I have an image field on a Core Data entity with "Allows External Storage" enabled. When I delete a record, the external binary data file remains on disk. How can I ensure that all externally stored data is deleted along with the record?

This simple test fails in my project. Similar code in my application also crashes. How do I debug the problem? What project settings are required. I have added SwiftData as a framework to test (and application) targets? Thanks, The problem is with: modelContext.insert(item) Thread 1: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode=0x0) import XCTest import SwiftData @Model class FakeModel { var name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } } @MainActor final class FakeModelTests: XCTestCase { var modelContext: ModelContext! override func setUp() { super.setUp() do { let container = try ModelContainer(for: FakeModel.self, configurations: ModelConfiguration(isStoredInMemoryOnly: true)) modelContext = container.mainContext } catch { XCTFail("Failed to create ModelContainer: \(error)") modelContext = nil } } func testSaveFetchDeleteFakeItem() { guard let modelContext = modelContext else { XCTFail("ModelContext must be initialized") return } let item = FakeModel(name: "Test") modelContext.insert(item) let fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor<FakeModel>() let items = try! modelContext.fetch(fetchDescriptor) XCTAssertEqual(items.count, 1) XCTAssertEqual(items.first?.name, "Test") modelContext.delete(item) let itemsAfterDelete = try! modelContext.fetch(fetchDescriptor) XCTAssertEqual(itemsAfterDelete.count, 0) } }

Since publishing new record types to my CloudKit schema in production, a previously unchanged record type has stopped indexing new records. While records of this type are successfully saved without errors, they are not returned in query results—they can only be accessed directly via their recordName. This issue occurs exclusively in the Production environment, both in the CloudKit Console and our iOS app. The problem began on July 21, 2025, and continues to persist. The issue affects only new records of this specific record type; all other types are indexing and querying as expected. The affected record's fields are properly configured with the appropriate index types (e.g., QUERYABLE) and have been not been modified prior to publishing the schema. With this, are there any steps I should take to restore indexing functionality for this record type in Production? There have been new records inserted, and I would prefer to not have to reset the production database, if possible.

I'm building a macOS + iOS SwiftUI app using Xcode 14.1b3 on a Mac running macOS 13.b11. The app uses Core Data + CloudKit. With development builds, CloudKit integration works on the Mac app and the iOS app. Existing records are fetched from iCloud, and new records are uploaded to iCloud. Everybody's happy. With TestFlight builds, the iOS app has no problems. But CloudKit integration isn't working in the Mac app at all. No existing records are fetched, no new records are uploaded. In the Console, I see this message: error: CoreData+CloudKit: Failed to set up CloudKit integration for store: <NSSQLCore: 0x1324079e0> (URL: <local file url>) Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.cloudd was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 159 - Sandbox restriction." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.cloudd was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 159 - Sandbox restriction.} I thought it might be that I was missing the com.apple.security.network.client entitlement, but adding that didn't help. Any suggestions what I might be missing? (It's my first sandboxed Mac app, so it might be really obvious to anyone but me.)

Hello, on every Apple device, iPhone/Watch I have the option to install developer beta versions. I would like to unsubscribe from developer beta versions - not have them in settings. I know that developer beta is assigned to my iCloud account. After logging out and restoring factory settings, the tab disappears. When I log into my iCloud account, it appears everywhere. I did not sign up for developer beta. How do I remove it?

I'm getting a crash in SwiftData but only on one specific device (iPhone 16 pro running 18.2 22C5131e) and not on an ipad or simulator I cant troubleshoot this crash and its quite frustrating, all I am getting is @Query(sort: \Todo.timestamp, order: .reverse) private var todos: [Todo] ForEach(todos.filter { !$0.completed }) { item in // <---crash TodoListView() } and the error is Thread 1: signal SIGABRT An abort signal terminated the process. Such crashes often happen because of an uncaught exception or unrecoverable error or calling the abort() function. and _SwiftData_SwiftUI.Query.wrappedValue.getter : τ_0_1 -> 0x105b98b58 <+160>: ldur x8, [x29, #-0x40] 0x105b98b5c <+164>: ldur x0, [x29, #-0x38] 0x105b98b60 <+168>: ldur x1, [x29, #-0x30] 0x105b98b64 <+172>: ldur x9, [x29, #-0x20] 0x105b98b68 <+176>: stur x9, [x29, #-0x28] 0x105b98b6c <+180>: ldr x8, [x8, #0x8] 0x105b98b70 <+184>: blr x8 0x105b98b74 <+188>: ldur x0, [x29, #-0x28] 0x105b98b78 <+192>: sub sp, x29, #0x10 0x105b98b7c <+196>: ldp x29, x30, [sp, #0x10] 0x105b98b80 <+200>: ldp x20, x19, [sp], #0x20 0x105b98b84 <+204>: ret How do I fix this?

