How poisoned "sleeper agent" open-weight LLMs can be triggered by a "magic word" or phrase to steal your keys, No Internet without ID, expanded Apple developer account terminations, copycat apps, name squatting, and new App Store requirements for content moderation of AI-generated images. Plus, Drew pulls apps from the store and shares lessons learned building for Voice Control, Dan diagnoses diving app impressions and talks about Vapor 5, and good old Claude breaks the rules, again.

Chapters:

• 00:00 Welcome!
• 01:30 No Internet without ID
• 08:23 Character AI: A cautionary tale
• 13:54 Apple's crackdown
• 14:10 Developer account terminations
• 21:09 Drew pulls 8+ apps from the App Store
• 21:40 App name squatting
• 23:24 Drew pulls more apps
• 28:40 A lesson in building for Voice Control
• 32:50 Removing apps in bundles
• 34:34 Hidden features and copycat rules
• 35:34 Violation of the Developer Code of Conduct
• 48:48 Dan’s Midst impressions plummet - why?
• 57:15 Vapor 5 beta
• 01:02:16 Siri… as a coding assistant?
• 01:10:26 Poisoned Sleeper Agent LLMs
• 01:22:06 “Just use trusted models”
• 01:27:29 Do not flip the airplane upside down
• 01:31:04 Content moderation in AI image gen apps
• 01:33:41 Thanks everyone!

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Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Apple App Review Guidelines Change Tracker
• Character AI
• No ID = No Internet
• Adam Lyttle - Apple crackdown
• Poisoning LLM weights

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

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• DrewAndDan.fm

Claude’s hang-up, Nvidia / Hugging Face news, Press Kits in depth, building with Kickstart or Claude, when to send, and clipping campaigns. Vitamin B2 - Riboflavin!

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome!
• 00:10 Riboflavin linked to lower dementia risk
• 01:01 Nvidia buys Hugging Face
• 02:20 Why you NEED a press kit
• 04:16 Mercury Weather's press kit
• 06:37 Building with Kickstart and hosting hurdles
• 09:06 Building a press kit with Claude
• 11:34 People don't browse for apps anymore
• 12:31 When to send your press kit
• 16:18 Clipping campaigns and influencer marketing
• 18:58 Claude can hang up on you

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• How to Make an App Press Kit
• Mercury Weather Press Kit
• Kickstart Press Kit
• PhotoCal AI Press Kit
• The Midst Press Kit
• Riboflavin Cuts Dementia Risk by Half

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

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• Spotify
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NYC ditches AI in classrooms, Anthropic quietly watermarks Claude's every word and code it writes, and Dyson wants $499 to let a camera into your mouth. Drew and Dan dig a little to get a better sense of who Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, really is. (Drew has a list of bugs waiting for him!) Is the Apple Upgrade (lease) program with Klarna a bait-and-switch? The AI boom turned a $5K Mac Studio into an $11K one.

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:26 NYC Schools Ban Generative AI
• 04:00 Anthropic Watermarks Claude Text
• 11:05 Does AI Use Count as Research?
• 16:36 Why Students Still Need Fundamentals
• 21:00 Dyson's $499 AI Toothbrush
• 24:16 Meet New Apple CEO John Ternus
• 29:11 Hopes for Hardware-First Apple
• 33:36 Apple's Nagging Software Bugs
• 44:56 Foldable Phone and Touchscreen Mac Rumors
• 53:43 Klarna Lease Denial Mystery
• 1:00:42 AI Boom Inflates Hardware Prices

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• NYC public schools bans AI
• Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast
• Anthropic text watermarking
• Dyson CameraJet
• John Ternus 1993 High School pic
• Klarna Apple Leasing issues

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

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Today we discuss user feedback, Dan's glasses, smart glasses, subscription fatigue, Apple's new hardware leasing program, Swift Dictionary key surprises and the challenges of the Apple TV remote feature on iPhone. Plus tips for crafting a great Press Kit for your app.

