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.roundedCorners instead of .cornerRadius(?)
In WWDC 25's session Get to Know the Design system, Maria mentions that corner radius should match it's parent view or the iPhone's corners if its the outermost view. Rather than trying to figure out what number to pass into .cornerRadius(15), why not have a .roundedCorner modifier and have the system do this geometry work? See my feedback also FB17947241
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
UITextView's pressesBegan isn't triggered by the software keyboard
I'm building a SwiftUI app with a UITextView subclass, and it seems that the software keyboard doesn't trigger the pressesBegan or pressesEnded functions of UITextView. With a hardware keyboard, pressesBegan works as expected, allowing us to intercept key presses in our subclass. I can't find any documentation about this, or any other forum posts (here or on Stack Overflow) that talk about a discrepancy between software and hardware keyboard behaviors, and I can't believe this is an intended behavior. Our app is a SwiftUI app, in case that's relevant. Does anyone have any guidance? Is this a bug or am I not understanding this API? Any information or work arounds would be greatly appreciated. I've made a sample project that demonstrates this issue, which you can grab from GitHub at https://github.com/nyousefi/KeyPressSample. To see this in action, run the sample project and start pressing keys. The hardware keyboard will print the key press at the top of the screen (above the text view), while the software keyboard won't.
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May ’25
popover no longer anchoring
My old UIKit popovers are no longer anchoring to their sourceView and sourceRect. Started happening while testing on IPadOS 18.5 after updating to Xcode 16.4. Has anyone else had to fix this problem? Popovers now slide up from the bottom to the center of the screen.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit
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Jun ’25
Xcode 26 - New Swift 6.2 Concurrency Sendable Closure Problems
I'm running into a seemingly unsolvable compile problem with the new Xcode 26 and Swift 6.2. Here's the issue. I've got this code that was working before: NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({(context) -> Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 clipView.animator().setBoundsOrigin(p) }, completionHandler: { self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() }) It's very simple. The clipView is a scrollView.contentView, and "animated" is a bool, and p is an NSPoint It captures those things, scrolls the clip view (animating if needed) to the point, and then calls a method in self to signal that the animation has completed. I'm getting this error: Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents()' in a synchronous nonisolated context So, I don't understand why so many of my callbacks are getting this error now, when they worked before, but it is easy to solve. There's also an async variation of runAnimationGroup. So let's use that instead: Task { await NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({(context) -> Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 clipView.animator().setBoundsOrigin(p) }) self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() } So, when I do this, then I get a new error. Now it doesn't like the first enclosure. Which it was perfectly happy with before. Here's the error: Sending value of non-Sendable type '(NSAnimationContext) -> Void' risks causing data races Here are the various overloaded definitions of runAnimationGroup: open class func runAnimationGroup(_ changes: (NSAnimationContext) -> Void, completionHandler: (@Sendable () -> Void)? = nil) @available(macOS 10.7, *) open class func runAnimationGroup(_ changes: (NSAnimationContext) -> Void) async @available(macOS 10.12, *) open class func runAnimationGroup(_ changes: (NSAnimationContext) -> Void) The middle one is the one that I'm trying to use. The closure in this overload isn't marked sendable. But, lets try making it sendable now to appease the compiler, since that seems to be what the error is asking for: Task { await NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({ @Sendable (context) -> Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 clipView.animator().setBoundsOrigin(p) }) self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() } So now I get errors in the closure itself. There are 2 errors, only one of which is easy to get rid of. Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'animator()' in a synchronous nonisolated context Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'setBoundsOrigin' in a synchronous nonisolated context So I can get rid of that first error by capturing clipView.animator() outside of the closure and capturing the animator. But the second error, calling setBoundsOrigin(p) - I can't move that outside of the closure, because that is the thing I am animating! Further, any property you're going to me animating in runAnimationGroup is going to be isolated to the main actor. So now my code looks like this, and I'm stuck with this last error I can't eliminate: let animator = clipView.animator() Task { await NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({ @Sendable (context) -> Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 animator.setBoundsOrigin(p) }) self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() } Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'setBoundsOrigin' in a synchronous nonisolated context There's something that I am not understanding here that has changed about how it is treating closures. This whole thing is running synchronously on the main thread anyway, isn't it? It's being called from a MainActor context in one of my NSViews. I would expect the closure in runAnimationGroup would need to be isolated to the main actor, anyway, since any animatable property is going to be marked MainActor. How do I accomplish what I am trying to do here? One last note: There were some new settings introduced at WWDC that supposedly make this stuff simpler - "Approchable Concurrency". In this example, I didn't have that turned on. Turning it on and setting the default to MainActor does not seem to have solved this problem. (All it does is cause hundreds of new concurrency errors in other parts of my code that weren't there before!) This is the last new error in my code (without those settings), but I can't see any way around this one. It's basically the same error as the others I was getting (in the callback closures), except with those I could eliminate the closures by changing APIs.
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Jun ’25
PKPass Framework
I am trying to work with the data inside the barcode string in shared PKPass. The documentation shows that is should look for @property (nonatomic, readonly, nullable) PKBarcode *primaryBarcode; I have tried to use it like this guard let code = pass.primaryBarcode?.message else { return } I get a constant message that PKPass has no member primaryBarcode The PKPass.h file in my IOS SDK does not seem to include the @property primaryBarcode or @property barcode. I am running Xcode 16.4 (16F6) and my app target is 17.6 + Is there a restriction on this property? I cannot find an SDK later than mine - the App Store does not offer one. I am unsure of this is a public or private issue - does anyone know? Thanks for reading this. Max
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI lifecycle / CarPlay / data model
Is there a way to share a SwiftUI App's @Observable model into a CPTemplateApplicationSceneDelegate ? Is there an incantation to go from the UIApplicationDelegate via @UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor to the UISceneDelegate for CarPlay via a userInfo? I can't seem to figure it out. Otherwise I have to use a shared global, and I'd prefer not to have to do it this way. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Jun ’25
tabItem vs. Tab() — how to support iOS 17 and 18?
Hi, I'm adding tabs to the iOS version of my multiplatform app using TabView. I want the individual tabs to have names and icons. In iOS 17 and below, I have to do this using: tabContent().tabItem { Label(titleKey, systemImage: systemImage) } but this is deprecated, so in iOS 18 I would like to use the new version: Tab(titleKey, image: systemImage) { content() } It would be annoying to have to have the two cases for each individual tab, so I'm trying to abstract it into a custom SwiftUI view like this: var body: some View { if #available(iOS 18.0, *) { Tab(titleKey, image: systemImage) { content() } } else { content().tabItem { Label(titleKey, systemImage: systemImage) } } } There's a bit more to the custom view because I also have cases for iPad and macOS where I just have the views next to each other without tabs, but that's not really relevant to the question other than providing further motivation for abstracting this. However, with this code, I get the error: 'buildExpression' is unavailable: this expression does not conform to 'View' on the Tab line, because Tab isn't a view, and it can only be used directly inside a TabView. For now at least, I can just use tabItem on all iOS versions and it works, but I'd prefer not to in case it is removed some time soon. I do want to support iOS 17 because that's what my iPad runs. Is there any clean way to do this?
