As we announced in June, Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store.

With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals to highlight your brand, seasonal offerings, exciting new content, and more.

Your creative assets can be used across the App Store in multiple places, including your product page header, search results, In-App Events, and more.

To help you plan your images and videos ahead of the fall launch, review our new App Store asset best practices, which include recommendations, as well as Figma, Photoshop, and Pixelmator design templates you can use to create captivating and compelling assets.

Learn about best practices and resources

In this edition: Check out an all-new video from Cupertino to dive deeper into the biggest updates from WWDC26.

Download templates and get started building App Store assets for iOS 27.

Discover best practices for integrating visual intelligence in your app.

Learn how to supercharge your builds with Xcode Cloud workflows.

Meet the clever creators of Is This Seat Taken?

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To support this, the age rating questionnaire in App Store Connect now includes questions about your app’s social media capabilities.

A social media capability is defined as the ability to redistribute, amplify, or interact with user-generated content through a social feed or similar discovery method.

The Time Allowance category for Social Media is based on whether your app or game offers social media capabilities, regardless of the app category selected in App Store Connect.

Apps with these capabilities will display a new Social Media content descriptor on their App Store product page.

If you indicate that your app or game includes social media capabilities but they are disabled for anyone…

In this edition: Try an all-new search tool on the Apple Developer website.

Download design kits for Figma and Sketch.

Explore the biggest updates from WWDC26 in new activities around the world and online.

Read about Apple Design Award winners grug and Cyberpunk 2077.

Browse the latest updates to the 27 platform releases, documentation, sample code, and release notes.

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Apple design kits for Figma and Sketch are now available for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27.

These include:Updates to Liquid GlassExpanded component and state supportNaming changes to better align with codeImproved resizingThe addition of Dark Mode for macOSDownload the design kits from the Apple Design Resources

Attachment 12 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement has been revised to specify terms for iOS apps in Brazil, including alternative distribution, alternative payments and out-of-app offers, and the Core Technology Commission.

Please review the changes and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms.

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

As part of a recent agreement with Brazil’s competition regulator CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica), Apple is introducing changes to iOS that create new options for developers' apps in Brazil.

Beginning with iOS 26.5, developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, operate alternative app marketplaces, process app payments for digital goods and services outside of Apple In-App Purchase in iOS, and more.

The new options for downloading apps from alternative app marketplaces and making app payments open new avenues for malware, fraud, scams, and privacy and security risks.

Those protections include Notarization for iOS apps, an authorization process for app ma…

Later this summer, Apple will unify the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email under a single, shared domain: private.icloud.com.

For example:Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com .

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses, previously issued on icloud.com , will be issued on private.icloud.com .

Email service providers should update any domain-based filtering, suppression lists, or routing rules that explicitly enumerate relay domains so that the new private.icloud.com domain is included.

Learn more about Sign in with AppleCommunicating using the Private Email Relay Service

When we introduced the Image Playground framework, we included the ImageCreator class as a way for apps to generate images programmatically using the on-device image generation model.

Apps using ImageCreator will not function in TestFlight builds and will cause a runtime error.

Apps using ImageCreator will not function in TestFlight builds and will cause a runtime error.

If your app uses ImageCreator: Transition to presenting the Image Playground sheet, which provides a consistent, system-managed image generation experience.

Resources:Learn more about the Image Playground frameworkCreate high-quality images using Image Playground

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The Foundation Models framework is a native Swift API that gives you direct access to the same on-device model that powers Apple Intelligence.

You can now work with any language model, including Apple Foundation Models, cloud models like Claude and Gemini, or any other provider that conforms to the Language Model protocol.

Dynamic Profiles let you swap models, tools, and instructions on the fly, so your app’s behavior can adapt within a continuous session.

If you’re enrolled in the App Store Small Business Program and your app has fewer than 2 million total first-time App Store downloads, you can access the next generation of Apple Foundation Models running on Private Cloud Compute at no cl…

Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms and create even more unique, intelligent experiences in your apps and games with major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools, and services.

The latest SDKs bring incredible new features, including platform design refinements, powerful Apple Intelligence capabilities, and new AI development frameworks.

Explore what’s newInstall the latest beta softwareBrowse documentation and sample code

New Time Allowances in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, or later, give parents more flexible ways to manage the time their kids spend in apps across categories, including Entertainment, Games, and Social Media.

Time Allowances are developed based on expert research and tailored to a child’s age to give parents a helpful starting point.

Entertainment and GamesYour app or game will appear in a Time Allowance category based on the information you provide in App Store Connect.

Starting July 2026, the age rating questionnaire will be updated to let you indicate whether your app or game includes social media capabilities.

If you select this option, your overall responses in the age rating questio…

The Apple Developer Program License Agreement and App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification.

Please review the changes below and sign in to your account to accept the updated terms.

Apple Developer Program License AgreementSections 3.1, 14.8: Specified requirements for providing information and responding to questions about developer identity, including in the context of export compliance.

Definitions, Section 3.3.3(Q): Specified requirements for use of the Suggested Actions API.

Section 3.2(h): Updated terms for use of and access to Apple models.

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

This year we also introduced workshops, including “Inclusive by Design” by Danielle Lewis, and for the Swift community: “Write Faster, Smarter Swift” by Paul Hudson.

What’s new in Swift featured changes in Swift since last year, including a preview of what’s coming in Swift 6.4, like up to 4x faster URL parsing and support for async code in defer blocks.

A new Swift package, Foundation Models framework utilities, was released with tools for working with LLMs, including custom skills and context management helpers.

Swift EvolutionThe Swift project adds new language feat…

Dave Lester is a Senior Product Manager at Apple and member of the Swift website workgroup.

Since its launch, Swift Package Index has become an essential part of the Swift ecosystem, helping developers discover quality packages, evaluate compatibility, and make informed decisions about dependencies.

Recently, Swift Package Index has grown alongside the Swift project’s multi-platform expansion, extending its compatibility testing to encompass Linux, Android, and WebAssembly.

Today, Swift Package Index announced that it has joined Apple and continues its mission:Together, we’re building a comprehensive package registry to serve the Swift community’s evolving needs.

Learn more by reading the S…

Font parsers process data from untrusted sources, making the TrueType hinting interpreter a security-critical attack surface.

In addition to memory safety, we also improved performance: on average, our Swift interpreter runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced.

To accompany this post, we’ve also published the source code of the Swift TrueType hinting interpreter.

On average, the Swift interpreter runs 13% faster than the C interpreter it replaced.

To accompany this post, we’ve published the source code for the Swift TrueType hinting interpreter on GitHub.

The Swift Ecosystem Steering Group is excited to announce the creation of the Networking workgroup!

The primary goal is to guide the evolution of networking libraries, protocols, and APIs in the Swift ecosystem, making networking in Swift excellent everywhere: high-level and safe by default, modular and interoperable, cross-platform, and observable.

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

Learn more about the Networking workgroup by reading its charter.

Franz Busch is a member of the Ecosystem Steering Group and the Swift Server Workgro…

To start, we’re focusing on some of the many local meetup groups sharing Swift content:Around the world, local meetup groups and conferences bring Swift developers together, and some even predate Swift itself!

In May the SF Swift meetup hosted a talk by Dan Federman, Agentify Your Swift Repo, which covers building an agent for CI and review feedback.

