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Once, the App Store empowered indie creators - small teams could launch great apps and find users easily. But in 2025, that era feels long gone, with algorithms, big players, and pay-to-win discoverability reshaping everything. Is there still a real chance for indie iOS developers today, or has Apple’s evolving ecosystem made independent success nearly impossible?

Create a static widget kit based widget for watchKit. Use swiftUI and an image. IE on 42mm you can import a 141x141 image at 2x. Import a 141x141 image in the widget and load it in swiftUI. In watchOS 11.x simulator the image will allow up to the size for X Large circles, and on os26, it will not load and complain the image is too large and report the area for the smaller circle, IE 89x89 @ 2x for 41mm Also submitted a feedback ticket FB20506200 This is a big issue b/c the size difference for X large circles v the smaller circles is really large. To get existing images to load I am having to resize them down 75-80% on OS26 in the X Large complication.

Hey everyone, I’ve noticed a big drop in my keyword rankings lately, and it seems linked to Apple’s recent ASO update that’s been trending on Twitter. Has anyone figured out what changed? It looks like app titles may now have less impact on rankings.

I have an iPad app with a classic sidebar. It's been working fine for years. Now with iPadOS 26 the sidebar sometime gets this fake transparency that makes it really hard to quickly grok. A part of Liquid Glass seems to be to sometimes (but not always) take whatever is in the secondary area (the main big content), blur it, mirror it and then use as the background for the sidebar. This is silly and does not work at all for an app like mine. It maybe looks decent if your background is a photo or similar, but not for an app that manages data. Not all views cause the sidebar to get this ugly unreadable background. In most of the cases the sidebar keeps its normal opaque background that it has always had. See this example for how it looks when it's really bad: This is how it should look. Notice that the content of the main view is pretty similar to the case where it gets the ugly background. The difference is the segmented thing at the top, ie. a different root view. Is there some good way for me to force

Mostly a heads up, maybe this will help other people. I had a very simple test app for MacOS, just a ViewController with an OutlineView that had two columns, and the column data was initialized in awakeFromNib of the NSViewController like this: override func awakeFromNib() { if dataArray.count == 0 { dataArray.append( Node( firstname: John, lastname: Doe ) ) dataArray.append( Node( firstname: Mary, lastname: Smith ) ) } self.content = dataArray } There's also a toolbar with a button and a search field. This worked perfectly fine on Sequoia and Xcode 16, but since I updated to Tahoe and Xcode 26, if I try to run/debug the app from Xcode it hangs and eventually crashes. If Debug Executable is enabled in the scheme the crash is in libMainThreadChecker with EXC_BAD_ACCESS, and without debug it's a crash report with Thread stack size exceeded due to excessive recursion. I found that if I moved the self.content assignment inside the if block the problems went away: override func awakeFromNib() { if dataArray.count

We build mobile apps for creators to edit their videos. Post editing the video, the creator has to export the video so that it can be uploaded to Youtube. The export is a time consuming and GPU intensive process. The creator can exit the app due to various reasons like receiving the call, putting the app in background etc. This causes the export to fail :( Keeping this limitation in mind there was an announcement from Apple that with the IOS 26 launch would start to support background GPU access. Here is the official documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/BundleResources/Entitlements/com.apple.developer.background-tasks.continued-processing.gpu When we tried using this feature, we were not able to get it to work on IOS 26. We stumbled upon this ticket(https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/797538?answerId=854825022#854825022) in the Apple Developer forum, in which possibly an Apple engineer claims it is supported ONLY for iPadOS 26. This is a very big bummer for us. 96% of the us

This is my first time installing the developer beta, and i found Calls, Contacts, Messages App keep no response for most of the time, only can run sometime after i have reboot my iphone 16 pro… I forgot to back up my phone before installing the 26.1beta, what can i do now as it is a big problem for cant receiving calls and messages most of the time…

Hi! We've recently done a big migration to Swift 6 language mode in our app and are now getting reports of crashes occurring due to closures in our SwiftUI code (most often the view builder in ForEach) not running on the main queue but instead running on the queue com.apple.SwiftUI.AsyncRenderer. One example of a call stack (ScheduleListView is our view that is in Swift 6 mode): Thread 16 #0 (null) in _dispatch_assert_queue_fail () #1 (null) in dispatch_assert_queue$V2.cold.1 () #2 (null) in dispatch_assert_queue () #3 (null) in swift_task_isCurrentExecutorWithFlagsImpl(swift::SerialExecutorRef, swift::swift_task_is_current_executor_flag) () #4 (null) in closure #2 in closure #1 in closure #1 in ScheduleListView.body.getter () #5 (null) in closure #1 in ForEachState.item(at:offset:) () #6 (null) in partial apply for closure #1 in ForEachState.item(at:offset:) () #8 (null) in partial apply for closure #1 in _withObservation(do:) () .... (We have many other crashes with similar crash reports but in oth

Hi all, As you know, when using SwiftData Cloudkit, all relationships are required to be optional. In my app, which is a list app, I have a model class Project that contains an array of Subproject model objects. A Subproject also contains an array of another type of model class and this chain goes on and on. In this type of pattern, it becomes really taxxing to handle the optionals the correct way, i.e. unwrap them as late as possible and display an error to the user if unable to. It seems like most developers don't even bother, they just wrap the array in a computed property that returns an empty array if nil. I'm just wondering what is the recommended way by Apple to handle these optionals. I'm not really familiar with how the CloudKit backend works, but if you have a simple list app that only saves to the users private iCloud, can I just handwave the optionals like so many do? Is it only big data apps that need to worry? Or should we always strive to handle them the correct way? If that's the case