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Will transferring app affect iCloud's Documents folder access?
My app uses iCloud to let users sync their files via their private iCloud Drive, which does not use CloudKit. FileManager.default.url(forUbiquityContainerIdentifier: nil)?.appending(component: "Documents") I plan to transfer my app to another developer account, but I'm afraid it will affect the access of the app to the existing files in that folder. Apple documentation doesn't mention this case. Has anyone done this before and can confirm if the app will continue to work normally after transferring? Thanks
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May ’25
Saving a file to ubiquitous storage overwrites iCloud version without conflict
Our app saves its data to iCloud by default. In most cases, this is working as intended & the data can be synced across devices with no problems. But recently, in testing, we discovered a situation where it's possible to save data before the NSMetadataQuery finishes & starts downloading the cloud files. When this happens, the query will then finish, and return the NEW file (with no other versions or conflicts). Is there a way to ensure that writing a file (version A) to ubiquitous storage when another version (version B) exists in the cloud is treated as a conflict, rather than just stomping all over the other version? I've tried querying the file metadata for the file URL (NSURLIsUbiquitousItemKey, NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusKey, NSURLUbiquitousItemDownloadRequestedKey, NSURLUbiquitousItemHasUnresolvedConflictsKey) before saving, but it just returns nil.
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Nov ’25
Core Data, Swift 6, Concurrency and more
I have the following struct doing some simple tasks, running a network request and then saving items to Core Data. Per Xcode 26's new default settings (onisolated(nonsending) & defaultIsolation set to MainActor), the struct and its functions run on the main actor, which works fine and I can even safely omit the context.perform call because of it, which is great. struct DataHandler { func importGames(withIDs ids: [Int]) async throws { ... let context = PersistenceController.shared.container.viewContext for game in games { let newGame = GYGame(context: context) newGame.id = UUID() } try context.save() } } Now, I want to run this in a background thread to increase performance and responsiveness. So I followed this session (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/270) and believe the solution is to mark the struct as nonisolated and the function itself as @concurrent. The function now works on a background thread, but I receive a crash: _dispatch_assert_queue_fail. This happens whether I wrap the Core Data calls with context.perform or not. Alongside that I get a few new warnings which I have no idea how to work around. So, what am I doing wrong here? What's the correct way to solve this simple use case with Swift 6's new concurrency stuff and the default main actor isolation in Xcode 26? Curiously enough, when setting onisolated(nonsending) to false & defaultIsolation to non isolating, mimicking the previous behavior, the function works without crashing. nonisolated struct DataHandler { @concurrent func importGames(withIDs ids: [Int]) async throws { ... let context = await PersistenceController.shared.container.newBackgroundContext() for game in games { let newGame = GYGame(context: context) newGame.id = UUID() // Main actor-isolated property 'id' can not be mutated from a nonisolated context; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode } try context.save() } }
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI Sheet view with @Query loses model context
I've run into a strange issue. If a sheet loads a view that has a SwiftData @Query, and there is an if statement in the view body, I get the following error when running an iOS targetted SwiftUI app under MacOS 26.1: Set a .modelContext in view's environment to use Query While the view actually ends up loading the correct data, before it does, it ends up re-creating the sqlite store (opening as /dev/null). The strange thing is that this only happens if there is an if statement in the body. The statement need not ever evaluate true, but it causes the issue. Here's an example. It's based on the default xcode new iOS project w/ SwiftData: struct ContentView: View { @State private var isShowingSheet = false var body: some View { Button(action: { isShowingSheet.toggle() }) { Text("Show Sheet") } .sheet(isPresented: $isShowingSheet, onDismiss: didDismiss) { VStack { ContentSheetView() } } } func didDismiss() { } } struct ContentSheetView: View { @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext @Query public var items: [Item] @State var fault: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack { if fault { Text("Fault!") } Button(action: addItem) { Label("Add Item", systemImage: "plus") } List { ForEach(items) { item in Text(item.timestamp, format: Date.FormatStyle(date: .numeric, time: .standard)) } } } } private func addItem() { withAnimation { let newItem = Item(timestamp: Date()) modelContext.insert(newItem) } } } It requires some data to be added to trigger, but after adding it and dismissing the sheet, opening up the sheet with trigger the Set a .modelContext in view's environment to use Query. Flipping on -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 1 will show it trying to recreate the database. If you remove the if fault { Text("Fault!") } line, it goes away. It also doesn't appear to happen on iPhones or in the iPhone simulator. Explicitly passing modelContext to the ContentSheetView like ContentSheetView().modelContext(modelContext) also seems to fix it. Is this behavior expected?
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Nov ’25
defaultIsolation option and Core Data
When creating a new project in Xcode 26, the default for defaultIsolation is MainActor. Core Data creates classes for each entity using code gen, but now those classes are also internally marked as MainActor, which causes issues when accessing managed object from a background thread like this. Is there a way to fix this warning or should Xcode actually mark these auto generated classes as nonisolated to make this better? Filed as FB13840800. nonisolated struct BackgroundDataHandler { @concurrent func saveItem() async throws { let context = await PersistenceController.shared.container.newBackgroundContext() try await context.perform { let newGame = Item(context: context) newGame.timestamp = Date.now // Main actor-isolated property 'timestamp' can not be mutated from a nonisolated context; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode try context.save() } } } Turning code gen off inside the model and creating it manually, with the nonisolated keyword, gets rid of the warning and still works fine. So I guess the auto generated class could adopt this as well? public import Foundation public import CoreData public typealias ItemCoreDataClassSet = NSSet @objc(Item) nonisolated public class Item: NSManagedObject { }
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Jun ’25
SwiftData shared across apps?
The stuff I've found by searching has confused me, so hopefully someone can help simplify it for me? I have an app (I use it for logging which books I've given away), and I could either add a bunch of things to the app, or I could have another app (possibly a CLI tool) to generate some reports I'd like.
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May ’25
CloudKit Dashboard completely empty (no containers at all) while Xcode 26 still shows my production container iCloud.gainzCloud and builds fine – Tahoe 26.1 / Xcode 26.0 (17A321)
Hi, I’m completely stuck with a very strange CloudKit problem that started recently and has now killed all iCloud sync for a live production app. What is happening Production container: iCloud.gainzCloud (created ~11 months ago, has been working perfectly until now) In Xcode 26.0 (17A321): → Signing & Capabilities → iCloud is enabled → Container correctly shows as iCloud.gainzCloud → App builds and runs on device/simulator with zero provisioning or container errors CloudKit Dashboard (https://icloud.developer.apple.com/dashboard/): completely blank – “No containers found” Result: CloudKit sync is dead for every user (development + production environments) What I know for sure Apple Developer Support confirmed the container iCloud.gainzCloud still exists and is correctly attached to my Team ID on their backend Personal iCloud (Mail, Notes, Photos, etc.) syncs perfectly on the same Mac / same Apple ID under macOS Tahoe 26.1 I have NOT changed the password on either the Apple ID or the Developer Program account New containers I create appear in Xcode but never show up in the Dashboard Environment macOS Tahoe 26.1 (latest) Xcode Version 26.0 (17A321) Has anyone on the new Tahoe/Xcode 26 releases seen the CloudKit Dashboard suddenly go completely empty while Xcode still “sees” the container just fine? Any known trick to force the dashboard to re-index containers or clear whatever cache is broken? Thanks a lot in advance – this is blocking all iCloud functionality for a released app with active users.
