After a number of truly awful attempts, I have a post about "Non-Sendable First Design" that I think I can live with. I like this approach and I think you might like it too. It's simple, flexible, and most importantly, it looks "normal". www.massicotte.org/blog/non-sen...

Treating Warnings as Errors in Swift Packages #swiftlang useyourloaf.com/blog/treatin...

🚨 PSA for all of you updating your apps for iOS 26: When you build using Xcode 26, the large navigation title gets broken (no left padding) when running on iOS 18. 🔗 Link to a fix below.

Anyone hit problems enabling approachable concurrency (or flags in its grouping) aside from the migration step required for NonisolatedNonsendingByDefault? Not talking about default isolation here. I haven't encountered any anywhere and I'm curious. Seems like it is going quite smooth so far.

Swift Raw Identifiers #iOSDev #swiftlang useyourloaf.com/blog/swift-r...

When Observable replaced ObservableObject in iOS 17 it was missing a way to stream changes. That was fixed in iOS 26 (swift 6.2). #iosdev #swiftui useyourloaf.com/blog/swift-o...

Did anybody get Icon Composer .icon files to work for alternate app icons? #WWDC25 #Xcode

How do you create a SwiftUI picker that works with optional selection so that not picking a value is possible? #iosdev #swiftui useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

How do you write SwiftData predicates to query for parent relationships? #iOSDev #SwiftData #SwiftUI useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftda...

UIApplication delegate deprecation coming in iOS 19 SDK lapcatsoftware.com/articles/202...

My notes on the surprising (to me) scope of SwiftUI keyboard shortcuts #SwiftUI #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

How do you change the accessibility language used by VoiceOver with SwiftUI? #SwiftUI #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

Changing the default behaviour of a scroll view to center content only when it’s smaller than the scroll view container #SwiftUI #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

Is there no way to set the accessibility language for a SwiftUI view? UIKit has the accessibility language property but there’s no equivalent in SwiftUI. I’ve seen people using AttributedString with the .accessibilitySpeechLanguage attribute but I can’t get it to work. #SwiftUI #iOSDev

Swift Testing completion handlers #SwiftLang #iosdev useyourloaf.com/blog/swift-t...

Provisional authorzation to send local user notifications. A feature old enough (iOS 12) for me to forget it exists. #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/provisi...

How do you change the image a SwiftUI button shows when pressed? #SwiftUI #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

When the user chooses the reduce motion accessibility setting you should avoid large animations with objects that fly in/out of the screen #iOSDev #SwiftUI useyourloaf.com/blog/reducin...

I like how building DocC with Xcode 16 now warns about documented parameters that don't exist in the method declaration #Xcode #iOSDev

Migrating from XCTest to Swift Testing #iOSDev #SwiftLang useyourloaf.com/blog/migrati...

Ok, it's time for another one of these "Swift concurrency step-by-step" posts. It explores working with types that are not Sendable. All based around reading a model from some data store. www.massicotte.org/step-by-step...

The Department of Transport has a survey on how to integrate better. Tell them what you want (I want cycleways that connect to each other that are safe for children to use, and trains with a cadence high enough you don't need to use a timetable, like I had in London) www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/PG2JMU/

Plotting functions with SwiftUI charts useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui... #iOSDev #SwiftUI

Automatic Trait Tracking in iOS 18 #UIKit #iOSdev useyourloaf.com/blog/automat...

Ok let’s try something! For my new bluesky friends, I’m gonna spent ~ the whole day tomorrow answering Swift concurrency questions here. Do your worst! #SwiftLang

I hit the issue today with awakeFromNib not being isolated to the main actor. Luckily mattiem has me covered: massicotte.org/awakefromnib #Iosdev #SwiftLang

I’m pretty sure this is the Swift compiler telling me I need to upgrade my M1 mac mini? #SwiftLang

Swift 6 deprecates UIApplicationMain, replace it with main to silence the error #iOSDev #SwiftLang

iPhone 16 screen sizes #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/iphone-...

Xcode 16 organizes projects using folders instead of the previous groups. What difference does that make and which should you use? https://troz.net/post/2024/xcode_folders_groups/

I made a starter pack of #Swift / ObjC devs who post about #iOSDev / #MacDev and app-building at least from time to time* - let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed) 🙂 bsky.app/starter-pack... 🍎🍏 Some aren't very active here, but maybe this will encourage them 😈 (*) yes, I know I don't 😛

I was hoping for more when I saw that #SwiftData added support for expressions in iOS 18. #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftda...

The SwiftUI Previewable macro #iOSDev #SwiftUI useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

Disabling Xcode asset symbol generation #Xcode #iosdev useyourloaf.com/blog/disabli...

Using the Entry macro to reduce boilerplate when adding custom values to the SwiftUI environment #iOSDev #SwiftUI useyourloaf.com/blog/entry-m...

Xcode bookmarks #Xcode #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/xcode-b...

How do you invert a boolean binding? #SwiftUI #iOSDev useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

Turning on strict concurrency checking doesn't protect you from accidentally blocking the main actor. Something I find way too easy to do as I learn how to use Swift Concurrency #SwiftLang #iOSDev #SwiftUI useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui...

Still using print statements to debug your App. Maybe it's time you moved to the unified OS logging framework? #iOSDev #Xcode useyourloaf.com/blog/xcode-c...

Silencing the Core Data CloudKit sync debug messages that fill the Xcode console #iOSDev #CoreData #SwiftData useyourloaf.com/blog/disabli...

This just went live: The John Scalzi @humblebundle! Get a whole bunch of my books really cheap - and support the literacy charity First Book, which provides books and literary resources to kids in need. A perfect way to stock up on my eBooks. Please feel free to share around!

I'm not sure when it started but Xcode documentation search seems to randomly stop working for me? #iOSDev