Solving actor-isolated protocol conformance related errors in Swift 6.2 Swift 6.2 comes with several quality of life improvements for concurrency. One of these features is the ability to have actor-isolated conformances to protocols. Another feature is that your code will now run on the main actor by default. This does mean that sometimes, you’ll run into compiler errors. In this blog post, I’ll explore […]
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What is @concurrent in Swift 6.2? Swift 6.2 is available and it comes with several improvements to Swift Concurrency. One of these features is the @concurrent declaration that we can apply to nonisolated functions. In this post, you will learn a bit more about what @concurrent is, why it was added to the language, and when you should be using @concurrent. […]
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Exploring tab bars on iOS 26 with Liquid Glass When your app has a tab bar and you recompile it using Xcode 26, you will automatically see that your tab bar has a new look and feel based on Liquid Glass. In this blog post, we’ll explore the new tab bar, and which new capabilities we’ve gained with the Liquid Glass redesign. I’ll also […]
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Setting default actor isolation in Xcode 26 With Swift 6.2, Apple has made a several improvements to Swift Concurrency and its approachability. One of the biggest changes is that new Xcode projects will now, by default, apply an implicit main actor annotation to all your code. This essentially makes your apps single-threaded by default. I really like this change because without this […]
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Opting your app out of the Liquid Glass redesign with Xcode 26 On iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and more, your apps will take on a whole new look based on Apple's Liquid Glass redesign. All you need to do to adopt this new style in your apps is recompile. Once recompiled, your app will have all-new UI components which means your app will look fresh and right […]
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