I have a List in a sidebar style which contains a LazyVGrid and a Section with a simple list contents. Every thing works well except when content increases and layout changes (from two columns to one column) for the LazyVGrid with editMode changing to .active ... LazyVGrid does not expand/resize when the content increases (the increased content gets clipped)...but does when user expands/folds on the section below :(. However LazyVGrid resizes to show the entire content when the content shrinks with editMode reverting to .inactive
Note: If I replace the List with a ScrollView...lazyVGrid resizes perfectly when content increases in editMode = .active....but then I would lose all the Sidebar and List characteristics for the Section below :(
Also, looks like .onMove is not supported in LazyVGrids
Any pointers to solve the LazyVGrid (embedded in a List) not resizing or expanding when content increases ... will be deeply appreciated.
var body: some View {
List {
LazyVGrid(columns: editMode?.wrappedValue == .active ? singleColumn : twoColumns, alignment: .leading, spacing: 10) {
ForEach(editMode?.wrappedValue == .active ? allDashItems : selectedDashItems) { dashitem in
DashItemCell(dashitem)
}
.onMove(perform: moveDashItem)
.environment(\.editMode, editMode)
}
Section(header: Text("Bottom Section")) {
ForEach (sectionList)	{ item in
ListItemCell(item)
}
.onDelete(perform: deleteFolder)
.onMove(perform: moveFolder)
}
}
.listStyle(SidebarListStyle())
}
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I am using a LayzVStack embedded into a ScrollView. The list items are fetched from a core data store by using a @FetchResult or I tested it also with the new @Query command coming with SwiftData.
The list has one hundred items 1, 2, 3, ..., 100.
The user scrolled the ScrollView so that items 50, 51, ... 60 are visible on screen.
Now new data will be fetched from the server and updates the CoreData or SwiftData model. When I add new items to the end of the list (e.g 101, 102, 103, ...) then the ScrollView is keeping its position.
Opposite to this when I add new items to the top (0, -1, -2, -3, ...) then the ScrollView scrolls down.
Is there a way with the new SwiftData and SwiftUI ScrollView modifiers to update my list model without scrolling like with UIKit where you can query and set the scroll offset pixel wise?
Hi folks,
I've used a NavigationSplitView within one of the tabs of my app since iOS 16, but with the new styling in iOS 18 the toolbar region looks odd. In other tabs using e.g. simple stacks, the toolbar buttons are horizontally in line with the new tab picker, but with NavigationSplitView, the toolbar leaves a lot of empty space at the top (see below). Is there anything I can do to adjust this, or alternatively, continue to use the old style?
Thanks!
unifieldFlexKeyboard[53102:24145174] [External] -[UIInputViewController needsInputModeSwitchKey] was called before a connection was established to the host application. This will produce an inaccurate result. Please make sure to call this after your primary view controller has been initialized.
hey
All of a sudden, after iOS 18.4 was released, I am having tons of navigation problems in my app in production. Buttons navigating to empty pages, views seeming to 'freeze', top navigation bar mismatched with the content of the page. It seems that iOS 18.4 broke a critical piece of UIKit + SwiftUI bridging functionality that my project relies on.
My application is written with both UIKit and SwiftUI components. Here is a breakdown of my setup:
UIApplicationDelegate >
UIWindow >
rootViewController of window is a UITabBarController >
each tab is a UINavigationController
rootViewController of nav controller is a UIHostingController >
rootView of the hosting controller is a SwiftUI View
In my SwiftUI views, I have been using NavigationLink for horizontal 'push' style navigation in my SwiftUI views. I do not use NavigationView, I only rely on the bridging capabilities of UINavigationController to action on my NavigationLinks. This has never been an issue, until iOS 18.4 was released. Now, when running iOS 18.4, I am having all sorts of unexpected behavior in the UI. I will break down 2 of these use cases here:
Use case A:
In one of my SwiftUI views, I have a ForEach for which each element's view is a NavigationLink. This is using the NavigationLink(_ destination:,label:) initializer. Navigating forward from here works/looks normal.
