“NSPersistentCloudKitContainer”

I am developing an app that uses NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. I am seeing lots of inconsistency. But....after a long time observing...I strongly believe the simulator implementation of cloudkit is broken. Log in via your icloud Open the built in Apple reminder app in both simulator and on your physical device. You will notice that changes made in simulator propagate reasonably well to the device....but any changes made on device don't propagate to the simulator reminders app...you need to force quit app on simulator for changes to reflect. The ultimate example app is apple notes. It handles sync better than any other app out there. I still am in the process of understanding why my app does not sync as well as notes, eg playing around with things like: container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergeByPropertyStoreTrumpMergePolicy container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(storeRemoteChangeNotification), name: NSNotif

The Statement I have a SwiftUI app that uses CoreData and iCloud with NSPersistentCloudKitContainer prepared for beta testing via TestFlight. The app utilizes iCloud solely as a private database for user data across different devices. The app doesn't use any public or shared database. According to Apple's guidelines, deploying the development schema to production is necessary before submitting to the App Store: Before you publish your app, you must deploy the development schema to the production environment to copy over its record types, fields, and indexes. I am aware that once deployed to production, it's impossible to delete or modify any types or fields: To prevent conflicts, you can’t delete record types or fields that are already in production. Every time you deploy the development schema, its additive changes merge into the production schema. The Questions: When is the appropriate time to deploy the schema to production? Should it be done before beta testing via TestFlight, or is it sufficient

I have an existing iOS/watchOS app that uses a third-party database and WatchConnectivity. For various reasons I am migrating the app to use Core Data with CloudKit. I have everything working using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. Sync between the iOS and watchOS app are working on my test devices when I start with an empty database. However, I need to import existing user's data when they first install this new version. Some users may have hundreds or thousands of records, but the total database size is under 1-2MB. Data migration/import is working on the iOS side, the Core Data entities are populated on first launch and uploaded to CloudKit (I see in the debug logs that a NSPersistentCloudKitContainer.Event export ends successfully). The problem is launching the watchOS app does not sync the data from CloudKit. I see a import started event but never see it end. I never see any Core Data entities appear on watchOS even after waiting several minutes and re-opening the Watch app multiple times. New enti

Background Core Data driven app, successfully using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer for some time. App is written 100% SwiftUI, currently targeting iOS and macOS targets. Development only, no production release yet. Error... ... Fatal error: Unresolved error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134110 An error occurred during persistent store migration. ... reason=Cannot migrate store in-place: CloudKit integration forbids renaming 'foodServes' to 'foodPortions'. Older devices can't process the new relationships. An unusual problem for me... the renaming occurred between version 7 and version 8 of the Core Data model and this is version 13. So if I revert back to version 12, there is no issue. It is only when I add the new Entity in model version 13 that the error occurs. The new entity incudes a relationship back to two other existing entities, but not the Food entity that contains the foodServes -> foodPortions renamingID. To be clear, the error relates to a renamingID that was implemented in the

Situation I'm working on an app in which the user can manually enter in data. That data gets locally stored in a CoreData database and from there automatically synced (via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer) to the user private CloudKit database and I selected CloudKit encryption for every attribute. So as the developer I definitely can't access it, but it's stored on some remote server. Ambiguous Documentation The privacy site at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/ says stuff like: “Collect” refers to transmitting data off the device in a way that allows you and/or your third-party partners to access it for a period longer than what is necessary to service the transmitted request in real time. If you collect data about your app from Apple frameworks or services [such as MapKit, CloudKit, or App Analytics] you should indicate what data you collect and how you use it. You are not responsible for disclosing data collected by Apple. It's a bit unclear if Apple a third-party in this cas

