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Pinkesh Gajera is an iOS developer with more than ten years of experience and runs AppDook, a product studio in Surat, India. He writes here about Apple platform changes and what they mean for teams shipping client work.

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17 Sept 20264 min read

iPhone Duo ships on iOS 27.1 on 23 October, and its SDK is not out yet

Apple confirmed iPhone Duo runs iOS 27.1 at launch, with the Xcode 27.1 beta due later this month. That leaves weeks, not months. Here is how we are using them.

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iPhone Duo ships on iOS 27.1 on 23 October, and its SDK is not out yet

App Store multiseat subscriptions are now on by default. Decide before 22 October.

App Tracking Transparency gets a new EU prompt in iOS 27.2, and five countries get no choice

Apple shipped a feature in a beta and told you it is not shipping

If your app has an AI chat feature, the EU Kids Act now reaches it

Apple shipped a photo you can prove is real. You cannot check it yet.

iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max: more rows, not bigger text

Infinite scroll and streaks are about to be regulated

Your iPhone app is about to be resized on iPad

Siri AI is live, in English, on half your users' phones

watchOS 27 moves discovery into the Smart Stack

macOS 27 lets users dial back Liquid Glass. Design for that.

The iOS 27 update that says 26.7, and release-day support

Ask to Browse changes how child accounts use your app

iOS 27 shipped. Do not raise your deployment target yet.

visionOS 27 is good. That is still not a reason to quote it.

tvOS 27 expands text size controls. Check your TV app.

Unshipped iOS 27 code hints Siri could run on other models

Apple made on-device AI free for small studios. Here is the catch.

Apple wants 15% for sending users off-platform. Do the arithmetic first.

Xcode 27 removes the Liquid Glass opt-out. Audit before you recompile.

App Store age verification is an engineering requirement now, not a legal footnote

How to plan a release around Apple's beta cycle without gambling

Offline-first is a data-layer decision, not a feature you add later

Your app is fast on your phone. That is the problem.

Nobody designs the empty state, and it is the first thing users see

The release checklist we read out loud before every submission

Apple is rejecting low-effort apps. That is good news if you build real ones.

Why we will not quote a fixed price before discovery

Two million rejections a year is a design constraint, not a statistic

Privacy is becoming a product feature. Build it like one.

Mobile accessibility: the five things that actually matter

If Siri can act on your app, your app needs to be worth acting on

Push notifications people do not turn off

Liquid Glass was always going to be mandatory. Plan for forced migrations.

Choosing a backend for a mobile app, honestly

App Store screenshots are the ad, not the documentation

When a platform feature slips, do not let it take your roadmap with it

Technical debt: which to pay, which to keep

US link-outs after the Epic ruling: what changed for the apps we build

Model Context Protocol on iOS: interesting, and not yet a foundation

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