However, once I try to navigate backward from that destination (tap the 'Back' button in top left), the view goes blank and the navigation bar at the top of the page (which is maintained by the UINavigationController instance) does not change. If I call popToRootViewController on that nav controller, the navigation bar at the top of the page returns to its normal state, but the view is still blank.
It is not until after I have called popToRootViewController, and then navigate to a different tab of the UITabBarController and return to the initial tab, does the SwiftuI content view (the one with the ForEach) finally redraw and the view hierarchy is restored.
Here is a warning that is logged in the console when I tap the 'Back ' button:
Top view controller's view unexpectedly not in window for navigation transition. Skipping layout. nav = <UINavigationController: 0x1110bbe00>, topVC = <TtGC7SwiftUI19UIHostingControllerV5MyApp10MyPage: 0x106814e00>
EDIT: If I replace the NavigationLink with a call to UINavigationController.pushViewController, I am still seeing the exact same behavior. Pressing back button makes the view empty > need to pop to root view controller and switch tabs in order to restore the view.
Use case B
Another instance of this issue happens whenever I try to use a NavigationLink inside of a view that itself was the destination of a NavigationLink in its parent view (i.e.: Root view > detail view > sub-detail view). For example, take the detail view destination in use case A. I have tapped a NavigationLink from the ForEach and landed on the detail view. Again, so far things work/look normal. Now, if I tap on another NavigationLink from that detail view, the view does not transition to the new page. The top navigation bar does transition, and shows the title and actions associated with this second destination. However, the view of this second destination is not displayed.
It is worth noting that the same warning I mentioned above is also logged when I tap the NavigationLink to navigate to this second destination.
Top view controller's view unexpectedly not in window for navigation transition. Skipping layout. nav = <UINavigationController: 0x109859400>, topVC = <TtGC7SwiftUI19UIHostingControllerVVS_19BridgedPresentation8RootView: 0x300ab8000>
Strangely, if I switch to a different tab of the UITabBarController and back to the initial tab, this second destination's view is successfully rendered. It seems that switching tabs in this UITabBarController is calling something in either SwiftUI or UIKit that is redrawing my views.
Conclusion
This is a serious issue with UIKit + SwiftUI bridging support. I have never had problems like this until devices started running iOS 18.4, and there is nothing in the iOS 18.4 changelog that suggests this was an intentional change. All of a sudden, after updating to the latest iOS version, my app is totally broken.
I want to be clear that I'm not using deprecated NavigationLink methods in these instances. My app's minimum deployment target is iOS 16.
I know that there are more modern navigation APIs like navigation stack, etc. I am looking for answers about my use case: whether it is officially unsupported as of iOS 18.4, whether this setup should be supported and this is indeed some sort of bug in iOS, or anything in-between. I'm happy to provide formatted code if needed for discussion purposes. This is about my entire app's view hierarchy so there are a lot of disparate lines of code that make up this problem.
I have been playing around with the new AsyncImage Api in SwiftUI
I am using the initialiser that passes in a closure with the AsyncImagePhase, to view why an image may not load, when I looked at the error that is passed in if the phase is failure, the localised description of the error is "Cancelled" but this is happening before the view is being displayed.
I am loading these images in a list, I imagine I am probably doing something which is causing the system to decide to cancel the loading, but I cannot see what.
Are there any tips to investigate this further?
How can we performantly scroll to a target location using TextKit 2?
Hi everyone,
I'm building a custom text editor using TextKit 2 and would like to scroll to a target location efficiently. For instance, I would like to move to the end of a document seamlessly, similar to how users can do in standard text editors by using CMD + Down.
Background:
NSTextView and TextEdit on macOS can navigate to the end of large documents in milliseconds. However, after reading the documentation and experimenting with various ideas using TextKit 2's APIs, it's not clear how third-party developers are supposed to achieve this.
