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Documentation for UIListContentConfiguration is incomplete in UIKit
The documentation for UIListContentConfiguration states that I can get the default content configuration of a UICollectionViewCell by getting the cells default content configuration. In practice, however, this presents an error in the compiler: let choiceRegistration = UICollectionView.CellRegistration<UICollectionViewCell, SurveyItem> { cell, indexPath, item in cell.configurationUpdateHandler = { cell, state in switch item.type { case .choice(let letter, let text): cell.defaultContentConfiguration() ... } The error shown when calling cell.defaultContentConfiguration() is Value of type 'UICollectionViewCell' has no member 'defaultContentConfiguration'. Instead, I need to initialise a content configuration using UIListContentConfiguration.cell() to get the default content configuration. This needs to be reflected in the documentation in UIKit.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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Jul ’25
sheetPresentationController and iOS 26 Beta
I my App I use the sheetPresentationController to get a sheet that sits on top of the main view (a Map) and that can be slided up and down, similar to the Maps or FindMy Apps. This works great with iOS 18 and older. But under iOS 26 Beta I see issues, especially on the iPad. When the window is small (iPhone or compact size class on iPad), changing the height of the sheet works as expected, the sheet window is attached to the bottom of the screen and I can slide it up and down. But when the App window is wider (regular size class on the iPad), the sheet is shown at the left (as expected), but it is no longer attached to the bottom of the screen, there's a very large (but constant) gap between the bottom of the App window and the bottom of the sheet. I haven't found a way to minimize the gap, the sheet window seems to totally ignore the vertical position and size of the "sourceView" to which the sheet should be attached to (it still evaluates the horizontal position, so I can move the sheet to the right, but the vertical position can't be controlled anymore). The Maps App or FindMy Apps do not show this issue, also iOS 18 and older do not show this issue. Is this normal or can I do something to prevent this? The sheet should always be positioned to the bottom left corner of the App window, Another problem is the window background with a UIGlassContainer effect. In the Apple Maps App the sheet looses its glass effect transparency under iOS 26 when the sheet is fully expanded. The FindMy does not have this issue, here the glass effect/transparency is always present. In my App the background shows the glass effect when the window is not fully expanded when the overall App window is above a certain height (like the Apple Maps App), but when the App window is below a certain height then it is the opposite way: fully expanded it shows the glass effect and at smaller heights it is opaque. Why is this the case? How can I get the behavior of the FindMy App where the sheet window keeps its transparent glass effect in all cases? I do not want to have it changing its appearance depending of the height of the sheet. I can "solve" some of the issues when presenting the "sheet" as popover (via popoverPresentationController) and from within the popoverPresentationController use the adaptiveSheetPresentationController property to get the UISheetPresentationController (instead of directly using the sheetPresentationController property). In small App windows (iPhone or compact size class) it works exactly as when directly using sheetPresentationController. With larger App windows (iPad and regular size class) the sheet will be attached to the bottom of the App window (as expected) and the glass effect is always present. However in this case the detents which define the allowed heights of the sheet window will be always ignored, the window seems to have always the maximum height (minus some safe areas), Even when using the preferredContentSize property to set the size, only the width is respected, but never the height. Is there any way to get this working? Is this supposed to work this way or is this still a beta issue?
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Jul ’25
addSubview with bounds not working
I'm using Swift to display some text in the middle of the screen, but I'm doing this programmatically instead of using the layout designer. So I'm starting with my version of a UILabel: class GenericLabel: UILabel I'm then creating one of these objects: let label = GenericLabel(frame: CGRect.zero) label.processResponse(componentDictionary ) view.addSubview(label) The processResponse function will set the text value, the font, fontsize, and set the bounds for where the text should be displayed on the screen. Currently I'm just wanting to position the text in the centre of the screen. During this process I send some messages to the console, like my calculation of the width and height and the bounds value. The console includes this: GenericLabel: default = centrex and centrey Utils:setSize: parent view bounds = (0.0, 0.0, 402.0, 874.0) Utils:setSize: obj size = (85.33333333333333, 20.333333333333332) Utils.setSize: centrey myframe.origin.y = 426.8333333333333 Utils.setSize: centrex myframe.origin.x = 158.33333333333334 Utils:setSize: myframe is now set to = (158.33333333333334, 426.8333333333333, 85.33333333333333, 20.333333333333332) self.frame set to (158.33333333333334, 426.8333333333333, 85.33333333333333, 20.333333333333332) Finally I set this frame to my GenericLabel self.frame = Utils.setSize(["centrex":0, "centrey":0], for: self) // You can see this message in the console above print("self.frame set to \(self.frame)") Unfortunately the text appears at (0,0) as in this screenshot. Why is the frame not working? Is there some setting overriding the frame?
