At the Platform State of the Union, Apple demoed clicking a ✨ button in the Xcode toolbar to use Apple Intelligence in Xcode.
I don't see that button in Xcode Version 26.0 beta (17A5241e). Am I missing it? It's supposed to be in the upper-left corner, right?
Do I need to turn it on or something? I'm on macOS 15.5 Sequoia, on a 16-inch, 2021 MacBook Pro
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My project build failed in Xcode Cloud(works well in my local Mac), and the error shows: Preparing build for App Store Connect failed
The error message is not clear enough to help us find the solution to fix it. Can anyone help with it?
Currently, if as a library author you are shipping dependencies as code, you can use the #if DEBUG preprocessor check to execute logic based on whether app is being built for Debug or Release.
My concern is more about the approach that should be taken when distributing frameworks/xcframeworks. One approach I am thinking of using is checking the presence of {CFBundleName}.debug.dylib in the main bundle. Is this approach reliable? Do you suggest any other approach?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Swift Packages
Frameworks
Debugging
App Binary
Issue :
When creating a new project in Xcode 26.0 and adding a Share Extension target without modifying any code, the app crashes upon displaying the extension screen with the following error:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'The layout constraints still need update after sending -updateConstraints to <_UINavigationBarTitleControl: 0x105b9cc00; frame = (0 0; 0 0); layer = <CALayer: 0x10b834270>>. _UINavigationBarTitleControl or one of its superclasses may have overridden -updateConstraints without calling super. Or, something may have dirtied layout constraints in the middle of updating them. Both are programming errors.'
Environment :
Xcode 26.0
iOS 26.0 (physical device)
Note: This issue does not occur when running on iOS 18.3.1 (physical device).
Temporary Workaround :
Adding the following implementation to the isContentValid method prevents the exception from occurring:
Objective-C- (BOOL)isContentValid { // Do validation of contentText and/or NSExtensionContext attachments here if (@available(iOS 26, *)) { self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES; } return YES; }
Questions :
Is there any alternative way to avoid this exception?
Since this crash occurs with the default implementation generated by Xcode, is there any plan to fix it in future updates?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
I’m blocked debugging a watchOS app on a physical Apple Watch. The iPhone connects to Xcode normally (wired), but the Watch either fails to connect with a tunnel timeout or disappears entirely from Xcode after I unpaired it inside Devices & Simulators.
Environment
Mac: macOS 26.x (Apple Silicon Mac)
Xcode: 26.2
iPhone: iOS 26.1
Apple Watch Ultra: watchOS 26.2 (build 23S303)
Connection: iPhone connected to Mac via USB (trusted). Watch paired to iPhone and working normally in the Watch app.
Issue A (when Watch is visible in Xcode)
In Xcode → Window → Devices and Simulators, the Watch shows up but is not usable and fails to connect.
Error:
“Previous preparation error: A connection to this device could not be established.”
“Timed out while attempting to establish tunnel using negotiated network parameters.”
In some attempts the Watch shows “Capacity: Unknown” / limited details, and then fails during preparation.
Issue B (after unpairing Watch in Xcode only)
I unpaired/removed the Watch in Xcode (Devices & Simulators). I did not unpair the Watch from the iPhone.
Now:
iPhone appears in Xcode and works normally for builds.
Watch is still paired to the iPhone and works normally.
Watch no longer appears anywhere in Xcode Devices & Simulators (no paired watch section, no watch run destination).
What I’ve tried
Reboots of Mac, iPhone, Watch (multiple times)
Watch unlocked, awake; iPhone unlocked and close to Watch
Verified Watch is paired and connected in iPhone Watch app
Developer Mode enabled on iPhone and Watch
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ON (Mac/iPhone/Watch), tried toggling both
Tried on home Wi-Fi and also with iPhone hotspot (same result)
Resetting trust prompts / reconnecting iPhone via USB, re-trusting Mac
Apple Watch: “Clear Trusted Computers”
Xcode: removing/re-adding devices; clearing derived data; restarting Xcode
Watch Developer networking test: Responsiveness = Medium (430 RPM)
Questions
1. Is this a known issue/regression with Xcode 26.2 + watchOS 26.2 tunneling (CoreDevice / devicectl)?
2. Is there an Apple-supported way to force Xcode to re-discover a paired Watch after it was removed from Xcode Devices & Simulators (without unpairing the Watch from the iPhone)?
3. Any recommended logs or diagnostic steps I should collect (Console logs, sysdiagnose, specific Xcode/CoreDevice logs) to include in a Feedback report?
If helpful, I can provide the full error text from Xcode’s Devices window and any logs you recommend.
Thank you in advance,
Hello everyone!