DESCRIPTION I have an App use iCloud to save data. The App had a CoreData ManagedObject 'Product', 'Product' Object had an attribute name 'count' and it is a Double Type. I need to synchronises 'count' property across multiple devices. for example: I have a devices A、B. A device set 'Product.count' = 100. B device set 'Product.count' = 50. I hope the 'Product.count' == 150 that results. how to synchronises the 'Product.count' == 150 for multiple devices. If I have more devices in future, How to get the latest 'Product.count' that it is correct result.

I built a SwiftData App that relies on CloudKit to synchronize data across devices. That means all model relationships must be expressed as Optional. That’s fine, but there is a limitation in using Optional’s in SwiftData SortDescriptors (Crashes App) That means I can’t apply a SortDescriptor to ModelA using some property value in ModelB (even if ModelB must exist) I tried using a computed property in ModelA that referred to the property in ModelB, BUT THIS DOESN”T WORK EITHER! Am I stuck storing redundant data In ModelA just to sort ModelA as I would like???

Hi, I have designed an app which needs to reschedule notifications according to the user's calendar at midnight. The function has been implemented successfully via backgroundtask. But since the app has enabled iCloud sync, some users will edit their calendar on their iPad and expect that the notifications will be sent promptly to them on iPhone without launching the app on their iPhone. But the problem is that if they haven't launched the app on their iPhone, iCloud sync won't happen. The notifications on their iPhone haven't been updated and will be sent wrongly. How can I design some codes to let iCloud sync across the devices without launching the app at midnight and then reschedule notifications?

Hi everyone, I’m currently developing a SwiftUI app that uses SwiftData with CloudKit sharing enabled. The app works fine on my own Apple ID, and local syncing with iCloud is functioning correctly — but sharing with other Apple IDs consistently fails. Setup: SwiftUI + SwiftData using a ModelContainer with .shared configuration Sharing UI is handled via UICloudSharingController iCloud container: iCloud.com.de.SkerskiDev.FoodGuard Proper entitlements enabled (com.apple.developer.icloud-services, CloudKit, com.apple.developer.coredata.cloudkit.containers, etc.) Automatic provisioning profiles created by Xcode Error:<CKError 0x1143a2be0: "Bad Container" (5/1014); "Couldn't get container configuration from the server for container iCloud.com.de.SkerskiDev.FoodGuard"> What I’ve tried: Verified the iCloud container is correctly created and enabled in the Apple Developer portal Checked bundle identifier and container settings Rebuilt and reinstalled the app Ensured correct iCloud entitlements and signing capabilities Questions: Why does CloudKit reject the container for sharing while local syncing works fine? Are there known issues with SwiftData .shared containers and multi-user sharing? Are additional steps required (App Store Connect, privacy settings) to allow sharing with other Apple IDs? Any advice, experience, or example projects would be greatly appreciated. 🙏 Thanks! Sebastian

relationshipKeyPathsForPrefetching in SwiftData does not seem to work here when scrolling down the list. Why? I would like all categories to be fetched while posts are fetched - not while scrolling down the list. struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { QueryList( fetchDescriptor: withCategoriesFetchDescriptor ) } var withCategoriesFetchDescriptor: FetchDescriptor<Post> { var fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor<Post>() fetchDescriptor.relationshipKeyPathsForPrefetching = [\.category] return fetchDescriptor } } struct QueryList: View { @Query var posts: [Post] init(fetchDescriptor: FetchDescriptor<Post>) { _posts = Query(fetchDescriptor) } var body: some View { List(posts) { post in VStack { Text(post.title) Text(post.category?.name ?? "") .font(.footnote) } } } } @Model final class Post { var title: String var category: Category? init(title: String) { self.title = title } } @Model final class Category { var name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } }

Hello, I recently published an app that uses Swift Data as its primary data storage. The app uses concurrency, background threads, async await, and BLE communication. Sadly, I see my app incurs many fringe crashes, involving EXC_BAD_ACCESS, KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS, EXC_BREAKPOINT, etc. I followed these guidelines: One ModelContainer that is stored as a global variable and used throughout. ModelContexts are created separately for each task, changes are saved manually, and models are not passed around. Threads with different ModelContexts might manipulate and/or read the same data simultaneously. I was under the impression this meets the usage requirements. I suspect perhaps the issue lies in my usage of contexts in a single await function, that might be paused and resumed on a different thread (although same execution path). Is that the case? If so, how should SwiftData be used in async scopes? Is there anything else particularly wrong in my approach?

