I am running into some issues when trying to destroy CoreData persistentStores. When a user logs out of my app, I want to completely reset CoreData and delete any existing data. My code to reset CoreData looks like this:
let coordinator = self.persistentContainer.persistentStoreCoordinator
self.persistentContainer.viewContext.reset()
coordinator.persistentStores.forEach { store in
guard let url = store.url else { return }
do {
try coordinator.destroyPersistentStore(at: url, type: .sqlite)
_ = try coordinator.addPersistentStore(ofType: NSSQLiteStoreType, configurationName: nil, at: url)
} catch {
print(error)
}
}
However, my app is crashing with
Object 0xb2b5cc80445813de <x-coredata://BDB999D4-49A4-4CB3-AC3A-666AD60BEFC6/AccountEntity/p5> persistent store is not reachable from this NSManagedObjectContext's coordinator
It seems this is related to the SwiftUI @FetchRequest wrappers. If I do not open the views where I am using @FetchRequest, the logout goes smoothly. Otherwise, I get the crash above.
Has anyone run into anything similar? Is there something else I need to do to get the underlying FRC to release its references to those entities? I was under the impression that calling reset() on the managed object context would be enough to remove those items from memory and get the destroying of the persistent store to go smoothly.
Alternately, is there another/better way I should be destroying the DB?
Any advice or related observations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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After a recent iOS update, my app is not synching between devices. I'm not seeing or getting any errors. CLoudKit Logs show activity, but it's not happening realtime. Even if I close and reopen the app, it won't sync between devices. It almost looks like it only has local storage now and CloudKit is not working on it anymore.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Use app on two devices with the same Apple ID. Create a user and one device and it won't show up on the other device. Vice Versa.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
iCloud & Data
Does anyone have this error and my app can't be searched in the Apple Store
Hi all, I've contacted Apple about this privately but I wanted to post this publicly too just to see if anyone else is experiencing the same issue. We use CloudKit to store "documents" (we'll call them) for our users. We use it directly, not via CoreData etc but through the lower level APIs.
This has been working great for the last 9 months or so. Since a few days ago we've started receiving reports from users that their data has disappeared without a trace from their app. Obviously this is very serious and severe for us. We keep a local copy of the users data but if CloudKit tells us this data has been deleted we remove that local copy to keep in sync.
Nothing has changed client side in terms of our code, and the only way we can see that could cause this, is a fetch that we perform asking for a list of the users "documents" is returning no rows/results, or possibly returning rows with invalid or missing fields.
We have about 30,000 active users per day (1.5m requests/day) using CloudKit and we have only a handful of reports of this. Again this only started happening this week after 9 months of good service.
Has anyone else noticed anything "strange" lately, fetches returning empty? fields missing? Is anyone at Apple aware of any recent changes to CloudKit? or outages? We're really unsure how or who should handle this and who we can escalate to? Any help appreciated.
We have a workaround/mitigation on the way through review at the moment but this is a really big problem for us if we can't rely on CloudKit to remember users data reliably.
I'm running into an undocumented error coming back from CloudKit operations.
Specifically, I'm attempting to save new records via CKModifyRecordsOperation. I'm receiving this error for each of the records in the perRecordSaveBlock callback:
<CKError 0x3018ac3c0: "Internal Error" (1/3001); "MMCSEngineCreate failed">
Is anyone else facing this error? It has been happening for several days and I'm finally getting around to reproduction with the Console app and logs. I have 16 records on my device locally that each one gets this error back.
FB16547732 - CloudKit: CKModifyRecordsOperation saving new records results in Error <CKError 0x3018ac1e0: "Internal Error" (1/3001); "MMCSEngineCreate failed">
Swift recently added support for Int128. However, they do need NOT seem to be supported in SwiftData. Now totally possible I'm doing something wrong too.
I have the project set to macOS 15 to use a UInt128 in @Model class as attribute. I tried using a clean Xcode project with Swift Data choosen in the macOS app wizard.
Everything compiles, but it fails at runtime in both my app and "Xcode default" SwiftData:
SwiftData/SchemaProperty.swift:380: Fatal error: Unexpected property within Persisted Struct/Enum: Builtin.Int128
with the only modification to from stock is:
@Model
final class Item {
var timestamp: Date
var ipv6: UInt128
init(timestamp: Date) {
self.timestamp = timestamp
self.ipv6 = 0
}
}
I have tried both Int128 and UInt128. Both fails exactly the same. In fact, so exactly, when using UInt128 it still show a "Int128" in error message, despite class member being UInt128 .
