Joe Cieplinski
If, like me, you were bummed about the new iOS 26 behavior of searchable hiding all your other toolbar items while search is active, I got a pro-tip from one of the SwifUI engineers at Apple’s Developer Center today:
.searchPresentationToolbarBehavior(.avoidHidingContent)
That will ensure your toolbar items remain visible while the search bar is active.
To be clear, I actually think the default of hiding the buttons is a good thing. I’m just glad I can turn it off when I absolutely need a button present.
(Note: The search bar does take over the bottom toolbar on iOS, so don’t put anything in the .bottomBar of your toolbar if you are using searchable. Bad things will happen. Especially if that button appears or disappears as a result of search text changes.)
Protip: If you are looking for the easy way to get those new “Done” buttons in toolbars iOS 26, with the glass checkmark circle that’s tinted to your accent color:
Button(role: .confirm) {
dismiss()
}
.tint(.accentColor)
Took me way too long to figure that one out.
The close buttons with the X (which should not get tinted) are role: .close. If you tint that, it’ll tint the symbol, not the glass behind it. But you really shouldn’t tint anything in a toolbar except for a primary action anyway.
Oh, and forget setting the foregroundStyle on these buttons. The system will override any foregroundStyle because it attempts to auto-change the style depending on what’s under it. So if your accent color conflicts with whatever color it’s trying to tint the symbol, you’re out of luck.
Long story short: don’t bother playing with glass effects in toolbar buttons. There be dragons. The glass is already there.
I just had a serious back and forth with Claude, having to work to convince it that the current year is actually 2025.
Tell me again how this technology is going to take over the world any day now?
I love that Claude can write me a complex script to scrape a web site for data and format it into JSON, and yet when it comes time to pay them, I still need to manually type in my city, state, and zip code.
Seriously, Silicon Valley. Learn to walk before you run.
If Apple’s AI for summarizing app reviews were any good, it would convert 99% of them to “I’m a cheap bastard.”
In case it’s not obvious to more than the morons involved, YOU DO NOT CONDUCT DETAILED MILITARY OPERATIONS PLANNING ON AN IPHONE APP.
Particularly not one where it’s trivial to accidentally invite a rando into the chat thread.
Mind-boggling levels of moron here. I was not aware being this stupid was even possible.
Every time I think I’m getting the hang of this whole programming thing, I find a bug where I’m dividing by zero somewhere.
(Math is hard.)
“Gulf of America” is the new “Freedom Fries.” Fake, flag waiving patriotism at its worst. No one will remember it ten years from now.
Apple, pretty please, with a cherry on top, can I swap the Sports tab for a Puzzles tab in the News+ app?
At least I was able to make a Home Screen Shortcut.
I will have more to say later when I do a more formal launch, but for those of you who like to make the occasional cocktail (or N/A drink) at home, and want some way to keep track of your recipes, I made a thing.
iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS native.
(And yes, there will be a Mac version as well. I just don’t think it’s ready yet.)
