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macOS Tahoe: NSView -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: Doesn't Work Unless View is Added to Window
Previously I was able to "snapshot" view that were not part of any window hierarchy using the following: NSImage *buttonImage = [NSImage imageWithSystemSymbolName:@"49.circle.fill" accessibilityDescription:nil]; NSButton *aButton = [NSButton buttonWithImage:buttonImage target:nil action:nil]; [aButton sizeToFit]; NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [aButton bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:aButton.bounds]; if (rep == nil) { NSLog(@"Failed to get bitmap image rep."); return; } [aButton cacheDisplayInRect:aButton.bounds toBitmapImageRep:rep]; NSData *tiffData = rep.TIFFRepresentation; NSImage *snapShotOfImage = [[NSImage alloc]initWithData:tiffData]; Now on macOS Tahoe I get a non nil image, but the image is blank. However if I add aButton NSWindow's view hiearchy just before the call to -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: I do get a proper image. Is this behavior intended or is this considered a bug? Is it documented anywhere that a view must be in a NSWindow for -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: to work? Thanks
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Nov ’25
SwiftUI crash on OSX 26 using NSColorPanel
Crashlog-0916-071225.log I have an app that crashes on OSX 26 only. I have a @StateObject which is an observer of the NSColorPanel. When I call let panel = NSColorPanel.shared in init(), SwiftUI will crash - apparently with an update while view is being updated. See crash log. I was able to work around it by adding let _ = NSColorPanel.shared in my AppDelegate before SwiftUI is initialized. The exact code worked fine in all previous OSX versions.
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Sep ’25
macOS Tahoe: NSView -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: Doesn't Work on NSButton that uses NSBezelStyleGlass
If I try making a bitmap of a NSButton using the following code: NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [button bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:button.bounds]; [button cacheDisplayInRect:button.bounds toBitmapImageRep:rep]; NSData *tiffData = rep.TIFFRepresentation; I get a blank image if the NSButton has its bezelStyle set to NSBezelStyleGlass. If I change the bezel style to something else like NSBezelStyleFlexiblePush I do get an image
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Sep ’25
NSCollectionView Liquid Glass Section Headers Don't Show After Fading Out on Scroll Sometimes
I'm noticing some weird glitches with my collection view headers on macOS Tahoe. The sections headers are pinned to the visible region. I headers fade out when scrolling and are supposed to fade back in but sometimes they don't fade back in and the header remains but the header text doesn't come back (until I scroll again). How can I turn off this scroll animation thingy?
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Sep ’25
Default document-based app menu items missing icons
In a new document-based macOS app project created in Xcode, some of the default system-provided menu commands appear without their standard icons in the menu bar. Steps to Reproduce: 1. In Xcode, create a new macOS “Document App” project (using Swift/SwiftUI or AppKit template). 2. Build and run the project. 3. Open the app’s main menu bar and examine the default items such as New Document, Open…, Save, Duplicate, etc. Expected Results: System-provided menu items (e.g. Open…, Save, Duplicate) should display their standard SF Symbol–based icons automatically, as they do in TextEdit and other system apps. Actual Results: Some of these menu items display only text, with no icon namely: Services Open Recent Revert To Share This happens even though the items are the system-managed defaults generated by the document-based app template. Notes: • No code modifications were made — this occurs in a fresh, unedited template project. • Behavior seen on macOS 26.0 (25A354). • Xcode Version 26.0 (17A324) used.
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Sep ’25
NSButtons with NSBezelStyleGlass Sometimes Very Long Delay Before Adjusting Appearance After Toggling Dark Mode
I have some buttons. I set the bezelStyle to NSBezelStyleGlass. I'm sometimes experiencing the following issue: Put the system in dark mode. Some glass buttons still draw with the light appearance. One or more of the following actions usually makes the appearance redraw proper: -Clicking the button -Deactivating and then reactivating the window. -Close and then reopen the window. I tried setNeedsDisplay YES etc. but that didn't work The delay is quite noticeable. Everything else is in dark mode except one or two glass buttons. This seems to workaround the issue: BOOL didToggleGlass = NO; if (self.bezelStyle == NSBezelStyleGlass) { // Turn glass off just for a sec. self.bezelStyle = NSBezelStyleToolbar; didToggleGlass = YES; } if (didToggleGlass) { // Put glass back on. self.bezelStyle = NSBezelStyleGlass; } Apparently toggling glass cause the effective appearance to change so you can't use the above workaround in a -viewDidChangeEffectiveAppearance b/c you'll create an infinite loop unless you guard against it.
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Sep ’25
Grammar checking is never requested
I have prepared a NSSpellServer spelling and grammar checker for Slovenian proofing in macOS. My proofing service gets used when I explicitly set keyboard spelling language to "Slovenian (Besana)" (my proofing service). However, no matter how I set the Check Grammar With Spelling option or Check Grammar checkbox in the TextEdit.app or Mail.app, my proofing service does not get any request for grammar checking. I am supporting checkString call for Unified checking and checkingTypes never contains NSTextCheckingTypeGrammar flag. When using legacy API before Unified checking support, the checkGrammarInString is never called either. If I do the grammar regardless the checkingTypes parameter, the app shows grammar mistakes correctly. But that is bad UX. Need to follow user demand for with grammar or without grammar. I don't know what am I doing wrong? On my home iMac v11 it actually works. No idea what I did there to make it work. Just worked. On my working Mac Mini v13 it won't check grammar. On another MacBook Pro v15, it won't check grammar either. Apps do check spelling with my proofing service. But not grammar. Same apps do grammar checking with stock AppleSpelling.service just fine. I have checked my Info.plist, using Hardened Runtime, have empty Entitlements, to no avail. Was there some new grammar API introduced after macOS v11 Big Sur, I should implement? Is there some specific Entitlement, signature, notarization I should perform to get going? Some documentation I am missing?
