Hi, I have a few extensions for my iOS app: Share Extension, Widget extensions, Notification Extensions, Today Extension, WatchKit app. My app and all the extensions share data by loading the same Core Data sqlite database from a shared folder. One problem I'm having with this setup is with a Core Data lightweight migration. On updating the app to the new database model, I would like my main app to first make a backup of the database before the migration runs. But one of the app extensions always seems to run before the main app, and ends up performing the lightweight migration on the database file before the main app has a chance to backup the database sqlite file. I can just prevent the lightweight migration from happening when an app extension loads the persistent store (and only do lightweight migrations from the main app), but it might end up in a situation with incompatible formats for the extension, so I'm looking for a sturdier solution. When an app is installed (or an update to the app is installed), is there a way to check and control the order of the extensions that is installed / loaded by the system? That would help control the problem.

Hi, I have recently noticed that it's taking my app a long time between the CKModifyOperations being 'completed' in the app, and for the record to actual show up through either looking at the CloudKit dashboard, or by using CKQueryOperations. The whole upload can take 10-15 minutes or more, from the time the CKOperation has completed to the time I can see all the records on the dashboard. The 'upload' seems to be happening in chunks ... for e.g. if I uploaded a 100 records, if I check after 2 minutes the query will show 20 records, and then 35-40 a bit later, and after 10+ minutes will show all 100 records (exact numbers vary of course). This was never an issue before, but has recently been reported by a couple of users of my app, and I need to know what's going on before it balloons into a big thing. And it's highly problematic, because it leads to users not being able to download the records that they uploaded on the first device. Is there something in CloudKit servers that have changed recently? Can someone in the CloudKit team take a look? I filed a Feedback, along with CloudKit profile logs: FB13537245 I can also reproduce the issue in production as well as development environments.

Hi, Is there some limit for how many recordIDs we can fetch in CKFetchRecordsOperation? There doesn't seem to be any batching or cursor support built in to the API. So if I pass in 5000 recordIDs, it'll work fine? Would love to get some confirmation either ways so I can better plan for it. Thanks!

Hi, I am building a List with a list of files saved in my app. I also want this to accept drops of multiple types of files (images, audio, PDFs, Excel, Pages etc) ... basically anything that be dragged-and-dropped from the iOS system or apps like Mail, iCloud Drive etc. I'm trying to find a good way to handle this. The best I've come across is adding the onInsert option to accept UTTypes, like this: List { ... } .onInsert(of: [UTType.data], perform: dropAction) But now I'm not sure how I can load the object that was dropped here. From some examples I've seen, If I registered the UTType.image instead, I could load it in the dropAction handler like this: item.loadObject(ofClass: UIImage.self) { image, _ in DispatchQueue.main.async { print("Image type dropped") } } But how does that work for 'data' types. Or am I supposed to list out all the data types separately?

Hi, I updated my iPad to iOS18 beta 1, and it seems to crash my app immediately, even though it's the App Store release version that's running fine on iOS17. The crash report points to some issue in NSManagedObjectContext performBlockAndWait: Thread 2 name: Dispatch queue: NSManagedObjectContext 0x303498000: CJCloudKitItemsUploaderQueue Thread 2 Crashed: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x1f1930254 __pthread_kill + 8 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x2285fcef8 pthread_kill + 268 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x1a9a76ad8 abort + 128 3 CJournal 0x105428818 0x104e28000 + 6293528 4 CJournal 0x1054261f4 0x104e28000 + 6283764 5 CoreFoundation 0x1a1c40a3c __handleUncaughtException + 660 6 libobjc.A.dylib 0x19eec8210 _objc_terminate() + 132 7 CJournal 0x1053f5ad0 0x104e28000 + 6085328 8 libc++abi.dylib 0x22852087c std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 16 9 libc++abi.dylib 0x228520820 std::terminate() + 108 10 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99bd174 _dispatch_client_callout + 40 11 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99cc7b8 _dispatch_lane_barrier_sync_invoke_and_complete + 56 12 CoreData 0x1a9c94a6c -[NSManagedObjectContext performBlockAndWait:] + 264 13 ContactsJournalDataKit 0x10643fb50 -[CJCloudKitModifyRecordsOperation createUnderlyingCKModifyRecordsOperationWithProcessList:withLimit:] + 408 14 ContactsJournalDataKit 0x10643f544 -[CJCloudKitModifyRecordsOperation main] + 848 15 Foundation 0x1a071e2e0 __NSOPERATION_IS_INVOKING_MAIN__ + 16 16 Foundation 0x1a071c530 -[NSOperation start] + 648 17 Foundation 0x1a07947a0 __NSOPERATIONQUEUE_IS_STARTING_AN_OPERATION__ + 16 18 Foundation 0x1a07943ec __NSOQSchedule_f + 172 19 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99cc350 _dispatch_block_async_invoke2 + 148 20 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99bd160 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 21 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99c0610 _dispatch_continuation_pop + 596 22 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99bfc40 _dispatch_async_redirect_invoke + 580 23 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99cedf4 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 392 24 libdispatch.dylib 0x1a99cf5f8 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 156 25 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x2285f9c40 _pthread_wqthread + 228 26 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x2285f6488 start_wqthread + 8 Can anyone shed some light on this? I haven't rebuilt the app with Xcode 16 yet, just wanted to run the App Store version and see if it's compatible without doing anything.

