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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 everyone, I am encountering an issue where my Live Activity (Dynamic Island) suddenly became invalid and failed to launch. It was working perfectly before, and I haven't modified any code since then. My Environment: Xcode: 26.1.1 Device iOS: 26.1 Testing: I also tested on iOS 18, but the Live Activity fails to start there as well. Here is my code: Live Activity Manager (Start/Update/End): func startLiveActivity() { // Initial static data let attributes = SimpleIslandAttributes(name: "Test Order") // Initial dynamic data let initialContentState = SimpleIslandState(message: "Preparing...") // Adapting for iOS 16.2+ new API (Content) let activityContent = ActivityContent(state: initialContentState, staleDate: nil) do { let activity = try Activity.request( attributes: attributes, content: activityContent, pushType: nil // Set to nil as remote push updates are not needed ) print("Live Activity Started ID: \(activity.id)") } catch { print("Failed to start: \(error.localizedDescription)") } } // 2. Update Live Activity func updateLiveActivity() { Task { let updatedState = SimpleIslandState(message: "Delivering 🚀") let updatedContent = ActivityContent(state: updatedState, staleDate: nil) // Iterate through all active Activities and update them for activity in Activity<SimpleIslandAttributes>.activities { await activity.update(updatedContent) print("Update") } } } // 3. End Live Activity func endLiveActivity() { Task { let finalState = SimpleIslandState(message: "Delivered ✅") let finalContent = ActivityContent(state: finalState, staleDate: nil) for activity in Activity<SimpleIslandAttributes>.activities { // dismissalPolicy: .default (immediate), .after(...) (delayed), .immediate (no animation) await activity.end(finalContent, dismissalPolicy: .default) print("End") } } } The Models (Shared between App and Widget Extension): // 1. Define State (Dynamic data, changes over time, e.g., remaining delivery time) public struct SimpleIslandState: Codable, Hashable { var message: String } // 2. Define Attributes (Static data, constant after start, e.g., Order ID) public struct SimpleIslandAttributes: ActivityAttributes { public typealias ContentState = SimpleIslandState var name: String // e.g., "My Order" } The Widget Code: // // SimpleIslandWidget.swift // ReadyGo // // Created by Tang Yu on 2025/11/19. // import WidgetKit import SwiftUI import ActivityKit struct SimpleIslandWidget: Widget { var body: some WidgetConfiguration { ActivityConfiguration(for: SimpleIslandAttributes.self) { context in // UI shown on the Lock Screen VStack { Text("Lock Screen Notification: \(context.state.message)") } .activityBackgroundTint(Color.cyan) .activitySystemActionForegroundColor(Color.black) } dynamicIsland: { context in // Inside Widget Extension DynamicIsland { // Expanded Region DynamicIslandExpandedRegion(.center) { Text("Test") // Pure text only } } compactLeading: { Text("L") // Pure text only } compactTrailing: { Text("R") // Pure text only } minimal: { Text("M") // Pure text only } } } } Additional Info: This is the minimal code setup I created for testing, but even this basic version is failing. I have set NSSupportsLiveActivities (Supports Live Activities) to YES (true) in the Info.plist for both the Main App and the Widget Extension. Has anyone experienced this? Any help would be appreciated.

I’m building a macOS video editor that uses AVComposition and AVVideoComposition. Initially, my renderer creates a composition with some default video/audio tracks: @Published var composition: AVComposition? @Published var videoComposition: AVVideoComposition? @Published var playerItem: AVPlayerItem? Then I call a buildComposition() function that inserts all the default video segments. Later in the editing workflow, the user may choose to add their own custom video clip. For this I have a function like: private func handlePickedVideo(_ url: URL) { guard url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() else { print("Failed to access security-scoped resource") return } let asset = AVURLAsset(url: url) let videoTracks = asset.tracks(withMediaType: .video) guard let firstVideoTrack = videoTracks.first else { print("No video track found") url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() return } renderer.insertUserVideoTrack(from: asset, track: firstVideoTrack) url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() } What I want to achieve is the same behavior professional video editors provide, after the composition has already been initialized and built, the user should be able to add a new video track and the composition should update live, meaning the preview player should immediately reflect the changes without rebuilding everything from scratch manually. How can I structure my AVComposition / AVMutableComposition and my rendering pipeline so that adding a new clip later updates the existing composition in real time (similar to Final Cut/Adobe Premiere), instead of needing to rebuild everything from zero? You can find a playable version of this entire setup at :- https://github.com/zaidbren/SimpleEditor

