We Updated Our App Icon for iOS 26. Apple Now Wants Three of Them. So We Built a Tool.
iOS 26 Liquid Glass quietly tripled the work to ship an app icon — default, tinted, and dark variants for every iPhone app. Existing icon tools haven't caught up. We hit the wall updating ThinkBud last week, so we built a free generator. Here's what changed in iOS 26, why every iOS dev is about to learn this the hard way, and the tool we shipped to handle it.
Apple's iOS 26 SDK Deadline Hits Tomorrow. Half the App Store Isn't Ready.
April 28, 2026 — every app submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 26 and the iOS 26 SDK. If you haven't updated yet, your next submission gets rejected. Here's what's breaking, what you need to fix, and why this deadline is different.
I Migrated Two Apps to SwiftData. Eighteen Months Later, I'm Migrating Half of It Back.
SwiftData turns three at WWDC 2026. After running it in production across two shipping iOS apps for a year and a half, here's an honest field report — what works, what quietly broke, and the three places we went back to Core Data and don't regret it.