Icon Composer Notes

John Brayton: I would not have figured out how to use this tool without help, so I wanted to pass along the correct way to use it. […] On macOS, one sets an alternate icon by drawing it in code using the NSDockTile API. I believe Mac apps have no ac…

macOS 27 to Drop Support for AirPort and Time Capsule Backups

Zac Hall: Spotted by @StellaFudge on X, macOS Tahoe 26 includes a warning message when using Time Machine to back up a Mac to Apple router-connected storage.The next major version of macOS will no longer support AirPort Disk, or other Time Capsule d…

Trademark Dispute Leads to the Disappearance of ‘io’, OpenAI and LoveFrom’s Secretive AI Collaboration

Drata

Apple Launches ‘Convince Your Parents to Get You a Mac’ Short Film on YouTube, Then Pulls It a Day Later Without Explanation

MacOS 26 Tahoe Beta Drops FireWire Support

Tom Nichols and Timothy Snyder on the US Bombing of Iran

Subtle Swift Retain Cycle

Paul Samuels: The problem we have looking at the scope is that the strong reference is in scope until the end of the function, but we have our repeat loop before the end of the function so we will never get to the end. […] You could write a unit to …

Apple Previews Passkeys Credential Exchange

Dan Goodin (Slashdot): The import/export feature, which Apple demonstrated at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference, will be available in the next major releases of iOS, macOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. It aims to solve one of the biggest shortcom…

Forcing Passkeys

Jeff Johnson: The new setting is enabled by default; I’ve seen this on multiple computers.Automatically create a passkey to sign in faster Allow sites and apps to upgrade existing accounts to use passkeysThis new setting is not actually included on …

iOS 26: AlarmKit

Juli Clover: With iOS 26, Apple is adding a new AlarmKit framework for developers that offer apps with alarm clocks and timers. AlarmKit provides system-level access to alarm functionality, which was previously reserved only for Apple’s Clock app.De…

★ One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025

My biggest takeaway from WWDC 2025 is that Apple seemingly took some lessons to heart from its unfulfilled promises of a year ago. This year’s WWDC wasn’t merely focused on what Apple is confident it can ship in the next 12 months, but on what they …

In the News

Of all of the updates coming from Apple this Fall, iPadOS 26 is the one that interests me the most because Apple is making it much easier to be more productive with an iPad. While a number of folks have written about this over the last two weeks, I …

How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’

‘F1’ and Apple’s Movie Strategy

★ One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025

My biggest takeaway from WWDC 2025 is that Apple seemingly took some lessons to heart from its unfulfilled promises of a year ago. This year’s WWDC wasn’t merely focused on what Apple is confident it can ship in the next 12 months, but on what they …

Apple’s New Foundation Model Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Transcription

★ One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025

My biggest takeaway from WWDC 2025 is that Apple seemingly took some lessons to heart from its unfulfilled promises of a year ago. This year’s WWDC wasn’t merely focused on what Apple is confident it can ship in the next 12 months, but on what they …

Apple’s New Foundation Model Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Transcription

Swift Assist, Part Deux

John Voorhees (Mastodon): I’m not a developer, so I’m not going to review Swift Assist (a name that is conspicuously absent from Apple’s developer tool press release, by the way), but the changes are so substantial that the feature I was shown this …

SwiftData and Core Data at WWDC25

SwiftData: Dive into inheritance and schema migration: Discover how to use class inheritance to model your data. Learn how to optimize queries and seamlessly migrate your app’s data to use inheritance. Explore subclassing for building model graphs, …