Today, we’re introducing a new way that people can pay for your auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.

People can cancel their subscription at any time, which will prevent the subscription from renewing after they’ve completed their agreed-to payments to fulfill their commitment.

To provide transparency, people can easily view the number of completed and remaining payments for the subscription in their Apple Account.

Starting today, you can configure this type of subscription in App Store Connect and test it in Xcode.

With the exception of the United States and Singapore, monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment will be avail…

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.

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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 …

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After years of procastinations in my little spare time to have my own app, and with the massive snowball of AI tools, i finally got my app online on the appstore. Regardless of the app idea itself, i always wanted to build something that utilizes the whole native iOS kit of tools (SwiftData, Swift Charts, etc). I managed to acheive this in my app for parenting and baby tracking ( an idea not original yes but as a recent parent i thought of some features that I and my partner would love to have it like vaccination reminders, parents mental health check-ins and other stuff. So basically the app is build using only SF symbols, SwiftData, Swift Charts, CloudKit + StoreKit 2 and my experience wi…

Hi, I'm currently working on adapting my app’s design depending on whether Liquid Glass is enabled or not, and I’d like to test how it behaves on iOS 18. What’s the best way to test my app on iOS 18 specifically? Is it possible to downgrade my iPhone 12 to iOS 18 manually or using Xcode, or is there another recommended approach? submitted by /u/megarma [link] [comments]

.. for like 5 mins, then continues as normal? Reboot normally fixes is/has the app loading instantly for a while. Then $something happens and it starts doing this "boot into a black screen for 5 mins things". Any suggestions for things to check? submitted by /u/richsonreddit [link] [comments]

Over the past few months, I’ve been deep into Apple’s Screen Time APIs (FamilyControls, ManagedSettings, DeviceActivity)… and honestly, it’s been a wild but rewarding experience. From blocking selected apps during focus sessions to handling edge cases like allowing music apps while restricting others — got to explore a lot of real-world use cases. Also worked on an app called Fluid Focus where I implemented similar “focus mode/app blocking” flows. submitted by /u/ExternalKnowledge359 [link] [comments]

small update from my first expo app store submission i posted here a couple days ago after submitting my expo/react native app to app store review. the app got rejected, but the reason was way smaller than i expected. on my microphone permission screen, the button said “enable microphone”. apple rejected it because that makes it feel like my custom screen is the thing enabling the permission. in reality, only the ios system popup should ask for microphone access. so i changed the button to “continue”, kept the text explaining why the app needs the microphone, and then showed the real ios permission prompt after that. simple fix, but honestly a useful lesson. if you have a custom permission …

Hi everyone ! My app got rejected for the following reason : "The metadata includes content that resembles movies without the necessary authorization.". Here is my screenshot : https://preview.redd.it/keypmj7yygzg1.jpg?width=462&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dd4ea15181f1e2320cd002b994373fb62e7fba9 My app is not intended for streaming, it is designed to help user to discover movies. From what I understand, I may need to use fictional movie titles, posters etc... However, I've noticed that many apps display real movie posters in their App Store screenshots (letterboxd, TV Time, Movie Plex etc...) Is it a rule for new app ? Could you please clarify what is allowed in this case ? submitted by /u/max…

Do they pay for some integration from apple? Do they just scrape it themselves? Curious to see if there is a way we can all check without having to bother with these subscriptions. Please do not comment with advertisements for you own freemium solutions. submitted by /u/aerial-ibis [link] [comments]

I’m developing an iOS app that tells you the live price of every petrol station in the UK. No crowdsourcing — real accurate data. It allows you to set favourites, and there’s a lock screen widget you can add which tells you the cheapest of your favourites. You can also filter by specific things, like stocking AdBlue, Toilets, Car Wash. You can also view total prices, based on how much you want to fill up. This app is not yet on the App Store; it is currently in open beta via TestFlight. https://testflight.apple.com/join/dT36h84F I would also really appreciate if you join my Discord server or email me directly (business (at) isxander.dev), or reply in this thread with any feedback! https://s…

RevenueCat is saying my products need to be approved but Apple is saying that my products are not showing up on the pay wall?? This seems like a ridiculous catch 22… anyone dealt with this before or is the confusion on my end? submitted by /u/Which-Breadfruit-162 [link] [comments]

