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Why filing Apple Feedback is not a waste of time

Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic couple of weeks. Welcome to another issue of the newsletter!

I recently saw this article by Eric Dorphy in the latest issue of Antoine’s SwiftLee Weekly and it got me thinking about feedback and how important it has been for Hidde and I when building Helm. Over his career, Eric has submitted over 1,000 Apple feedbacks and he has now written an article summarizing his learnings where he talks about why it is incredibly valuable to file feedback and gives numerous tips on how to effectively file issues.

What I really like about the article is that he challenges the common misconception in the iOS community that filing feedback is a waste of time and that Apple ignores our feedback.

This couldn’t be further from the truth, as I have also experienced first hand, and while you won’t always get an answer and maybe the issues won’t get fixed right away, it does not mean that they are getting ignored. And this quote from Eric’s article sums up the point incredibly well:

Feedback doesn’t always bring instant results, but over time, it adds up.

I had the pleasure to meet Eric at one of the events during this year’s edition of WWDC and, of course, he provided me with incredibly valuable feedback about a pretty serious bug that he found in Helm’ iOS Beta. It was thanks to his feedback that we were made aware of a bug that could have gone unnoticed for months and learning about it earlier helped us fix it in a timely manner.

I hope Eric’s story inspires you to keep filing feedback and report any issues you find or any new features that you want to see implemented in your favorite software.

Happy reading!

​📦 How to set up a Swift Package registry​

Did you know that Swift Package Manager deep-clones the entire Git repository for each dependency that you bring into your project or package?

This can be time-consuming, especially if you maintain a large codebase with numerous dependencies. This specific problem inspired Alberto and his team to set up their own Swift Package Registry and, in this article, he shares his experience doing so.

​🫙 Getting started with Apple’s Docker alternative​

During WWDC 25 Apple launched Container: a native, open-source tool that allows developers to build and run Linux images without using Docker at all.

If you would like to learn more about how it works and how you can get started, make sure you read this article by Natan Rolnik on swifttoolkit.dev.

​🚀 Speed up your launch times with this Open Source tool​

Last month, Sentry announced that they were acquiring Emerge Tools, a company focused on building first-class tools to improve the performance of mobile applications.

A few weeks ago, in their first major release together, Sentry announced that they were open sourcing a tool that allows you to dramatically improve your app’s launch times. Read more in this announcement post by Max Topolsky and Noah Martin.

​🧪 How to run Unit Tests on CI/CD

This article is part of Noam’s amazing “GitHub Actions to TestFlight - from zero to hero”, where he shows how you can automate all sorts of mobile tasks using GitHub Actions.

In this article, he talks through how you can automate what’s arguably one of the most important tasks in the mobile development lifecycle: running unit tests.

​⛓️‍💥 Never ship breaking changes with the wrong version type again​

Have you ever shipped breaking changes of your Swift Package in a non-major version? Well you’re not alone, I have done this many times 😅.

To prevent this from happening, Kamil Wyszomierski wrote a shell script that automates semantic versioning by comparing the public API of the current code with the latest tagged version, which is perfect to run on CI!