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The moment a customer taps "Place Order," the most anxiety-driven part of the delivery experience...

Apple's HomeKit Secure Video service is getting in on the Apple Intelligence party to bring more descriptive alerts from your connected cameras and let you search footage using natural language. The Apple Home app is also getting better notifications powered by AI and is finally adding support for energy reporting. These improvements were announced at […]

Every food delivery app has the same promise: you tap a button, food shows up at your door. Testing...

Swift Testing shipped with Xcode 16 back in 2024. Swift Testing was built from the ground up for Swift. That means Swift concurrency is a first-class citizen, test cases run in parallel by default, and the API surface is dramatically smaller than XCTest's forty-plus assertion functions. One macro, #expect , replaces most of them. If you are still on XCTest, you have probably felt the friction: class inheritance for every test suite, function names that must start with test , assertion messages that tell you what the values were but not where the expression came from. Swift Testing fixes all of this. That said, you do not need to migrate everything at once, and WWDC 2026 is emphatic about this. The Migration Strategy: Small Chunks, No Big Bang The session opens with something refreshing: permission to be slow about this. The recommended approach is to leave your existing XCTests where they are and start using Swift Testing only for new tests. Both frameworks can coexist in the same target and even the same file. You do not need a separate test target, and you do not need a migration sprint. The one rule: Swift Testing tests cannot live inside XCTestCase subclasses. Everything else is fair game. Raw Identifiers for Readable Test Names One small quality-of-life improvement worth knowing about from the start: Swift supports raw identifiers using backticks, and Swift Testing takes full advantage of this. import Testing @testable import DemoApp @Test func ` Default climate : tropical ` () async throws { let fruit = Fruit ( name : "Coconut" ) #expect(fruit.climate == .tropical) } No more testDefaultClimateTropical or dealing with camelCase names in test output. The test name is the test name. Interoperability: The Key to Reusing Your Helper Code This is the main new story in WWDC 2026 and the feature that makes incremental migration actually work. The problem: you have test helper functions that wrap XCTFail . You want to call them from new Swift Testing tests. Previously,

At WWDC 2026, Apple introduced Xcode 27, which makes it easy to kick off tasks with coding agents, iterate on new project ideas, and customize the workspace. It also introduces DeviceHub for unified simulator and device management, along with enhancements to Organizer and Instruments, among many other improvements. By Sergio De Simone

Even the aging iPhone 11 will feel a little more responsive soon, thanks to improvements in an unsung iOS feature.

The story of AI for the last three years has been written in megawatts. Nvidia GPUs stacked in desert data centers . Models with trillion-parameter counts. APIs that pipe your prompts, photos, and personal data to the cloud, burn a forest of electricity to process them, and return an answer 800ms later. If you're building with AI in 2026, the default assumption is that intelligence lives somewhere else. Your device is just a glass terminal. Apple has been telling a different story. No press tour. No "AGI in your pocket" hype cycles. Instead, a decade of silicon releases where the Neural Engine number (FLOPS) quietly doubled, then doubled again. Core ML updates that casually added transformer support. Here is my thesis : Apple’s on-device AI strategy is a privacy-first, performance-oriented architectural break from cloud-centric AI. By co-designing silicon, models, and APIs to run locally, Apple is unlocking a new class of local-first applications where user data never leaves the device, latency is measured in milliseconds, and features work in airplane mode. This doesn’t kill cloud AI. But it forces every developer to answer a new question: what part of your product must be in the cloud, and what gets better when it stays in the user’s pocket? This post is a technical teardown of that shift. I’ll cover the hardware realities of the Neural Engine and unified memory, the brutal constraints of fitting LLMs on device, what Core ML actually gives developers in 2026, and where this architecture creates new product opportunities that cloud-first can’t touch. I’ll also be blunt about the limits. On-device AI won't replace GPT-5 training clusters. But it might replace 80% of the API calls you make to them. At this moment, cloud AI gets all the headlines, but the real transformation may already be running 24/7 in your pocket, without ever touching the internet. Why the On-Device Push? Apple's AI strategy looks slow only if you measure it in keynote superlatives. Measure it in

