@ChrisLawley Here’s your background export…! 🤞

https://www.apple.com/apple-creator-studio/

(No mention of Xcode / Swift Playground… 🫠)

Hm… This theme looks familiar.

@quicheindustries

If you think making a webview respect vertical safe area insets is bad, sidebars are another level. 3.0 had a rewrite of the safe area inset logic which took until now to get stable, so I just had the button float for a bit.

A future release (next hopefully) will finally […]

> resizing sidebars doesn’t work great on a touchscreen

This aged well. Thanks Apple. 🤦

I’m aiming for some of these concepts to reappear in the redesign, but it’ll be ‘in addition to’ the current mode of operation with the full-width sidebar.

Oh yeah, and unsaved tabs look like app clips now.

Yes, I’m taking a common UI pattern and giving it a highly obscure metaphor. This is why I’m not a designer. But it looks so goood, doesn’t it? 😄

I’m about halfway done with this new design. The other half with be polish, and fixing everything that broke!

I think the bottom navigation on iPhone, and narrower sidebar, were both particularly sorely needed.

Once this core UX is done, I plan to get back to incrementally adding more browser […]

Here’s a sneak peek of Shimmer Browser v3!

Shimmer Browser’s current design stems from when it was just a set of icons and a SafariVC. It’s now a full browser with its own UX, while staying true to its goal of being a focus browser.

I’ve also made a few […]

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Shimmer Browser v3.2 is with app review!

The release notes are running little long, but in short:

* Set your search engine!
* Import & export your saved tabs to a file. (Supports bookmarks import from Safari)
* Much improved iPhone portrait UX, with a full-width, custom-built tab list which […]

Happy new year! 🎆

Shimmer Browser 3.1 is out! Now with ad blocking and privacy protection built-in, as well as a bunch of fixes. 🥳

I’ve actually been working on the app for the past week or so, it’s just app review has been on hols. So I’ve got a bunch more to come. Please do let me know what you think, if […]

Shimmer Browser v3.0.0 - coming soon!

• Nested tab folders. On iPad and iPhone. 😎
• File downloads.
• Auto-close session tabs.
• Revamped, clearer session limits.
• A choice of 3 sleek appearances, including Liquid Glass.
• Desktop-class Menu Bar support.
• […]

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New Video!
A Productive Day Working Only on My iPad
https://youtu.be/LqJWPZzU46k

In this one I take a look at my current workflow with the iPad. After ten years of working from the iPad it has evolved a lot over the years.

Split View is back! 🥳

And it’s fully integrated into windowing, which presumably means it works on external displays too. Coupled with long-running background tasks, iPadOS is looking stronger than ever.

I just hope we’ll see more apps…

New Video!
Split View Is Back in iPadOS 26.2
🔗 https://youtu.be/sJYT0QW31mI

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There’s never been a better time to pivot to game development!

This is exactly the sort of thing I hoped would come to Swift Playground one day. @Migueldeicaza is the new Apple.

I’m doing a code challenge where I’m going to contribute to 100 open source Swift projects! 👨‍💻

I’ve contributed to 4 so far (about to be 5 when my next PR is approved), so there’s a long way to go 😂 but I’ll share my progress here as I go!

The goal is to up-skill in new areas, while helping […]

New conspiracy theory: the iPhone Air is a prototype for an even thinner iPhone.

They had to make it before they could ship an even thinner iPhone.

Hey, it makes more sense than it being a ‘necessary step’ to a foldable that misses the one crucial point that makes something ‘foldable’. Show me […]

It’s been said that visionOS inspired Liquid Glass, but I’ve not heard it mentioned that watchOS may have inspired the toolbars.

Best video to watch if you want to recap all the Liquid Glass features! Including the one you forgot to make use of when redesigning your app…
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/323

I’m always blown away by all the little details of Apple design.

Is there any way to change the default file type for Markdown files in iOS 26 with Delta emulator installed?

I’m seeing 4 apps available to open Markdown files, yet the “Always Open In” menu only lists Delta…

I hear the new iPhone is thinner and lighter?

Another Xcode tip for you:

You will save hours of your life by turning off the 'Debug executable' checkbox if you don't actually need to debug your app right now. You'll still get log output, just not crash catching.

Build and run, even to devices over the […]

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New Video!
What's Next for the iPad After iPadOS 26?
🔗 https://youtu.be/9NVsLW1EGNY

In this one I talk about the future I would like to see for the iPad.