Apple opens volume subscriptions to businesses and schools: check the renewal controls
Business and school subscription purchases are live. Disabling multiseat purchases and removing a sales channel have different consequences for existing renewals.
Category: Developer
Tools, languages, and APIs for building on Apple.
Copilot’s feature-default rollout makes one-time policy changes
GitHub’s October 22–26 rollout turns eligible unconfigured feature policies into saved settings. Administrators should check individual policies, not rely on a later default change to undo them.
OpenAI Decisions API goes GA: separate shared evidence from changing checks
Shared-input caching and 400 questions make Decisions more useful for repeat evaluations. The important limits are typed answers, independent checks and a separate cache policy.
Veo preview retirement is not a model-name swap
Veo preview endpoints retire October 22. Gemini API developers moving to Omni need to review requests, video output handling, stored state and costs.
Gemini’s older Deep Research API agent shuts down October 23
Google’s older Deep Research API agent is scheduled to retire October 23. Check the exact identifier, choose a replacement, and test asynchronous completion.
Keep SwiftUI grid columns stable around the iPhone Duo fold
Use inactive division regions to choose a stable column count, then adapt spacing when the fold becomes active. Here is what to check in a custom SwiftUI grid.
OpenAI’s 12-hour prompt cache makes reuse worth calculating
Longer prompt caching can help AI apps reuse context hours apart, but the higher write price makes request timing and actual cache hits decisive.
Xcode 27 Builds Can Pass While CodeQL Scans Lose Support
GitHub warns of tracing limits with macOS 27 and Xcode 27, while Swift 6.4 remains unsupported. Keep security-scanning compatibility separate from runner availability.
GlassIntroKit Brings Liquid Glass Onboarding to SwiftUI Apps
A new open-source Swift package combines configurable welcome pages, native Liquid Glass and Metal scenes for iOS 26 and macOS 26 apps.
Apple Updates App Review Rules: Three Checks Before Submission
Apple clarifies AI-content safeguards and hidden functionality, and adds creative-asset rules. Here’s what developers should review before their next submission.
