Is Changing IOS version in package.swift file manually accepted?

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I was working on my challenge submission but when I created a iOS swift playground through Xcode, the playground generated get's defaulted to iOS 18, and I can't use latest features like the new glass design seemlessely without using #if available macro's everywhere so I manually changed iOS 18.0 to iOS 26.0 in the package.swift file. So far there have been no problems but as the package.swift file recommends not to change it manually so am I in any problem can someone give me advice of whether it's a legit option ??

Answered by DTS Engineer in 876404022

Yes it's in Xcode playground

OK.

This came up last year and the general consensus is that it’s fine to make this change in order to avoid all the availability ceremony.

Note The reason I asked about whether you’re using Xcode is that Swift Playground still doesn’t support the iOS 26 SDK )-: See this post.

I’d appreciate you filing a bug requesting that Xcode’s Swift playground support add a deployment target option. This limitation is an ongoing source of confusion for Swift Student Challenge participants )-:

Please post your bug number, just for the record.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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This is with an Xcode playground, right?

Share and Enjoy
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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Yashya OP

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@DTS Engineer Yes it's in Xcode playground and sorry I said it defaults to iOS 18 actually it defaults to iOS 16 so I changed it manually to iOS 26.

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

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Yes it's in Xcode playground

OK.

This came up last year and the general consensus is that it’s fine to make this change in order to avoid all the availability ceremony.

Note The reason I asked about whether you’re using Xcode is that Swift Playground still doesn’t support the iOS 26 SDK )-: See this post.

I’d appreciate you filing a bug requesting that Xcode’s Swift playground support add a deployment target option. This limitation is an ongoing source of confusion for Swift Student Challenge participants )-:

Please post your bug number, just for the record.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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Yashya OP

2d

@DTS Engineer Thanks again for replying and I have filed a bug requesting them to add support, through feedback assistant and here is the bug no. i guess FB21974462 .

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