Weekend good reads for Apple developers #2025/40

Liquid Glass is still a center of discussions

Bay Area had some rainy days this week. Hopefully, there will be more sun over the weekend. But, any weather is good if you want to read some interesting topics.

• Michael Tsai prepared multiple digests on developers’ reactions to Liquid Glass adoption struggles – Shipping Liquid Glass, On Liquid Glass, Tahoe Window Corners, Liquid Glass: Content vs. Controls, How to Turn Liquid Glass Into a Solid Interface;

• When SwiftUI automatically applies the glass look and when it doesn’t by Natascha Fadeeva continues topics of Liquid Glass with considerations on control default look and feel in SwiftUI;

• Howard Oakley reviewed app launch process in macOS Tahoe – Is Tahoe quicker to launch apps first time?, prepared a list of security checks every user and developer should be aware of – Check your Mac is secure and explained concept of translocation in macOS – Check if an app is stuck in translocation;

• iPhone 17 Screen Sizes by Keith Harrison is a nice cheat sheet for pixel-perfect graphics on new iPhones;

• Antoine van der Lee covers Swift language version migration process in Why Swift Migration Tooling Matters;

• Image caching in SwiftUI by Letizia Granata talks about default and custom caching approaches for images loaded from the external resources;

• Natalia Panferova shares a simple hint on how to tune leading and trailing row actions in SwiftUI lists – Show icons only in SwiftUI swipe actions on iOS 26;

• Using rich text in the TextEditor with SwiftUI by Alfonso Tarallo goes through AttributedString usage with TextEditor;

• Gabriel Fernandes Thomaz guides through Multipeer Connectivity framework in Getting Started with Multipeer Connectivity in Swift;

• Do job silently by Kyryl Horbushko explains uses of Background Tasks framework for activities app could run while not on screen;

• And finally, one useful technical note from Apple on profiling and tuning your use of Foundation Models – TN3193: Managing the on-device foundation model’s context window.

This is it for today. More articles are coming, come back next week!