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Nov ’25
Best approach to prevent SwiftData .transformable migration on iOS 26.1
We have an unreleased SwiftData app for iOS18+. While we were testing I saw reports on the forum about unexpected database migrations for codable arrays on iOS26.1. I'd like to ask a couple of questions: 1- Does this issue originate from the new Xcode version, or is it specific to iOS 26.1? 2- Is it possible to change our attribute so that users on older iOS versions receive the same model, preventing a migration from being triggered when they upgrade to iOS 26.1? One of our models looks like this: struct Point: Codable, Hashable { let x: Int let y: Int } @Model class Grid { private(set) var gridId: String = "" var points: [Point] = [] var updatedAt: Date = Date() private(set) var createdAt: Date = Date() #Index<Grid>([\.gridId]) ... } I can think of some options like: // 1 @Attribute(.transformable(by: CustomJsonTransformer.self)) var points: [Point] = [] // 2 @Attribute(.externalStorage) var points: [Point] = [] // 3 var points: Data = Data() // store points as data However, I'm not sure which one to use. What would you recommend to handle this, or is there a better strategy you would suggest?
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Nov ’25
Swift Data Undo
Trying to support undo & redo in an app that utilizes Swift Data and as with anything other than provided simplistic Apple demo examples the experience is not great. The problem: Im trying to build functionality that allows users to add items to an item group, where item and item group have a many-to-many relationship e.g. item group can hold many items and items can appear in multiple groups. When trying to do so with relatively simple setup of either adding or removing item group from items relationship array, I am pretty consistently met with a hard crash after performing undo & redo. Sometimes it works the first few undo & redos but 95% of the time would crash on the first one. Could not cast value of type 'Swift.Optional<Any>' (0x20a676be0) to 'Swift.Array<App.CodableStructModel>' (0x207a2bc08). Where CodableStructModel is a Codable Value type inside Item. Adding and removing this relationship should be undoable & redoable as typical for Mac interaction and is "supported" by SwiftData by default, meaning that the developer has to actively either wholly opt out of undo support in their modelContainer setup or do it on a per action scale with the only thing I know of: modelContext.processPendingChanges() modelContext.undoManager?.disableUndoRegistration() ..... modelContext.processPendingChanges() modelContext.undoManager?.enableUndoRegistration() General rant on SwiftData: Random crashes, inconsistencies, random cryptic errors thrown by the debugger and general lack of production level stability. Each update breaks something new and there is very little guidance and communication from the Swift Data team on how to adapt and more importantly consideration for developers that have adopted Swift Data. If SwiftData is not ready for production, it would go a long way to clearly communicate that and mark it as Beta product.
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Dec ’25
Inheritance in SwiftData — Fatal error: Never access a full future backing data
I'm implementing SwiftData with inheritance in an app. I have an Entity class with a property name. This class is inherited by two other classes: Store and Person. The Entity model has a one-to-many relationship with a Transaction class. I can list all my Entity models in a List with a @Query annotation without a problem. However, then I try to access the name property of an Entity from a Transaction relationship, the app crashes with the following error: Thread 1: Fatal error: Never access a full future backing data - PersistentIdentifier(id: SwiftData.PersistentIdentifier.ID(backing: SwiftData.PersistentIdentifier.PersistentIdentifierBacking.managedObjectID(0x96530ce28d41eb63 <x-coredata://DABFF7BB-C412-474E-AD50-A1F30AC6DBE9/Person/p4>))) with Optional(F07E7E23-F8F0-4CC0-B282-270B5EDDC7F3) From my attempts to fix the issue, I noticed that: The crash seems related to the relationships with classes that has inherit from another class, since it only happens there. When I create new data, I can usually access it without any problem. The crash mostly happens after reloading the app. This error has been mentioned on the forum (for example here), but in a context not related with inheritance. You can find the full code here. For reference, my models looks like this: @Model class Transaction { @Attribute(.unique) var id: String var name: String var date: Date var amount: Double var entity: Entity? var store: Store? { entity as? Store } var person: Person? { entity as? Person } init( id: String = UUID().uuidString, name: String, amount: Double, date: Date = .now, entity: Entity? = nil, ) { self.id = id self.name = name self.amount = amount self.date = date self.entity = entity } } @Model class Entity: Identifiable { @Attribute(.preserveValueOnDeletion) var name: String var lastUsedAt: Date @Relationship(deleteRule: .cascade, inverse: \Transaction.entity) var operations: [Transaction] init( name: String, lastUsedAt: Date = .now, operations: [Transaction] = [], ) { self.name = name self.lastUsedAt = lastUsedAt self.operations = operations } } @available(iOS 26, *) @Model class Store: Entity { @Attribute(.unique) var id: String var locations: [Location] init( id: String = UUID().uuidString, name: String, lastUsedAt: Date = .now, locations: [Location] = [], operations: [Transaction] = [] ) { self.locations = locations self.id = id super.init(name: name, lastUsedAt: lastUsedAt, operations: operations) } } In order to reproduce the error: Run the app in the simulator. Click the + button to create a new transaction. Relaunch the app, then click on any transaction. The app crashes when it tries to read te name property while building the details view.
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Sep ’25
Container Failing to Initialize After a Successful Migration & Initialization
I'm experiencing the following error with my SwiftData container when running a build: Code=134504 "Cannot use staged migration with an unknown model version." Code Structure - Summary I am using a versionedSchema to store multiple models in SwiftData. I started experiencing this issue when adding two new models in the newest Schema version. Starting from the current public version, V4.4.6, there are two migrations. Migration Summary The first migration is to V4.4.7. This is a lightweight migration removing one attribute from one of the models. This was tested and worked successfully. The second migration is to V5.0.0. This is a custom migration adding two new models, and instantiating instances of the two new models based on data from instances of the existing models. In the initial testing of this version, no issues were observed. Issue and Steps to Reproduce Reproduction of issue: Starting from a fresh build of the publicly released V4.4.6, I run a new build that contains both Schema Versions (V4.4.7 and V5.0.0), and their associated migration stages. This builds successfully, and the container successfully migrates to V5.0.0. Checking the default.store file, all values appear to migrate and instantiate correctly. The second step in reproduction of the issue is to simply stop running the build, and then rebuild, without any code changes. This fails to initialize the model container every time afterwards. Going back to the simulator after successive builds are stopped in Xcode, the app launches and accesses/modifies the model container as normal. Supplementary Issue: I have been putting up with the same, persistent issue in the Xcode Preview Canvas of "Failed to Initialize Model Container" This is a 5 in 6 build issue, where builds will work at random. In the case of previews, I have cleared all data associated with all previews multiple times. The only difference being that the simulator is a 100% failure rate after the initial, successful initialization. I assume this is due to the different build structure of previews. Lastly, of note, the Xcode previews fail at the same line in instantiating the model container as the simulator does. From my research into this issue, people say that the Xcode preview is instantiating from elsewhere. I do have a separate model container set up specifically for canvas previews, but the error does not occur in that container, but rather the app's main container. Possible Contributing Factors & Tested Facts iOS: While I have experienced issues with SwiftData and the complier in iOS 26, I can rule that out as the issue here. This has been tested on simulators running iOS 18.6, 26.0.1, and 26.1, all encountering failures to initialize model container. While in iOS 18, subsequent builds after the successful migration did work, I did eventually encounter the same error and crash. In iOS 26.0.1 and 26.1, these errors come immediately on the second build. Container Initialization for V4.4.6 do { container = try ModelContainer( for: Job.self, JobTask.self, Day.self, Charge.self, Material.self, Person.self, TaskCategory.self, Service.self, migrationPlan: JobifyMigrationPlan.self ) } catch { fatalError("Failed to Initialize Model Container") } Versioned Schema Instance for V4.4.6 (V4.4.7 differs only by versionIdentifier) static var versionIdentifier = Schema.Version(4, 4, 6) static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] { [Job.self, JobTask.self, Day.self, Charge.self, Material.self, Person.self, TaskCategory.self, Service.self] } Container Initialization for V5.0.0 do { let schema = Schema([Jobify.self, JobTask.self, Day.self, Charge.self, MaterialItem.self, Person.self, TaskCategory.self, Service.self, ServiceJob.self, RecurerRule.self]) container = try ModelContainer( for: schema, migrationPlan: JobifyMigrationPlan.self ) } catch { fatalError("Failed to Initialize Model Container") } Versioned Schema Instance for V5.0.0 static var versionIdentifier = Schema.Version(5, 0, 0) static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] { [ JobifySchemaV500.Job.self, JobifySchemaV500.JobTask.self, JobifySchemaV500.Day.self, JobifySchemaV500.Charge.self, JobifySchemaV500.Material.self, JobifySchemaV500.Person.self, JobifySchemaV500.TaskCategory.self, JobifySchemaV500.Service.self, JobifySchemaV500.ServiceJob.self, JobifySchemaV500.RecurerRule.self ] } Addressing Differences in Object Names Type-aliasing: All my model types are type-aliased for simplification in view components. All types are aliased as 'JobifySchemeV446.<#Name#>' in V.4.4.6, and 'JobifySchemaV500.<#Name#>' in V5.0.0 Issues with iOS 26: My type-aliases dating back to iOS 17 overlapped with lower level objects in Swift, including 'Job' and 'Material'. These started to be an issue with initializing the model container when running in iOS 26. The type aliases have been renamed since, however the V4.4.6 build with the old names runs and builds perfectly fine in iOS 26 If there is any other code that may be relevant in determining where this error is occurring, I would be happy to add it. My current best theory is simply that I have mistakenly omitted code relevant to the SwiftData Migration.
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Nov ’25
Swift Data Recovery
Hi Writing an app in Swift on Xcode for my iPhone, all software is the latest version. If after making a minor change and re-building all the application data has disappeared, is there a way to see if it is still in the .modelContainer and just not showing up?
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Mar ’26
Consequences of incorrect VersionedSchema.versionIdentifier
About 4 months ago, I shipped the first version of my app with 4 versioned schemas that, unintentionally, had the same versionIdentifier of 1.2.0 in 2 of them: V1: 1.0.0 V2: 1.1.0 V3: 1.2.0 V4: 1.2.0 They are ordered correctly in the MigrationPlan, and they are all lightweight. Migration works, SwiftData doesn't crash on init and I haven't encountered any issues related to this. The app syncs with iCloud. Questions, preferable for anybody with knowledge of SwiftData internals: What will break in SwiftData when there are 2 duplicate numbers? Not that I would expect it to be safe, but does it happen to be safe to ship an update that changes V4's version to 1.3.0, what was originally intended?
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Jul ’25
NSPersistentCloudKitContainer causes crash on watchOS when device is offline
Hi. I'm hoping someone might be able to help us with an issue that's been affecting our standalone watchOS app for some time now. We've encountered consistent crashes on Apple Watch devices when the app enters the background while the device is offline (i.e., no Bluetooth and no Wi-Fi connection). Through extensive testing, we've isolated the problem to the use of NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. When we switch to NSPersistentContainer, the crashes no longer occur. Interestingly, this issue only affects our watchOS app. The same CloudKit-based persistence setup works reliably on our iOS and macOS apps, even when offline. This leads us to believe the issue may be specific to how NSPersistentCloudKitContainer behaves on watchOS when the device is disconnected from the network. We're targeting watchOS 10 and above. We're unsure if this is a misconfiguration on our end or a potential system-level issue, and we would greatly appreciate any insight or guidance.
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Jun ’25
CloudKit, CoreData and Swift 6 for sharing between users
I have started from here: Apple's guide on the sharing core data objects between iCloud users and I have created a sample project that has Collections and Items. Everything works great while I stay on Swift 5, like with the initial project. I would like to migrate to Swift 6 (Default Actor Isolaton @MainActor, Approachable Concurrency: Yes) on the project and I am stuck at extension CDCollection: Transferable { ... }. When compiling with Swift 5, there is a warning: Conformance of 'NSManagedObject' to 'Sendable' is unavailable in iOS; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode. After resolving almost all compile-time warnings I'm left with: Conformance of 'CDCollection' to protocol 'Transferable' crosses into main actor-isolated code and can cause data races. Which I don't think will work, because of the warning shown above. It can be worked around like: nonisolated extension CDCollection: Transferable, @unchecked Sendable Then there are errors: let persistentContainer = PersistenceController.shared.persistentContainer Main actor-isolated static property 'shared' can not be referenced from a nonisolated context. I've created the following class to have a Sendable object: struct CDCollectionTransferable: Transferable { var objectID: NSManagedObjectID var persistentContainer: NSPersistentCloudKitContainer public static var transferRepresentation: some TransferRepresentation { CKShareTransferRepresentation { collectionToExport in let persistentContainer = collectionToExport.persistentContainer let ckContainer = CloudKitProvider.container var collectionShare: CKShare? if let shareSet = try? persistentContainer.fetchShares( matching: [collectionToExport.objectID]), let (_, share) = shareSet.first { collectionShare = share } /** Return the existing share if the collection already has a share. */ if let share = collectionShare { return .existing(share, container: ckContainer) } /** Otherwise, create a new share for the collection and return it. Use uriRepresentation of the object in the Sendable closure. */ let collectionURI = collectionToExport.objectID .uriRepresentation() return .prepareShare(container: ckContainer) { let collection = await persistentContainer.viewContext .perform { let coordinator = persistentContainer.viewContext .persistentStoreCoordinator guard let objectID = coordinator?.managedObjectID( forURIRepresentation: collectionURI ) else { fatalError( "Failed to return the managed objectID for: \(collectionURI)." ) } return persistentContainer.viewContext.object( with: objectID ) } let (_, share, _) = try await persistentContainer.share( [collection], to: nil ) return share } } } } And I'm able to compile and run the app with this change: let transferable = CDCollectionTransferable( objectID: collection.objectID, persistentContainer: PersistenceController.shared .persistentContainer ) ToolbarItem { ShareLink( item: transferable, preview: SharePreview("Share \(collection.name)!") ) { MenuButtonLabel( title: "New Share", systemImage: "square.and.arrow.up" ) } } The app crashes when launched with libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_assert_queue_fail: 0x1052c6ea4 <+0>: sub sp, sp, #0x50 0x1052c6ea8 <+4>: stp x20, x19, [sp, #0x30] 0x1052c6eac <+8>: stp x29, x30, [sp, #0x40] 0x1052c6eb0 <+12>: add x29, sp, #0x40 0x1052c6eb4 <+16>: adrp x8, 63 0x1052c6eb8 <+20>: add x8, x8, #0xa0c ; "not " 0x1052c6ebc <+24>: adrp x9, 62 0x1052c6ec0 <+28>: add x9, x9, #0x1e5 ; "" 0x1052c6ec4 <+32>: stur xzr, [x29, #-0x18] 0x1052c6ec8 <+36>: cmp w1, #0x0 0x1052c6ecc <+40>: csel x8, x9, x8, ne 0x1052c6ed0 <+44>: ldr x10, [x0, #0x48] 0x1052c6ed4 <+48>: cmp x10, #0x0 0x1052c6ed8 <+52>: csel x9, x9, x10, eq 0x1052c6edc <+56>: stp x9, x0, [sp, #0x10] 0x1052c6ee0 <+60>: adrp x9, 63 0x1052c6ee4 <+64>: add x9, x9, #0x9db ; "BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: " 0x1052c6ee8 <+68>: stp x9, x8, [sp] 0x1052c6eec <+72>: adrp x1, 63 0x1052c6ef0 <+76>: add x1, x1, #0x9a6 ; "%sBlock was %sexpected to execute on queue [%s (%p)]" 0x1052c6ef4 <+80>: sub x0, x29, #0x18 0x1052c6ef8 <+84>: bl 0x105301b18 ; symbol stub for: asprintf 0x1052c6efc <+88>: ldur x19, [x29, #-0x18] 0x1052c6f00 <+92>: str x19, [sp] 0x1052c6f04 <+96>: adrp x0, 63 0x1052c6f08 <+100>: add x0, x0, #0xa11 ; "%s" 0x1052c6f0c <+104>: bl 0x1052f9ef8 ; _dispatch_log 0x1052c6f10 <+108>: adrp x8, 95 0x1052c6f14 <+112>: str x19, [x8, #0x1f0] -> 0x1052c6f18 <+116>: brk #0x1 The app still crashes when I comment this code, and all Core Data related warnings. I'm quite stuck now as I want to use Swift 6. Has anyone figured CloudKit, CoreData and Swift 6 for sharing between users?
