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Run UI tests on multiple devices in succession?
The new test report, with the automatic video recording and scrubber, is great. I'm setting up different configurations for different languages to improve localization testing, but I was wondering if it was possible to make the simulator device type part of the configuration. For example, I'd like to have a single test plan with an "iPhone 14" test plan, an "iPad Air" test plan, etc. Then I would just press Cmd-U, and Xcode would run through each device in sequence, leaving me with videos of each test run that I could review in the test report. Is that possible?
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Nov ’23
How do I resolve conflicts with SwiftData?
SwiftData includes support for CloudKit sync. However, I don't see any way to add conflict resolution behavior. For example, if different devices set different values for a field, or if a relationship is orphaned because of a deletion on another device, the application has to handle this somehow. In Core Data (which SwiftData wraps), you can handle this with the conflict resolution system (docs) and classes like NSMergePolicy. Is any of this accessible in SwiftData? If not, how do you deal with conflicts when syncing a SwiftData model with the cloud?
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May ’24
In iOS 26, the tab bar never disappears when new controller is pushed
In my app, I have a tab bar controller whose first tab is a navigation controller. Taking a certain action in that controller will push a new controller onto the navigation stack. The new controller has hidesBottomBarWhenPushed set to true, which hides the tab bar and shows the new controller's toolbar. It's worked like this for years. But in the iOS 26 simulator (I don't have the beta installed on any physical iPhones yet), when I tried this behavior in my app, I instead saw: the tab bar remained exactly where it was when I pushed the new controller the toolbar never appeared at all and all of its buttons were inaccessible If you set the deployment target to iOS 18 and run the code in an iOS 18 simulator: when you tap "Tap Me", the new controller is pushed onto the screen simultaneously, the tab bar hides and the second controller's toolbar appears. If you set the deployment target to iOS 26 and run the code in an iOS 26 simulator: when you tap "Tap Me", the new controller is pushed onto the screen the toolbar never appears and the tab bar remains unchanged after the push animation completes Is this a bug in the iOS 26 beta, or is it an intentional behavior change in how hidesBottomBarWhenPushed works in these cases? Below is sample code that reproduces the problem: class TabController: UIViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let button = UIButton(type: .roundedRect, primaryAction: UIAction(title: "Test Action") { action in let newController = SecondaryController() self.navigationController!.pushViewController(newController, animated: true) }) button.setTitle("Tap Me", for: .normal) button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false self.view.addSubview(button) NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ self.view.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: button.centerXAnchor), self.view.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: button.centerYAnchor), ]) } } class SecondaryController: UIViewController { override func loadView() { super.loadView() self.toolbarItems = [ UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(systemName: "plus"), style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil) ] } override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) { super.viewWillAppear(animated) self.navigationController?.isToolbarHidden = false } } class SceneDelegate: UIResponder, UIWindowSceneDelegate { var window: UIWindow? var tabController: UITabBarController? func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) { guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return } let tab1 = UITab(title: "Test 1", image: UIImage(systemName: "globe"), identifier: "test1") { _ in UINavigationController(rootViewController: TabController()) } let tab2 = UITab(title: "Test 2", image: UIImage(systemName: "globe"), identifier: "test2") { _ in UINavigationController(rootViewController: TabController()) } window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene) self.tabController = UITabBarController(tabs: [tab1, tab2]) self.window!.rootViewController = self.tabController self.window!.makeKeyAndVisible() } }
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Jul ’25
Does Foundation Models ever do off-device computation?
I want to use Foundation Models in a project, but I know my users will want to avoid environmentally intensive AI work in data centers. Does Foundation Models ever use Private Compute Cloud or any other kind of cloud-based AI system? I'd like to be able to assure my users that the LLM usage is relatively environmentally friendly. It would be great to be able to cite a specific Apple page explaining that Foundation Models work is always done locally. If there's any chance that work can be done in the cloud, is there a way to opt out of that?
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Oct ’25
Layer to SVG script
In the video ”Create Icons with Icon Composer”, the presenter mentions that Apple has created a layer-to-SVG script for Illustrator that‘s available for download: Once the artwork is in a good place, next we want to export the layers as SVGs. For every tool, this can look a bit different. For those using Illustrator, we've created a layer to SVG script that will automate this for you, which you can download. Exporting out the canvas size ensures everything drops right into position in Icon Composer. Here‘s the link to the mention: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/361/?time=377 I can’t find any place to get this script, and my designer is very interested in using it to import our Illustrator icon into Icon Composer. Can someone point me to it?
Topic: Design SubTopic: General
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Nov ’25
Potential Structural Swift Concurrency Issue: unsafeForcedSync called from Swift Concurrent context
I occasionally get this error in Xcode’s console: Potential Structural Swift Concurrency Issue: unsafeForcedSync called from Swift Concurrent context. What does this mean, and how can I resolve it? Googling it doesn’t turn up any results. This doesn't crash the app - it’s just an error diagnostic that I see in the Xcode console. The app keeps running before and after the issue. Is there a way I can set a breakpoint to catch this where it happens?
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Change to safe area logic on iOS 26
I have a few view controllers in a large UIKit application that previously started showing content right below the bottom of the top navigation toolbar. When testing the same code on iOS 26, these same views have their content extend under the navigation bar and toolbar. I was able to fix it with: if #available(iOS 26, *, *) { self.edgesForExtendedLayout = [.bottom] } when running on iOS 26. I also fixed one or two places where the main view was anchored to self.view.topAnchor instead of self.view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor. Although this seems to work, I wonder if this was an intended change in iOS 26 or just a temporary bug in the beta that will be resolved. Were changes made to the safe area and edgesForExtendedLayout logic in iOS 26? If so, is there a place I can see what the specific changes were, so I know my code is handling it properly? Thanks!
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit
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Nov ’25
How do I use async/await with NotificationCenter?
In the Meet AsyncSequence talk, there's a very cool use case that's shown in one of the slides - the new notifications property on NotificationCenter is an async sequence and the code sample does something like: let notification = await center.notifications(named: ....).first { ... } This seems really intriguing and useful to me but I had a few questions about the details of how this works: What is the type of notification in this snippet? A Task? Where would I store this value? What context should this be invoked in, especially if I want to have a long-running notification filter running that will remain active for the lifetime of the app? Basically, I'm curious to see an example of the code surrounding this snippet.
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Nov ’21