Writing

Notes from the build process

Engineering, design and product writing from the team - the decisions behind what we ship, and what we would do differently.

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Engineering

16 Sept 20263 min read

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

The rebuilt Siri shipped as a beta with a long list of exclusions. Read that list before you promise a client a voice-driven feature this year.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Engineering

16 Sept 20262 min read

watchOS 27 moves discovery into the Smart Stack

The Smart Stack now suggests widgets contextually and opens them with a one-handed tap. On the watch, that is where your app gets found.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Engineering

16 Sept 20263 min read

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

Golden Gate adds a slider that moves the interface from clarity to tint. Any hierarchy your app builds out of translucency is now user-adjustable.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Product

16 Sept 20263 min read

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

Apple's own Software Update screen mislabelled the year's biggest release. It is a good reminder of what launch week does to your support queue.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Product

16 Sept 20263 min read

Ask to Browse changes how child accounts use your app

New parental controls landed with iOS 27. If your app opens web pages or lets users share media, its behaviour on a child account just changed.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Product

16 Sept 20263 min read

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

Every September a client asks whether to require the new OS. The device list this year makes the answer clearer than usual, and it is still no.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Product

16 Sept 20263 min read

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

Faster networking and better spatial scenes make Vision Pro more capable this week. Capability was never the reason clients were not shipping there.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Design

16 Sept 20263 min read

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

Larger text is now available across more of the Apple TV interface. Ten-foot layouts tend to break at large sizes in ways nobody sees on a desk.

Pinkesh Gajera

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Engineering

16 Sept 20263 min read

Unshipped iOS 27 code hints Siri could run on other models

A developer found two disabled frameworks in iOS 27 that would let another model answer as Siri. Here is what to do with a finding like that: mostly nothing.

Pinkesh Gajera

Notes from the build processNotes from thebuild process

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

Notes from the build process