Re-shoot the iPhone App Store screenshots (the Swarm tab was two releases stale)

[JasonYeYuhe]

All ten iPhone screenshots on the listing — five en-US, five zh-Hans — showed a Swarm tab in the bottom bar. That tab was deleted in v1.52.1. The 1.52.1 review notes apologised for it and asked Apple to look past it, and 1.53.0 was about to do the same thing again, which is how a temporary disclosure quietly becomes the permanent state of a product page.

What replaced them

Re-shot from the real 1.53.0 build in the Simulator, through the app's own shipped Demo mode (Try Demo on the sign-in screen → DemoDataProvider.swift:180). Every screen in these images is one any user or reviewer can reach without an account — not a mock, not fabricated data.

The bar now reads what the app actually renders: Overview · Providers · Sessions · Alerts · Settings. That is five tabs, not the "four plus More" the seven-case AppState.Tab enum implies — iPhoneTabView curates a subset. I had inferred the wrong bar from the enum and only got it right by looking at the running app.

Screenshot 1 now leads with the Nearby Macs / Remote Control row, so the listing finally shows the feature this release exists for.

Dropped the subscription shot rather than re-shooting it: ASC has pro.yearly at 9.99 in some territories and 30.00 in others, so a price baked into one image is wrong for most of the world — and this app has already been corrected once for quoting stale prices. Live per-storefront pricing belongs in-app, where it already is.

The compositor could not previously fail

Two silent failure modes, both of which produce a listing you'd never knowingly ship:

1. Captions longer than the canvas were drawn at a fixed 100/44pt and ran off both edges, while the script printed OK. Titles now shrink to fit, subtitles wrap to two lines, and anything that still doesn't fit is reported per-file.

2. SFNS.ttf has no CJK glyphs — the zh captions would have rendered as tofu. Font is now chosen by glyph coverage.

⚠️ Worth reading: my first version of that coverage check was getbbox(ch)[2] > 0, which is a tautology. A missing character still measures a positive width, because what's measured is the substituted .notdef box. Handed a latin-only font list it cheerfully returned SFNS — the exact bug the check existed to prevent. It now compares the rendered character against that font's own .notdef.

The negative control passes both ways:

SFNS.ttf              has('额')=False  has('A')=True
STHeiti Medium.ttc    has('额')=True   has('A')=True
latin-only list -> refused: No font on this machine can render '额' for locale 'zh'

PingFang is not a file on macOS 26 (dynamic font asset), so zh resolves to STHeiti Medium.

Already applied to App Store Connect

The 10 replacements are live on the 1.53.0 iOS version and verified by downloading them back from ASC. iOS was pulled from review to swap them and resubmitted; macOS was never touched — its screenshots are APP_DESKTOP and show no iPhone tab bar. Both platforms are WAITING_FOR_REVIEW. The iOS review notes were corrected too, since they still apologised for a Swarm tab that is no longer there.

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