I encourage more folks to get involved in their local Swift meetup.

Sébastien Stormacq shares a great introduction to what’s possible with AWS Lambda and Swift, presenting Swift, Server-side, & Serverless on the DevStandup YouTube channel.

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

Yuta Saito is a Software Engineer at Goodnotes, working on WebAssembly platform support in Swift.

This isn’t because we carefully reimplemented the same algorithms twice: it’s because it’s literally the same Swift code running on both platforms.

Technical architectureGoodnotes Architecture: Shared Swift code between iOS and Web platforms.

You can debug Swift code directly in Chrome DevTools: set breakpoints, inspect variables, and step through your Swift code as naturally as JavaScript.

For more details on the enhanced DWARF extension for Swift, see the Swift on WebAssembly debugging guide.

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

If you’re building server-side Swift and need a fast key-value store, add valkey-swift via Swift Package Manager, and you’re ready to go.

swift-tar is a pure Swift library for reading, writing, and extracting TAR archives.

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

However, shipping in an external package means the standard library, Swift runtime, and toolchain libraries such as Foundation cannot depend on it.

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!

Hello. I need your help: My app keeps getting rejected by apple for the same reason but I can’t see why. Also, I did search the reddit but didn’t find anything that helped much. The reason is this, together with the above screenshot. Is it because of the „Continue with Apple“ button? Or do I have to change anything for iPad layout? Guideline 4 - Design Issue Description Parts of the app's user interface were crowded, laid out, or displayed in a way that made it difficult to use the app when reviewed on iPad Air 11-inch (M3) running iPadOS 26.6. Specifically, layout in iPad were not optimized Edit: iPhone is the only supported destination added under the target. Screenshot here submitted by …

Has anyone successfully paid for the Apple Developer Program using a virtual card from a different country? The card is in my exact name It’s a virtual card, called Grey The card is not issued in the same country as my Apple ID Did Apple accept it, or does the card country have to match the Apple ID country? And how long did it take. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Speak_logically_Sir [link] [comments]

A couple of months ago I open-sourced swift-markdown-engine here, the native Markdown engine I built for my macOS app Nodes. The feedback, issues, and PRs that came back were a huge help, a lot of what I changed since then came from that. WHAT’S NEW: The parser got rewritten from scratch, regex matching is gone, it’s a real AST now. That’s what made the extension system possible: Stuff you wouldn’t expect in standard Markdown, like highlighting, used to be hardcoded into the core grammar. Now it’s opt-in. Write one file, register it, and the core parser/styler/renderer never change. Extensions can’t touch the core or each other, and you can toggle them at runtime. Also new: full GFM/CommonM…

So we're on rejection number three and i'm starting to think apple's review team is just rotating reviewers and none of them read the previous notes. quick background. b2b app, account required to do anything useful because the whole thing is tied to a company's internal data. first rejection was 5.1.1 (v), account deletion, fine, our fault, we added it. second was 2.1 asking for a demo account, which we HAD provided in the review notes, they just didn't see it. added it again, bigger font, whatever. third one is now 4.2 minimum functionality which is the one that actually worries me because thats not a checkbox fix, thats them saying the app doesn't justify existing. what gets me is the ap…

Bug report from a tester: pressing Play on the CarPlay screen did nothing. No error, no spinner, nothing. Worked fine if they'd opened the app on the phone first. I "fixed" it twice. Both fixes were to the play button. Both were wrong. The actual cause: when the user taps Play in the car (or from the Watch, or the lock screen) on a cold start, iOS wakes your process through CPTemplateApplicationScene or a WatchConnectivity message — and your phone UI's window scene just - never connects. Which means every bit of setup hanging off the SwiftUI app lifecycle simply never runs. In our case that was device key registration for signed API requests, so the first manifest fetch came back 400 and th…

Hi everyone, My app just received a rejection citing Guideline 3.1.2(c) - Business - Payments - Subscriptions: "The auto-renewable subscription promotes the free trial, introductory pricing, or introductory period for the subscription more clearly and conspicuously than the billed amount." Does anyone have advice on how to resolve this? I am currently using "Try for Free" as the main CTA button to activate the trial, which seems to be a common industry practice. Any insights would be greatly appreciated! https://preview.redd.it/vsnob0lfbsih1.png?width=1640&format=png&auto=webp&s=03c9b4936ca982801314cc72c9f4580555ba3dbd submitted by /u/yccheok [link] [comments]

One sec has a massive list of compiled url schemes for the apps you can use their meditation interrupt on, how the heck do i find that list, thanks, submitted by /u/Kanashimations [link] [comments]

I have an iOS app that is nearly finished, and I’ve been trying to find people to test it. To say this is hard is an understatement. I asked family members, and except for one person, nobody really wants to test it. I’ve also tried Discord servers and Reddit threads, and I tried following the usual advice of posting in communities where people are looking for testers, but honestly it feels nearly impossible there too. You just get drowned out by a flood of other people like me desperately looking for feedback. The app itself is basically finished. At this point, TestFlight is less about finding major bugs and more about seeing how people perceive the app, whether the workflow makes sense, a…

Spent about three weeks trying to run a voice-cloning model on iPhone and closed the project last week. Posting the numbers because I couldn't find anyone else's, and I have two questions at the end. This was for a voice journaling app I work on. The budget. Foreground app on a 6 GB iPhone gets roughly 250 MB before jetsam takes an interest. The number that matters is phys_footprint from task_vm_info, not resident size and not what the Xcode gauge shows. The candidate. Kyutai Pocket TTS, 109.5M params, autoregressive. Autoregressive matters because accent lives in phone realisation and phonemic choice, which are sequential. Non-autoregressive models transfer timbre only, so you get your own…

Every thread I read said Apple would reject this instantly. It didn't happen. One submission, approved. Same with Google. I think the reason is boring: we explained it properly in the review notes instead of hoping the reviewer would figure it out. Context: we run an international calling app. The only thing you can buy is prepaid calling credit, which gets spent on real phone calls to real phone numbers on carrier networks. We used to sell that credit through in-app purchase. We took IAP out and replaced it with normal card entry and Apple Pay, processed by Stripe, inside the app. The rule this hangs on is Guideline 3.1.3(e), Goods and Services Outside of the App: services consumed outside…

Are you having this issue as well? I made sure i'm part of the internal testers. I even created new internal tester group just to check but until now, 15mins have passed, I cannot receive my new build testflight update. submitted by /u/Working-Bass4425 [link] [comments]

To celebrate, we’re continuing to offer an exclusive 25% discount code for iOS Dev Weekly readers.

But the more interesting part of the announcement was the controversy around the so-called ‘Restricted Mode’ discovered in the iOS 27 betas.

This feels like the right direction for code review when AI can generate code much faster than people can meaningfully review it.

If I’ve learned anything about Approachable Concurrency it’s that there can never be too many articles explaining Approachable Concurrency.

And as someone who hasn’t yet fully embraced Swift 6.2 and Approachable Concurrency, I find its conclusions reassuring.

Issue 760 24th July 2026 Written by Konstantinos NikoloutsosHello, iOS dev weekly subscribers 👋I have a habit of opening a project to make one small change and ending up thinking about the architecture around it.

Good architecture and good tooling have something in common: when they work, it’s hard to notice them.

