New to iOS development and I've been trying to make heads or tails of the documentation. I know there is a difference between the data fields returned from songs from the user library and from the category, but whenever I search on the apple site I can't find a list of each. For example, Im trying to get the releaseDate of a song in my library, but it seems I'll have to cross-query either the catalog entry for the using song.catalogID or the song.irsc but when I try to use them I can't find a cross reference between the two. I'm totally turned around. Also trying to determine if a song in my library has been favorited or not? isFavorited (or something similar) doesn't seem to be a thing. Using this code and trying to find a way to display a solid star if the song has been favorited or an empty one if it's not. Seems like a basic request but I can't find anything on how to do it. I've searched docs, googled, tried. Does apple want us to query the user's Favorited Songs playlist or something? How do I know which playlist that is? I know isFavorited isn't a thing, just using it here so you can see what my intension is: HStack(spacing: 10) { Image(systemName: song.isFavorited ? "star.fill" : "star") .foregroundColor(song.isFavorited ? .yellow : .gray) Image(systemName: "magnifyingglass") }

I'm developing an iOS application in Swift that performs API calls using URLSession.shared. The requests work correctly when the app is in the foreground. However, when the app transitions to the background (for example, when the user switches to another app), the ongoing API calls are either paused or do not complete as expected. What I’ve tried: Using URLSession.shared.dataTask(with:) to initiate the API requests Observing application lifecycle events like applicationDidEnterBackground, but haven't found a reliable solution to allow requests to complete when backgrounded Goal: I want certain API requests to continue running or be allowed to complete even if the app enters the background. Question: What is the correct approach to allow API calls to continue running or complete when the app moves to the background? Should I be using a background URLSessionConfiguration instead of URLSession.shared? If so, how should it be properly configured and used in this scenario?

When a TextField is set to a rightToLeft layout, it gets strange and unnecessary padding on the left side. This pushes the text away from the edge. This issue doesn't occur in the leftToRight layout, where the text aligns correctly. Does anyone know how to get rid of this extra padding? Environment: Xcode version: 26.0.1 Device: iPhone 13 iOS version: 26.0 Code: struct ContentView: View { @State var textInput: String = "" var body: some View { VStack { Text("rightToLeft") TextField("placeholder", text: $textInput) .background(Color.red) .environment(\.layoutDirection, .rightToLeft) Text("leftToRight") TextField("placeholder", text: $textInput) .background(Color.red) .environment(\.layoutDirection, .leftToRight) } .padding() } }

We've identified a regression in iOS 26.0 and 26.1 Beta 4 where AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language:) no longer respects user-selected voices from Accessibility settings. Issue: When users select a specific voice in Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices, calling AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language:) returns the system default voice instead of the user's selection. This worked correctly in iOS 18.6.2. Particularly affects: Third-party speech synthesis voices (CereProc, Grammatek, etc.) Apps relying on automatic voice selection based on user preferences Example: // User selected CereProc Heather for en-GB in Accessibility settings let voice = AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language: "en-GB") print(voice?.name) // iOS 18.6.2: "HEATHER", iOS 26: "Daniel" (system default) Interesting observation: The new Accessibility Reader feature in iOS 26 correctly uses the user-selected voice, but Tap to Speak and the API both ignore the setting. Tested methods: AVSpeechSynthesisVoice(language:) AVSpeechUtterance auto-selection Reflection for new APIs All return the system default voice, not the user's preference. Filed: FB[20271264] Has anyone else encountered this? Any known workarounds to programmatically access the user's preferred voice selection?

Hi, I am just wondering if there is any option to protect my endpoints that will be used by Message Filtering Extension? According to the documentation our API has 2 endpoints: /.well-known/apple-app-site-association /[endpoint setup in the ILMessageFilterExtensionNetworkURL value of the Info.plist file] that the deferQueryRequestToNetwork will request on every message Since all requests to these 2 endpoints are made by iOS itself (deferQueryRequestToNetwork), I don't understand how I can protect these endpoints on my side, like API key, or maybe mTLS. The only way that I found is white list for Apple IP range. Is there other methods for it?