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome to Episode 10!
• 00:59 Dan's Glasses - and other user feedback
• 06:31 Subscription fatigue and sustainable app pricing
• 12:29 Syncing subscriptions with your own server
• 15:08 Swift Dictionaries - key surprises!
• 28:08 Xcode 27 resizable window support
• 28:56 Apple's new leasing program
• 32:24 Tips for your app's Press Kit + competitor analysis
• 36:22 Drew's Apple TV iPhone Remote app frustrations
• 40:32 Wrap up

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• ObjectIdentifier
• How to Make an App Press Kit
• App Store Competitor Analysis
• Mercury Weather’s Press Kit
• Apple Upgrade (leasing)

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer

How Dan is implementing App Intents and App Entities in The Midst iOS app, integration of Siri AI features for iOS 27, plus a coin-sized device that can hack a Boeing 737

Chapters

• 00:00 Welcome!
• 00:54 Integrating App Intents in The Midst
• 01:51 Minimum Deployment Target and User Base
• 03:19 Implementing Siri AI Features
• 04:02 "Hey Siri, check me in with The Midst"
• 07:30 Letting Siri search saved places and talk back
• 13:02 Duplicate SwiftData schemas wipe out years of check-ins
• 16:29 CloudKit saves the day!
• 17:27 Syncing with CloudKit
• 20:15 More Siri integration
• 22:25 Siri result cards with App Intents
• 29:51 Yikes! Coin-sized device spoofs Boeing 737 FMC and MCDU systems

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• App Intents
• Unicorn Chat
• The Midst
• Making app entities available in Spotlight
• Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

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• Spotify
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Dan ships Relay Team Finder, OpenAI’s hacks Hugging Face, Drew's open source Agent Smith structured agent safety harness, and how to price your app.

Chapters:

• 00:00 France bans social's for under-15s
• 00:38 App Store social media questions
• 01:54 Inside the Declared Age Range API
• 07:03 OpenAI hacks Hugging Face
• 15:11 Paperclips
• 17:03 Agent Smith: Structured safety harness
• 25:30 The Coffee Test - how to price your app
• 29:40 Dan ships Relay Team Finder
• 36:29 Build by Tony Fadell

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Declared Age Range API
• Deliver age-appropriate experiences in your app (WWDC25)
• ExploitGym on Github
• OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face Post-mortem
• Anthropic’s Constitution
• Drew’s macOS Agent Smith
• Paul Hudson’s How to price an app: the coffee test
• Relay Team Finder
• Tony Fadel’s book, Build

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

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• Spotify
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• Deezer

When a useful tool asks for too much? Drew and Dan trace the new reality of AI identity verification, age-verification laws, anonymity, who you'd trust to hold your ID, and Drew's saga of getting flagged and verified. PLUS: The best way to localize your app into 35+ languages.

Chapters

• 00:00 Icon Composer fix

• 02:56 AI + politics

• 06:53 Identity verification and the Hawthorne Effect

• 09:23 Nothing to hide

• 15:48 Who holds the keys? (Persona)

• 22:14 Localizing your app into 35 languages

• 27:02 Accessibility & becoming dependent on your tools

• 29:34 Privacy tradeoff: What's the solution?

• 35:08 Drew's Claude refusal & the Cyber Verification Program

• 42:59 Weird Private Cloud Compute limits

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Icon Composer 2
• Drew’s LocalizationSuperPrompt.md
• Cyber Verification Program
• Anthropic Identity Verification

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer

"Apps violating guidelines may face removal from the store." Fresh App Store changes, Performance Improvement Plans, Icon Composer 2 tips and gotchas. New Hide My Email problems, group and volume subscriptions, moving subscription handling to your server and loss of App Store Connect's Trends tab.

Chapters

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:14 Apple's crackdown on early review prompts
• 04:05 Removing App Store "clutter"
• 08:47 Developer Performance Improvement Plans
• 13:28 Icon Composer gotchas and tips
• 17:41 Problematic changes to Sign in with Apple & Hide My Email
• 22:38 Group & volume subscriptions
• 30:54 Moving StoreKit handling to your server
• 38:48 App Store Connect loses Trends tab?!
• 41:20 Wrap-up

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Grandma’s Marathon
• App Review Guidelines
• WWDC 2024 App Store server APIs
• WWDC 2026 Group subscriptions
• Icon Composer 2
• Relay Team Finder (TestFlight beta)
• The Midst (app)
• OpenAI omni-moderation API

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer