Sent feedback about the “required reason” APIs that we need to read the system boot time to destroy information about the system boot time that we get from UITouch.timestamp. (And yes, you could use UITouch.timestamp to help with fingerprinting.)
This trick does not work in Safari on iPadOS, because iPads are baby computers where you can’t select more than one thing at a time.
True, iPad is missing keyboard support in this case, but generally I find multiple selection easier on iPad. Multitouch dragging works fine for Safari tabs. It’s not uncommon I start dragging something on Mac then realise I can’t do what I want because there‘s only one pointer.
Is there a way to have the initialiser of an Objective-C class be migrated into Swift as a required init? This forces subclasses to override the initialiser, which is necessary for copying an instance of a subclass to return another instance of that subclass.
Received a Bluesky invitation code many many months after registering my interest. Now I can finally “join the early conversation”.
Looking forward to seeing people today for an NSLondon pub evening while Chris Eidhof is in London. www.meetup.com/nslondon/…
Accidentally left the iPad Simulator recording the screen for 7h 52m. The file is only 200 MB though. MPEG is efficient when there‘s no difference between the frames.
Back from a terrific weekend seeing friends in Berlin. I worked all day on the train from London over there and back, so it was time-effective without flying. 🚆
Pull to reload in Safari on iPad continues to be a bad feature. I often trigger it accidentally, there’s usually no logical reason why a webpage would reload in respose to this input, and there’s a reload button anyway.
We hit the 10,000 limit on TestFlight testers for PDF Viewer a while ago. Using the new filtering options, I removed the 10% of these that had never installed a build, so it’s now possible to sign up again.
Tip: Filtering within groups was unreliable. Filtering from “All Testers” worked better.
I’m really pleased how well our NSLondon events are going with our expanded organisers team. Great turnout and talks yesterday evening at Onfido.
When you get a new bug B with a description identical to an older bug A, and you can fix B by reverting the fix for A, but that fix didn’t include a test or concrete steps to reproduce.
I miss the Mac behaviour where some apps would quit automatically after closing their last window. Seems excessive needing to close and quit to get rid of an app. Perfect example of why I prefer working on my iPad.
Cool a new Swift conference in England, coming next May. swiftcraft.uk
Any recommendations for a plain text notes/scratchpad app with CloudKit sync? Importance: iPad > Mac > iPhone
Bear 1 hit the sweet spot. The Bear 2 editor is too non-standard. Tot adds angle brackets around pasted links. FSNotes has good UI but iCloud Drive sync works poorly for this.
Compiling an existing iOS codebase for visionOS breaks the deprecation cycle. You end up with deprecation warnings you can’t silence that aren’t actually a problem. We ought to be able to set our visionOS deployment target to -1.0 (two versions back) to match our iOS deployment target of 15.0.
With Xcode 15, is there a way to get rid of wireless options in the run destination picker? This keeps switching back to devices that aren‘t necessarily in the same room as me instead of the one that’s plugged in!
It’s really tempting seeing the try! Swift Tokyo conference announced for 2024. I had an amazing time there in 2019 and stayed in Japan to ski, hike and live in a little village by the sea. But I think I’ll stick with my no flying streak (since Jan 2020) and will ski in Austria instead.
Oh no I just tried turning on Sonoma’s new text size setting for system apps on my father’s Mac. Messed up the arrangement of the 153 items on the desktop. One of the most disruptive things I could have done.
Seeing a situation on our iOS app like this:
Warnings arrive every time in a sample app. Not sure how to debug this.
➡️ Innsbruck 🚆 Munich 🚆 Frankfurt 🚆 Brussels 🚆 London
Typing auto-completion is really good on macOS Sonoma; I feel more productive. Shame it‘s not as good on the iPad, which I think is because on the Mac this is on top of more robust auto-correction.
Nice surprise from the Apple event is that the OS updates are coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac this month. Xcode 15 RC includes the new SDK for both iOS and Mac. No awkwardness like previous years where the updates weren’t synced. Much credit for this: synced updates are really hard.
Updated my reading app for compatibility with iOS 17. In addition, the app now has an archive to keep articles around for easy reference.
Self-sizing table view cells were introduced in iOS 8 in 2014. No need to truncate lines of text! Took a few years for them to work well. I wrote some practical tips in 2018. Obviously this is the expectation with SwiftUI.
Apple Mail in 2023: One line for the subject should be all they need. 😐
Auto-correction with a hardware keyboard on iPad doesn’t seem better on iOS 17. Still need to manually accept suggestions for obvious typos, and as far as I can tell you still can’t accept suggestions with a keyboard. You can at least do it with a mouse now; previously only possible with a finger.