Is anyone else running into issues with their app icon appearance in iOS 26? I'm using icon composer and turned off all the effects, but the app icon is still a very dull saturation when loaded into the app. Has anyone else dealt with this? I can't show an example as coworkers would easily spot my reddit account but the colors are significantly desaturated compared to apples (and other peoples) default icons. submitted by /u/SnowPudgy [link] [comments]

My group is wanting to develop and deploy an iPad application internally. Developing the software is not an issue, that's already mostly done. My question is on signing/deploying the app. We've got a developer account ($99/yr) and can install manually using a mac and UDIDs via the developer platform. Long term it would be better if we had some deployment method that didn't involve apple configurator. It looked like ABM was the right path, but I'm learning now that I'd still need to publish the app to the app store (even privately) and that requires a remote apple employee to review the app, which is not really workable. The app is only functional in our network against out servers, I'm not …

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…

Apple Studios announced today a new action thriller series starring James Marsden (Your Friends & Neighbors, X-Men: Days of Future Past), based on an original idea by ‘Iron Man‘ and ‘Uncharted‘ writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.

James Marsden to star in ‘Disavowed’In a press release issued earlier today, Apple TV announced Disavowed, a new thriller series starring James Marsden (Paradise).

Apple says ‘Disavowed’ will be produced by Blue Marble Pictures, the company behind the award-winning series ‘Pachinko,’ which ran from 2022 to 2024.

‘Disavowed’ will also mark the second collaboration between Apple and Marsden, as the actor is currently playing Owen Ashe in the second season of ‘Your …

The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has partly granted Apple’s opposition to a trademark application from a Chinese company called Yichun Qinningmeng Electronics, due to concerns that its citrus-shaped logo could benefit from Apple’s reputation in the EU.

This case started last July, when Apple opposed Yichun Qinningmeng Electronics’ EU trademark application, arguing that the company’s citrus-shaped logo was too similar to Apple’s own logo.

Risk of injury: use of the contested trade mark would take unfair advantage of, or be detrimental to, the distinctive character or repute of the earlier trade mark.

The opposition may still fail if the applicant establishes due cause for the use …

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will launch this fall, and in addition to packing a variety of new features, there are three design changes reportedly coming.

Fortunately, it sounds like Apple plans to address that with the iPhone 18 Pro.

Rumors say the new Dynamic Island will be about 35% smaller on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max.

Rumors indicate the company plans to continue offering fun Pro colors with the iPhone 18 Pro.

What do you think of Apple’s rumored iPhone 18 Pro design changes?

iPhone 17 lineup success keeps on givingAccording to Counterpoint Research, Apple set two revenue records in Q1 2026.

First, the company captured 48% of total smartphone market revenue, its highest-ever share in a first quarter.

Second, Apple posted the fastest year-over-year revenue growth among the top smartphone brands, with its share rising from 43% a year earlier.

Samsung was a distant second with 18% revenue share, followed by OPPO (including OnePlus and realme devices) at 6%, Xiaomi at 5%, and vivo at 4%.

As for average selling price, Counterpoint noted that higher smartphone prices tied to the ongoing memory crunch helped lift the overall ASP by 12% year over year, at $399.

The US Supreme Court rejected Apple’s request today that would have temporarily paused the Epic Games case from returning to the District Court for proceedings that are set to calculate how much commission it can charge for off-App Store transactions.

A bit of contextEarlier this week, Apple filed an application with the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the Ninth Circuit’s mandate that sends the Epic Games case back to the District Court.

Great news – the Supreme Court denied Apple's delay tactics.

Now we head back to the District Court to determine what Apple can charge for only the necessary costs of implementing external purchase links.

The company, however, is still expected to ask the S…

Apple TV has its best summer lineup ever this year, with compelling new and returning series coming to the streamer.

But as things stand today, here’s everything coming to Apple TV this summer.

AugustTed Lasso (season 4)When: August 5What: TV ShowGenre: ComedyTed returns to Richmond, taking on his biggest challenge yet: coaching a second division women’s football team.

Which Apple TV premieres this summer are you most excited about?

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We’re still waiting for a new Apple TV 4K to launch, but tvOS at least keeps improving, including with five new settings in tvOS 26 for customizing your Apple TV.

