tvOS full screen covers are transparent, so each one filled itself with
a hardcoded black — invisible black-on-black text under the light color
scheme (e.g. the View All Comments page). A shared
tvFullScreenCoverBackground() modifier now picks black or light gray
from the color scheme; applied to the comments cover, subscription
destination picker, instance login, edit source, iCloud progress, and
legacy accounts import covers.
MAC2/MAC15: the macOS login form is grouped like its Edit Source parent, so
labels sit inside the sheet and the add-flow step stops clipping; footers
wrap instead of truncating.
MAC12: the account section footer consults account statuses before claiming
the user is logged in.
tvOS UX campaign polish (TV1, TV3, TV5, TV6):
- Invidious sign-in asks for a Username, which is what it verifies;
the wire field is still called email, noted where it is sent
- Video counts pluralize ("1 video"), via catalog plural variations;
the two-argument count-and-duration key uses fully positional
substitutions, since a mixed format made CFRetain fault on the
integer argument (TV10)
- Character counters render their limits verbatim ("0/1000"), here
and in the preset-name and bookmark-note counters with the same bug
- Deleting a playlist, local or remote, names the playlist the way
removing an account already named the account
An account whose source is gone was listed nowhere: `orphanedAccounts` had
no readers, and the credential behind it could not be reached at all —
`AppEnvironment.accountCredentialsManager(for:)` resolves the store from
the account's instance, and an orphan has none. The new accounts screen
lists them and removes them by account ID, asking every account-keyed
store because the backend is no longer knowable. The pre-revamp
instance-keyed item is deliberately left behind: identifying it needs the
instance too.
Deleting a source has always signed out and removed the accounts on it.
Both confirmations now say so, and name them.
The sign-in that files a credential against an account is now one
implementation instead of a private method on the source editor, so the
accounts screen and the new optional sign-in step after adding a source
attach a login exactly as the editor does. Extracted verbatim — the
identity-scope guard, the account re-resolve, the write-then-read-back
and the rollback are what keep a half-written login from looking real.
Signing out from the per-instance section now asks first, and both
sign-out paths run one cascade rather than two copies of it.
A handful of call sites built their own InvidiousAPI or PipedAPI over the
shared HTTP client, which quietly opted them out of everything an instance
may require of a request: the reverse-proxy basic auth, the certificate
policy, and the User-Agent some instances whitelist and answer 401 without.
The feed on an instance behind a proxy could load in one place and fail in
another for no reason the user could see. They now all go through the
service that already configures a client per instance.
Login was the site that had noticed. It reproduced the basic-auth handling
itself, including the header Invidious' login needs passed explicitly
because that POST runs on its own session to read the SID out of a cookie.
That logic moves into the service verbatim rather than being dropped: the
view now asks for a credential and is told nothing about how it was
obtained.
Paging is the one thing the service could not already express. Invidious
feeds have pages and Piped feeds do not, so the paged variant says so in
its return value instead of leaving each caller to know.
The browse view's subscriptions arrive as channels now rather than as raw
Invidious rows, so the avatar enrichment works over channels — a fetched
or cached avatar still wins over whatever the listing carried, which is
the precedence the conversion applied before.
Storing checked that the identity scope was resolved, but not that it
was still the one the login was made under. Credentials are filed per
identity, and the round trip leaves room for the scope to move — the
account obtained here would then be written into somebody else's
namespace and synced to their Keychain.
Only a move between two named identities counts. Unresolved at either
end is left to the storing side, which already refuses to write under a
scope it cannot name; rejecting it here as well would turn an ordinary
sign-in that began before iCloud settled — or a tokenless scope
revalidating on activation, which it does every time — into a failed
login.
The API layer marking an account `credentialRejected` posts the same
notification that recomputes statuses, which saw the Keychain item still
present and immediately reported "signed in" again. The rejection could
therefore never survive the moment it was recorded, and the user was
never asked to sign in again. Only the server can clear a rejection now;
storing a new credential resets it explicitly.
Cache invalidation follows the effective context rather than the stored
one. A credential arriving or disappearing flips reads between the
account and local without the stored context moving, so the global feed
caches kept whichever side had populated them.