I have an issue in my app, where the crashing frame is an assertionFailure in BackingData.set inside SwiftData framework. My own app doesn't appear until frame 14. I have no idea what causes this, or even how to create a reproducible project as this only happens on some devices. The frame prior to the assertionFailure is this: #1 (null) in BackingData.set(any:value:) () It seems like there is a backing data encoding happening in my Model class, and some value is causing it to fail. The model being accessed is through a relationship, and the frame in the app crashing is along the lines of Text(parent.child.name) Obviously, something is wrong in how I have made child, but the part that stand out to me is the assertionFailure in a release build

Hello everyone, I'm trying to adopt the new Staged Migrations for Core Data and I keep running into an error that I haven't been able to resolve. The error messages are as follows: warning: Multiple NSEntityDescriptions claim the NSManagedObject subclass 'Movie' so +entity is unable to disambiguate. warning: 'Movie' (0x60000350d6b0) from NSManagedObjectModel (0x60000213a8a0) claims 'Movie'. error: +[Movie entity] Failed to find a unique match for an NSEntityDescription to a managed object subclass This happens for all of my entities when they are added/fetched. Movie is an abstract entity subclass, and it has the error error: +[Movie entity] Failed to find which is unique to the subclass entities, but this occurs for all entities. The NSPersistentContainer is loaded only once, and I set the following option after it's loaded: storeDescription.setOption( [stages], forKey: NSPersistentStoreStagedMigrationManagerOptionKey ) The warnings and errors only appear after I fetch or save to context. It happens regardless of whether the database was migrated or not. In my test project, using the generic NSManagedObject with NSEntityDescription.insertNewObject(forEntityName: "MyEntity", into: context) does not cause the issue. However, using the generic NSManagedObject is not a viable option for my app. Setting the module to "Current Project Module" doesn't change anything, except that it now prints "claims 'MyModule.Show'" in the warnings. I have verified that there are no other entities with the same name or renameIdentifier. Has anyone else encountered this issue, or can offer any suggestions on how to resolve it? Thanks in advance for any help!

For the past several days every time I log in to to the Cloudkit dashboard I get Error looking up Developer Teams, Please sign out and try again. No amount of singing out and back in changes anything.

Some users of my app are reporting total loss of data while using the app. This is happening specifically when they enable iCloud sync. I am doing following private func setupContainer(enableICloud: Bool) { container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: "") container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicy guard let description: NSPersistentStoreDescription = container.persistentStoreDescriptions.first else { fatalError() } description.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey) description.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey) if enableICloud == false { description.cloudKitContainerOptions = nil } container.loadPersistentStores { description, error in if let error { // Handle error } } } When user clicks on Toggle to enable/disable iCloud sync I just set the description.cloudKitContainerOptions to nil and then user is asked to restart the app. Apart from that I periodically run the clear history func deleteTransactionHistory() { let sevenDaysAgo = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .day, value: -7, to: Date())! let purgeHistoryRequest = NSPersistentHistoryChangeRequest.deleteHistory(before: sevenDaysAgo) let backgroundContext = container.newBackgroundContext() backgroundContext.performAndWait { try! backgroundContext.execute(purgeHistoryRequest) } }

Hello, From the documentation linked below, the limitations for Background Assets are the following: Size Limit: 200 GB Asset Pack Count: 100 I'm expecting I will need ~175 Asset Packs and around 500GB of storage. I understand Background Assets is a new, but is there a process or a potential that these limits will be increased in the future? Or is there a way to request an increase? I've tried contacting Apple Support as this is more of an Admin issue, however they've directed me here. Case ID 102725356578 https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference/apple-hosted-asset-pack-size-limits Thank you, Tanner