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Oct ’25
Language detection
I have prepared a NSSpellServer spelling and grammar checker for Slovenian proofing in macOS. My proofing service gets used when I explicitly set keyboard spelling language to "Slovenian (Besana)" (my proofing tool). When I set keyboard language to Automatic by Language, system does the language detection. Since it has limited support for Slovenian language, it doesn't recognize the text as Slovenian and never asks my proofing service to check the spelling. It does consult my proofing service for spelling suggestions and when it does, I see the language parameter there is set to anything but Slovenian. Is it possible to install own language detector to macOS? Or, place some language dictionary files somewhere, the system could use to extend language detection to new languages?
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Sep ’25
Sidebar created on macOS 26 with NSSplitViewItem(sidebarWithViewController:) is cut off at the top in fullscreen mode
I noticed that when I have a fullscreen window in macOS 26, sidebars look like they are cut off at the top: they suddenly stop where the title bar/toolbar would appear when moving the mouse to the top of the screen, leaving a wide empty gap. Am I the only one who finds this ugly? Is this intended, or is there a workaround? This is how it looks in fullscreen (the sidebar borders are not easy to distinguish, look for the drop shadow): And this when moving the mouse to the top screen border to show the menu bar: I created FB20291636. @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSWindowDelegate { func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let splitViewController = NSSplitViewController() splitViewController.addSplitViewItem(NSSplitViewItem(sidebarWithViewController: ViewController())) splitViewController.addSplitViewItem(NSSplitViewItem(viewController: ViewController())) let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: splitViewController) window.styleMask = [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable, .fullSizeContentView] window.toolbar = NSToolbar() window.delegate = self window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) } func window(_ window: NSWindow, willUseFullScreenPresentationOptions proposedOptions: NSApplication.PresentationOptions = []) -> NSApplication.PresentationOptions { return [.autoHideToolbar, .autoHideMenuBar, .fullScreen] } } class ViewController: NSViewController { override func loadView() { let stack = NSStackView(views: [ NSTextField(labelWithString: "asdf") ]) stack.orientation = .vertical stack.alignment = .leading view = stack view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300) } }
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Sep ’25
Document title/proxy shifts left when adding an empty SwiftUI/AppKit toolbar - how to keep it centered?
I’m building a document-based macOS app using SwiftUI with an AppKit NSDocument. By default, when the window has no toolbar, the document title and proxy icon (with the edited state dot and standard saving controls) appear nicely centered in the title bar. However, as soon as I attach a toolbar - even an empty one - the document proxy moves to the leading edge of the title bar. Is there a way to keep the document proxy/title centered in a document-based SwiftUI app while also using a toolbar? Or is the left-alignment now the only supported behavior when a toolbar is present? Thanks in advance for any guidance.
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Sep ’25
NSBrowser Column Resizing Causes NSWindowWillStartLiveResizeNotification to be posted even though the window isn't being resized.
I have an NSBrowser inside a window. When I start resizing a column I noticed a peculiar behavior: it causes NSWindowWillStartLiveResizeNotification to get posted for the NSWindow the browser is inside (and did end gets posted when column resizing finishes). The browser is not the NSWindow contentView but a descendant of the contentView. I have my reasons for caring (I'm currently listening for these window resize notifications) but my code naively assumes that NSWindowWillStartLiveResizeNotification - NSWindowDidEndLiveResizeNotification indicates a window resizing session, not a column resizing session for the NSBrowser. This is in contrast to NSOutlineView. When resizing columns in NSOutlineView the window resize notifications do not get posted. NSBrowser deliberately kicks it off: -[NSWindow _startLiveResize]; -[NSBrowser _resizeColumn:withEvent:] () So this seems quite intentional but is it necessary in modern macOS? Should I file a bug? I already did FB20298148
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Sep ’25
NSWindow.titlebarAppearsTransparent only works after collapsing and expanding sidebar
I'm using the simplified code below to create a window with 4 split view items, some of them collapsed. I would expect the title bar to be transparent since I'm using window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true, but it seems that this particular view configuration causes the title bar to be visible until I collapse and expand the sidebar again. Removing any of the split view items, uncollapsing any of them, or changing the view of any of the view controllers, causes the title bar to be consistently visible or hidden, although I don't understand the logic, since I'm telling the window that it should be transparent. When launching the app in light mode, it's more difficult to notice the issue since the title bar background is equal to the content background and only the separator is visible (even though the code sets window.titlebarSeparatorStyle = .none): After collapsing and expanding the sidebar, the separator is gone: In dark mode the title bar is more visible: After collapsing and expanding the sidebar, the title bar background and separator are gone: I created FB20306872. @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSToolbarDelegate { var splitViewController: NSSplitViewController! func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let splitViewItem1 = NSSplitViewItem(sidebarWithViewController: ViewController1()) let splitViewItem2 = NSSplitViewItem(viewController: ViewController2()) let splitViewItem3 = NSSplitViewItem(viewController: NSViewController()) splitViewItem3.isCollapsed = true let splitViewItem4 = NSSplitViewItem(viewController: NSViewController()) splitViewItem4.isCollapsed = true splitViewController = NSSplitViewController() splitViewController.splitViewItems = [splitViewItem1, splitViewItem2, splitViewItem3, splitViewItem4] let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: splitViewController) window.styleMask = [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable, .fullSizeContentView] window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true let toolbar = NSToolbar(identifier: "") toolbar.delegate = self toolbar.displayMode = .iconOnly window.toolbar = toolbar window.titlebarSeparatorStyle = .none window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) } func toolbarAllowedItemIdentifiers(_ toolbar: NSToolbar) -> [NSToolbarItem.Identifier] { return [.space, .flexibleSpace, .sidebarTrackingSeparator, .init("item")] } func toolbarDefaultItemIdentifiers(_ toolbar: NSToolbar) -> [NSToolbarItem.Identifier] { return [.init("item"), .sidebarTrackingSeparator] } func toolbar(_ toolbar: NSToolbar, itemForItemIdentifier itemIdentifier: NSToolbarItem.Identifier, willBeInsertedIntoToolbar flag: Bool) -> NSToolbarItem? { switch itemIdentifier.rawValue { case "item": let item = NSToolbarItem(itemIdentifier: itemIdentifier) item.image = NSImage(systemSymbolName: "sidebar.leading", accessibilityDescription: nil) item.action = #selector(toggleSidebar(_:)) item.target = self return item default: return nil } } @objc func toggleSidebar(_ sender: Any?) { splitViewController.splitViewItems[0].animator().isCollapsed = !splitViewController.splitViewItems[0].isCollapsed } } class ViewController1: NSViewController { override func loadView() { view = NSView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 200)) } } class ViewController2: NSViewController { override func loadView() { let textView = NSTextView() let scrollView = NSScrollView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 200)) scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true scrollView.documentView = textView view = scrollView } }
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Sep ’25
I need to access information about the apps installed in my system
How do I get the FileManager in SwiftUI to read information about the apps in the Applications folder. Lots of apps do it, Alfred, Raycast. It's not something that is unheard of, and yet I cannot for the life of me, using every kind of guide on the internet figure out how to achieve this. Please somebody help, this is legitimately affecting my mental health.