To celebrate, we’re continuing to offer an exclusive 25% discount code for iOS Dev Weekly readers.

NewsClaude Code Desktop can now build, launch, and test your app in an iOS Simulator pane right beside the conversation.

Mohammad Azam shows how iOS 27’s new HistoryObserver can power a one way synchronization pipeline without scattering sync logic throughout the app.

Issue 759 17th July 2026 Written by Juan MarinI’ve spent most of my career actively avoiding the spotlight.

Writing to this many iOS developers at once is, I’ll admit, a strange way to protect that record.

Before the agenda is announced, we’re launching a 25% off discount code exclusively for iOS Dev Weekly Readers.

Her post drives RenderPreview directly over JSON-RPC and turns Xcode into a rendering service for a SwiftUI preview gallery app she’s now building.

More than doubling the tool count is Apple saying something about where Xcode is headed.

Issue 758 10th July 2026 Written by Andyy HopeG’day, iOS Dev weekly subscribers.

I was looking back through my inbox to see how long I’ve been reading it, and the earliest issue I could find was Issue #97 from June 1, 2013.

🤯Anyway, a bit about myself… I’m an iOS engineer based in Melbourne, Australia.

It’s really a desktop Safari automation tool, but since iOS Safari uses the same WebKit engine, you can point it at your site with a mobile-sized viewport to catch layout/CSS issues before they hit an iPhone.

It can’t actually drive the Simulator or a real device though, so it’s more of a quick proxy check than true iOS testing.

Issue 757 3rd July 2026 Written by Alex OzunHello, iOS Dev Weekly readers 👋Since I’m a new face in your inbox, I’ll start this issue by introducing myself.

This week also showed that Apple has to adapt, too, though in a less welcome way: Apple hardware is getting more expensive as memory costs rise.

Now, enjoy the rest of the issue 🫡– Alex OzunSwiftCon is coming to Berlin as part of next.app devCon, the largest gathering of mobile app developers.

We’re extending the CFP until Sunday and are welcoming iOS builders who go beyond tutorials: SwiftUI in production, architecture decisions, performance wins, and hard trade-offs.

Sagar Unagar looks at iOS 27’s new .reorderable() and .reorderContain…

Issue 756 26th June 2026 Written by Sriyank SiddharthaFor long-time readers of iOS Dev Weekly, Dave Verwer’s announcement in issue 751 that he would be handing over the reins of the newsletter while continuing his community work on Swift Package Index (SPI) now feels especially significant.

The formal announcement that Swift Package Index has joined Apple was published three days ago, and it marks a major moment for the Swift ecosystem.

On a personal note, all of us on the team are continually in awe of what Dave built with iOS Dev Weekly over the last 15 years.

Swift Package Index has been a trusted place for package discovery for years, and now it is joining Apple while staying open sourc…

Issue 755 19th June 2026 Written by Zachary PowellI can’t think of a better time than around WWDC to be diving back into the world of Apple as a developer.

There is a huge flurry of fascinating blogs, code labs, and opinion pieces coming from all over the iOS developer community.

While these machines may have stopped getting official OS updates, it is the community that keeps this hardware alive.

Streaming live video via RTSP on iOS has always been a bit of a challenge since AVPlayer does not support it out of the box.

I think we can all agree Apple embracing the “Crack Marketing Team” makes for a brilliant start to any keynote.

Issue 754 12th June 2026 Written by Greg FawsonBefore every WWDC, developers around the world start playing an unofficial game of WWDC Bingo.

To help answer that question, we’ve tried to gather commentary from the community about the most relevant announcements at WWDC26.

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

CodeWhile iOS 27 introduces several productivity and performance improvements, Khoa Pham highlights two noteworthy changes for Swift developers.

You’ve got a leaderboard with very phrase detected in the WWDC 2026 keynote, with its delta against the historical average.

Issue 753 5th June 2026 Written by Sriyank SiddharthaWWDC 2026 isn’t about new features.

This is my first iOS Dev Weekly, so let me introduce myself.

Twelve years ago, I ran my first mobile app and fell in love with building.

– Sriyank SiddharthaSwiftCon is coming to Berlin as part of next.app devCon, the largest gathering of mobile app developers.

Advanced Swift concurrency topic about actors without internal state, useful for developers building concurrent code with clear isolation boundaries.

Issue 752 29th May 2026 Written by Zachary PowellI feel like I should kick things off this week by introducing myself.

I’m Zachary Powell, Head of Developer Community here at next.app devCon.

This week’s iOS Dev Weekly marks the first one written by me, so please be kind (although, of course, feedback is welcome!).

With WWDC26 kicking off on June 8, the developer community is buzzing with anticipation for iOS 27 and the next generation of Apple software.

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

Issue 751 22nd May 2026 Written by Dave Verwer, Greg Fawson, Sriyank Siddhartha, and Zachary PowellToday is the start of something new for iOS Dev Weekly.

Finding the right people to take iOS Dev Weekly forward was tricky.

❤️– Dave VerwerHi iOS Dev Community!

We feel the same way about iOS Dev Weekly.

So what do we intend to do with iOS Dev Weekly?

Issue 750 8th May 2026 Written by Dave VerwerThis is the seven hundred and fiftieth issue of this little newsletter, so I hope you’ll forgive a little introspection.

I’d recently left a job working with C# and ASP.NET to start a small business writing Ruby on Rails apps on the brand new Intel Mac I’d just bought.

I really loved what I found, and not just in the language or frameworks, but in the community.

When I started this newsletter in 2011 it was partly because I wanted to become even more involved in that community.

❤️The community is so much richer and more diverse than it was back in 2011 when iOS Dev Weekly started.

Issue 750 8th May 2026 Written by Dave VerwerThis is the seven hundred and fiftieth issue of this little newsletter, so I hope you’ll forgive a little introspection.

I’d recently left a job working with C# and ASP.NET to start a small business writing Ruby on Rails apps on the brand new Intel Mac I’d just bought.

I really loved what I found, and not just in the language or frameworks, but in the community.

When I started this newsletter in 2011 it was partly because I wanted to become even more involved in that community.

❤️The community is so much richer and more diverse than it was back in 2011 when iOS Dev Weekly started.

Issue 749 1st May 2026 Written by Dave VerwerI first wrote about Ale Mohamad’s idea of a marketplace for Swift playgrounds in early 2025, when Swift Playgrounds removed its subscriptions functionality.

At that time, he had created a playgrounds section on his site, allowing a selection of playgrounds to be downloaded.

He has built a proper community-driven index site for Swift playgrounds.

It’s based on the same JSON feed that Apple designed, meaning if you had playgrounds content prepared for the Playgrounds app, it’ll seamlessly import into his site.

If you’re interested in robotics and Swift, you’ll also enjoy Artem’s announcement of IndustrialKit and the various video demos (1, 2, 3).

Marketed as a streaming service of originals, the Apple TV streaming service has been slowly growing its catalog of exclusive TV shows and movies.

But Apple has just complemented its offering with a bunch of classic movies to stream with your subscription at no extra charge.

You can find the current offering in a new ‘Great Movies Available Now on Apple TV’ carousel in the Apple TV app.

The list of free movies for the US includes:Usually available to buy or rent from the Apple TV Store, all of these movies are now labelled as “Just Added” to stream for free with an Apple TV subscription.

