I'm trying to update my projects to use Swift6, if I change the project settings to use Swift6 then my app crashes when I add a closure to the SCNAnimation animationDidStop property. The error is inside the SceneKit renderingQueue and indicates that the callback is being called on the wring queue. Maybe I need to do something in the code to fix this but I can't seem to make it work, maybe a SceneKit bug? If you create a new game template in Xcode using SceneKit and replace the contents of GameViewController.swift with the following you will see the app crash after it is launched. import UIKit import SceneKit class GameViewController: UIViewController { let player: SCNAnimationPlayer = { let a = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "opacity") return SCNAnimationPlayer(animation: SCNAnimation(caAnimation: a)) }() override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let scnView = self.view as! SCNView scnView.scene = SCNScene() // Change the project settings to use Swift6 // Setting this closure will then cause a _dispatch_assert_queue_fail // EXC_BREAKPOINT error in the scenekit.renderingQueue.SCNView queue, // the only thing on the stack is: // "%sBlock was %sexpected to execute on queue [%s (%p)]" player.animation.animationDidStop = { (a: SCNAnimation, b: SCNAnimatable, c: Bool) in print("stopped") } scnView.scene?.rootNode.addAnimationPlayer(player, forKey: nil) player.play() } }

In my app I added an AppIcon in the Assets.xcassets folder. I added a any/dark/tinted version of the app icon, in 1024x1024 resolution as a HEIC file, specifying a "single size" iOS option. When I build and run the app in xcode16 beta on iOS18 the icon works as expected, but when I run the same app on iOS17 the icon just shows up as a black rectangle. How do I get the app icon to work correctly on both iOS18 and iOS17?

Do you have to compile your apps with Swift6 enabled to ship a production app when iOS18 is released?

In iOS18 the user can change their Home Screen customization to choose either light, dark, or tinted. If they choose tinted the widgets are rendered using the "accented" rendering mode and without a background. Is there some way to override so that the tinted mode is ignore completely and the widgets render as full color? I know about WidgetAccentedRenderingMode (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/widgetaccentedrenderingmode) but that's only for images, not the whole control and doesn't help with the background also being removed in the tinted mode.

If you set the display and brightness settings in iOS to be in dark mode, then the value returned in the colorScheme environment value: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/environmentvalues/colorscheme @Environment(.colorScheme) var colorScheme is always dark, even if you toggle between light or dark in the Home Screen customization option. Tinted is reported correctly. Is there some way to get the Home Screen customization light/dark/tinted value correctly? Swapping the Home Screen customization value between light/dark does swap between the light and dark app icon so it seems like the widget color scheme should also swap in this case.

Hi - I don't see anything in the documentation about which regions of the world the API will support e.g. US, Europe. I see there is an /api/v1/availability you can call but is there some rough guidelines around what areas are supported and which aren't. Thanks Mark.

How do you change the monthly plan? I don't see anywhere in the developer accounts pages to do it or in app store connect. The only things I see in developer accounts is a services list with a weatherkit item, but it just shows usage numbers, no option to upgrade to a different plan.

Is it possible to retrieve the sleep schedule wakeup and bedtime times using HealthKit? I can retrieve sleep analysis values, but I don't want the detailed data just the wake up and bedtime times the user has possibly specified in the health app, I can't see any way to retrieve those values. Thanks.

Is there a SceneKit equivalent of the HoverEffectComponent used in RealityKit to highlight an entity as the user looks around a scene in a VisionOS app?

I'm trying to load a localized string with a specific Locale, for example: String(localized: "someKey", locale: Locale(identifier: "fr")) However the locale I pass in is being ignored, no matter what I set it to the string returns a value using the Locale.current value not the parameter I pass in. Am I doing something wrong, is there some way to specify a certain locale?

If you create a custom shader you get access to a collection of uniform values, one is the uniforms::time() parameter which is defined as "the number of seconds that have elapsed since RealityKit began rendering the current scene" in this doc: https://developer.apple.com/metal/Metal-RealityKit-APIs.pdf Is there some way to get this value from Swift code? I want to animate a value in my shader based on the time so I need to get the starting time value so I can interpolate the animation offset from that point. If I create a System in the update() function I get a SceneUpdateContext instance and that has a deltaTime property but not an elapsedTime property which I would assume would map to the shader time() value.

I have DNG files that I want to open and show as EDR content in my app. It seems like the DNG files should have enough per pixel information to show more colors that Display P3 but whenever I load the images using CIRawFilter and then inspect the outputImage color space it is always "DisplayP3", not something like "ITU-R BT.2100 PQ" there doesn't seem to be any way to make it load with a different color space for displaying EDR images. Does this make sense for DNG files, it seems like it should? If I open the same file using CIImage with the expandToHDR option e.g. CIImage(contentsOf: rawURL, options: [.expandToHDR: true]) then it does have the desired EDR color space, but then I don't get any of the properties that are available via the CIRAWFilter class to manipulate the data. Basically I just want to be able to open the DNG file via CIRAWFilter and then display it in my SwiftUI app as an EDR image by adding the allowedDynamicRange(.high) property. Image("my-dng-image").allowedDynamicRange(.high) Or do DNG files (just RAW not ProRAW) not contain enough information to be displayed as EDR images, seems like they should.

In the iOS Photos app there is a caption field the user can write to. How can you write to this value from Swift when creating a photo? I see apps that do this, but there doesn't seem to be any official way to do this using the Photo library through PHAssetCreationRequest or PHAssetResourceCreationOptions or setting EXIF values, I tried settings a bunch of values there including IPTC values but nothing appears in the caption field in the iOS photos app. There must be some way to do it since I see other apps setting that value somehow after capturing a photo.

Hi - I have an auto-renew subscription, for some reason when the user looks at their subscriptions in the iOS subscription list the subscription shows the productId as the name e.g. com.company.app.subscriptonName not the localized string e.g. "Foo Monthly Subscription". I have other subscriptions and they all works as expected and show the localized name. The one that is showing the productId is configured the same as the others as far as I can tell, any reason why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks.

The documentation lists the number of calls per month you can make for the different pricing tiers here: https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/get-started/ but are there going to be any per second/minute/hour rate limits on calls to the API like with other weather service APIs. For example maybe you get 1,000,000 calls per month but there is some limit like 5 calls per second or 10,000 calls per hour imposed by the APIs? Also what happens if you go over your allowed call limit for the month, will the API just return an error like HTTP 402 or you will get a warning for a period of time? Would you be able to buy extra calls for the month without having to upgrade to a new tier, assuming maybe you are experiencing a temporary increase in traffic.