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Sep ’25
Why isn't Liquid Glass effect applied when using pyobjc?
I can compile this #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> @interface AppDelegate : NSObject <NSApplicationDelegate> @property (strong) NSWindow *window; @property (strong) NSSlider *slider; @end @implementation AppDelegate - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification { // Window size NSRect frame = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300); NSUInteger style = NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable; self.window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:frame styleMask:style backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO]; [self.window setTitle:@"Centered Slider Example"]; [self.window makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil]; // Slider size CGFloat sliderWidth = 200; CGFloat sliderHeight = 32; CGFloat windowWidth = self.window.frame.size.width; CGFloat windowHeight = self.window.frame.size.height; CGFloat sliderX = (windowWidth - sliderWidth) / 2; CGFloat sliderY = (windowHeight - sliderHeight) / 2; self.slider = [[NSSlider alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(sliderX, sliderY, sliderWidth, sliderHeight)]; [self.slider setMinValue:0]; [self.slider setMaxValue:100]; [self.slider setDoubleValue:50]; [self.window.contentView addSubview:self.slider]; } @end int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { @autoreleasepool { NSApplication *app = [NSApplication sharedApplication]; AppDelegate *delegate = [[AppDelegate alloc] init]; [app setDelegate:delegate]; [app run]; } return 0; } with (base) johnzhou@Johns-MacBook-Pro liquidglasstest % clang -framework Foundation -framework AppKit testobjc.m and get this neat liquid glass effect: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4199493b-6011-4ad0-9c9f-25db8585e547 However if I use pyobjc to make an equivalent import sys from Cocoa import ( NSApplication, NSApp, NSWindow, NSSlider, NSMakeRect, NSWindowStyleMaskTitled, NSWindowStyleMaskClosable, NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, NSObject ) class AppDelegate(NSObject): def applicationDidFinishLaunching_(self, notification): # Create the main window window_size = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300) style = NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable self.window = NSWindow.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer_( window_size, style, NSBackingStoreBuffered, False ) self.window.setTitle_("Centered Slider Example") self.window.makeKeyAndOrderFront_(None) # Slider size and positioning slider_width = 200 slider_height = 32 window_width = self.window.frame().size.width window_height = self.window.frame().size.height slider_x = (window_width - slider_width) / 2 slider_y = (window_height - slider_height) / 2 self.slider = NSSlider.alloc().initWithFrame_(NSMakeRect(slider_x, slider_y, slider_width, slider_height)) self.slider.setMinValue_(0) self.slider.setMaxValue_(100) self.slider.setDoubleValue_(50) self.window.contentView().addSubview_(self.slider) if __name__ == "__main__": app = NSApplication.sharedApplication() delegate = AppDelegate.alloc().init() app.setDelegate_(delegate) app.run() I get a result shown at https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7da022bc-122b-491d-9e08-030dcb9337c3 which does not have the new liquid glass effect. Why is this? Is this perhaps related to the requirement that you must compile on latest Xcode as indicated in the docs? Why, is the compiler doing some magic?
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Sep ’25
Liquid Glass icons appear differently in Dock
I just played around on macOS with the new icons created by Icon Composer, and I noticed that the Dock displays programmatically set icons differently. Try this: Make sure you have the Mail app in your Dock. Set the icon appearance to "Tinted/Light" and set a dark (black) background for the Desktop. Run this code: let image = NSWorkspace.shared.icon(forFile: "/System/Applications/Mail.app") if image.isValid { NSApp.applicationIconImage = image } You'll get something like this: When the icon appearance is set to "Default" or "Dark," everything works as expected, and the "Clear/Dark" and "Tinted/Dark" modes seem to work as well. It seems like the Dock uses a special blend mode depending on the selected background, but this does not seem to be the case if the icon is set programmatically. I filed feedback FB20291186.
