New in Glu Sight: Live Activities for insulin reminders.
Your next insulin dose is now visible right on the Lock Screen.
Upcoming doses show a countdown, and overdue ones are clearly flagged so you can log them quickly.
A change that makes daily #diabetes management easier.
I sometimes download apps that are full of beautiful SwiftUI animations. I love the craft. But a lot of developers don’t think about or test for what happens when the user has Low Power Mode on.
On Low Power Mode, iOS throttles the CPU and GPU to conserve battery. If your animations are still running at full speed, you’re fighting the system.
Worse, users feel it: janky UI, dropped frames, and an app that feels broken right when they need it.
A simple fix. (1/2)
#iOSDev #SwiftUI #SwiftLang
That’s it. Your app now respects the user’s battery choice and keeps feeling smooth.
Small things like this are the difference between an app people keep and one they delete. (2/2)
An easy, no-frills captioning app for videos and shorts: CreatorCaps. https://apple.co/4ruCxYI
The 26.4 SDK change prevents this screen from appearing when language packs aren’t available or downloaded, creating a frictionless translation experience.
#iosdev https://iosdev.space/@slow_brewed/116225991898253306
- TranslationSession.Strategy.highFidelity: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/translation/translationsession/strategy/highfidelity
- TranslationSession.Strategy.lowLatency: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/translation/translationsession/strategy/lowlatency
- With .highFidelity, translation can start immediately on AI-enabled devices, often without showing language-pack download UI.
- With .lowLatency, you still get the traditional downloadable language-pack flow.
Key takeaway:
This is tied to the SDK you compile with, not your minimum deployment target.
So an app targeting iOS 18 can still exhibit the new behavior if built with a 26.4+ SDK.
Docs:
- LanguageAvailability.init(): https://developer.apple.com/documentation/translation/languageavailability/init() (2/3)
In the iOS 26.4/macOS 26.4 SDK, Apple reduces translation friction and improves Translation framework UX in a big way.
LanguageAvailability() now has SDK-dependent defaults:
- Apps built with 26.4+ SDKs check Apple Intelligence models first (when available).
- Apps built with older SDKs default to traditional translation models.
That change affects real app behavior: (1/3)
If you ever want to build terminal apps without leaving your Swift skillset, TUIkit looks interesting.
It’s a declarative, SwiftUI-like framework for building terminal user interfaces, written in pure Swift and running on macOS and Linux.
Worth a look:
https://tuikit.dev
