New in SwiftUI

iOS 26.1 adds a new overload of tabViewBottomAccessory() that lets you conditionally show the TabView’s bottom accessory.

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Age requirements for apps distributed in Brazil, Australia, Singapore, Utah, and Louisiana

• Declared Age Range API updated (beta): age category + age-assurance method signal; extra signals for regulatory requirements / required sharing / parent permission.

• Brazil: age category shared only with user or parent/guardian consent; loot boxes disclosure in the age-rating questionnaire can update the Brazil storefront rating to 18+.

• Australia/Brazil/Singapore: since Feb 24, 2026, 18+ apps are blocked unless the user is confirmed an adult (App Store handles this automatically).

• Utah/Louisiana: new Apple Accounts (UT May 6, 2026; LA July 1, 2026) can share age categories via the API; more tools added (PermissionKit, StoreKit age-rating property, Server Notifications, Significant Update Action beta).

Setting up a delivery pipeline for your agentic iOS projects

The article explains how the author builds a fast “agentic iOS” delivery pipeline so AI can code, open PRs, get automated reviews (Cursor BugBot), run CI tests/builds (Bitrise), and ship a new TestFlight build right after merging.

It focuses on guardrails like an agents.md rules file, planning mode before coding, and layered checks to keep quality from degrading while moving very quickly.

Check out these iOS (on-site or hybrid) openings:

1. Wise (London)
- 85000 - 105000 GBP Annual
Senior iOS Engineer
Senior iOS Engineer - Account Details Experience

2. Hinge (New York, hybrid)
Hinge is a global dating app with millions of users, focused on helping people find genuine relationships by optimizing for high-quality dates - “designed to be deleted.”
- $150,000 - $180,000 a year
iOS Engineer, 3+

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Coding agents for production iOS: a senior engineer's setup for 2x the output

A senior iOS engineer shows how he embedded terminal-based coding agents into a real production app and reports an over 100% productivity increase (i.e. output more than doubled) without overtime or quality trade-offs - even as his team shrank to just him.

He runs 2–3 parallel agent sessions isolated with git worktrees, feeds them rich context via MCP (Figma + task tracker) and “trains” them with small, on-demand “skills” docs - then reviews every diff like a teammate’s PR.

Notable bits: he barely opens Xcode (mostly uses xcodebuild), uses simctl + UI automation + screenshot “eyes” for visual verification, auto-generates commits/PRs/release notes and stresses security + “if you’re too tired to review, you’re too tired to use an agent.”

Biggest takeaway: coding isn’t the bottleneck anymore - attention, context, and good inputs are.

Xcode 26.3 has just been released

It ships Swift 6.2.3, new OS 26.2 SDKs, and requires macOS Sequoia 15.6+. I
t focuses on “agentic coding” (Claude + OpenAI Codex + MCP), adds fine-grained permissions and lists a bunch of fixes plus several known issues (mainly around agent access, file pasting, and settings not applying immediately).

Here you can find the instruction how to enable and configure Xcode’s coding intelligence.
It walks through enabling ChatGPT in Xcode, Codex, Claude/Claude Agent (including sign-in/API keys), customizing via config folders + MCP servers and adding other providers that support the Chat Completions API endpoints.

If you use Codex, this repo can help:

it collects small “skills” (workflow playbooks) for common iOS/Swift development tasks like generating App Store release notes, debugging on simulators, fixing GitHub issues, and improving Swift concurrency and SwiftUI code.

It’s meant to be dropped into a Codex skills folder so you can reuse these focused guides across projects.

SwiftUI Tip

In iOS 17+, you can make List sections collapsible using .listStyle(.sidebar) and an isExpanded binding.

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SwiftUI Tip

Did you know? You can use PasteButton to let users paste text (like a serial number) from the clipboard with a single tap.

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Check out these iOS (on-site or hybrid) openings:

1. Credit Genie USA, Canada, On-site)
Founded in 2019 by Ed Harycki and backed by Khosla Ventures, Credit Genie is a mobile-first AI-powered financial wellness platform that provides personalized insights, instant cash access, and credit-building tools to help customers achieve long-term financial stability.
• Staff iOS Engineer, 8+
- US $200K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
- Canada CA$190K – CA$225K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
• Senior iOS Engineer, 5+
- US $150K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
- Canada CA$150K – CA$225K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
• Engineering Manager, iOS, 5+
- US $200K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
- Canada CA$175K – CA$230K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

2. PayPal / Venmo (Austin, Texas, USA)
• $160,500.00 - $238,700.00 Annually
Staff Software Engineer 5+, iOS

3. Affinity (Barcelona)
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Affinity is a relationship intelligence CRM platform used by over 3,000 organizations worldwide, including leading private equity, venture capital, and investment banking firms, to automate data entry and surface actionable relationship insights.
• iOS Engineer, 3+
• Senior iOS Engineer, 5+

