Hey, I am running Xcode 26.5 and I am not able to option + click anymore on a variable or a type that is not native (String, Bool etc works). The developer documentation preview is also broken.
Cannot option click on Xcode 26.5
Thank you for your post. I have never used the Option + shortcut while debugging. Is the workaround of using the mouse and right-clicking on the variable type still effective?
It’s pretty interesting that after Xcode 26.5 Quick Help does not work? In my opinion corrupted Derived Data is could be the cause of Quick Help and documentation previews breaking for local types. Have you tried to clear your Derived Data? Also clean the build folder, in Xcode, go to Product > Clean Build Folder I believe.
If your project has underlying build errors, the compiler won't be able to resolve custom types to generate the documentation preview. Make sure your project can successfully compile without any errors.
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I have the same problem. In Xcode 26.3 it worked. In Xcode 26.5 it stopped working. The project is building fine.
Is the workaround of using the mouse and right-clicking on the variable type still effective?
The keyboard equivalent of a secondary click is control+click, not option+click.
The release notes indicate option+click is now some kind of tab navigation thing, but I do not understand what the notes is saying: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-26-release-notes
But none of that tells me what happened to the feature of 'tell-me-the-type-of-this-variable', which used to be option+click on the variable.
Deleting DerivedData did not fix things, which was unlikely anyway, as that is often just a time-wasting action.