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Feb ’26
iCloud Drive changes in iOS 18.4 and later break stated API
The NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusKey indicates the status of a ubiquitous (iCloud Drive) file. A key value of NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusDownloaded is defined as indicating there is a local version of this file available. The most current version will get downloaded as soon as possible . However this no longer occurs since iOS 18.4. A ubiquitous file may remain in the NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusDownloaded state for an indefinite period. There is a workaround: call [NSFileManager startDownloadingUbiquitousItemAtURL: error:] however this shouldn't be necessary, and introduces delays over the previous behaviour. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Is this a permanent change? FB17662379
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May ’25
SwiftData Fatal error: Editors must register their identifiers before invoking operations on this store
I have a UIKit app where I've adopted SwiftData and I'm struggling with a crash coming in from some of my users. I'm not able to reproduce it myself and as it only happens to a small fraction of my user base, it seems like a race condition of some sort. This is the assertion message: SwiftData/DefaultStore.swift:453: Fatal error: API Contract Violation: Editors must register their identifiers before invoking operations on this store SwiftData.DefaultStore: 00CF060A-291A-4E79-BEC3-E6A6B20F345E did not. (ID is unique per crash) This is the ModelActor that crashes: @available(iOS 17, *) @ModelActor actor ConsumptionDatabaseStorage: ConsumptionSessionStorage { struct Error: LocalizedError { var errorDescription: String? } private let sortDescriptor = [SortDescriptor(\SDConsumptionSession.startTimeUtc, order: .reverse)] static func createStorage(userId: String) throws -> ConsumptionDatabaseStorage { guard let appGroupContainer = FileManager.default.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier: UserDefaults.defaultAppGroupIdentifier) else { throw Error(errorDescription: "Invalid app group container ID") } func createModelContainer(databaseUrl: URL) throws -> ModelContainer { return try ModelContainer(for: SDConsumptionSession.self, SDPriceSegment.self, configurations: ModelConfiguration(url: databaseUrl)) } let databaseUrl = appGroupContainer.appendingPathComponent("\(userId).sqlite") do { return self.init(modelContainer: try createModelContainer(databaseUrl: databaseUrl)) } catch { // Creating the model storage failed. Remove the database file and try again. try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: databaseUrl) return self.init(modelContainer: try createModelContainer(databaseUrl: databaseUrl)) } } func isStorageEmpty() async -> Bool { (try? self.modelContext.fetchCount(FetchDescriptor<SDConsumptionSession>())) ?? 0 == 0 // <-- Crash here! } func sessionsIn(interval: DateInterval) async throws -> [ConsumptionSession] { let fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor(predicate: #Predicate<SDConsumptionSession> { sdSession in if let startDate = sdSession.startTimeUtc { return interval.start <= startDate && interval.end > startDate } else { return false } }, sortBy: self.sortDescriptor) let consumptionSessions = try self.modelContext.fetch(fetchDescriptor) // <-- Crash here! return consumptionSessions.map { ConsumptionSession(swiftDataSession: $0) } } func updateSessions(sessions: [ConsumptionSession]) async throws { if #unavailable(iOS 18) { // Price segments are duplicated if re-inserted so unfortunately we have to delete and reinsert sessions. // On iOS 18, this is enforced by the #Unique macro on SDPriceSegment. let sessionIds = Set(sessions.map(\.id)) try self.modelContext.delete(model: SDConsumptionSession.self, where: #Predicate<SDConsumptionSession> { sessionIds.contains($0.id) }) } for session in sessions { self.modelContext.insert(SDConsumptionSession(consumptionSession: session)) } if self.modelContext.hasChanges { try self.modelContext.save() } } func deleteAllSessions() async { if #available(iOS 18, *) { try? self.modelContainer.erase() } else { self.modelContainer.deleteAllData() } } } The actor conforms to this protocol: protocol ConsumptionSessionStorage { func isStorageEmpty() async -> Bool func hasCreditCardSessions() async -> Bool func sessionsIn(interval: DateInterval) async throws -> [ConsumptionSession] func updateSessions(sessions: [ConsumptionSession]) async throws func deleteAllSessions() async } The crash is coming in from line 30 and 41, in other words, when trying to fetch data from the database. There doesn't seem to be any common trait for the crashes. They occur across iOS versions and device types. Any idea what might cause this?
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Aug ’25
macOS 15.5 (Sequoia) – iCloud Drive Hydration/Sync Failures on M4 MBP
I’m seeing persistent issues with iCloud Drive hydration and Finder sync on a new M4 MacBook Pro running Sequoia 15.5 (24F74). The same folders hydrate correctly on other Macs (Intel and M1), but not on the M4. ✅ Tried: – killall bird – Safe Mode boot – Toggling iCloud Drive and System Settings > Apple ID – Isolating network, user profile, and running First Aid 🔍 Findings: – EtreCheck report shows consistent high CPU usage from bird with no resolution. – Console logs suggest bird is waiting on local metadata index. – No VPNs installed. No third-party sync tools active. I’ve sanitized and attached the EtreCheck report as text for reference (or can paste if needed). ❓ Questions: 1. Is this a known issue on M4 systems or Sequoia 15.5? 2. Could file system ownership have been impacted by command-line tools? 3. Is there a safe method to reset bird metadata or iCloud sync state locally? Any guidance from Apple or other developers would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Jun ’25
Will transferring app affect iCloud's Documents folder access?
