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The essential iOS tools in 2026 are Xcode, Swift Package Manager, SwiftUI, Swift Testing, Instruments, Xcode Cloud and TestFlight, with fastlane and Sentry filling the gaps. The urgent item is dependencies: the CocoaPods registry becomes permanently read-only on 2 December 2026, so any app still using pods needs a migration plan to Swift Package Manager. Xcode plugin managers such as Alcatraz stopped working years ago and were replaced by Xcode Extensions.