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Jul ’25
Clarification on Using Secure UITextField to Prevent Screen Capture
Hello Developer Forums Team, I’ve seen that some banking apps prevent screenshots on certain sensitive screens. I’m working on a similar feature in my SDK and want to confirm if my implementation complies with App Store guidelines. Since there’s no public API to block screenshots, I’m using a workaround based on the secure rendering behavior of UITextField (isSecureTextEntry = true). I embed my custom content (e.g., a UITableView) inside the internal secure container of a UITextField, which results in blank content being captured during screenshots—similar to what some banking apps do. Approach Summary I create a UITextField I detect its internal secure container by matching UIKit internal class names as strings I embed my real UI content into that container I do not use or call any private APIs, just match view class names via strings. ScreenshotPreventingView.swift final class ScreenshotPreventingView: UIView { private let textField = UITextField() private let recognizer = HiddenContainerRecognizer() private var contentView: UIView? public var preventScreenCapture = true { didSet { textField.isSecureTextEntry = preventScreenCapture } } public init(contentView: UIView? = nil) { super.init(frame: .zero) self.contentView = contentView setupUI() } private func setupUI() { guard let container = try? recognizer.getHiddenContainer(from: textField) else { return } addSubview(container) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ container.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topAnchor), container.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: bottomAnchor), container.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: leadingAnchor), container.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: trailingAnchor) ]) if let contentView = contentView { setup(contentView: contentView, in: container) } DispatchQueue.main.async { self.preventScreenCapture = true } } private func setup(contentView: UIView) { self.contentView?.removeFromSuperview() self.contentView = contentView guard let container = hiddenContentContainer else { return } container.addSubview(contentView) container.isUserInteractionEnabled = isUserInteractionEnabled contentView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false let bottomConstraint = contentView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: container.bottomAnchor) bottomConstraint.priority = .required - 1 NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ contentView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: container.leadingAnchor), contentView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: container.trailingAnchor), contentView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: container.topAnchor), bottomConstraint ]) } } HiddenContainerRecognizer.swift struct HiddenContainerRecognizer { private enum Error: Swift.Error { case unsupportedOSVersion(version: Float) case desiredContainerNotFound(_ containerName: String) } func getHiddenContainer(from view: UIView) throws -> UIView { let containerName = try getHiddenContainerTypeInStringRepresentation() let containers = view.subviews.filter { subview in type(of: subview).description() == containerName } guard let container = containers.first else { throw Error.desiredContainerNotFound(containerName) } return container } private func getHiddenContainerTypeInStringRepresentation() throws -> String { if #available(iOS 15, *) { return "_UITextLayoutCanvasView" } if #available(iOS 14, *) { return "_UITextFieldCanvasView" } if #available(iOS 13, *) { return "_UITextFieldCanvasView" } if #available(iOS 12, *) { return "_UITextFieldContentView" } let currentIOSVersion = (UIDevice.current.systemVersion as NSString).floatValue throw Error.unsupportedOSVersion(version: currentIOSVersion) } } How I use it in my Screen let container = ScreenshotPreventingView() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() container.preventScreenCapture = true container.setup(contentView: viewContainer) //viewContainer is UIView in storyboard, in which all other UI elements are placed in e.g. UITableView self.view.addSubview(container) container.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ container.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.topAnchor), container.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.bottomAnchor), container.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.leadingAnchor), container.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.trailingAnchor) ]) } What I’d Like to Confirm Is this approach acceptable for App Store submission? Is there a more Apple-recommended approach to prevent screen capture of arbitrary UI? Thank you for your help in ensuring compliance.
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Jul ’25
How to update action extension icon for iOS 26
iOS 26 seems to have changed the way action extension icons appear in the share sheet. My icon is too small now compared to the Copy button in Safari (and Shortcuts’ icons are too small too, a bug?). How do you update it, and how do you ensure it looks fine in iOS 18 and earlier? My current icon is an AppIcon in the asset catalog, single size 1024x1024, with about 130px padding around it.