After updating from iOS 26 to iOS 26.1, all my transparent system elements (i.e. UITabBar, UIBarButtonItem) started rendering with a dark background tint. In iOS 26 the same configuration looked fully transparent / glassy. The strange part is that the tint only appears in normal UIViewControllers. In UITableViewController the tab bar still looks correct and transparent, even on iOS 26.1. I am using the same appearance code as before: func setupTabBarAppearance() { guard let tabBar = tabBarController?.tabBar else { return } if #available(iOS 26.0, *) { let appearance = UITabBarAppearance() appearance.configureWithTransparentBackground() appearance.backgroundColor = .clear appearance.backgroundEffect = nil appearance.shadowColor = .clear tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance tabBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance tabBar.isTranslucent = true tabBar.backgroundColor = .clear tabBar.barTintColor = .clear } else { tabBar.isTranslucent = true tabBar.backgroundImage = UIImage() tabBar.shadowImage = UIImage() tabBar.backgroundColor = .clear } } I tried removing backgroundEffect, forcing .clear colors, using configureWithDefaultBackground, changing edgesForExtendedLayout, extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars, etc. I noticed that if I change Liquid Glass in iOS 26 settings from Clear to Tinted, then I get a black tint everywhere and the interface becomes consistent, but not the way I want. Nothing removes the new dark tint in iOS 26.1. Is this an intentional change in iOS 26.1, a bug, or is there a new way to make the tab bar fully transparent again?

I’m working on a SwiftUI screen where I need to hide a header when the user scrolls down and show it again when the user scrolls up. I’m currently using a ScrollView combined with GeometryReader to detect scroll offset changes and update state variables like isScrolling or isScrollingDown. The issue is that the behavior is inconsistent. When I scroll down, the header hides correctly, but when I scroll back up, the header often doesn’t appear again even though the offset is changing. Sometimes the header comes back with a delay, and other times it never appears at all. Along with this, I’m also seeing noticeable UI lag whenever I try to calculate content height or read multiple geometry values inside the ScrollView. It looks like the frequent state updates inside the scroll offset tracking are causing layout recalculations and frame drops. I’ve tried placing the header in different positions (inside a ZStack aligned to the top, inside the VStack above the ScrollView, and with transitions like .push(from: .top)), but the result is still the same: smooth scrolling breaks, and the header doesn’t reliably animate back when scrolling upward. What I’m looking for is a minimal and efficient approach to detect scroll direction and trigger the header hide/show animation without causing performance issues or recomputing expensive layout values. Any guidance or a simplified pattern that works well for dynamic headers in SwiftUI would be very helpful. if isScrolling { headerStackView() //Includes Navigation Bar .transition( .asymmetric( insertion: .push(from: .top), removal: .push(from: .bottom) ) ) } GeometryReader { outer in let outerHeight = outer.size.height ScrollView(.vertical) { VStack { content() // Heavy view + contains its own ScrollView } .background { GeometryReader { proxy in let contentHeight = proxy.size.height let minY = max( min(0, proxy.frame(in: .named("ScrollView")).minY), outerHeight - contentHeight ) if #available(iOS 17.0, *) { Color.clear .onChange(of: minY) { oldVal, newVal in // Scroll direction detection if (isScrolling && newVal < oldVal) || (!isScrolling && newVal > oldVal) { isScrolling = newVal > oldVal } } } } } } .coordinateSpace(name: "ScrollView") } .padding(.top, 1)