My app uses iCloud to let users sync their files via their private iCloud Drive, which does not use CloudKit. FileManager.default.url(forUbiquityContainerIdentifier: nil)?.appending(component: "Documents") I plan to transfer my app to another developer account, but I'm afraid it will affect the access of the app to the existing files in that folder. Apple documentation doesn't mention this case. Has anyone done this before and can confirm if the app will continue to work normally after transferring? Thanks
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May ’25
Saving a file to ubiquitous storage overwrites iCloud version without conflict
Our app saves its data to iCloud by default. In most cases, this is working as intended & the data can be synced across devices with no problems. But recently, in testing, we discovered a situation where it's possible to save data before the NSMetadataQuery finishes & starts downloading the cloud files. When this happens, the query will then finish, and return the NEW file (with no other versions or conflicts). Is there a way to ensure that writing a file (version A) to ubiquitous storage when another version (version B) exists in the cloud is treated as a conflict, rather than just stomping all over the other version? I've tried querying the file metadata for the file URL (NSURLIsUbiquitousItemKey, NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusKey, NSURLUbiquitousItemDownloadRequestedKey, NSURLUbiquitousItemHasUnresolvedConflictsKey) before saving, but it just returns nil.
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Nov ’25
SwiftData CloudKit hangs on Active scene Phase
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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Aug ’25
Core Data, Swift 6, Concurrency and more
I have the following struct doing some simple tasks, running a network request and then saving items to Core Data. Per Xcode 26's new default settings (onisolated(nonsending) & defaultIsolation set to MainActor), the struct and its functions run on the main actor, which works fine and I can even safely omit the context.perform call because of it, which is great. struct DataHandler { func importGames(withIDs ids: [Int]) async throws { ... let context = PersistenceController.shared.container.viewContext for game in games { let newGame = GYGame(context: context) newGame.id = UUID() } try context.save() } } Now, I want to run this in a background thread to increase performance and responsiveness. So I followed this session (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/270) and believe the solution is to mark the struct as nonisolated and the function itself as @concurrent. The function now works on a background thread, but I receive a crash: _dispatch_assert_queue_fail. This happens whether I wrap the Core Data calls with context.perform or not. Alongside that I get a few new warnings which I have no idea how to work around. So, what am I doing wrong here? What's the correct way to solve this simple use case with Swift 6's new concurrency stuff and the default main actor isolation in Xcode 26? Curiously enough, when setting onisolated(nonsending) to false & defaultIsolation to non isolating, mimicking the previous behavior, the function works without crashing. nonisolated struct DataHandler { @concurrent func importGames(withIDs ids: [Int]) async throws { ... let context = await PersistenceController.shared.container.newBackgroundContext() for game in games { let newGame = GYGame(context: context) newGame.id = UUID() // Main actor-isolated property 'id' can not be mutated from a nonisolated context; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode } try context.save() } }
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI Sheet view with @Query loses model context
I've run into a strange issue. If a sheet loads a view that has a SwiftData @Query, and there is an if statement in the view body, I get the following error when running an iOS targetted SwiftUI app under MacOS 26.1: Set a .modelContext in view's environment to use Query While the view actually ends up loading the correct data, before it does, it ends up re-creating the sqlite store (opening as /dev/null). The strange thing is that this only happens if there is an if statement in the body. The statement need not ever evaluate true, but it causes the issue. Here's an example. It's based on the default xcode new iOS project w/ SwiftData: struct ContentView: View { @State private var isShowingSheet = false var body: some View { Button(action: { isShowingSheet.toggle() }) { Text("Show Sheet") } .sheet(isPresented: $isShowingSheet, onDismiss: didDismiss) { VStack { ContentSheetView() } } } func didDismiss() { } } struct ContentSheetView: View { @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext @Query public var items: [Item] @State var fault: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack { if fault { Text("Fault!") } Button(action: addItem) { Label("Add Item", systemImage: "plus") } List { ForEach(items) { item in Text(item.timestamp, format: Date.FormatStyle(date: .numeric, time: .standard)) } } } } private func addItem() { withAnimation { let newItem = Item(timestamp: Date()) modelContext.insert(newItem) } } } It requires some data to be added to trigger, but after adding it and dismissing the sheet, opening up the sheet with trigger the Set a .modelContext in view's environment to use Query. Flipping on -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 1 will show it trying to recreate the database. If you remove the if fault { Text("Fault!") } line, it goes away. It also doesn't appear to happen on iPhones or in the iPhone simulator. Explicitly passing modelContext to the ContentSheetView like ContentSheetView().modelContext(modelContext) also seems to fix it. Is this behavior expected?
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Nov ’25
defaultIsolation option and Core Data
When creating a new project in Xcode 26, the default for defaultIsolation is MainActor. Core Data creates classes for each entity using code gen, but now those classes are also internally marked as MainActor, which causes issues when accessing managed object from a background thread like this. Is there a way to fix this warning or should Xcode actually mark these auto generated classes as nonisolated to make this better? Filed as FB13840800. nonisolated struct BackgroundDataHandler { @concurrent func saveItem() async throws { let context = await PersistenceController.shared.container.newBackgroundContext() try await context.perform { let newGame = Item(context: context) newGame.timestamp = Date.now // Main actor-isolated property 'timestamp' can not be mutated from a nonisolated context; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode try context.save() } } } Turning code gen off inside the model and creating it manually, with the nonisolated keyword, gets rid of the warning and still works fine. So I guess the auto generated class could adopt this as well? public import Foundation public import CoreData public typealias ItemCoreDataClassSet = NSSet @objc(Item) nonisolated public class Item: NSManagedObject { }
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Jun ’25
SwiftData shared across apps?
The stuff I've found by searching has confused me, so hopefully someone can help simplify it for me? I have an app (I use it for logging which books I've given away), and I could either add a bunch of things to the app, or I could have another app (possibly a CLI tool) to generate some reports I'd like.
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May ’25
CloudKit Dashboard completely empty (no containers at all) while Xcode 26 still shows my production container iCloud.gainzCloud and builds fine – Tahoe 26.1 / Xcode 26.0 (17A321)
Hi, I’m completely stuck with a very strange CloudKit problem that started recently and has now killed all iCloud sync for a live production app. What is happening Production container: iCloud.gainzCloud (created ~11 months ago, has been working perfectly until now) In Xcode 26.0 (17A321): → Signing & Capabilities → iCloud is enabled → Container correctly shows as iCloud.gainzCloud → App builds and runs on device/simulator with zero provisioning or container errors CloudKit Dashboard (https://icloud.developer.apple.com/dashboard/): completely blank – “No containers found” Result: CloudKit sync is dead for every user (development + production environments) What I know for sure Apple Developer Support confirmed the container iCloud.gainzCloud still exists and is correctly attached to my Team ID on their backend Personal iCloud (Mail, Notes, Photos, etc.) syncs perfectly on the same Mac / same Apple ID under macOS Tahoe 26.1 I have NOT changed the password on either the Apple ID or the Developer Program account New containers I create appear in Xcode but never show up in the Dashboard Environment macOS Tahoe 26.1 (latest) Xcode Version 26.0 (17A321) Has anyone on the new Tahoe/Xcode 26 releases seen the CloudKit Dashboard suddenly go completely empty while Xcode still “sees” the container just fine? Any known trick to force the dashboard to re-index containers or clear whatever cache is broken? Thanks a lot in advance – this is blocking all iCloud functionality for a released app with active users.