Hi, I am working on creating a EntityPropertyQuery for my App entity. I want the user to be able to use Shortcuts to search by a property in a related entity, but I'm struggling with how the syntax for that looks. I know the documentation for 'EntityPropertyQuery' suggests that this should be possible with a different initializer for the 'QueryProperty' that takes in a 'entityProvider' but I can't figure out how it works. For e.g. my CJPersonAppEntity has 'emails', which is of type CJEmailAppEntity, which has a property 'emailAddress'. I want the user to be able to find the 'person' by looking up an email address. When I try to provide this as a Property to filter by, inside CJPersonAppEntityQuery, but I get a syntax error: static var properties = QueryProperties { Property(\CJPersonEmailAppEntity.$emailAddress, entityProvider: { person in person.emails // error }) { EqualToComparator { NSPredicate(format: "emailAddress == %@", $0) } ContainsComparator { NSPredicate(format: "emailAddress CONTAINS %@", $0) } } } The error says "Cannot convert value of type '[CJPersonEmailAppEntity]' to closure result type 'CJPersonEmailAppEntity'" So it's not expecting an array, but an individual email item. But how do I provide that without running the predicate query that's specified in the closure? So I tried something like this , just returning something without worrying about correctness: Property(\CJPersonEmailAppEntity.$emailAddress, entityProvider: { person in person.emails.first ?? CJPersonEmailAppEntity() // satisfy compiler }) { EqualToComparator { NSPredicate(format: "emailAddress == %@", $0) } ContainsComparator { NSPredicate(format: "emailAddress CONTAINS %@", $0) } } and it built the app, but failed on another the step 'Extracting app intents metadata': error: Entity CJPersonAppEntity does not contain a property named emailAddress. Ensure that the property is wrapped with an @Property property wrapper So I'm not sure what the correct syntax for handling this case is, and I can't find any other examples of how it's done. Would love some feedback for this.

Hi, I am working with AppIntents, and have created an OpenIntent with a target using a MyAppContact AppEntity that I have created. This works fine when running from Shortcuts because it pops up a list of options from the 'suggestedEntities` method. But It doesn't work well when using with Siri. It invokes the AppIntent, but keeps repeatedly asking for the value of the 'target' entity, which you can't really pass in with voice. What's the workaround here? Can an OpenIntent be activated by voice as well?

I have a simple example of a List with multiple selection. When I run it on macOS, and select an item from the list, it works fine but I get a warning in the console: Publishing changes from within view updates is not allowed, this will cause undefined behavior Interestingly, it doesn't produce a purple 'issue' in the Issues navigator, but as I change selection, I keep getting this warning. Also, the warning doesn't show when running the same code on iOS. Here is code to reproduce it: struct TestListSelection: View { let testArray = [TestItem(itemValue: 1), TestItem(itemValue: 2), TestItem(itemValue: 3), TestItem(itemValue: 4)] @ObservedObject var listOptions: TestListViewModel var body: some View { List (selection: $listOptions.multipleSelection) { Section("Header") { ForEach (testArray, id: \.self) { item in Button { print("row tapped - \(item.itemValue)") } label: { VStack { HStack { Text(item.itemString) } } } .buttonStyle(.plain) } } } .listStyle(.plain) } } public struct TestItem: Identifiable, Hashable { public let id = UUID() let itemValue: Int var itemString: String { get { return "test \(itemValue)" } } } @MainActor public class TestListViewModel: NSObject, ObservableObject { @Published public var multipleSelection = Set<TestItem>() } I annotated the view model with @MainActor as suggested in other threads, but it doesn't silence the warning. If I move the multipleSelection into the view itself, and make it a @State variable (bypassing the viewModel completely), it works and doesn't produce a warning. But I need it work so I can pass in selection from the UIKit part of the app as well. I also can't migrate to @Observable because my main project has to support iOS15 and above. Any clue why this is happening on macOS specifically, and what I can do to avoid it?

Hi, A new "Featuring Nominations" workflow was introduced at WWDC24, to help nominate our apps to be potentially featured on the App Store. When is that expected to arrive? The WWDC video didn't mention any expected release dates. Would love to be able to use this for an upcoming update. Thanks.