Hello, I'm using CoreData + CloudKit and I am facing the following error 134100 "The managed object model version used to open the persistent store is incompatible with the one that was used to create the persistent store." All my schema updates are composed of adding optional attributes to existing entities, adding non-optional attributes (with default value) to existing entities or adding new entities Basically, only things that lightweight migrations can handle. Every time I update the schema, I add a new model version of xcdatamodel - who only has a single configuration (the "Default" one). And I also deploy the updated CloudKit schema from the dashboard. It worked up to v3 of my xcdatamodel, but started to crash for a few users at v4 when I added 16 new attributes (in total) to 4 existing entities. Then again at v5 when I added 2 new optional attributes to 1 existing entity. I'm using a singleton and here is the code: private func generateCloudKitContainer() -> NSPersistentCloudKitContainer { let container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: "MyAppModel") let fileLocation = URL(...) let description = NSPersistentStoreDescription(url: fileLocation) description.shouldMigrateStoreAutomatically = true description.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey) description.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey) let options = NSPersistentCloudKitContainerOptions(containerIdentifier: "iCloud.com.company.MyApp") options.databaseScope = .private description.cloudKitContainerOptions = options container.persistentStoreDescriptions = [description] container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true container.loadPersistentStores { description, error in container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergePolicy(merge: .mergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicyType) if let error { // Error happens here! } } return container } I can't reproduce it yet. I don't really understand what could lead to this error.

I have an app that uses SwiftData with CloudKit to synchronize data across a users devices. I'm able to replicate data created on one device on another and when removing data, it is also removed on the other device. So, I know that SwiftData and CloudKit are configured correctly. What I'd like to do though, is to ensure that if a user installs the app on an additional device, that the data is synchronized upon app start. When testing my app on a third device, via TestFlight, there was no data in the app upon launch even though all three devices are using the same Apple account (e.g. Apple ID). What is the best way to achieve this?

After the problems with the ModelActor in iOS 18, it seemed like the ModelActor became more stable with iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1. However, I’m still encountering many problems and crashes. I wanted to ask if these issues are related to my persistence layer architecture or if they’re still inherent to the ModelActor itself. I’ve generally followed the blog posts: https://fatbobman.com/en/posts/practical-swiftdata-building-swiftui-applications-with-modern-approaches/ and https://brightdigit.com/tutorials/swiftdata-modelactor/ and aim to achieve the following: I have a single DataProvider that holds the ModelContainer and uses it to configure and initialize a single DataHandler. These are created once at app launch and injected into the SwiftUI view hierarchy as EnvironmentObjects. Since I need to access the SwiftData models not only in SwiftUI but also indirectly in ViewModels or UIKit views, all read operations on the models should go through the DataProvider ( ModelContainrs MainContext), while all other CRUD operations are handled centrally via the single DataHandler (executed within a single ModelActor). Additionally, I want to monitor the entire container using another ModelActor, initialized in the DataProvider, which tracks changes to objects using TransactionHistory. I’ve managed to implement this to some extent, but I’m facing two main issues: ModelActor and Main Actor Requirement The ModelActor only updates SwiftUI views when initialized via the main context of the ModelContainer and therefore runs on the Main Actor. It would be ideal for this to work in the background, but the issue with the ModelActor that existed previously doesn’t seem to have been resolved in iOS 18.1/macOS 15.1—am I wrong about this? Frequent Crashes (more severe) Crashes occur, especially when multiple windows on macOS or iPadOS access the same DataHandler to update models. This often leads to crashes during read operations on models by a SwiftUI view, with logs like: Object 0x111f15480 of class _ContiguousArrayStorage deallocated with non-zero retain count 3. This object's deinit, or something called from it, may have created a strong reference to self which outlived deinit, resulting in a dangling reference. error: the replacement path doesn't exist: "/var/folders/gs/8rwdjczj225d1pj046w3d97c0000gn/T/swift-generated-sources/@__swiftmacro_12SwiftDataTSI3TagC4uuID18_PersistedPropertyfMa_.swift" Can't show file for stack frame : <DBGLLDBStackFrame: 0x34d28e170> - stackNumber:1 - name:Tag.uuID.getter. The file path does not exist on the file system: /var/folders/gs/8rwdjczj225d1pj046w3d97c0000gn/T/swift-generated-sources/@__swiftmacro_12SwiftDataTSI3TagC4uuID18_PersistedPropertyfMa_.swift This error usually happens when there are multiple concurrent accesses to the DataHandler/ModelActor. However, crashes also occur sporadically during frequent accesses from a single view with an error like "the replacement path doesn't exist." It also seems like having multiple ModelActors, as in this case (one for observation and one for data changes), causes interference and instability. The app appears to crash less frequently when the observer is not initialized, but I can’t verify this—it might just be a coincidence. My Question: Am I fundamentally doing something wrong with the ModelActors or the architecture of my persistence layer?