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May ’25
App displays wrong localized image
I have an image in the xcassets file which is localized for different languages. When setting App language to Traditional Chinese, it always displays the Simplified Chinese image. This happens on latest iOS 18.5 system, but not on a lower system version. The feedback assistant ID is FB17663546
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Jun ’25
Application crashes when using TextEditor(text, selection)
I have a TextEditor, to the constructor of which in addition to the text I pass an object of the TextSelection? type. I check on the Simulator with iOS 18.2. An attempt to clear the text leads to a crash with the message "Thread 1: Fatal error: String index is out of bounds" in Xcode. More about the error: libswiftCore.dylib`_swift_runtime_on_report: -> 0x194f32024 <+0>: ret More about the reproduction conditions: struct MyView: View { @Bindable private var viewModel = MyViewModel() @State var myTextSelection: TextSelection? = nil var body: some View { ZStack { // Some other code myEditor // Some other code } .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .primaryAction) { Button { viewModel.clear() } label: { Label("Clear", systemImage: "eraser") } } } } var myEditor: some View { ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) { TextEditor(text: $viewModel.text, selection: $myTextSelection) .disableAutocorrection(true) .autocapitalization(.sentences) } // Some other code } } MyViewModel: @Observable final class MyViewModel: ObservableObject { var text: String = "" func clear() { text = "" } }
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May ’25
App Name Display
For now, my app name length is more than 20 characters, so the iPhone app name displays without a space, and uses the range operator to ensure showing the rest in the next line. Is it possible to show space and name with 2 lines?
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May ’25
Bundling OSX installer plugin with productbuild/pkgbuild
I'm trying to create a .pkg installer with productbuild/pkgbuild. But I'd also like to add my custom installer plugin to this. I'm using the following script. I'd like to add my bundle into this script. Since there are no official docs from apple how to do this nor there are a lot of updated resources, here are some things I have tried. adding the following line to Distrubtion.xml <bundle id="pluginid" path="path/to/myplugin.bundle"/> adding component tag to pkgbuild also doesn't do anything --component "path/to/myplugin.bundle" The bundle itself is build with XCode - it is a simple UI for user to type some input in Apple provides documentation for Distribution.xml file, which supports different UI elements but doesn't support text input - docs I have been also looking at this tutorial , it is very outdated but i could still fit it to my needs except the part where the .bundle file needs to be inserted into .pkg. Note - there is no option to view the contents of .pkg file build with pkbuild/productbuild How can i do this process correctly? I would like to link my installer pane plugin to a generic .pkg(with licenses and so on). I'd appreciate any kind of help!
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May ’25
Checking the contents of a TextField variable method not working
Hoping someone can help me with this… The error is… Generic parameter ‘/‘ cannot be inferred. .multilineTextAlignment(.center) .onAppear(perform: { var checkFirstCardLatitude = cards.firstCardLatitude let charArray = Array(checkFirstCardLatitude) let allowed: [Character] = ["-", ".", "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"] for char in charArray { if char != allowed { cards.firstCardLatitude = "000.000000" // Reset Text Field } } })
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May ’25
Requesting user Permission for Speech Framework crashes visionOS simulator
When a new application runs on VisionOS 2.4 simulator and tries to access the Speech Framework, prompting a request for authorisation to use Speech Recognition, the application freezes. Using Swift 6. Report Identifier: FB17666252 @MainActor func checkAvailabilityAndPermissions() async { logger.debug("Checking speech recognition availability and permissions...") // 1. Verify that the speechRecognizer instance exists guard let recognizer = speechRecognizer else { logger.error("Speech recognizer is nil - speech recognition won't be available.") reportError(.configurationError(description: "Speech recognizer could not be created."), context: "checkAvailabilityAndPermissions") self.isAvailable = false return } // 2. Check recognizer availability (might change at runtime) if !recognizer.isAvailable { logger.error("Speech recognizer is not available for the current locale.") reportError(.configurationError(description: "Speech recognizer not available."), context: "checkAvailabilityAndPermissions") self.isAvailable = false return } logger.trace("Speech recognizer exists and is available.") // 3. Request Speech Recognition Authorization // IMPORTANT: Add `NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription` to Info.plist let speechAuthStatus = SFSpeechRecognizer.authorizationStatus() // FAILS HERE logger.debug("Current Speech Recognition authorization status: \(speechAuthStatus.rawValue)") if speechAuthStatus == .notDetermined { logger.info("Requesting speech recognition authorization...") // Use structured concurrency to wait for permission result let authStatus = await withCheckedContinuation { continuation in SFSpeechRecognizer.requestAuthorization { status in continuation.resume(returning: status) } } logger.debug("Received authorization status: \(authStatus.rawValue)") // Now handle the authorization result let speechAuthorized = (authStatus == .authorized) handleAuthorizationStatus(status: authStatus, type: "Speech Recognition") // If speech is granted, now check microphone if speechAuthorized { await checkMicrophonePermission() } } else { let speechAuthorized = (speechAuthStatus == .authorized) handleAuthorizationStatus(status: speechAuthStatus, type: "Speech Recognition") // If speech is already authorized, check microphone if speechAuthorized { await checkMicrophonePermission() } } }
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May ’25
Regarding ARKit camera feed zoom and macro support for closer object
I am currently developing an AR experience using ARKit with SceneKit and am looking to implement functionality that enables: Zooming into the AR camera feed, ideally leveraging the ultra-wide or telephoto lenses available on supported devices. Macro-style focus capabilities, allowing users to view and interact with virtual content closely aligned with small or nearby real-world objects (within a few centimeters). My objective is to ensure that ARKit continues to render the scene accurately while enabling a zoomed-in view or macro-level focus for better detail visibility and alignment. Could you please advise on: Whether ARKit currently supports camera zoom or allows access to macro or ultra-wide cameras within an ARSession. Limitations or considerations when using multi-camera setups in conjunction with ARKit. Any guidance or references to documentation or sample code would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Ayush
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May ’25
AreaMark Always alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea for linear gradients
I'm trying to make a Swift Chart where 24 AreaMarks an hour apart on X axis over a day display a vertical gradient. The gradient is vertical and is essentially [Color.opacity(0.1),Colour,Color.opacity(0.1] The idea here is where the upper and lower points of each AreaMark are the same or close to each other in the Y axis, the chart essentially displays a line, where they are far apart you get a nice fading vertical gradient. However, it seems that the .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea modifier is always set for AreaMarks even if manually applying it false. Investigating further, I've learnt that with AreaMarks in a series, Swift Charts seems to only listen to the first foreground style set in. I've created some sample code to demonstrate this. struct DemoChartView: View { var body: some View { Chart { AreaMark(x: .value("Time", Date().addingTimeInterval(0)), yStart: .value("1", 40), yEnd: .value("2", 60)) .foregroundStyle(LinearGradient(colors: [.pink, .teal], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)) .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) AreaMark(x: .value("Time", Date().addingTimeInterval(3600)), yStart: .value("1", 44), yEnd: .value("2", 58)) .foregroundStyle(LinearGradient(colors: [.orange, .yellow], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)) .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) AreaMark(x: .value("Time", Date().addingTimeInterval(03600*2)), yStart: .value("1", 50), yEnd: .value("2", 90)) .foregroundStyle(LinearGradient(colors: [.green, .blue], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)) .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) } } } Which produces this: So here, all the different .foregroundStyle LinearGradients are being ignored AND the .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) is also ignored - the amount of pink on the first mark is different to the second and third 🤷‍♂️ Has anyone encountered this. Are AreaMarks the correct choice or are they just not setup to create this type of data display. Thanks
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.roundedCorners instead of .cornerRadius(?)
In WWDC 25's session Get to Know the Design system, Maria mentions that corner radius should match it's parent view or the iPhone's corners if its the outermost view. Rather than trying to figure out what number to pass into .cornerRadius(15), why not have a .roundedCorner modifier and have the system do this geometry work? See my feedback also FB17947241
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
Understanding how to make focusedImage work on CPMapButton
When my CPMapButton is selected/focused, I would like to be able to provide a focusedImage to correctly show the button when the blue focus is shown. Currently I have: What do I need to do to create an image that works more like the panning interface buttons?
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Jun ’25
Reader Mode for new WebView & WebPage APIs
I am curious if the new WebView and WebPage APIs have a way to programmatically set if the web page should be shown in Reader Mode like you could with SFSafariViewController. I did not see a way to do this, but I'm curious if I may be missing something.