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Sep ’25
NSRulerView's background color and transparency (macOS 26)
When I compiled my legacy project with Tahoe's macOS 26 SDK, NSRulerViews are showing a very different design: Under prior macOS versions the horizontal and verrical ruler's background were blurring the content view, which was extending under the rulers, showing through their transparency. With Tahoe the horizontal ruler is always reflecting the scrollview's background color, showing the blurred content view beneath. And the vertical ruler is always completely transparent (without any blurring), showing the content together with the ruler's markers and ticks. It's difficult to describe, I'll try to replicate this behavior with a minimal test project, and probably file a bug report / enhancement request. But before I take next steps, can anyone confirm this observation? Maybe it is an intentional design decision by Apple?
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Nov ’25
Window title bar in macOS 26 is drawn even if titlebarAppearsTransparent = true
macOS 26 sometimes draws the title bar background even when setting NSWindow.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true and I don't understand the logic behind it, or how I can turn this off. I'm trying to do something similar to Xcode's "Welcome to Xcode" window which has a left view and a right table view. In my simplified example, the window contains a label and a text view. This used to work in macOS 15, but in macOS 26 the text view is partially covered by the title bar: As soon as I remove the line scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true, the title bar isn't drawn anymore: The title bar also isn't drawn when removing the view on the left of the text view: I created FB20341654. This may be related to this other issue: NSWindow.titlebarAppearsTransparent only works after collapsing and expanding sidebar @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate { func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: ViewController()) window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true window.titleVisibility = .hidden window.styleMask = [.titled, .closable, .fullSizeContentView] window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) } } class ViewController: NSViewController { override func loadView() { view = NSView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 200)) let scrollView = NSScrollView() scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true // commenting this line out solves the issue scrollView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false scrollView.automaticallyAdjustsContentInsets = false let documentView = NSTextView() documentView.string = (0..<10).map({ "\($0)" }).joined(separator: "\n") scrollView.documentView = documentView let stack = NSStackView(views: [ NSTextField(labelWithString: "asdfasdfasdfasdf"), // commenting this line out also solves the issue scrollView ]) stack.orientation = .horizontal view.addSubview(stack) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([stack.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor), stack.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor), stack.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor), stack.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor)]) } }
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Sep ’25
SwiftUI TextField selects all text when it gains focus — how to move caret to the end like in AppKit?
I’m running into an issue with TextField focus behavior in SwiftUI. By default, when I set focus to a TextField programmatically (using @FocusState), SwiftUI behaves like AppKit — the entire contents of the text field are selected. This is causing problems for my use case, because I want the caret placed at the end of the text without selecting everything. How I solved this in AppKit In AppKit, I worked around this by subclassing NSTextField and overriding becomeFirstResponder to adjust the editor’s selection: override func becomeFirstResponder() -> Bool { let responderStatus = super.becomeFirstResponder() // Ensure caret is placed at the end, no text selected if let editor = self.currentEditor() { let selectedRange = editor.selectedRange editor.selectedRange = NSRange(location: selectedRange.length, length: 0) } return responderStatus } This successfully prevented AppKit from auto-selecting the entire string when focus changed. The problem in SwiftUI Now I see the same auto-select behavior in SwiftUI when I toggle focus with @FocusState. But unlike AppKit, SwiftUI doesn’t expose the underlying NSTextView or UITextField APIs, so I can’t directly adjust the selection or caret position. Questions: Is there a way in SwiftUI to control the caret/selection behavior when a TextField becomes focused? Is there a built-in modifier or @FocusState trick I’m missing? Has anyone found a reliable SwiftUI-idiomatic approach to ensure the caret is placed at the end of the text instead of selecting all text? update: adding my swiftUI code below: struct TextFieldUI: View { @ObservedObject var pModel:TextFieldModel @FocusState private var pIsFocusedState: Bool var body: some View { VStack(spacing: 20) { TextField(pModel.placeholder, text: $pModel.text) .textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()) .padding() .focused($pIsFocusedState) .onChange(of: pModel.isFocused) { old, newValue in pIsFocusedState = newValue } .onChange(of: pIsFocusedState) { old, newValue in pModel.isFocused = newValue } .onAppear { pIsFocusedState = pModel.isFocused } Toggle("Secure Mode", isOn: $pModel.isSecure) .padding() } .padding() } }
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Sep ’25
What is SwiftUI API equivalent to NSSplitViewItemAccessoryViewController in macOS?
On macOS Tahoe 26, NSSplitViewController introduced the NSSplitViewItemAccessoryViewController and related-APIs in NSSplitViewController, such as addBottomAlignedAccessoryViewController(_:). Those APIs allow you to place accessory views at the top and bottom of a split view with a nice edge effect. I understand how to use them with AppKit. However, I’m not sure how to achieve the same functionality with SwiftUI.