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Nov ’25
Best approach to prevent SwiftData .transformable migration on iOS 26.1
We have an unreleased SwiftData app for iOS18+. While we were testing I saw reports on the forum about unexpected database migrations for codable arrays on iOS26.1. I'd like to ask a couple of questions: 1- Does this issue originate from the new Xcode version, or is it specific to iOS 26.1? 2- Is it possible to change our attribute so that users on older iOS versions receive the same model, preventing a migration from being triggered when they upgrade to iOS 26.1? One of our models looks like this: struct Point: Codable, Hashable { let x: Int let y: Int } @Model class Grid { private(set) var gridId: String = "" var points: [Point] = [] var updatedAt: Date = Date() private(set) var createdAt: Date = Date() #Index<Grid>([\.gridId]) ... } I can think of some options like: // 1 @Attribute(.transformable(by: CustomJsonTransformer.self)) var points: [Point] = [] // 2 @Attribute(.externalStorage) var points: [Point] = [] // 3 var points: Data = Data() // store points as data However, I'm not sure which one to use. What would you recommend to handle this, or is there a better strategy you would suggest?
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Nov ’25
Swift Data Undo
Trying to support undo & redo in an app that utilizes Swift Data and as with anything other than provided simplistic Apple demo examples the experience is not great. The problem: Im trying to build functionality that allows users to add items to an item group, where item and item group have a many-to-many relationship e.g. item group can hold many items and items can appear in multiple groups. When trying to do so with relatively simple setup of either adding or removing item group from items relationship array, I am pretty consistently met with a hard crash after performing undo & redo. Sometimes it works the first few undo & redos but 95% of the time would crash on the first one. Could not cast value of type 'Swift.Optional<Any>' (0x20a676be0) to 'Swift.Array<App.CodableStructModel>' (0x207a2bc08). Where CodableStructModel is a Codable Value type inside Item. Adding and removing this relationship should be undoable & redoable as typical for Mac interaction and is "supported" by SwiftData by default, meaning that the developer has to actively either wholly opt out of undo support in their modelContainer setup or do it on a per action scale with the only thing I know of: modelContext.processPendingChanges() modelContext.undoManager?.disableUndoRegistration() ..... modelContext.processPendingChanges() modelContext.undoManager?.enableUndoRegistration() General rant on SwiftData: Random crashes, inconsistencies, random cryptic errors thrown by the debugger and general lack of production level stability. Each update breaks something new and there is very little guidance and communication from the Swift Data team on how to adapt and more importantly consideration for developers that have adopted Swift Data. If SwiftData is not ready for production, it would go a long way to clearly communicate that and mark it as Beta product.
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Dec ’25
Inheritance in SwiftData — Fatal error: Never access a full future backing data
I'm implementing SwiftData with inheritance in an app. I have an Entity class with a property name. This class is inherited by two other classes: Store and Person. The Entity model has a one-to-many relationship with a Transaction class. I can list all my Entity models in a List with a @Query annotation without a problem. However, then I try to access the name property of an Entity from a Transaction relationship, the app crashes with the following error: Thread 1: Fatal error: Never access a full future backing data - PersistentIdentifier(id: SwiftData.PersistentIdentifier.ID(backing: SwiftData.PersistentIdentifier.PersistentIdentifierBacking.managedObjectID(0x96530ce28d41eb63 <x-coredata://DABFF7BB-C412-474E-AD50-A1F30AC6DBE9/Person/p4>))) with Optional(F07E7E23-F8F0-4CC0-B282-270B5EDDC7F3) From my attempts to fix the issue, I noticed that: The crash seems related to the relationships with classes that has inherit from another class, since it only happens there. When I create new data, I can usually access it without any problem. The crash mostly happens after reloading the app. This error has been mentioned on the forum (for example here), but in a context not related with inheritance. You can find the full code here. For reference, my models looks like this: @Model class Transaction { @Attribute(.unique) var id: String var name: String var date: Date var amount: Double var entity: Entity? var store: Store? { entity as? Store } var person: Person? { entity as? Person } init( id: String = UUID().uuidString, name: String, amount: Double, date: Date = .now, entity: Entity? = nil, ) { self.id = id self.name = name self.amount = amount self.date = date self.entity = entity } } @Model class Entity: Identifiable { @Attribute(.preserveValueOnDeletion) var name: String var lastUsedAt: Date @Relationship(deleteRule: .cascade, inverse: \Transaction.entity) var operations: [Transaction] init( name: String, lastUsedAt: Date = .now, operations: [Transaction] = [], ) { self.name = name self.lastUsedAt = lastUsedAt self.operations = operations } } @available(iOS 26, *) @Model class Store: Entity { @Attribute(.unique) var id: String var locations: [Location] init( id: String = UUID().uuidString, name: String, lastUsedAt: Date = .now, locations: [Location] = [], operations: [Transaction] = [] ) { self.locations = locations self.id = id super.init(name: name, lastUsedAt: lastUsedAt, operations: operations) } } In order to reproduce the error: Run the app in the simulator. Click the + button to create a new transaction. Relaunch the app, then click on any transaction. The app crashes when it tries to read te name property while building the details view.
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Sep ’25
Container Failing to Initialize After a Successful Migration & Initialization
I'm experiencing the following error with my SwiftData container when running a build: Code=134504 "Cannot use staged migration with an unknown model version." Code Structure - Summary I am using a versionedSchema to store multiple models in SwiftData. I started experiencing this issue when adding two new models in the newest Schema version. Starting from the current public version, V4.4.6, there are two migrations. Migration Summary The first migration is to V4.4.7. This is a lightweight migration removing one attribute from one of the models. This was tested and worked successfully. The second migration is to V5.0.0. This is a custom migration adding two new models, and instantiating instances of the two new models based on data from instances of the existing models. In the initial testing of this version, no issues were observed. Issue and Steps to Reproduce Reproduction of issue: Starting from a fresh build of the publicly released V4.4.6, I run a new build that contains both Schema Versions (V4.4.7 and V5.0.0), and their associated migration stages. This builds successfully, and the container successfully migrates to V5.0.0. Checking the default.store file, all values appear to migrate and instantiate correctly. The second step in reproduction of the issue is to simply stop running the build, and then rebuild, without any code changes. This fails to initialize the model container every time afterwards. Going back to the simulator after successive builds are stopped in Xcode, the app launches and accesses/modifies the model container as normal. Supplementary Issue: I have been putting up with the same, persistent issue in the Xcode Preview Canvas of "Failed to Initialize Model Container" This is a 5 in 6 build issue, where builds will work at random. In the case of previews, I have cleared all data associated with all previews multiple times. The only difference being that the simulator is a 100% failure rate after the initial, successful initialization. I assume this is due to the different build structure of previews. Lastly, of note, the Xcode previews fail at the same line in instantiating the model container as the simulator does. From my research into this issue, people say that the Xcode preview is instantiating from elsewhere. I do have a separate model container set up specifically for canvas previews, but the error does not occur in that container, but rather the app's main container. Possible Contributing Factors & Tested Facts iOS: While I have experienced issues with SwiftData and the complier in iOS 26, I can rule that out as the issue here. This has been tested on simulators running iOS 18.6, 26.0.1, and 26.1, all encountering failures to initialize model container. While in iOS 18, subsequent builds after the successful migration did work, I did eventually encounter the same error and crash. In iOS 26.0.1 and 26.1, these errors come immediately on the second build. Container Initialization for V4.4.6 do { container = try ModelContainer( for: Job.self, JobTask.self, Day.self, Charge.self, Material.self, Person.self, TaskCategory.self, Service.self, migrationPlan: JobifyMigrationPlan.self ) } catch { fatalError("Failed to Initialize Model Container") } Versioned Schema Instance for V4.4.6 (V4.4.7 differs only by versionIdentifier) static var versionIdentifier = Schema.Version(4, 4, 6) static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] { [Job.self, JobTask.self, Day.self, Charge.self, Material.self, Person.self, TaskCategory.self, Service.self] } Container Initialization for V5.0.0 do { let schema = Schema([Jobify.self, JobTask.self, Day.self, Charge.self, MaterialItem.self, Person.self, TaskCategory.self, Service.self, ServiceJob.self, RecurerRule.self]) container = try ModelContainer( for: schema, migrationPlan: JobifyMigrationPlan.self ) } catch { fatalError("Failed to Initialize Model Container") } Versioned Schema Instance for V5.0.0 static var versionIdentifier = Schema.Version(5, 0, 0) static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] { [ JobifySchemaV500.Job.self, JobifySchemaV500.JobTask.self, JobifySchemaV500.Day.self, JobifySchemaV500.Charge.self, JobifySchemaV500.Material.self, JobifySchemaV500.Person.self, JobifySchemaV500.TaskCategory.self, JobifySchemaV500.Service.self, JobifySchemaV500.ServiceJob.self, JobifySchemaV500.RecurerRule.self ] } Addressing Differences in Object Names Type-aliasing: All my model types are type-aliased for simplification in view components. All types are aliased as 'JobifySchemeV446.<#Name#>' in V.4.4.6, and 'JobifySchemaV500.<#Name#>' in V5.0.0 Issues with iOS 26: My type-aliases dating back to iOS 17 overlapped with lower level objects in Swift, including 'Job' and 'Material'. These started to be an issue with initializing the model container when running in iOS 26. The type aliases have been renamed since, however the V4.4.6 build with the old names runs and builds perfectly fine in iOS 26 If there is any other code that may be relevant in determining where this error is occurring, I would be happy to add it. My current best theory is simply that I have mistakenly omitted code relevant to the SwiftData Migration.
