It looks like the Now Playing floating view got a bit more opaque in Beta 2. (cc @keir) -- but damn, they're really pushing this. Still not great in terms of legibility.

The most important info bits and controls are getting deemphasized so much with this design. Also now with text up in the toolbar, that is also nearly impossible to see/read.

Mango Baby iOS 26

Bumped min OS to 26.

I learned that if I just re-introduce NSTitlebarAccessoryViewController back to my app (I used to use it to display titles back in the day), I can get my opaque toolbars back.

Ignore the double titles for now, but this is what it would look like. (I wonder if I can trick it and make it like 1 pt in height and just leave it blank.)

But hey, at least I get my opaque toolbars back! :)

#macOSTahoe #WWDC25 #AppKit https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/114707368598923927

Xcode 26 adds an option to generate string catalog comments for newly-added strings by analyzing surrounding source code. Will be interesting to see in action. #WWDC25

Illuminating read: @peterfriese's "Reverse-Engineering #Xcode​'s Coding Intelligence prompt: A look under the hood"

https://peterfriese.dev/blog/2025/reveng-xcode-coding-intelligence/

Illuminating read: @peterfriese.dev's "Reverse-Engineering #Xcode​'s Coding Intelligence prompt: A look under the hood" peterfriese.dev/blog/2025/re... #WWDC25 #Xcode26 #macOS26 #iOS26 #LLM

Reverse-Engineering Xcode’s Co...

I haven't liked the way iOS looks for 12 years, but now I just hate it. They've really done it this time. I really wish Android had decent scrolling, typography, and animations so that it was a viable candidate for switching away, but I'm so deep in the ecosystem (and so accustomed to the lack of jank) that I just couldn't.

But never, in my 18 years of continued iOS usage, in my 26 years of Mac usage, have I wished so badly that there was somewhere else I could go.

Custom UIs in Shortcuts! Yay or nay?

I’ve wanted to build UIs in Shortcuts for a while and with the new interactive snippets, it feels more relevant than ever.

So I finally prototyped an app to do it

Here’s a demo shortcut that shows pollen levels in a snippet. #WWDC25

Hot take: Foundation Models custom tools should be AppIntents

Or we should at least be able to create a tool from an AppIntent or provide app intents to the LLM session.

It’d be like using Siri or the Shortcuts app from within the app, in a prompt-based conversational way.

I just sent out my June newsletter – time is running out to save 50% on all my books and bundles in my #WWDC25 sale! https://www.hackingwithswift.com/offers

I'm trying to fix my #AppKit app here...

From what I gather from the #WWDC25 videos, scroll edge effects only apply to lists/scroll views? What about Map Views?

Maps naturally show a lot of detail and it clashes with my toolbar's titles and buttons so badly... so what do I do here? I don't think scroll edge effects exist for MapViews.

Anyone learn anything that might help recently that I might have missed?

The toolbar styles you can apply in previous versions of macOS don't seem to work.

"Apple acts like it’s making things better by locking things down—favoring their preferred tech stack over all else. If they loosened their stranglehold on their platforms they would let their devices be what they want them to be—the right tool for the job."

#Apple #Technology #Blog #WWDC25 #Productivity
https://blog.samclemente.me/ipados-26-is-really-great-and-its-confusing-as-hell/

I had a lazy day. I refactored a bit of code, but nothing interesting to share. However, I found out that the great tool - https://tryastro.app/ - offers a #WWDC25 30% discount, and this time I decided to give it a try.
#BuildInPublic #IndieHacker #iOSDev #IndieDev

I completely welcome this new change in #SwiftUI to automatically animate the window to fit its contents on macOS. I made a small sample here.

This is how all Mac apps should have their settings window work. #WWDC25

This was so much work to do in #AppKit.

Un peu de Liquid Glass, un peu d'IA, un peu d'iPad : voici la recette du dernier WWDC que @Foxmonsieur et @yannrdr se font un plaisir de décortiquer avec Pierre @Dandu de @macgeneration dans le 113e épisode de #TechTwo

https://www.blueprint.pm/tech-two-113-wwdc-2025-avec-pierre-dandumont/
#podcast #Apple #wwdc25

So this is new in #SwiftUI! In AppKit, it was a paaaaaain to have your Settings window animate from tab to tab based on the view’s content. Some developers (even Apple) wouldn’t bother to do it in some apps.

SwiftUI has a modifier for resizing the window based on the content of the view for the selected tab!

So much code can now be deleted!

My #WWDC25 sale will be active for another few days. You can still get any of my Swift and SwiftUI books with a 30% discount if you haven’t had a chance yet: https://books.nilcoalescing.com

All purchases come with free lifetime updates, and I’ll be refreshing them later this year.

I’ve been exploring the new Liquid Glass UI for our walking app Strolly, which has lots of custom controls layered on top of the map. I recorded the session and just uploaded it to YouTube.
https://youtu.be/sEi9T5eZO1c

Few more observations between #macOSTahoe and #macOSSequoia

I was a bummed to see despite the realism of Liquid Glass, other controls have been further flattened in Tahoe. Kind of a bummer because I was loving the direction controls were going in macOS Sequoia at least. They had thin hard shadows & some level of gradients. See the screenshot, esp. the Help button & the unchecked box.

Another thing is that the window control buttons have gotten a bit larger; from 12x12pts to 14x14pts.