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Sep ’25
Did GCD change in macOS 26
Some users of my Mac app are complaining of redrawing delays. Based on what I see in logs, my GCD timer event handlers are not being run in a timely manner although the runloop is still pumping events: sometimes 500ms pass before a 15ms timer runs. During this time, many keypresses are routed through -[NSApplication sendEvent:], which is how I know it's not locked up in synchronous code. This issue has not been reported in older versions of macOS. I start the timer like this: _gcdUpdateTimer = dispatch_source_create(DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_TIMER, 0, 0, dispatch_get_main_queue()); dispatch_source_set_timer(_gcdUpdateTimer, dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, period * NSEC_PER_SEC), period * NSEC_PER_SEC, 0.0005 * NSEC_PER_SEC); dispatch_source_set_event_handler(_gcdUpdateTimer, ^{ …redraw… });
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Sep ’25
macOS Tahoe: NSView -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: Doesn't Work Unless View is Added to Window
Previously I was able to "snapshot" view that were not part of any window hierarchy using the following: NSImage *buttonImage = [NSImage imageWithSystemSymbolName:@"49.circle.fill" accessibilityDescription:nil]; NSButton *aButton = [NSButton buttonWithImage:buttonImage target:nil action:nil]; [aButton sizeToFit]; NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [aButton bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:aButton.bounds]; if (rep == nil) { NSLog(@"Failed to get bitmap image rep."); return; } [aButton cacheDisplayInRect:aButton.bounds toBitmapImageRep:rep]; NSData *tiffData = rep.TIFFRepresentation; NSImage *snapShotOfImage = [[NSImage alloc]initWithData:tiffData]; Now on macOS Tahoe I get a non nil image, but the image is blank. However if I add aButton NSWindow's view hiearchy just before the call to -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: I do get a proper image. Is this behavior intended or is this considered a bug? Is it documented anywhere that a view must be in a NSWindow for -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: to work? Thanks
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Nov ’25
SwiftUI crash on OSX 26 using NSColorPanel
Crashlog-0916-071225.log I have an app that crashes on OSX 26 only. I have a @StateObject which is an observer of the NSColorPanel. When I call let panel = NSColorPanel.shared in init(), SwiftUI will crash - apparently with an update while view is being updated. See crash log. I was able to work around it by adding let _ = NSColorPanel.shared in my AppDelegate before SwiftUI is initialized. The exact code worked fine in all previous OSX versions.
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Sep ’25
macOS Tahoe: NSView -cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: Doesn't Work on NSButton that uses NSBezelStyleGlass
If I try making a bitmap of a NSButton using the following code: NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [button bitmapImageRepForCachingDisplayInRect:button.bounds]; [button cacheDisplayInRect:button.bounds toBitmapImageRep:rep]; NSData *tiffData = rep.TIFFRepresentation; I get a blank image if the NSButton has its bezelStyle set to NSBezelStyleGlass. If I change the bezel style to something else like NSBezelStyleFlexiblePush I do get an image
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Sep ’25
NSCollectionView Liquid Glass Section Headers Don't Show After Fading Out on Scroll Sometimes
I'm noticing some weird glitches with my collection view headers on macOS Tahoe. The sections headers are pinned to the visible region. I headers fade out when scrolling and are supposed to fade back in but sometimes they don't fade back in and the header remains but the header text doesn't come back (until I scroll again). How can I turn off this scroll animation thingy?
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Sep ’25
Default document-based app menu items missing icons
In a new document-based macOS app project created in Xcode, some of the default system-provided menu commands appear without their standard icons in the menu bar. Steps to Reproduce: 1. In Xcode, create a new macOS “Document App” project (using Swift/SwiftUI or AppKit template). 2. Build and run the project. 3. Open the app’s main menu bar and examine the default items such as New Document, Open…, Save, Duplicate, etc. Expected Results: System-provided menu items (e.g. Open…, Save, Duplicate) should display their standard SF Symbol–based icons automatically, as they do in TextEdit and other system apps. Actual Results: Some of these menu items display only text, with no icon namely: Services Open Recent Revert To Share This happens even though the items are the system-managed defaults generated by the document-based app template. Notes: • No code modifications were made — this occurs in a fresh, unedited template project. • Behavior seen on macOS 26.0 (25A354). • Xcode Version 26.0 (17A324) used.
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Sep ’25
NSButtons with NSBezelStyleGlass Sometimes Very Long Delay Before Adjusting Appearance After Toggling Dark Mode
I have some buttons. I set the bezelStyle to NSBezelStyleGlass. I'm sometimes experiencing the following issue: Put the system in dark mode. Some glass buttons still draw with the light appearance. One or more of the following actions usually makes the appearance redraw proper: -Clicking the button -Deactivating and then reactivating the window. -Close and then reopen the window. I tried setNeedsDisplay YES etc. but that didn't work The delay is quite noticeable. Everything else is in dark mode except one or two glass buttons. This seems to workaround the issue: BOOL didToggleGlass = NO; if (self.bezelStyle == NSBezelStyleGlass) { // Turn glass off just for a sec. self.bezelStyle = NSBezelStyleToolbar; didToggleGlass = YES; } if (didToggleGlass) { // Put glass back on. self.bezelStyle = NSBezelStyleGlass; } Apparently toggling glass cause the effective appearance to change so you can't use the above workaround in a -viewDidChangeEffectiveAppearance b/c you'll create an infinite loop unless you guard against it.
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Sep ’25
Grammar checking is never requested
I have prepared a NSSpellServer spelling and grammar checker for Slovenian proofing in macOS. My proofing service gets used when I explicitly set keyboard spelling language to "Slovenian (Besana)" (my proofing service). However, no matter how I set the Check Grammar With Spelling option or Check Grammar checkbox in the TextEdit.app or Mail.app, my proofing service does not get any request for grammar checking. I am supporting checkString call for Unified checking and checkingTypes never contains NSTextCheckingTypeGrammar flag. When using legacy API before Unified checking support, the checkGrammarInString is never called either. If I do the grammar regardless the checkingTypes parameter, the app shows grammar mistakes correctly. But that is bad UX. Need to follow user demand for with grammar or without grammar. I don't know what am I doing wrong? On my home iMac v11 it actually works. No idea what I did there to make it work. Just worked. On my working Mac Mini v13 it won't check grammar. On another MacBook Pro v15, it won't check grammar either. Apps do check spelling with my proofing service. But not grammar. Same apps do grammar checking with stock AppleSpelling.service just fine. I have checked my Info.plist, using Hardened Runtime, have empty Entitlements, to no avail. Was there some new grammar API introduced after macOS v11 Big Sur, I should implement? Is there some specific Entitlement, signature, notarization I should perform to get going? Some documentation I am missing?