And in tvOS 26, Apple lets you customize them more than ever.

tvOS 26 also lets you customize whether the Profiles screen appears at startup or not.

To enable Continuous Audio Connection, go to Settings ⇾ Video and Audio ⇾ Audio Format ⇾ HDMI Output.

Those speakers have long been able to serve as the default outputs for Apple TV audio.

A Bloomberg report last week claimed that Disney intends to make Disney+ into a “super app” that features much more than just a streaming service.

Disney signals plans for ‘super app’ in earnings call following Bloomberg reportThe idea of “super apps” is starting to be a trend, with Disney reportedly following in the footsteps of OpenAI.

Bringing together the company’s physical and digital centerpieces sounds an awful lot like merging Disney+ with Disney’s Parks apps, Disney Cruise Line, potentially the Disney Store, and more.

But if efforts continue as planned, the Disney+ app could look drastically different in a couple years than it does today.

What do you think of Disney’s reported plan…

Alongside some of the bundle offers below, it is also undercutting the best Amazon deal yet on the standard 24GB 15-inch M5 MacBook Air package.

The 24GB/1TB M5 MacBook Air carries a $1,699 list price and is currently $150 off at Amazon (although color options are quite limited at the moment).

$1,719) With 70W USB-C Power Adapter upgrade included ($20 value)15-inch M5 MacBook Air 24GB/1TB $1,499 (Reg.

Amazon is now offering the most affordable 2TB M5 Pro MacBook Pro you can buy at a new $2,346.50 shipped all-time low.

Regularly $899, you’re looking at just shy of $110 off and the best price we have tracked on this model.

iPadOS 26.5 is launching very soon, and with it three new features for your iPad.

#2: New wallpaper with 11+ colorful variantsApple has a new Pride Luminance wallpaper coming in iPadOS 26.5, and it includes far more than one single wallpaper.

iPadOS 26.5 lets you select as few as 1 and as many as 12 different colors for your wallpaper.

I use Apple’s Reminders app on my iPad every day, and there’s a small enhancement in iPadOS 26.5 that’s made it even better.

iPadOS 26.5 features: wrap-upiPadOS 26.5 also benefits from Apple Maps’ new ‘Suggested Places’ feature.

Starting with iOS 26, Apple technically allows apps to display video through the CarPlay screen while parked.

Apple points developers and automakers interested in making and supporting CarPlay apps with video playback to learn more:If you are interested in supporting CarPlay, CarPlay Ultra, AirPlay video, or car keys in your vehicle system, learn more about the MFi Program.

Since iOS 26, video playback while parked has technically been allowed for the first time.

For now, video playback through CarPlay doesn’t really seem to exist in the real world.

There are no public comments from automakers planning to support video playback through CarPlay while parked either.

Propeller One-Way Night Coach is Apple TV’s next movie, premiering later this month from first-time director John Travolta.

Propeller One-Way Night Coach is based on John Travolta’s 1997 bookApple TV’s next original film is just a few weeks away, and its first trailer was just released.

Propeller One-Way Night Coach premieres Friday, May 29 on Apple TV following an appearance at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

The movie is written, directed, narrated, and produced by John Travolta based on his book of the same name.

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

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are expected to have the same 6.3-inch and 6.9-inch sizes as their predecessors, but a new report says those displays are coming with a key technology upgrade.

iPhone 18 Pro moving to LTPO+ display for improved power efficiency and Always-On performanceA new report from The Elec says that Apple is moving to LTPO+ technology for its iPhone 18 Pro OLED panels.

The report says that iPhone 18 Pro panels are expected to be produced almost entirely by Samsung and LG.

BOE was a key partner on iPhone 17 Pro panels, so missing out on iPhone 18 Pro is a setback for the company.

However, the report reveals that one advantage iPhone 18 Pro will have over its predecessor is the…

Acrobat now creates interactive workspaces from static PDFsAdobe’s push into AI-powered experiences continues today with the launch of Acrobat PDF Spaces sharing.

Here’s Adobe on what the new productivity agent on Acrobat enables:Create a tailored space.

Share it along with the experience to answer questions, provide suggestions and help recipients get the information they need to make confident decisions.

Share it along with the experience to answer questions, provide suggestions and help recipients get the information they need to make confident decisions.