Subject: Xcode Cloud not detecting ci_scripts/ci_post_clone.sh for Flutter iOS build Description: I'm attempting to build a Flutter iOS app using Xcode Cloud, but the build is failing because Xcode Cloud cannot detect my custom build script located at ci_scripts/ci_post_clone.sh in the repository root. Setup: Repository: https://github.com/GlamTam2000/King-chi-app Branch: ios-build-legacy Xcode Project: flutter_application_1/ios/Runner.xcworkspace Xcode Version specified: 15.4 Issue: The Xcode Cloud build logs consistently show: Post-Clone script not found at ci_scripts/ci_post_clone.sh However, the script file is confirmed to exist in the repository: The file is committed and pushed to GitHub (commit 9bd3aa1) Local git verification: git ls-tree HEAD ci_scripts/ shows the file exists File permissions: 100755 (executable) File location: Repository root /ci_scripts/ci_post_clone.sh What I've tried: Created ci_scripts/ci_post_clone.sh at repository root with executable permissions Ensured Unix line endings (LF, not CRLF) Removed macOS extended attributes Tried both ci_post_clone.sh and ci_pre_xcodebuild.sh scripts Created empty commits to force Xcode Cloud to fetch latest changes Verified the file exists locally and in git history Why I need this script: Flutter requires running flutter build ios --release --no-codesign before Xcode can build, which generates the FlutterGeneratedPluginSwiftPackage that Xcode depends on. Without this script running, the build fails with: Could not resolve package dependencies: the package at '.../FlutterGeneratedPluginSwiftPackage' cannot be accessed Question: Why is Xcode Cloud not detecting the ci_scripts/ci_post_clone.sh file even though it exists in the repository root? Is there a specific configuration in App Store Connect or a Xcode Cloud workflow setting that needs to be enabled for custom scripts to run? Additional files in repository (also not working): .xcode-version at repository root (specifying 15.4) .xcodecloud.yml at repository root (with workflow configuration) Any guidance on how to make Xcode Cloud properly detect and execute custom build scripts would be greatly appreciated. This gives Apple Support all the key information they need to help diagnose why the scripts aren't being detected.

Lately I am getting this error. GenerativeModelsAvailability.Parameters: Initialized with invalid language code: en-GB. Expected to receive two-letter ISO 639 code. e.g. 'zh' or 'en'. Falling back to: en Does anyone know what this is and how it can be resolved. The error does not crash the app

Hi, I have an iOS app that I’m trying to update with Liquid Glass. In this app, I’m using a tab bar, which works fine with Liquid Glass, but as soon as I enable the “Reduce Transparency” setting in dark mode, I get a strange effect: at launch, the tab bar appears correctly in dark mode, but after scrolling a bit in the view, it eventually switches to light mode 😅 At launch: After a bit of scrolling: I can’t figure out whether this is intended behavior from the framework or not (I don’t have this issue with other apps). I can reproduce it in a project built from scratch, here is the code (don't forget to set dark mode to the device and activate the reduce transparency option in the accessibility menu): struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { TabView { ScrollView { LazyVStack { ForEach(0..<100) { _ in Image(systemName: "globe") .imageScale(.large) .foregroundStyle(.tint) Text("Hello world").foregroundStyle(.primary) } } .padding() } .tabItem { Label("Menu", systemImage: "list.dash") } } } } Do you know if this is expected behavior? Or if there’s something that can be done about it? Thanks,

I want to check whether a sandboxed application already has access permission to a specific URL. Based on my investigation, the following FileManager method seems to be able to determine it: FileManager.default.isReadableFile(atPath: fileURL.path) However, the method name and description don't explicitly mention this use case, so I'm not confident there aren't any oversights. Also, since this method takes a String path rather than a URL, I'd like to know if there's a more modern API available. I want to use this information to decide whether to prompt the user about the Sandbox restriction in my AppKit-based app.

my Objective-C/Swift mixed project using cocoapods started experiencing persistent Swift code highlighting issues. Partial highlighting loss but when i use "compare code" function of the editor, It shows that everything works well on the compared code. rename also can not be used any more. does anyone know ho to fix this?

If the app is launched from LockedCameraCapture and if the settings button is tapped, I need to launch the main app. CameraViewController: func settingsButtonTapped() { #if isLockedCameraCaptureExtension //App is launched from Lock Screen //Launch main app here... #else //App is launched from Home Screen self.showSettings(animated: true) #endif } In this document: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/lockedcameracapture/creating-a-camera-experience-for-the-lock-screen Apple asks you to use: func launchApp(with session: LockedCameraCaptureSession, info: String) { Task { do { let activity = NSUserActivityTypeLockedCameraCapture activity.userInfo = [UserInfoKey: info] try await session.openApplication(for: activity) } catch { StatusManager.displayError("Unable to open app - \(error.localizedDescription)") } } } However, the documentation states that this should be placed within the extension code - LockedCameraCapture. If I do that, how can I call that all the way down from the main app's CameraViewController?

