Welcome to this week's edition of our newsletter.

The new iOS 26.2, is almost here, with a second Release Candidate now available ahead of its public release.

The update delivers a thoughtful set of refinements across the system from a new Liquid Glass Lock Screen customization option and offline Apple Music lyrics, to improved Sleep Scores and continued polish for CarPlay, including better widget support.

This Week

This week we have covered UX Design, Ethics and macOS.

Designing with people: Creating applications for reality

Alice explains the value of co-design by showing how involving real communities in the design process, listening, observing, and collaborating with them leads to products that address actual needs rather than assumptions about users. 

Designing with people: Creating applications for reality

Understand the value of designing applications, including the communities they are for, in the process.

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The power of ethics in mobile design

Giselle explores why ethics matters in mobile design, discussing how thoughtful, human-centered decisions can make apps more respectful, inclusive, and genuinely useful.

The power of ethics in mobile design

Mobile design is intimate. They are tools people hold in their hands and check hundreds of times a day. That’s why mobile developers hold a quiet kind of power: we don’t just make interfaces, we shape behavior, expectations, and trust –whether we mean to or not. As technology

Create with SwiftGiselle Katics

Understanding scenes for your macOS app

Alfonso details how macOS apps can use scenes to manage windows and UI state, showing how to configure scene lifecycles, handle multiple windows, and organize your app around scene-based architecture.

Understanding scenes for your macOS app

Learn how to manage scenes and windows within a SwiftUI app.

Create with SwiftAlfonso Tarallo

Napoli Meetup - Christmas Edition 🎄

Join us for the Christmas Edition 🎄 of the Create with Swift Napoli Meetup. We'll celebrate the end of the year together sharing Swift stories and drinking some warm and sweet Mulled Wine!

This gathering brings together the vibrant Apple Developer community of Naples for an evening of learning, collaboration, and connection.

Napoli Meetup - Christmas Edition 🎄 · Luma

Join us for the Christmas Edition 🎄 of the Create with Swift Napoli Meetup. We’ll celebrate the end of the year together sharing Swift stories and drinking…

Create with Swift

The Community

Exploring Foundation Models: Supported Languages and Internationalization

Rudrank explores how Apple’s Foundation Models handle supported languages and internationalization, showing how to inspect which locales are available at runtime, adapt AI responses for different languages, and manage multilingual behavior in apps that use it.

Rudrank Riyam - iOS Developer & Content Creator

iOS Developer, YouTuber, and tech content creator sharing insights about Swift, iOS development, and mobile app development.

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Monitoring app performance with MetricKit

Majid shows how to use Apple’s MetricKit framework to monitor app performance in real-world conditions, covering how to subscribe to MXMetricManager, receive and process metric and diagnostic payloads.

Monitoring app performance with MetricKit

Xcode Organizer provides access to essential performance metrics such as crashes, energy impact, hangs, launch time, memory consumption, and app terminations. However, it lacks sufficient information to resolve certain issues, particularly app terminations. To address this, Apple introduced the MetricKit framework, enabling us to collect comprehensive diagnostics and build a detailed performance dashboard.

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The 7 changes I do for every new Xcode project

Antonie outlines the seven configuration changes he makes every time when starting a new Xcode project covering things like project settings, build options, folder organization, templates, and other defaults he adjusts for consistency and productivity.

The 7 changes I do for every new Xcode project

Explore essential tips for Xcode projects to prevent tech debt and enhance your app development right from the start.

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Shiuli

Images on the web don’t always have accurate or meaningful alt text, resulting in a poor experience for users who rely on assistive technologies. This often happens because writing thoughtful descriptions takes time and isn’t prioritized by developers as much as it should be.

Shiuli, created by Vidit, helps generate alt text through a simple and intuitive user experience that’s deeply integrated into the system. By supporting Shortcuts and Visual Intelligence, it allows you to generate alt text directly from wherever you’re working making your images accessible to everyone.

Shiuli: Alt Text Generator App - App Store

Download Shiuli: Alt Text Generator by Squircle Apps LLP on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Shiuli: Alt Text…

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It's interesting how close Liquid Glass now feels to its final form. Subtle animation tweaks, like those highlighted by Beta Profiles, when comparing iOS 26.2 RC to Apple’s WWDC25 demo suggest Apple is steadily aligning its original vision.

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

See you next week!