A note from the studio
First, the most important thing in this issue, thank you. To everyone who has downloaded an app, replied to one of these emails, left a review, or just told a friend, you are the reason this studio exists. I read every message, and they mean more than you know.
This past week also held a hard loss in my family, and I will keep it brief here. Building these apps, and writing to you on Sundays, is part of what keeps me steady through weeks like this one. It is a reminder that the work is for people, the ones I love, and the ones on the other end of every download. So thank you for being here. It matters more than usual right now.
If these apps have been useful to you, the single biggest thing you can do to help is simple, share them. Send one to a friend, a family member, or a coworker who would actually use it. A privacy first app that helps someone sleep, track a pet's health, or understand their paycheck is worth passing along, and word of mouth is how a one person studio grows. There is a share section near the bottom with everything you need.
Steady is live, as of today
Our seventh app shipped to the App Store today, Sunday, June 7. Steady is sleep, fatigue, and recovery built for the workers whose schedules do not fit a nine to five, nurses, truckers, EMTs, plant and night crews, anyone on a rotating shift.
Tell Steady your shift pattern once, and it gives you a Fatigue Score from 0 to 10, a Smart Nap Planner timed to your body's natural afternoon dip, a drive home risk alert, and a shift calendar all tuned to your real rotation. It is written in English and Spanish by Spanish speakers, and like every app from the studio, your data never leaves your iPhone. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Download Steady, free to start, with a 7 day free Pro trial.
Eight live, three more on the way
Steady joins seven apps already live, all privacy first, all bilingual EN and ES: VeraCast, the on device AI weather briefing, Plantilla, the pay and rights companion in ten languages, VitalLedger, the private pet health ledger, Holdwise, the calm dividend tracker, DayCast, the encrypted planner and net worth tracker, Kynd, the no shame focus app for ADHD brains, and Libreto, a full drawing studio, planner, notebook, and PDF editor built for Apple Pencil.
And there is more coming. Three more apps are in active development. You can see the full lineup, with details on what is live and what is next, at jcmobileappstudio.com.
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Tomorrow: the biggest WWDC in years
WWDC opens tomorrow, Monday, June 8, and the keynote streams at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern, on Apple's site, YouTube, and the Apple TV app. Everything below is reporting and rumor until Apple says it on stage, so treat it as a watch list, not a recap. The recap comes next week.
One thing is not a rumor. This is Tim Cook's last keynote as chief executive. Apple confirmed in April that Cook becomes executive chairman and hardware chief John Ternus takes over as CEO on September 1. Whatever ships tomorrow, it is the opening of a handoff, and that gives an otherwise software heavy morning real weight.
The single biggest thing to watch, a Siri that actually works. For two years Apple promised a smarter Siri, missed the date, and rebuilt it from scratch. Per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and the spring leaks reported by MacRumors and 9to5Mac, Siri becomes a dedicated app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with a chatbot style thread, voice and text, and history that syncs over iCloud. You trigger it by swiping down into a new Search or Ask field, and the answer pops out of the Dynamic Island before you ever open the full app.
The part Apple will not say out loud. Gurman reports the new Siri leans on a custom Google Gemini model, roughly 1.2 trillion parameters, that Apple licensed for about a billion dollars a year, following a partnership the two companies announced in January. So the question tomorrow is not whether the demo looks good. Apple demos always look good. It is whether the shipping version holds context and pulls from your Mail, Messages, Photos, and Calendar without falling on its face the way the last attempt did. Watch the live demo, then the beta, then believe it.
The detail that matters most to an indie studio. Reporting from Bloomberg and MacRumors says iOS 27 may let you route a query straight to an outside model, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, and even set a third party AI as the default behind features like Writing Tools. If that ships, the assistant layer stops being one vendor's walled garden, and small developers get real leverage on day one. That is the single line in the keynote I will be watching hardest.
Everything else, in one breath. iOS 27 is still described as a Snow Leopard release at heart, refinement over spectacle, with performance, battery, and bug fix work under the new Siri. macOS 27 is reported to bring a slider to dial Liquid Glass up or down, plus Safari auto grouping your tabs. watchOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and visionOS all get their 27 numbers too. And in the background, reporting points to Apple's first foldable iPhone arriving this fall, which is part of why iOS 27 has to be more than a coat of paint.
From today's Power On
In this morning's edition of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman framed the whole keynote around a single story, the internal wake up call that finally pushed Apple to take AI seriously. The short version, after the delayed Siri became a public embarrassment, Apple reset its approach from the top, which is how a company famous for building everything in house ended up licensing a Gemini model from Google to power its most personal feature.
It is a useful lens for tomorrow. The reframe Apple will sell on stage, that private, on device intelligence is the better path, is sincere, and I am all for it. But the new Siri leans on a cloud model far too big to run on a phone. So the tell is in the plumbing, which features run locally on Apple silicon, which ones leave the device, and whether the cloud half is private by construction or just private by branding. That is the line I will be reading for.
Quick hits
The handoff is the subplot. Watch whether Ternus shares the stage with Cook tomorrow, a soft introduction before he takes the CEO chair on September 1. If you watch one non product moment, watch that.
The iPhone 11 looks set to lose iOS 27. Reporting points to Apple dropping the 2019 iPhone 11 from the support list, which would make the AI heavy features a newer hardware story by design.
The leaks were unusually complete. Between the Siri renders, the Dynamic Island flow, and the Gemini deal, very little about tomorrow is a true secret. The surprise this year will be execution, not reveal. That is its own kind of pressure on Apple.
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Hasta la próxima
That was issue 03. Issue 04 lands next Sunday, June 14, with the recap, what Apple actually shipped, not the rumors, and the one question on my mind, did the new Siri survive contact with a live demo, and did Apple open the door for the rest of us to build on it.
Thank you again, sincerely, for reading and for sharing. It keeps the lights on and the apps coming.
— JC Mobile App Studio