How to keep SwiftData from crashing your app on ModelActor release and staged migrations

If you adopted SwiftData expecting a friendlier Core Data, you have probably already met one of its lifecycle traps: a @ModelActor instance going out of scope and taking your fetched models with it, a routine 0.9 → 1.0 staged migration failing with Cannot use staged migration with an unknown model version, or a CloudKit-synced store…

How Newbies Should Start Learning iOS User Interface Programming

When you’re just starting out in iOS development, there are so many options in which to place a button. There’s storyboard, auto layout, and even SwiftUI — that’s just scratching the surface. How should someone new to programming the platform chart a learning path?