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Dynamic Presentation Sheet Heights
In my application, I have NavigationStack presented as a sheet, and I intend to dynamically adjust its height while pushing views within it. I'm utilizing a global observable variable to manage the height and everything works fine except that the height changes abruptly without any animation. It abruptly transitions from one height to another. The issue can be reproduced using the following code: #Preview { @Previewable @State var height: CGFloat = 200 Text("Parent View") .sheet(isPresented: .constant(true)) { NavigationStack { Form { NavigationLink("Button") { RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 20) .fill(Color.blue) .frame(height: 200) .navigationTitle("Child") .onAppear { withAnimation { height = 300 } } } } .navigationTitle("Parent") .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline) .presentationDetents([.height(height)]) .onAppear { withAnimation { height = 150 } } } } }
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Jul ’25
Why is SwiftUI so broken and not improving layered UI functionality
Again and and again, I reach the point in a new application where I need to make structural changes in components and my data model, and the SwiftUI compiler fails to compile and just reports "I'm lost in the weeds", with no indication of what it was last working on, aside from a particular level in a multi-layered nested UI. This typically happens when a sub-views construction is not coded correctly because I changed that view and am looking for what broke, by just letting the compiler tell me what is not compatible. This is how refactoring has been done for ages and it's just amazingly frustrating that Apple engineers don't seem to understand nor care about this issue enough to fix it. Why does this problem persist through version after version of SwiftUI? Is no-one actually using it for anything?
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Jul ’25
What is the difference between .safeAreaInset and the new .safeAreaBar?
I've been trying out the new .safeAreaBar modifier for iOS 26, but I cannot seem to notice any difference between that and .safeAreaInset? The documentation says: the bar modifier configures the content to support views to automatically extend the edge effect of any scroll view’s the bar adjusts safe area of. But I can't seem to see that in action.
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Jul ’25
sandbox causes the input method switch to fail to take effect
Dear Apple developers: Hello, recently I want to develop an application for macos that automatically switches input methods. The function is that when you switch applications, it can automatically switch to the input method you set, thus eliminating the trouble of manual switching. All the functions have been implemented, but only when the sandbox is closed. When I opened the sandbox, I found a very strange phenomenon. Suppose wechat was set to the Chinese input method. When I switched to wechat, wechat automatically got the focus of the input box. The input method icon in the upper right corner of the screen had actually switched successfully, but when I actually input, it was still the previous input method. If you switch to an application that does not have a built-in focus, the automatic switching of the input method will take effect when you click the input box with the mouse to regain the focus. This phenomenon is too difficult for my current technical level. I have tried many methods but none of them worked. I hope the respected experts can offer some ideas. Below is a snippet of the code switching I provided: DispatchQueue. Main. AsyncAfter (deadline: now () + 0.1) { let result = TISSelectInputSource(inputSource) if result == noErr { print(" Successfully switched to input method: \(targetInputMethod)") } else { print(" Input method switch failed. Error code: \(result)") } // Verify the switching result if let newInputSource = getCurrentInputSource() { print(" Switched input method: (newInputSource)") } } When the sandbox is opened, the synchronous switching does not take effect. The input method icon in the status bar will flash for a moment, unable to compete with system events. Even if it is set to DispatchQueue.main.async, it still does not work. It seems that there is a timing issue with the input method switching. Development environment macOS version: 15.4.1 Xcode version: 16.2
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Jul ’25
Is it possible to pass the streaming output of Foundation Models down a function chain
I am writing a custom package wrapping Foundation Models which provides a chain-of-thought with intermittent self-evaluation among other things. At first I was designing this package with the command line in mind, but after seeing how well it augments the models and makes them more intelligent I wanted to try and build a SwiftUI wrapper around the package. When I started I was using synchronous generation rather than streaming, but to give the best user experience (as I've seen in the WWDC sessions) it is necessary to provide constant feedback to the user that something is happening. I have created a super simplified example of my setup so it's easier to understand. First, there is the Reasoning conversation item, which can be converted to an XML representation which is then fed back into the model (I've found XML works best for structured input) public typealias ConversationContext = XMLDocument extension ConversationContext { public func toPlainText() -> String { return xmlString(options: [.nodePrettyPrint]) } } /// Represents a reasoning item in a conversation, which includes a title and reasoning content. /// Reasoning items are used