Friday, May 15, 2026

Apple Developer App 11.0

Zac Hall (MacRumors):

The update also adds these changes:

  • Refreshed look with Liquid Glass.
  • List filtering by Unwatched, Bookmarked, and Downloaded, and preferred topics.
  • Improved reliability of image capture during enrollment.
  • Bug fixes and various other enhancements.

Steve Troughton-Smith:

[It] has been ported from Catalyst-based to AppKit-based (it is a SwiftUI app in either case). Expect a whole new set of idiosyncrasies along with whatever new improvements/bugs it introduces.

(You can now fullscreen videos properly, for example)

I went to launch the old app so that I could compare it before downloading the new one and realized that I had deleted it because that was the only way to prevent WWDC session links from opening in the app instead of in Safari. So I don’t have a good feel for what’s changed aside from the list filtering mentioned above and the better support for full screen videos.

The current universal links behavior is that if I click a link within Safari it stays in Safari and shows a banner for opening the link in the Developer app. That’s an improvement. If I click a link outside of Safari, it opens the Developer app. There’s no command in the app to open the current session in your browser, though you can use Edit ‣ Copy Link and then paste it.

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@Michael does it not work the same on macOS as in iOS, where if you right click on a universal link and select "Open", it opens in the browser, where as if you click on the bar above, it will start opening it in the app? I hate that there is no proper UI somewhere in the godawful Settings app on macOS and iOS to manually specify where I want to open each link type (domain, scheme, etc.).


@Léo Which app are you right-clicking in? I have not found that to be the case with Mail and MarsEdit except that sometimes, instead of going directly, it trampolines through Safari to Developer without offering a choice.

If I’m already in Safari, I can choose to open it in Developer from the contextual menu.

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