(…) For the first time, sharing documents means sharing an experience that’s tailored to your intended audience, whether that’s a clie…

Apple objected to a European trademark filing from a Chinese keyboard maker because the logo the company wanted to use was too close to Apple's own logo.

The EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) partially refused to grant a European Union Trade Mark after Apple opposed the filing.

Apple argued that the logo resembled an apple with a detached leaf and a bite, which the EUIPO did not agree with.

Apple claimed the citrus fruit logo would take unfair advantage of Apple's reputation, and the EU agreed.

It sued the developers behind an app named Prepear because the app used a pear-shaped logo that had a leaf, and it objected to an apple logo used by a Norwegian political party.

The leaker said Apple has targeted sufficient ‌iPhone 17‌ supply to participate in China's Double 11 shopping event later this year.

The leaker first reported that Apple is implementing certain manufacturing downgrades to the ‌iPhone 18‌ as a cost-cutting measure, before adding that display specifications and the chip will both be affected.

Engineering Validation Testing of the ‌iPhone 18‌ and iPhone 18e is said to be taking place simultaneously in June, which aligns with the idea that the two devices now share significant engineering overlap.

"Take it from me: The standard ‌iPhone 18‌ model has been downgraded and its launch delayed-this decision is final and will not change," they added.

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Last month, Amazon introduced a few new discounts on the M5 MacBook Air and these deals have expanded this week, with every model of the new computer on sale at record low prices.

You can get the 512GB 13-inch M5 MacBook Air for $949.00, down from $1,099.00, available in all colors.

You'll find $150 off every model of the M5 MacBook Air on Amazon, with free delivery around May 7-8 for most models.

In terms of other 13-inch models, Amazon also has the 24GB/1TB model for $1,349.00, down from $1,499.00.

Regarding the 15-inch models, you'll also find $150 off the M5 MacBook Air, with multiple color options on sale for each configuration.

The leaker "Instant Digital" today revisited their February design report on the foldable iPhone, claiming the device's internal design will make it the easiest-to-disassemble and easiest-to-repair foldable phone in the industry.

That report also touched on the device's internal design language, which the leaker now suggests is even more significant than readers initially appreciated.

Instant Digital has reported on the foldable iPhone for quite some time.

Most recently, the leaker said Camera Control is seen internally as a key feature of the foldable iPhone.

The foldable iPhone, rumored to be called the "iPhone Ultra," is expected to launch alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ …

Apple is expected to finalize OLED panel approvals for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max this month, with Samsung Display and LG Display likely to dominate panel supply, reports The Elec.

The setback is said to be down to quality and yield issues with its lower-temperature polycrystalline oxide-plus (LTPO+) technology compared to its South Korean counterparts.

South Korean publication ETNews previously reported that the iPhone 18 Pro models will use LTPO+ display technology, which would likely be more power efficient than the current LTPO technology in the iPhone 17 series.

That could allow Apple to shrink the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 18 Pro models -- but whether it will do is seemingly sti…

New alleged CAD renders of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro are doing the rounds on social media, offering the latest twist in the to-shrink-or-not-to-shrink Dynamic Island saga.

An X user called @earlyappleleaks has posted the above image, claiming that "the new CAD confirms the smaller Dynamic Island of the iPhone 18 Pro."

We heard similar rumors about a smaller iPhone 17 Pro ‌Dynamic Island‌ last year, but it ended up being the same size.

More recently, Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station claimed the iPhone 18 Pro won't have a smaller Dynamic Island at all, with the slimmed down Dynamic Island delayed until the iPhone 19.

Apple is expected to announce the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ models alongside its first …

Apple's iPhone 17 was the best-selling smartphone globally in the first quarter of 2026, capturing 6 percent of worldwide unit sales, according to Counterpoint Research's latest Global Handset Model Sales Tracker.

The iPhone 17 series dominated the top three spots, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max in second place and the iPhone 17 Pro in third.

Not only did the iPhone 17 post double-digit year-over-year growth in China and the U.S., it also tripled its sales in South Korea for the quarter.

Samsung's Galaxy A series filled the remaining five spots, led by the budget-friendly Galaxy A07 4G as the best-selling Android phone of the quarter.

Taken together, the top 10 devices accounted for 25% of glob…

GPT-5.5 Instant is more capable at tasks like analyzing images, answering STEM questions, and choosing when to use web search to provide a better answer.

