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We are all undecided whether to get an orange iPhone Pro Max or embrace the micro-engineered and highly efficient future of the iPhone Air, start a fitness session with the new AirPods or evaluate our sleep with the new Apple Watch.

A truly awe dropping week!

This Week

This week, we’re excited to welcome three new writers to the team, who have debuted with articles on SwiftUI and Live Activities.

Lazy-loading views with LazyVStack in SwiftUI

Letizia explains how LazyVStack enables lazy loading, reducing memory usage, improving load times, and keeping scrolling smooth when working with large data sets.

Lazy-loading views with LazyVStack in SwiftUI

Understand lazy loading to load views only when they appear in a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftLetizia Granata

Displaying web content in SwiftUI

Alfonso shows how SwiftUI’s new native WebView, introduced in iOS 26 and macOS 26, lets you load web pages directly using a URL and control them using SwiftUI modifiers. 

Displaying web content in SwiftUI

Learn how to display web content in a SwiftUI with new WebView.

Create with SwiftAlfonso Tarallo

Understanding Live Activities: visual micro-storytelling

Alice analyzes when to use Live Activities and what are the design best practices, extending the app's presence across the operative system and supporting user goals without distraction.

Understanding Live Activities: visual micro-storytelling

Learn best practices on designing live activities within your app experience.

Create with SwiftAlice Milo

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Should you opt-in to Swift 6.2’s Main Actor isolation?

Donny explores Apple’s updated Main Actor isolation rules in Swift 6.2, explaining what they mean for concurrency safety, when opting in depending on your app’s architecture and needs.

Should you opt-in to Swift 6.2’s Main Actor isolation? – Donny Wals

Swift 6.2 comes with a some interesting Concurrency improvements. One of the most notable changes is that there’s now a compiler flag that will, by default, isolate all your (implicitly nonisolated)…

Donny Walsdonnywals

SwiftUI Liquid Glass sheets with NavigationStack and Form

Natalia shows how to preserve the Liquid Glass effect in SwiftUI sheets with Forms or NavigationStack, keeping their translucent appearance at partial height in all contexts.

SwiftUI Liquid Glass sheets with NavigationStack and Form

Configure the NavigationStack and Form background in SwiftUI so partial height sheets keep the translucent Liquid Glass appearance on iOS 26.

Nil CoalescingNatalia Panferova

Swift Default Value in String Interpolations

Keith shares a new feature introduced in Swift 6.2 that allows you to provide default values in string interpolations, simplifying the handling of optional values.

Swift Default Value in String Interpolations

Swift 6.2 makes it easier to interpolate strings with optional values.

Use Your Loaf - iOS Development News & Tips

Creating Light and Dark Mode Icons using Icon Composer

Jordan explains how to design distinct icons for light and dark modes in Icon Composer by adjusting layer opacities, to hide or show elements per mode and add thematic touches without duplicating groups.

Creating Light and Dark Mode Icons using Icon Composer

At first, I didn’t think it was possible to have two distinct icons for dark and light mode using icon composer. Turns out, it is — though not quite obvious.

Jordan MorganJordan Morgan

Trip Way

Organizing a trip can be quite complicated, requiring a lot of documents, a detailed itinerary, and a list of essentials to ensure you’re always prepared. This app, developed by Ivan Madera and Anton Guk, is an ideal solution to streamline the process and keep everything organized in one place.

Trip Way has a thoughtfully designed interface, reminiscent of the wallet app, where each journey is a card that is easy to recognize. For every trip, you can map out your itinerary, add times, images, links, and locations to each stop and build a day-by-day plan tailored to your needs so you’re prepared wherever your travels take you.

‎Travel Planner – Trip Way

‎Plan your trips beautifully — from inspiration to itinerary. Trip Way is the easiest way to create, organize, and visualize your travel plans. Whether you’re heading off for a weekend escape or planning a big adventure, Trip Way gives you the tools to personalize every detail and keep everything in…

App StoreIvan Madera

Along with the release Xcode 26 Release Candidate, Apple also opened submissions for apps built with the latest SDKs. From Liquid Glass design to the power of the Foundation Models framework, now, more than ever, we can say that developers can publish the apps of the future.

App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases - Latest News - Apple Developer

iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26 will soon be available to customers worldwide — which means you can now submit apps and games that take advantage of Apple’s broadest design update ever.Build your apps and games using the Xcode 26 Release Candidate and latest SDKs, test with TestFlight, and submit for review to the App Store. By taking advantage of the new design and Liquid Glass, the Foundation Models framework, the new Apple Games app, and more, you can deliver even more unique experiences on Apple platforms.Starting April 2026, apps and games uploaded to App Store Connect need to meet the following minimum requirements. iOS and iPadOS apps must be built with the iOS 26 & iPadOS 26 SDK or later tvOS apps must be built with the tvOS 26 SDK or later visionOS apps must be built with the visionOS 26 SDK or later watchOS apps must be built with the watchOS 26 SDK or later Learn more about submitting

Apple Developer

Be aware that starting from April 2026, only apps built with these SDKs will be accepted.

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

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