You moved your SwiftUI app to a router pattern with a top-level NavigationPath, added a NavigationSplitView for iPad and Mac, and now pushing a view from the router replaces the entire content column instead of stacking inside the sidebar. You reach for .isDetailLink(false) — the old escape hatch — and find it does nothing once…
How to keep craft and signal in an AI-flooded iOS dev community
Two of the most-upvoted threads on r/iOSProgramming this month say the same thing in different words: “I miss the programming aspect of iOS programming” and “Why would anyone start a new app today?”. The complaint underneath both is not really about LLMs. It is about signal. The phrase “iOS developer” used to mean someone who…
How to plan for the iOS 27 SDK cliff: Liquid Glass, size classes, and Reality Composer Pro migrations
Apple’s annual SDK cycle keeps shipping silent breaking changes. The UIDesignRequiresCompatibility plist key is honored on Xcode 26 builds and ignored on Xcode 27 builds. iOS 27 collapses iPhone horizontal size classes to compact, breaking ten years of storyboard constraint variations with no runtime warning. Reality Composer Pro 3 imports projects from RCP 2 with…