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Nov ’25
Swift Data Recovery
Hi Writing an app in Swift on Xcode for my iPhone, all software is the latest version. If after making a minor change and re-building all the application data has disappeared, is there a way to see if it is still in the .modelContainer and just not showing up?
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Mar ’26
Consequences of incorrect VersionedSchema.versionIdentifier
About 4 months ago, I shipped the first version of my app with 4 versioned schemas that, unintentionally, had the same versionIdentifier of 1.2.0 in 2 of them: V1: 1.0.0 V2: 1.1.0 V3: 1.2.0 V4: 1.2.0 They are ordered correctly in the MigrationPlan, and they are all lightweight. Migration works, SwiftData doesn't crash on init and I haven't encountered any issues related to this. The app syncs with iCloud. Questions, preferable for anybody with knowledge of SwiftData internals: What will break in SwiftData when there are 2 duplicate numbers? Not that I would expect it to be safe, but does it happen to be safe to ship an update that changes V4's version to 1.3.0, what was originally intended?
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Jul ’25
NSPersistentCloudKitContainer causes crash on watchOS when device is offline
Hi. I'm hoping someone might be able to help us with an issue that's been affecting our standalone watchOS app for some time now. We've encountered consistent crashes on Apple Watch devices when the app enters the background while the device is offline (i.e., no Bluetooth and no Wi-Fi connection). Through extensive testing, we've isolated the problem to the use of NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. When we switch to NSPersistentContainer, the crashes no longer occur. Interestingly, this issue only affects our watchOS app. The same CloudKit-based persistence setup works reliably on our iOS and macOS apps, even when offline. This leads us to believe the issue may be specific to how NSPersistentCloudKitContainer behaves on watchOS when the device is disconnected from the network. We're targeting watchOS 10 and above. We're unsure if this is a misconfiguration on our end or a potential system-level issue, and we would greatly appreciate any insight or guidance.
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Jun ’25
CloudKit, CoreData and Swift 6 for sharing between users
I have started from here: Apple's guide on the sharing core data objects between iCloud users and I have created a sample project that has Collections and Items. Everything works great while I stay on Swift 5, like with the initial project. I would like to migrate to Swift 6 (Default Actor Isolaton @MainActor, Approachable Concurrency: Yes) on the project and I am stuck at extension CDCollection: Transferable { ... }. When compiling with Swift 5, there is a warning: Conformance of 'NSManagedObject' to 'Sendable' is unavailable in iOS; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode. After resolving almost all compile-time warnings I'm left with: Conformance of 'CDCollection' to protocol 'Transferable' crosses into main actor-isolated code and can cause data races. Which I don't think will work, because of the warning shown above. It can be worked around like: nonisolated extension CDCollection: Transferable, @unchecked Sendable Then there are errors: let persistentContainer = PersistenceController.shared.persistentContainer Main actor-isolated static property 'shared' can not be referenced from a nonisolated context. I've created the following class to have a Sendable object: struct CDCollectionTransferable: Transferable { var objectID: NSManagedObjectID var persistentContainer: NSPersistentCloudKitContainer public static var transferRepresentation: some TransferRepresentation { CKShareTransferRepresentation { collectionToExport in let persistentContainer = collectionToExport.persistentContainer let ckContainer = CloudKitProvider.container var collectionShare: CKShare? if let shareSet = try? persistentContainer.fetchShares( matching: [collectionToExport.objectID]), let (_, share) = shareSet.first { collectionShare = share } /** Return the existing share if the collection already has a share. */ if let share = collectionShare { return .existing(share, container: ckContainer) } /** Otherwise, create a new share for the collection and return it. Use uriRepresentation of the object in the Sendable closure. */ let collectionURI = collectionToExport.objectID .uriRepresentation() return .prepareShare(container: ckContainer) { let collection = await persistentContainer.viewContext .perform { let coordinator = persistentContainer.viewContext .persistentStoreCoordinator guard let objectID = coordinator?.managedObjectID( forURIRepresentation: collectionURI ) else { fatalError( "Failed to return the managed objectID for: \(collectionURI)." ) } return persistentContainer.viewContext.object( with: objectID ) } let (_, share, _) = try await persistentContainer.share( [collection], to: nil ) return share } } } } And I'm able to compile and run the app with this change: let transferable = CDCollectionTransferable( objectID: collection.objectID, persistentContainer: PersistenceController.shared .persistentContainer ) ToolbarItem { ShareLink( item: transferable, preview: SharePreview("Share \(collection.name)!") ) { MenuButtonLabel( title: "New Share", systemImage: "square.and.arrow.up" ) } } The app crashes when launched with libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_assert_queue_fail: 0x1052c6ea4 <+0>: sub sp, sp, #0x50 0x1052c6ea8 <+4>: stp x20, x19, [sp, #0x30] 0x1052c6eac <+8>: stp x29, x30, [sp, #0x40] 0x1052c6eb0 <+12>: add x29, sp, #0x40 0x1052c6eb4 <+16>: adrp x8, 63 0x1052c6eb8 <+20>: add x8, x8, #0xa0c ; "not " 0x1052c6ebc <+24>: adrp x9, 62 0x1052c6ec0 <+28>: add x9, x9, #0x1e5 ; "" 0x1052c6ec4 <+32>: stur xzr, [x29, #-0x18] 0x1052c6ec8 <+36>: cmp w1, #0x0 0x1052c6ecc <+40>: csel x8, x9, x8, ne 0x1052c6ed0 <+44>: ldr x10, [x0, #0x48] 0x1052c6ed4 <+48>: cmp x10, #0x0 0x1052c6ed8 <+52>: csel x9, x9, x10, eq 0x1052c6edc <+56>: stp x9, x0, [sp, #0x10] 0x1052c6ee0 <+60>: adrp x9, 63 0x1052c6ee4 <+64>: add x9, x9, #0x9db ; "BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: " 0x1052c6ee8 <+68>: stp x9, x8, [sp] 0x1052c6eec <+72>: adrp x1, 63 0x1052c6ef0 <+76>: add x1, x1, #0x9a6 ; "%sBlock was %sexpected to execute on queue [%s (%p)]" 0x1052c6ef4 <+80>: sub x0, x29, #0x18 0x1052c6ef8 <+84>: bl 0x105301b18 ; symbol stub for: asprintf 0x1052c6efc <+88>: ldur x19, [x29, #-0x18] 0x1052c6f00 <+92>: str x19, [sp] 0x1052c6f04 <+96>: adrp x0, 63 0x1052c6f08 <+100>: add x0, x0, #0xa11 ; "%s" 0x1052c6f0c <+104>: bl 0x1052f9ef8 ; _dispatch_log 0x1052c6f10 <+108>: adrp x8, 95 0x1052c6f14 <+112>: str x19, [x8, #0x1f0] -> 0x1052c6f18 <+116>: brk #0x1 The app still crashes when I comment this code, and all Core Data related warnings. I'm quite stuck now as I want to use Swift 6. Has anyone figured CloudKit, CoreData and Swift 6 for sharing between users?