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Jun ’25
UITextView's pressesBegan isn't triggered by the software keyboard
I'm building a SwiftUI app with a UITextView subclass, and it seems that the software keyboard doesn't trigger the pressesBegan or pressesEnded functions of UITextView. With a hardware keyboard, pressesBegan works as expected, allowing us to intercept key presses in our subclass. I can't find any documentation about this, or any other forum posts (here or on Stack Overflow) that talk about a discrepancy between software and hardware keyboard behaviors, and I can't believe this is an intended behavior. Our app is a SwiftUI app, in case that's relevant. Does anyone have any guidance? Is this a bug or am I not understanding this API? Any information or work arounds would be greatly appreciated. I've made a sample project that demonstrates this issue, which you can grab from GitHub at https://github.com/nyousefi/KeyPressSample. To see this in action, run the sample project and start pressing keys. The hardware keyboard will print the key press at the top of the screen (above the text view), while the software keyboard won't.
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May ’25
.fullScreenCover does not work in iOS26
Basically when showing a view using the .fullScreenCover modifier, it has no background anymore, any other UI elements are still shown but the view under it is also still shown.
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Jun ’25
popover no longer anchoring
My old UIKit popovers are no longer anchoring to their sourceView and sourceRect. Started happening while testing on IPadOS 18.5 after updating to Xcode 16.4. Has anyone else had to fix this problem? Popovers now slide up from the bottom to the center of the screen.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit
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Jun ’25
Xcode 26 - New Swift 6.2 Concurrency Sendable Closure Problems
I'm running into a seemingly unsolvable compile problem with the new Xcode 26 and Swift 6.2. Here's the issue. I've got this code that was working before: NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({(context) -&gt; Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 clipView.animator().setBoundsOrigin(p) }, completionHandler: { self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() }) It's very simple. The clipView is a scrollView.contentView, and "animated" is a bool, and p is an NSPoint It captures those things, scrolls the clip view (animating if needed) to the point, and then calls a method in self to signal that the animation has completed. I'm getting this error: Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents()' in a synchronous nonisolated context So, I don't understand why so many of my callbacks are getting this error now, when they worked before, but it is easy to solve. There's also an async variation of runAnimationGroup. So let's use that instead: Task { await NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({(context) -&gt; Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 clipView.animator().setBoundsOrigin(p) }) self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() } So, when I do this, then I get a new error. Now it doesn't like the first enclosure. Which it was perfectly happy with before. Here's the error: Sending value of non-Sendable type '(NSAnimationContext) -&gt; Void' risks causing data races Here are the various overloaded definitions of runAnimationGroup: open class func runAnimationGroup(_ changes: (NSAnimationContext) -&gt; Void, completionHandler: (@Sendable () -&gt; Void)? = nil) @available(macOS 10.7, *) open class func runAnimationGroup(_ changes: (NSAnimationContext) -&gt; Void) async @available(macOS 10.12, *) open class func runAnimationGroup(_ changes: (NSAnimationContext) -&gt; Void) The middle one is the one that I'm trying to use. The closure in this overload isn't marked sendable. But, lets try making it sendable now to appease the compiler, since that seems to be what the error is asking for: Task { await NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({ @Sendable (context) -&gt; Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 clipView.animator().setBoundsOrigin(p) }) self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() } So now I get errors in the closure itself. There are 2 errors, only one of which is easy to get rid of. Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'animator()' in a synchronous nonisolated context Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'setBoundsOrigin' in a synchronous nonisolated context So I can get rid of that first error by capturing clipView.animator() outside of the closure and capturing the animator. But the second error, calling setBoundsOrigin(p) - I can't move that outside of the closure, because that is the thing I am animating! Further, any property you're going to me animating in runAnimationGroup is going to be isolated to the main actor. So now my code looks like this, and I'm stuck with this last error I can't eliminate: let animator = clipView.animator() Task { await NSAnimationContext.runAnimationGroup({ @Sendable (context) -&gt; Void in context.duration = animated ? 0.5 : 0 animator.setBoundsOrigin(p) }) self.endIgnoreFrameChangeEvents() } Call to main actor-isolated instance method 'setBoundsOrigin' in a synchronous nonisolated context There's something that I am not understanding here that has changed about how it is treating closures. This whole thing is running synchronously on the main thread anyway, isn't it? It's being called from a MainActor context in one of my NSViews. I would expect the closure in runAnimationGroup would need to be isolated to the main actor, anyway, since any animatable property is going to be marked MainActor. How do I accomplish what I am trying to do here? One last note: There were some new settings introduced at WWDC that supposedly make this stuff simpler - "Approchable Concurrency". In this example, I didn't have that turned on. Turning it on and setting the default to MainActor does not seem to have solved this problem. (All it does is cause hundreds of new concurrency errors in other parts of my code that weren't there before!) This is the last new error in my code (without those settings), but I can't see any way around this one. It's basically the same error as the others I was getting (in the callback closures), except with those I could eliminate the closures by changing APIs.
