I keep encountering a persistent build error in the App tutorial within Swift Playgrounds. The exact error messages shown in the app are: ⛔️ Failed to load. Failed to load due to an error. ⛔️ FailedToEvaluateManifest(description: "Build failed because a Mach-O file could not be generated.") ⛔️ Failed to load. I have taken every possible troubleshooting step on my end, including: Restarting my Mac Updating macOS to the latest version Updating Swift Playgrounds Completely uninstalling and reinstalling Swift Playgrounds Re-downloading and reinstalling the app tutorial within the app Despite all these efforts, the issue has not been resolved at all and I am unable to proceed with the tutorial. Could you please provide guidance on how to fix this or let me know if this is a known bug? I have attached screenshots of the error for your reference.

Hello, Since I upgraded my iPad (iPad Pro 11" 2nd generation / A12z) to iPadOS 27 I have the following issue with SwiftPlayground. The preview no longer works and gets stuck on "Preview paused / Restart to continue". If I click on the refresh button, the button becomes disabled a few seconds but preview still remains on "Preview paused". It is quite easy to reproduce : Start SwiftPlayground Click "New playground" Click "App" When "My App n" appears on playground browser click on it I already tried to uninstall / reinstall SwiftPlayground and rebooting my iPad but it didn't help. Thanks for any help

Hi everyone, I’m unable to select my developer team or upload my app to App Store Connect from Swift Playgrounds on my iPad. Both of these actions produce the same error: Open the app project → Team & Bundle Identifier → Team. Select Upload to App Store Connect. The error reads: “Failed to Fetch Teams Your session has expired. Please log in.” No team appears for me to select, so I cannot proceed with uploading the app. My account status: Apple Developer Program membership is active. Paid Apps Agreement is Active. Bank account is Active. I can sign in to App Store Connect through a browser. Activating the Paid Apps Agreement and banking information did not resolve the error. I reported this to Apple Developer Support on September 15 and provided a screen recording showing both failures. A Senior Advisor has now recommended asking in this forum. Has anyone encountered this exact error and resolved it? Is there a specific way to refresh the developer-account session used by Swift Playgrounds, or any diagnostic information I can collect to identify the cause? Thank you.

Hi there! I'm pretty new in coding. Right now I'm just vibe coding, trying to understand what happens and how does this works. I made a simple app in Swift Playground on my iPad Mini A17 Pro, and everything works good so far when I tap the Play (Run) button, except text input: every text field only shows the blinking cursor and let me paste, but the virtual keyboard don't appear, and even connecting a physical keyboard has no better outcome. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

My M2 Pro Mac mini with OSX 14.7 just updated to Swift Playgrounds 4.6.1. Now the :Learn to Code & Build Apps screen is limited in size and can't be zoomed. There is no way to scroll horizontally and I can't view the whole screen.

Hello All, I am currently working through ”Keep going with Apps” in Swift Playground. The section in the tutorial “Add a DancingCreature view” will not complete. I have tried to type it is as written in the tutorial and even used the copy and paste button provided. I have restarted the app and my IPad with no success. I have attached a screen shot of the tutorial prompt. Here is the code block: import SwiftUI import Guide struct DancingCreatures: View { //#-learning-code-snippet(varDeclaration) @EnvironmentObject var data : CreatureZoo var body: some View { SPCAssessableGroup(view: self) { VStack { ZStack { /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ ForEach(data.creatures) { creature in /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ Text(creature.emoji) .resizableFont() .offset(creature.offset) .rotationEffect(creature.rotation) /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ } } ZStack { /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ ForEach(data.creatures) { creature in /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ Text(creature.emoji) .resizableFont() .offset(creature.offset) .rotationEffect(creature.rotation) /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ //#-learning-code-snippet(exp1) //#-learning-code-snippet(animationSolution) //#-learning-code-snippet(exp3) } } /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ .onTapGesture { data.randomizeOffsets() } /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ .onTapGesture { data.randomizeOffsets() } /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ } } } } struct DancingCreatures_Previews: PreviewProvider { static var previews: some View { DancingCreatures().environmentObject(CreatureZoo()) } } Device information: IPad Pro (11 inch, 2nd gen) iPad OS Version: 26.0.1 Playground Version: 4.6.4 Anyone else come across this? Thank you in advance.

