Apple Design creating all sorts of rules so that our apps adhere to their standards of fit and finish (even throwing your icons in squircle jail in Tahoe) makes me feel like they have gone full-blown HOA.
Mac OS X Tiger was more like those cute/quaint towns with character and Tahoe is the result of gentrification and knocking all that down for McMansions/Cookie-cutter homes with HOAs.
Your app has to go through everything they want and fit their mold.
macOS Tahoe:
The Group Labs at #WWDC25 were fun and informative, providing information and context not available in the videos and dev docs.
If you missed any, DTS has published transcripts on the Developer Forums:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/search?sortBy=relevance&q=A%20Summary%20of%20the%20WWDC25%20Group%20Lab
In iOS 26 we have a new framework called AlarmKit for scheduling alarms and timers that cut through silent mode and Focus. I've been experimenting with countdown timers and wrote a detailed post walking through the setup: https://nilcoalescing.com/blog/CountdownTimerWithAlarmKit
#iOSDev #WWDC25
Real world #liquidglass TabBar in action #wwdc25
Was #liquidglass invented by Smart cars? #wwdc25
This is sort of what I was afraid of in #macOSTahoe. There are inconsistencies even with menu items consistent across all apps, like the About... menu item.
Some of Apple's apps don't have an icon. Some do, it is the "i" in a circle. Then you got Photos which luckily has a Photos icon in SF Symbols they can use.
I still maintain icons should only be reserved for contextual menus with only a handful of items OR NSMenuToolbarItem.
Not to mention the jagged labels it causes too...
@chockenberry I'm dropping a link to this thread in my #WWDC25 notes. I suspect my future self will thank me. My current self thanks YOU! 
This is me more and more every day…
Also, Wiam's video on Profiling and optimizing power usage was a good one too! Fantastic presenter.
I *live* for the more technical #WWDC25 videos like this one: Optimize CPU performance with Instruments
I just feel like they really go in deep with concrete examples and explanations.
I think for iOS, I will just keep it more like the original with a dark blue background for light mode and the standard black for dark mode. I haven't decided for watchOS yet though...
Continuing my journey on updating my app icon for Liquid Glass. Keep in mind, my app icon is already 10 years old… so yeah, pretty outdated.
I had to modify the original to separate out the map pin and make it a solid P rather than just an outline of it.
I’m sorta wondering if I should also make a dark background for light-mode. It’s always been dark so having a green background is semi-weird.
macOS Tahoe removed the menu bar background but Beta 2 brings it back via a setting toggle in System Settings... which is great.
Options are good. But why remove UI that is helpful just to make it a setting? It just pollutes System Settings. Maybe just leave the UI alone?
This talk from #wwdc25 is a must watch! Shows one how to tackle concurrency in real apps, a lot of interesting clues on how to approach errors and warnings, how to (practically) refactor things to make it work and a list of concepts you may want to look up 
#Swift https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/270
Ooooooof. 
This is not going well... I need a lot more refinement but at first stab, not great. No because why you gotta make me change my app icon?! ughhh
Liquid Glass is now 30% frostier thanks to being supercharged by Apple Intelligence and iOS 26! We know you'll enjoy this update as much as we do!
And just like that: frostier glass
#Apple #Technology #Design #WWDC25
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It looks like the Now Playing floating view got a bit more opaque in Beta 2. (cc @keir) -- but damn, they're really pushing this. Still not great in terms of legibility.
The most important info bits and controls are getting deemphasized so much with this design. Also now with text up in the toolbar, that is also nearly impossible to see/read.
Most glassmorphic (a portmanteau of ‘glass’ and ‘skeuomorphic’) designs have a more frosted look than what Apple went with in the Liquid Glass design system
That lends itself to better readability, but I think Apple doesn’t want to go that route, a lot of the refraction and chromatic aberration they’ve designed wouldn’t be as prevalent if it were frosted in line with most glassmorphic design systems
Interested to see how the betas play out
I learned that if I just re-introduce NSTitlebarAccessoryViewController back to my app (I used to use it to display titles back in the day), I can get my opaque toolbars back.
Ignore the double titles for now, but this is what it would look like. (I wonder if I can trick it and make it like 1 pt in height and just leave it blank.)
But hey, at least I get my opaque toolbars back! :)
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