to provide detailed explanations or justifications for certain decisions or responses within a conversation. @Generable(description: "A reasoning item in a conversation, containing content and a title.") struct ConversationReasoningItem: ConversationItem { @Guide(description: "The content of the reasoning item, which is your thinking process or explanation") public var reasoningContent: String @Guide(description: "A short summary of the reasoning content, digestible in an interface.") public var title: String @Guide(description: "Indicates whether reasoning is complete") public var done: Bool } extension ConversationReasoningItem: ConversationContextProvider { public func toContext() -> ConversationContext { // <ReasoningItem title="${title}"> // ${reasoningContent} // </ReasoningItem> let root = XMLElement(name: "ReasoningItem") root.addAttribute(XMLNode.attribute(withName: "title", stringValue: title) as! XMLNode) root.stringValue = reasoningContent return ConversationContext(rootElement: root) } } Then there is the generator, which creates a reasoning item from a user query and previously generated items: struct ReasoningItemGenerator { var instructions: String { """ <omitted for brevity> """ } func generate(from input: (String, [ConversationReasoningItem])) async throws -> sending LanguageModelSession.ResponseStream<ConversationReasoningItem> { let session = LanguageModelSession(instructions: instructions) // build the context for the reasoning item out of the user's query and the previous reasoning items let userQuery = "User's query: \(input.0)" let reasoningItemsText = input.1.map { $0.toContext().toPlainText() }.joined(separator: "\n") let context = userQuery + "\n" + reasoningItemsText let reasoningItemResponse = try await session.streamResponse( to: context, generating: ConversationReasoningItem.self) return reasoningItemResponse } } I'm not sure if returning LanguageModelSession.ResponseStream<ConversationReasoningItem> is the right move, I am just trying to imitate what session.streamResponse returns. Then there is the orchestrator, which I can't figure out. It receives the streamed ConversationReasoningItems from the Generator and is responsible for streaming those to SwiftUI later and also for evaluating each reasoning item after it is complete to see if it needs to be regenerated (to keep the model on-track). I want the users of the orchestrator to receive partially generated reasoning items as they are being generated by the generator. Later, when they finish, if the evaluation passes, the item is kept, but if it fails, the reasoning item should be removed from the stream before a new one is generated. So in-flight reasoning items should be outputted aggresively. I really am having trouble figuring this out so if someone with more knowledge about asynchronous stuff in Swift, or- even better- someone who has worked on the Foundation Models framework could point me in the right direction, that would be awesome!
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Jul ’25
Using @Environment for a router implementation...
Been messing with this for a while... And cannot figure things out... Have a basic router implemented... import Foundation import SwiftUI enum Route: Hashable { case profile(userID: String) case settings case someList case detail(id: String) } @Observable class Router { var path = NavigationPath() private var destinations: [Route] = [] var currentDestination: Route? { destinations.last } var navigationHistory: [Route] { destinations } func navigate(to destination: Route) { destinations.append(destination) path.append(destination) } } And have gotten this to work with very basic views as below... import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State private var router = Router() var body: some View { NavigationStack(path: $router.path) { VStack { Button("Go to Profile") { router.navigate(to: .profile(userID: "user123")) } Button("Go to Settings") { router.navigate(to: .settings) } Button("Go to Listings") { router.navigate(to: .someList) } .navigationDestination(for: Route.self) { destination in destinationView(for: destination) } } } .environment(router) } @ViewBuilder private func destinationView(for destination: Route) -&gt; some View { switch destination { case .profile(let userID): ProfileView(userID: userID) case .settings: SettingsView() case .someList: SomeListofItemsView() case .detail(id: let id): ItemDetailView(id: id) } } } #Preview { ContentView() } I then have other views named ProfileView, SettingsView, SomeListofItemsView, and ItemDetailView.... Navigation works AWESOME from ContentView. Expanding this to SomeListofItemsView works as well... Allowing navigation to ItemDetailView, with one problem... I cannot figure out how to inject the Canvas with a router instance from the environment, so it will preview properly... (No idea if I said this correctly, but hopefully you know what I mean) import SwiftUI struct SomeListofItemsView: View { @Environment(Router.self) private var router var body: some View { VStack { Text("Some List of Items View") Button("Go to Item Details") { router.navigate(to: .detail(id: "Test Item from List")) } } } } //#Preview { // SomeListofItemsView() //} As you can see, the Preview is commented out. I know I need some sort of ".environment" added somewhere, but am hitting a wall on figuring out exactly how to do this. Everything works great starting from contentview (with the canvas)... previewing every screen you navigate to and such, but you cannot preview the List view directly. I am using this in a few other programs, but just getting frustrated not having the Canvas available to me to fine tune things... Especially when using navigation on almost all views... Any help would be appreciated.