My Code:
Here's the code I use to move the selection to the end of the document and scroll the viewport to reveal the selection.
override func moveToEndOfDocument(_ sender: Any?) {
textLayoutManager.ensureLayout(for: textLayoutManager.documentRange)
let targetLocation = textLayoutManager.documentRange.endLocation
let beforeTargetLocation = textLayoutManager.location(targetLocation, offsetBy: -1)!
textLayoutManager.textViewportLayoutController.layoutViewport()
guard let textLayoutFragment = textLayoutManager.textLayoutFragment(for: beforeTargetLocation) else {
return
}
guard let textLineFragment = textLayoutFragment.textLineFragment(for: targetLocation, isUpstreamAffinity: true) else {
return
}
let lineFrame = textLayoutFragment.layoutFragmentFrame
let lineFragmentFrame = textLineFragment.typographicBounds.offsetBy(dx: 0, dy: lineFrame.minY)
scrollToVisible(lineFragmentFrame)
}
While this code works as intended, it is very inefficient because ensureLayout(_:) is incredibly expensive and can take seconds for large documents.
Issues Encountered:
In my attempts, I have come across the following two issues.
Estimated Frames: The frames of NSTextLayoutFragment and NSTextLineFragment are approximate and not precise enough for scrolling unless the text layout fragment has been fully laid out.
Laying out all text is expensive: The frames become accurate once NSTextLayoutManager's ensureLayout(for:) method has been called with a range covering the entire document. However, ensureLayout(for:) is resource-intensive and can take seconds for large documents. NSTextView, on the other hand, accomplishes the same scrolling to the end of a document in milliseconds.
I've tried using NSTextViewportLayoutController's relocateViewport(to:) without success. It's unclear to me whether this function is intended for a use case like mine. If it is, I would appreciate some guidance on its proper usage.
Configuration:
I'm testing on macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79), Swift (AppKit), Xcode 15.4 (15F31d).
I'm working on a multi-platform project written in AppKit and UIKit, so I'm looking for either a single solution that works in both AppKit and UIKit or two solutions, one for each UI framework.
Question:
How can third-party developers scroll to a target location, specifically the end of a document, performantly using TextKit 2?
Steps to Reproduce:
The issue can be reproduced using the example project (download from link below) by following these steps:
Open the example project.
Run the example app on a Mac. The example app shows an uneditable text view in a scroll view. The text view displays a long text.
Press the "Move to End of Document" toolbar item.
Notice that the text view has scrolled to the bottom, but this took several seconds (~3 seconds on my MacBook Pro 16-inch, 2021). The duration will be shown in Xcode's log.
You can open the ExampleTextView.swift file and find the implementation of moveToEndOfDocument(_:). Comment out line 84 where the ensureLayout(_:) is called, rerun the app, and then select "Move to End of Document" again. This time, you will notice that the text view moves fast but does not end up at the bottom of the document.
You may also open the large-file.json in the project, the same file that the example app displays, in TextEdit, and press CMD+Down to move to the end of the document. Notice that TextEdit does this in mere milliseconds.
Example Project:
The example project is located on GitHub:
https://github.com/simonbs/apple-developer-forums/tree/main/how-can-we-performantly-scroll-to-a-target-location-using-textkit-2
Any advice or guidance on how to achieve this with TextKit 2 would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Simon
I'm building a macOS app using SwiftUI and I recently updated to xcode 14.3. Since then I've been debugging why none of my animations were working, it turned out that the NavigationSplitView or NavigationStack are somehow interfering with all the animations from withAnimation to .transition() and everything in between.
Is anyone else experiencing this, knows a work around or knows why this is happening?
Okay I know, fill a bug... but here is a super simple app that will demostrate that the navigation bar chnages from Dark scheme to light scheme when you tap back after it goes to the second view.
