Your AR Furniture Is Gone by Morning — Persisting Placements with ARWorldMap
AR apps generated by Rork Max lose every placed object on relaunch. Here is the design that fixes it: when to save an ARWorldMap, how to encode custom anchors, how to handle the relocalization wait, and what to do when relocalization simply never lands.
Killing the Export Compliance Prompt in Rork Builds for Good
Every Rork and Rork Max build lands in App Store Connect with a Missing Compliance warning. Here is how to decide whether you qualify for the exemption, and how to set it once in app.json or Info.plist so the question never returns.
Regenerable Zones in Rork Max Code: Keeping the Freedom to Rebuild
Generated code carries an invisible asset: the option to throw it away and rebuild it. Every hand edit quietly expires that option. Here is how I track it with a ledger and CI checks across six live apps.
Losing HealthKit Data on Incremental Sync — Designing HKQueryAnchor Persistence
When step or sleep data double-counts or goes missing on incremental HealthKit sync, the root cause is usually HKQueryAnchor persistence. Here is a working Swift design that handles newAnchor and deletedObjects correctly and stays consistent across reinstalls and background updates.
Implementing App Clips with Rork Max — delivering the core of your app the moment someone scans a code
Building on the native Swift that Rork Max produces, this note walks through the 15 MB App Clip budget, receiving the launch URL, and handing state off to the full app.
Working Around Rork Max's 20-Geofence Wall with Dynamic Re-registration
In a native Swift app generated by Rork Max, geofences you registered quietly stop firing past a certain count — and it's almost always iOS's silent limit of 20 monitored regions per app. Here's a dynamic re-registration design that keeps only the nearest 20 live, plus a Swift implementation you can drop in.
Opening Your Rork Max App to Apple Intelligence — Designing App Intents Assistant Schemas and Handling What Doesn't Fit
How to make actions in a Rork Max-generated Swift app callable from Apple Intelligence using App Intents Assistant Schemas — mapping to the fixed schemas, routing what doesn't fit, availability fallbacks, and on-device testing.
Rork Max (Swift) or the Standard Version (React Native): How to Decide as a Solo Developer
Stuck between Rork Max's native Swift and the standard React Native version? Here is a practical decision framework built from a solo developer's perspective, weighing cost, feature boundaries, and how easy each path is to migrate later.
Your Rork Max App Loses the Photos a User Picked After Relaunch — The Trap of Holding Onto URLs Under Limited Photo Access
In a native Swift app generated by Rork Max, photos picked via PHPickerViewController become unreadable after relaunch — because holding onto a URL or PHAsset no longer works in the age of limited access. Here's a design that copies the actual bytes into your own storage the instant they're picked.
Start a Live Activity Without Launching Your Rork Max App — Designing Around a push-to-start Token That Never Arrives
In a native Swift app generated by Rork Max, you want to start a Live Activity from your server without the user ever opening the app. But the push-to-start token is never observed and it fails silently. Here's the cause and an observation layer that reliably captures the token.
Your Rork Max Health App Misses Overnight Steps — Designing Background Delivery When HKObserverQuery Dies Silently
In a native Swift health app generated by Rork Max, data recorded while the app is closed never arrives — and it's almost always because HKObserverQuery's background delivery stopped without a word. Here's how to isolate the layer that broke and an observation layer you can drop in as-is.
Direct Device-to-Device Sharing in Rork Max Apps — The Local Network Permission Trap That Makes MultipeerConnectivity Fail Silently
How to add serverless, nearby device-to-device sharing to a native Swift app generated by Rork Max. It works in the simulator but no peers ever appear on real devices — and the culprit is almost always a silent Local Network permission failure.