Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

Last week, we shared the App Store Connect app icon redesign as part of Apple’s Liquid Glass transition. This week was the time for TestFlight and Apple Support!

For TestFlight, it’s more than just a visual refresh. Alongside always appreciated accessibility improvements, the update contains hints of a new “Tester Matching” feature. While it’s not active yet, it hints at a discovery system that could help users find beta tests tailored to their interests, a long-awaited solution to TestFlight’s current limitation, where access depends on direct invites or knowing exactly where to look.

This Week

This week we have covered Swift Data, SwiftUI and UX Design.

Performing search with SwiftData in a SwiftUI app

Letizia shows how to combine SwiftData’s @Query and #Predicate with SwiftUI’s searchable modifier to perform efficient, database-level searches and filtering in your app.

Performing search with SwiftData in a SwiftUI app

Learn how to combine SwiftData queries with the seachable modifier on SwiftUI.

Create with SwiftLetizia Granata

Taking control of your navigation in SwiftUI with NavigationPath

Alfonso explains how to manage navigation state in SwiftUI using NavigationStack and NavigationPath, enabling programmatic navigation, pushing and popping destinations dynamically and resetting the path when needed.

Taking control of your navigation in SwiftUI with NavigationPath

Understand how to perform data-driven navigation in a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftAlfonso Tarallo

Building for Love: Creating Authentic Connections

Giselle explores how emotional design turns digital products into experiences people genuinely love and explains how small, intentional design choices create lasting user connections.

Building for Love: Creating Authentic Connections

Get inspired on how to build products that stand out by focusing on user emotions and intentional design choices.

Create with SwiftGiselle Katics

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The Community

Jump Into the Liquid Glass Pool: A MacStories OS 26 App Roundup

MacStories team spotlights standout apps updated for OS 26, not only to showcase their creative Liquid Glass implementations but also to highlight their new functionality and how each app adapts to Apple’s evolving operative systems. 

Jump Into the Liquid Glass Pool: A MacStories OS 26 App Roundup

Liquid Glass is the sort of change that takes some getting used to from the perspective of both users and developers. The design language shifted a lot over the course of the summer beta season, which made developers’ lives tougher than in some years. This has resulted in a variety of Liquid Glass implementations across

MacStoriesMacStories Team

Learnable, Memorable, Accessible

Jordan provides guidance and best practices for building custom user interface controls in SwiftUI, with a strong focus on making them easy to learn, visually memorable and highly accessible.

Learnable, Memorable, Accessible

Creating custom controls is something that’s just flat out fun. But, I believe, there’s an objectively right way to do it.

Jordan MorganJordan Morgan

How to add custom actions to iOS push and local notifications in SwiftUI

Natascha demonstrates how to make iOS notifications interactive by adding custom actions using SwiftUI walking you through defining, registering and handling these actions so users can respond directly from the notification without opening the app.

How to add custom actions to iOS push and local notifications in SwiftUI

iOS supports actionable notifications with buttons or text input. In SwiftUI, we define categories and actions, register them with UNUserNotificationCenter, and handle responses through a delegate.

Avoiding text truncation in SwiftUI with Dynamic Type

Natalia explains how to prevent unwanted text truncation in SwiftUI apps, especially at large Dynamic Type sizes by using the fixedSize modifier.

Avoiding text truncation in SwiftUI with Dynamic Type

Prevent unnecessary text truncation at larger text sizes with the fixedSize(horizontal:vertical:) modifier, forcing the text to expand vertically as needed.

Nil CoalescingNatalia Panferova

Lights Out

Lights Out is a beautifully crafted real-time Formula 1 stats app by Shihab, designed with a sleek Liquid Glass interface that balances clarity and depth. It’s approachable for newcomers yet detailed enough for long-time fans.

The app delivers live race data, pit stop information, driver radios, and race control messages, all integrated seamlessly with widgets, Live Activities, and an Apple Watch companion. Apple Intelligence provides concise commentary summaries, while accessibility features like dynamic font sizing and VoiceOver ensure the app works for everyone. Beyond functionality, Lights Out demonstrates thoughtful design and attention to detail, making complex race information easy to access and enjoyable to explore.

‎Lights Out: Formula Stats

‎Lights Out is a beautiful and comprehensive real-time race statistics app built for Liquid Glass. It’s simple enough for those getting into the sport, and powerful enough for seasoned pros. WHY YOU’LL LOVE LIGHTS OUT: Get all the latest stats and info from races, qualifying sessions, sprints, and…

App StoreShihab Mehboob

That's all for this week!

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