Tab bar controller drag and drop order of items not working

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Hi I'm using Xcode 16.4 on a Mac mini m4 so please let's not get in the weeds about latest this or that for software, etc...

I'm trying to move one of the tab bar items in the controller, the home item, the the far left and I can grab it and drag it but it won't drop anywhere except where it exists. the other items won't move either.

I've googled this and not finding anything stating you have to do a key combo, etc... which I've tried the command, option and control keys each with the dragging.

Also the ability to actually select and item to drag it is extremely inconsistent, sometimes it grabs it and most of the time it doesn't.

do I need to just delete the connectors and add them back in the proper order? is that really the solution here?

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Pete4Dev OP

1w

Ok, so I went ahead and just recreated the connectors is the order I want them on the tab bar controller... I'm still not sure why the drag option, which appears to be there not only didn't work but was very sporadic in the UI, sometimes you can click and drag and other times nothing which I find to be quite uncharacteristic for Apple. My guess is that it's probably more me than them though, I'm probably missing something in this process... :)

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Answer 2

Claude31 OP

1w

I succeeded moving Xcode 16.4, MacMini, MacOS 15.6 (24G84):

Here is the initial tabbar

#1 Initial Tab.png

I click on the tabor in the TabBarController
it turns blue

#0 Blue bar 2025-08-12 à 22.45.25.png

I click on icon of item 1 and start dragging (I had to take care to hold the mouse pressed). A position caret appears (I cannot screenshot the caret) and icon starts to move and the other to rearrange

I move the caret (and the icon) to the desired position) and drop it

The icons are reordered

If that's OK, don't forget to close the thread on this answer ; otherwise please explain where it fails.

As you noticed, there is another way to do it, by creating the segues in desired order.

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