Hello. I am beta testing an app in TestFlight. I want to use a public database inside the cloudkit container, and I think that I have set things up that way (see below). But my testers can only see their own data and all records are being stored in the Private Database. I'm getting the results I want on my own iPhone (loading the app directly from xCode). But testers are not getting the same experience. It this because I am in TestFlight? Are there settings I have missed? Here is what I have done so far: In my DataController I have this: init(inMemory: Bool = false) { container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: Main) if inMemory { // this is set in static var preview container.persistentStoreDescriptions.first?.url = URL(fileURLWithPath: /dev/null) } guard let description = container.persistentStoreDescriptions.first else { print(Can't set description) fatalError(Error) } let publicStoreURL = description.url!.deletingLastPathComponent().appendingPathComponent(public.sqlite) let containerIdentifie

I have a CoreData model with two entities, 'User' and 'Player', that both use 'Person' as their 'Parent Entity'. While the App appears to work correctly in the simulator, including with CloudKit via NSPersistentCloudKitContainer, I get a crash in Xcode Previews: libswiftCore.dylib [ AGScoringModel/Persistence.swift:183: Fatal error: #init(inMemory:): Failed to load persistent stores:Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134110 An error occurred during persistent store migration. UserInfo={sourceURL=file:///Users/ebg/Library/Developer/.../CoreDataStores/private/database.sqlite, reason=Cannot migrate store in-place: Cannot merge multiple root entity source tables into one destination entity root table, destinationURL=file:///Users/ebg/Library/Developer/.../CoreDataStores/private/database.sqlite, NSUnderlyingError=0x600000ce02a0 {Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134110 An error occurred during persistent store migration. UserInfo={message=Cannot merge multiple root entity source tables into one desti

I have a widely-used app that lets users keep track of personal data. This data is persisted with SwiftData, and synced with CloudKit. I understand that if the user's iCloud account changes on a device (for example, user logs out or toggles off an app's access to iCloud), then NSPersistentCloudKitContainer will erase the local data records on app launch. This is intentional behavior, intended as a privacy feature. However, we are receiving regular reports from users for whom the system has incorrectly indicated that the app's access to iCloud is unavailable, even when the user hasn't logged out or toggled off permission to access iCloud. This triggers the behavior to clear the local records, and even though the data is still available in iCloud, to the user, it looks like their data has disappeared for no reason. Helping the user find and troubleshoot their iCloud app data settings can be very difficult, since in many cases the user has no idea what iCloud is, and we can't link them directly to the c

On iOS 13 for transformable attributes that have no custom Transformer class set this appears in the console:One or more models in this application are using transformable properties with transformer names that are either unset, or set to NSKeyedUnarchiveFromDataTransformerName. Please switch to using NSSecureUnarchiveFromData or a subclass of NSSecureUnarchiveFromDataTransformer instead. At some point, Core Data will default to using NSSecureUnarchiveFromData when nil is specified, and transformable properties containing classes that do not support NSSecureCoding will become unreadable.This message appears on devices, in the simulator on High Sierra it even leads to a crash.However, setting the transformer class to NSSecureUnarchiveFromDataTransformer when using CoreData CloudKit, this crashes and leads to Core Data not being initialized.Disabling CloudKit, e.g. setting the .cloudKitContainerOptions on the store description to nil fixes this crash.It seems CoreData CloudKit does not support NSSecureCoding tr

coredata pushed schema to cloudkit only for those entities for which I created records. But the record data did not get pushed. I set recordName as Queryable and modifiedTimestamp as both Queryable and sortable. Query does not show the records. I look at Xcode console gives this output for one of the entities that got pushed to cloudkit : CoreData: debug: CoreData+CloudKit: -[PFCloudKitSerializer newCKRecordsFromObject:fullyMaterializeRecords:includeRelationships:error:](575): Serializer has finished creating record: , Also schema for some other entities that do not have any core data records did not get pushed to CloudKit. I thought the entire coredata schema should get pushed along with the records. Looks like it is pushing those entities that have some records but without pushing data. I reset the cloudkit environment and tried again, but issue is not resolved. Also the AppDelegate never gets called. I thought the line below should have called AppDelegate @UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) var