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Jun ’25
Using Camera in ASWebAuthenticationSession
Is is possible to use the camera in ASWebAuthenticationSession? We want to support signing in with a QR Code in our custom OAuth flow but the browser can't seem to access the camera.
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May ’25
Does UIDesignRequiresCompatibility require being compiled against iOS SDK 26 to take effect?
We currently do not have the time to redesign our apps. Therefore we want to use the new UIDesignRequiresCompatibility flag and set it to YES. If we add this flag to our app and compile it against an old sdk (currently we use 15) will this be enough to work after iOS 26 was released or do we need to compile the apps against the iOS 26 SDK to work?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit
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Jun ’25
PKPass Framework
I am trying to work with the data inside the barcode string in shared PKPass. The documentation shows that is should look for @property (nonatomic, readonly, nullable) PKBarcode *primaryBarcode; I have tried to use it like this guard let code = pass.primaryBarcode?.message else { return } I get a constant message that PKPass has no member primaryBarcode The PKPass.h file in my IOS SDK does not seem to include the @property primaryBarcode or @property barcode. I am running Xcode 16.4 (16F6) and my app target is 17.6 + Is there a restriction on this property? I cannot find an SDK later than mine - the App Store does not offer one. I am unsure of this is a public or private issue - does anyone know? Thanks for reading this. Max
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI lifecycle / CarPlay / data model
Is there a way to share a SwiftUI App's @Observable model into a CPTemplateApplicationSceneDelegate ? Is there an incantation to go from the UIApplicationDelegate via @UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor to the UISceneDelegate for CarPlay via a userInfo? I can't seem to figure it out. Otherwise I have to use a shared global, and I'd prefer not to have to do it this way. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Jun ’25
tabItem vs. Tab() — how to support iOS 17 and 18?
Hi, I'm adding tabs to the iOS version of my multiplatform app using TabView. I want the individual tabs to have names and icons. In iOS 17 and below, I have to do this using: tabContent().tabItem { Label(titleKey, systemImage: systemImage) } but this is deprecated, so in iOS 18 I would like to use the new version: Tab(titleKey, image: systemImage) { content() } It would be annoying to have to have the two cases for each individual tab, so I'm trying to abstract it into a custom SwiftUI view like this: var body: some View { if #available(iOS 18.0, *) { Tab(titleKey, image: systemImage) { content() } } else { content().tabItem { Label(titleKey, systemImage: systemImage) } } } There's a bit more to the custom view because I also have cases for iPad and macOS where I just have the views next to each other without tabs, but that's not really relevant to the question other than providing further motivation for abstracting this. However, with this code, I get the error: 'buildExpression' is unavailable: this expression does not conform to 'View' on the Tab line, because Tab isn't a view, and it can only be used directly inside a TabView. For now at least, I can just use tabItem on all iOS versions and it works, but I'd prefer not to in case it is removed some time soon. I do want to support iOS 17 because that's what my iPad runs. Is there any clean way to do this?