Hi Community! I'm wrangling with this for a few days now and can't find a way to fix it, but I see it working in other apps. I have a regular UIToolbar with buttons, assigning it as inputAccessoryView to a UITextView, so the toolbar appears above the keyboard (I can reproduce this also in SwiftUI). The toolbar contains regular UIBarButtonItems, except one doesn't have an action, it has a UIMenu (using .menu = UIMenu...). In the Apple Notes app, there is also one button that shows a menu like that. When you tap on the button, the toolbar disappears and the menu shows directly above the keyboard. However, in my code it shows above the hidden toolbar, means there is a huge gap between keyboard and menu. It works if I attach the toolbar (in SwiftUI) to the navigation at the top or bottom, just with the keyboard it behaves differently. Here is some sample code for the toolbar: private lazy var accessoryToolbar: UIToolbar = { let toolbar = UIToolbar() let bold = UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(systemName: "bold"), style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(didTapToolbarButton(_:))) let italic = UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(systemName: "italic"), style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(didTapToolbarButton(_:))) let underline = UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(systemName: "underline"), style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(didTapToolbarButton(_:))) let todo = UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(systemName: "checklist"), style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(didTapToolbarButton(_:))) // Make the Bullet button open a menu of list options let bullet = UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(systemName: "list.bullet"), style: .plain, target: self, action: nil) let bulletMenu = UIMenu(title: "Insert List", children: [ UIAction(title: "Bulleted List", image: UIImage(systemName: "list.bullet")) { [weak self] _ in self?.handleMenuSelection("Bulleted List") }, UIAction(title: "Numbered List", image: UIImage(systemName: "list.number")) { [weak self] _ in self?.handleMenuSelection("Numbered List") }, ]) bullet.menu = bulletMenu toolbar.items = [bold, italic, underline, todo, bullet] toolbar.sizeToFit() return toolbar }() Somewhere else in the code assign it to the UITextView: // Attach the toolbar above the keyboard textView.inputAccessoryView = accessoryToolbar Toolbar: Menu open: In Apple Notes: I feel I miss something. In Apple notes I can also see a Liquid Glass style gradient between the toolbar and keyboard, dimming the content in this space.

I'm running the new iOS 26 SwiftUI Instruments and seeing a lot of red/hitches, even with Apple's own Backyard Birds sample project. Is anyone else experiencing this? Not sure if it's a general iOS 26 issue or specific to my device (iPhone SE 2nd gen). Would appreciate hearing if others are seeing similar results.

I’m seeing a layout issue in SwiftUI on iOS 26 that only reproduces with specific Accessibility Motion settings. Steps to reproduce 1. Open Settings → Accessibility → Motion. 2. Enable Reduce Motion and Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions. 3. Launch an app with a SwiftUI TextField. 4. Tap the field to show the keyboard. 5. Dismiss the keyboard (tap outside, swipe down, etc.). Expected: After the keyboard is dismissed, the view’s bottom safe area / layout should return to normal. Actual: The view continues to reserve space equal to the keyboard height — as if the keyboard were still visible. UI anchored to the safe area remains shifted upward until the view is reloaded.

Up until some point relatively recently, I have been able to use Safari's web inspector to connect to the iOS simulator in order to debug our web application in development at http://localhost:8088. Now, the web inspector still OPENS, but it opens in a broken state. The context is available to select from Safari's "Develop" menu: Develop > "iPhone 16 Pro (Simulator)" > "localhost - login". It appears under the Safari heading if I have navigated to the web app in the browser, or under the Expo heading if I am accessing it through the webview in our React Native wrapper app. When I select it, the web inspector window does appear. However, once it opens, the Elements pane is empty, the Console pane is empty, expressions entered into the console are not evaluated, there's no content in Sources, Network, Storage, etc. Important notes: This broken state happens at http://localhost:8088 as well as http://127.0.0.1:8088, and it seems that the insecure context is the issue. The web inspector DOES work for HTTPS sites. If I navigate to, e.g., https://example.com in the simulator and connect the web inspector, everything works fine. The web inspector also works fine in Safari on macOS (OUTSIDE the simulator) when accessing non-HTTPS sites. It's only a problem for non-HTTPS sites when connecting to the simulator. A coworker has the same problem, so it is not isolated to my machine. I would enable TLS locally as a workaround, but this web app is very complex, and I know from experience that it is very difficult for various reasons to set it up properly for our project in development, and it will take significant non-trivial work to do so. So... Why is this happening? Is this expected behavior? Is there a way that I can debug my site on localhost without HTTPS?

