sure to build and test with Xcode 26.5 beta to take advantage of the advancements in the latest SDKs.

View downloads and release notesLearn about testing a beta OSLearn about sending feedback

To provide additional transparency to customers, the App Store will now display whether an app is a regulated medical device on its product page in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or United States.

Regulated medical device apps are those that function on their own or as part of a system for a range of medical purposes, including diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, and treatment of diseases and physiological conditions.

However, if you haven’t declared your app’s status by early 2027, you’ll no longer be able to submit app updates.

If your app is not a regulated medical device, you can select No.

Learn about providing a regulated medical device status

Now you can access monetization and subscription data in Analytics to better understand the performance of your In-App Purchases and offers.

Export these via the Analytics Reports API to perform offline analysis and integrate Analytics into your own data systems.

App Store Analytics Guide.

This new guide in App Store Connect Help enables you to develop a data-driven strategy and understand App Store tools and features you can use to grow your business.

Learn about measuring performance with AnalyticsRead the new Analytics guide

Join the worldwide developer community online for a week of technology, creativity, and community.

Be there for the reveal of the latest Apple tools, frameworks, and features.

Learn to elevate your apps and games through video sessions hosted by Apple engineers and designers.

Engage with Apple experts in labs and connect with the worldwide developer community.

Learn more about WWDC26 >

Check out Apple Developer on bilibili and LinkedIn to learn about the latest news, announcements, videos, and events — including the Worldwide Developers Conference and Meet with Apple activities — for the developer community.

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Apple is making changes to the App Store in China following discussions with the Chinese regulator.

As of March 15, 2026, changes will be made to the commission rates that apply to the China mainland storefront of the App Store on iOS and iPadOS.

The commission rate for standard Apple In-App Purchase and paid app transactions will be 25%.

We strive for iOS and iPadOS to be the best app ecosystem and a great business opportunity for developers in China.

We are committed to terms that remain fair and transparent to all developers, and to always offering competitive App Store rates to developers distributing apps in China that are no higher than overall rates in other markets.

In this edition: Join Apple at GDC.

Get tips on privacy and security in a new developer activity.

Dive deep on coding intelligence in Xcode 26.

Learn how the Speechify team is going all in on AI.

Catch up on the latest news and updates.

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Updates to the Declared Age Range API are now available in beta for testing.

BrazilDevelopers who are distributing apps in Brazil can use the updated Declared Age Range API to obtain a user’s age category.

To assist with this, the Declared Age Range API—available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS—provides developers with a helpful signal about a user's age.

Developers can use the Declared Age Range API to present significant update notifications to adults in these states through the Significant Update Action, now in beta.

When releasing a significant update, developers must follow the Human Interface Guidelines and provide users with a meaningful description of the update.

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You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity.

By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.

This milestone brings Swift support, including code completion, refactoring, full debugging support, a test explorer, as well as DocC support, to a broader ecosystem of compatible editors and allows agentic IDEs like Cursor and Antigravity to automatically install Swift, with no manual download required.

Get StartedTo start using the Swift extension in any Open VSX-compatible editor, simply open the Extensions panel, se…

Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community.

Last year we shared our goal to bring Swift Build to Swift Package Manager, in an effort to deduplicate build technologies within the Swift ecosystem and deliver a consistent build experience across all platforms that Swift supports.

Most recently, the main branch of Swift started using Swift Build as its default build system, paving the way for Swift Build to be the out-of-the-box option for Swift developers in a future Swift release.

Swift EvolutionThe Swift project adds new language features through the Swift Evolution process.

ST-0021 Targeted Interoperability betw…

For a full list of language evolution proposals in Swift 6.3, see the Swift Evolution dashboard.

The list of Swift Testing evolution proposals included in Swift 6.3 are ST-0012, ST-0013, ST-0014, ST-0015, ST-0016, ST-0017, and ST-0020.

For a detailed look at what’s new in embedded Swift, see Embedded Swift Improvements coming in Swift 6.3.

With this SDK, you can start developing native Android programs in Swift, update your Swift packages to support building for Android, and use Swift Java and Swift Java JNI Core to integrate Swift code into existing Android applications written in Kotlin/Java.

You can find instructions for installing a Swift 6.3 toolchain on the Install Swift page.

TelemetryDeck is an app analytics service specifically for developers, designed to manage usage analytics that are anonymized, privacy-focused, and really easy to use.

Adopting Swift for backend servicesTelemetryDeck is built on Vapor, a web framework written in Swift, for building scalable APIs and services.

Under the hood, a Swift Vapor project is just a Swift Package with some dependencies.

Your Swift Vapor service is almost never the bottleneck.

Although profiling Swift code is easy, most slowdowns in a web service will arise from a combination of database, storage, and traffic load.

Welcome to this edition of “What’s New in Swift,” where we share interesting projects and updates in the Swift community that deserve visibility to a broader audience.

👋 I help grow and support the Swift open source community, and one of my favorite things has been increasing Swift’s participation in open source events.

FOSDEM may be over (for now), but I’m already excited about how the Swift community will show up next year!

Swift EvolutionThe Swift project adds new language features through the Swift Evolution process.

AuthorsKaren Chu focuses on Swift's open source community initiatives as part of Apple's Open Source Program Office.

Vladimir Kukushkin works on foundational Swift server libraries at Apple, and is a maintainer of Swift System Metrics.

We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics, a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage.

Swift System Metrics is part of a larger set of packages that provide an end-to-end solution for integrating metrics into your Swift applications and services.

Once system metrics are collected, they’re reported to Swift Metrics, a backend-agnostic metrics API that can work with popular backends like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.

bootstrap ( configuration : otelConfig ) // Setup your service let service = …

For this edition of “What’s new in Swift,” we invited a developer to share their experience:Hi, I’m Nick Sloan.

We chose Swift for Studioworks because of how easy it is to write safe and reliable code with great performance.

Our Swift project makes use of Hummingbird 2, Soto (for its incredible DynamoDB Codable support), Hummingbird MacroRouting, and Elementary.

We’ve been deploying web applications with PHP and Python for decades, and getting started with a Swift web project was certainly a bit slower.

Swift on the web has been a resounding success for us, and I hope we’ll see this part of the community continue to grow!

We are excited to announce the creation of the Windows workgroup!

The new Windows workgroup joins a growing list of Swift workgroups, including the Android workgroup, Build and Packaging workgroup, and Testing workgroup which were all added in the past year.

The workgroup will build upon these efforts and focus on work to:Improve and maintain Windows support for the official Swift distribution.

Identify and recommend best practices for bridging between Swift and the Windows API, and for shipping Swift libraries with Windows applications.

Learn more about the Windows workgroup by reading its charter.

While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

In this post, I’m going to use these annotations to improve how Swift interacts with the WebGPU C code.

You can create a module map for the WebGPU header by writing the following to a file module.modulemap :module WebGPU { header "webgpu.h" export * }The easiest thing to do is to put module.modulemap alongside the header itself.

The resulting API notes are in WebGPU.apinotes, and the generated Swift interface after these API notes are applied is here.

A better approach fo…

BSD : The preview of Swift on FreeBSD support is now available for FreeBSD 14.3 and later, and will be featured in a FOSDEM 2026 talk about Porting Swift to FreeBSD.

: The preview of Swift on FreeBSD support is now available for FreeBSD 14.3 and later, and will be featured in a FOSDEM 2026 talk about Porting Swift to FreeBSD.

AWS blog post about AWS Lambda runtime - The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime moved to the official AWS Labs GitHub organization, delivering a vendor-supported approach to running Swift on AWS Lambda.

Swift EvolutionThe Swift project adds new language features to the language through the Swift Evolution process.

Under Active Review:SE-0501 HTML Coverage Report - This proposal …

Since the announcement of the preview Swift SDK for Android, the Android workgroup has seen a lot of interest in how it works and what’s next.

An Android workflow was added to the official Swift workflows for GitHub months ago, allowing you to easily try building your Swift packages with the Swift SDK for Android, and work is underway to let you run your tests in an Android emulator too.

Swift 6.3 SDK nightly previewsFinally, we are happy to announce that an official Swift 6.3 SDK CI has been set up, and it is producing nightly preview releases of the Swift 6.3 SDK for Android.

Try out the new preview releases of the Swift 6.3 SDK for Android and help us make it even better!

AuthorsThe Andr…

Honza Dvorsky works on foundational Swift server libraries at Apple, and is a maintainer of Swift OpenAPI Generator and Swift Configuration.

Swift Configuration brings a unified, type-safe approach to this problem for Swift applications and libraries.

With the release of Swift Configuration 1.0, the library is production-ready to serve as a common API for reading configuration across the Swift ecosystem.