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May ’25
App displays wrong localized image
I have an image in the xcassets file which is localized for different languages. When setting App language to Traditional Chinese, it always displays the Simplified Chinese image. This happens on latest iOS 18.5 system, but not on a lower system version. The feedback assistant ID is FB17663546
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Jun ’25
Application crashes when using TextEditor(text, selection)
I have a TextEditor, to the constructor of which in addition to the text I pass an object of the TextSelection? type. I check on the Simulator with iOS 18.2. An attempt to clear the text leads to a crash with the message "Thread 1: Fatal error: String index is out of bounds" in Xcode. More about the error: libswiftCore.dylib`_swift_runtime_on_report: -> 0x194f32024 <+0>: ret More about the reproduction conditions: struct MyView: View { @Bindable private var viewModel = MyViewModel() @State var myTextSelection: TextSelection? = nil var body: some View { ZStack { // Some other code myEditor // Some other code } .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .primaryAction) { Button { viewModel.clear() } label: { Label("Clear", systemImage: "eraser") } } } } var myEditor: some View { ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) { TextEditor(text: $viewModel.text, selection: $myTextSelection) .disableAutocorrection(true) .autocapitalization(.sentences) } // Some other code } } MyViewModel: @Observable final class MyViewModel: ObservableObject { var text: String = "" func clear() { text = "" } }
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May ’25
App Name Display
For now, my app name length is more than 20 characters, so the iPhone app name displays without a space, and uses the range operator to ensure showing the rest in the next line. Is it possible to show space and name with 2 lines?
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May ’25
Bundling OSX installer plugin with productbuild/pkgbuild
I'm trying to create a .pkg installer with productbuild/pkgbuild. But I'd also like to add my custom installer plugin to this. I'm using the following script. I'd like to add my bundle into this script. Since there are no official docs from apple how to do this nor there are a lot of updated resources, here are some things I have tried. adding the following line to Distrubtion.xml <bundle id="pluginid" path="path/to/myplugin.bundle"/> adding component tag to pkgbuild also doesn't do anything --component "path/to/myplugin.bundle" The bundle itself is build with XCode - it is a simple UI for user to type some input in Apple provides documentation for Distribution.xml file, which supports different UI elements but doesn't support text input - docs I have been also looking at this tutorial , it is very outdated but i could still fit it to my needs except the part where the .bundle file needs to be inserted into .pkg. Note - there is no option to view the contents of .pkg file build with pkbuild/productbuild How can i do this process correctly? I would like to link my installer pane plugin to a generic .pkg(with licenses and so on). I'd appreciate any kind of help!
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May ’25
Checking the contents of a TextField variable method not working
Hoping someone can help me with this… The error is… Generic parameter ‘/‘ cannot be inferred. .multilineTextAlignment(.center) .onAppear(perform: { var checkFirstCardLatitude = cards.firstCardLatitude let charArray = Array(checkFirstCardLatitude) let allowed: [Character] = ["-", ".", "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"] for char in charArray { if char != allowed { cards.firstCardLatitude = "000.000000" // Reset Text Field } } })
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May ’25
Requesting user Permission for Speech Framework crashes visionOS simulator
When a new application runs on VisionOS 2.4 simulator and tries to access the Speech Framework, prompting a request for authorisation to use Speech Recognition, the application freezes. Using Swift 6. Report Identifier: FB17666252 @MainActor func checkAvailabilityAndPermissions() async { logger.debug("Checking speech recognition availability and permissions...") // 1. Verify that the speechRecognizer instance exists guard let recognizer = speechRecognizer else { logger.error("Speech recognizer is nil - speech recognition won't be available.") reportError(.configurationError(description: "Speech recognizer could not be created."), context: "checkAvailabilityAndPermissions") self.isAvailable = false return } // 2. Check recognizer availability (might change at runtime) if !recognizer.isAvailable { logger.error("Speech recognizer is not available