We have received several cases that our app can not display uitableview cell in iOS26, but users said that they can select cells with single tab and the uitableview didselectcell delegate can response！ I have reported a feedback but no response. Does anyone have the same bugs with me？ You guys can see that the page is blank, I have a video a user sent to me can proved that he can select cell with gesture. We cannot reproduce the bug and don't konw how to fixed, we think this is the bug with iOS26, so here for some help. This bug block our distribution of new version(support iOS26) This is the feedback https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/20677046

Hi everyone, I’m running into an issue using Fastlane to upload my iOS app to TestFlight. When I run my ios beta lane, I get the following error: [18:12:27]: Couldn't decrypt the repo, please make sure you enter the right password! [18:12:27]: Invalid password passed via 'MATCH_PASSWORD' [18:12:27]: Called from Fastfile at line 7 [18:12:27]: 5: desc "Build and upload to TestFlight" [18:12:27]: 6: lane :beta do [18:12:27]: => 7: match( [18:12:27]: 8: type: "appstore", [18:12:27]: 9: readonly: true, [18:12:27]: ``` Fastlane summary: Step Action Time (s) 1 default_platform 0 💥 match 4 The error indicates that the password provided via MATCH_PASSWORD is invalid. I’ve double-checked that the password I’m using is correct. Has anyone else run into this issue, or can anyone suggest how to properly configure MATCH_PASSWORD so Fastlane can decrypt the repo successfully? Thanks in advance!

We are using three column split view as root of our app and wants to hide the supplementary column alone in some cases and behaves like two column split view. With the existing apis we are unable to achieve this since it hides primary column as well and not giving expected results. .hide(.supplementary) setViewController(nil, for: .supplementary) But seen this behavior in Native Notes app when using the View as List and Gallery option. is there any way to achieve this with maintaining three column split view itself ?

I am working on an iOS app and I want to achieve on demand module download inside the app when the user clicks on the module icon which he wants to use. The idea is that we have a super app consisting of multiple modules say four independent apps/features and I want to separate each one so that when the user selects a specific app/feature, it’s downloaded on demand and then opened directly within the same super app resulting in a lower app size initially I want to upload all the code of all modules to app store connect but when the user downloads the app, then only one module's code should be available to the user, the rest of the module's code should be downloaded when the user wants to use that module. I know apple restricts downloading new code but in my case I want to upload all the code to app store for review but just give option to the user to get rest of the code when needed. Any guidance, architectural advice, or example implementations would be highly appreciated.