You can also get access to Apple TV through the Apple One bundle.

Today, Apple TV published the trailer for the fifth season of Stillwater, the platform’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning mindfulness series.

Stillwater returns August 21A few days ago, Apple TV confirmed the premiere date for the fifth season of Stillwater, with all five episodes set to drop on August 21.

According to Apple TV, Stillwater’s new season will feature more “breathing exercises, mindful moments and simple everyday practices,” continuing the show’s focus on helping kids and families find their inner calm.

Watch the trailer for Stillwater’s season 5 below:Watch Stillwater on Apple TVApple TV is available for $12.99 per month or as part of the Apple One bundle.

It features hit TV sh…

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has been pursuing content deals worth up to nine figures to improve Siri AI’s access to current news and information.

Apple seeks deals with publishers for Siri AIIn a report published today, The Wall Street Journal says that Apple has been reaching out to publishers to secure multiyear deals that would provide Siri AI with access to current events and information.

From the report:Apple has proposed a variable compensation plan, with payments made to partner publishers when their content is used, some of the people said.

Apple’s move comes as publishers increasingly choose between fighting AI companies in court and licensing their content to them.

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As WhatsApp approaches the official rollout of usernames, the app now lets users save a contact’s username alongside their name and phone number.

Now, as spotted by WABetaInfo, the app is starting to roll out support for a username field when users create a new contact.

The username field appears between the first and last name fields and the phone number section.

In particular, WhatsApp just added a username field right alongside the name and phone number.

WABetaInfo notes that the username field appears to be rolling out to select users on both the beta and stable versions of WhatsApp.

The Supreme Court has granted Apple a 24-hour extension to a California court deadline requiring the company to propose what commission, if any, it should be allowed to charge on purchases made outside the App Store.

Apple scores 24-hour extensionYesterday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rejected Apple’s request to pause the App Store fee proceedings while the Supreme Court reviews the company’s contempt ruling.

Judge Gonzalez Rogers later found Apple in contempt for violating the injunction.

The Supreme Court eventually agreed to review that ruling, with Apple arguing that the original injunction did not expressly prohibit it from charging a commission.

Apple, however, filed an emergency req…

Rising memory costs hit cheaper smartphones hardestAccording to Counterpoint Research, combined US smartphone sales for Apple, Samsung, Motorola, and Google fell 4% year over year in Q2 2026, while sales across the rest of the market plunged 45% as smaller manufacturers struggled with rising component costs.

From the report:We expect smartphone ASPs to continue to increase in Q3 2026, as Apple is expected to increase prices for its iPhone 18 series models.

Given that Apple historically accounts for over 50% of smartphone sales in the third quarter, price increases for top models will have a large effect on smartphone ASPs.

If carriers can continue offering these models for free, or close to…

Claude is turning its Chrome side panel into a full Cowork session, allowing browser-based tasks and conversations to follow users across Claude’s other apps.

The update closes a gap in Claude’s browser workflow.

Side panel sessions previously remained separate from sessions in Claude’s other apps, leaving their conversations and context behind.

AvailabilityThe Cowork side panel is available today for Max and Team customers, with a Pro rollout planned over the coming weeks.

The release continues Anthropic’s push to make Claude’s work portable across surfaces.

An Apple billboard showing a toddler holding an iPhone has drawn criticism in Italy, prompting the country’s children’s rights watchdog to refer the ad to three regulators for review.

Apple’s ‘Relax, it’s iPhone’ campaign draws criticism in ItalyItaly’s Autorità Garante per l’Infanzia e l’Adolescenza (AGIA) has taken issue with an Apple billboard in Milan that shows a toddler holding an iPhone, accompanied by the tagline “Tutto ok, è iPhone.”Image credit: Autorità Garante per l’Infanzia e l’AdolescenzaThe ad is part of Apple’s long-running “Relax, it’s iPhone” campaign, which typically shows iPhones surviving potentially damaging situations.

The latest billboards for the campaign show iPhon…

watchOS 27 is the next major software update for Apple Watch, and among its variety of new features, it will add two new apps to your Watch.

#1: Siri appSiri is getting a major AI overhaul in watchOS 27, and one part of that is a brand new Siri app.

The Siri app will be available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and also the Apple Watch.

So the Siri app in watchOS 27 will show you conversations not just from your Apple Watch, but from your iPhone, Mac, and more.

But in watchOS 27, Apple is streamlining all finding features into a new, unified Find My app.

Eddy Cue says Ted Lasso has ‘plenty of stories to go on’ for future seasonsApple has not officially picked up Ted Lasso for season 5, but all signs point to at least two more seasons coming beyond the now-airing season 4.

In a red carpet interview with ScreenRant concerning the possibility of Ted Lasso season 5, here’s what Cue said:“I hope so.

Ted Lasso season 4 airs new episodes every Wednesday through October 7.

Are you excited to have Ted Lasso return?

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

Apple regularly rolls out new features for Apple Wallet, and a future upgrade could center on trade-ins.

Code also suggests Apple may extend how long trade-in quotes stay valid, from 14 days to 90.

Another new feature for Apple WalletMacRumors has spotted code in Apple’s Guide app that references this new system.

For example, the code references the ability to save a trade-in offer for 90 days.

Apple boosted trade-in values for most iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models last week.

The official MLB app for iPhone is rolling out a useful update for fans who want to follow more games.

Both the CarPlay app and Live Activity experience has improved in a few ways.

The new MLB app lets users launch a Live Activity for any game on the schedule.

MLB has also improved its CarPlay experience.

The MLB app is available as a free download from the App Store.

What makes Apple GymKit so usefulGymKit provides a two-way connection between Apple Watch and compatible treadmills, ellipticals, stair steppers, and indoor bikes.

I tested that experience with the BowFlex T6, and it essentially delivers the Apple Watch GymKit experience without the watch.

BowFlex T6 brings GymKit homeThe BowFlex T6 treadmill is priced at $999 (reg.

You can use Apple Fitness+ (Apple One Premiere), Peloton, Zwift, or BowFlex’s optional JRNY platform.

Have you used Apple GymKit with Apple Watch before?

Apple has approached publishers to establish content deals that would give Siri AI access to current news and information, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Apple is proposing multiyear agreements where publishers would receive payment when their content is used, which is different from standard AI deals.

Apple has also worked with publishers for its Apple News+ service since 2019, though some publishers were unhappy with the content deals and ended their partnerships.

‌Siri‌ AI is set to launch this fall in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27.

‌Siri‌ AI is a major departure from the prior version of ‌Siri‌, and Apple has an incentive to ensure accurate news headlines.

Apple now has until 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, unless the Supreme Court gives the company a longer reprieve.

An appeals court ruling upheld the contempt decision, but said Apple was due reasonable fees for its intellectual property.

The case was sent back to district court to determine what a reasonable fee might be.

Apple then appealed to the Supreme Court, and the justices agreed to hear it.

Apple wants the Supreme Court to throw out the contempt ruling, negating the order barring it from collecting fees and the subsequent appeals court order mandating reasonable fee calculations.

Pixel 11 - $899, up from $799Pixel 11 Pro - $1,099, up from $999Pixel 11 Pro XL - $1,299, up from $1,199Pixel 11 Pro Fold - $1,899, up from $1,799The 41mm Pixel Watch 5 is now $399, up from $349, and the 45mm model is now $429, up from $399.

