Seb Vidal

Here it is! What's New in UIKit in iOS 26. This was a pretty mammoth undertaking, and it shows – a whopping 64 minute read! I'll be keeping this article up to date over the beta cycle. Possibly littered with errors. Shout at me if I've made any stupid mistakes. Link below 👇

@bobek_balinek I really need to…

@SebJVidal Should’ve gone to Specsavers 🤣

Make empty states more animated 😍

@hiddevdploeg @squeakytoy

@squeakytoy @SebJVidal

It’s almost time! developer.apple.com/wwdc26/schedul…

@alpennec @hiddevdploeg @squeakytoy Yep, I’m only seeing the App Store-related stuff too. That’s a shame. Used to be a list as long as your arm of teams you could get a 1:1 lab with. From ARKit → WebKit…

@hiddevdploeg @squeakytoy @SebJVidal From the link on the website, it seems to be only on Webex (not physical) and only for distribution and marketing teams (not technical or design teams). Or is there something else?

@zats I need someone to confiscate my internet privileges…

@SebJVidal Savage

“A thousand no’s for every yes”… …makes you wonder what they’re saying no to 😅

@squeakytoy “All the information is on the task”

@SebJVidal All the info is at the link!

@No_Wham Let me check my reference guide

@SebJVidal Do they do a chicken tikka ?

Nobody hates installing shitty apps like app developers I have to install your bars app to order a beer? I will be complaining about this for the next 2-6 hours

@flyosity @secondfret Now I have Tears for Fears stuck in my head…

@secondfret me too, always looking! that's a great one

Always on the lookout for these, even when I’m not really thinking about it. Found this one while walking the dog. I never see them in Phoenix, even in big clover patches. In Missouri where I grew up, they were everywhere.

@azamsharp We're still doing this in the big 2-6...?

As an iOS developer would you work on a project that is not SwiftUI?

directionalLayoutMargins = NSDirectionalLay ^H^H^H EdgeInsets...

@MatManferdini I believe, where possible, you should store the returned result of the accessory closure, rather than a reference to the closure itself in your view struct. @squeakytoy did a much better job of explaining this in a session not long ago… youtube.com/live/yXAQTIKR8…

Did you know you can pass SwiftUI views as parameters to other views? This allows you to reduce the number of stored properties and conditional statements, making your view code highly customizable and more reusable. Read how here: matteomanferdini.com/swiftui-views/…

Second time this has happened, insane that this is Apple in 2026.

@jacobtechtavern @nevmed Very much joking :) Also not super sad to see that site go away…

@SebJVidal @nevmed Probably lol

This is a wild chart! Stack Overflow (a place where programmers would ask each other questions and for help) has taken a massive hit after ChatGPT came out and was able to answer all the questions people would ask. The interesting thing about some areas of the economy is that LLM's like ChatGPT not only take the traffic, but completely invalidate the need for asking the question at all. For a lot of programming questions people have, AI is now simply writing all the code so you literally don't even have to ask the question anymore.

@valentalukas @app_settings title is a nullable property on UITabBarItem

@SebJVidal @app_settings How is it not their own tab bar if they have no labels, only icons?

the Unsplash iOS app’s devs forgot to add an edge shadow at the bottom of the screen, and boy does the tab bar look REALLY good without it 🥹

@krzyzanowskim @cifilter High praise from Marcin

@cifilter I use VirtualBuddy. It's doing the job.

What’s the best way to spin up a new macOS VM to test some stuff? I’m behind the VM times

@jacobtechtavern @nevmed Skill issue…

@nevmed I have no sympathy for this because I've tried to ask questions to Stack Overflow a couple dozen times in my career. Every. single. time. I was very rudely raked over the coals for various bullshitty reasons

@app_settings Haha sorry to be the “uh, actually” guy… Honestly, probably just because of the reason you cited? It looks better. I guess they chose to keep the top edge effect visible to ensure legibility of their logo?

@SebJVidal ooh interesting i assumed it was the other way around and they forgot it since the top edge has the effect lol.. any idea why they might’ve made this choice?