4. WHOOP (Boston, MA, on-site)
Founded in 2012, WHOOP is a U.S.-based wearable technology company offering a 24/7 fitness and health tracking device that provides personalized insights to improve performance, recovery, and longevity.
• iOS Engineer II (Growth, AI Experiences, & Ecosystem), 2+
$125,000-$175,000
• Senior iOS Engineer (Connectivity), 3+
$150,000-$210,000
• Senior iOS Engineer (Core & Health)
$150,000-$215,000

5. CoStar Group (Irvine, California)
Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces, and 3D digital twin technology, with a portfolio of major property platforms serving clients worldwide.
• iOS Engineer (SwiftUI) 2+, Homes.com
$99,000-$172,000
• Technical Team Lead, iOS Engineer (SwiftUI), 7+, Apartments.com
$144,000-$223,000
• iOS Engineer (SwiftUI), 3+, Apartments.com
$98,000-$164,00
• Senior iOS Engineer (SwiftUI), 5+, Homes.com
$130,000-$204,000
• Senior iOS Engineer, 5+, Apartments.com
$130,000-$204,000
• Technical Manager, Mobile Engineering (iOS/Android), 6+, Apartments.com
$173,000-$258,000

6. Whatnot (USA, China)
Whatnot is a livestream shopping marketplace operating across the US, UK, and Europe that brings millions together to buy and sell across 250+ categories, combining community, commerce, and entertainment with teams based in hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany.
• USA - iOS Engineer
$170K – $290K • Offers Equity

7. Dailymotion (Paris, France, hybrid)
Dailymotion is a global video-sharing platform with around 450 employees worldwide that uses a unique algorithm to promote discovery, nuanced conversations, and a safer, more open internet experience for young audiences.
• Senior iOS & tvOS Engineer, 5+
• Senior iOS Engineer – Mobile Apps, 5+

8. Charles Schwab (Austin, Southlake; TX)
Charles Schwab is a U.S. investment services firm providing brokerage, banking, and wealth management solutions that aims to make investing simpler and more accessible by challenging traditional Wall Street practices.
- USD $90,000.00 - $111,000.00 / Year
• iOS Developer, 2+

9. Veo (Copenhagen, on-site)
Founded in 2015 in Copenhagen, Veo is a sports technology company that offers AI-powered camera systems and a video platform to automatically record, edit, analyze, and share matches for clubs, coaches, players, scouts, and fans without a camera operator.
• Senior iOS Engineer, 5+
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10. Brivo (Amsterdam, on-site)
Brivo is a cloud-native physical security company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland and Austin, Texas, with 2M+ devices deployed across 100,000+ locations in 80 countries, offering an AI-powered unified platform for access control, video intelligence, visitor management, and intrusion (recently merged with Eagle Eye Networks).
Eagle Eye Networks (a Brivo solution) is a cloud video surveillance leader headquartered in Austin, Texas and Bethesda, Maryland, providing a cyber-secure, AI-enabled cloud video management system (Eagle Eye Cloud VMS) with global offices in Amsterdam, London, Bangalore, and Tokyo.
• iOS Developer, 5+

11. TikTok (multiple locations)
Multiple iOS openings

12. PKO Bank Polski (Poland, hybrid)
PKO Bank Polski is Poland’s largest bank, providing retail, corporate, and investment banking services and supporting over 12,000 corporate clients through financing, leasing, and factoring solutions across the Polish economy.
• iOS Developer, 4+

13. OpenAI (USA)
• iOS Software Engineer, ChatGPT Engineering
$185K – $385K + Offers Equity
• iOS Engineer 4+, Applied Foundations
$230K – $385K + Offers Equity
• iOS Engineer 4+, Monetization
$325K – $385K + Offers Equity
• iOS Engineer 5+, Social Products
$210K – $325K + Offers Equity

14. Yorkshire Building Society (Leeds, UK)
Yorkshire Building Society is a UK member-owned mutual founded about 160 years ago, serving 3 million members and managing around £61 billion in assets through its Yorkshire, Chelsea, and Norwich & Peterborough brands.
£55,000 - £60,000 + Bonus & Benefits
iOS Developer

15. Lightspeed (Canada)
Founded in Montréal in 2005, Lightspeed (NYSE/TSX: LSPD) is a global retail and hospitality commerce platform providing POS, omnichannel sales, payments, inventory, and analytics to help merchants in 100+ countries streamline operations and grow.
• Staff iOS Developer
• Staff iOS Developer
• Staff iOS Developer
• Staff iOS Developer