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a small project I’ve been working on called Swiftgrounds: https://swiftgrounds.dev It’s a community-driven index for Swift Playground books and apps. This is my attempt to bring an option for creators to reach learners and share their content. Swiftgrounds supports the same JSON feed format Apple originally designed, so if you already have a feed set up, you can plug it in without making any changes. If you’re building Playground content, I’d love for you to give it a try and share your work there. Hope you like the project!

Hi everyon. I‘d like to ask If there’s a way of including info.plist into swift playground on the iPad. I’m currently developing a daw on the iPad, I can see and use Apple’s auv3 plugins but can’t see third party apps like fab filter etc installed on the iPad. I think it’s needs inter app or auv3 entitlement. Is there a work around? I have attached my code for auv3 section. if anyone is interested , here is a video of my progress so far https://youtu.be/_2-L3oowfd0?si=cbr_9vYc3DOXV3R1 AUV3Diagnostic.swift

I am building a Swift Playgrounds App project on iPad running iPadOS 26.0.1 using the latest version of Swift Playgrounds. I need to access Core Location for a plant location logging app. What I have done: • Created an App project (not a Playground) in Swift Playgrounds • Enabled ‘Core Location When in Use’ in the app capabilities (accessed by tapping the app name) • Implemented a CLLocationManager with CLLocationManagerDelegate • Called manager.requestWhenInUseAuthorization() from .onAppear in a SwiftUI view • Called manager.startUpdatingLocation() immediately after The problem: The location permission prompt never appears when the app runs. The app does not appear in Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services at all. There are no error messages or crashes — the app simply never requests location access. What I have ruled out: • The capability IS enabled in Swift Playgrounds app settings • The app runs without errors otherwise • This is an App project, not a classic Playground, so it should support capabilities Questions: 1. Is CLLocationManager with requestWhenInUseAuthorization() supported in Swift Playgrounds App projects on iPadOS 26? 2. Has the location authorization API changed in iPadOS 26 in a way that affects Swift Playgrounds? 3. Is there a working code example for Core Location in a Swift Playgrounds App project on iPadOS 26? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Attempts to create Swift Playgrounds from the built-in templates fail. Clicking the “Get” button on these templates appears to download something, but it changes back into a “Get” button afterwards without creating a playground. Furthermore, the Swift versions of the templates seem to be behind; it shows Swift 5.8 and Swift 5.9 editions whereas it should be Swift 6.x Steps to Reproduce Start the Swift Playground app (the standalone app, not the Xcode one, on macOS or iPadOS). Select “Learn to Code” Choose the “Get Started With Code” template (or any other template will do). Click the Get button. Wait until the Get button becomes a circular progress indicator. Expected Results A new Swift Playground should be created from the selected template. Actual Results The Get button changes into a circular progress indicator and then changes back. No Playground gets created. Versions Swift Playground 4.7 (2088) macOS 26.4.1 (25E253) iPadOS 26.4.2

Hi guys, I just joined the dev program, and I am a new coder. I started using swift playground and I am loving it! Is there any other apps that help me to learn coding? Would love to hear some stuff. Thanks.

When running top-level async code in Swift Playgrounds, the LLDB RPC server crashes. For example, when running the following code from Concurrency section of The Swift Programming Language book: func fetchUserID(from server: String) async -> Int { if server == "primary" { return 97 } return 501 } let userIDs = await withTaskGroup(of: Int.self) { group in for server in ["primary", "secondary", "development"] { group.addTask { return await fetchUserID(from: server) } } var results: [Int] = [] for await result in group { results.append(result) } return results } print(userIDs) Xcode reports that the LLDB RPC server has crashed. The Swift Playground app reports “There was a problem running this playground.” However, in the case of the Swift Playground app, results are populated as expected. For example, the console shows “[97, 501, 501]”. Xcode does not print any results in the console. Tested with Xcode 26.4 (17E192) and Swift Playground Version 4.7 (2088). Wrapping the async code in a Task {} resolves the issue. Running this code in a standalone Swift file produces the expected result without an error. FB22416465 From the analytics report, attached in the feedback report, but in case it helps others identify the same issue in their crashes: Triggered by Thread: 26 RPC packet thread for client tid 013af238 (20640312) Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000000005a8 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x00000000000005a8 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11, Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [64943] VM Region Info: 0x5a8 is not in any region. Bytes before following region: 4296211032 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL UNUSED SPACE AT START ---> __TEXT 100130000-1003b8000 [ 2592K] r-x/r-x SM=COW /Applications/Xcode-26.4.0-Release.Candidate.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/LLDBRPC.framework/Versions/A/Resources/lldb-rpc-server

As you can see the source directory as a whole is not visible you can only edit pages.