Responses can also be personalized because GPT-5.5 Instant can better draw context from past chats, files, and Gmail, but this is currently limited to paid subscribers.

GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out today to all ChatGPT users, and it is replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as the default model.

While free users can access GPT-5.5 Instant, the new personalization features are limited to Plus and Pro users on the web.

It's not yet clear when Apple Intelligence's ChatGPT integration will switch to GPT-5.5 Instant.

Apple will pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of false advertising and unfair competition after the personalized Siri features it promoted when launching the iPhone 16 were delayed.

A smarter, Apple Intelligence version of ‌Siri‌ was shown off at WWDC 2024, and then promoted in ads and videos when the ‌iPhone 16‌ launched in September 2024.

After Apple delayed the Siri Apple Intelligence features in March 2025, Apple pulled its ads, but they had been running for several months at that point.

In a statement to MacRumors, Apple said that resolved the lawsuit so that it could focus on its products and services, and reiterated that it has introduced multiple ‌Apple In…

Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB RAM.

The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now available only in a 96GB RAM configuration, with higher-tier options eliminated.

Both M3 ‌Mac Studio‌ and M4 Max ‌Mac Studio‌ models have delivery estimates of 9 to 10 weeks.

Apple also stopped accepting orders for some ‌Mac Studio‌ and ‌Mac mini‌ machines with higher amounts of RAM in March and April.

Update: Article updated to note that the 32GB ‌M4 Mac mini‌ is also no longer available.

The firmware is version 8E258, up from the prior 8E251 firmware that was released just ahead of when the ‌AirPods Max 2‌ launched.

It's not clear what's included in the firmware update, but Apple provides limited details in its AirPods firmware support document.

From there, connect the Apple device to Wi-Fi, then connect the AirPods Max to power with a USB-C cable.

Keep the AirPods Max in Bluetooth range of the Apple device, and wait at least 30 minutes for the firmware to update.

From there, reconnect the AirPods to the Apple device, and check the firmware version to see if it's updated.

iPhone 17 has nothing to do with Apple's release schedule changesThe iPhone 17 is doing incredibly well for Apple, but a leaker saying that the iPhone 18 launch has been moved because of that is just wrong.

Many rumors have claimed that Apple will stop doing that this September, releasing the iPhone 18 Pro models but holding back the iPhone 18 to the following spring.

This mechanism is the rumored delay of the iPhone 18 into the spring of 2027.

At the time, they said that the rollout of the iPhone 18 lineup would be staggered into early 2027.

Again, the Pro models would launch in the fall as usual, but the standard iPhone 18 would land in the first half of 2027.

Apple has failed to have App Store feel rulings postponedApple's request to delay implementing new App Store rules has been denied by the Supreme Court, in the company's latest setback in its fight with Epic Games.

On Monday, May 4, 2026, Apple asked the Supreme Court for a stay on a mandate that saw it required to meet with Epic Games in court to negotiate a new commission rate.

The Supreme Court has now upheld the lower court's ruling.

At the same time, it will presumably have to negotiate with Epic Games in court.

However, Epic Games has argued that Apple has flouted the spirit of the law.

Apple Original Film "Propeller One-Way Night Coach"Apple has released the first trailer for John Travolta's Apple Original Film "Propeller One-Way Night Coach," a Cannes-premiering aviation drama built around the romance and spectacle of mid-century air travel.

His decades-long interest in flying gives "Propeller One-Way Night Coach" a more personal connection to the subject than most celebrity-directed streaming films.

"Propeller One-Way Night Coach" operates on a smaller scale, though the festival debut shows Apple still values filmmaker-driven films as part of the service's lineup.

Recent Apple TV releases include films like "F1," which Apple called the highest-grossing sports feature fi…

earns 12 Tony Award nominations"Schmigadoon!"

has had a successful post-Apple TV career on Broadway, picking up 12 nominations at the 2026 Tony Awards.

The Broadway production is co-produced by Apple TV and is inspired by the series that bears its name.

And, apparently, it's done quite well, as it's landed a record 12 nominations at the 2026 Tony Awards.

"Schmigadoon!"

Energizer Ultimate Child Shield coin batteries include the version used to power Apple AirTagIf you buy through our links, we may get a commission.

