TipKit popover Issues...

Can you provide your code for one of the tips that's appearing as a full sheet instead of a popover? Maybe there's something you're doing or not doing in your code?

The code was exactly the same as I am using for all the tips I created (I have about 20 tips scattered across about 8 different views). All of these tips were originally setup as popover tips and I was using TipGroups to control the sequencing. All worked exactly as expected in the simulator but when I ran it on my physical device I started seeing the anomalies. Below is indicative of how I was invoking them all.

One thing I did notice about the 2 tips that were displaying as sheets was that they were for buttons at the bottom of the view. Right above them was a list subview that was clearly taking up all the available screen real estate so it was as though the framework didn't think there was enough room to display them as popovers and resorted to using a sheet. There were some other anomalies attaching popovers to sliders. Either they didn't display properly or could not be dismissed.

But NONE of this was a problem in the simulator! Everything worked just fine.

In frustration I resorted to using TipView for the problematic Tips and I now have something that even though it is not completely consistent in the way tips are shown at least is is more predictable and that is better than having users get confused by popups either not appearing as expected or not being able to be dismissed (which of course throws off the TipGroup so that no subsequent tips in that group will ever appear).

It's frustrating that you can spend a day to two setting something like this up and everything is working perfectly in the simulator and then when try it on a real device you need to spend another day trying to work around the anomalies.

@State var groupTips = TipGroup(.ordered) {
    RecipeCardTip()
    InfoSheetTip()
    GetStartedTip()
    
}

//later in the code something like this is attached to a button
   .popoverTip(groupTips.currentTip as? GetStartedTip)

I'm having similar issue, I attached .popoverTip() to buttons, and the tips are controlled by TipGroup too, which is quite similar to what @lrreynolds did.

The code works fine in simulator, but when I'm testing on real device, the next tip didn't show up as expected after the tip before is dismissed, and displays popup as sheet for one time.

Another issue occurred in simulator (I didn't test in actual device) about .popoverTip() is that when I dismiss the tip by tapping other part of the screen instead of tap the dismiss button of the tip, the next tip didn't show up too. when I re-enter the app, the tip that was dismissed reappeared.

Either the TipKit is having problem or the iOS, because the simulator provided by Xcode isn't 100% identical to real device. Another example is that when you having NavigationStack inside DocumentGroup you will see two toolbar vertical stacked in simulator, but one overrides another in actual device, since it is not related to the current topic so I'm not going to talk too much about that.

I'm now watching this thread to see if anyone could find the cause or solution to this .popoverTip() and TipGroup issue.

I have't found any solutions so I have resorted to using TipViews where ever possible. They seem more reliable especially with slider controls which definitely don't play well with popover tips. I think TipKit still has a few kinks that need to be worked out. The concept is great but the flakiness is frustrating.