If you use multiple monitors on macOS, you’ve probably faced the frustrating issue where macOS randomly forgets your display arrangement, resolution, or orientation preferences. This is especially painful when you switch between workstations or use a dock.

Recently I needed to detect when users are changing the volume on their phone and couldn’t find a working solution : Apple doesn’t expose direct APIs for hardware button events. Fortunately, there’s a simple trick that works consistently across all iOS versions.

If you ever worked on a multi target iOS project, let’s say an app with a watch companion, a widget and an iMessage extension, you probably had the painful experience of updating the version and build number every time you ship.

Swift’s async/await simplifies asynchronous programming, but tasks sometimes fail, especially network calls. Let’s see how can we simply implement a retry logic.