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Jul ’25
Tuple Comparision
I was trying to evaulate let myTuple = ("blue", false) let otherTuple = ("blue", true) if myTuple &lt; otherTuple { print("yes it evaluates") } Ans I got /tmp/S9jAk7P7KW/main.swift:5:12: error: binary operator '&lt;' cannot be applied to two '(String, Bool)' operands if myTuple &lt; otherTuple { My question is why there is no compile time issue in first place where the declaration is let myTuple = ("blue", false) ~~~~~~ something like above
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Jul ’25
Unknown CHHapticError.Code (1852797029 == 'nope') in iOS 18+ on iPhone 11 Pro
Hello, I'm getting this error when launching a SpriteKit Swift game in iOS 18+ on an iPhone 11 Pro, whose shell is partly damaged in the back: CHHapticEngine.mm:1206 -[CHHapticEngine doStartWithCompletionHandler:]_block_invoke: ERROR: Player start failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.CoreHaptics error 1852797029.) Haptics do not work on this device, due to the damaged shell, so some error — which obviously occurs when calling start(completionHandler:) — is definitely expected; what is not expected is the main thread sometimes blocking for up to 5 seconds — although the method is not called from the main thread... the error itself is always displayed from some other secondary (system) thread. During this time, the main thread does not access the haptics engine at all; on average, it blocks once every four or five launches. In each launch (blocking or not), the 'nope' error is displayed ~5 seconds after trying to start the engine. After going nuts with all kinds of breakpoints and instrumentation, I'm at a loss as to why the main thread would sometimes block... Ideas, anyone? Thank you, D.
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Jul ’25
Hang on retrieving StoreKit2 data in c++
I've been implementing in app purchases into an existing C++ app. I'm using the latest Swift StoreKit since the old ObjC interface is deprecated . There is a really weird problem where the swift/C++ bridging seems to get into a loop. After the Product structure is retrieved I have the following structure which I use to bridge to C++ public struct storeData { public var id : String public var displayName : String public var description : String public var price : String public var purchased : Bool = false public var level : Int = 0 } and this is passed back to the caller as follows public func getProducts (bridge : StoreBridge) -> [storeData] { bridge.products.sort { $0.price > $1.price } var productList : [storeData] = [] for product in bridge.products { let data : storeData = storeData(id: product.id, displayName: product.displayName, description: product.description, price: product.displayPrice, purchased: bridge.purchasedProductIds.contains(product.id) ) productList.append(data) } return productList } the "bridge" variable is a bridging class where the guts of the bridge resides, and contains the "products" array as a publishable variable. In the C++ code the data is retrieved by outProd->id = String(inProd.getId()); outProd->displayName = String(inProd.getDisplayName()); outProd->description = String(inProd.getDescription()); outProd->price = String(String(inProd.getPrice())); outProd->purchased = inProd.getPurchased(); The "String" is actually a JUCE string but that's not part of the problem. Testing this with a local StoreKit config file works fine but when I test with a sandbox AppStore the app hangs. Very specifically it hangs somewhere in the Swift thunk when retrieving the price. When I remove the line to retrieve the price everything works. And - and this is the weird bit - when I pad the price out with some random text, it now starts working (so I have a workaround). This is, however, slightly worrying behaviour. Ideas?
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Jul ’25
Compiling Swift Package with Dependency on Build Tool Plugin Fails in Xcode 26
Hi, in our Xcode project we have a Tooling package, which defines build tool plugins for generating compile time safe constants for our localization strings as well as assets using swiftgen. This is working very well in Xcode 16, but fails in Xcode 26 beta 1 and beta 2 as well. The failure is specifically: unsupported configuration: the aggregate target 'Localization' has package dependencies, but targets that build for different platforms depend on it. I've reduced this to a minimal sample project, which you can find here.. To reproduce: Open the Repro workspace, that is attached in Xcode. Try to build TestyPackage. You'll see the error. I've filed this bug during WWDC week, but no feedback yet and no solution in Xcode 26 beta 2. Here's the feedback number, in case you have this too and want to file a duplicate: FB17934050. Does anyone else have this issue and perhaps a solution?
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iOS App'te Elektronik Sözleşme Onayı ve Hukuki Geçerlilik Süreci (KVKK - SwiftUI)
Merhaba, iOS üzerinde bir sözleşme onay uygulaması geliştiriyorum. Kullanıcıların dijital ortamda sözleşmeleri okuyup onaylaması gerekiyor. Ancak hukuki geçerlilik konusunda bazı tereddütlerim vardı. Bursa’da yaşayan biri olarak bu konuda bir avukata danışmam gerekti. Şans eseri https://www.avukatcanata.com ile karşılaştım ve hem bireysel hem ticari sözleşmeler konusunda gerçekten çok net açıklamalar sundular. Özellikle elektronik imza ve KVKK uyumu hakkında verdikleri bilgiler sayesinde projemi yasal zemine oturtabildim. Eğer bu tarz uygulamalar geliştiriyorsanız, mutlaka bir hukukçu görüşü alın. Yanlış bir adım size veya kullanıcınıza ciddi sonuçlar doğurabilir. Teşekkürler 🍏
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Jul ’25
Swift/C++ interoperability issue in std::string
In scope of one of our project we've faced an issue with constant crashes when integrating C++ library in Swift code using Swift/C++ interoperability. Investigating the root causes of the issue we've discovered that with new version of Swift bug was introduced. Long story short: for strings bigger than 27 symbols memory is feed incorrectly that causes the crashes. By creating this post I wanted to draw community's attention to the problem and promote it to be solved quicker as for now it is not addressed.