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Oct ’25
Language detection
I have prepared a NSSpellServer spelling and grammar checker for Slovenian proofing in macOS. My proofing service gets used when I explicitly set keyboard spelling language to "Slovenian (Besana)" (my proofing tool). When I set keyboard language to Automatic by Language, system does the language detection. Since it has limited support for Slovenian language, it doesn't recognize the text as Slovenian and never asks my proofing service to check the spelling. It does consult my proofing service for spelling suggestions and when it does, I see the language parameter there is set to anything but Slovenian. Is it possible to install own language detector to macOS? Or, place some language dictionary files somewhere, the system could use to extend language detection to new languages?
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Sep ’25
Sidebar created on macOS 26 with NSSplitViewItem(sidebarWithViewController:) is cut off at the top in fullscreen mode
I noticed that when I have a fullscreen window in macOS 26, sidebars look like they are cut off at the top: they suddenly stop where the title bar/toolbar would appear when moving the mouse to the top of the screen, leaving a wide empty gap. Am I the only one who finds this ugly? Is this intended, or is there a workaround? This is how it looks in fullscreen (the sidebar borders are not easy to distinguish, look for the drop shadow): And this when moving the mouse to the top screen border to show the menu bar: I created FB20291636. @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSWindowDelegate { func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let splitViewController = NSSplitViewController() splitViewController.addSplitViewItem(NSSplitViewItem(sidebarWithViewController: ViewController())) splitViewController.addSplitViewItem(NSSplitViewItem(viewController: ViewController())) let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: splitViewController) window.styleMask = [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable, .fullSizeContentView] window.toolbar = NSToolbar() window.delegate = self window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) } func window(_ window: NSWindow, willUseFullScreenPresentationOptions proposedOptions: NSApplication.PresentationOptions = []) -> NSApplication.PresentationOptions { return [.autoHideToolbar, .autoHideMenuBar, .fullScreen] } } class ViewController: NSViewController { override func loadView() { let stack = NSStackView(views: [ NSTextField(labelWithString: "asdf") ]) stack.orientation = .vertical stack.alignment = .leading view = stack view.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300) } }
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Sep ’25
Document title/proxy shifts left when adding an empty SwiftUI/AppKit toolbar - how to keep it centered?
I’m building a document-based macOS app using SwiftUI with an AppKit NSDocument. By default, when the window has no toolbar, the document title and proxy icon (with the edited state dot and standard saving controls) appear nicely centered in the title bar. However, as soon as I attach a toolbar - even an empty one - the document proxy moves to the leading edge of the title bar. Is there a way to keep the document proxy/title centered in a document-based SwiftUI app while also using a toolbar? Or is the left-alignment now the only supported behavior when a toolbar is present? Thanks in advance for any guidance.
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Sep ’25
NSBrowser Column Resizing Causes NSWindowWillStartLiveResizeNotification to be posted even though the window isn't being resized.
I have an NSBrowser inside a window. When I start resizing a column I noticed a peculiar behavior: it causes NSWindowWillStartLiveResizeNotification to get posted for the NSWindow the browser is inside (and did end gets posted when column resizing finishes). The browser is not the NSWindow contentView but a descendant of the contentView. I have my reasons for caring (I'm currently listening for these window resize notifications) but my code naively assumes that NSWindowWillStartLiveResizeNotification - NSWindowDidEndLiveResizeNotification indicates a window resizing session, not a column resizing session for the NSBrowser. This is in contrast to NSOutlineView. When resizing columns in NSOutlineView the window resize notifications do not get posted. NSBrowser deliberately kicks it off: -[NSWindow _startLiveResize]; -[NSBrowser _resizeColumn:withEvent:] () So this seems quite intentional but is it necessary in modern macOS? Should I file a bug? I already did FB20298148
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Sep ’25
NSWindow.titlebarAppearsTransparent only works after collapsing and expanding sidebar
I'm using the simplified code below to create a window with 4 split view items, some of them collapsed. I would expect the title bar to be transparent since I'm using window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true, but it seems that this particular view configuration causes the title bar to be visible until I collapse and expand the sidebar again. Removing any of the split view items, uncollapsing any of them, or changing the view of any of the view controllers, causes the title bar to be consistently visible or hidden, although I don't understand the logic, since I'm telling the window that it should be transparent. When launching the app in light mode, it's more difficult to notice the issue since the title bar background is equal to the content background and only the separator is visible (even though the code sets window.titlebarSeparatorStyle = .none): After collapsing and expanding the sidebar, the separator is gone: In dark mode the title bar is more visible: After collapsing and expanding the sidebar, the title bar background and separator are gone: I created FB20306872. @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSToolbarDelegate { var splitViewController: NSSplitViewController! func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let splitViewItem1 = NSSplitViewItem(sidebarWithViewController: ViewController1()) let splitViewItem2 = NSSplitViewItem(viewController: ViewController2()) let splitViewItem3 = NSSplitViewItem(viewController: NSViewController()) splitViewItem3.isCollapsed = true let splitViewItem4 = NSSplitViewItem(viewController: NSViewController()) splitViewItem4.isCollapsed = true splitViewController = NSSplitViewController() splitViewController.splitViewItems = [splitViewItem1, splitViewItem2, splitViewItem3, splitViewItem4] let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: splitViewController) window.styleMask = [.titled, .closable, .miniaturizable, .resizable, .fullSizeContentView] window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true let toolbar = NSToolbar(identifier: "") toolbar.delegate = self toolbar.displayMode = .iconOnly window.toolbar = toolbar window.titlebarSeparatorStyle = .none window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) } func toolbarAllowedItemIdentifiers(_ toolbar: NSToolbar) -> [NSToolbarItem.Identifier] { return [.space, .flexibleSpace, .sidebarTrackingSeparator, .init("item")] } func toolbarDefaultItemIdentifiers(_ toolbar: NSToolbar) -> [NSToolbarItem.Identifier] { return [.init("item"), .sidebarTrackingSeparator] } func toolbar(_ toolbar: NSToolbar, itemForItemIdentifier itemIdentifier: NSToolbarItem.Identifier, willBeInsertedIntoToolbar flag: Bool) -> NSToolbarItem? { switch itemIdentifier.rawValue { case "item": let item = NSToolbarItem(itemIdentifier: itemIdentifier) item.image = NSImage(systemSymbolName: "sidebar.leading", accessibilityDescription: nil) item.action = #selector(toggleSidebar(_:)) item.target = self return item default: return nil } } @objc func toggleSidebar(_ sender: Any?) { splitViewController.splitViewItems[0].animator().isCollapsed = !splitViewController.splitViewItems[0].isCollapsed } } class ViewController1: NSViewController { override func loadView() { view = NSView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 200)) } } class ViewController2: NSViewController { override func loadView() { let textView = NSTextView() let scrollView = NSScrollView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 200)) scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true scrollView.documentView = textView view = scrollView } }
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Sep ’25
I need to access information about the apps installed in my system
How do I get the FileManager in SwiftUI to read information about the apps in the Applications folder. Lots of apps do it, Alfred, Raycast. It's not something that is unheard of, and yet I cannot for the life of me, using every kind of guide on the internet figure out how to achieve this. Please somebody help, this is legitimately affecting my mental health.