Hi, With UIDocumentPickerViewController, there is a directoryURL property that says we can use to 'specify the starting directory for the document picker'. But it's not clear how to get the directory of a folder in iCloud Drive / Files app. How can I get the 'root' directory for a user's iCloud Drive or Dropbox folder, or the Downloads folder on their device, that I could pass to this directoryURL to make it easier for the user to pick their files? Thanks.

Hi, On macOS, there seems to be a NSTableViewDiffableDataSource and an NSCollectionViewDiffableDataSource, but there seems to be nothing for NSOutlineView. Is it possible to somehow use NSTableViewDiffableDataSource with NSOutlineView that I'm missing? If not, is it possible to use NSTableView with NSTableViewDiffableDataSource to show a 'table' with section headers?

I am trying to support dragging out a 'file' object from my app into Finder, on macOS. I have my object conform to Transferable and the files are saved on disk locally, so I just want to pass it the URL. This works fine when dragging out to other apps, like Notes or Mail, but not in Finder. I setup a ProxyRepresentation as well, as suggested by another thread, but it doesn't seem to help. Is there any other setup I need to do in the Xcode project file for it to work, or is there something else that I'm missing? @available(iOSApplicationExtension 17.0, macOSApplicationExtension 14.0, *) extension FileAttachments: Transferable { public static var transferRepresentation: some TransferRepresentation { FileRepresentation(exportedContentType: UTType.content) { content in SentTransferredFile(content.fullFileURL(), allowAccessingOriginalFile: false) } .exportingCondition { file in if let fileUTI = UTType(filenameExtension: file.fullFileURL().pathExtension), let fileURL = file.fullFileURL() { print("FileAttachments: FileRepresentation exportingCondition fileUTI: \(fileUTI) for file: \(fileURL)") return fileUTI.conforms(to: UTType.content) } return false } .suggestedFileName{$0.fileRenamedName} ProxyRepresentation { file in if let fileURL = file.fullFileURL() { print("FileAttachments: ProxyRepresentation returning file") return fileURL } return file.fullFileURL()! } } }

Hi, I have noticed a major change to a SwiftUI API behavior in iOS18.4beta1 which breaks my app's functionality, and I've started hearing from users running the new beta that the app doesn't correctly work for them anymore. The problem is with views that contain a List with multiple-selection, and the contextMenu API applied with the ‘primaryAction’ callback that is triggered when the user taps on a row. Previously, if the user tapped on a row, this callback was triggered with the 'selectedItems' showing the tapped item. With iOS18.4beta, the same callback is triggered with ‘selectedItems’ being empty. I have the code to demonstrate the problem: struct ListSelectionTestView: View { @State private var items: [TimedItem] = [ TimedItem(number: 1, timestamp: "2024-11-20 10:00"), TimedItem(number: 2, timestamp: "2024-11-20 11:00"), TimedItem(number: 3, timestamp: "2024-11-20 12:00") ] @State var selectedItems = Set<TimedItem.ID>() var body: some View { NavigationStack { List(selection: $selectedItems) { ForEach(items) { item in Text("Item \(item.number) - \(item.timestamp)") } } .contextMenu(forSelectionType: TimedItem.ID.self, menu: {_ in Button(action: { print("button called - count = \(selectedItems.count)") }) { Label("Add Item", systemImage: "square.and.pencil") } }, primaryAction: {_ in print("primaryAction called - count = \(selectedItems.count)") }) } } } struct TimedItem: Identifiable { let id = UUID() let number: Int let timestamp: String } #Preview { ListSelectionTestView() } Running the same code on iOS18.2, and tapping on a row will print this to the console: primaryAction called - count = 1 Running the same code on iOS18.4 beta1, and tapping on a row will print this to the console: primaryAction called - count = 0 So users who were previously selecting an item from the row, and then seeing expected behavior with the selected item, will now suddenly tap on a row and see nothing. My app's functionality relies on the user selecting an item from a list to see another detailed view with the selected item's contents, and it doesn't work anymore. This is a major regression issue. Please confirm and let me know. I have filed a feedback: FB16593120

Hi, I have an existing Mac app on the App Store with a couple of widgets as part of the app. I want to now add a new widget to the WidgetBundle. When I build the updated app with Xcode, and then run the updated app, the widgets list doesn't seem to get updated in Notification Center or in the WidgetKit Simulator. I do have the App Store version installed in the /Applications folder as well, so there might be some conflict. What's the trick to getting the widgets list to run the debug version?

I am working with a simple SwiftUI List and I want to enable functionality that allows files and images to be dropped onto the List from outside the app. There is an onInsert modifier with List that allows for this, but I found that it works on macOS, but not when running the same view on iOS. I have sample code that I can't seem to post on this forum because it keeps giving me a validation error about "This post contains sensitive language". Maybe this will work: Code to reproduce issue Is there anything I can do to make this work on iOS?