Silent/Ringer or Side Switch Behavior

It seemed at one point that there was a lot of confusion about what the ring/silent switch on the iPhone and the side switch on the iPad should do. At the time I recall not being able to discern a clear distinction from Apple, but this week when asked about it again I was able to find clear direction in the current manuals for both device types.


Date Formats and Do Not Disturb

Perhaps fitting that my return to this blog is dealing with the same thing as my last post, date formatters. Hopefully if you are an iOS developer you have searched your code for YYYY, ISO week date year, and replaced it with yyyy. However if you are showing the date to the user then you probably shouldn't be using your own format string anyway.