I encountered a bug with drag-and-drop sorting in ios 26. I created a UITableView for dragging and dropping to adjust the order of the list. However, when I set the height of the cells to a custom height, some cells were not displayed during the dragging process. The tools I use are the official version of Xcode16.1 and the ios 26 emulator And I can also reproduce the same problem on the real device. class ViewController: UIViewController { private let tableView: UITableView = { let tableView = UITableView.init(frame: .zero, style: .grouped) tableView.backgroundColor = .clear tableView.estimatedSectionHeaderHeight = 50 tableView.isEditing = true tableView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false tableView.allowsSelectionDuringEditing = true return tableView }() var content: [Int] = [] override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() tableView.register(FTWatchGroupPageCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "FTWatchGroupPageCell") tableView.delegate = self tableView.dataSource = self view.addSubview(tableView) for i in 1...100 { content.append(i) } tableView.reloadData() } override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() { super.viewDidLayoutSubviews() var frame = view.bounds frame.origin.y = 200 frame.size.height = frame.size.height - 200 tableView.frame = frame } } extension ViewController: UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource { func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int { return content.count } func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell { let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "FTWatchGroupPageCell", for: indexPath) as! FTWatchGroupPageCell cell.label.text = "\(content[indexPath.row])" cell.label.sizeToFit() return cell } func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat { return 52.66 } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat { return 0.01 } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForFooterInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat { return 0.01 } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canEditRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool { return true } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, editingStyleForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell.EditingStyle { return .none } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool { return false } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canMoveRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool { return true } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, moveRowAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath, to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath) { let item = content.remove(at: sourceIndexPath.row) content.insert(item, at: destinationIndexPath.row) tableView.reloadData() } } class FTWatchGroupPageCell: UITableViewCell { private let contentBackView = UIView() let label = UILabel() override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) { super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier) contentView.isHidden = true addSubview(contentBackView) contentBackView.backgroundColor = .red contentBackView.addSubview(label) label.textColor = .black label.font = .systemFont(ofSize: 14) contentBackView.frame = .init(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 30) } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") } override func layoutSubviews() { super.layoutSubviews() guard let reorderControlClass = NSClassFromString("UITableViewCellReorderControl"), let reorderControl = subviews.first(where: { $0.isKind(of: reorderControlClass) }) else { return } reorderControl.alpha = 0.02 reorderControl.subviews.forEach({ subView in if let imageView = subView as? UIImageView { imageView.image = UIImage() imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit imageView.frame.size = CGSize(width: 20, height: 20) } }) } }

I have an odd issue I'm trying to troubleshoot. I have an app that is deployed to our enterprise and works on almost all of our devices. Lately, I have devices (very small number) where the app installs from our MDM and it crashes upon launch, it does not get past the launch screen. If I remove and reinstall the app from the MDM it still crashes. I decided to put the devices in developer mode and if I run the App from Xcode on the device it works fine. If I stop it and run it right from the device it also works. If I do a final build of the app and install it using "Devices and Simulators", the app crashes upon launch. Using "Devices and Simulators" I check for crash log for the app and no file. I am stumped as to whats going on.

I am having a rare crash when calling FileHandle(forWritingTo:) initializer with a file that does not exist. In the documentation, I see that the expected behaviour is to return nil, but in my app, in rare cases I have a Crash. My code that causes the crash is if let handle = try? FileHandle(forWritingTo: logFile) { Is it a known behaviour ? should I test if the file exist before calling FileHandle(forWritingTo:) ? Shareable_2025-09-01_05-32-28.3051.crash

I’m integrating the Declared Age Range feature to tailor our app’s experience based on a user’s age range. I’m currently in the testing phase and would like to repeatedly test the consent flow and different outcomes from AgeRangeService.shared.requestAgeRange(...). However, once I go through the consent flow and choose to share, the age-range sharing sheet no longer appears on subsequent attempts—so it’s hard to validate edge cases (e.g., changed gates, declined flow, re-prompt behavior). Could you advise on the recommended way to reset or re-prompt during development? In particular: Is there a supported way to clear per-app consent so the system prompts again? Under what conditions should the “Share Age Range Again” control appear in Settings, and is there an equivalent way to trigger it for testing? Are there best practices for QA (e.g., using Ask First at the system level, testing on real devices vs. Simulator, using a separate bundle ID for dev builds, or other steps)? Any other guidance for validating different requestAgeRange results (e.g., declined/not available) would be appreciated.