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro now start with 256GB instead of 128GB, so pricing is technically the same as last year's 256GB model.

The Pixel 11 Pro XL and Pixel 11 Pro Fold started with 256GB last year and still do, so those devices have straight price increases.

The base Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL have 12GB RAM instead of 16GB RAM.

Google's product page lists trade-in discounts before actual pricing, stating the Pixel 11 Pro is priced "From $499…

Google today announced new products that compete with Apple devices like the iPhone and the Apple Watch.

Pixel 11 Pro FoldThe Pixel 11 Pro Fold is thinner and lighter than the prior-generation Pixel Fold.

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold and other new Pixel models have a "HiLight" feature with LED lights around the flash.

Pixel Watch 5The Pixel Watch 5 uses the same round display Google's smartwatches are known for, with an improved 3,000-nit brightness level.

We're expecting Apple to announce the iPhone 18 Pro, ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, foldable iPhone Ultra, and new Apple Watch models.

Google today introduced the Pixel Tag, its answer to Apple's AirTag.

Pixel Tag is Google's first item tracker, even though Google implemented an item tracking network two years ago that's been used by third-party devices.

The Pixel Tag is made from stainless steel, and it is IP67 water- and dust-resistant.

Like the ‌AirTag‌, the Pixel Tag uses a replaceable battery that lasts for up to one year.

Google plans to sell Pixel Tags for $29 for one or $99 for four, which is the same price as the ‌AirTag‌ 2.

Apple appears to be developing a retail trade-in system that would let customers save a trade-in offer to the Wallet app for up to 90 days, based on code seen by MacRumors.

One string in the app says: "You can add this trade-in offer to your Apple Wallet.

The system can then retrieve quotes from trade-in vendors and generate a Wallet pass for the selected offer.

A trade-in offer valid for 90 days would give customers a longer window than Apple currently advertises for online trade-ins.

A customer visiting an Apple Store could have a device evaluated without immediately purchasing a replacement, save the resulting offer in Apple Wallet, and return within 90 days to use it.

Apple hired former American Airlines executive vice president Nick Gatten as its new vice president of government affairs, reports Bloomberg.

Gatten will take on some of the duties of senior vice president of government affairs Katherine Adams, who is retiring at the end of 2026.

Gatten will report to Apple senior vice president and general counsel Jennifer Newstead, with Adams to remain available in an advisory role until October 1.

Bloomberg says Gatten is a Republican that Apple felt would be able to align with the Trump administration.

Cook plans to step down as Apple CEO on September 1, with hardware chief John Ternus to take over.

Apple has secured lower prices for OLED displays for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models, according to industry sources cited by South Korea's DealSite.

For example, the report said Apple will pay LG and Samsung around $68 per OLED display destined for the iPhone 18 Pro Max, down significantly from the $110 to $120 that it paid those suppliers for each iPhone 17 Pro Max display.

Even still, the iPhone 18 Pro models are expected to be more expensive than the iPhone 17 Pro models, with market research firms estimating that U.S. starting prices could rise by $200 to $300.

If so, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max could start at up to $1,399 and $1,499, respectively.

Apple is expected to unv…

A newly published Apple patent application describes a system for deciding, in real time, whether to interrupt what someone is doing on a device or leave them alone.

iOS 18.1 introduced AI-powered notification summaries, which use on-device AI to condense a stack of alerts into a single line, alongside a Reduce Interruptions Focus mode that filters out notifications the system judges unimportant.

Reduce Interruptions currently judges each notification individually, weighing its content and sender to decide whether it counts as important enough to break through.

Notification summaries could benefit in a similar way.

It could easily be Apple laying the groundwork for where it wants to take Re…

With Apple's upcoming iPhone Ultra there's been a lingering question over the exact placement of the selfie cameras in the device's folded and unfolded states – but today we may have stumbled upon the answer.

Dummy units have suggested a top-centered cut-out for the selfie camera on the outer display of Apple's foldable, while locating the selfie camera for the inner display in the outermost top-left corner.

However, screen protectors for the iPhone Ultra that surfaced online today suggest the device's selfie cameras on the inner and outer displays may be located in the same corner of the same half, with one facing out and one facing in.

The screen protectors show a selfie camera cutout on …

There's a big accessory sale happening on Amazon this week, with the year's best prices on Anker chargers, Samsung monitors, Sonos audio products, and much more.

In terms of monitor and TV deals, there are quite a few Samsung deals happening this week on Amazon.

The 32-inch Smart Monitor M9 has hit its second-best price on Amazon at $1,199.99, down from $1,599.99, an all-time low price.

Accessories on sale include USB-C wall chargers, MagSafe-compatible wireless chargers, portable batteries, headphones, docks, and monitors.

AudioMonitors and TVsWall ChargersWireless ChargersPortable ChargersIf you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the…

Apple supplier Pegatron today indirectly confirmed that the standard iPhone 18 model will not be released until next year, according to a new report.

As widely expected, the report said Apple plans to release the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and a foldable "iPhone Ultra" this September, followed by the standard iPhone 18 model in the first quarter of 2027.

The standard iPhone 11 through to the iPhone 17 all launched alongside Pro and Pro Max models in September over the years, so the launch of the base model iPhone 18 being postponed until around March 2027 would be a notable change.

Apple supplier Largan Precision also hinted at the change in a similarly indirect way earlier this year…

Hallucinations are a problem with any AI, especially when it involves summarizing content, so instead, Apple could let Siri AI provide news directly from an outlet via paid partnerships.

The iOS 27 beta is underway, and with it, users can test the new Siri AI.

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is reaching out to publishers to enter multi-year deals that would supply journalistic content for use with Siri AI.

The model differs from Apple's previous partnerships with publications and AI training, which involved bulk payments for training datasets.

Given how Siri AI provides direct snippets from sources today, it seems likely that paid partnerships could provide entire …

Unveiled at the annual "Made by Google" event on Wednesday, Google's Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold introduce new Gemini capabilities, color options, and more.

Google Pixel 11: 30-hour battery life & 25% faster charging, albeit for $100 moreAt first glance, Google's Pixel 11 looks remarkably similar to the preceding model.

Priced at $899, the 256GB Google Pixel 11 is $100 more expensive than the base 128GB Google Pixel 10.

Much like the standard Pixel 11, the Pixel 11 Pro doesn't offer any standout features, relative to its predecessor.

Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold: 3 times stronger with 20% brighter displaysDurability is once again the focus with the Pixel 11 Pro Fold.

Google's new Pixel 11 is the search giant's standard model of its new smartphone range. Here's how its latest introduction compares to its Apple counterpart, the iPhone 17.iPhone 17 [left] vs Google Pixel 11 [right]The vast majority of attention for Google and Apple's smartphone launches is around the premium models. However, not everyone is in the market for the high-end version, and would rather save a few bucks on something without every bell and whistle in existence.For Google's Pixel 11 range, that means the Pixel 11. A more modest version of its AI-centric smartphone that steps back from the bleeding edge of its Pro counterpart. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Google has just launched its new Pixel smartphone line, with the Pixel 11 Pro going toe-to-toe with Apple's iPhone 17 Pro. Here's how the spec sheets compare.iPhone 17 Pro [left], Google Pixel 11 Pro [right]Google launched the Pixel 11 Pro as the compact half of its top-tier lineup, sitting below the larger Pixel 11 Pro XL. It lines up naturally against Apple's iPhone 17 Pro, the non-Max Pro model, and becomes the default option if you want a serious smartphone without the massive size.That is, if you also don't want the Pixel 11 Pro Fold either. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Twitch now lets streamers block Amazon from using their broadcasts, clips, and other channel content to train generative AI.

