For the last 12 years or so, I’ve really enjoyed playing with the various beta’s of Apple’s operating systems. Discovering new features, and updating my apps each summer have been a great way to keep my technological skills current, while scratching the itch to write code. I’ve had good summers and bad summers, based on the stability of the beta’s. I have had to rebuild a machine from scratch while at WWDC, and I’ve had to send Apple watches back to Apple to get recovered from bad updates. As such, you can imagine how pleased I was that this summer’s betas have been very stable on my various devices.

The only problem with the stability has been that Apple has slowly been removing many of the features that were exciting to me. Apple also never provided Beta’s this summer with the most exciting features they previewed at WWDC. To me these two features were – Writing SwiftUI apps in SwiftPlaygrounds, and dynamically controlling your iPad and Mac by sliding to the edge of the screen.

I really hope that Apple talks to these features at Tuesday’s iPhone event!

Btw, you may have seen that I posted two additional posts today.. both of them had somehow gotten stuck in drafts late last year and earlier this year.