"Apps violating guidelines may face removal from the store." Fresh App Store changes, Performance Improvement Plans, Icon Composer 2 tips and gotchas. New Hide My Email problems, group and volume subscriptions, moving subscription handling to your server and loss of App Store Connect's Trends tab.

Chapters

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:14 Apple's crackdown on early review prompts
• 04:05 Removing App Store "clutter"
• 08:47 Developer Performance Improvement Plans
• 13:28 Icon Composer gotchas and tips
• 17:41 Problematic changes to Sign in with Apple & Hide My Email
• 22:38 Group & volume subscriptions
• 30:54 Moving StoreKit handling to your server
• 38:48 App Store Connect loses Trends tab?!
• 41:20 Wrap-up

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Grandma’s Marathon
• App Review Guidelines
• WWDC 2024 App Store server APIs
• WWDC 2026 Group subscriptions
• Icon Composer 2
• Relay Team Finder (TestFlight beta)
• The Midst (app)
• OpenAI omni-moderation API

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer

Drew and Dan chat about WWDC 2026: Parental controls, Siri improvements, Liquid Glass’ new volume knob, Foundation Models enhancements, MacOS Golden Gate, enhancements to Swift, SwiftUI, Xcode and more. Plus, saying goodbye (to UIDesignRequiresCompatibility and Intel Macs).

Chapters

• 00:00 WWDC 2026 Keynote Overview
• 03:03 Liquid Glass gets a Volume Knob
• 05:59 Child Protection Features and Parental Controls
• 08:52 Siri Improvements and User Experience
• 11:53 New Features in macOS Golden Gate
• 14:51 Apple Intelligence and Foundation Models
• 17:56 Swift UI and Observable Properties
• 23:24 Enhancements in Swift and Swift UI
• 27:11 Exploring Xcode 27 and Watch OS Development
• 29:22 Understanding App Intents and Schemas
• 32:23 Platform Improvements and Accessibility Challenges
• 36:18 Transitioning to New Technologies and Features

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• Drew’s YouTube live stream coding channel, @DrewBensonCodes

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• WWDC 2026 Keynote
• WWDC 2026 Platforms State of the Union
• Donny Wals on The Difference between Macros and Property Wrappers

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer

Drew and Dan explore how a single line of text in a public repo can ruin your day, what happens when AI coding agents go off the rails near your data, and the thorny questions of AI safety and ethics. Google has bad news for back-button hijackers. Drew shares lessons learned and challenges from making his apps accessible, and the two get into how optimizing for the wrong metric can quietly steer AI somewhere nobody intended.

Chapters

• 00:00 Google Punishing Back-Button Hijackers
• 02:31 Data Nuking Prompt Injection
• 12:43 App Accessibility Lessons and Challenges
• 20:48 AI Metrics and Unintended Consequences

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• Drew’s YouTube live stream coding channel, @DrewBensonCodes

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Google Punishing Back-Button Hijacking - Google’s policy
• Data Nuking Prompt Injection
• Accessibility Nutrition Labels
• Drew’s MacOS Agent Smith agent harness
• Drew’s Sight Words: First Words Match app
• Drew’s FunVoice Reverse Audio Singing app
• Goodhart’s Law

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer