Majid Jabrayilov • 5/19/2026

Deprecating your own convenience API

This article discusses the challenge of maintaining convenience APIs in iOS development when supporting multiple platform versions, such as iOS 18 and iOS 26. It presents a practical example using a custom `ToolbarLabelStyle` to handle differences in toolbar item styling (symbols vs. text). The author emphasizes the need to track and remove such code when the minimum deployment target is raised, and proposes using compiler warnings or annotations to identify dead code. The content is focused on software engineering best practices for iOS developers.

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