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Title Why doesn’t this async function see external changes to an inout Bool in Release builds (but works in Debug)? Body I have a small helper function that waits for a Bool flag to become true with a timeout: public func test(binding value: inout Bool, timeout maximum: Int) async throws { var count = 0 while value == false { count += 1 try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 0_100_000_000) if value == true { return } if count > (maximum * 10) { return } } } I call like this: var isVPNConnected = false adapter.start(tunnelConfiguration: tunnelConfiguration) { [weak self] adapterError in guard let self = self else { return } if let adapterError = adapterError { } else { isVPNConnected = true } completionHandler(adapterError) } try await waitUntilTrue(binding: &isVPNConnected, timeout: 10) What I expect: test should keep looping until flag becomes true (or the timeout is hit). When the second task sets flag = true, the first task should see that change and return. What actually happens: In Debug builds this behaves as expected: when the second task sets flag = true, the loop inside test eventually exits. In Release builds the function often never sees the change and gets stuck until the timeout (or forever, depending on the code). It looks like the while value == false condition is using some cached value and never observes the external write. So my questions are: Is the compiler allowed to assume that value (the inout Bool) does not change inside the loop, even though there are await suspension points and another task is mutating the same variable? Is this behavior officially “undefined” because I’m sharing a plain Bool across tasks without any synchronization (actors / locks / atomics), so the debug build just happens to work? What is the correct / idiomatic way in Swift concurrency to implement this kind of “wait until flag becomes true with timeout” pattern? Should I avoid inout here completely and use some other primitive (e.g. AsyncStream, CheckedContinuation, Actor, ManagedAtomic, etc.)? Is there any way to force the compiler to re-read the Bool from memory each iteration, or is that the wrong way to think about it? Environment (if it matters): Swift: [fill in your Swift version] Xcode: [fill in your Xcode version] Target: iOS / macOS [fill in as needed] Optimization: default Debug vs. Release settings I’d like to understand why Debug vs Release behaves differently here, and what the recommended design is for this kind of async waiting logic in Swift.

After switching our iOS app project from Swift 5 to Swift 6 and publishing an update, we started seeing a large number of crashes in Firebase Crashlytics. The crashes are triggered by NotificationCenter methods (post, addObserver, removeObserver) and show the following error: BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: Block was expected to execute on queue [com.apple.main-thread (0x1f9dc1580)] All scopes to related calls are already explicitly marked with @MainActor. This issue never occurred with Swift 5, but appeared immediately after moving to Swift 6. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a known solution or workaround? Thanks in advance!

Release notes of Xcode 26.2 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26_2-release-notes state that Swift 6.2.3 is shipped with it. But when trying to check the Swift version with #if swift(>= 6.2.3) it returns false. Running swiftc -version returns swift-driver version: 1.127.14.1 Apple Swift version 6.2 (swiftlang-6.2.3.3.2 clang-1700.6.3.2) As you can see, there is a mismatch between the marketing version "6.2" and the build version "6.2.3.3.2". Being able to check for the 6.2.3 version is important for my team, because we are impatiently awaiting the change to the tabviewbottomaccessory modifier https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/tabviewbottomaccessory%28isenabled:content:%29 so that it can be hidden when not needed. Without this fix we have the issue that the accessory shows even without content in iOS 26.1.

I just updated to Xcode 26 and some of my Swift Packages have been getting strange build errors that I have not been able to resolve. When I try to build my Swift Package in Xcode I get the following error Module dependency cycle: 'UIKit.swiftmodule -> .swiftmodule -> SafariServices.swiftmodule -> UIKit.swiftmodule' It seems like it is related to the change in Xcode 26 that states "Swift explicit modules will be the default mode for building all Swift targets". I see that you can disable this with the build setting SWIFT_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_MODULES=NO, but I don't see a way to do this in Package.swift, as you can't include value assignments like this .define("SWIFT_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_MODULES=NO"). Our private SPM repos use CI/CD and so we need to be able to build them independently of any use in a project. I would appreciate any help on fixing our Swift Package builds in Xcode 26, thanks!