I take a lot of screenshots. The article I'll read later. The recipe I'll cook on Sunday. The movie name from someone's Instagram story. A job post, a product, a tender. Most of them die in my camera roll. So I built Chista — an iOS app that auto-imports every screenshot, classifies it with AI (Article, Product, Event, Reference, Media), and surfaces a one-tap action: Buy on Amazon , Add to Calendar , Reserve on OpenTable , etc. It shipped on the App Store thirty days after I started, for about $300 in total cost. The interesting part wasn't the app. It was what the build revealed. What I built Chista is a native iOS app + Python backend. iOS reads new screenshots in the background via PHPhotoLibraryChangeObserver , scoped to PHAssetMediaSubtype.photoScreenshot (so it literally can't see your other photos). Each new screenshot gets OCR'd on-device with Apple Vision , then the image + OCR text get POSTed to the backend. Backend sends the pair to OpenAI GPT-4o with a structured prompt that returns a CategorizationResult JSON: category, subtype, title, suggested action, extracted data (price, deadline, URL, etc.). Result gets persisted and pushed back to the inbox via Supabase real-time. That's the whole thing. The "magic moment" is just: you screenshot something, switch to Chista a few seconds later, it's already sorted with a contextual action button. Stack Layer Tool Why iOS app Swift 5.10, SwiftUI, StoreKit 2 iOS 17+, modern surface Backend FastAPI on Railway One-file ergonomics, fast cold starts Database + Auth Supabase Postgres + JWT auth out of the box AI OpenAI GPT-4o (Pro), gpt-4o-mini (Free) Tier-routed at categorization time Push APNs via aioapns Direct, no Firebase middleman Subscriptions StoreKit 2 + app-store-server-library Server-side JWS verification Affiliate routing Custom matrix in Supabase tables Amazon Associates wired, more pending Hosting (web) Cloudflare Pages Free, fast, never goes down No frameworks I wouldn't reach for again. What it cost Lin

WWDC26 brought a substantial round of updates to SwiftUI — not a ground-up redesign, but a lot of small limitations removed, new APIs that were clearly driven by real-world pain points, and meaningful performance improvements. This post walks through every major announcement so you know exactly what's available and when to reach for it. Look and Feel: Liquid Glass and the 2027 Releases The most immediately visible change costs you zero code. Apps built with SwiftUI automatically pick up the updated Liquid Glass appearance on the 2027 OS releases. The glass tint responds to the new system-level Liquid Glass slider without any changes on your part. On iPad, windows now dim when inactive, reinforcing which window has focus — again, automatic. On Mac, custom interactive Liquid Glass elements respond more fluidly to the mouse pointer. There are a few opt-in refinements available when you want tighter control: Responding to active state — use the appearsActive environment value to reduce opacity on custom elements when the window is inactive: struct SidebarFooterView : View { @Environment (\ . appearsActive ) private var appearsActive var body : some View { MyAccountView () . opacity ( appearsActive ? 1 : 0.5 ) } } Menu bar icons — the menu bar now shows a minimal set of icons by default. Add .labelStyle(.titleAndIcon) to a specific menu item to make its icon visible: CommandMenu ( "Stickers" ) { Button { openStore () } label : { Label ( "Store" , systemImage : "bag.fill" ) . labelStyle ( . titleAndIcon ) } } Resizability on iPhone iPhone apps become resizable on iOS 27, which matters for iPhone Mirroring and running iPhone apps on iPad. Xcode 27's Live Previews now include resize handles so you can test this interactively without running on a device. If your app mixes UIKit and SwiftUI, check the session "Modernize your UIKit app" for specifics around screen geometry, size classes, and orientation handling. Toolbar APIs The toolbar has been a source of friction on smalle

Later this year, you will be able to get bundled subscriptions for iPhone apps, as Apple announced it's expanding App Store bundles so they can include offers from different companies. It's similar to streaming video bundles that have combined offers for Apple TV and Peacock, but it also could put together subscriptions for completely different […]

Apple took the wraps off iOS 27 at its WWDC event, and the iPhone update is chock-full of smart upgrades, with a big focus on improvements to Siri.

The iOS 27 developer beta includes code that references the fold state and screen angle of a device.

While iOS 27 isn't bringing major changes, it's still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPhone users.

iOS 27 has only been out for a few hours, and I've been messing around with the developer beta on my iPhone 16 Pro. I was most interested in trying out the new Siri AI, but unfortunately, I'm still on Apple's waitlist for that. In the meantime, I've been poking around a bunch of features […]

This promises to be a solid release for aging iPhones.

Apple's keynote at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference was a big one. After months of delays, Apple reintroduced us to its AI-upgraded Siri, which will go beyond what the existing voice assistant can do by offering more personalized help. We also got a look at many other updates coming across the operating systems powering the […]

Fresh off the WWDC keynote presentation, The Verge has been invited to an "on-the-record technical deep dive into the bold new architecture enabling Apple Intelligence capabilities." Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi and his team will be there, and so will we. The revamped Apple Intelligence is at the heart of nearly every update […]

Apple says a completely rebuilt Search function will competently find the emails, photos and other content you are searching for.

While some users liked the sleek, transparent designs that look "glassy," others found Apple's design overhaul from last year to be hard to read.

Apple announced its next major iOS update, iOS 27, at WWDC 2026 on Monday. Apple is highlighting performance and design improvements, trust and safety upgrades like a Screen Time redesign, and major upgrades to Siri and Apple Intelligence. The update will be supported all the way back to the iPhone 11. A big change is […]