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Apple is continuing its transition to Liquid Glass across its services and apps whose icons haven’t been updated yet. This week, it was App Store Connect’s turn. Now the question is: when will the TestFlight icon get its refresh?

This Week

This week we have covered SwiftUI and SF Symbols.

Presenting critical information in SwiftUI with alerts

Alfonso demonstrates how to use alerts to deliver crucial information and take specific actions.

Presenting critical information in SwiftUI with alerts

Learn how to create and use alerts within a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftAlfonso Tarallo

Implementing draw animations for SF Symbols in SwiftUI

Letizia shows the new draw animation feature in the latest version of SF Symbols 7 to brings symbols to life.

Implementing draw animations for SF Symbols in SwiftUI

Learn how to apply the new draw animations of SF Symbols 7 in a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftLetizia Granata

Programmatic navigation with navigation destination in SwiftUI

Alfonso shows how to use SwiftUI’s navigationDestination modifiers to trigger navigation programmatically rather than relying solely on NavigationLink.

Programmatic navigation with navigation destination in SwiftUI

Learn how to use the navigation destination modifier for triggering navigation in a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftAlfonso Tarallo

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Foundation Models profiling with Xcode Instruments

Artem shows how to profile and optimize Foundation Models performance using Xcode Instruments, tracking response time, token usage and tool calls to help developers improve performance on real devices.

Foundation Models profiling with Xcode Instruments

Learn how to profile and optimize Foundation Models performance using Xcode Instruments

Artem Novichkov

App Store Optimization: Real-world Best Practices

Antonie shares some best practices for App Store Optimization (ASO) covering how to choose keywords, refine your app’s metadata and use App Store Connect analytics.

App Store Optimization: Real-world Best Practices

Explore App Store Optimization strategies to enhance your app’s presence and gain more users in a competitive market.

SwiftLeeAntoine van der Lee

Structuring universal links in iOS

Natascha shows how to handle universal links in SwiftUI by parsing URLs into enums and routing them through a clean, centralized navigation architecture.

Structuring universal links in iOS

Universal links can quickly get messy as an app grows. This guide shows how to model them with Swift enums, centralize URL parsing, and integrate them cleanly witha routing system, keeping everything type-safe and testable.

An Apple Intelligence-Style Glow Effect in SwiftUI

Artem demonstrates how to create an “Apple Intelligence” style glow effect in SwiftUI by applying visual effects (like blurs and overlays) to achieve a glowing UI appearance.

An Apple Intelligence-Style Glow Effect in SwiftUI → Livsy Code

Greetings, traveler! Apple’s recent design language introduces a glowing, animated stroke effect that highlights shapes and components in a subtle yet dynamic way. Let’s walk through how to recreate this effect in SwiftUI with reusable extensions. Extending View with Background and Overlay The first step is to make the glow effect easy to apply anywhere.

Livsy Code → Learn Swift the smart wayLivsy

The File Importer in SwiftUI

Gabriel explains how to use SwiftUI’s built-in fileImporter modifier to let users pick files outside your app’s sandbox.

The File Importer in SwiftUI – SerialCoder.dev

Stuff

This to-do list app developed by Austin is an interesting example of how an intuitive and aesthetically pleasing design, combined with powerful technologies like Foundation Models powered by Apple Intelligence, can produce apps that can really have an impact on our everyday tasks.

Starting with automatic dates, contextual lists and tagging system, extending to advanced features like Listen Mode and Scan Mode, where users can speak or show handwritten tasks that the app adds automatically, the interactions between users and devices feel natural and intuitive from the very first time the app is opened.

‎Stuff | ToDos and Lists

‎Stuff is built to help you organize your life and achieve your goals. It can be as simple as a list of to-dos or as complex as a system of interconnected lists, organized into spaces full of dependencies, deadlines, and carefully planned tasks. Stuff is designed to keep track of the dozens of to-dos…

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The transition to Liquid Glass continues on iOS, with improvements to enhance the user experience. For instance, the Beta 1 of iOS 26.1 includes a full edit menu.

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

See you next week!