We've added a setting that lets you opt out of having your channel content used to train generative AI content models across Amazon.

The switch doesn't turn off every form of AIOpting out of generative AI training won't stop Twitch from using AI for other parts of the service.

Twitch says its other AI tools don't retain channel content to train models that produce new material.

The new switch is an opt-out from one specific type of AI training, not all AI use on Twitch.

Apple has signed Nate Gatten to become its new head of government affairs, a move that could help the company work more with the Trump administration.

According to a memo from SVP and General Counsel Jennifer Newstead seen by Bloomberg, Nate Gatten will be taking over as vice president of Government Affairs.

Current head of government affairs Nick Ammann will move down the corporate ladder one rung and report to Gatten.

As a Republican, people familiar with the decision to hire Gatten say he will hopefully align with the Trump administration.

Gatten's previous experience in real estate may also be a bonus as Apple expands its operations with new stores and offices.

A leaker with a decent track record has shown what is claimed to be a screen protector for the forthcoming iPhone Ultra, and it shows the device's unusual corners.

In June 2026, leaker Ice Universe showed off what was purported to be a prototype of the iPhone Ultra.

This is the screen protector for the iPhone Ultra.

The iPhone Ultra screen itself is still a symmetrical rounded rectangle.

The iPhone Ultra is to be Apple's first folding iPhone.

An Apple supplier has lent additional credibility to ongoing rumors suggesting Apple will release the iPhone 18 base model separately in early 2027.

It seems increasingly likely that Apple will not release the core iPhone 18 at its expected September 2026 iPhone launch.

According to Taiwanese financial publication United Daily News, Pegatron, one of Apple's key iPhone manufacturers, has confirmed the split launch date at its August 12 earnings conference.

While we may not see the iPhone 18 until the first quarter of 2027, it seems Apple still plans to launch the iPhone 18 Pro lineup in September 2026.

Another new normalWhile it seems somewhat strange at first blush, Apple splitting its iPho…

Apple TV has released the first trailer for "Last Seen," its upcoming thriller starring Patrick Brammall, ahead of the series premiere on September 9.

In "Last Seen," police detective Ian Ridley's daughter vanished 11 years ago without a trace.

It stars Gotham Award winner Patrick Brammall as Ridley.

"Last Seen" was entirely filmed in Victoria, Australia, with Kris Mrksa adapting the novel and serving as an executive producer.

That includes well-known titles like the workplace psychological thriller "Severance," which Apple recently acquired in a $70 million ownership transfer.

Apple has a forthcoming feature called Apple Reference Image, and it's aimed at authenticating photos.

After this feature is released, there will be a Reference Image setting, and in it the ability to turn on Reference Mode.

Similarly, according to 9to5mac, which first spotted the code references, there is to be a "Transfer with Provenance" option.

Since the feature requires a specific photo mode in the Camera app, Apple Reference Image will presumably not be available to third-party camera apps.

Separately, the same fifth developer beta includes code references to six new models of iPhone.

The screen of the iPhone Air, from which the iPhone 20 may borrow design elementsThe iPhone 20 Pro display will be the same aspect ratio as previous models, while still being slightly bigger.

Apple's anniversary smartphone, the often-rumored iPhone 20 Pro is believed to have both a glass-heavy design and much larger displays than usual.

Codenamed V73 and V74, the models are said to be bigger, but have the same aspect ratio as earlier Pro and Pro Max models.

This apparently means that Apple is going for a new bezel-less quad-curved design for the iPhone 20 Pro.

On August 4, the account posted about Apple prototyping two screen sizes, measuring 6.4 inches and 7 inches for the iPhone 20 Pro an…

Read our ethics policyInventory constraints continue to plague the M4 Mac mini line, but Amazon has two models with delivery dates in the near future, and one of them is on sale, too.

Apple's M4 Mac mini has been hard to source, with a nearly month-long delay on the M4 spec with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.

Those looking for the increased performance of the M4 Pro can save $30 on a configuration with a 12-core CPU and 16-core GPU.

The M4 Pro chip has over double the memory bandwidth of the M4 chip, clocking in at 273GB/s versus 120GB/s.

Save $30 on M4 Pro Mac miniAs evidenced in our Mac mini Price Guide, inventory is extremely limited across the line and these units have a high risk of…

Preorders for the popular fishing management sim "Dave the Diver" are now open, with the game slated for a mid-September release across Apple platforms.

Dave the Diver blends deep-sea exploration with restaurant management.

'Dave the Diver' Dredge content will be included in the App Store releaseFor those who want to play on iPhone or iPad, you'll need iOS 13 or iPadOS 13 or newer.

Mac users will need macOS 11 or later and a Mac with an M1 chip or newer; Apple Vision owners will need visionOS 1.0.

Dave the Diver will be available on the App Store on September 17, but you can preorder it now to have it download when available.

Chinese display manufacturer BOE really wants to be part of the iPad Air supply chain, and aims to take some of Apple's custom for the OLED panel away from Samsung Display.

The iPad Air is anticipated to gain an OLED panel as part of its spring 2027 refresh.

According to TheElec on Tuesday, BOE is pushing to become a secondary display supplier for the OLED iPad Air, alongside Samsung Display.

It is reportedly developing OLED panels for the next iPad Air, in the hope it can convince Apple.

If BOE doesn't qualify, Samsung Display will stay the sole supplier for the initial production run of the iPad Air.

In Swift, the @MainActor attribute can be used to associate a given type, function, or value with the global main actor, which essentially makes any such code operate on the enclosing app’s main thread.

Just like concrete types, a Swift protocol can be fully isolated to the main actor, which means that all of its members (which in the case of a protocol are its list of requirements, and any extensions we’ve added) in turn also become main actor isolated.

But what if we’re looking to make an actual actor type conform to our ErrorPresenter protocol?

So does that mean that we should never fully associate any protocol with the main actor, and instead only annotate individual requirements …

It’s called Kickstart, and it has only one job: to help indie developers make more money on the App Store.

Kickstart helps with the rest.

Instead, the important part is that Kickstart helps turn all those disconnected responsibilities into clear, manageable next steps.

A lot of App Store tooling feels like it was built for growth hackers, agencies, or people trying to optimize funnels all day long.

Instead, Kickstart helps you stay focused on shipping.

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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iOS & SwiftNine Kodebits in July, and the emphasis shifted.

Day 64: Generic Function — Write a function once and let it work with any type that meets your constraints.

Android & KotlinSix Kodebits in July, and Kotlin took the difficulty crown this month with three of them at advanced.

Day 61: Object Expression — Create a one-off object that implements an interface, right where you need it.

Day 60: Inline Function — Marking a function inline copies its body to the call site, avoiding the object allocation a lambda would otherwise cost.

