all bangers 📍James Dempsey and the Breakpoints, Live in Seattle

My understanding of Icon Composer variants was wrong. I thought the OS rendered different icons as needed on demand. Instead these are all generated at build time and live in your app bundle. I made a bunch of alt icons with image layers and my assets.car ballooned way more than expected. (4-5X!)

“Everything app-side executed correctly. The chain died in Siri’s hands.”

At WWDC 2016, Apple introduced SiriKit with a sample app called UnicornChat. SiriKit was organized around domains, each with a set of predefined intents, each with its own set of predefined parameters.

At WWDC 2026, Apple introduced Siri AI with a sample app called UnicornChat. App Intent schemas are organized around domains, each with a set of predefined intents, each with its own set of predefined parameters.

So what’s changed? Everything, and nothing. The promise of a personalized Siri that can take action across your apps has been there since iOS 10. Will iOS 27 finally deliver it?

Going to Apple Park for WWDC is great.

Having Xcode 27 up and running with my cat on my lap before the State of the Union starts is also great.

AirPods pairing sheet in full sauce mode.

2026.3 brings Albums Matter to iPad, including support for key commands and the new Menu Bar. My favorites are ⌘Y to quickly jump through the years and ⌘R to roll the dice.

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Albums Matter 2026.2 with CarPlay is live on the App Store!

Albums Matter was built with MusicKit, SwiftUI and Swift Data. On the accessibility front, it has full support for VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Dynamic Type.

My new iOS app is live! Albums Matter helps you rediscover the best albums of each year as selected by the global KEXP community. Browse 7500+ albums, 250+ lists and 90+ DJs going back 30+ years. Requires an active Apple Music subscription.

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My orca Genmoji has been Sherlocked. Thank you for your service.

I’ll just add CarPlay real quick. It will be easy! 🫠

Any examples of apps with good first time experiences for VoiceOver users?

Any apps that have crafted a VoiceOver specific onboarding, rather than just making the visual onboarding accessible?

person on the the street lighting a smoke through their Vision Pro

Apple removed my app from the App Store for an intellectual property violation for using the word Siri in my app description to promote my App Shortcut.

I’ve fallen into an App Review sarlacc pit and it’s getting bleak.

I’m presenting tonight at Xcoders Seattle! My talk is called “Tapping Into Visual Intelligence in iOS 26“. We’ll be wiring up an app integration into the system using App Intents, Core Video and Vision frameworks. xcoders.org/2025/09/0…

Just got a response from a feedback I filed last September. The Siri logo has been added in the new SF Symbols 7 beta. Would they have done this anyway? Maybe! But I’ll take the mini win.

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Please add SF Symbols to represent Siri. I would use this symbol to create my own user ed around utterances users can say as Shortcuts.

📍Apple Park, Cupertino, WWDC25

Two months from today I’m running my first half marathon and a few hours later I’m flying to my first WWDC.

Did the Siri AirPods affirmative head nod as I was walking by someone on the street and it was weird.

Swift 6 concurrency migration in progress for Art Museum. One of the biggest areas is refactoring all the CloudKit code from completion handlers to async/await.

Submitted a new build of Art Museum to App Review! hope to share it with you soon

I started learning ASL this week!

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