If Cloudkit is enabled, SwiftData @Query operation hangs when the View scenePhase becomes active. Seems like the more @Query calls you have, the more it hangs. This has been first documented some time ago, but in typical Apple style, it has not been addressed or even commented on. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/761434

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As of 2025-05-03, when a macOS user enables iCloud Drive synchronization for Desktop & Documents in US region, does iCloud filter xattrs upon upload or later when downloading back to another macOS host? Or is it the case that iCloud has no filtering of third-party xattrs? Where can I find the technical document outlining exactly what iCloud does with xattrs set on macOS host files and folders synchronized with iCloud Drive?

Setup I am running a versionedSchema for my SwiftData model and attempting a migration. The new version contains a new attribute, with a type of a new custom enum defined in the @Model class, a default value, and a private(set). Migration was completed with a migrationPlan with nil values for willMigrate and didMigrate. Example - Previous Version @Model class MyNumber { var num: Int init() { // Init Code } } Example - Newest Version @Model class MyNumber { var num: Int private(set) var rounding: RoundAmount = MyNumber.RoundAmount.thirtyMinute init() { // Init Code } enum RoundAmount { case fiveMinute, tenMinute, thirtyMinute } } Issue Running this code, I get a swiftData error for “SwiftData/ModelCoders.swift:1585: nil value passed for a non-optional keyPath, /MyNumber.rounding” I assume this means a failure of the swiftData lightweight migration? I have reverted the version, removed private(set) and re-tried the migration with no success. Using the versionedSchema with migrationPlans, are lightweight migrations possible? Could this be an issue with the use of a custom enum? Other changes in my actual project migrated successfully so I’m lost on why I’m having this issue.

I am developing an app that uses CloudKit sharing. I recently upgraded my iPad to use 23A5336a. After that upgrade, I can no longer accept a share that is sent to me. I have rebooted the iPad and logged out of the iCloud account and logged back in. Every time I get a share link and tap it, it says: " The owner stopped sharing or your account (xxx) doesn't have permission to open it" This same code, running on the iOS26 device can share with device running iOS18. Is this a known defect? Anything I can do to help resolve this issue?

I have a Package.swift file that builds and runs from Xcode 15.2 without issue but fails to compile when built from the command line ("swift build"). The swift version is 6.0.3. I'm at wits end trying to diagnose this and would welcome any thoughts. The error in question is error: external macro implementation type 'SwiftDataMacros.PersistentModelMacro' could not be found for macro 'Model()'; plugin for module 'SwiftDataMacros' not found The code associated with the module is very vanilla. import Foundation import SwiftData @Model public final class MyObject { @Attribute(.unique) public var id:Int64 public var vertexID:Int64 public var updatedAt:Date public var codeUSRA:Int32 init(id:Int64, vertexID:Int64, updatedAt:Date, codeUSRA:Int32) { self.id = id self.vertexID = vertexID self.updatedAt = updatedAt self.codeUSRA = codeUSRA } public static func create(id:Int64, vertexID:Int64, updatedAt:Date, codeUSRA:Int32) -> MyObject { MyObject(id: id, vertexID: vertexID, updatedAt: updatedAt, codeUSRA: codeUSRA) } } Thank you.

Hello, I'm trying to work on an iPadOS and macOS app that will rely on the document-based system to create some kind of orientation task to follow. Let say task1.myfile will be a check point regulation from NYC to SF and task2.myfile will be a visit as many key location as you can in SF. The file represent the specific landmark location and rules of the game. And once open, I will be able to read KML/GPS file to evaluate their score based with the current task. But opened GPS files does not have to be stored in the task file itself, it stay alongside. I wanted to use that scenario to experiment with SwiftData (I'm a long time CoreData user, I even wrote my own WebDAV based persistent store back in the day), and so, mix both on file and in memory persistent store, with distribution based on object class. With CoreData it would have been possible, but I do not see how to achieve that with SwiftData and DocumentGroup integration. Any idea how to do that?

So i created an App and for some time it was working fine. The app has features to show pdf to users without logging in. I needed to upload all data to cloudkit on public database. I was not having knowledge that there are 2 mode being a noob in coding so after i saved all records in development mode in cloudkit when i published my app, i was not able to see them (Reason because live mode works in Production mode). So i need help now to transfer data from development mode to production mode or any app or code that can help me upload all data in production mode.

How can I set the display name of the CloudKit container in Settings -> iCloud -> Manage Storage. I have multiple containers, some legacy, and some for certain modules that are shared among a suite of apps. The problem is all Containers show the same name so it is not possible to advise a user which containers are safe to delete. I am using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer.