When I run UI Tests on Xcode Cloud, I often encounter unexpected failures. Checking the screen recording, I found that the iOS Simulator could go into a black screen with a white Apple logo and a progress bar for a period after the test starts. This behavior of the Simulator causes my app's UI Tests to fail randomly, which greatly affects the practical use of UI Tests.
I suspect this phenomenon is unrelated to my app and test cases, so I'm asking if anyone else has encountered a similar issue. 🤔
90714: Invalid binary. The app contains one or more corrupted binaries. Please rebuild the app and resubmit.
我开发的OC项目,三个月前打包分发还没有问题,半个月前开始就一直报这个错。查了很多资料都无法解决,所有的SDK也都升级了,还是报这个错,麻烦Apple的工程师帮忙指正一下问题,如何解决这个问题。
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
Tags:
iOS
App Store Connect
TestFlight
Developer Program
I use CMake for my builds not the XCode GUI.
I want to be able to build a single .app that contains both the GUI version and the command line version. I have seen products that ship both as part of the same .app (e.g. CMake) so this is clearly entirely possible, the 64k question is HOW?
Right now I am building them as separate apps - lets call them DSS and DSSCL (*).
The code base for each is in its own directory - each with its own CMakelists.txt file.
My initial thoughts are to change the build for DSSCL so it doesn't create a bundle and then simply copy the DSSCL command and related .qm files into DSS.app/.../MacOS.
However that's likely enough totally wrong, so how should I handle this please.
As much detail as possible please, I am very new to macOS development -please don't assume knowledge of stuff that's second nature to you
Many thanks
David
(*) Strictly they are DeepSkyStacker and DeepSkyStackerCL
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
General
Hello Team
I tried to enroll using the Apple Developer app on both my Mac and my iPhone and I keep getting the "Unknown error" please try again popup.
I'm on the latest macOS and iOS version, have everything in line to the requirements, but nothing seems to be working.
Can someone guide me if there's something I've not done right?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Apple Developer Program
Hi folks,
I've been having this issue for the last few months, where Xcode Cloud fails to resolve Swift package dependencies while compiling my builds, seemingly at random.
Some of my Xcode Cloud builds will fail after several minutes, with an error log looking like that :
xcodebuild: error: Could not resolve package dependencies: failed downloading 'https://dl.google.com/firebase/ios/bin/grpc/1.62.2/rc0/grpcpp.zip' which is required by binary target 'grpcpp': downloadError("The request timed out.")
Whenever this happens, I have to manually restart an Xcode Cloud build process (or several builds, since the error can happen multiple times in a row), to the point it's becoming increasingly painful to rely on Xcode Cloud for my workflow.
The failing packages are mostly random (meaning, it's not always the same one that Xcode fails to resolve), but they are always publicly accessible, even though I have an environment variable set in my Xcode workflows to retrieve a single Github private dependency (maybe this has some kind of importance).
Could anyone tell me if this is an isolated issue, or if I could do anything on my end to resolve this ?
Thank you !
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode Cloud
Tags:
Swift Packages
Continuous Integration
Xcode Cloud
I encountered this issue with an app I'm writing that accepts arguments. With some troubleshooting I've determined that this is an inherent behaviour in how Xcode 16 compiles SwiftUI apps and how macOS 15 launches them.
The issue:
Launching the app as open /Applications/AppName.app --args --arg1 --arg2 --arg3 etc should allow the app to process the arguments as CommandLine.arguments and this is still the case. How the app sees arguments is unchanged and doesn't matter if you use CommandLine.arguments or swift argument parser or don't have arguments at all. This will affect any SwiftUI app as I'll demonstrate below.
The problem is that if you use a mix of arguments as --arg value pairs or --arg as a flag, then depending on the order the arguments are provides, the app won't launch properly. The icon will appear in the dock but no window appears until you click the icon in the dock. (BTW, having "Application is agent (UIElement)" set to YES in the Info.plist makes this task rather difficult.)
In testing if you use all flags, it's fine. if the flags are in pairs, it's fine. if you have one flag and then a --arg value pair, you will see the issue. If you reverse the order so the flag is after then it works fine.
