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Swift News: My WWDC Highlights & Trip, SwiftUI Q&A & App Store Removals

Published 2 months ago • 1 min read

June 17th, 2026

​Swift News - Video Version - Get my thoughts on the articles below.

​WWDC​

Another WWDC has come and gone and I'm really happy with what was announced. We got some new stuff, but seems like a good year for stability and Siri finally works as advertised. I do a rapid fire recap in the video version of Swift News so check that out and see a bunch of links to cool stuff in the Swift News Repo.

​SwiftUI Group Lab - Beginner Q&A​

Apple held a few different group labs where they took questions from developers. In case you can't catch the videos, Anton has compiled to Q&A in text form. He also did if for the SwiftUI (non-beginner) Group Lab and the Coding Intelligence & AI Group Lab. There's a lot of good stuff in these.

​Apple-Like​

David Smith shares his thoughts on what it means for an app to be "Apple-like". What makes Apple.... Apple? He discusses concepts: The Best, then Better. Excellence for Everyone. Beneficial and Brilliant. The article is worth your time.

​App Store Removal​

Apple has updated the App Store Review Guidelines (specifically that Spam section) to say that they may remove apps from the app store that are no longer updated, improved, or fail to get customers. This was just announced, so I'm VERY curious to see how they execute this. I agree with the overall sentiment to clean up the App Store and raise the bar. But I could also see this going badly.

​Bitrig: Build Native Swift Apps with AI​

Imagine Codex or Claude Code if they were built from the ground up (by the creators of SwiftUI at Apple) to build premium, high-quality, native Swift apps for Apple platforms. That's Bitrig. The team is shipping new features on a weekly basis to create the best agentic engineering experience for Apple platform developers.

​Eraser: Cleaner for Xcode​

Xcode builds up gigabytes of storage over time. Eraser saves you time and easily cleans up Derived Data, Project Archives, and Device support. You can manually delete these from a convenient menu bar app, or you can set up intelligent automations so you don't even have to think about it.

Till next time,

Sean

Sean Allen

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