When I try to use an entity created in a CoreData, it gives me: 'PlayerData' is ambiguous for type lookup in this context

I get this message when trying to save my Models. CoreData: error: SQLCore dispatchRequest: exception handling request: <NSSQLSaveChangesRequestContext: 0x303034540> , I/O error for database at /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/726ECA8C-6C67-4BFE-89E7-AFD8A83CAA5D/Library/Application Support/default.store. SQLite error code:1, 'no such table: ZCALENDARMODEL' with userInfo of { NSFilePath = "/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/726ECA8C-6C67-4BFE-89E7-AFD8A83CAA5D/Library/Application Support/default.store"; NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 1; } SwiftData.DefaultStore save failed with error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “default.store” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/726ECA8C-6C67-4BFE-89E7-AFD8A83CAA5D/Library/Application Support/default.store, NSSQLiteErrorDomain=1} The App has Recipes and Calendars and the user can select a Recipe for each Calendar day. The recipe should not be referenced, it should be saved by SwiftData along with the Calendar. import SwiftUI import SwiftData enum CalendarSource: String, Codable { case created case imported } @Model class CalendarModel: Identifiable, Codable { var id: UUID = UUID() var name: String var startDate: Date var endDate: Date var recipes: [String: RecipeData] = [:] var thumbnailData: Data? var source: CalendarSource? // Computed Properties var daysBetween: Int { let days = Calendar.current.dateComponents([.day], from: startDate.midnight, to: endDate.midnight).day ?? 0 return days + 1 } var allDates: [Date] { startDate.midnight.allDates(upTo: endDate.midnight) } var thumbnailImage: Image? { if let data = thumbnailData, let uiImage = UIImage(data: data) { return Image(uiImage: uiImage) } else { return nil } } // Initializer init(name: String, startDate: Date, endDate: Date, thumbnailData: Data? = nil, source: CalendarSource? = .created) { self.name = name self.startDate = startDate self.endDate = endDate self.thumbnailData = thumbnailData self.source = source } // Convenience initializer to create a copy of an existing calendar static func copy(from calendar: CalendarModel) -> CalendarModel { let copiedCalendar = CalendarModel( name: calendar.name, startDate: calendar.startDate, endDate: calendar.endDate, thumbnailData: calendar.thumbnailData, source: calendar.source ) // Copy recipes copiedCalendar.recipes = calendar.recipes.mapValues { $0 } return copiedCalendar } // Codable Conformance private enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey { case id, name, startDate, endDate, recipes, thumbnailData, source } required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws { let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self) id = try container.decode(UUID.self, forKey: .id) name = try container.decode(String.self, forKey: .name) startDate = try container.decode(Date.self, forKey: .startDate) endDate = try container.decode(Date.self, forKey: .endDate) recipes = try container.decode([String: RecipeData].self, forKey: .recipes) thumbnailData = try container.decodeIfPresent(Data.self, forKey: .thumbnailData) source = try container.decodeIfPresent(CalendarSource.self, forKey: .source) } func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws { var container = encoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self) try container.encode(id, forKey: .id) try container.encode(name, forKey: .name) try container.encode(startDate, forKey: .startDate) try container.encode(endDate, forKey: .endDate) try container.encode(recipes, forKey: .recipes) try container.encode(thumbnailData, forKey: .thumbnailData) try container.encode(source, forKey: .source) } } import SwiftUI struct RecipeData: Codable, Identifiable { var id: UUID = UUID() var name: String var ingredients: String var steps: String var thumbnailData: Data? // Computed property to convert thumbnail data to a SwiftUI Image var thumbnailImage: Image? { if let data = thumbnailData, let uiImage = UIImage(data: data) { return Image(uiImage: uiImage) } else { return nil // No image } } init(recipe: RecipeModel) { self.name = recipe.name self.ingredients = recipe.ingredients self.steps = recipe.steps self.thumbnailData = recipe.thumbnailData } } import SwiftUI import SwiftData @Model class RecipeModel: Identifiable, Codable { var id: UUID = UUID() var name: String var ingredients: String var steps: String var thumbnailData: Data? // Store the image data for the thumbnail static let fallbackSymbols = ["book.pages.fill", "carrot.fill", "fork.knife", "stove.fill"] // Computed property to convert thumbnail data to a SwiftUI Image var thumbnailImage: Image? { if let data = thumbnailData, let uiImage = UIImage(data: data) { return Image(uiImage: uiImage) } else { return nil // No image } } // MARK: - Initializer init(name: String, ingredients: String = "", steps: String = "", thumbnailData: Data? = nil) { self.name = name self.ingredients = ingredients self.steps = steps self.thumbnailData = thumbnailData } // MARK: - Copy Function func copy() -> RecipeModel { RecipeModel( name: self.name, ingredients: self.ingredients, steps: self.steps, thumbnailData: self.thumbnailData ) } // MARK: - Codable Conformance private enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey { case id, name, ingredients, steps, thumbnailData } required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws { ... } func encode(to encoder: Encoder) throws { var container = encoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self) try container.encode(id, forKey: .id) try container.encode(name, forKey: .name) try container.encode(ingredients, forKey: .ingredients) try container.encode(steps, forKey: .steps) try container.encode(thumbnailData, forKey: .thumbnailData) } }

I can't access the CloudKit Console. It started to be unresponsive for hours today. It looks like sync'ing is still working, but I would like to reset the environment during my development! Is it possible to control CloudKit Console using the command line?