How to replicate:
On macOS 15 and Xcode 16
Open Xcode
Create a new macOS App (called demoapp in my example)
Select SwiftUI as the interface
Build
That it. Don't add anything and just build the boilerplate hello world app that Xcode makes for you. Once that's built, cd to your /Build/Products/Debug/ directory in terminal and try the following (this happens if you build for release as well):
note, the app window will display when you click the icon in the dock, just not on initial launch
# three single arguments
open ./demoapp.app --args --foo --bar --baz
# App window displays as expected
# one single argument, one arg value pair
open ./demoapp.app --args --foo --bar baz
# The app window will not appear.
# same arguments as before but the single argument is after the arg value pair
open ./demoapp.app --args --bar baz --foo
# App window displays as expected
# arg[1] without `-` or `--` prefix
open ./demoapp.app --args foo --bar --baz
# The app window will not appear.
# arg[1] and arg [2] without prefix
open ./demoapp.app --args foo bar --baz
# The app window will not appear.
# single - in front of the first two arguments
open ./demoapp.app --args -foo -bar baz
# The app window will not appear.
# single - in front of the first three arguments
open ./demoapp.app --args -foo -bar -baz bob
# App window displays as expected
No idea what is going on but I suspect macOS does some pre-processing before launching the app, for example you can do stuff like open /Applications/SomeApp.app --args -AppleLanguages '(de)' to run using a specific language. I presume the OS is pre-processing arguments before launching the app proper.
If I compile the app using Xcode 15.4 then this issue is not present. Also Apps compiled with Xcode 16 do not exhibit the issue on macOS 14 or earlier. It's a specific Xcode 16, macOS 15 thing in the way the app is compiled that makes it behave this way.
I hope I've explained it correctly, but it's very easy to replicate. I filed a feedback for it (under a different apple account), FB15577018.
Any insight into what's going on here would be helpful. Also if there's any compiler flags I could be setting. In my actual project, I'm not making any other changes. The same code compiled under Xcode 16 (.0 or .1RC) behaves differently to Xcode 15.4.
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Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
Hello,
We are experiencing a persistent issue where macOS builds in Xcode Cloud consistently hang at the Archive stage.
The build itself completes successfully, but no artifacts appear, and it seems the build gets stuck during artifact upload. These builds remain in this state for several days (currently 3 days and counting) not failing, but never finishing.
We opened a support ticket (102756662562), but we have not received any response yet.
We rely on Xcode Cloud for our entire CI/CD pipeline, and at the moment our workflow is completely blocked because of this issue.
Has anyone encountered something similar or found a workaround?
Thank you.
I tried to monitor the device's network status with Network framework code below.
let networkMonitor = NWPathMonitor(requiredInterfaceType: .cellular)
networkMonitor.pathUpdateHandler = { [weak self] path in
if path.status == .satisfied {
print("Cellular Satisfied")
} else {
print("Cellular Unsatisfied")
}
}
When I run the app in my iPhone(iOS 15.5) and turn cellular on/off, iPhone suddenly loses connection with XCode.
Lost connection to the debugger on “...'s iPhone”.
Domain: IDEDebugSessionErrorDomain
Code: 12
Recovery Suggestion: Restore the connection to “...'s iPhone” and run “...” again, or if “...” is still running, you can attach to it by selecting Debug > Attach to Process > ....
User Info: {
DVTErrorCreationDateKey = "2022-06-23 02:16:30 +0000";
IDERunOperationFailingWorker = DBGLLDBLauncher;
}
Analytics Event: com.apple.dt.IDERunOperationWorkerFinished : {
"device_model" = "iPhone13,2";
"device_osBuild" = "15.5 (19F77)";
"device_platform" = "com.apple.platform.iphoneos";
"launchSession_schemeCommand" = Run;
"launchSession_state" = 2;
"launchSession_targetArch" = arm64;
"operation_duration_ms" = 5861;
"operation_errorCode" = 12;
"operation_errorDomain" = IDEDebugSessionErrorDomain;
"operation_errorWorker" = DBGLLDBLauncher;
"operation_name" = IDEiPhoneRunOperationWorkerGroup;
"param_consoleMode" = 0;
"param_debugger_attachToExtensions" = 0;
"param_debugger_attachToXPC" = 1;
"param_debugger_type" = 5;
"param_destination_isProxy" = 0;
"param_destination_platform" = "com.apple.platform.iphoneos";
"param_diag_MainThreadChecker_stopOnIssue" = 0;
"param_diag_MallocStackLogging_enableDuringAttach" = 0;
"param_diag_MallocStackLogging_enableForXPC" = 1;
"param_diag_allowLocationSimulation" = 1;
"param_diag_gpu_frameCapture_enable" = 0;
"param_diag_gpu_shaderValidation_enable" = 0;
"param_diag_gpu_validation_enable" = 0;
"param_diag_memoryGraphOnResourceException" = 0;
"param_diag_queueDebugging_enable" = 1;
"param_diag_runtimeProfile_generate" = 0;
"param_diag_sanitizer_asan_enable" = 0;
"param_diag_sanitizer_tsan_enable" = 0;
"param_diag_sanitizer_tsan_stopOnIssue" = 0;
"param_diag_sanitizer_ubsan_stopOnIssue" = 0;
"param_diag_showNonLocalizedStrings" = 0;
"param_diag_viewDebugging_enabled" = 1;
"param_diag_viewDebugging_insertDylibOnLaunch" = 1;
"param_install_style" = 0;
"param_launcher_UID" = 2;
"param_launcher_allowDeviceSensorReplayData" = 0;
"param_launcher_kind" = 0;
"param_launcher_style" = 0;
"param_launcher_substyle" = 0;
"param_runnable_appExtensionHostRunMode" = 0;
"param_runnable_productType" = "com.apple.product-type.application";
"param_runnable_swiftVersion" = "5.6";
"param_runnable_type" = 2;
"param_testing_launchedForTesting" = 0;
"param_testing_suppressSimulatorApp" = 0;
"param_testing_usingCLI" = 0;
"sdk_canonicalName" = "iphoneos15.4";
"sdk_osVersion" = "15.4";
"sdk_variant" = iphoneos;
}
In my opinion, it seems like an error of XCode. Plz let me know if there's any solution.