My underlying need is to store an IPv6 addresses with an app, so the newer UInt128 would work to persist it. Since Network Framework IPv6Address is also not compatible, it seems, with SwiftData. So not a lot of good options, other an a String. But for an IPv6 address that suffers from that same address can take a few String forms (i.e. "0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000" =="0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0" == "::") which is more annoying than having a few expand Int128 as String separator ":".
Ideas welcomed. But potentially a bug in SwiftData since Int128 is both a Builtin and conforms to Codable, so from my reading it should work.
HI,
swiftdata is new to me and any help would be appreciated.
In my swiftui app I have a functionality that reinstates the database from an archive.
I first move the three database files (database.store datebase.store-wal and database.store-shm) to a new name (.tmp added for backup incase) and then copy the Archived three files to the same location.
the move creates the following errors:
" BUG IN CLIENT OF libsqlite3.dylib: database integrity compromised by API violation: vnode renamed while in use: /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store.tmp
invalidated open fd: 4 (0x20)"
I get the same message in console for all three files.
then I reinitialise the model container and get no errors as my code below
....
let schema = Schema([....my different models are here])
let config = ModelConfiguration("database", schema: schema)
do {
// Recreate the container with the same store URL
let container = try ModelContainer(for: schema, configurations: config)
print("ModelContainer reinitialized successfully!")
} catch {
print("Failed to reinitialize ModelContainer: (error)")
}
}
I get the success message but when I leave the view (backup-restore view) to the main view I get:
CoreData: error: (6922) I/O error for database at /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store. SQLite error code:6922, 'disk I/O error'
and
error: SQLCore dispatchRequest: exception handling request: <NSSQLFetchRequestContext: 0x302920460> , I/O error for database at /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store. SQLite error code:6922, 'disk I/O error' with userInfo of {
NSFilePath = "/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store";
NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 6922;
}
error: -executeRequest: encountered exception = I/O error for database at /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store. SQLite error code:6922, 'disk I/O error' with userInfo = {
NSFilePath = "/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store";
NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 6922;
}
CoreData: error: SQLCore dispatchRequest: exception handling request: <NSSQLFetchRequestContext: 0x302920460> , I/O error for database at /var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store. SQLite error code:6922, 'disk I/O error' with userInfo of {
NSFilePath = "/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/499A6802-02E5-4547-83C4-88389AEA50F5/Library/Application Support/database.store";
NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 6922;
}
Can anyone let me know how I should go about this - reseting the database from old backup files by copying over them.
or if there is a way to stop the database and restart it with the new files in swiftdata
my app is an ios app for phone and ipad
Problem Description:
When a device (Device 2) stays offline for an extended period after a record is deleted from another synced device (Device 1) via CloudKit, is it possible for Device 2 to miss the deletion notification when it reconnects, even when using CKSyncEngine?
This scenario raises questions about whether CKSyncEngine can reliably sync changes if CloudKit archives or purges metadata related to deletions during the offline period.
Steps to Reproduce:
At time t0:
· Device 1 and Device 2 sync successfully via CKSyncEngine (shared record RecordA).
Device 2 goes offline.
On Device 1:
· Delete RecordA; sync completes via CKSyncEngine.
Wait for a duration potentially exceeding CloudKit’s change retention window (if such a window exists).
Bring Device 2 back online.
Observe synchronization:
· Expected Behavior: CKSyncEngine removes RecordA from Device 2.
· Observed Behavior: RecordA remains on Device 2.
Key Questions:
Under these conditions, can Device 2 permanently miss the deletion event due to CloudKit’s internal metadata management?
Is there a documented retention policy for CloudKit’s change history, and how does CKSyncEngine handle scenarios where this history is truncated?
What is the recommended pattern to ensure no events are missed, regardless of offline duration?
Clarifications Needed:
· If CloudKit does discard deletion metadata after a period, is this considered a framework limitation, or should developers implement additional safeguards?
· Does CKSyncEngine log warnings or errors when it detects incomplete sync histories?
Environment:
· CKSyncEngine with SQLite
· CloudKit Private Database
· iOS/macOS latest versions
Thank you for clarifying how CKSyncEngine is designed to handle this edge case!
Hi Folks,
starting with iOS18 and using Xcode16, accessing fetchedProperties results in an error. I identified the issue to occur as soon as the initialization of a fetched property with external binary data storage starts.
Console output during debugging:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'This expression has evaluation disabled'
*** First throw call stack:
[...]
libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException
Console output when trying to "print" the item via the contact menu of the debugger:
Printing description of variable:
error: error: Execution was interrupted, reason: internal ObjC exception breakpoint(-6)..
The process has been returned to the state before expression evaluation.