SwiftData delete isn't working, when I attempt to delete a model, my app crashes and I get the following error: SwiftData/PersistentModel.swift:359: Fatal error: Cannot remove My_App.Model2 from relationship Relationship - name: model2, options: [], valueType: Model2, destination: Model2, inverseName: models3, inverseKeypath: Optional(\Model2.models3) on My_App.Model3 because an appropriate default value is not configured. I get that it's saying I don't have a default value, but why do I need one? Isn't @Relationship .cascade automatically deleting the associated models? And onto of that, why is the error occurring within the do block, shouldn't it be caught by the catch, and printed? I have put together a sample project below. import SwiftUI import SwiftData @main struct MyApp: App { var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { ContentView() .modelContainer(for: Model3.self) } } } @Model class Model1 { var name: String @Relationship(deleteRule: .cascade, inverse: \Model2.model1) var models2: [Model2] = [] init(name: String) { self.name = name } } @Model class Model2 { var name: String var model1: Model1 @Relationship(deleteRule: .cascade, inverse: \Model3.model2) var models3: [Model3] = [] init(name: String, model1: Model1) { self.name = name self.model1 = model1 } } @Model class Model3 { var name: String var model2: Model2 init(name: String, model2: Model2) { self.name = name self.model2 = model2 } } struct ContentView: View { @Query var models1: [Model1] @Environment(\.modelContext) var modelContext var body: some View { NavigationStack { List(models1) { model1 in Text(model1.name) .swipeActions { Button("Delete", systemImage: "trash", role: .destructive) { modelContext.delete(model1) do { try modelContext.save() //SwiftData/PersistentModel.swift:359: Fatal error: Cannot remove My_App.Model2 from relationship Relationship - name: model2, options: [], valueType: Model2, destination: Model2, inverseName: models3, inverseKeypath: Optional(\Model2.models3) on My_App.Model3 because an appropriate default value is not configured. } catch { print(error.localizedDescription) } } } } .toolbar { Button("Insert", systemImage: "plus") { modelContext.insert(Model3(name: "model3", model2: Model2(name: "model2", model1: Model1(name: "model1")))) } } } } }

Hi. I am having this error when trying to write to CloudKit public database. <CKError 0x600000dbc4e0: "Permission Failure" (10/2007); server message = "Invalid bundle ID for container"; On app launch, I check for account status and ensure that the correct bundle identifier and container is being used. When the account status is checked, I do get the correct bundle id and container id printed in the console but trying to read or write to the container would throw that "Invalid bundle ID for container" error. private init() { container = CKContainer.default() publicDB = container.publicCloudDatabase // Check iCloud account status checkAccountStatus() } func checkAccountStatus() { print("🔍 CloudKit Debug:") print("🔍 Bundle identifier from app: (Bundle.main.bundleIdentifier ?? "unknown")") print("🔍 Container identifier: (container.containerIdentifier ?? "unknown")") container.accountStatus { [weak self] status, error in DispatchQueue.main.async { switch status { case .available: self?.isSignedIn = true self?.fetchUserID() case .noAccount, .restricted, .couldNotDetermine: self?.isSignedIn = false self?.errorMessage = "Please sign in to iCloud in Settings to use this app." default: self?.isSignedIn = false self?.errorMessage = "Unknown iCloud account status." } print("User is signed into iCloud: \(self?.isSignedIn ?? false)") print("Account status: \(status.rawValue)") } } } I have tried: Creating a new container Unselecting and selecting the container in signing & capabilities Unselecting and selecting the container in App ID Configuration I used to have swift data models in my code and read that swift data is not compatible with CloudKit public data so I removed all the models and any swift data codes and only uses CloudKit public database. let savedRecord = try await publicDB.save(record) Nothing seems to work. If anyone could help please? Rgds, Hans