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Jul ’25
Custom view controller transitions breaks liquid glass morphs
I'm using UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning to customize my view controllers transitions. When I push a viewcontroller on my navigation stack I need to have a fade in/out instead of the standard right-to-left transition. But having this code appears to break the liquid glass nav-bar buttons morphing from one screen to another. Is there a way to keep these nice morphing and still have the a custom view controller transitions?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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Jul ’25
iOS: Dictation case change with custom keyboard
I implement a custom keyboard extension. On modern iPhones the dictation button will display in the lower right even when a custom keyboard is active. If you are in an empty text field with the sentence capitalization trait turned on (e.g., Messages), press the Mic button, and dictate something, it will appear with the first word capitalized. As it should. But when you hit the Mic button again to accept the result, the first word is suddenly changed to uncapitalized. With the system keyboard this final case change does not occur. Why? How to prevent this? More technical detail: I receive UITextInputDelegate-textWillChange and UITextInputDelegate-textDidChange events during dictation (always with the textInput parameter set to nil) and then a final textDidChange with the lowercased text when accepting at the end.
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Jul ’25
Double border in UIBarButtonItem with Custom View on iOS 26, bug or feature?
I have several UIBarButtonItems in a navigation bar, and they get the default glass treatment in iOS26. All look ok excepting one, which is a UIBarButtonItem with a custom view, a plain UIButton. This one does not change the tint of the inner button's image to white/black like all the others, but it stays blue, like the regular tinted bar buttons pre iOS26. I then built the inner UIButton starting from glass configuration, UIButton.Configuration.glass(), and it looks fine, see the 2nd pic. But if I send the app to background and bring it back, the inner button gets a border, such that the bar button now has 2 borders, and look out of place compared to the other bar buttons, see 3rd pic. Is this a bug or a feature? How can I make custom-view bar buttons look like regular ones, without double border.
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Jul ’25
UITab text color in dark mode
When running my app in dark mode in iOS 26 beta 3 the text color for inactive tabs are dark while the icon is light. I have reported this as a bug (FB18744184) but wanted to check if someone have found a workaround for this issue? I didn't see it mentioned in the release notes.
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Jul ’25
Regarding Launch Screens
When building an app with iOS26 beta3, I received a warning saying "Launch screens will soon be required." Does this mean that, similar to the thread below, the app might not launch in builds for iOS27 and later (including iOS27)? https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/789004
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Jul ’25
Why my CADisplayLink runs at low framerate, but UIScrollView doesn't?
I have a tiny iOS app project set up. I instantiate a CADisplayLink and then log the time that passes between its calls to target-action. This is on an iPhone 15 Pro, so 120 hertz. However, I am observing that in user space, the actual tick rate of my target-action being called is actually fluctuating around 70-80 hertz. But then, I instantiate a UIScrollView and give it a delegate. In the delegate I am observing that scrollViewDidScroll gets called with the correct 120 hz. And if I set a breakpoint inside scrollViewDidScroll, I can see that this is called from a CADisplayLink handler inside UIScrollView. How comes they can have 120hz, and I don't? Of course, I did set UIScreen.maximumFramesPerSecond to preferredFramerateRange, minimum, maximum and preferred. Also, I don no virtually no work in the handler - I am just setting UIView.transform = CGAffineTransform(translationY: 100). Also, my info.plist does indeed contain <key>CADisableMinimumFrameDurationOnPhone</key><true/>
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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Jul ’25
Label I Added in Storyboard Appears nil when I try to Dequeue a Cell Using a Data Source Cell Provider
I have added a UICollectionViewCell to my storyboard, and I added a UILabel to my UICollectionViewCell in storyboard. I have created a cell registration using UICollectionView.CellRegistration and have implemented the cellProvider closure for the datasource which dequeue a collection view cell of type TapLabelCollectionViewCell(I have subclassed the cell in my storyboard to this class). In my TapLabelCollectionViewCell, I am trying to set the tap gesture recogniser on the label, but the label appears nil, which I've connected using an @IBOutlet. Why is this and how can I fix it? My code : // UI View Controller: class TapGridViewController: UIViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() // Do any additional setup after loading the view. tapGridCollectionView.collectionViewLayout = createLayout() configureDataSource() applySnapshot() } func configureDataSource() { let cellRegistration = UICollectionView.CellRegistration<TapLabelCollectionViewCell, CellItem>(handler: { (cell: TapLabelCollectionViewCell, indexPath: IndexPath, item: CellItem) in cell.taplabel.text = String(item.labelCount) }) dataSource = UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource(collectionView: tapGridCollectionView, cellProvider: { (collectionView: UICollectionView, indexPath: IndexPath, item: CellItem) in let cell = collectionView.dequeueConfiguredReusableCell(using: cellRegistration, for: indexPath, item: item) cell.delegate = self cell.index = indexPath.row return cell }) } } // UI Collection View Cell: protocol TapLabelCollectionViewCellDelegate: AnyObject { func incrementNumberOfTaps(index: Int) } class TapLabelCollectionViewCell: UICollectionViewCell { @IBOutlet var taplabel: UILabel! var delegate: TapLabelCollectionViewCellDelegate? var index: Int! static let identifier = "tapLabelCellIdentifier" override init(frame: CGRect) { super.init(frame: frame) setUpTapGestureRecognizer() } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { super.init(coder: coder) } func setUpTapGestureRecognizer() { let tapGestureRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selector(incrementNumberOfTaps)) print("tap Label,", taplabel) taplabel.addGestureRecognizer(tapGestureRecognizer) } @objc func incrementNumberOfTaps() { delegate?.incrementNumberOfTaps(index: index) } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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Jul ’25
UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction crashed on iOS 26 Beta 3
after i updated to iOS 26.0 Beta3, UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction crashed: let scrollInteraction = UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction() scrollInteraction.edge = .bottom scrollInteraction.scrollView = webView?.scrollView bottomBar.addInteraction(scrollInteraction) i got this crash info:unrecognized selector sent to instance: UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction setEdge: and UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction setScrollView
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Jul ’25
iOS 26: keyboardLayoutGuide does not give the correct constraint
In iOS 26, keyboardLayoutGuide does not provide the correct constraint when using third-party input method. A demo’s source code is attached to FB18594298 to illustrate the issue. The setup includes: An inputAccessoryView above keyboard An input box anchored to the top of the inputAccessoryView using the following constraint: [self.view.keyboardLayoutGuide.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:self.inputBoxContainerView.bottomAnchor] Expected Behavior: Before iOS 26, when keyboard toggled by clicking the input box, the input box should move above the inputAccessoryView. Actual Behavior: However, on iOS 26, when switching to a third-party IME (e.g. 百度输入法baidu,搜狗输入法sogou,微信输入法wechat), then click the input box, the input box is above the keyboard instead of the inputAccessoryView, and is covered by the inputAccessoryView.
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Jul ’25
The Liquid glass blur effect does not show over the UITabBar as content scrolls underneath.
In iOS26, when using a standalone UITabBar without UITabBarController, the liquid glass blur effect is not applied when scrollable content moves behind the tab bar. However, the blur effect appears correctly when using UITabBarController. Sample Screenshots: When using UITababr When using UITababrController Sample Code: class SimpleTabBarController: UIViewController, UITabBarDelegate { let tabBar = UITabBar() let redItem = UITabBarItem(title: "Red", image: .add, tag: 0) let blueItem = UITabBarItem(title: "Blue", image: .checkmark, tag: 1) override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() view.backgroundColor = .white tabBar.items = [redItem, blueItem] tabBar.selectedItem = redItem tabBar.delegate = self tabBar.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false let tableContainerView = TableContainerView() view.addSubview(tableContainerView) tableContainerView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ tableContainerView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor), tableContainerView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor), tableContainerView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor), tableContainerView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor) ]) view.addSubview(tabBar) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ tabBar.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor), tabBar.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor), tabBar.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor) ]) }
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Jul ’25
The async/await API crashes in Xcode 16.3 and later
We use several UIKit and AVFoundation APIs in our project, including: setAlternateIconName(_:completionHandler:) getAllTasks(completionHandler:) loadMediaSelectionGroup(for:completionHandler:) Moreover, we use the Swift Concurrency versions for these APIs: @MainActor func setAlternateIconName(_ alternateIconName: String?) async throws var allTasks: [URLSessionTask] { get async } func loadMediaSelectionGroup(for mediaCharacteristic: AVMediaCharacteristic) async throws -> AVMediaSelectionGroup? Everything worked well with these APIs in Xcode 16.2 and earlier, but starting from Xcode 16.3 (and in 16.4), they cause crashes. We've rewritten the APIs to use completion blocks instead of async/await, and this approach works. Stack traces: setAlternateIconName(_:completionHandler:) var allTasks: [URLSessionTask] { get async } loadMediaSelectionGroup(for:completionHandler:) Also, I attached some screenshots from Xcode 16.4.
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