Also, there's a similar issue here : https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/681459
Since upgrading my iPhone 13 Pro Max to iOS 26, apps have become nearly impossible to debug. The recent update to iOS 26.1 has made this even worse.
Going from app start to a fully rendered & responding screen takes <1 second on a Debug build when no debugger is attached, but with the debugger attached I get these times (measured manually with a stopwatch):
First render:
<1 second without debugger
5 seconds on USB debugger
30 seconds on wireless debugger
Data loaded from webserver and UI responding:
<1 second without debugger
19 seconds on USB debugger
5 minutes on wireless debugger!
Doing an online speed test reports 55 Mbps for the phone and 60 Mbps on the MacBook, so I doubt it's my WiFi.
Having a debugger attached used to make minimal difference on iOS 18, but the performance has tanked completely since the last major release. What happened?
Hi There,
I´m From Spain with an LLC Company in the USA.
Is a Disregarded company, the problem is that when I try to set up the paid apps agreement, Apple display the form W-9 instead of Form W8-BEN (that is for non-us resident)
My question is... is this right?
Under the name of my company, appear an option that ask me ...
"Who is the Beneficial Owner? "
You can choose between : Individual, Limited Liability - Disregarded Entity, Limited Liability - Partnership, Other...
I choose Limited Liability - Disregarded Entity
I m not sure if the form W-9 is the right for me because my other online business is about selling books on amazon and there the form that I m using is W8-BEN
When I try to enroll Apple Developer Program for a company, getting an error. "We are unable to process your request. An unknown error occurred."
Please, help me. What am i doing wrong?
I just noticed this today while building a React Native app.
Anybody else seen this and know what it means/how to track it down/how to fix it
Comments are not displayed correctly in Xcode 16. As you can see on the included screenshot, the first /// are displayed correctly but the remaining ////////////////////////// are super small.
In a programming text editor, like Xcode, all characters MUST be monospaced. Otherwise it is impossible to code. Xcode is not supposed to be a word processor.
There are no parameters to fix that. It was working fine for the past 15 years on Xcode. Please fix that so I can work again. And never do that ever again. Understood?
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Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
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Hi everyone. I have the following code that I am trying to execute in Xcode. I then install it on my iPhone. It doesn't run at all and I don't know why. Any thoughts?
Thank you.
import CoreMotion
class MyViewController: UIViewController {
let motionManager = CMMotionManager()
func startAccelerometer() {
if motionManager.isAccelerometerAvailable {
motionManager.accelerometerUpdateInterval = 0.1 // 10 updates per second
motionManager.startAccelerometerUpdates(to: .main) { (data, error) in
guard let accelerometerData = data else { return }
let x = accelerometerData.acceleration.x
let y = accelerometerData.acceleration.y
let z = accelerometerData.acceleration.z
// Process the x, y, and z acceleration values here
print("X: \(x), Y: \(y), Z: \(z)")
}
}
}
}
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
In previous versions of the simulator, it was possible to import files into the Files app by dragging them from the Finder into the Simulator. It appears that in the iOS 26 Simulator, this opens the file in Safari.
I've only tried it with .json files so far.
The documentation at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/sharing-data-with-simulator says that the original behaviour should happen:
To add files to Simulator, select one or more files in Finder on your Mac, then click the Share button. Select Simulator from the share destination list. Choose the simulated device from the drop-down list. Simulator opens the Files app, and lets you select where to save the files.
I'd love to learn if this is intentional behaviour, and if so, what workarounds there might be. I use this pattern quite a lot, as I have a HealthKit app, and I've built a system that allows me to export workouts as JSON files from a real device, that I can then import into a simulator for testing.
Edit: I found a workaround. Make a folder in Files.app, then search for it within ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices. Open the folder in Finder, then add any files you want to be available in the Simulator.