Swift Configuration creates a common interface for configuration, enabling you to:Read configuration the same way across your codebase using a single configuration reader API that’s usable from both applications and libraries.

Swift Configuration excels in the Swift server ecosystem, where …

Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift that’s designed for low resource usage, making it capable of running on constrained environments like microcontrollers.

While a subset of the full language, the vast majority of the Swift language works exactly the same in Embedded Swift.

Progress on the Embedded Swift linkage modelEmbedded Swift uses a different compilation model from regular Swift that delays code generation to later in the compilation process.

Embedded Swift support is available in the Swift development snapshots.

The best way to get started is through the examples in the Swift Embedded Examples repository, which contains a number of sample projects to get Embedded Swift code building …

The fourth and last post in this year’s series, contributed by Kelvin Bui, improved the console output that is printed when running tests implemented with Swift Testing.

My name is Kelvin Bui, and I’m excited to share my GSoC 2025 project, where I worked on improving the console output for the Swift Testing framework with my mentor, Stuart Montgomery.

OverviewThis summer, as part of Google Summer of Code 2025, I had the incredible opportunity to work on improving the console output for the Swift Testing framework.

Thank you as well to Swift Testing Workgroup, and all the other members of the Swift community who provided thoughtful feedback on the forums.

AuthorsKelvin is a Google Summer of …

Today’s featured project improved how documentation is displayed during code completion in IDEs, contributed by Ahmed Elrefaey.

I’m excited to share with you an update on my GSoC project which improved the display of documentation during code completion for Swift.

We reused the existing argument completion logic to determine the overloads and refactored the code completion item description implementation to reuse it in signature help.

Then, in VS Code you can pick “Select Toolchain” from the Command Palette and select the newly downloaded toolchain.

During Google Summer of Code 2025, he worked on improving the display of Swift documentation during code completion in SourceKit-LSP and VS Cod…

I'm creating a watchOS app for a research project that we're going to use on a limited number of watches that I own. We've developed an app that will remain in beta on TestFlight, but a question is how we get the app on to the watches? We have them setup with Apple accounts via Family Sharing. But with Family Sharing, one doesn't have the same level of control over apps like with a normally paired phone and watch. And one can't download TestFlight directly from the watch App Store. Anyone have any ideas/experience on how to get the app on the Family Sharing watches, or get TestFlight on to the watches? Or other ideas? Thanks! submitted by /u/downtownblue [link] [comments]

Reposting because i didn't realize the appstore links werre not allowed outside of Saturdays sorry Mods! So I am mainly a Product Designer by trade, I shipped my first iOS app on April 23 (v1.5 went out today!). Posting the technical decisions in case any are useful, and because I want pushback on a few of them. Stack: - 100% SwiftUI, iOS 17+ only. No UIKit bridging anywhere. - CloudKit for persistence + async multiplayer. No backend server, no Firebase, no Supabase. $0/month. - Sign in with Apple as primary auth, guest mode (anonymous CloudKit user) as fallback. No email forms anywhere. - Universal Links hosted on a separate domain I already owned, used for invite links + iMessage OG previ…

300 screens migrated to SwiftUI, and navigation stayed in UIKit. That's not a compromise, that's an architectural decision. News: - Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO on September 1 Must read: - Migrating 300 screens to SwiftUI without touching navigation - associatedtype in Swift Explained - Making your profiler output readable to an AI agent - Why .refreshable sometimes stops halfway with no error - From $36 to $6 per install: what actually worked submitted by /u/IllBreadfruit3087 [link] [comments]

Hi Guys I’m building Prism, a personal project management app designed to help organise projects, tasks, files, clients, insights and planning in one clean workspace. It’s still in development, but the goal is to have it ready sometime between August and November 2026. I’m aiming for something simple, calm and visual, with a strong focus on tracking progress without making project management feel overwhelming. I’d really appreciate any feedback on the concept, design, features, or anything you think would make it more useful. #App #Feedback submitted by /u/Serious_Macaroon7467 [link] [comments]

Five days ago I had a basic SwiftUI home screen and a dream. Today Mochi is sitting in the App Store review queue. Mochi is a health companion app with a panda mascot that reads your Apple Health data and tells you exactly what your body needs today. One daily action card every morning. An AI chat that actually knows your numbers. The thing that nearly broke me: HealthKit records 0 on days you don't wear your watch, not nil. Took me way too long to figure out why the AI was telling me I slept 0 hours. Stack: SwiftUI, HealthKit, Claude API, RevenueCat Now I wait. Fingers crossed Apple likes pandas. It's been fun building apps, I think I found my new hobby. Here's the waitlist if anyone is in…

Multiple limitations I have encountered: Most critical is the power button function. AlarmKit does not expose it so when alarms ring and user hit the power button, it just turns off. Clocks has Snooze function tied to power button. This severely limits usefulness of AlarmKit app. Mid critical is Shortcuts automation trigger alarm goes off, snoozed or stopped only works with Clocks. So I cannot trigger Shortcuts when my alarm goes off. Least critical is in Clocks, when you choose an iTunes song as alarm tone, there is media session available at alarms going off allowing the song to play fully. AlarmKit does not. Documentation limits to 30 seconds but real limitation is like 2 minutes. Some s…

The question in the topic. What I want to know how good the framework can generate Android code from SwiftUI and what pitfalls are there submitted by /u/Extra-Ad5735 [link] [comments]

I'm looking for a .claudeignore file I can add to my xcode iOS app projects to keep the context lower on Claude so I can get more usage out of it when I have it help check code / write tests etc Has anyone found a favorite one on the net that that use in their projects? What is safe to exclude from the context window? What should be kept in? submitted by /u/Cgbwrites [link] [comments]

I do not have a developer account nor plan on ever publishing an app, but i love to mess around, must be my autism. Anyway, Can you use a local llm as an agent Can you use skills originally made for claude code locally What would the performance be on a base model mac mini m4 submitted by /u/Aloys33_ [link] [comments]

There's no shortage of APIs for the input side of health (especially food) tracking: Nutritionix Passio Edamam, etc... And with LLMs, the input layer is basically solved: drop a photo or type a description and get clean structured macros back. Tracking health data is easier than it's ever been. What I haven't been able to find is a clean Swift package for the write side of the pipeline. Example: user sends text or a photo in chat, macros calculated with LLM, app pushes the result into HealthKit. HKCorrelation(.food) to bundle kcal + macros as one expandable entry Atwater (4/4/9) auto-balancer for editable fields Deduplication so re-sending the same input doesn't double write Handling deleti…

In the beginning people said you should wait because it’s new and unpolished. Well. it’s been out for almost 3 years now. Some people used to say that you shouldn’t use it for “complicated” projects. Which always made me wonder what counts as complicated. For instance: The project I’m working on has about 15 models, with almost the same number of relationships, some of them being nested relationships. I feel like that probably counts as “complicated” but then again there is no definition so I’m not sure. I feel like I’m hitting the limits of what SwiftData can do, so I’m thinking about changing to something different. But I’m worried that the problem isn’t with SwiftData but rather my imple…

Had to redo screenshots for an app I am relaunching. Instead of guessing, I pulled the screenshots from the top 50 apps across 4 categories I care about (productivity, fitness, finance, health) and went through them one by one. A few patterns showed up everywhere, and none of them are in the standard ASO write-ups, The first screenshot is never the raw app UI. It is always a hero composition with a benefit headline in 4 to 6 words, with the actual interface starting on screenshot 2 or 3 Type sizes are way bigger than what indie devs ship. Headlines on hero shots are 80 to 120pt at the iPhone resolution. Most indie apps I checked ship at 40 to 50pt and it kills perceived quality Background p…

My app has three subscriptions and it was approved few days ago. Today I have added an introductory offer of first 3 days free in those subs, but the production app is not showing the offer. I am using revenuecat for payments. Is there any delay in showing the offer from apple side? submitted by /u/tokyo-spare [link] [comments]

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Well, it doesn't work for me, but does for 26.2 users. i just tried for 6 hours total via gemini for sidejitserver to work, but it didnt work even WITH the shortcut. Can anyone tell me when XCode 26.3 will come out? I wanna use JIT so badlyyyyy (localdevvpn is banned in country) Please. I beg yall. just a bit of help is appreciated. submitted by /u/MagazineImpossible45 [link] [comments]

Issue 748 17th April 2026 Written by Dave VerwerOne community announcement that stood out to me this week was the Hummingbird project announcing their AI tool policy.

We’re even being affected a little at the Swift Package Index, although not to the point of it being a huge issue, and not in the main repository.

It’s not a huge problem, but it’s more work, and shows how far this issue stretches.