16. Whiteshield / UAE Federal Government Entity (Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on-site)
We are partnering with a UAE Federal Government Entity to help fill the following vacancy: iOS Developer
This is a full-time position that will be directly employed by our client, not Whiteshield. Our role is solely to assist in the recruitment process.
• iOS Developer

17. Lifesum (Stockholm, hybrid)
Lifesum is a global digital health platform that provides personalized nutrition insights, meal plans, recipes, and food and exercise tracking tools to help users build sustainable healthy eating habits and improve overall well-being.
50,000 – 65,000 SEK per month
• iOS Engineer

18. MLabs (New York, on-site)
Our client is developing a next-generation mobile trading platform designed to redefine the future of finance. Unlike simplified retail applications, this platform offers a full-featured trading experience, including live market data, complex order types, and multi-venue execution.
- $185K - $300K
Mobile App Engineer (Swift), 3+

19. Qode / GFT Technologies (Vietnam, hybrid)
Founded in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies SE (Xetra: GFT) is a global software engineering and consulting firm helping financial services, insurance, and manufacturing companies deliver digital transformation with cloud engineering, AI, and blockchain/DLT solutions.
- 6-month contract
Senior iOS Developer, 5+
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Adding text input actions to iOS push and local notifications
Learn how to let users reply directly inside a notification

Natascha Fadeeva explains how to add a text input (quick reply) action to iOS notifications using UNTextInputNotificationAction, register it inside a UNNotificationCategory, and set up a UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate service in a SwiftUI app.

She then shows how to handle the reply by casting the response to UNTextInputNotificationResponse and reading userText.

Apple replacing Core ML with modernized Core AI framework for iOS 27 at WWDC

Zac Hall reports that Apple may replace Core ML with a new “Core AI” framework at WWDC, aimed at making it easier for developers to integrate modern AI models into iOS 27 apps.

He notes Apple sees “machine learning” as a dated label, and the shift could signal a broader push toward more capable AI features across its platforms while reducing reliance on third-party tooling.

What's new in Swift: February 2026 Edition

The article recaps Swift community highlights from early 2026, especially Swift’s expanded presence at FOSDEM and notable talks like running Swift in the browser via WebAssembly. It also rounds up new Swift package releases, videos to watch, community updates, and key Swift Evolution proposals under review or recently accepted.

• Swift at FOSDEM + a Pre-FOSDEM fringe event; highlight: running Swift in the browser via WebAssembly (ElementaryUI).

• New package releases: FuzzyMatch, GraphQL for Vapor/Hummingbird, SQLClient-Swift (MS SQL), TuiKit/Noora (terminal UI/CLI), Swift System Metrics 1.0.

• Videos: agentic apps/MCP, Xcode 26 coding intelligence code-along, Swift SDK for Android, SwiftCrossUI, Swift on Arduino (CoreAVR + ArduinoKit).

• Community: Swift joins Google Summer of Code 2026; profiling Swift apps with Tracy.

• Swift Evolution: proposals under review (SE-0514, SE-0513) and recently accepted (SE-0506, SE-0502).

SwiftUI Tip

In iOS 26+, use listSectionMargins() to control a List section’s padding (horizontal and vertical).

Perfect for card-style insets or edge-to-edge.

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SwiftUI Tip

You can add a built-in find & replace bar to a TextEditor using findNavigator(), so users can search and replace text directly inside the editor.

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SwiftUI Tip

In iOS 18+, you can bind a TextField to TextSelection to programmatically control the selection.

For example, auto “Select All” on focus.

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SwiftUI Tip

In iOS 18+, use scrollPosition() to make a ScrollView jump to a specific item.

In this example, we start at row 50, then jump to the first row (top) by changing scrollID.

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How Speechify is evolving into a hands-free AI assistant

Speechify is evolving from a text-to-speech app into a hands-free AI assistant by adding voice AI chat, voice typing, and deep iOS integrations (App Intents, Spotlight), while keeping much of its speech tech on-device via its SIMBA model and Core ML.

It also explains the founders’ personal motivation (dyslexia/ADHD, visual impairment) and how that shaped a product now used by tens of millions of people.

Modern Navigation in SwiftUI

Sebastien Lato explains modern SwiftUI navigation, focusing on NavigationStack and NavigationPath for programmatic flows, deep linking, per-tab navigation stacks and clean data passing between screens.

He also covers when to use sheet vs. fullScreenCover, sheet detents, resetting to root and why a central Router/Routes layer makes navigation scalable.

Initializing @Observable classes within the SwiftUI hierarchy

The article explains how @Observable models behave in SwiftUI and why they should usually be stored in @State so their state is not lost when views are recreated.

It also covers when to defer initialization with task, and when app-wide shared observable state should be created in the App struct and passed through the environment.