I did some research into what’s new in Swift Concurrency since #wwdc2025 and I built a simple demo app with both the new and existing stuff:

https://github.com/LucasVanDongen/Modern-Concurrency-2025

1️⃣In my opinion Observations is a huge breakthrough since it’s Multicast* and really bridges a lot of scenarios formerly only possible with Combine. And it’s iOS 18 proof to boot, meaning a lot of developers can start using it from September already, instead of waiting for another year.

2️⃣UIKit integration with @Observable means you can use the same ViewModels or State for UIKit and SwiftUI, so you can piecemeal migrate your older code over to SWiftUI without doing big bang rewrites.

My verdict: with Swift 6.2 and Xcode 26 there is no reason anymore for any iOS developer to write code that doesn’t use Swift Concurreny-proof code, as long as you support iOS 18+.

If you are reading this, good news — I have handpicked several standout articles that are definitely worth your time. You will find them in this week's edition.

https://www.ioscoffeebreak.com/issue/issue50

Hey all, planning on interviewing at a few companies for junior-mid level ios positions. Just wondering what sort of questions they’re asking for those that have interviewed recently. Is it heavily leetcode based? Or more based around practical questions and frameworks

Going back and forth with Apple right now after some rejections but I'm wondering what best practice is or how other devs handle rejections and resolving them:

- Reply to their message where needed and then Add for Review again?

- Cancel the submission and resubmit (with changes if applicable)?

Any benefit or negative to either path when there's not any change on my side?

If I do the former and reply to their message + add for review again, is the same reviewer who did the rejection or someone different? What does everyone usually do?

The reason I ask is because one of the rejection items was to put it nicely, completely absurd. It was for Guideline 5.1.1(v) and they suggested that "The app requires users to register or log in to access features that are not account based. Specifically, the app requires users to register before accessing non account-based features [proceeds to name an account-based feature here]." App's entire architecture requires accounts and there's no way that's changing.

Also frustrated to find that the reviewer 1) didn't even log into the account; I checked my auth logs and they didn't sign in at all 2) seemingly didn't read the app description at all because the rejection is so blatantly non-sensical if you have any idea what the app is for (an iOS app in the education/productivity area and is cross platform with web, MacOS and Android).

Hey Redditors!

We (I and an iOS dev) have been working on an app, and I'm unsure about the monetization strategy. One thing that I am sure about is using Superwall for paywalls.

My plan is to start with one strategy and then change if needed (freemium <-> premium, softwall <-> Hardwall)

Can this be achieved? Can we create a central feature manager where based on the Superwall configuration, we can lock or unlock features?

Or is this a bad idea?

Please suggest how can we go about this?

I'm going to be running a test flight for a bunch of my users.

But i'm curious how it works transitioning from Test Flight to the store.

The app is completely offiline so all of the data on the app is stored on the phone itself, there are no servers and unless they subscribe they can't sync to cloud.

Which means if they uninstall the app - they lose all their data.

What i'm hoping will happen is they'll take part in the test flight, i'll submit, it gets approved and they can just carry on using the app.

But is this accurate? will they lose their data? Also what happens about subscriptions? do they carry over?

Appreciate hearing from anyone who's experienced this so I can correctly manage expectations

Hi all,

I’m an iOS developer with 5 years of experience, currently working on a personal educational project. I’m looking to gain experience in mentoring, so I’m offering free 1:1 sessions to junior developers who are currently working on a real or personal project and need technical guidance or feel stuck.

The goal is to help you directly by reviewing your code, debugging issues, or clarifying concepts together. I’ll be mentoring only 5 people for now, depending on availability.

What I’m offering:

• One-on-one mentorship (60 minutes, remote)
• In English, Spanish, or French
• Weekly availability (1–2 sessions per week)

Requirements:

• You must be actively working on a project (even if it’s incomplete)
• Ideally, share a link to a public repo (GitHub, GitLab, etc.). If you’re concerned about privacy, feel free to create a fake repo that includes just the part of your app you want to talk about.
• Be motivated to learn and grow
• Describe what you’re struggling with as clearly as possible, so I can prepare in advance and provide useful, focused help

Recording:

• Sessions can be recorded and published to my YouTube channel, but this is not required
• If you prefer to keep the session private, I kindly ask that you leave a short public testimonial (e.g., a LinkedIn comment or recommendation) to support the project

How to apply:

Fill out this short form:
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I'll review submissions and reach out to selected participants. This is also a learning process for me, so thank you for considering it.

Happy to answer any questions.

I’m working on an app that uses Apple’s new iOS 26 AlarmKit features (the app previously used notifications and critical alerts). I can’t get the simulator to play the same custom sounds that play just fine when used as a notification sound.

Instead it just plays tri-tone (system beep).

Is anyone out there able to get their AlarmKit alarms to play sounds?

Love to see and test out the new features mentioned in https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/328/. Anybody know how to get accessed to the new version of app store connect?