Hi all, I've contacted Apple about this privately but I wanted to post this publicly too just to see if anyone else is experiencing the same issue. We use CloudKit to store "documents" (we'll call them) for our users. We use it directly, not via CoreData etc but through the lower level APIs. This has been working great for the last 9 months or so. Since a few days ago we've started receiving reports from users that their data has disappeared without a trace from their app. Obviously this is very serious and severe for us. We keep a local copy of the users data but if CloudKit tells us this data has been deleted we remove that local copy to keep in sync. Nothing has changed client side in terms of our code, and the only way we can see that could cause this, is a fetch that we perform asking for a list of the users "documents" is returning no rows/results, or possibly returning rows with invalid or missing fields. We have about 30,000 active users per day (1.5m requests/day) using CloudKit and we have only a handful of reports of this. Again this only started happening this week after 9 months of good service. Has anyone else noticed anything "strange" lately, fetches returning empty? fields missing? Is anyone at Apple aware of any recent changes to CloudKit? or outages? We're really unsure how or who should handle this and who we can escalate to? Any help appreciated. We have a workaround/mitigation on the way through review at the moment but this is a really big problem for us if we can't rely on CloudKit to remember users data reliably.

I have used core data before via the model editor. This is the first time I'm using swift data and that too with CloudKit. Can you tell me if the following model classes are correct? I have an expense which can have only one sub category which in turn belongs to a single category. Here are my classes... // Expense.swift // Pocket Expense Diary // // Created by Neerav Kothari on 16/05/25. // import Foundation import SwiftData @Model class Expense { @Attribute var expenseDate: Date? = nil @Attribute var expenseAmount: Double? = nil @Attribute var expenseCategory: Category? = nil @Attribute var expenseSubCategory: SubCategory? = nil var date: Date { get { return expenseDate ?? Date() } set { expenseDate = newValue } } var amount: Double{ get { return expenseAmount ?? 0.0 } set { expenseAmount = newValue } } var category: Category{ get { return expenseCategory ?? Category.init(name: "", icon: "") } set { expenseCategory = newValue } } var subCategory: SubCategory{ get { return expenseSubCategory ?? SubCategory.init(name: "", icon: "") } set { expenseSubCategory = newValue } } init(date: Date, amount: Double, category: Category, subCategory: SubCategory) { self.date = date self.amount = amount self.category = category self.subCategory = subCategory } } // // Category.swift // Pocket Expense Diary // // Created by Neerav Kothari on 16/05/25. // import Foundation import SwiftData @Model class Category { @Attribute var categoryName: String? = nil @Attribute var categoryIcon: String? = nil var name: String { get { return categoryName ?? "" } set { categoryName = newValue } } var icon: String { get { return categoryIcon ?? "" } set { categoryIcon = newValue } } @Relationship(inverse: \Expense.expenseCategory) var expenses: [Expense]? = [] init(name: String, icon: String) { self.name = name self.icon = icon } } // SubCategory.swift // Pocket Expense Diary // // Created by Neerav Kothari on 16/05/25. // import Foundation import SwiftData @Model class SubCategory { @Attribute var subCategoryName: String? = nil @Attribute var subCategoryIcon: String? = nil var name: String { get { return subCategoryName ?? "" } set { subCategoryName = newValue } } var icon: String { get { return subCategoryIcon ?? "" } set { subCategoryIcon = newValue } } @Relationship(inverse: \Expense.expenseSubCategory) var expenses: [Expense]? = [] init(name: String, icon: String) { self.name = name self.icon = icon } } The reason why I have wrappers is the let the existing code (before CloudKit was integrated), work. In future versions I plan to query expenses even via category or sub category. I particularly doubt for the relationship i have set. should there be one from category to subcategory as well?

Hi, I'm using SwiftData in my app, and I want to sent data to iCloud with CloudKit, but I found that If the user turns off my App iCloud sync function in the settings App, the local data will also be deleted. A better way is maintaining the local data, just don't connect to iCloud.How should I do that? I need guidance!!! I'm just getting started with CloudKit And I would be appreciated!

What is the best way to switch between Core Data Persistent Stores? My use case is that I have a multi-user app that stores thousands of data items unique to each user. To me, having Persistent Stores for each user seems like the best design to keep their data separate and private. (If anyone believes that storing the data for all users in one Persistent Store is a better design, I'd appreciate hearing from them.) Customers might switch users 5 to 10 times a day. Switching users must be fast, say a second or two at most.

Does the CloudKit participant limit of 100 include the owner?

I'm beta-testing a CloudKit-based app. One of my testers suddenly reported that they got a .badContainer CloudKit error: <CKError 0x302619800:"Bad Container" (5/1014); server message = "Invalid container to get bundle ids"; op = <...>; uuid = <...>; container ID = "<...>"> (all private info replaced with <...>) The container ID in the message was exactly what I expected, and exactly what other users are successfully using. When I followed up on the report, the user said she tried again later and everything was fine. It's still working fine days later. What could cause a user to get a .badContainer message, when all other users using the same app are fine, the container ID makes sense, and future runs work fine? Is this something I need to worry about? Does it maybe sometimes happen when CloudKit is having some kind of outage?