Apple Developer Weekly #247 13+ Celebrates One Year!
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This year, I wrote 82 articles. Even I’m surprised by this number, but this is the power of continuous accumulation.
Recently I even started challenging myself to update every weekday, hoping readers have new articles to read every Monday through Friday morning.
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This week’s ongoing “⚡️Exploring iPhone USB Speed Impact on Development Experience” series is very practical for iOS developers. Because I said on social media:
In case anyone doesn’t know
iPhone Air and 17 are both unsuitable as development machines
They only have USB 2.0
Developers should buy Pro
This attracted various responses, so let’s discuss with actual test data:
Preview: Tomorrow’s article is the 5th in the series, titled “AI Models Need High-Speed Transfer“, which might change your perspective on iPhone I/O requirements.
🧪Apple Releases
iOS 26.1 beta (23B5044l) includes Traditional Chinese Apple Intelligence. I tried it for a few days and find the writing tools most useful. Also, Siri’s operations integrated with personal ChatGPT account, allowing continued conversations in apps, is very convenient
Xcode 26.0 (17A324), 26.0.1 (17A400), 26.1 beta 1 (17B5025f)
If you’ve upgraded to macOS 26, you can try the Coding Assistant feature in Xcode 26. If you have ChatGPT or Claude subscriptions, you can log in for higher quotas and use APIs, including self-hosted local model servers.
TN3115: Bluetooth State Restoration app relaunch rules article updated for iOS 26 features
🚀Swift 6.2 Released
Released alongside Xcode 26 is Swift 6.2. Features dozens of new capabilities including Approachable Concurrency and Safe Systems Programming.
Previous newsletters have featured Paul Hudson’s What’s new in Swift 6.2, which you can reference alongside this.
🛠️Xcodes 3.0 Officially Released
Xcode version management tool Xcodes released version 3.0. This version’s main update is supporting Xcode 26 split into Universal and Apple Silicon versions.
📦SQLiteData 1.0: Point-Free’s CloudKit Sync Solution
Point-Free’s SwiftData alternative now supports CloudKit sync and sharing. This library was formerly called SharingGRDB. I’ve been waiting for this for months!
📦swift-platform-executors
Apple’s new open-source package providing native execution mechanisms for Swift Concurrency across different platforms. Supports Apple’s own platforms, Linux, and Windows without depending on Dispatch or Foundation.
🔗Apple Shortcuts May Support MCP
Signs of MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration found in macOS Tahoe 26.1 beta 1. May be added to App Intents.
📝Hokila’s iOSDC 2025 Attendance Experience
iOSDC is the conference that inspired iPlayground, and Hokila is iPlayground’s founder and current organizer. Years later, returning to iOSDC for another “inspection” makes this article series very valuable for reference:
How to Survive a Pure Japanese Conference Without Speaking Japanese
Looking at iOSDC’s Success from a Conference Organizer’s Perspective
🏷️Badge.io Supports Swift Package Concurrency Mode
You can now display Concurrency mode badges on Swift package repos, for example: https://img.shields.io/badge/Concurrency_Mode-Strict-orange
🇯🇵The all-new Apple Ginza opens this Friday, September 26, in Tokyo
The Ginza store was Apple’s first retail store outside the US, reopening after years of renovation. The Ginza store was also the first Apple Store I ever visited in my life. Hope to visit again in the near future.
↖️Last Issue Highlights
If you’ve been too busy to read last week’s content, here are the highlights:
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