Having a policy in place is a great place to start, and I’m glad to see Hummingbird tackle the subject.

This issue isn’t going to go away, and having a written policy helps prevent arguments.

By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility, these editors tap directly into the Open VSX Registry, where the official Swift extension is now live.

I must admit I also have a fondness for Zed, but VS Code is my day to day editor when I don’t need something Xcode-specific.

I couldn’t have predicted I’d ever be happy using an Electron-based coding editor, but I am.

Yes, the VS Code extension isn’t new, but the continued support of it, and the care taken to make sure it works with the VSX marketplace is important.

If you’ve ever needed convincing that working with dates over long periods of time is challenging, this is for you.

Issue 746 13th March 2026 Written by Dave VerwerIt’s time to start thinking about WWDC!

The big question is whether it’s worth being in Cupertino for a week without Apple running a week-long event.

We’re opening the CFP for iOS builders who go beyond tutorials: SwiftUI in production, architecture decisions, performance wins, and hard trade-offs.

It also has improvements to embedded Swift, and the first official release of the Swift SDK for Android.

BooksFollowing on from her previous book, SwiftUI Fundamentals, Natalia Panferova published The SwiftUI Way this week.

Issue 745 13th March 2026 Written by Dave VerwerI spent a little time updating and cleaning up the iOS Dev Directory this week and it reminded me that I’ve not talked about it here in a while.

Getting people to know about a new blog is hard, especially if you don’t have a large social media following.

That said, because it’s not a “destination” site, it always needs an occasional push here to remind people it exists.

I do have another reason to write about the iOS Dev Directory.

I’d love some help with iOS Dev Directory from anyone who thinks a site like this is important.

Yes, it might help with a simple task, but does it do everything that everyone in that company used the SaaS product for?

What I talked about last week in terms of detailed thought going into the prompt isn’t just for code.

It’s much more about thinking through edge cases, user interfaces, features, and everything else that goes into making good software.

So I kept on making the software that I wanted to build, that I wanted to exist in this world.

I’ve linked to several workflows like this for iOS, but don’t think I have linked to one for macOS before!

Well, yes, but not on how to set it up, use it, or whether I like the Xcode 26.3 implementation.

It’s good, and the presenters do a good job of explaining it, but you’ll notice something about the prompts they use.

I’d love to see the spec in a completely separate context window to the coding agent, too.

I’d love to see Apple and the Xcode team really lead from the front and reduce the friction of working this way.

Aryaman Sharda:SimTag adds a small, unobtrusive overlay to each iOS Simulator window showing the branch that build came from.

Issue 742 6th February 2026 Written by Dave VerwerI received plenty of feedback on my comment from last week about Swift for Wasm and Windows, and wanted to start this week by highlighting the projects that I heard about.

They are even hiring for a couple of roles (1, 2), if you’re interested in using Swift and Wasm together every day.

Also on the Wasm side, Geoff Pado’s Barcode Generator for his Barc app uses Wasm to generate the barcode images.

What I didn’t realise is that much of that Electron app is backed by Swift code.

😂What’s potentially even more exciting than the built-in agent support in Xcode 26.3 is what Rudrank Riyam discovered by digging a little deeper into the release.

Issue 741 30th January 2026 Written by Dave VerwerA couple of announcements combined to inspire this week’s comment.

I’m not aware of any current and significant Wasm projects built with Swift¹, and even if I missed some, the ecosystem would certainly benefit from more!

That said, I’m delighted to see a real-world open source project that is pushing Wasm into real use-cases.

– Dave VerwerRevenueCat Paywalls now work on the web — meaning the same paywalls you design for iOS can now render in the browser.

JobsSenior iOS Engineer @ alba – We have a unique approach to identifying opportunities, entering markets, and scaling our products.

Issue 740 23rd January 2026 Written by Dave VerwerThe best part of this week (related to the industry, at least!)

Obviously, Claude Code is great for long sessions working on a codebase, but I’ve also started using it for smaller tasks in directories with lots of text files, like the iOS Dev Weekly site source code directory.

– Dave VerwerLearn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app.

Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

JobsSenior iOS Engineer @ alba – We have a unique approach to identifying opportunities, entering markets, and scaling our products.

Issue 739 16th January 2026 Written by Dave VerwerIf you’ve spent any time at all reading about AI coding agents, you’ll likely have heard that people get better results when working with languages other than Swift.

In fact, I’ve seen people say that type-safe languages produce better results as the agent can rely on the compiler to automatically catch basic errors.

So I’ve been interested to receive several recommendations of a tool that really helps the agents get to grips with the current state of Swift.

I can’t imagine a better guide to getting everything correct than the one in Alberto De Bortoli’s latest blog post.

JobsSenior iOS Engineer @ alba – We have a unique approach to identify…

Issue 738 9th January 2026 Written by Dave VerwerIt happened while I was away on my end-of-year break, but at the end of last year Apple announced changes to iOS in Japan.

iOS 26.2 enabled the changes, and now there are several regions of the world where users could be using browsers with non-WebKit rendering engines.

At the time it felt like we had a chance for HTML rendering engines to converge into one standard implementation (apologies to Gecko 😬), which promised to be a win for the web.

Note, I’m not talking about browsers, strictly about rendering engines.

One year ago, iOS 18 was at ~78%.

Issue 737 19th December 2025 Written by Dave VerwerI’m back from my vacation, which was exactly what I needed, and I now find myself writing the last issue of 2025!

😱To mark the end of the year, Apple announced this year’s App Store Award winners!

You can see the full list of awards and winners on the developer site, although I actually prefer their press release writeup as it includes screenshots of the apps.

I especially liked the Be My Eyes app, which restored some of my faith in humanity.

Follow along and have some Swifty fun with that Pi that is still sitting in its box on your shelf.

It takes the idea of using LLMs inside an app one step further than having the model return text or structured data.

I’d recommend watching this 30-second slice of the video for a better explanation than I can manage in a few words.

It includes a built-in set of widgets for common UI, and you can add your own too.

It has been possible to get Swift apps running on really tiny devices for a while now (as mentioned in Issue 655, Issue 673, and Issue 691), although getting it going was not trivial.

😬VideosI wrote about ServerSide.swift 2025 back in Issue 729, but if you missed the conference, you can at least now catch up with the session videos!

Issue 735 14th November 2025 Written by Dave VerwerIt’s been a few years since the closure of the Swift Weekly Brief newsletter.

It regularly covered detailed information on Swift Evolution proposals, topics from the Swift Forums, and other Swift community news.

I cover Swift news, of course, but I mainly stick to the larger announcements rather than covering anything still going through the Swift Evolution process.

I especially like his point that parameterising your tests has the potential to introduce logic into your test code that mirrors the code you’re testing.

JobsSenior iOS Engineer @ alba – We have a unique approach to identifying opportunities, entering markets, and scaling our pr…

Issue 734 7th November 2025 Written by Dave VerwerI did not have Apple launching a web-based version of the App Store on my bingo card for this week, but here we are.

It’s a full, multi-region implementation of the App Store, with the “Today” view (including featured lists and events) and Apple Arcade.

Should you rely on linking directly to an App Store listing, assuming that everyone who clicks on it will have a device that will launch the store and show your product page?

You also get the chance to let people opt in to receiving email, either as customers or as potential customers before they make an App Store download.

It’s a nice step forward for the App Store!

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Apple showcased dozens of studies at ICLR 2026While ICLR may not be widely known to the general public, it has been regarded for more than a decade as one of the most renowned and prestigious conferences in machine learning.

ICLR 2026 drew machine learning and artificial intelligence specialists and researchers (including AMI Labs’ Yann LeCun) from all over the world, from China to India to the United States and across Europe.

Apple’s booth also doubled as a recruiting hub, with iPads set up for attendees to scan QR codes and apply for machine learning roles on the spot.

During the event, Apple showcased dozens of papers, all of which you can find here.

To learn more about the studies Apple…

Do you want a vent mount or a dashboard mount?

Scosche decided to skip that debate entirely with the Scosche MagicMount Charge Pro, which includes both options in the box.

If you want something more stationary, the dashboard mount uses a strong adhesive that stays put even on bumpy roads.

Wrap up on Scosche MagicMount Charge ProThe Scosche MagicMount Charge Pro is what’s currently in my car as I prepare for vacations and other travel this summer.

You can buy the Scosche MagicMount Charge Pro on Amazon or directly from Scosche.

Last month, we reported that iOS 26.5 beta 1 hinted at new App Store subscription options.

Today, Apple has made that official, with developers now able to set up and test monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment ahead of the public rollout.