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What is the output?

func swap( _ a: inout T, _ b: inout T ) { let temp = a a = b b = temp } var x = 5, y = 9 swap(&x;, &y;) print(x) print(y)Try it in the online Swift Playground →[spoiler title="Solution"]Answer:9 5Explanation:Generic functions use type parameters (like ) to work with any type.

The inout keyword allows modifying the original variables.

swap exchanges x and y’s values, so x becomes 9 and y becomes 5.

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This is a free sample chapter from Apple Foundation Models by Bill Morefield.

Apple Foundation Models are Apple’s on-device AI models, designed to protect privacy while helping with tasks like writing text, summarizing information, and organizing data on supported devices.

This book will explore the use of Apple Foundation Models in your apps.

It’s worth starting with the most basic question: What is Apple Foundation Models Framework?

It will either be available , meaning your app can access Foundation Models, or unavailable , which also provides a reason explaining why Foundation Models is not accessible.

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Apple Foundation Models is a practical guide to building intelligent, on-device AI applications using Apple’s new Foundation Models framework.

Apple Foundation Models is a practical guide to building intelligent, on-device AI applications using Apple’s new Foundation Models framework.

This section provides a comprehensive introduction to Apple’s Foundation Models framework and its integration into SwiftUI applications.

From there, it guides you through building conversational SwiftUI applications powered by Foundation Models, demonstrating how to interact with models in real time and create responsive, user-friendly experiences.

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Three months in, Kodebits have found their rhythm: small, self-contained coding challenges you can work through between meetings, posted to our social channels as they land and gathered on the Kodebits archive afterwards.

iOS & SwiftEight Kodebits in June, with a clear thread running through them: value semantics and pattern matching.

IntermediateDay 35: Companion Object — Kotlin has no static keyword; a companion object is where class-level members and factory methods live instead.

IntermediateDay 43: Where Then Fold — Chain where to filter a collection and fold to reduce it to a single value.

to filter a collection and to reduce it to a single value.

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:…

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…

Android приложение Polymarket написано на SwiftРазработчики Polymarket, крупнейшей биржи предсказаний, рассказали, что их выпущенное на прошлой неделе Android приложение пости полностью написано на Swift с использованием Skip:👉На Swift написано 170к строк логики: нетворкинг, работа с данными, вьюмодели.👉Это ядро пошарено с iOS приложением.👉UI написан полностью нативно на Compose.Обязательно почитайте пост, там много интересного про сам подход к организации кода и проблемы, с которыми они столкнулись.

Low level программирование на SwiftДержите классный доклад от одного из разработчиков Swift про то, как в языке развиваются фичи для системного программирования, и как они сочетаются со всем остальным языковым дизайном.

SwiftUI спустя 7 летС момента анонса SwiftUI прошло уже целых семь лет. Это уже довольно-таки приличный срок для UI фреймворка, чтобы стать полностью production ready. Но реальность немного отличается:👉Достигнуть предсказуемого перфоманса очень сложно, а логика дата флоу часто меняется.👉Хоть сколько-то сложный лэйаут работает непредсказуемо и ломается в самых неожиданных местах.👉По feature parity SwiftUI все еще очень сильно отстает от UIKit, а когда новые фичи все-таки доезжают, доступны они только с самых последних версий iOS. В результате код превращается в мешанину #available чеков.👉Кросс-платформенность на деле оказалась не самой полезной фичей, так как по факту лэйаут на телефоне и пл…

Как устроен М4 Apple Neural EngineПрямого доступа к Neural Engine нам не дают, предлагая работать с ним только через CoreML. Но через все слои абстракции в нем довольно тяжело пробиться, поэтому понять, как на самом деле работает железо, сходу не получится.Автор статьи зареверсинжинирил весь стек, начиная от CoreML, заканчивая драйвером чипа, и вытащил кучу интересных подробностей!

Что помогает экономить токеныРебята из JetBrains прогнали через свои бенчмарки несколько самых популярных инструментов для экономии токенов – caveman, rtk и ponytail. Если кратко, то экономии они практически не дают, а тому, что написано на их сайтах, верить вообще не стоит. Из всего этого самым полезным выглядит ponytail, который срезает косты на ~10%.

Как следить за нагревом устройстваЗа крешрейтом следят вообще все, за весом бинарника – существенно меньше людей, а за скоростью запуска совсем мало. Но если все это в ваших дэшбордах уже есть, то можете досыпать туда еще одну метрику – ThermalState, внутри которой кроется оценка Apple того, насколько вашему телефону сейчас плохо. В статье разбирается, что конкретно стоит логировать, помимо самой метрики, и как превратить ее в понятные продуктовые показатели.

Как работает Approachable ConcurrencyЯ не перестаю орать каждый раз, когда вижу название Approachable Concurrency – так полно свое поражение в non-approachable дизайне еще нужно постараться признать. Но не суть – в Swift 6.2 наконец-то выкатили фичи, которые позволяют работать с конкурентностью сильно проще, чем раньше. В статье они разбираются вместе с примерами кода и логов.

HistoryObserver в SwiftDataВ SwiftData появилась нативная фича, позволяющая отслеживать изменения в локальном хранилище, и реализовывать поверх нее логику синхронизации с бэкендом. В статье разбирается, как написать с ее помощью и клиент, и сервер.

Как работает каждый BlendModeРазбор всех 21 BlendMode'ов в SwiftUI с примерами кода и получающихся изображений.

В Claude Code добавили iOS симуляторВ Codex поддержка симулятора появилась уже довольно давно, теперь и Claude Code догнал – точно так же он может запускать симулятор, управлять приложениями в нем и получать доступ к тому, что с ними происходит.

Simbeam – удаленное управление симуляторомДержите простой опенсорсный инструмент для стриминга симулятора, запущенного на вашем локальном маке, прямо в браузер или в отдельное мобильное приложение. Основная цель – чтобы вы могли разрабатывать приложения прямо с телефона или любого другого устройства, но все так же имели возможность быстро потестировать их руками.

SwiftCrossUI – кроссплатформенный десктопный UIНаткнулся на сравнительно свежий проект – кроссплатформенный UI фреймворк для десктопных приложений, вдохновленный синтаксисом SwiftUI. С Windows работает через WinUI, с Linux – через gtk, с macOS – через AppKit.

Опасности нестабильных SwiftUI environment defaultsС помощью макроса Entry мы можем в одну строчку создать кастомный environment value и задать его дефолтное значение. Создавать инстансы классов прямо в макросе – очень плохая идея. В статье разбираемся, почему так.

Foundation Models UtilitiesЯ совсем пропустил, что Apple выпустили дополнительный фреймворк для Foundation Models, добавляющий в ваши приложения поддержку скиллов, истории, и completions API.

Могут ли LLM помочь с feature parity между платформамиЗнакомые ребята запустили интересный стартап – они анализируют iOS и Android кодовые базы одного и того же проекта, и находят, где они расходятся по функциональности. В качестве примера проиндексировали приложения Википедии и выложили отчет по ним.Расскажите, что думаете про проект? Ребята рады будут фидбэку, я им передам! А еще лучше расскажите, пытаетесь ли как-то сами похожую проблему решать домашними способами.