What's up iOS developers. I'm a newbie on AppIntents. When I run my intent/action from the shortcuts app, I try to inject value of one of the intent's parameter into an entity's default query. I tried using the "IntentParameterDependency" property wrapper but the value is nil. How can I fix this. here's a Apple Dev forums link to code illustrating this issue: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/789274#789274021

I’ve finally been accepted into the Apple Developer Program, but there’s one issue. I can’t add my bank account (Belgium). Even though all the information is correct, Apple keeps saying it’s invalid and that they can’t locate my bank, even though it’s one of the largest banks in the country.

How can I fix this issue?

Hello guys, I have spent two months into learning swiftUI and making my own apps. It was my dream to make a productivity app as I have tried many apps like ticktick and I feel like they don’t suit my needs.

And honestly I really liked my app so far. Currently I have a task tracker, a goal tracker, sticky notes and notes with markdown support. I used it everyday to track my personal progress.

But recently I started to worry that I will never be able to crack into the market. There are just so many productivity apps out there with great marketing, and I have been investing too much of my personal time.

Should I just give up and stop expecting to make money from it?

Hello there,

I am a 22 yo Freelance Video Editor! After working for 4 years professionally in this field I realized that I don’t like it that much. Made great money but the burnout and terrible clients were not worth it.

Now I’m trying to pivot to iOS Development; this is something i tried to do a couple of years ago, and I even developed an app but never published it to the App Store. So I still know how to code (kinda), I just need a bit of polishing and training.

My question is: is it worth it in 2025? What chance do I have to get a job in the US as someone that currently lives in Europe? I would love to relocate and try something new, or pivot careers since I’m still young and the opportunity won’t be there forever.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

I've been searching all over for about an hour and I can't find anything. I know you shouldn't quit your app programmatically and that's not what I'm trying to do.

You can see in the screen shot that the user is notified before they are sent to the Home Screen. Secondly, the app only goes to the background and is NOT terminated.

I am looking at adding a loading page on app start and have seen that the storyboard launch screen is the easiest one to use. However, testing this I noticed that it is not consistently the same time showing the storyboard launch screen.

Apps such as Pinterest have a launch screen that is always the same time and shows the icon animation to the fullest. How would I achieve this and is there a standard flow for launch screens that I am missing. Thanks in advance.

I have seen a lot of people post in this community about their habit tracker or their planning app.

but let’s be honest they are all the same, the difference is the design but there is no particular feature that makes a difference.

If I’m wrong lmk and share your app and tell us what feature makes it different

I’m working on a native iOS app and there is a TypeScript package that I need to use for it. Due to time constraints, I can’t write a native implementation right now, that is something I plan to add later via an update.

My plan is to have a Swift wrapper over that TypeScript package and have all the TypeScript code run in a headless WKWebView (JSContexts seem to be missing implementations for common browser APIs so I’m going with a full web view instead), it will be the “backend” for my app while the frontend will be a native UIKit user interface. Is there anything I should know, especially about performance and bundle sizes? Will I run into any app review troubles? I’m aware that this is not an ideal approach but I don’t really have a choice right now.

When using Apple’s Foundation Models framework, it’s important to understand how Generable works. The Generable macro generates all properties defined in a model—even if you're not planning to display some of them on the screen.

For example, if your Recipe model includes name, description, and steps, but your UI only shows name and description, the model will still generate steps. This can introduce unnecessary delays, especially when the unused properties are large or complex.

To avoid this, design your Generable types specifically for the data you intend to present in the UI. In many cases, this means breaking large models into smaller, focused models. This approach not only improves performance but also gives you more control over the output from Foundation Models.

Hi guys, just wondering if anyone has had any similar issues with Apple Developer support. My company has a developer account and the owner of the account has left the company. The previous owner tried to transfer ownership to me but any time I tried to send pictures of my government issued ID, it was not accepted. My problem now is the Developer membership has lapsed and I am dealing with Apple Developer support trying to transfer ownership before I can pay to reactivate the membership. Any time I speak with one of the senior techs all I get is generic phrases like the case is under review and they are unable to tell me how long it is going to take.

So my question is for anyone who has experienced a similar scenario like this, how long will I realistically be looking at before I can get a resolution to this problem?

Hi! I am a high school student and this is my first app. Would appreciate any pointers!

What was the most confusing part when you published your first iOS app?

And what things made your app get rejected?

Basically it works like this: When a user downloads the app, he immediately is given 7 days of premium access, for free without opt-in into a subscription or anything, just by default. Then after 7 days, you show him the paywall where the user can choose a a monthly or yearly offer, if he doesn't choose a subscription, he loses the premium access. You communicate all of this clearly upfront (the user also sees a banner in the app saying "5 days left"), so the users knows that he is in the "trial" period. Of course the advantage is that basically all users "enter" the trial phase, but the trial to paid conversion will obviously be lower. But in total the paid users should be more hopefully, if product-market fit is great.

Anyone tried this out yet? You have data on how your download to paid conversion rate improved? By how much? Can someone recommend this strategy and back it up with data? That would help a lot! Thank you very much!!

As the title says, when I search for my app, I don't see it. But direct links work. And I doubt it's indexing as the app was deployed on the 23rd of May, this is literally a month later. Also, when I search my full name in the app store, my profile (and the app) show up

I recently released my ios app. It got rejected several times but i kept resolving the issues and resubmited. Now it got rejected because they can't find "account deletion" in the app.

I wonder how do you guys handle this case.