The iOS Weekly Brief

The iOS Weekly Brief: Issue #81

iPhone Duo is coming with Xcode 27.1 RC, new iOS 27.2 beta, SwiftUI sheets on iPhone Duo, simple and repetitive code or clever abstractions, Sendable…

Oct 9 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief: Issue #80

Apple's smart home lineup, iOS 27.0.1, Xcode 27.2 beta 2, AI and SwiftUI Previews, saving tokens, if let shorthand, iPhone Duo hinge trick, Xcode…

Oct 2 • Vlad Khambir

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September 2026

The iOS Weekly Brief: Issue #79

iPhone Duo with Xcode 27.1, new AI models, when to use ArrangementView, how State works in SwiftUI, parameterized tests, backporting new APIs, a Gemini…

Sep 25 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief: Issue #78

iPhone 18 Pro's slow start, new Swift and Xcode releases, Xcode's JSON project format, adapting for iPhone Duo, Swift Testing migration, SwiftUI…

Sep 18 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #77

iPhone Duo tech talks, iOS 27 App Store submissions open, conditional breakpoints, existential any in Swift, Foundation Models with images, iOS 27…

Sep 11 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #76

Goodbye, Tim Cook, New iOS beta, Claude and GPT models, Porting an iOS app to Android, MVVM without overengineering, SwiftUI data dependencies, layout…

Sep 4 • Vlad Khambir

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August 2026

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #75

Apple's event, a new domain for SIWA, Embedded Swift, isolating geometry for smooth animations, the physics behind build systems, how Claude recovered…

Aug 28 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #74

Apple's new EU terms, structs vs classes, migrating to Swift Testing, tracking app state with StateReporter, responding to geometry changes in SwiftUI…

Aug 21 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #73

Git Worktree and AI agents, what's new in Swift, testing SwiftUI navigation, mobile platform foundations, Sendable, PhaseAnimator, FocusState, context…

Aug 14 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #72

New App Store creative assets, an on-device Media Intelligence framework, MainActor protocol isolation, SwiftUI's ContentBuilder for non-view types…

Aug 7 • Vlad Khambir

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July 2026

The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #71

Apple and the AI race, iOS 26.6, everything new in Xcode 27, code signing and provisioning, why AI broke code review, designing modular iOS…

Jul 31 • Vlad Khambir

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The iOS Weekly Brief – Issue #70

Claude now runs your app in the iOS Simulator, Apple's Foundation Models and testing them properly, adaptive non-modal panels and widgets in SwiftUI, a…

Jul 24 • Vlad Khambir

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