It is still broken running a SwiftUI app on OSX 15.7.2 developed using XCode 26.1

Thank you Ziqiao. One note for others, the open menu item cannot have a target set, like NSDocumentController.shared, or it won't work. Trying to set this up in applicationDidFinishLaunching was also incorrect.

I was able to solve this by overriding NSDocument override func updateChangeCount(_ change: NSDocument.ChangeType) { if change.rawValue & NSDocument.ChangeType.changeDiscardable.rawValue != 0 { return } super.updateChangeCount(change) }

If I manually create the Open Recent menu and add the item for the 'Clear Menu' it properly reflects the state of the list (which isn't appearing). If I clear it, the 'Clear Menu' button becomes disabled automatically - so the NSDocumentController is correctly finding the menu items, but it isn't populating the list.

I have a done a bit more diagnosis. The "Insert failed..." error in the previous message is caused when it tries to add a recent document that is mirrored in iCloud. If I use a file from a directory not mapped to iCloud I do not get the error, and the file appears in the dock's recent items. I still cannot get the File "Open Recent" menu to populate. I am using XCode 16.2 on OSX 15.3.2

Interestingly, the recently opened documents are appearing in the dock icon when I right-click (automatically) - and I can successfully open them from there, so I am baffled why the Open Recent menu is not working. edit: I notice though that the recent documents in the dock icon do not update - when I open a document and close it. I see the following error in the console: Insert failed for list identifier com.apple.LSSharedFileList.RecentDocuments Error: Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted" (Restricted by sandbox) UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Restricted by sandbox} but I don't see any sandbox entitlements that control this.

I needed to move to an NSDocument based solution to make all of this work.

a SwiftUI FileDocument doesn't expose the 'isBrowsingVersions' so the previous answer was the best I could manage. I had too many problems with SwiftUI DoucmentGroup that I needed to move to using a NSDocument based system.

So I compiled the app using the latest XCode, now when I run it, even on older OSX versions, it works as expected. This means that developing with SwiftUI, the behavior you get isn't tied to the OSX, it's tied to the compiler !!! That is unexpected, and honestly, kind of unbelievable.

The ScenePhase only seems to update on the last document opened, so it doesn't work properly. The only way I could make this work was by checking if the url passed in contains "com.apple.documentVersions". Kind of a hack, but it is the only thing that seemed to work reliably. Hopefully someone else has a better solution.

Not sure if this is correct, but the browse previous versions has the scene phase as background, and I can inspect this and create an alternate UI.

Sorry Apple for my delay in responding. I did not have notifications turned on. I do not have any 3rd party crash library in use - and certainly not linked. I incorrectly marked the answer as accepted. This is still an issue I'd like to understand.

Understood. I see the same behavior with Pages. I guess I'll need to add an 'Export To' instead. Thanks for your help.

Thank you for your help! Is there anyway, to have that menu option permanently available? (It is a very common operation in this app, and my original AppKit native version worked this way - this is my first SwiftUI app). The Save panel does not appear when I press Save - it does when I use Save As. It appears to be using "auto save" (I have another ticket asking how to disable this).

Did you every figure this out? Apple support is painful - I guess the only way to get a response is to file developer bug tickets.