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
NavigationStack {
NavigationLink {
Text("Tap back and notice the navigation title changes to black text instead of white")
.toolbarBackground(.visible, for: .navigationBar)
.toolbarBackground(Color.orange, for: .navigationBar)
.toolbarColorScheme(.dark, for: .navigationBar)
} label: {
VStack {
Text("First page is the sweetest")
}
.padding()
}
.navigationTitle("First Page")
.toolbarBackground(.visible, for: .navigationBar)
.toolbarBackground(Color.orange, for: .navigationBar)
.toolbarColorScheme(.dark, for: .navigationBar)
}
}
}
#Preview {
ContentView()
}
Adding environment value openURL or dismiss to a View in a NavigationStack, without even using it, causes an infinite refresh loop.
What doesn't work:
a)
struct ViewA: View {
@State private var path = NavigationPath()
var body: some View {
NavigationStack(path: $path) {
ViewB()
}
}
}
struct ViewB: View {
@Environment(\.openURL) var openURL
var body: some View {
NavigationLink("Next", value: 1)
.navigationDestination(for: Int.self, destination: itemView)
}
func itemView(_ item: Int) -> some View {
Text("Item \(item)")
}
}
Prints ViewB: _openURL changed. infinitely.
b) Passing the path to ViewB and appending the value with a Button
What works:
a)
.navigationDestination(for: Int.self) {
Text("Item \($0)")
}
Prints
ViewB: @self, @identity, _openURL changed.
ViewB: @self, _openURL changed.
ViewB: _openURL changed. (3 times)
b) Handling the destination on ViewA, which is not ideal for my use case.
Prints
ViewB: @self, @identity, _openURL changed.
ViewB: _openURL changed. (5 times)
While the workaround would work, it is still unclear how the environment value can cause the freeze (and eventual crash). Also that passing a function as parameter fails, while providing the destination in place does not. The code is stripped down to the minimal reproducible version. Any thoughts?
SwiftUI Popover Crash on iPad During Resizing in Stage Manager with Exception.
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Trying to layout popover in the delegate callback popoverPresentationController:willRepositionPopoverToRect:inView: will lead to recursion. Do not force the popover's container view or an ancestor to layout in this callback.'
(Occurred from iPadOS 18.1)
struct ContentView: View {
@State var showPopover: Bool = false
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text("Hello, world!")
Button(action: {
showPopover = true
}, label: {
Text("Open Popover")
})
}
.padding()
.popover(isPresented: $showPopover, attachmentAnchor: .point(.trailing), content: {
VStack {
Text("Popover Content")
}
})
}
}
My app is a SwiftUI document based app using DocumentGroupLaunchScene. In iOS(iPadOS) 18.4, when it launches, it has duplicate toolbar items, and when I close the current document and open other documents, it adds more duplicates. It also shows a wrong document name, which shows the first opened document name. This issue can be reproduced in the sample code (Building a document-based app with SwiftUI).
I have submitted Feedback (FB17025216), but not sure if this is a known bug or if I'm missing anything.
After updating to Sonoma, the following is logged in the Xcode console when an editable text field becomes key. This doesn't occur on any text field, but it seems to happen when the text field is within an NSPopover or an NSSavePanel.
ViewBridge to RemoteViewService Terminated: Error Domain=com.apple.ViewBridge Code=18 "(null)" UserInfo={com.apple.ViewBridge.error.hint=this process disconnected remote view controller -- benign unless unexpected, com.apple.ViewBridge.error.description=NSViewBridgeErrorCanceled}
What does this mean?
Topic:
UI Frameworks
SubTopic:
AppKit
When I update a variable inside my model that is marked @Transient, my view does not update with this change. Is this normal? If I update a non-transient variable inside the model at the same time that I update the transient one, then both changes are propagated to my view.
Here is an example of the model:
@Model public class WaterData {
public var target: Double = 3000
@Transient public var samples: [HKQuantitySample] = []
}
Updating samples only does not propagate to my view.