for the current locale.") reportError(.configurationError(description: "Speech recognizer not available."), context: "checkAvailabilityAndPermissions") self.isAvailable = false return } logger.trace("Speech recognizer exists and is available.") // 3. Request Speech Recognition Authorization // IMPORTANT: Add `NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription` to Info.plist let speechAuthStatus = SFSpeechRecognizer.authorizationStatus() // FAILS HERE logger.debug("Current Speech Recognition authorization status: \(speechAuthStatus.rawValue)") if speechAuthStatus == .notDetermined { logger.info("Requesting speech recognition authorization...") // Use structured concurrency to wait for permission result let authStatus = await withCheckedContinuation { continuation in SFSpeechRecognizer.requestAuthorization { status in continuation.resume(returning: status) } } logger.debug("Received authorization status: \(authStatus.rawValue)") // Now handle the authorization result let speechAuthorized = (authStatus == .authorized) handleAuthorizationStatus(status: authStatus, type: "Speech Recognition") // If speech is granted, now check microphone if speechAuthorized { await checkMicrophonePermission() } } else { let speechAuthorized = (speechAuthStatus == .authorized) handleAuthorizationStatus(status: speechAuthStatus, type: "Speech Recognition") // If speech is already authorized, check microphone if speechAuthorized { await checkMicrophonePermission() } } }
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May ’25
Regarding ARKit camera feed zoom and macro support for closer object
I am currently developing an AR experience using ARKit with SceneKit and am looking to implement functionality that enables: Zooming into the AR camera feed, ideally leveraging the ultra-wide or telephoto lenses available on supported devices. Macro-style focus capabilities, allowing users to view and interact with virtual content closely aligned with small or nearby real-world objects (within a few centimeters). My objective is to ensure that ARKit continues to render the scene accurately while enabling a zoomed-in view or macro-level focus for better detail visibility and alignment. Could you please advise on: Whether ARKit currently supports camera zoom or allows access to macro or ultra-wide cameras within an ARSession. Limitations or considerations when using multi-camera setups in conjunction with ARKit. Any guidance or references to documentation or sample code would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Ayush
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May ’25
AreaMark Always alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea for linear gradients
I'm trying to make a Swift Chart where 24 AreaMarks an hour apart on X axis over a day display a vertical gradient. The gradient is vertical and is essentially [Color.opacity(0.1),Colour,Color.opacity(0.1] The idea here is where the upper and lower points of each AreaMark are the same or close to each other in the Y axis, the chart essentially displays a line, where they are far apart you get a nice fading vertical gradient. However, it seems that the .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea modifier is always set for AreaMarks even if manually applying it false. Investigating further, I've learnt that with AreaMarks in a series, Swift Charts seems to only listen to the first foreground style set in. I've created some sample code to demonstrate this. struct DemoChartView: View { var body: some View { Chart { AreaMark(x: .value("Time", Date().addingTimeInterval(0)), yStart: .value("1", 40), yEnd: .value("2", 60)) .foregroundStyle(LinearGradient(colors: [.pink, .teal], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)) .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) AreaMark(x: .value("Time", Date().addingTimeInterval(3600)), yStart: .value("1", 44), yEnd: .value("2", 58)) .foregroundStyle(LinearGradient(colors: [.orange, .yellow], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)) .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) AreaMark(x: .value("Time", Date().addingTimeInterval(03600*2)), yStart: .value("1", 50), yEnd: .value("2", 90)) .foregroundStyle(LinearGradient(colors: [.green, .blue], startPoint: .top, endPoint: .bottom)) .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) } } } Which produces this: So here, all the different .foregroundStyle LinearGradients are being ignored AND the .alignsMarkStylesWithPlotArea(false) is also ignored - the amount of pink on the first mark is different to the second and third 🤷‍♂️ Has anyone encountered this. Are AreaMarks the correct choice or are they just not setup to create this type of data display. Thanks
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Jun ’25