🍏 Совместный просмотр WWDC в Т-БанкеТ-Банк приглашает на бесплатный совместный просмотр трансляции кейноута WWDC в своих ИТ-хабах. Будет пицца и обсуждение.Регистрация по ссылкам:→ Москва → Санкт-Петербург → Казань → Нижний Новгород → Краснодар → Воронеж

🍏 Совместный просмотр WWDC в Т-БанкеТ-Банк приглашает на бесплатный совместный просмотр трансляции кейноута WWDC в своих ИТ-хабах. Будет пицца и обсуждение.Регистрация по ссылкам:→ Москва → Санкт-Петербург → Казань → Нижний Новгород → Краснодар → Воронеж

🧭 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 …

🧭 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 …

Oh, alignmentGuide is one of my favorite SwiftUI APIs!This article is a great example of how it can elegantly solve a layout problem without resorting to GeometryReader, offsets, or other workarounds.If you’ve never really used alignmentGuide, this is definitely worth a read!https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/AlignmentGuidesInSwiftUI#SwiftUI

Apple introduced @ContentBuilder this year, and we’re already seeing developers push it beyond its original use case.My Swift buddy Artem ran an interesting experiment using @ContentBuilder with non-View types. It’s a nice example of how the new builder can be used to create clean DSL-like APIs.https://artemnovichkov.com/blog/using-swiftui-contentbuilder-with-non-view-types#Swift #SwiftUI

If you’re migrating to Swift 6, this is a great short refresher on one of the most confusing concurrency changes. It explains, with simple examples:• how nonisolated behaves with Approachable Concurrency• when execution stays on the caller’s executor• and when @concurrent is actually needed.These are easy details to forget, but they often come up in code reviews and technical interviews. 😉https://nsvasilev.com/posts/approachable_concurrency/#swift #concurrency

FYI Apple deprecated canOpenURL(_:) in iOS 27.Instead of checking whether an app is installed, the new recommendation is to simply call open(_:completionHandler:) and handle failures.There’s another change: apps linked against the iOS 27 SDK can now declare only 25 entries in LSApplicationQueriesSchemes (down from 50).https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplication/canopenurl(_:)#iOS #privacy

If you’re using Tuist, it’s worth trying their new package resolution process - SwifterpmWhy did they build it?• Better support for Git worktrees• Faster parallel installs for AI coding agents• A shared package store to avoid duplicate checkouts• Faster dependency resolution and package materializationThe benchmark results look very promising.The Tuist team is actively looking for feedback, so if it works well in your project, let them know!#build #optimization #tuist

Apple finally got around to adding this in iOS 27, and somehow I’m still genuinely excited about it. 😄textSelection() now supports granular text selection. In iOS 26, applying it to a Text view only let you select the entire block. Now you can simply drag to select the exact part you want, just like in any native text view.It took them until iOS 27… but I’ll happily take it.https://x.com/natpanferova/status/2070781569044996429?s=46&t=YNy4qFziI3PFPTlrSCXpmA#SwiftUI

Apple finally got around to adding this in iOS 27, and somehow I’m still genuinely excited about it. 😄textSelection() now supports granular text selection. In iOS 26, applying it to a Text view only let you select the entire block. Now you can simply drag to select the exact part you want, just like in any native text view.It took them until iOS 27… but I’ll happily take it.https://x.com/natpanferova/status/2070781569044996429?s=46&t=YNy4qFziI3PFPTlrSCXpmA#SwiftUI

If you rushed to install the new Xcode after WWDC, started migrating code to ContentBuilder, and explored the new @State macro…don’t forget to read TN3211.It’s Apple’s guide to understanding why some perfectly valid SwiftUI code from last week suddenly isn’t so valid anymore.https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3211-resolving-swiftui-source-incompatibilities-for-state-and-contentbuilder#SwiftUI

If you rushed to install the new Xcode after WWDC, started migrating code to ContentBuilder, and explored the new @State macro…don’t forget to read TN3211.It’s Apple’s guide to understanding why some perfectly valid SwiftUI code from last week suddenly isn’t so valid anymore.https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3211-resolving-swiftui-source-incompatibilities-for-state-and-contentbuilder#SwiftUI

WWDC26 Swift Group Lab Q&A is probably the most valuable Swift Concurrency content from this year’s WWDC. Lots of subtle details:• Does Task {} actually leave MainActor?• What does nonisolated mean in Swift 6.2 now?• When should you use @concurrent?• Is async code really running where you think it is?… turns out the answer is increasingly: “not where you think.”https://antongubarenko.substack.com/p/wwdc26-swift-group-lab-q-and-a#Swift #concurrency

WWDC26 Swift Group Lab Q&A is probably the most valuable Swift Concurrency content from this year’s WWDC. Lots of subtle details:• Does Task {} actually leave MainActor?• What does nonisolated mean in Swift 6.2 now?• When should you use @concurrent?• Is async code really running where you think it is?… turns out the answer is increasingly: “not where you think.”https://antongubarenko.substack.com/p/wwdc26-swift-group-lab-q-and-a#Swift #concurrency

FYI: starting with Xcode 27, Apple will ignore the UIDesignRequiresCompatibility flag.So if you're hoping to avoid Liquid Glass, your only option will be staying on an older Xcode. The bigger question is how long App Store submissions from older toolchains will remain supported.https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/UIDesignRequiresCompatibility#Xcode

FYI: starting with Xcode 27, Apple will ignore the UIDesignRequiresCompatibility flag.So if you're hoping to avoid Liquid Glass, your only option will be staying on an older Xcode. The bigger question is how long App Store submissions from older toolchains will remain supported.https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BundleResources/Information-Property-List/UIDesignRequiresCompatibility#Xcode

All SwiftUI changes in one image.https://x.com/shubham_iosdev/status/2064081215788118280?s=46&t=YNy4qFziI3PFPTlrSCXpmA

All SwiftUI changes in one image.https://x.com/shubham_iosdev/status/2064081215788118280?s=46&t=YNy4qFziI3PFPTlrSCXpmA

Safari 27 and web standards, Apple Maps coming to cars (?

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Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, the state of the 27 OSes heading into the public betas, what FileMaker was (or is?

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Siri AI impressions, M6 and M7 rumors, Apple’s role in the supply chain, languages for LLMs, and price hikes for everyone!

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Apple altered their prices.

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Lots of details from macOS Golden Gate, Apple's AI Tech Talk, road trips, and failed Bobs.

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WWDC 2026 coverage and our first impressions of macOS Golden Gate, iOS 27, and Siri AI.

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Our hopes and dreams for WWDC 2026.

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Hosted by Marco Arment Casey Liss , and John Siracusa

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Apple's chip-fab options, branding the 20th-anniversary iPhone, Terminal and Xcode preferences, and some very special filenames.

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How could Apple make Neo and Ultra versions of more of their products?

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Mythos, the different personalities of Tim Cook and John Ternus, the complexity of backing up files from cloud-storage providers on macOS, and the long-term future of the Mac.

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‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’, With Louie MantiaLouie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI.

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‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’, With Quinn NelsonQuinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of year, the Trump T1.

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‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John MoltzThe great John Moltz returns to the show.

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‘Perp Walk for Selfies’, With Jason SnellJason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.

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‘Live From WWDC 2026’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay PatelRecorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026.

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‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam LisagorAdam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he’s developing it with AI coding tools.

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‘Food and Beverage Director’, With MG SieglerMG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO.

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‘Apple at 50’, With John SiracusaWho better to join the show to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary than John Siracusa?

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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.

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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.

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

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