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Feb ’26
iCloud Drive changes in iOS 18.4 and later break stated API
The NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusKey indicates the status of a ubiquitous (iCloud Drive) file. A key value of NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusDownloaded is defined as indicating there is a local version of this file available. The most current version will get downloaded as soon as possible . However this no longer occurs since iOS 18.4. A ubiquitous file may remain in the NSMetadataUbiquitousItemDownloadingStatusDownloaded state for an indefinite period. There is a workaround: call [NSFileManager startDownloadingUbiquitousItemAtURL: error:] however this shouldn't be necessary, and introduces delays over the previous behaviour. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Is this a permanent change? FB17662379
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May ’25
SwiftData Fatal error: Editors must register their identifiers before invoking operations on this store
I have a UIKit app where I've adopted SwiftData and I'm struggling with a crash coming in from some of my users. I'm not able to reproduce it myself and as it only happens to a small fraction of my user base, it seems like a race condition of some sort. This is the assertion message: SwiftData/DefaultStore.swift:453: Fatal error: API Contract Violation: Editors must register their identifiers before invoking operations on this store SwiftData.DefaultStore: 00CF060A-291A-4E79-BEC3-E6A6B20F345E did not. (ID is unique per crash) This is the ModelActor that crashes: @available(iOS 17, *) @ModelActor actor ConsumptionDatabaseStorage: ConsumptionSessionStorage { struct Error: LocalizedError { var errorDescription: String? } private let sortDescriptor = [SortDescriptor(\SDConsumptionSession.startTimeUtc, order: .reverse)] static func createStorage(userId: String) throws -> ConsumptionDatabaseStorage { guard let appGroupContainer = FileManager.default.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier: UserDefaults.defaultAppGroupIdentifier) else { throw Error(errorDescription: "Invalid app group container ID") } func createModelContainer(databaseUrl: URL) throws -> ModelContainer { return try ModelContainer(for: SDConsumptionSession.self, SDPriceSegment.self, configurations: ModelConfiguration(url: databaseUrl)) } let databaseUrl = appGroupContainer.appendingPathComponent("\(userId).sqlite") do { return self.init(modelContainer: try createModelContainer(databaseUrl: databaseUrl)) } catch { // Creating the model storage failed. Remove the database file and try again. try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: databaseUrl) return self.init(modelContainer: try createModelContainer(databaseUrl: databaseUrl)) } } func isStorageEmpty() async -> Bool { (try? self.modelContext.fetchCount(FetchDescriptor<SDConsumptionSession>())) ?? 0 == 0 // <-- Crash here! } func sessionsIn(interval: DateInterval) async throws -> [ConsumptionSession] { let fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor(predicate: #Predicate<SDConsumptionSession> { sdSession in if let startDate = sdSession.startTimeUtc { return interval.start <= startDate && interval.end > startDate } else { return false } }, sortBy: self.sortDescriptor) let consumptionSessions = try self.modelContext.fetch(fetchDescriptor) // <-- Crash here! return consumptionSessions.map { ConsumptionSession(swiftDataSession: $0) } } func updateSessions(sessions: [ConsumptionSession]) async throws { if #unavailable(iOS 18) { // Price segments are duplicated if re-inserted so unfortunately we have to delete and reinsert sessions. // On iOS 18, this is enforced by the #Unique macro on SDPriceSegment. let sessionIds = Set(sessions.map(\.id)) try self.modelContext.delete(model: SDConsumptionSession.self, where: #Predicate<SDConsumptionSession> { sessionIds.contains($0.id) }) } for session in sessions { self.modelContext.insert(SDConsumptionSession(consumptionSession: session)) } if self.modelContext.hasChanges { try self.modelContext.save() } } func deleteAllSessions() async { if #available(iOS 18, *) { try? self.modelContainer.erase() } else { self.modelContainer.deleteAllData() } } } The actor conforms to this protocol: protocol ConsumptionSessionStorage { func isStorageEmpty() async -> Bool func hasCreditCardSessions() async -> Bool func sessionsIn(interval: DateInterval) async throws -> [ConsumptionSession] func updateSessions(sessions: [ConsumptionSession]) async throws func deleteAllSessions() async } The crash is coming in from line 30 and 41, in other words, when trying to fetch data from the database. There doesn't seem to be any common trait for the crashes. They occur across iOS versions and device types. Any idea what might cause this?
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Aug ’25
macOS 15.5 (Sequoia) – iCloud Drive Hydration/Sync Failures on M4 MBP
I’m seeing persistent issues with iCloud Drive hydration and Finder sync on a new M4 MacBook Pro running Sequoia 15.5 (24F74). The same folders hydrate correctly on other Macs (Intel and M1), but not on the M4. ✅ Tried: – killall bird – Safe Mode boot – Toggling iCloud Drive and System Settings > Apple ID – Isolating network, user profile, and running First Aid 🔍 Findings: – EtreCheck report shows consistent high CPU usage from bird with no resolution. – Console logs suggest bird is waiting on local metadata index. – No VPNs installed. No third-party sync tools active. I’ve sanitized and attached the EtreCheck report as text for reference (or can paste if needed). ❓ Questions: 1. Is this a known issue on M4 systems or Sequoia 15.5? 2. Could file system ownership have been impacted by command-line tools? 3. Is there a safe method to reset bird metadata or iCloud sync state locally? Any guidance from Apple or other developers would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Jun ’25
Sharing SwiftData between two apps
This is probably super simple answer that I missed, but: I have an app that has a database; I'd like to create a second app (actually a CLI tool), and access the same database. Is that possible? And, if so, how? 😄
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Jan ’26