I'm facing an issue with Swift Playgrounds and files created in Xcode 16. It seems that Swift Playgrounds does not support Swift 6, but even when I create files specifically with Swift 5, Swift Playgrounds still reports that the files are unsupported. This creates a significant problem because macOS Sequoia does not allow me to revert to Xcode 15, which might have offered better compatibility. As it stands, I can't find a solution to work seamlessly between Xcode and Swift Playgrounds. Has anyone else encountered this issue? Are there any workarounds or updates planned to address this compatibility gap? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I am preparing for Swift Student Challenge, but it seems like the iPad Playground app still not support the latest SDK. I can't use frameworks like FoundationModel, etc., directly in playground app My playground for this year would require iPad environment since it uses PencilKit, ARKit, etc., and I also want to use the latest tech + the liquid glass UI Right now, I develop the project as a normal Xcode project, and I am wondering how do I post it? As Xcode playground, it must run on macOS As Swift Playground project, the iPad version of Playground does not support latest APIs and it can't compile

Hello, I am having a recurring issue using Swift Playgrounds version 4.6.4 on macOS 26.1. Upon opening a file and every other time I start typing in the code section I get a prompt, the image below, two or three times. It doesn't matter if I accept or decline all or some of the prompts, as soon as I start typing on another line I get prompted another two or three times for permission. It appears to me that prompt generates every time the preview pane tries to update. Declining the prompt breaks the preview but accepting the prompt only gets you through a single line of code before it appears again. I believe this issue started after I updated to macOS26.1 as I had not encountered it before. I've also opened other files with Swift Playgrounds and encounter the same problem. It could also be unrelated to the update and could be an issue with some permission setting somewhere, however, I have been unable to find what or where it could be. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thank you for your time :)

I'm building an app which runs around the Foundation model framework. My expected output is generated when testing on a real device or in preview in Xcode but it throws Foundation Model error when I try running it on the simulator. I'm using a Macbook M1 air and have apple intelligence turned on and my simulator run destination is also an iPad Pro M5 (26.0). Any solution for this as this is my submission for the SSC so I need to make it work on the simulator iPad. Thank you👾

There is a week left for end of the Swift Student Challange submissions. I've built an app which uses FoundationModels but unfortunately there is no support for it in the Swift Playground. Is there any chance it might be coming up in the following days?

Hello. I'm building my Swift Student Challenge Project. But I noticed that the FoundationModels Framework isn't supported in Swift Playgrounds. My app uses ARKit, so it definitely should be tested on real device. So, is it possible to somehow implement a foundation models to my Swift Playgrounds app? Or is it possible to ask judges to test the app on real device launching it from xcode. Your answer is really important for because the functionality of my app directly depends on Foundation Models availability. Thank you!

I'm trying the "Connect and Solve" course of Swift Playground. I can't use "world.place" to place bricks at positions (2, 2), (6, 2) (automatically disappear), but I can place bricks at positions (4, 2) in the same way. Two bricks must be placed overlapping in positions (2, 2) and (6, 2) to achieve the goal. Only when a brick is placed in position (4, 2) can the goal be achieved. The problem is that the bricks placed on (6, 2) and (2, 2) will disappear and cannot be placed successfully. The following is my code writing... let Block1 = Block() for i in 1 ... 2 { world.place(Block1, atColumn: 2, row: 2) } for i in 1 ... 2 { world.place(Block1, atColumn: 6, row: 2) } world.place(Block1, atColumn: 4, row: 2) func turnaround() { turnRight() turnRight() } func walk4() { for i in 1 ... 3 { moveForward() } } func collet() { for i in 1 ... 2 { moveForward() } toggleSwitch() turnRight() walk4() collectGem() turnaround() walk4() turnRight() } for i in 1 ... 3 { collet() } ‌I would appreciate it if someone could offer some recommendations.‌ ‌Thanks a lot‌