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Sep ’25
Why isn't Liquid Glass effect applied when using pyobjc?
I can compile this #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h> @interface AppDelegate : NSObject <NSApplicationDelegate> @property (strong) NSWindow *window; @property (strong) NSSlider *slider; @end @implementation AppDelegate - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)notification { // Window size NSRect frame = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300); NSUInteger style = NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable; self.window = [[NSWindow alloc] initWithContentRect:frame styleMask:style backing:NSBackingStoreBuffered defer:NO]; [self.window setTitle:@"Centered Slider Example"]; [self.window makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil]; // Slider size CGFloat sliderWidth = 200; CGFloat sliderHeight = 32; CGFloat windowWidth = self.window.frame.size.width; CGFloat windowHeight = self.window.frame.size.height; CGFloat sliderX = (windowWidth - sliderWidth) / 2; CGFloat sliderY = (windowHeight - sliderHeight) / 2; self.slider = [[NSSlider alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(sliderX, sliderY, sliderWidth, sliderHeight)]; [self.slider setMinValue:0]; [self.slider setMaxValue:100]; [self.slider setDoubleValue:50]; [self.window.contentView addSubview:self.slider]; } @end int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { @autoreleasepool { NSApplication *app = [NSApplication sharedApplication]; AppDelegate *delegate = [[AppDelegate alloc] init]; [app setDelegate:delegate]; [app run]; } return 0; } with (base) johnzhou@Johns-MacBook-Pro liquidglasstest % clang -framework Foundation -framework AppKit testobjc.m and get this neat liquid glass effect: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4199493b-6011-4ad0-9c9f-25db8585e547 However if I use pyobjc to make an equivalent import sys from Cocoa import ( NSApplication, NSApp, NSWindow, NSSlider, NSMakeRect, NSWindowStyleMaskTitled, NSWindowStyleMaskClosable, NSWindowStyleMaskResizable, NSBackingStoreBuffered, NSObject ) class AppDelegate(NSObject): def applicationDidFinishLaunching_(self, notification): # Create the main window window_size = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 400, 300) style = NSWindowStyleMaskTitled | NSWindowStyleMaskClosable | NSWindowStyleMaskResizable self.window = NSWindow.alloc().initWithContentRect_styleMask_backing_defer_( window_size, style, NSBackingStoreBuffered, False ) self.window.setTitle_("Centered Slider Example") self.window.makeKeyAndOrderFront_(None) # Slider size and positioning slider_width = 200 slider_height = 32 window_width = self.window.frame().size.width window_height = self.window.frame().size.height slider_x = (window_width - slider_width) / 2 slider_y = (window_height - slider_height) / 2 self.slider = NSSlider.alloc().initWithFrame_(NSMakeRect(slider_x, slider_y, slider_width, slider_height)) self.slider.setMinValue_(0) self.slider.setMaxValue_(100) self.slider.setDoubleValue_(50) self.window.contentView().addSubview_(self.slider) if __name__ == "__main__": app = NSApplication.sharedApplication() delegate = AppDelegate.alloc().init() app.setDelegate_(delegate) app.run() I get a result shown at https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7da022bc-122b-491d-9e08-030dcb9337c3 which does not have the new liquid glass effect. Why is this? Is this perhaps related to the requirement that you must compile on latest Xcode as indicated in the docs? Why, is the compiler doing some magic?
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Sep ’25
Liquid Glass icons appear differently in Dock
I just played around on macOS with the new icons created by Icon Composer, and I noticed that the Dock displays programmatically set icons differently. Try this: Make sure you have the Mail app in your Dock. Set the icon appearance to "Tinted/Light" and set a dark (black) background for the Desktop. Run this code: let image = NSWorkspace.shared.icon(forFile: "/System/Applications/Mail.app") if image.isValid { NSApp.applicationIconImage = image } You'll get something like this: When the icon appearance is set to "Default" or "Dark," everything works as expected, and the "Clear/Dark" and "Tinted/Dark" modes seem to work as well. It seems like the Dock uses a special blend mode depending on the selected background, but this does not seem to be the case if the icon is set programmatically. I filed feedback FB20291186.