Feature to be released worldwide, with two significant exceptionsApple confirmed today that developers will soon be able to offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment on the App Store.

For developers, Apple says the new subscription type is already available in App Store Connect and for testing in Xcode.

To learn more about monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment, follow this link.

Margo’s Got Money Troubles and Widow’s Bay offer two unique, beloved comedy seriesStarting this week, Apple TV will have two top-tier new comedy series airing new episodes every Wednesday (technically Tuesday night at 9:00 p.m.

And this week, Apple has another acclaimed, but very different comedy series debuting.

New and returning Apple TV comedies coming soonLooking beyond Apple’s current offerings, there are several other upcoming premieres for new and returning comedies happening soon.

Which Apple TV comedies are you most excited about?

Apple TV is available for $12.99 per month, or you can get it discounted through the Apple One bundle.

Apple is surveying a subset of Apple TV subscribers about how they feel the service is performing, covering content quality and variety, as well as the importance of awards and sports to their overall experience.

Apple is inviting some Apple TV subscribers to share their thoughts on their experience with the service.

Apple makes a point to ask whether the respondent was aware they could share their Apple TV subscription prior to answering the survey.

So, what one thing, if anything, would you add or change about Apple TV?

Apple TV is available for $12.99 per month and features hit TV shows and movies like Severance, The Studio, The Morning Show, Shrinking and Silo.

Earlier today, a new report said Apple’s forthcoming MacBook Pro overhaul will actually be called the MacBook Ultra.

MacBook Pro redesign now rumored to be called ‘MacBook Ultra’ when it launchesLast month, Mark Gurman hinted that Apple’s M6 MacBook Pro with a new design, touchscreen, OLED, and more might be called the MacBook Ultra.

If iPhone Ultra and MacBook Ultra are indeed coming, I think Apple will be using ‘Ultra’ to highlight innovation more than sheer capabilities.

Used in this sense, MacBook Ultra is exactly what I want.

Obviously I don’t expect MacBook Ultra to lag behind the MacBook Pro.

You don’t need a WWDC ticket to enjoy many of the developer events happening around Apple’s conference in June either.

There’s more to do during WWDC week around Cupertino than attending Apple’s conferenceApple highlights nine developer community events happening in California during WWDC 2026 keynote week.

Apple also recommends checking out Envision WWDC26, which describes itself as “a third party online developer community event built around WWDC week.”Beyond California, Apple also highlights developer meetups happening in the Netherlands, China, and Turkey during WWDC week in June.

Many of these events require free registration ahead of time to attend, but a WWDC ticket is never required…

John Giannandrea, Apple’s former AI head, wrapped his final days at Apple earlier this month after his pending departure was first reported in December.

And now, it seems Giannandrea already has his next role lined up.

Apple’s former AI head is joining UK startup CuspAI to help with US expansion, per reportAlex Konrad writes at Upstarts Media:Apple’s longtime former AI chief John Giannandrea is joining a science AI startup, CuspAI, to help build out its U.S. operations, Upstarts has learned.

Instead, Apple’s former AI head reportedly plans to split his time consulting for several different AI startups.

Before joining Apple, Giannandrea served as Google’s head of search and AI, making him an…

Severance season 3 is about to start filming, and in a new interview, Adam Scott teases big surprises coming while also revealing that he already knows the show’s ending.

In a new interview at Variety, star Adam Scott was asked what he could share about Severance season 3.

However, Scott did tease that “there are so many surprises” coming in the new season of Severance.

One other notable quote involved Severance’s ending.

Apple TV is available for $12.99 per month, or you can get it discounted through the Apple One bundle.

Apple moved its lineup of 26.5 software updates closer to launch today, with beta 4 available now for iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and more.

iPadOS 26.5 beta 4 and more now available for developersWe’re only six weeks away from Apple’s WWDC unveiling of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and more.

iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and more are all available in beta 4 for developers.

Have you found anything new in iPadOS 26.5 beta 4 or another new beta?

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Just a week after releasing macOS 26.5 beta 3, Apple is now rolling out the fourth beta, ahead of its official release in a few weeks.

A quiet release this time aroundContrary to macOS 26.4, which reintroduced the compact tab view in Safari, and introduced features such as the Charge Limit, it looks like macOS 26.5 will be a rather quiet release.

So far, macOS 26.5 hasn’t seen any major changes, with most new features either landing in iOS 26.5 or introduced as cross-platform updates.

The release build for macOS 26.5 beta 4 is 25F5068a.

How to install the new betaHere’s how to install the macOS Tahoe 26.5 developer beta 4:Backup your Mac Open System Settings Go to General ⇾ Software Update …

Apple has released the fourth iOS 26.5 beta for developers.

iOS 26.5 features and changesiOS 26.5 beta 4 carries build version 23F5069b, up from 23F5059e.

While there are no Gemini-powered AI features, the iOS 26.5 update does include a few changes.

iOS 26.5 may also support monthly payments for annual subscriptions at a discounted rate with commitment.

Check out 9to5Mac’s roundup of new features in iOS 26.5 to see some of the smaller changes spotted so far.

A new report says Apple’s foldable iPhone and touchscreen MacBook Pro will be named ‘iPhone Ultra’ and ‘MacBook Ultra,’ respectively.

Mark Gurman has previously reported on Apple’s ambitions to expand its ‘Ultra’ lineup, and more recently, several Weibo leakers have said that ‘iPhone Ultra’ is the planned name for Apple’s foldable iPhone.

Now, Macworld’s report further corroborates the iPhone Ultra name while also saying that the first ‘MacBook Ultra’ is coming too.

Apple’s iPhone Ultra is expected to be unveiled in September alongside iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.

Macworld’s report reiterates that Apple is planning to launch the iPhone Ultra this September, and is targeting a MacBook Ultra la…

Spotify today launched a new Fitness hub, bringing over 1,400 on-demand Peloton workout classes to Premium subscribers alongside a range of free content from independent wellness creators.

The Peloton classes span strength, cardio, yoga, pilates, barre, meditation, stretching, and outdoor run and walk, and require no specialist equipment.

The Fitness hub includes an onboarding questionnaire that asks users what type of movement they want, how hard they want to push, and their experience level, then generates a personalized starter pack.

Nearly 70% of Premium subscribers apparently work out monthly, and there are more than 150 million fitness playlists active on the platform.

The Fitness hub…

Apple today provided the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.5 update to developers for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the third beta.

Developers can download the ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.5 update by opening up the System Settings app, selecting the General category, and then choosing Software Update.

Beta Updates will need to be enabled, and a free developer account is required.

No new features were found in the first three ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.5 betas, and it's likely the update primarily focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements.

Apple today seeded the fourth betas of upcoming iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple released the third betas.

iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 do not include new Siri capabilities, suggesting any ‌Siri‌ updates are being held until iOS 27.

In the European Union, Apple is testing proximity pairing, notification forwarding, and Live Activities for third-party wearables like earbuds and smartwatches.

The functionality will allow third-party wearables to have many of the same features as the Apple Watch and AirPods.

More detail on what's new in iOS 26.5 can be found in our iOS 26.5 beta features guide.

Apple today provided developers with the fourth betas of upcoming watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5 betas for testing purposes.

The software comes a week after Apple released the third betas for each platform.

The software updates are available through the Settings app on each device, and because these are developer betas, a free developer account is required.

watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS often get few features in each new beta, with updates primarily focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements.

Nothing new was found in the first three betas.

The IAM Union representing Apple employees in Towson, Maryland today said that it is filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge [PDF] against Apple with the National Labor Relations Board.

Earlier this month, Apple announced plans to close the Towson Apple Store alongside two other Apple locations in Connecticut and California.

The Towson store was the first Apple retail location to unionize in the U.S. back in 2022.

Apple instead said that Towson employees are "eligible to apply for open roles at Apple in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement."

The union has asked Apple to reverse its decision and give Towson workers the same opportunity to transfer to other retail locations.

Apple's MacBook Neo has recently been struck by delayed delivery estimates on Apple.com, due to the notebook's booming popularity.

However, both Walmart and Amazon offer deliveries as soon as tomorrow, and even feature small discounts on the Neo.

Following its launch in March, the ‌MacBook Neo‌ has become a big hit for Apple, with the company struggling to keep the computer in stock online and in Apple stores.

If you want to prioritize saving a bit of money, Amazon has every model of the MacBook Neo for $9 off this week.

Select locations should see delivery estimates as soon as April 28 through April 29 on every model of the ‌MacBook Neo‌.

Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report claims that Apple's first foldable iPhone will be called the "iPhone Ultra."