I'm using one UITabBarController which leads to 6 NavigationController. Therefore the user will get 4 icons displayed and one icon with three points to see the rest of the Navigation Controller.
If the user now tries to edit the list and moves one item from the hidden area towards the TabBar at the bottom, the App crashes with the error:
Exception
NSException * "Can't add self as subview" 0x0000600000d16040
I can see this effect at least on both my apps.
If the same compilation is run on a older iOS version, there is no crash.
Is there anything I have to take care of the configuration of the TabBar, when it comes to iOS26?
Topic:
UI Frameworks
SubTopic:
UIKit
In tvOS 18 the onMoveCommand is missing the first press after a view is loaded and every time the direction is changed. It also misses the first press on a button after a focus change. This appears to only impact the newer silver remote and not the older black remote or IR remotes.
With the code bellow press any direction 3 times and it will only log twice.
struct ButtonTest: View {
var body: some View {
VStack {
Button {
debugPrint("button 1")
} label: {
Text("Button 1")
}
Button {
debugPrint("button 2")
} label: {
Text("Button 2")
}
Button {
debugPrint("button 3")
} label: {
Text("Button 3")
}
}
.onMoveCommand(perform: { direction in
debugPrint("move \(direction)")
})
.padding()
}
}
Basic Information
Please provide a descriptive title for your feedback:
Sheet presentationDetents breaks after rapid open/dismiss cycles
Which platform is most relevant for your report?
iOS
Description
Steps to Reproduce:
Create a sheet with presentationDetents([.medium])
Rapidly perform these actions multiple times (usually 3-4 times):
a. Open the sheet
b. Immediately scroll down to dismiss
Open the sheet again
Observe that the sheet now appears at .large size, ignoring the .medium detent
Expected Result:
Sheet should consistently maintain .medium size regardless of how quickly
it is opened and dismissed.
Actual Result:
After rapid open/dismiss cycles, the sheet ignores .medium detent and
appears at .large size.
Reproduction Rate:
Occurs consistently after 3-4 rapid open/dismiss cycles
More likely to occur with faster open/dismiss actions
Configuration:
iOS 18
Xcode 16.0 (16A242d)
SwiftUI
Device: iPhone 14
Is there a way to display a .icon file in SwiftUI? I want to show the app icon in the app itself but exporting and including the app icon as a PNG feels redundant. This would consume a lot of unnecessary storage especially when including a lot of alternative app icons. There has to be a better way
Otherwise I would file a feedback for that
Thank you
I've been encountering significant issues with button responsiveness across my entire SwiftUI application after upgrading to iOS 18. While everything worked as expected on iOS 17, buttons across various views now sometimes fail to respond to initial taps and require a long press to trigger actions.
Here is a sample of a button within a toolbar, similar issues are occurring with other buttons throughout the app:
.toolbar {
ToolbarItem(placement: .topBarLeading) {
Button(action: {
DispatchQueue.main.async {
navigationCoordinator.pushScreen(.account)
}
}) {
Image("User")
.resizable()
.scaledToFit()
.frame(width: 24.5, height: 24.5)
}
}
}
Expected Behavior: All buttons in the application should respond to a simple tap without requiring additional user effort, maintaining consistency with their behavior on iOS 17.
Actual Behavior: On iOS 18, the responsiveness of buttons throughout the application is inconsistent; sometimes they react to a simple tap, and other times they only respond to a long press. This erratic behavior disrupts the user experience and hinders basic app functionality.
I am looking to understand whether this is a widespread issue with the new OS version and if there are any fixes or patches anticipated from Apple. Thank you for your assistance!
Topic:
UI Frameworks
SubTopic:
SwiftUI
All of a sudden, after iOS 18.4 was released, I am having tons of navigation problems in my app in production. Buttons navigating to empty pages, views seeming to 'freeze', top navigation bar mismatched with the content of the page. It seems that iOS 18.4 broke a critical piece of UIKit + SwiftUI bridging functionality that my project relies on.