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Sep ’25
NSRulerView's background color and transparency (macOS 26)
When I compiled my legacy project with Tahoe's macOS 26 SDK, NSRulerViews are showing a very different design: Under prior macOS versions the horizontal and verrical ruler's background were blurring the content view, which was extending under the rulers, showing through their transparency. With Tahoe the horizontal ruler is always reflecting the scrollview's background color, showing the blurred content view beneath. And the vertical ruler is always completely transparent (without any blurring), showing the content together with the ruler's markers and ticks. It's difficult to describe, I'll try to replicate this behavior with a minimal test project, and probably file a bug report / enhancement request. But before I take next steps, can anyone confirm this observation? Maybe it is an intentional design decision by Apple?
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Nov ’25
Window title bar in macOS 26 is drawn even if titlebarAppearsTransparent = true
macOS 26 sometimes draws the title bar background even when setting NSWindow.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true and I don't understand the logic behind it, or how I can turn this off. I'm trying to do something similar to Xcode's "Welcome to Xcode" window which has a left view and a right table view. In my simplified example, the window contains a label and a text view. This used to work in macOS 15, but in macOS 26 the text view is partially covered by the title bar: As soon as I remove the line scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true, the title bar isn't drawn anymore: The title bar also isn't drawn when removing the view on the left of the text view: I created FB20341654. This may be related to this other issue: NSWindow.titlebarAppearsTransparent only works after collapsing and expanding sidebar @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate { func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let window = NSWindow(contentViewController: ViewController()) window.titlebarAppearsTransparent = true window.titleVisibility = .hidden window.styleMask = [.titled, .closable, .fullSizeContentView] window.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) } } class ViewController: NSViewController { override func loadView() { view = NSView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 200)) let scrollView = NSScrollView() scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true // commenting this line out solves the issue scrollView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false scrollView.automaticallyAdjustsContentInsets = false let documentView = NSTextView() documentView.string = (0..<10).map({ "\($0)" }).joined(separator: "\n") scrollView.documentView = documentView let stack = NSStackView(views: [ NSTextField(labelWithString: "asdfasdfasdfasdf"), // commenting this line out also solves the issue scrollView ]) stack.orientation = .horizontal view.addSubview(stack) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([stack.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor), stack.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor), stack.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor), stack.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor)]) } }
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Sep ’25
SwiftUI TextField selects all text when it gains focus — how to move caret to the end like in AppKit?
I’m running into an issue with TextField focus behavior in SwiftUI. By default, when I set focus to a TextField programmatically (using @FocusState), SwiftUI behaves like AppKit — the entire contents of the text field are selected. This is causing problems for my use case, because I want the caret placed at the end of the text without selecting everything. How I solved this in AppKit In AppKit, I worked around this by subclassing NSTextField and overriding becomeFirstResponder to adjust the editor’s selection: override func becomeFirstResponder() -> Bool { let responderStatus = super.becomeFirstResponder() // Ensure caret is placed at the end, no text selected if let editor = self.currentEditor() { let selectedRange = editor.selectedRange editor.selectedRange = NSRange(location: selectedRange.length, length: 0) } return responderStatus } This successfully prevented AppKit from auto-selecting the entire string when focus changed. The problem in SwiftUI Now I see the same auto-select behavior in SwiftUI when I toggle focus with @FocusState. But unlike AppKit, SwiftUI doesn’t expose the underlying NSTextView or UITextField APIs, so I can’t directly adjust the selection or caret position. Questions: Is there a way in SwiftUI to control the caret/selection behavior when a TextField becomes focused? Is there a built-in modifier or @FocusState trick I’m missing? Has anyone found a reliable SwiftUI-idiomatic approach to ensure the caret is placed at the end of the text instead of selecting all text? update: adding my swiftUI code below: struct TextFieldUI: View { @ObservedObject var pModel:TextFieldModel @FocusState private var pIsFocusedState: Bool var body: some View { VStack(spacing: 20) { TextField(pModel.placeholder, text: $pModel.text) .textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()) .padding() .focused($pIsFocusedState) .onChange(of: pModel.isFocused) { old, newValue in pIsFocusedState = newValue } .onChange(of: pIsFocusedState) { old, newValue in pModel.isFocused = newValue } .onAppear { pIsFocusedState = pModel.isFocused } Toggle("Secure Mode", isOn: $pModel.isSecure) .padding() } .padding() } }
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Sep ’25
What is SwiftUI API equivalent to NSSplitViewItemAccessoryViewController in macOS?
On macOS Tahoe 26, NSSplitViewController introduced the NSSplitViewItemAccessoryViewController and related-APIs in NSSplitViewController, such as addBottomAlignedAccessoryViewController(_:). Those APIs allow you to place accessory views at the top and bottom of a split view with a nice edge effect. I understand how to use them with AppKit. However, I’m not sure how to achieve the same functionality with SwiftUI.
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Sep ’25
Did GCD change in macOS 26
Some users of my Mac app are complaining of redrawing delays. Based on what I see in logs, my GCD timer event handlers are not being run in a timely manner although the runloop is still pumping events: sometimes 500ms pass before a 15ms timer runs. During this time, many keypresses are routed through -[NSApplication sendEvent:], which is how I know it's not locked up in synchronous code. This issue has not been reported in older versions of macOS. I start the timer like this: _gcdUpdateTimer = dispatch_source_create(DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_TIMER, 0, 0, dispatch_get_main_queue()); dispatch_source_set_timer(_gcdUpdateTimer, dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, period * NSEC_PER_SEC), period * NSEC_PER_SEC, 0.0005 * NSEC_PER_SEC); dispatch_source_set_event_handler(_gcdUpdateTimer, ^{ …redraw… });
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Sep ’25