Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

After a short break, we’re back with our weekly newsletter, recharged and ready for the event we look forward to. On September 9th, Cupertino promises something truly “awe-dropping”, and we can’t wait to tune in!

This Week

This week we have covered SwiftUI, Widgets and visionOS.

Enhancing the tab bar with a bottom accessory

Antonella shows how to use SwiftUI’s new .tabViewBottomAccessory modifier in iOS 26 to place accessory views above the tab bar (such as media playback controls in the Music app) that adapt with scrolling and pair seamlessly with Liquid Glass.

Enhancing the tab bar with a bottom accessory

Learn how to add a custom bottom accessory above the tab bar using the bottom accessory modifier.

Create with SwiftAntonella Giugliano

Adapting your widgets for visionOS

Matteo shows how to rethink your widget designs for visionOS 26 by embracing extra-large portrait sizes, depth, tinting, and spatial anchoring to transform widgets from glanceable squares into compelling, environment-integrated panels.

Adapting your widgets for visionOS

Learn how to adapt your widgets for visionOS by rethinking layout, typography, and depth to make them clear, engaging, and natural in the environment.

Create with SwiftMatteo Altobello

Exploring Concentricity in SwiftUI

Matteo demonstrates how to apply concentricity in SwiftUI, adapting elements to their container to build interfaces that feel balanced and visually harmonious.

Exploring Concentricity in SwiftUI

Learn about the concept of concentricity applied to UI elements in a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftMatteo Altobello

...but we published many more during our break:

• Implementing advanced speech-to-text in your SwiftUI app
• Exploring the Foundation Models framework
• Scheduling and Managing Alarms in SwiftUI with AlarmKit
• Designing custom AlarmKit interfaces in SwiftUI
• Getting access to the user’s calendar
• Creating and saving calendar events
• Fetching events from the user’s calendar
• Setting alarms for calendar events
• Checking and editing the details of a calendar event
• Adapting toolbar elements to the Liquid Glass Design System
• Making the tab bar collapse while scrolling
• Design as brand: The power of choice and belief

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The Community

The Cupertino Ghost in the Machine: An Analysis of Xcode's New AI Assistant

Wezzard explores how Xcode 26’s new AI assistant works behind the scenes, guiding developers toward Apple’s frameworks while still leaving room for customization.

The Cupertino Ghost in the Machine: An Analysis of Xcode’s New AI Assistant

My journey into the internals of Xcode 26’s new AI assistant began not with a bug, but with a…

Pieces of My Soul

What's New in UIKit

In this 64-minute read, Seb shares an in-depth, comprehensive, and detailed analysis of all the new UIKit APIs introduced in iOS 26.

What’s New in UIKit

Learn what’s new in UIKit in the iOS 26 SDK.

Building a design system at Genius Scan

John Sundell walks through how he gradually introduced a SwiftUI-based design system starting with reusable components, leveraging the SwiftUI environment for styling and making evolution both practical and incremental rather than all-or-nothing. 

Building a design system at Genius Scan | Swift by Sundell

An example of how to approach the task of building a design system for an app, by focusing on creating an initial set of reusable components that can be tweaked using the SwiftUI environment.

Swift by Sundell

Advanced Keyframe Animations in SwiftUI

Jacob unpacks SwiftUI’s keyframe animation APIs, introduced in iOS 17, to give developers complete control over motion trajectories.

Advanced Keyframe Animations in SwiftUI

Total control over your SwiftUI animation

Jacob’s Tech TavernJacob Bartlett

Providing Multiple Accent Colors in SwiftUI Apps

Gabriel shows how to let users personalize your SwiftUI app’s look by choosing from multiple accent colors, walking you through the definition of asset colors, the exposition of the selected accent via the SwiftUI environment and persisting the choice via @AppStorage.

Providing Multiple Accent Colors in SwiftUI Apps – SerialCoder.dev

SwiftUI for Mac 2025

Sarah highlights macOS 26’s SwiftUI updates, from Liquid Glass controls and native WebView to improved lists, menus, and floating toolbars.

SwiftUI for Mac 2025 - TrozWare

Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist

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EV13

The light meter was once essential in photography, especially with film cameras that had no built-in metering systems. Photographers relied on it to measure light accurately and set the correct exposure, since mistakes could not be checked until the film was developed.

EV13 developed by Minsang Choi makes that kind of experience contemporary, with components that perfectly replicate those of a modern camera, beautiful animations and haptic feedback, offering a tool for beginning to understand the basics of manual photography.

‎EV13 - Light meter app

‎“EV13” is simple, yet designed with craftsmanship that you can find some of your favorite objects. Just like your trusty film camera. It features tactile analog control, automatic exposure reader, and meter preview with recording. Travel light and find a perfect companion to your camera. Feature…

App StoreMinsang choi

Over the past month, Apple has released several betas of the new operating systems. We’ve seen completely new system animations, liquid glass improvements and now we’re getting closer to the version that will be rolled out to all users.

Among all these updates, our favorite as developers is the integration of Claude into Xcode, alongside ChatGPT.

Xcode 26 Beta 7 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation

Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

Apple Developer Documentation

We can’t wait to see what you will Create with Swift.

See you next week!