Wohoo!! 🎉 Congrats Stephen!

Wow I didn’t even know about that modifier. I could also use that functionality but maybe I should hold off for now 😅

Yea it works if your device is running 18 or 17. the issue is when your device is running 26. Thanks for checking

If the AI consistently goes tries to go in a direction that I know is a dead-end, I'll update the overall project prompt to better steer it for future prompts. I'm starting to see the future of software development and I kind of like it?

If I find a certain section that I don't understand, I'll pepper GPT-5 with specific questions to get a better sense.

I usually have to play around with the padding in order to get around this issue. Try something like this.. breaking up the padding before the transition and add back some top padding after the transition. This seems to have worked for me.

oooh... thats a great idea. I may try something similar for Tutti.

And now the code! This is the code I used to make all of these examples. Pass in the color, icon string, effect, and speed:

Be creative. You can mix this effect with other features of SwiftUI to create wonderful experiences for your users.

This effect is flexible! For example, you can tell the effect to draw each layer individually by applying the symbol effect like this: .symbolEffect(.drawOn.individually,
isActive: isShowing)

Another great example: "scribble.variable" with a .green.gradient foregroundStyle. Showcasing another new addition to iOS 26. Gradient foregroundStyles on symbols!

The "signature" SFSymbol showcases this effect so well.

looks sooo good 😊

oooh that’s a great idea 💡