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Swift 6.3.2 is here - a maintenance release with critical bug fixes and stability improvements after the major 6.3 release. Recommended for all developers.

🔗: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-3-2/86698 by Mishal Shah (@shahmishal)

#Swift #iOSDev #AppleDevelopment

Announcing Swift 6.3.2

We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.3.2. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.3.2 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly from Install Swift | Swift.org Docker images will be available on hub.docker.com/_/swift soon (PR#21458) Swift toolchain will be available on WinGet soon (PR#373862) Xcode 26.5 contains Swift 6.3.2 Release Notes Swift When using C++ interoperability on Linux, allow importing C++ libraries that use C++23 headers such a...

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Hacker News May 2

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/

#HackerNews #SixYearsPerfectingMaps #WatchOS #AppleDevelopment #MappingTechnology #TechInnovation

Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer

🇨🇦 Steve Apr 28

I get why it needs to happen, but needing an App Store Review to push a build to external testers pisses me off so much.

I kinda wish Apple would just drop the ban hammer on people abusing external testing instead, but I've read enough reports of people being banned "for no reason" I'm not sure I trust that, either. Even if most of them are probably lying. #AppleDevelopment

🇨🇦 Steve Apr 18

I hate what Apple's developer docs have become. #appleDevelopment #iosDevelopment

🇨🇦 Steve Apr 9

Apple, you want to use AI somewhere actually useful?

How about I type in a Description of a bug in Feedback Assistant, hit something, and it guesses which area I'm seeing the issue in?

That popup list is long enough to be useless, and it never has anything relevant.

From now on I'm just picking "Something else on this list" without looking. #appleDevelopment

🇨🇦 Steve Apr 5

Is PreviewShell crashing a lot more in Xcode 26.4 or is it something I did? #iosDev #iosdevelopment #Xcode #AppleDevelopment

🇨🇦 Steve Apr 2

Apple just approved my new app first try, and in less than 24 hours.

I… I… I don’t know what to do with this. What the actual fuck? What do I do now?!? #appleDevelopment #iosDevelopment

🇨🇦 Steve Mar 29

Xcode 26.4's Release Notes subheadings include anchors, but unfortunately the anchor IDs are the text of the subheading.

There are a lot of #Resolved-Issues anchors in that document. #AppleDevelopment

🇨🇦 Steve Mar 25

Simplifying, but Apple offered APIs using two path kinds: HFS uses colon as a path separator, POSIX uses slash. 25 years later, the HFS APIs are mostly dead. We just use POSIX.

I just wrote a file with a colon in the name and sent it to the iOS share sheet… which shows a slash.

I was going to convert both to hyphen/minus (the low ASCII one) out of paranoia anyway, plus 2026:03:25 is weird. I just wanted to see what would happen: I write POSIX, it shows HFS. Avoid both! #AppleDevelopment

Taylor Arndt Mar 21

Apple put an AI coding assistant directly into Xcode.
I tested it with VoiceOver.
Some of it is genuinely useful. It can generate code, fix errors, and work across files.
But the accessibility problems are serious: unlabeled controls, confusing labels, and response views that can become difficult or unsafe to navigate with a screen reader.
I wrote up the full teardown here:
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/taylors-teardowns-xcode-intelligence
Taylor’s Teardowns is back, just in writing now.
#Accessibility #AppleDevelopment #SwiftDevelopment

Taylor’s Teardowns: Xcode Intelligence

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