Hi there! I'm making an app that stores data for the user's profile in SwiftData. I was originally going to use UserDefaults but I thought SwiftData could save Images natively but this is not true so I really could switch back to UserDefaults and save images as Data but I'd like to try to get this to work first. So essentially I have textfields and I save the values of them through a class allProfileData. Here's the code for that: import SwiftData import SwiftUI @Model class allProfileData { var profileImageData: Data? var email: String var bio: String var username: String var profileImage: Image { if let data = profileImageData, let uiImage = UIImage(data: data) { return Image(uiImage: uiImage) } else { return Image("DefaultProfile") } } init(email:String, profileImageData: Data?, bio: String, username:String) { self.profileImageData = profileImageData self.email = email self.bio = bio self.username = username } } To save this I create a new class (I think, I'm new) and save it through ModelContext import SwiftUI import SwiftData struct CreateAccountView: View { @Query var profiledata: [allProfileData] @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext let newData = allProfileData(email: "", profileImageData: nil, bio: "", username: "") var body: some View { Button("Button") { newData.email = email modelContext.insert(newData) try? modelContext.save() print(newData.email) } } } To fetch the data, I originally thought that @Query would fetch that data but I saw that it fetches it asynchronously so I attempted to manually fetch it, but they both fetched nothing import SwiftData import SwiftUI @Query var profiledata: [allProfileData] @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext let fetchRequest = FetchDescriptor<allProfileData>() let fetchedData = try? modelContext.fetch(fetchRequest) print("Fetched count: \(fetchedData?.count ?? 0)") if let imageData = profiledata.first?.profileImageData, let uiImage = UIImage(data: imageData) { profileImage = Image(uiImage: uiImage) } else { profileImage = Image("DefaultProfile") } No errors. Thanks in advance

In one of my apps, i am using .glassEffect(_:In) to add glass effect on various elements. The app always crushes when a UI element with glassEffect(_in:) modifier is being rendered. This only happens on device running iOS 26 public beta. I know this for certain because I connected the particular device to xcode and run the app on the device. When i comment out the glassEffect modifier, app doesn't crush. Is it possible to check particular realeases with #available? If not, how should something like this be handled. Also how do i handle such os level erros without the app crushing. Thanks.

Hi all, I have a working macOS (Intel) system extension app that currently uses only a Content Filter (NEFilterDataProvider). I need to capture/log HTTP and HTTPS traffic in plain text, and I understand NETransparentProxyProvider is the right extension type for that. For HTTPS I will need TLS inspection / a MITM proxy — I’m new to that and unsure how complex it will be. For DNS data (in plain text), can I use the same extension, or do I need a separate extension type such as NEPacketTunnelProvider, NEFilterPacketProvider, or NEDNSProxyProvider? Current architecture: Two Xcode targets: MainApp and a SystemExtension target. The SystemExtension target contains multiple network extension types. MainApp ↔ SystemExtension communicate via a bidirectional NSXPC connection. I can already enable two extensions (Content Filter and TransparentProxy). With the NETransparentProxy, I still need to implement HTTPS capture. Questions I’d appreciate help with: Can NETransparentProxy capture the DNS fields I need (dns_hostname, dns_query_type, dns_response_code, dns_answer_number, etc.), or do I need an additional extension type to capture DNS in plain text? If a separate extension is required, is it possible or problematic to include that extension type (Packet Tunnel / DNS Proxy / etc.) in the same SystemExtension Xcode target as the TransparentProxy? Any recommended resources or guidance on TLS inspection / MITM proxy setup for capturing HTTPS logs? There are multiple DNS transport types — am I correct that capturing DNS over UDP (port 53) is not necessarily sufficient? Which DNS types should I plan to handle? I’ve read that TransparentProxy and other extension types (e.g., Packet Tunnel) cannot coexist in the same Xcode target. Is that true? Best approach for delivering logs from multiple extensions to the main app (is it feasible)? Or what’s the best way to capture logs so an external/independent process (or C/C++ daemon) can consume them? Required data to capture (not limited to): All HTTP/HTTPS (request, body, URL, response, etc.) DNS fields: dns_hostname, dns_query_type, dns_response_code, dns_answer_number, and other DNS data — all in plain text. I’ve read various resources but remain unclear which extension(s) to use and whether multiple extension types can be combined in one Xcode target. Please ask if you need more details. Thank you.

I have made a screensaver for mac in swift, but couldn't find how to add an icon the logo image that shows up on saver file) and thumbnail (the cover image that shows up in the screensaver catalogue). Currently, it just shows a default blue spiral galaxy thumbnail and no icon image