I have an app for client management that stores data in Core Data with an NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. Each manager have their clients in the Core Data Private Database, and each client could have associated files (images, documents, etc) that are stored in app's own folder structure in iCloud Drive. Eventually, a manager can decide if to share a client with another manager, in order to have a shared managed client (readable, or writable+readable by others managers which share the same client). This is done by moving the Client from the Private Database to the Shared Database following the Apple's guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10015/ This is the structure: The problem is: the database record is shared correctly, but the iCloud Drive Files are not shared (obviously). My goal is to get working the iCloud Drive Client Files (every client has a single Folder) with the minimum effort from the user. I cannot get working the iCloud Drive Sharing from my app, only the Core Da

In my new SwiftUI app I am using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer API to persist my data and also share it between multiple different devices. I am always using viewContext to fetch or save records, also my Stack consists of two custom configurations where CloudKit is enabled. One for entities to be stored in the CK public database and one for records in the private database. This usually works just fine. I can save or delete records on one device and they appear on the other device. However in some situations, usually after I imported data on device A and use the same device to create a new record I get errors like this when saving context: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=133020 Could not merge changes. UserInfo={conflictList=( NSMergeConflict (0x28126df40) for NSManagedObject (0x28242eda0) with objectID '0xb76a5d0f17dd5aa9 ' with oldVersion = 33 and newVersion = 34 and old object snapshot = {n id = D1E2B253-723C-406C-8566-2307DA2D5C17;n name = bench;n} and new cached row = {n id = D1E2B253-723C-4

I am trying to implement toggling iCloud sync in runtime for my App, i.e. when users toggle the switch in my app, a persistent container will be created according to sync on or off. it works when relaunching the app after changing the container, but how to do it in runtime? how to reload data from the new container and refresh into UIs which already contain the old data from the previous container? I searched all over the internet but could not find a solution to toggle iCloud sync in runtime properly. Below is the code from my core data stack: lazy var persistentContainer: NSPersistentContainer = { setupPersistentContainer() }() private func setupPersistentContainer() -> NSPersistentContainer { let isSyncOn = UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: isSyncOn) let container = isSyncOn ? NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: BaseTypes) : NSPersistentContainer(name: BaseTypes) guard let description = container.persistentStoreDescriptions.first else { fatalError(###(#function): Failed to retrieve a persisten

NumberFormatter does not function as expected under Xcode 13 betas or macOS 12 betas (currently up to beta 5 for both). I've logged feedback to Apple FB9423179. I'm writing a SwiftUI universal app with macOS and iOS targets using Core Data and NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. A Core Data Entity is an Observed Object in the code for a detail View. e.g. @ObservedObject var account: Account where Account is the class. NumberFormatter currently does not function in a TextField on macOS 12, so as a workaround I am currently using with great success: TextField(Sort Order, text: Binding( get: { String(account.sortOrder) }, set: { account.sortOrder = Int64($0.filter{0123456789.contains($0)})! } ) ) where sortOrder an entity attribute of type Optional. This works well for number entry and in my humble opinion is elegant in that it is immediately obvious what the TextField is expected to do to get the information it displays and set the information provided by the user. The only issue is that when the user makes

I have Core Data setup with a NSPersistentCloudKitContainer as my container, I've added a container identifier and I see my data on CloudKit's database here when I use Act As iCloud Account. Here's what I have under capabilities in Xcode However, on my device when I go to Settings > Apple Account > iCloud > Saved to iCloud and switch off my app, all the data saved to Core Data is removed. I suspected this working as intended. When I switch it back on, all the data comes back. However (x2), the support page here says it should remain on the device: When you turn it off, the app no longer connects with iCloud, so your data exists only on your device Am I missing something in how I integrated Core Data in Xcode? Do I need to explicitly configure something with Apple's SDK to get the behavior described in the support page? I've noticed for some of Apple's apps, when you switch off iCloud there's an action sheet asking what you'd like to do with the local data. I figured this was Apple's magic wi