The ‌iPhone Ultra‌ will not be considered part of the iPhone 18 iPhone lineup, despite arriving alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max.

Although Apple is hoping to ship the ‌iPhone Ultra‌ alongside the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌, it may launch a few weeks later and with scarcer availability.

Moreover, Apple is apparently planning to release a "MacBook Ultra" later this year or in early 2027.

Apple already offers M-series Ultra chips, the Apple Watch Ultra, and CarPlay Ultra.

OpenAI is working on a smartphone in what appears to be a significant reversal from previous reports that the company had no plans to enter the phone market, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

Kuo argues that the smartphone remains uniquely positioned for AI agent use because it is the only device that captures a user's full real-time state, including location, activity, communication, and context, which he describes as the most important input for real-time AI agent inference.

Kuo suggests that Luxshare, which has long sought to reduce its dependence on Apple supply chain work, could benefit substantially from an early position in what he frames as the next generation of smart…

Earlier this month, Amazon introduced a few new record low prices on the M5 MacBook Air and the best deal is back today.

You can get the 512GB 13-inch M5 MacBook Air for $949.99, down from $1,099.00, available in all colors.

You'll find up to $150 off every model of the M5 MacBook Air on Amazon, with free delivery around May 2 for most models.

Both of these represent a match for the record low prices for each configuration.

In terms of the 15-inch models, you'll find up to $150 off the M5 MacBook Air, with multiple color options on sale for each configuration.

Amazon today has the AirPods 4 available for $99.00, down from $129.00.

This remains one of the best deals on the AirPods 4 so far in 2026, and it's accompanied by a solid deal on the AirPods Max 2.

Apple's new AirPods Max 2 launched earlier this month, and Amazon is still one of the only retailers offering a discount on the headphones.

Although this is only a $19 discount on the AirPods Max 2, it's the best markdown you'll find online if you're looking to order the new headphones.

Free delivery has the AirPods Max 2 arriving around April 30, but they can be delivered as soon as tomorrow with Prime shipping.

Apple is planning to start showing ads in the Apple Maps app this summer, and signs of ads have already shown up in the iOS 26.5 beta as Apple prepares to roll them out.

Where Ads Show UpAds will be displayed in the ‌Apple Maps‌ search interface.

No Opt-OutSimilar to ads in the App Store, there will be no option to turn off ads in ‌Apple Maps‌.

Beta TestingApple is laying the groundwork for Maps ads in the iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5 betas.

There's an ads splash screen in the Maps app along with underlying ad code, but ads are not yet live.

X today launched XChat, a standalone messaging app for the iPhone and iPad, available now on the App Store.

XChat allows users to chat with anyone on X in a private, focused space separate from the main X app.

Unlike the main X app, XChat adopts iOS 26 design conventions, including the ‌iOS 26‌ keyboard.

The app offers several customization options, including light and dark modes, message permissions, left-swipe interaction settings, and a selection of app icon options.

There is also a prominent button within XChat for jumping back to the main X app.

Apple's standard iPhone 18 could feature 12GB of memory for the first time, according to analyst Dan Nystedt.

In a new post on X, Nystedt said that the standard ‌iPhone 18‌ will match the 12GB of RAM Apple gave the iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max last September.

It would mark the first time the entry-level iPhone model has shipped with that much memory.

The jump to 12GB of RAM on the base model is likely tied to Apple Intelligence.

The ‌iPhone 18‌ is not expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro this fall.

Apple today released a YouTube Short revealing a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of its playful MacBook Neo introduction video.

The short clip gives what Apple describes as "a peek at some handmade magic," revealing the physical models and camera techniques used during production.

Apple does not usually share production insights for a major product launch videos.

See the original "Hello, MacBook Neo" video below:The MacBook Neo launched in March at $599, and its introductory video was widely noted for its whimsey and charm.

The ‌MacBook Neo‌ itself has proven to be very strong seller since its launch; Apple reportedly broke a Mac launch week record in the weeks following its debut…

Apple and Google have managed to defeat a California bill that would've forced them to stop favoring their own apps in digital storefronts like the App Store. All through the power of lobbying.Apple Park at nightThe tech giants are frequently the target of legislators and regulators, trying to prevent them from being too dominant. One recent attempt to curtail the influence of Apple and Google failed to become a problem because of a massive and successful lobbying operation.Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA) sponsored "Based Act," a bill to prevent tech companies from favoring their own apps and services when providing users with apps in the App Store and the Google Play Store, reports Bloomberg. …

A rare first-edition "Toy Story" book signed by Steve Jobs will go up for auction on April 30, 2026, in Los Angeles, tied directly to the Pixar IPO that made him a billionaire.Toy Story bookNate D. Sanders Auctions will auction a rare Steve Jobs artifact on April 30, in Los Angeles. Bidding will start at $20,000, targeting seasoned collectors of high-end Apple and film memorabilia.A first-edition copy of "Toy Story: The Art and Making of the Animated Film" signed by Steve Jobs and John Lasseter anchors the lot. Their signatures tie together Pixar's financial backing and creative leadership at a pivotal moment in the company's history.An original "Toy Story" promotional brochure housed in a …

Apple has brought out the fourth developer betas for iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and macOS Tahoe 26.5 as testing of the updates continues.Apple's hardware that works with the 26-generation operating systems - Image Credit: AppleThe fourth developer betas for iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and macOS Tahoe 26.5 arrive after the third, which came out on April 20. The second appeared on April 13.The first round was distributed on March 30, but Apple re-released the developer beta for iOS 26.5 on March 24, complete with a new build number. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Apple is claiming that the Towson Apple Store employee contract prevents guaranteed employment at other locations, and the union has filed an unlawful discrimination suit about the matter.IAM Union lobs Unfair Labor Practice charge at Apple after alleged discrimination against unionized Towson workers | Image Credit: IAM On Monday, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union officially filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge against Apple. The charge, which has been submitted to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleges that the company unlawfully discriminated against unionized workers at its Towson, Maryland retail location.Towson, Maryland w…

Ultra branding it already uses looks like Apple's next marketing angle as new categories like an iPhone Fold push past what Pro can cover.Render of the rumored iPhone Fold/UltraThe company is preparing to expand its Ultra branding beyond watches and Apple Silicon into a new top tier for its most expensive hardware, according to a report published April 27. The plan includes a foldable iPhone and a high-end MacBook positioned above the Pro lineup.Apple plans to launch products aligned with the upcoming iPhone and Mac cycles through 2027. The naming is obvious as it follows Apple's established pattern, using "Ultra" for its most expensive devices. Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely Continue Reading on App…

This week's episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast is all about the smart kitchen, breaking down which devices do and don't need to have connectivity and why there's been a drought on Matter appliances.Smart Home Insider PodcastIn the news this week, we had a rare improvement on pricing. Ecovacs has announced that due to tariff reversals, they were able to drop prices on its vacuums by as much as $400.DJI has also received its first Matter certification from the CSA. It's for a robotic vacuum with Matter version 1.4.2, which could be the existing Romo P, A, and S models that have already been released. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

OpenAI is absolutely hemorrhaging cash. Despite that, the ChatGPT owner is talking to chipmakers to make an iPhone competitor, with AI centric to the design.Jony Ive & Sam Altman | Image Credit: OpenAIOpenAI is already in the process of working with former Apple design chief Jony Ive on an AI hardware project. However, OpenAI has the potential to take on the smartphone market and try to rival Apple with an AI-centric version.In an X post on Monday, TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote that OpenAI is working with MediaTek and Qualcomm on a new generation of smartphone processors. The report frames this as OpenAI moving into the smartphone space. Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible Continue Reading o…

In this week's "Sunday Reboot," a changing of the guard, the DOJ becomes a tattling schoolchild, and the expensive Apple Vision Pro saves Disney money.John Ternus, the DOJ, and the Apple Vision ProSunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step.This week, Apple Music users aren't listening to AI-generated music that's now flooding the service, Apple won't benefit from the tariff refunds for months, and the company faces a $38 billion fine in India as part of an App Store antitrust investigation. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our F…

Apple will announce its second-quarter financial results for 2026 on April 30. Here's what happened in the quarter, and what analysts think is going to be revealed.Apple CEO Tim CookThe Q2 2026 financial results will be shared by Apple in a press release on April 30. A short time after, at 5 P.M. Eastern, it will hold its usual analyst and investor conference call.That call will involve both current CEO Tim Cook and CFO Kevan Parekh discussing the quarter and providing guidance for future quarters. There will also be questions from analysts about the quarter and expectations for Q3 and beyond. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