** Originally posted in 'Core OS' topic but realized 'UI Frameworks > General' made more sense. My bad. **
My application is written with both UIKit and SwiftUI components. Here is a breakdown of my setup:
UIApplicationDelegate >
UIWindow >
rootViewController of window is a UITabBarController >
each tab is a UINavigationController
rootViewController of nav controller is a UIHostingController >
rootView of the hosting controller is a SwiftUI View
In my SwiftUI views, I have been using NavigationLink for horizontal 'push' style navigation in my SwiftUI views. I do not use NavigationView, I only rely on the bridging capabilities of UINavigationController to action on my NavigationLinks. This has never been an issue, until iOS 18.4 was released. Now, when running iOS 18.4, I am having all sorts of unexpected behavior in the UI. I will break down 2 of these use cases here:
Use case A:
In one of my SwiftUI views, I have a ForEach for which each element's view is a NavigationLink. This is using the NavigationLink(_ destination:,label:) initializer. Navigating forward from here works/looks normal.
However, once I try to navigate backward from that destination (tap the 'Back' button in top left), the view goes blank and the navigation bar at the top of the page (which is maintained by the UINavigationController instance) does not change. If I call popToRootViewController on that nav controller, the navigation bar at the top of the page returns to its normal state, but the view is still blank.
It is not until after I have called popToRootViewController, and then navigate to a different tab of the UITabBarController and return to the initial tab, does the SwiftuI content view (the one with the ForEach) finally redraw and the view hierarchy is restored.
Here is a warning that is logged in the console when I tap the 'Back ' button:
Top view controller's view unexpectedly not in window for navigation transition. Skipping layout. nav = <UINavigationController: 0x1110bbe00>, topVC = <TtGC7SwiftUI19UIHostingControllerV5MyApp10MyPage: 0x106814e00>
EDIT: If I replace the NavigationLink with a call to UINavigationController.pushViewController, I am still seeing the exact same behavior. Pressing back button makes the view empty > need to pop to root view controller and switch tabs in order to restore the view.
Use case B
Another instance of this issue happens whenever I try to use a NavigationLink inside of a view that itself was the destination of a NavigationLink in its parent view (i.e.: Root view > detail view > sub-detail view). For example, take the detail view destination in use case A. I have tapped a NavigationLink from the ForEach and landed on the detail view. Again, so far things work/look normal. Now, if I tap on another NavigationLink from that detail view, the view does not transition to the new page. The top navigation bar does transition, and shows the title and actions associated with this second destination. However, the view of this second destination is not displayed.
It is worth noting that the same warning I mentioned above is also logged when I tap the NavigationLink to navigate to this second destination.
Top view controller's view unexpectedly not in window for navigation transition. Skipping layout. nav = <UINavigationController: 0x109859400>, topVC = <TtGC7SwiftUI19UIHostingControllerVVS_19BridgedPresentation8RootView: 0x300ab8000>
Strangely, if I switch to a different tab of the UITabBarController and back to the initial tab, this second destination's view is successfully rendered. It seems that switching tabs in this UITabBarController is calling something in either SwiftUI or UIKit that is redrawing my views.
Conclusion
This is a serious issue with UIKit + SwiftUI bridging support. I have never had problems like this until devices started running iOS 18.4, and there is nothing in the iOS 18.4 changelog that suggests this was an intentional change. All of a sudden, after updating to the latest iOS version, my app is totally broken.
I want to be clear that I'm not using deprecated NavigationLink methods in these instances. My app's minimum deployment target is iOS 16.
I know that there are more modern navigation APIs like navigation stack, etc. I am looking for answers about my use case: whether it is officially unsupported as of iOS 18.4, whether this setup should be supported and this is indeed some sort of bug in iOS, or anything in-between. I'm happy to provide formatted code if needed for discussion purposes. This is about my entire app's view hierarchy so there are a lot of disparate lines of code that make up this problem.