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Jul ’25
Bridging Headers is unsupported or Module compiled with Swift 5.5.1 cannot be imported by the Swift 5.6 complier
Hello guys! I faced a problem with building... My device suddenly updated to iOS 15.4.1, my Xcode was 13.2 and I had to update it to the latest version (13.3.1) to build the app. After the update, I had a few problems which were successfully solved but one of them stopped me for a few hours. The problem is with Bridging Headers or Swift Compiler, I really don't know what I did badly, and what causes problems. On several forums I often read that is important to set: Build Settings &gt; Build Options &gt; Build Libraries for Distribution But in any case it doesn't work, on yes: error: using bridging headers with module interfaces is unsupported on no: (line with import framework SWXMLHash) /Users/blablabla/SSLModel.swift:9:8: error: module compiled with Swift 5.5.1 cannot be imported by the Swift 5.6 compiler: /Users/blablabla2/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/SWXMLHash.framework/Modules/SWXMLHash.swiftmodule/arm64-apple-ios.swiftmodule import SWXMLHash It will be important that I use Carthage. What should I do? Clone all 10 frameworks that I use and re-build them with a new Xcode which includes compiler 5.6? That may be a bad solution... Any answers on similar topics don't help..
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iOS App with Wi-Fi Scanner Connectivity – Listing Networks & Seamless Connection
Hi everyone, I’m working on an iOS project where an iPhone needs to connect to external scanners (dedicated hardware devices) over Wi-Fi. The goal is to: Discover available Wi-Fi networks from the scanner devices (broadcasting their own networks). Allow the user to seamlessly connect to the chosen scanner network. Network Discovery: Is there a way to programmatically list available Wi-Fi networks (SSIDs) on iOS without private APIs? If not, are there workarounds (e.g., Bonjour/mDNS)? Seamless Connection: As I see, we can use NEHotspotConfigurationManager to connect to and disconnect from specified networks and there will always be a system alert asking about do we really want to join this network Hardware/Firmware/Software Alternatives: If iOS restrictions prevent this, what alternatives exist? For example: Hardware: Scanners supporting Bluetooth LE for initial pairing, then Wi-Fi provisioning. Firmware: Scanners acting as clients on the same network as the iPhone (e.g., via user’s home/office Wi-Fi). Software: A companion app for the scanner that shares network credentials via QR code/NFC, or a local web server on the scanner for setup. Context: Target: iOS 16+ No jailbreaking; App Store compliance is a must. Scanners can be configured to act as APs or clients.
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Jul ’25
AppStore.sync() not restoring purchases
On an app that was using the old API for In-App Purchases (StoreKit 1). The app is already published on the App Store. The purchase is non-consumable. While trying to migrate to StoreKit 2, I'm unable to restore purchases. Specifically displaying and purchasing products works as expected, but when deleting and reinstalling the app, and then trying to restore purchases I can't do it. I'm trying to restore them using the new APIs but it doesn't seem to be working. What I have tried so far: I'm listening for transaction updates during the whole lifetime of the app, with: Task.detached { for await result in Transaction.updates { if case let .verified(safe) = result { } } } I have a button that calls this method, but other than prompting to log in again with the Apple ID it doesn't seem to have any effect at all: try? await AppStore.sync() This doesn't return any item for await result in Transaction.currentEntitlements { if case let .verified(transaction) = result { } } This doesn't return any item for await result in Transaction.all { if case let .verified(transaction) = result { } } As mentioned before I'm trying this after purchasing the item and deleting the app. So I'm sure it should be able to restore the purchase. Am trying this both with a Configuration.storekit file on the simulator, and without it on a real device, in the Sandbox Environment. Has anyone being able to restore purchases using StoreKit 2? PD: I already filed a feedback report on Feedback Assistant, but so far the only thing that they have replied is: Because StoreKit Testing in Xcode is a local environment, and the data is tied to the app, when you delete the app you're also deleting all the transaction data for that app in the Xcode environment. The code snippets provided are correct usage of the API. So yes, using a Configuration.storekit file won't work on restoring purchases, but if I can't restore them on the Sandbox Environment I'm afraid that this won't work once released, leaving my users totally unable to restore what they have already purchased.
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