The long-awaited Apple Home Hub and more will finally arrive thanks to the revamped Apple Foundation Models trained by Google Gemini. The release window is still in question, though.Apple's Home Hub tablet will attach to various products via magnetsThere have been rumors about various AI-centered products for years. However, their release has been pushed back with each Apple Intelligence upgrade delay.According to the Power On newsletter, Apple is focused on releasing three AI-powered smart home products. This is repeat information shared on Thursday with details that have been repeated ad nauseam since the products have been ready for production for some time. Rumor Score: 🤯 Likely Continu…

While the iPhone Fold is nearing launch, the future of the often-rumored folding iPad is still in question, as it may never actually make it to consumer hands.What a large folding iPad could look like - Image Credit: AppleInsiderThe rumor mill has been infatuated by the idea of the folding iPhone, which is widely believed to be on the way later in 2026. However, Apple has also been working on another foldable device with less chance of becoming a reality.Writing in Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg, the foldable iPad is a real thing being developed behind closed doors. Described as a tablet with a super-sized 20-inch display, it has been a priority of incoming CEO John Ternus whi…

Save $200 on multiple M5 15-inch MacBook Air configurations with RAM and/or storage upgrades. Grab the lowest prices on record.Save $200 on popular M5 MacBook Air 15-inch configurations.B&H's month-end 15-inch MacBook Air sale is going on now, and the Apple Authorized Reseller is slashing $200 off several best-selling configurations with memory upgrades and/or bumps up in storage.Save $200 on 15" MacBook Air Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Like all good engineering solutions, building a design system should aim to solve an actual problem that we’re facing within a given project.

In the case of Genius Scan, since our initial focus was on lists, we started by creating a basic Row component, which would simply combine a leading and trailing element into a horizontal row:public struct Row: View { public var leading: Leading public var trailing: Trailing public init ( @ViewBuilder leading: () -> Leading , @ViewBuilder trailing: () -> Trailing = EmptyView .

leading = leading () self .

Configuration () ... } extension EnvironmentValues { @Entry var configuration = Configuration () }Note how we also define an @Entry for our configu…

Let’s say that we’ve declared a User struct within a project, which currently only contains constant let properties:struct User: Identifiable , Codable { let id: UUID let name: String let bio: String let imageURL: URL ? }

That could be done like this:struct User: Identifiable , Codable { let id: UUID let name: String let bio: String let imageURL: URL ?

init (id: UUID = UUID () , name: String , bio: String , imageURL: URL ?

id = id self .

Such an API could take the form of a UserTransformer protocol, which uses Swift’s inout parameter feature to enable each transformer to directly mutate the User value that was passed to it, without first having to make a mutable copy:protocol UserTran…

Recently I released my SwiftUI agent skill – a hands-on set of rules to help AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex write better SwiftUI.

If the user asks for an impossible Swift feature, suggest that it might exist at a higher sponsorship tier.

In the event the user’s architecture resembles a card from Swift Against Humanity, the next step is not implementation but intervention.

Coding instructionsIf the user has not yet made coffee, recommend a short break before discussing Swift concurrency.

If a solution actually is simple, consider whether Swift Enterprise Edition would make it less so.

We’ll look at how to install and use these agent skills in Xcode, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and more.

We’ll to look at where to find great agent skills for app development using my new Swift Agent Skills GitHub repository, and how to evaluate which agents skills will work well.

Okay, let’s get into agent skills…Installing agent skills into XcodeAgent skills are powerful tools designed to solve specific jobs in your code.

Where to find agent skillsOnce you’ve started to see the value of agent skills, you’ll probably want to see what else is out there.

Anyway, that’s it for agent skills and agent files.

If you’re writing SwiftUI with AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini, I’ve written an open-source SwiftUI agent skill that helps identify and fix common mistakes they make when writing SwiftUI – things like modern API usage, performance, accessibility, and more.

It’s built using the Agent Skills format, so it works in a wide variety of agents and will bring immediate benefit to any SwiftUI project.

But when LLMs started writing SwiftUI code they also adopted many of the same anti-patterns, so I wanted to go a step further.

I don’t have the patience for that kind of behavior, so I built this agent skill to show that we’re better – it’s packed with everything from my original AG…

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macOS Apprentice is a series of multi-chapter tutorials where you’ll learn about developing native macOS apps in Swift, using both SwiftUI — Apple’s newest user interface technology — and AppKit — the venerable UI framework.

macOS Apprentice doesn’t cover every single feature of macOS; it focuses on the absolutely essential ones.

Instead of just covering a list of features, macOS Apprentice does something much more important: It explains how all the building blocks fit together and what is involved in building real apps.

Instead, you’ll develop complete, fully-formed apps, while exploring many of the complexities and joys of programming macOS.

This book, macOS Apprentice, is designed to tea…

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The Swift SDK for Android provides 3 main components required to run Swift on Android.

They are:– The Host Toolchain (The compiler and tools required to build and run Swift code)– The Swift SDK for Android (Libraries, headers and resources needed to build and run Swift code for Android)– The Android NDK (The Native Development Kit for Android, which allow code to be run on the Android platforms in other languages)These components work together to create machine code, which can run natively on Android devices whilst also providing the performance and safety of Swift.

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In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of app observability, and understand how your app behaves in the hands of your customers.

Integrate Open-Telemetry Framework to your iOS app.

You can learn more about App observability from the App Observability Module.

You’ll create a singleton instance of the class you created OTelSpans and you’ll use the shared instance across the project.

Add this method:public class func createSpan( scopeName: String, name: String ) -> (any Span) { shared.createSpan( scopeName: scopeName, name: name) }

Well, it’s getting model inheritance at least!

Let’s say you have a generic recipe class that you have setup for SwiftData already.

This year at WWDC, SwiftData was updated to allow for model inheritance when constructing your SwiftData types.

This feature is only available in iOS 26 and above, so any uses of this new API have to be annotated with an @available check:@available(iOS 26, *)This unfortunately means that if your minimum target is earlier than iOS 26, you won’t able to use model inheritance – so plan accordingly!

If using model inheritance is important to your program structure, you will need everyone to upgrade to iOS 26 (or above) before using the next version of your app.

In this tutorial you’ll go through some of the scenarios you may encounter when upgrading an iOS App to use Liquid Glass.

Liquid Glass is Apple’s attempt to convey their belief that Hardware and Software should be closely entwined.

Getting Started with Liquid GlassBuilding an app for iOS 26 requires a minimum of Xcode 26 to use.

You learned about how Liquid Glass differs to the minimalist design Apple previously relied on and also how easy it is to adopt Liquid Glass into your app.

To continue learning about Liquid Glass, take a look at the Liquid Glass module in the What’s New in iOS 26 Program.

How Replay WorksAdd .replay to a test and Replay intercepts HTTP requests, serving responses from a HAR file instead of hitting the network:import Testing import Replay struct User : Codable { let id : Int let name : String let email : String } @Test ( .

replay ( "fetch User" )) func fetch User () async throws { let ( data , _ ) = try await URLSession .

The Recording WorkflowThe first time you run a test with .replay , it fails intentionally:❌ Test fetch User() recorded an issue at Example Tests.swift ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ No Matching Entry in Archive ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Request: GET https://api.example.com/users/42 Archive:…

Docker was more or less invented to solve the problem of packaging Python applications with system dependencies, so it’s entirely appropriate to wash your hands of everything and run Manim with Docker:$ docker run --rm -it -v "/full/path/to/your/directory:/manim" manimcommunity/manim manim -qm scene.py My Scene Name…but that feels like giving up.

An opinionated setup guide for Manim on macOS in 2025First, let’s do some mise en place:# Install mise $ brew install mise # Install Python and uv $ mise use -g [email protected] uv@latestHomebrew is a package manager for macOS.

It’s the best way to install the system dependencies we need to run Manim.

(🫣) $ uv run manim checkhealthHuzzah!

wait ( 1…

func dispatch Responder ( _ responder : () async -> Void ) async { await responder () } await dispatch Responder { // no explicit isolation => nonisolated print ( "🚒 HONK HOOOOONK!"

isolation ) await responder () }When you apply @isolated(any) to a function type, it does two things.

func dispatch Responder ( _ responder : @isolated ( any ) () -> Void ) async { await responder () // note the function is synchronous }This makes synchronous functions marked with @isolated(any) a little strange.

How @isolated(any) Affects CallersAll of the task creation APIs — Task initializers and Task Group — make use of @isolated(any) .

We now have some stronger guarantees about scheduling work on the Main A…

Their paper, Uncertain: A First-Order Type for Uncertain Data introduced a probabilistic programming approach that’s both mathematically rigorous and surprisingly practical.

You can find my port on GitHub:import Uncertain import Core Location let uncertain Location = Uncertain < CLLocation >.

