John Haney ᯅ

Two years ago today, the Apple Vision Pro released and I have been using it nearly every day since. The visionOS platform keeps evolving and I’m excited to keep pushing the boundaries of spatial computing. In that time, I’ve been involved with shipping 5 public apps, and dozens of others. 🧵

The set list is officially out! 🎸 I've been looking forward to sharing this one. We've put together three days of conversations, practical sessions, and some really talented people from across the Swift and iOS development community. 🎟️ Get your tickets: ti.to/swiftsonic/s...

Happy  27.2 Release Candidate day, everyone! iOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Xcode are available Build numbers and links: johnhaney.com/apple-betas

Happy  27.2 beta 4, everyone! iOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS are available Xcode 27.2 beta 2 is the latest so far

You don’t close out the first-ever Swiftsonic with a fade-out. @twostraws.bsky.social, creator of Hacking with Swift, gets the final word. “The End of the Beginning” is THE FINAL CHORD at @swiftsonicconf.bsky.social! Get your pass: swiftsonicconf.com

Happy  27.2 beta 3 day, everyone! iOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS are available Xcode 27.1 Release Candidate is also available with iPhone Duo support

Happy  Xcode 27.2 beta 2 day, everyone!

Hey all you rockers! Get ready to pump up the music and hop aboard the Crazy Train, because we’re about to dial up the tempo for SWIFTSONIC! Early Access passes are officially wrapping up their outro on October 1. If you haven’t grabbed yours yet, now’s the time! swiftsonicconf.com#passes

OhioXR 2026 is Ohio's first cross-industry XR conference. I'll be doing a session on visionOS development for anyone who is interested in learning about the Apple Vision Pro ecosystem. #OhioXR2026 www.ohioxr.com

Happy  27.2 beta 2 day, everyone! iOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS, and watchOS are available No Xcode 27.2 beta update so far

It's time. The club is open. Episode one of Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club is live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFcG... appsyoucanmake.com/club #SwiftCodingClub

It's almost time. Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club premieres Sunday, September 20 at 00:00 UTC. For the US, that's tonight: 8:00 PM Eastern, Saturday, September 19 7:00 PM Central, Saturday, September 19 5:00 PM Pacific, Saturday, September 19 appsyoucanmake.com/club #SwiftCodingClub

Rotating the iPhone Duo simulator with Xcode 27.1. It looks like a left-handed UI in the last rotation to me 🤔👀

Happy  Xcode 27.1 beta day, everyone! Tools for building for iPhone Duo are available

Here's a peek at the intro for the Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club. Excited to share this with you on Sunday! appsyoucanmake.com/club #SwiftCodingClub

Things are starting to come together for Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club. Join us Sunday, September 20, 2026 #SwiftCodingClub appsyoucanmake.com/club

Happy  27.2 beta day, everyone! iOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS, watchOS are available No Xcode yet

Getting everything lined up for Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club. HStacks, VStacks, and ZStacks are how we do that in SwiftUI. More on that starting Sunday, Sept 20. #SwiftCodingClub appsyoucanmake.com/club @appsyoucanmake.bsky.social

The Vision Pro is getting some nice new features today in visionOS 27. I wrote about some of my favorite changes. devondundee.com/blog/my-favor...

Apple has a useful guide for migrating from Reality Composer Pro 2 to version 3. It isn't a particularly simple process, but it is possible to convert a complex project in a day or two. developer.apple.com/documentatio...

In five days, Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club starts and this will start to make sense. appsyoucanmake.com/club #SwiftCodingClub

I waited to get the GameCube at a Kmart and they had sold out their games earlier so I came home and just watched the startup screen the first night. Just unearthed mine with the Game Boy Player. Will have to do some Pac-Man VS soon…

Getting ready to film Apps You Can Make Swift Coding Club meeting 1 #SwiftCodingClub #Swift #SwiftUI #iphoneDev #newdev

Probably not the best business idea to give away for free... but what the heck 🤪 Here's the beta for the Framous 2.0 Release coming with macOS 27 on Monday 👀 Video support, new frames (including Duo), and more! Use it to get your iOS 27 release ready! testflight.apple.com/join/UwDAXrVQ

Happy  27 Release Candidate day, everyone! iOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Xcode are available Reality Composer Pro 3 beta 5 is the latest available for the moment

I'm starting a free Swift Coding Club. Weekly video meetings. No coding experience needed, just a Mac and Xcode. It starts Sunday, September 20. Sign up to get notified when the first meeting is live: appsyoucanmake.com/club #SwiftCodingClub

Made a decision on something I’m launching to pay it forward to the Apple Developer community. I’ll be talking about this more soon. Official launch is in 2 weeks.

Happy  beta 8 day, everyone! iOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS are available! Not yet seeing updates today: Xcode 27 beta 6 Reality Composer Pro 3 beta 5

Coyote vs ACME was a fun ride. Definitely recommend especially if you watched a good amount of Looney Tunes.

Optic Illusion, free app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, is available now. appsfromouterspace.com/news/2026/08...

Happy  27 beta 6 day, everyone! iOS, macOS, visionOS, tvOS, watchOS are available. No updates so far today for: Xcode 27 beta 5 Reality Composer 3 beta 4

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

Happy  27 beta 5 day, everyone! iOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and Xcode are available Reality Composer Pro 3 remains at beta 4 (July 20) for the moment

I have 7 downloads for my new app, DiscOne. It apparently is completely buried if you just search the App Store. One of these days I’ll figure out marketing…

DiscOne is available now on the App Store. Here is a quick tour of some of the key features. #newapp #cdplayer #iphone #music #applemusic

What was your first CD purchase? Mine was Huey Lewis and the News. I was judging music mostly by music videos and I thought theirs were consistently fun.

I’ve been working on DiscOne because I missed the simple ritual of putting on an album and actually looking at the artwork while it plays. It is a music player that connects to Apple Music to bring back that CD collection experience. Here is a quick look at how it works. Launching on Tuesday.

Thinking about choosing a few CDs to listen to while playing Cribbage in the lounge at my college dorm. This is what led me to build my new app, DiscOne. I’m bringing back the intentional selection of albums. Make a choice and listen to the whole album. #ThrowbackThursday #iphone #music

Johnny’s Crazy Racing Cars is now on the Vision Pro App Store! 🏎️💨 Jump into immersive 3D racing, grab the wheel, and tear through 3 custom tracks.

New blog post: Planning a custom spatial accessory for Apple Vision Pro: breaking down visionOS 27 specs to see if I can actually build one johnhaney.com/blog/diy-spa...

Super excited to be paired up with @jamesdempsey.net for SWIFTSONIC