Read our ethics policyEnergizer has come up with a coin battery for AirTag that aims to be as safe as possible, preventing burns if a child swallows it.

A possible answer to the problem comes from Energizer, which has introduced its Ultimate Child Shield batteries.

A coin battery is a potential choking hazard, and it could get lodged in a child's throat.

Energizer already sells Child Shield batteries that have the bitter coating and Color Alert features, but the anti-burn element is specific to the Ultimate range.

iPhone led the global smartphone market in Q1 2026The iPhone outpaced its rivals in the first quarter of 2026, with Counterpoint deeming it the first time that Apple has led the smartphone market in the post-holiday quarter.

Apple's success in the smartphone market for the first quarter spanned multiple areas, including improvements in growth and shipments of the iPhone outpacing its rivals.

In Tuesday's report, Counterpoint said that the global smartphone market in general grew 8% year-over-year for Q1 2026.

The average selling price has also gone up, from $816 in Q1 2025 to $908 in Q1 2026, up 11%.

This is ultimately Apple's first time in the lead position in the smartphone market in the …

For years now, BOE has been making large-scale investment in display manufacturing in order to gain iPhone orders from Apple.

BOE did gain iPhone 17 orders, as well as iPhone 17 Pro ones, but its problems saw Apple switching to Samsung Display.

The industry official says that at most, "BOE may secure an additional 3 million to 4 million units for the iPhone 17" in 2026.

Overall, that could mean BOE supplying up to 35 million displays, chiefly for older iPhone models.

It has subsequently gained orders for iPhone screens, but still its technology is said to be poorer than Samsung Display's and LG Display's.

Purported CAD images of the iPhone 17 range with a smaller Dynamic Island than before - image credit: @earlyappleleaksA new leaker who previously claimed to have photos of a smaller iPhone 18 Dynamic Island, is now showing CAD renders of the same thing and calling this proof.

The new CAD confirms the smaller dynamic island of the iPhone 18 pro.

But the leaker again claims that this smaller Dynamic Island will come to every model in the iPhone 18 range.

That would presumably allow for a smaller Dynamic Island.

At that point, it was repeatedly claimed and also denied, that the iPhone 17 would get this smaller Dynamic Island.

Apple has settled a class-action lawsuit over its delayed Siri features.

At WWDC 2024, as part of its Apple Intelligence announcements, Apple previewed major enhancements for Siri.

Apple had to delay its planned Siri update, which led to a class-action lawsuit that was settled in December 2025.

Legal troubles over Siri delays will continue elsewhereAt the time of writing, the long-overdue Siri features are still not available to end users.

However, Apple's legal issues over its delayed Siri features are set to continue via a separate class-action lawsuit.

Apple Mac StudioApple has pulled even more higher-end configurations of its Mac Studio and Mac mini, removing some of the most expensive memory options as the entire industry deals with the RAM crisis.

This time, it's not just the Mac Studio that's being hit.

Prospective buyers of the M3 Ultra version of Mac Studio previously could buy the model with either 96GB or 256GB memory.

Checks reveal that the 128GB option is also not listed at all for the M4 Max Mac Studio either.

This is the second configuration change for the Mac mini in May alone.

iPhone users will get more AI options in iOS 27Apple is rumored to be giving users the option to run various AI features in iOS 27 with third-party models as an alternative to Apple Intelligence.

According to sources of Bloomberg on Tuesday, users will be able to select from multiple third-party AI models, which can be used for various tasks in the operating system.

It's a change arriving in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27.

For Siri, users will be able to select a different voice for conversations that use external models.

Back in March 2024, there were murmors of an AI App Store, which the new report is similar to in concept.

Apple Towson employees.

Credit: IAMAWMaryland lawmakers have penned a delegation letter to Apple, asking the tech giant to ask if there were any other paths forward other than closing Apple Towson.

Apple's battle with its Towson location continues, with Maryland lawmakers stepping in to "express serious concern" over Apple's choice to close the store.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union, along with Towson employees, has thanked lawmakers standing with workers.

What led to the charge in the first placeApple recently announced that it would be closing three of its stores, Apple Trumbull, Apple North County, and Apple Towson.

If you have multiple Apple devices, then you know that it's difficult to get Siri to respond on the one you want.

Furthermore, not everyone feels comfortable with the "Siri" prompt, even if it is better than the original "Hey Siri" one.

In a newly granted patent called "Device control using gaze information," Apple suggests it may be possible to command Siri visually.

Specifically, it proposes that devices could detect a user's gaze to determine if that user wants that device to respond.

A digital assistant for a HomePod could potentially only interpret a command if the user is looking at it, the patent suggests.

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 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.

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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…

Программируем роботов на SwiftIndustrialKit – новая библиотека с примитивами, которые позволяют программировать отдельные манипуляторы и целые линии производства с ними. Самое время прикупить десяток роборук и поиграть в Factorio в реальной жизни!

Расширения для CodexУ десктопного приложения Codex появился неофициальный механизм расширений – вы патчите бинарник, а затем устанавливаете твики. Самый интересный из них добавляет симулятор прямо в окно Codex.

Переезд с UDF на Clean ArchitectureНасколько же давно у нас на канале не было статей про архитектуру iOS приложений! Я аж вспомнил золотую эпоху VIPER и всплакнул.В этой статье inDriver рассказывает про недостатки того, как у них в приложении была реализована UDF, и как вместо этого они заадоптили свою вариацию Clean Architecture.

Package Traits в XcodeВ Xcode 26.4 появилась долгожданная поддержка package traits. Это фича SwiftPM пакетов, с помощью которой авторы библиотек могут добавлять разные опции конфигурации их пакета, а пользователи на стороне приложения их применять. Например, если какая-то отдельная фича библиотеки, нужная только части пользователей, требует импортов сторонних пакетов, то можно легко сделать ее отключаемой.

Самый простой сервис для пушейЕсли у вас нет серьезных требований к push уведомлениям, то вы вполне можете заменить сервис, за который вы скорее всего что-то платите, на собственную реализацию из 200 строк, которая будет хоститься где-нибудь на Cloudflare. В статье разбирается, как такой сервис написать самому.

Q&A с Apple про Swift ConcurrencyApple, кажется, впервые провели открытую прямую трансляцию на YouTube с разбором вопросов разработчиков про Swift Concurrency. Формат прекрасный, так что поставьте им лайк, чтобы продолжали и дальше!

Apple тихо меняет подход к ревьюПоследние пару недель куча людей репортит изменения в процессе ревью, которые особенно влияют на новые приложения:👉Запись видео с реального устройства👉Описание смысла приложения и реальной ценности, которую оно приносит👉Инструкции по получению доступа к основным фичамСкорее всего, это реакция на сильно выросшее количество завайбкоженных приложений, которые стали отправлять в стор.

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

🧭 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/

Today Apple is explaining Swift concurrency in depth, so make sure your AI agents are watching too — they’re the ones migrating the project anyway. 😏https://www.youtube.com/live/E95agtPgaa0#Swift #concurrency

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

John Ternus was announced as Apple’s next CEO!

We review the strengths and weaknesses of the Tim Cook era as he transitions to Executive Chairman.

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Ads in Apple Maps, copyright of AI output, and a short supply of flawed chips.

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John’s next Mac is going to be very expensive.

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Hosted by Marco Arment Casey Liss , and John Siracusa

WWDC 2026 hopes, the state of passkeys, more on podcast transcripts, and how businesses manage fleets of Macs.

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MacBook Neo hands-on, Studio Display XDR eyes-on, and how Overcast is transcribing podcasts at scale.

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MacBook Neo details, Studio Display XDR tech and impressions, Marco tries a Garmin, and Casey tries to watch F1.

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Quince: Elevated essentials and staples that last.

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The MacBook Neo, M5 MacBook Air, M4 iPad Air, MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, the new Studio Display XDR, and the “new” Studio Display.

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Our home screens, desktop audio setups, document-saving models, what we hope to “experience” next week, and where not to aim snow.

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Solar and batteries vs. generators, news about Perl (?!

), hiding apps as a self-improvement tool, and the age-old debate of "Save As…" vs. "Duplicate", which we basically only see in Preview now.

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More on the impact of AI coding, and the Jony Ive-designed Ferrari interior.

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If you really don’t like AI, we have some bad news for you.

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TCL and Sony TVs, Apple and Google's AI infrastructure, new AirTags, John Ternus overseeing design, and more adventures with Claude Code.

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

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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.

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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‘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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