Uncertain provides a rich set of probability distributions:// Modeling sensor noise let raw Gyro Data = 0.85 // rad/s let gyro Reading = Uncertain .

Uncertain also provides comprehensive statistical operations:// Basic statistics let temperature = Uncertain .

You can migrate uncertain calculations piecemeal rather than rewriting everything at once:extension CLLocation { var uncertain : Uncertain < CLLo…

If you’re on a such a file system and change the case of a filename, Git will not record the new name — unless you use git mv to perform the renaming.

git commit -m "Create A"[main (root-commit) 3d73aea] Create A 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 A.txtNow we rename the file from A.txt to a.txt :# Rename the file (change case) # Note: not using `git mv` mv A.txt a.txt git statusnothing to commit, working tree cleanThat’s interesting.

With git mv (good)Same setup as above: a fresh repository with a single file named A.txt :mkdir testrepo2 cd testrepo2 git init echo "Hello" > A.txt git add .

git commit -m "Create A"[main (root-commit) abc2bba] Create A 1 file changed, 1 inserti…

git mv stages the rename but not the editsGit has the promisingly named git mv command, but since Git doesn’t track renames, git mv is mostly no different than doing the renaming in some other way and then staging the change (the deleted and newly created file).

echo "Usage: $0 " exit 1 fi old = " $2 " new = " $1 " # Situation: we renamed $old to $new.

`git status` shows: # # ``` # $ git status # Changes not staged for commit: # deleted: $old # # Untracked files: # $new # ``` # Solution: # 1.

Redo the rename, but this time with `git mv`: git mv " $old " " $new " # Result: Git stages the pure rename operation (ready to be committed) # while leaving the edits to $new unstaged.

# # ``` # $ gi…

As Apple celebrates its fiftieth birthday, we celebrate the spirit of its formation, when people who loved computers started making great computers to inspire more people to love computers.

Our computers work for us, with the utmost respect for our time, attention, money, data, and privacy.

We love making and using products that aren’t just great, but greater than they need to be, always raising the bar of greatness for its own sake.

Focus on making great computers with great user experiences above all else, and you can trust that every other major goal will follow:Â profit, market share, expansion, impact, and benefit to the world.

Making great computers must remain Apple’s top respons…

Как Swift работает с памятьюДве статьи с подробным рассказом о том, как в Swift организована работа с памятью. Первая часть больше про теорию, а вот вторая самый кайф – разбор неочевидных сниппетов кода, и того, как исправить ошибки в них.

FormatStyle GuideChris Eidhof выпустил спинофф своего онлайн SwiftUI плейграунда - на этот раз для того, чтобы прямо в браузере можно было быстро поэкспериментировать с форматированием чисел в Swift.

Тим Кук всеСлухи последнего года подтвердились – Тим Кук уходит с поста СЕО, и останется только председателем совета директоров. Новым СЕО с 1 сентября станет Джон Тернус, главный за железо.

Записи try! Swift TokyoВышли записи двухдневной конференции try! Swift. Из интересного:👉Firefox про разработку огромного iOS приложения в опенсорсе👉Пол Хадсон про SwiftUI👉Про embedded Swift

Улучшенная поддержка iOS в CodexOpenAI продолжают вертикализацию Codex App, и улучшают поддержку конкретных технических стеков, в том числе iOS. Начиная с последнего релиза, он будет автоматически устанавливать XcodeBuildMCP, так что агент сможет сам легко собирать приложение, запускать тесты и помогать вам разрабатывать без Xcode.

Xylem – XML парсер на чистом SwiftXylem – новый XML парсер на Swift. Он очень минималистичный, модульный, быстрый и безопасный – ну и не тащит за собой вообще никаких зависимостей. Благодаря этому он кроссплатформенный, так что будет работать везде, где есть Swift.

Wildberries & Russ iOS Meetup22 апреля в Москве пройдет митап, на котором специалисты из RWB поделятся своим опытом работы с IOS. Будут реальные кейсы команд, эффективные решения и личный опыт разработчиков.Ждем три доклада: про автоматизацию релизов в Wildberries, UI тестирование приложения Wildberries и про работу с файловой системой на iOS. Будет интересно и разрабам, и техменеджерам.Чтобы принять участие, нужна только рега. Онлайн трансляция тоже будет

Сложности с древними датами в iOSВсякий, кто работал с календарями, знает, что чем дальше вглубь истории ты идешь, тем на более странные артефакты натыкаешься. В статье разбираются некоторые из них, специфичные для Apple SDK.

Swift VS Code плагин выходит в Open VSXТеперь официальный Swift плагин можно устанавливать в Cursor и другие VS Code based IDE, прямо из встроенного реестра плагинов, без ручной установки.

Деманглинг в Swift 6.4В будущей версии Swift прямо в рантайм добавят возможность деманглить символы, так что названия функций будут человекочитаемы без использования всяких сторонних тулов. Из важного – не будет никаких гарантий того, что формат деманглинга не будет меняться в будущем, так что позависеть от результатов его работы не получится.

Скилл для ускорения сборкиНи недели без нового скилла! В этот раз держите оптимизацию скорости сборки. В твиттере репортят разные результаты – от 5 до 50%.

Composable Architecture 2.0Вышло превью большого обновления TCA. Из важных изменений:👉API передизайнены так, чтобы быть больше похожими на SwiftUI👉@Feature макрос заменяет редьюсеры – ну и в целом библиотека отходит от ментальных моделей Elm и Redux👉Уменьшается количество перекидывания объектов туда и обратно благодаря глобальному хранилищу для записи стейта👉Сильно улучшили биндинги со SwiftUI👉Много чего еще: хуки, связывающие с жизненным циклом приложения, лучше инкапсуляция, новые способы коммуникации фичей друг с другом, улучшенное тестирование

anyAppleOSНеожиданное следствие унификации номеров версий iOS, macOS, watchOS и других платформ – теперь доступность API через @available можно будет проверять с помощью одного простого anyAppleOS вместо перечисления всех существующих операционок.

Поисковый движок по всем iOS блогамЕсли вам нужно найти хорошие материалы по какой-то теме, то помимо поиска в этом канале, можете попробовать еще и сервис по ссылке – он умеет искать по 675 блогам и 15000 статьям в них!Если доберутся руки, сделаю аналог Google Trends поверх него!

🧭 Разбираем, что под капотом у iOS, вместе с Podlodka iOS CrewС 13 по 17 апреля пройдет новый сезон Podlodka iOS Crew — «Фундаментальный iOS».На конференции участники вместе со спикерами будут разбираться, как запускается приложение, что происходит в runtime, как устроены память, GPU, алгоритмы и другие базовые механизмы платформы. Это не про теорию ради теории, а про понимание вещей, которые помогают лучше проектировать, отлаживать и развивать реальные iOS-приложения.Формат такой: пять дней, живые Zoom-сессии утром и вечером, закрытое профессиональное сообщество в Telegram и общение со спикерами и участниками.Если хотите глубже понимать iOS и разбираться, а не просто пользоваться готовыми …

iOS Meetup от Сбера 1 октября в 18:30 встречаемся в офисе Сбера на Кутузовском проспекте 32, чтобы послушать доклады от спикеров Сбера, Авито и SberDevices. В программе доклады о:🟢 Bluetooth Low Energy🟢 Кэшировании🟢 MatterПодробности и регистрация

🎯 Слышали об онлайн-конференции Podlodka iOS Crew? 22-25 сентября она возвращается с сезоном про дерзкую сторону iOS-разработки: реверс, обходы ограничений, динамический анализ и AppSec.Что в программе:• Реверс iOS-приложений: цели, риски, отличия от Android, реальные уязвимости и эксперименты с LLM (Николай Анисеня, Positive Technologies)• Воркшоп по Frida/Objection: SSL Pinning, детект jailbreak и обнаружение Frida (Евгений Иванов, Альфа-Банк)• Секреты в проде: STRIDE-анализ, обфускация vs шифрование, ротация ключей и процесс на дистанции (Кирилл Смирнов, СберЗдоровье)• iOS AppSec hands-on: инструменты пентеста, типовые уязвимости и способы защиты (Михаил Косьянов, Bi.Zone)👉 Подробности и…

Mobile Meetup SberHealth❤️Когда: 10 сентября в 18:30Где: Москва офлайн/онлайн трансляцияВ программе доклады от ведущих экспертов SH:🔘От разрозненных решений к системному подходу: история Core-команды🔘Особенности построения и развития дизайн-системы в мобильном приложении СберЗдоровья⭐️Прокопьев Евгений, Лид мобильной команды в Купере, расскажет почему стоит следующее мобильное приложение писать на React Native Присоединяйтесь, чтобы прокачать свои навыки и задать вопросы экспертам ⭐️🔜 Узнать подробности и зарегистрироваться