Hi. I‘m making an app with SwiftUI for iOS 26, and found that the old ways of changing unselected icons color seem not working as they did in old versions of iOS. I tried these methods: TabView() { Tab { // some view here } label: { Label(title: { Text("something") }, icon: { Image(systemName: "checkmark.seal.fill") .foregroundStyle(.blue) } } } I wrapped Image with an if-else, but itisn't able to change any color even without if; struct ParentView: View { init() { UITabBar.appearance() .unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.red } var body: some View { TabView() { // some tabs here } } } and an extension of above struct ParentView: View { init() { let tabBarAppearance = UITabBarAppearance() tabBarAppearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground() tabBarAppearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.green tabBarAppearance.stackedLayoutAppearance .selected.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.red] tabBarAppearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal .titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.black] tabBarAppearance.stackedLayoutAppearance .normal.iconColor = UIColor.black tabBarAppearance.stackedLayoutAppearance .selected.iconColor = UIColor.red UITabBar.appearance() .scrollEdgeAppearance = tabBarAppearance UITabBar.appearance() .standardAppearance = tabBarAppearance UITabBar.appearance() .unselectedItemTintColor = .black } var body: some View { TabView() { // some tabs here } } } I read about this from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1ftmfoa/tabbartabview_icon_and_text_colors_in_ios_18/, it successfully changes the color of the texts in the tabbar, but not the icons. After these, GitHub Copilot suggested me to draw two versions of icons, for different colors, which does work, but out of my capabilities. Is there any other ways to do this on new systems? Thank you very much for any replies.

I am constantly running out of storage on my iPhone 16 Pro. I keep having to move my photos and videos to my laptop and delete them from my phone, and I’m constantly needing to offload apps and manually clear caches in some apps to free up storage. I finally got sick of having this cycle every two weeks so looked into it more closely. I’m finding that iOS consumes 32 GB, and then another system reserve category is consuming an additional 23 GB. Meaning the system reserved files are consuming half of the storage on this phone and effectively making it a 64 GB model. I understand the system will need to consume some capacity for itself and that iOS is getting larger, but nearly 50% of the capacity of the phone is insane. Looking closer into the categories, I’m seeing that iOS has taken it upon itself to also permanently provision 10% of the storage capacity for reserve update space. Already another instance of “why am I having to lose so much of my functional capacity to an occasional process?” but I can understand the utility of this — if I didn’t still have to offload basically all my apps every single time I run a software update, because I’m still some not-insignificant amount short. I seem to recall it being between 6-20 GB across the different updates I’ve had to do since iOS 26 rolled around. I’d also like to be clear that preprovisioning the storage space for updates isn’t a bad idea, just give us an off switch if we’d rather be able to take a few hundred more photos, have another few apps, etc. than have the space sit mostly unused. The biggest culprit is this “system data” category which is somehow consuming as much space as the entire operating system and its extensions. There’s no clear way to request iOS to clear this down if some of it is temporary data, which we should have a button for even if Apple thinks it should “just work.” Windows usually trims down on its temp files, but on the occasion you go look and see 67 GB of temporary files, being able to manually run the disk cleanup tool is very helpful. I’m hesitant to try any third party app because I shouldn’t need to, and knowing Apple, it wouldn’t have access to anything it would actually have to touch anyway. Which is neither here nor there, but give us a button to clear cache or maybe run the cleanup when the phone reboots? I am running the developer beta right now so maybe that’s part of it. However I’m not sure… I had switched to mainline release for a while when it released, and it didn’t seem any different with storage consumption and battery drain. I jumped back to beta to see some of the new features and am waiting for another mainline release to switch back to as the recent betas have been much more unstable/buggy than the entire prerelease beta period. Just wondering if anyone has any kind of input on this storage issue in particular as it’s not really been talked about as much as the battery drain issue from what I can see.

I'm facing a build failure after migrating my project to Xcode 26. The issue appears to be related to the redefinition of some core system types. The compiler errors point to a failure to locate the original type definitions, suggesting they've been moved or renamed. Specifically, the build log contains these errors: ../arm64-apple-ios.private.swiftinterface:653:11: Cannot find type '_sys_select' in scope ../arm64-apple-ios.private.swiftinterface:130:33: Cannot find type 'netinet_in' in scope I've observed that the types are being mapped as follows: netinet_in.in_addr_t -> _DarwinFoundation2.in_addr_t _sys_select.fd_set -> _DarwinFoundation2.fd_set I'm looking for guidance on the recommended way to resolve these API changes. How should I handle these type redefinitions in Xcode 26 to ensure my project builds correctly? Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.