654: Athletically Engaged
Episode
107 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Leadership, Design & UX, Marketing
AI-Generated Summary
Key Takeaways
- ✓iOS 26 Development Crisis: Developers face shipping delays due to unstable betas with animation bugs, layout issues, and broken system components appearing in beta 8. Many must comment out iOS 26-specific features or revert changes because bugs likely ship in GM build, forcing scaled-back releases.
- ✓SwiftUI Limitations: Implementing universal search with dot searchable component fails when trying to maintain search state across navigation screens. SwiftUI lacks concept of persistent search boxes across views, requiring developers to rescaffold components per screen or abandon modern system affordances entirely for custom solutions.
- ✓AppleCare One Failures: Apple's bundled warranty service costs $48 more annually than previous individual plans while covering fewer devices. System incorrectly flags Macs with multiple user accounts as violations, sends 24-hour email ultimatums threatening coverage cancellation, and generates unsustainable support call volumes requiring complete plan redesign.
- ✓Finder Performance Degradation: Moving or deleting thousands of files through Finder takes exponentially longer than command line tools. Copying 1,900 photos between Macs via Finder estimates 30-60 minutes while rsync completes identical transfer in 3 seconds, suggesting fundamental multi-file operation problems in modern macOS.
- ✓Thermal Management Priority: iPhone 17 Pro models implement vapor chamber cooling systems to address overheating issues, particularly sun-induced shutdowns. Apple emphasizes thermal improvements in marketing materials, though effectiveness against direct sunlight heating screens remains uncertain despite representing significant hardware advancement over previous thermal pad solutions.
What It Covers
iOS developers Marco Arment and Casey Liss detail their struggles adapting apps to iOS 26's liquid glass redesign, facing beta bugs, broken system components, and difficult decisions about adopting controversial UI changes while managing customer expectations and feature development delays.
Key Questions Answered
- •iOS 26 Development Crisis: Developers face shipping delays due to unstable betas with animation bugs, layout issues, and broken system components appearing in beta 8. Many must comment out iOS 26-specific features or revert changes because bugs likely ship in GM build, forcing scaled-back releases.
- •SwiftUI Limitations: Implementing universal search with dot searchable component fails when trying to maintain search state across navigation screens. SwiftUI lacks concept of persistent search boxes across views, requiring developers to rescaffold components per screen or abandon modern system affordances entirely for custom solutions.
- •AppleCare One Failures: Apple's bundled warranty service costs $48 more annually than previous individual plans while covering fewer devices. System incorrectly flags Macs with multiple user accounts as violations, sends 24-hour email ultimatums threatening coverage cancellation, and generates unsustainable support call volumes requiring complete plan redesign.
- •Finder Performance Degradation: Moving or deleting thousands of files through Finder takes exponentially longer than command line tools. Copying 1,900 photos between Macs via Finder estimates 30-60 minutes while rsync completes identical transfer in 3 seconds, suggesting fundamental multi-file operation problems in modern macOS.
- •Thermal Management Priority: iPhone 17 Pro models implement vapor chamber cooling systems to address overheating issues, particularly sun-induced shutdowns. Apple emphasizes thermal improvements in marketing materials, though effectiveness against direct sunlight heating screens remains uncertain despite representing significant hardware advancement over previous thermal pad solutions.
Notable Moment
One developer describes receiving Apple support confirmation that AppleCare One's design flaws generate unsustainable call volumes, yet the support person believes Apple won't change the single-Apple-ID restriction because allowing family sharing would reduce revenue despite making logical sense for customers with multiple household devices.
Episode Transcript
I have to tell you I'm having sad. Oh, what's going on? First of all, I have a cold, which is why I sound funny. So let me just get that out right in front of everything. But, Me me too, sort of. But it's summer. You're not supposed to have a seat. Yeah. My daughter came down with something right before she's gonna go to school, and she decided to give it to everybody. So, anyway, here we are. Similarly, my daughter went to school and shared all those germs with all of us, which is delightful. School is the source of all germs, especially, like, when young children go to school for the first time, like preschool or kindergarten. Oh, that's where all viruses come from. Yep. But, you know, certainly, it doesn't get that much better as they get through the older grades. Yeah. No. It's so true. So I'm having a sad because I had a really solid plan for a light redesign of call sheet for iOS 26. And the gist of it is is that I was going to move to the system, In in SwiftUI, it's dot searchable, but the system, search box and search affordances, which I am not using in call sheet because you couldn't put them at the bottom of the screen until very recently. And then I forget why I didn't do it after that, but I think there was very little control over over whether or not it was focused for a while. They they've been chipping away at all these problems over the years. But, I I've been over the last few days because I've been real late on starting my work on this because of all the things going on in my life, which everything's fine, but it's been a lot. And so I'm really dug in the last few days. I was feeling really good. Like, the direction in my mind, I'm feeling great about. I really think that this is gonna be awesome. I'm gonna use the system search affordance at the bottom of the screen, and the only problem with that is is you navigate into sub screens. You gotta, like, kinda quietly, like, rescaffold a new one of those because each individual screen, each individual view wants to have its own. You can't there's no real idea of a universal search box, but I was like, okay. I think I can get this. I think I can get this. And then as I'm, like, starting to do the thing that no one should ever do is I'm starting to try to bend SwiftUI. And I'm try and I'm bending it, and I'm bending it, and I'm bending it. And today bends about as well as Tim Cook. Exactly. And so today, I'm pretty sure I heard a crack, and that was SwiftUI breaking. And so I'm having a sad because I really think if I if I could have done this and …
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