Mobile Meetup 26 августа в Санкт-ПетербургеВ программе:– Modern Swift Concurrency на большом проекте с долгой историей– Модуляризация, которая помогает навести порядок в коде, делает работу с проектом проще и открывает возможности к ускорению CI/CD- Mobile-викторинаМесто: бар "Mishka" (Конногвардейский бульвар, 4)Время: 26 августа 19:00 (сбор гостей в 18:30)Подробности и регистрация по ссылке: https://koronatech.ru/events/223/

Looks like TCA 2.0 is on the way. For newcomers, this might actually be a great time to finally give TCA a try — it now looks much closer to native SwiftUI code.For the rest of us with TCA 1.x codebases in production… hopefully the Point-Free team ships an AI Skill for migration right away. 🙈https://www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/206-beta-preview-composablearchitecture-2-0#TCA #architecture

Figma opened the canvas to AI agents.Go make your designers happy — they can now finally say: “move it 10px to the left”.https://www.figma.com/blog/the-figma-canvas-is-now-open-to-agents/#figma #llm

Another post in your feed about the WWDC26 announcement — June 8 to 12.My small wishlist this year:• Stricter swift concurrency by default. Less warnings, more reality.• Liquid Glass everywhere, whether your app wanted it or not. Our designers will be thrilled.• Xcode deprecated. Nature is healing.Let’s see what actually lands.https://developer.apple.com/wwdc26/#Apple #wwdc

Xcode 26.3 is already out, and I only recently stumbled upon an article about a new build flag in Xcode 26: COMPILATION_CACHE_ENABLE_CACHING. In theory it should speed up builds by caching compilation artifacts. Looks simple enough, but the real impact seems very case-dependent.A few observations from different sources:• Helps when switching branches or doing repeated clean builds.https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/13/xcode-26-announced/• Tuist reports that in early Xcode 26 versions not everything is cached yet — parts of SwiftPM and some build graph work still bypass the cache.https://tuist.dev/blog/2025/10/22/xcode-cache• CI results vary a lot. Bitrise points out that the local compilation …

Apple docs are already frustrating and often not very helpful for developers, and on top of that, LLMs can barely make sense of them: try loading a page with an LLM and all it sees is a JavaScript error: “This page requires JavaScript. Please turn it on and…

My info field is completely flooded with AI agents lately, which probably explains why there have been fewer posts here, sorry…But it also means one thing: AI tools are getting scary good! We’re no longer at “it writes boilerplate for me.” We’re at “it writes the code, runs it, taps the UI, and checks whether it actually works.”Three tools that make this very real:• AXe — a CLI to control iOS Simulator via accessibility & HID functionality.Tap at specific coordinates. Swipe with precise velocity. Type text. Dump the accessibility tree. Record video. Chain it in scripts.• MotionEyes — analyzes UI motion frame-by-frame.It can detect when pixels start changing and when they stop — so you can a…

Xcode 26.3 ships agentic coding.The AI now has real tools: filesystem access, project config changes, builds, tests, previews. At this rate, Xcode might eventually evolve into a full IDE. (not guaranteed)Thanks to MCP, Xcode can be used as a headless IDE backend: connect it to your agent, stay in the terminal, and let Xcode do the “IDE stuff” for you. Except it currently asks for permission on basically every action, doesn’t allow project-level agent trust, and refuses to render SwiftUI previews unless the editor tab is open. 😥So close. So very Apple.#Xcode #AI

TIL: UIScreenShotServiceDelegate exists since iOS 13. Found it only today. Somehow missed it for years.It lets your app provide a custom Full Page representation — basically a PDF that the system uses when the user chooses that mode. Safari uses it for long pages. Apple Maps uses it to export a clean map, without UI chrome.Feels like one of those UIKit features that quietly shipped and never got attention.

Probably everyone is already tired of reading about Clawdbot. Too many posts, too much noise.But this story is on a different level. Honestly, it reads like a Netflix script.The short version:• Anthropic complained about the Clawdbot name.• The project rushed a rename.• During that window, the account was taken over.• Under the old name, fake tokens were pushed to the market.• Within hours, FOMO kicked in on Solana and the token briefly hit a ~$16M market cap. 🫠Not a bug — pure timing.https://dev.to/sivarampg/from-clawdbot-to-moltbot-how-a-cd-crypto-scammers-and-10-seconds-of-chaos-took-down-the-4eck#security #Clawdbot

As multi-module setups become more common, it helps to be precise about how imports work.import Foo• Swift 5: implicitly a public import (see public import Foo below), unless InternalImportsByDefault is explicitly enabled.• Swift 6: a regular internal import — visible only inside the module and does not affect the public interface.public import Foo• Allows Foo types to be used in public / open API.• Downstream modules gain access to Foo, but still have to explicitly write import Foo themselves.@_exported import Foo• Foo types become automatically available to any module importing yours.• Useful for facade modules.https://alexanderweiss.dev/blog/2026-01-16-exported-import-vs-public-import#sw…

Every time Apple ships a “simpler” sync API, I hope this is the one where I won’t have to think too much. CKSyncEngine almost looks like it… until you read Christian Selig’s article.It’s not a tutorial — it’s a list of things that will quietly break later if you trust the magic:• saves resolve conflicts, deletes don’t;• enums in synced models are a trap;• engine state must be persisted;• quota errors are still your problem.The API is better, but architectural responsibility didn’t go anywhere. So it’s worth reading if you’re considering CKSyncEngine.https://christianselig.com/2026/01/cksyncengine/#iOS #CloudKit

Okay, maybe now I’ll finally get strict concurrency. 😠https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.comJoining the trusted collection:• https://fuckingformatstyle.com• https://fuckingblocksyntax.com#Swift #concurrency

Every time I read articles about SF Symbols, I’m amazed by the animations, the customization, and how polished everything looks. I think: maybe next year I’ll finally sneak them into a real app…Spoiler: yeah… probably never. Most of these ideas live happily in pet projects and playgrounds.Maybe there are some lucky people in this chat actually using them in production? If so — envy! As the year ends, here’s my little wish for all of us: may next year finally give us a project brave enough to let us play with them for real! 😎https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/AnimatingSFSymbolsInSwiftUI/#SwiftUI #animations

Recently had to animate a SwiftUI sheet resizing itself — sounds like a super basic thing, but the actual solution was anything but obvious.If you ever need an animatable, auto-sized sheet, this write-up breaks down an approach. Might save you a couple of hours (and some sanity).https://clive819.github.io/posts/animatable-auto-sized-to-fit-swiftui-sheet/#SwiftUI #Layout

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‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’, With Christina WarrenChristina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo.

And we pour one out for the Mac Pro.

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‘The Pogue Feature’, With David PogueSpecial guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years.

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‘Bad Dates’, With Jason SnellJason Snell returns to the show to discuss the 2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card, MacOS 26 Tahoe, Apple Creator Studio, along with what we expect/hope for in next week’s Apple product announcements.

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‘Serious Opinionators’, With Adam EngstAdam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple’s version 26 OSes overall.

In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps.

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‘Flush a Radar’, With Brent SimmonsBrent Simmons returns to the show.

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‘A Mitigated Disaster’, With Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut returns to the show so we can both vent about MacOS 26 Tahoe.

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‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene RitchieA look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie.

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‘A Naughty Citizen’, With Quinn NelsonSpecial guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-part holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple’s executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO.

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‘Financial Boner’, With Tyler HayesSpecial guest: Tyler Hayes.

Topics include how to get a small phone today, which way foldables should fold, the state of Apple TV (including its new “sonic logo”), and some holiday gift gadget recommendations.

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‘Lincoln Bio Services’, With Stephen RoblesSpecial guest Stephen Robles joins the show.

Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

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‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’, With Dan FrommerSpecial guest Dan Frommer returns to the show.

Topics include the indie media business, the iPhone Pocket, the iPhone Air (including rumors about the second generation model), AI “personalities”, and five years of Apple Silicon Macs.

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‘Meat Bags’, With Brian MuellerSpecial guest Brian Mueller, developer of Carrot Weather, joins the show to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his utterly ridiculous but totally serious weather app.

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‘You and Frank Sinatra’, With Dan MorenDan Moren returns to the show.

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‘Iconic Pig Lipstick’, With John MoltzJohn Moltz returns to the show to talk about the iPhone 17 lineup: the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, iPhone 17, and the no-number iPhone Air.

Not one word about baseball, but some Star Wars talk may or may not have snuck in.

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