The login sheet stays open when the credential could not be stored — an
unresolved identity scope or a Keychain failure — instead of dismissing
and discarding what the user typed.
Yattee 2 could hold at most one login per instance: a Keychain item keyed by
the instance UUID and a Bool on the instance. This adds the account layer
the rest of the revamp builds on.
DataContext (.local or .account) replaces SubscriptionAccount as the thing
that selects a data set. The legacy value maps onto it as an identity
mapping, because migrated accounts deliberately reuse their instance UUID.
Contexts carry an app-managed changedAt, and a migrated one is stamped at
the epoch so any explicit choice on any device outranks it whatever order
they arrive in.
AccountCapabilities makes what a backend supports a single switch in
InstanceType.accountCapabilities, verified against each API surface -
Invidious has history and playlist privacy, Piped has neither. Call sites
ask for capabilities instead of switching on instance type, which is the
seam the planned per-user Yattee Server accounts land on.
AccountsManager owns accounts and the selected context, stored per identity
scope so a switch of Apple Account cannot show or upload the previous one's
list. Legacy single-logins become accounts through a repeatable
reconciliation rather than a one-shot at launch, because instances arrive
over iCloud whenever they arrive; a permanent marker set is what makes
re-running safe, since usesAccountLogin stays true on the instance forever
and would otherwise recreate a deliberately deleted account. A dirty-flag
outbox records what still needs uploading so an offline change survives a
crash. The legacy subscriptionAccount selection is migrated one way,
reading local defaults first and then the raw KVS value - the previous
release published that key to iCloud but never read it back, so on a fresh
install it exists only there.
DataContextValidator replaces SubscriptionAccountValidator, which corrected
any selection it could not immediately verify. That was safe when a context
was just "an instance I am logged into", but with credentials arriving
asynchronously it would discard the user's choice during a slow Keychain
sync. Validity is now tri-state: anything that might still resolve keeps
the selection and falls back to local for reads only, with server mutations
disabled rather than silently retargeted at local data; only an actual
deletion corrects the stored context.
EditSourceView's single log in/out pair becomes a list of accounts with
per-row status, sign-in-again and sign-out-and-remove, plus the explicit
"use saved login from this device" action - the one-tap adoption that
replaced automatic adoption after the Keychain provenance measurement. On
tvOS a credential-less account offers a local sign-in instead, since Apple
never syncs app Keychain items there and the state will not resolve on its
own.
InstanceLoginView now returns the identifier alongside the credential so
the caller can file it in the Keychain beside the secret, keeping login
identifiers out of synced metadata.
The .sheet rendering on tvOS produced a tiny floating modal where the
"Sign In" title wrapped onto two lines and form fields overflowed. Use
.fullScreenCover on tvOS and wrap the login form in
TVSidebarDetailContainer so the title/icon sit in the standard 400pt
left sidebar. iOS and macOS keep the existing sheet presentation.
- InstanceDetector: a single 401 from one probe was over-eagerly concluded
as "credentials invalid" / "credentials required". On instances behind a
reverse proxy where one probe path (e.g. Yattee Server's /info) hits a
same-origin redirect, iOS URLSession strips the Authorization header on
the redirect and the request 401s even with valid credentials. Track 401s
across all probes and only conclude basicAuthRequired/basicAuthInvalid
when no probe matched and at least one returned 401.
- InstanceLoginView: the Invidious/Piped login flow constructed an API
client backed by the shared appEnvironment.httpClient, which has no
per-instance basic-auth headers. For instances behind a reverse proxy,
the login POST 401d before reaching the upstream login endpoint. Build a
per-instance HTTPClient with the basic-auth Authorization header baked in
via setDefaultHeaders, mirroring ContentService.httpClientWithBasicAuth.
- InvidiousAPI.login: the login function constructs its own URLSession (to
capture Set-Cookie via a redirect-blocking delegate), so it never
inherits headers from the injected httpClient. Add an optional
extraHeaders parameter and have InstanceLoginView pass the basic-auth
header through when present. PipedAPI.login uses httpClient.fetch and
inherits defaultHeaders correctly, so no change is needed there.