Message from debugger: killed
The identical code works with iOS before iOS 18 (same for iPadOS 18).
Does anyone observed a similar issue and figured out a solution already?
Cheers,
folox
I am using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer and I decided to add a property to an entity. I accidentally ran try! container.initializeCloudKitSchema(options: []) while using the production container in Xcode (com.apple.developer.icloud-container-environment) which throw a couple of errors and created some FAKE_ records in my production container.
So I changed to my development container and ran the try! container.initializeCloudKitSchema(options: []) and now it succeeded.
After that I cleaned up the FAKE_ records scattered in production container but in Xcode when I'm running I now get these logs in the console (and I can't seem to get rid of them):
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _importFinishedWithResult:importer:](1398): <PFCloudKitImporter: 0x300cc72c0>: Import failed with error:
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate recoverFromError:](2310): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - Attempting recovery from error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _recoverFromError:withZoneIDs:forStore:inMonitor:](2620): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - Failed to recover from error: NSCocoaErrorDomain:4864
Recovery encountered the following error: (null):0
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate resetAfterError:andKeepContainer:](610): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - resetting internal state after error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _requestAbortedNotInitialized:](2198): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - Never successfully initialized and cannot execute request '<NSCloudKitMirroringExportRequest: 0x303a52d00> 548CB420-E378-42E5-9607-D23E7A2A364D' due to error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
When a user first downloads my application they are prompted to sign into their apple account via a pop up.
I have not had this pop up previously, I believe the change occurred after iOS18.
I have functions that do a few things:
Retrieves userRecordID
Retrieves a userprofile(via userrecordid) from cloudkit.
I have a model with a FamilyActivitySelection, currently i'm using a codable struct to store it with UserDefaults, but would prefer strongly to transition to Swift Data
Hi,
I have developed a calendar app with swiftData. I have set it to sync iCloud. When testing it, it seems that everything is fine. But after it's released, today, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it again. And I found that iCloud hasn't sync with local swiftData for six days. I have lost six days agenda and relevant information. I have checked the document, and it's said that there is no method to force to sync with iCloud. How to solve the issue? I think that the users can't forgive that it hasn't synced for six days.
Best Wishes,
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
iCloud & Data
DESCRIPTION
I have an App use iCloud to save data.
The App had a CoreData ManagedObject 'Product', 'Product' Object had an attribute name 'count' and it is a Double Type.
I need to synchronises 'count' property across multiple devices.
for example:
I have a devices A、B.
A device set 'Product.count' = 100.
B device set 'Product.count' = 50.
I hope the 'Product.count' == 150 that results.
how to synchronises the 'Product.count' == 150 for multiple devices.
If I have more devices in future, How to get the latest 'Product.count' that it is correct result.
Hello,
My app has had CloudKit enabled for a while, but it's not working. I get the error "Invalid bundle ID for container".
Configure CloudKit in your project from TN3164 suggests changing to a new container. I tried changing to a new container, but this leads to data loss.
The article recommends:
"If your CloudKit container is already used in the production environment and switching to a new container leads to data loss, consider filing a feedback report with the following information to request manually associating your CloudKit container with your app ID."
Where can I request this manual association? Is there anything else I can do?
Thank you for your time and assistance. I’d appreciate a prompt resolution, as this issue is blocking our update. Looking forward to guidance.
In my app, I've been using ModelActors in SwiftData, and using actors with a custom executor in Core Data to create concurrency safe services.
I have multiple actor services that relate to different data model components or features, each that have their own internally managed state (DocumentService, ImportService, etc).
The problem I've ran into, is that I need to be able to use multiple of these services within another service, and those services need to share the same context. Swift 6 doesn't allow passing contexts across actors.
The specific problem I have is that I need a master service that makes multiple unrelated changes without saving them to the main context until approved by the user.
I've tried to find a solution in SwiftData and Core Data, but both have the same problem which is contexts are not sendable. Read the comments in the code to see the issue:
/// This actor does multiple things without saving, until committed in SwiftData.
@ModelActor
actor DatabaseHelper {
func commitChange() throws {
try modelContext.save()
}
func makeChanges() async throws {
// Do unrelated expensive tasks on the child context...
// Next, use our item service
let service = ItemService(modelContainer: SwiftDataStack.shared.container)
let id = try await service.expensiveBackgroundTask(saveChanges: false)
// Now that we've used the service, we need to access something the service created.
// However, because the service created its own context and it was never saved, we can't access it.
let itemFromService = context.fetch(id) // fails
// We need to be able to access changes made from the service within this service,
/// so instead I tried to create the service by passing the current service context, however that results in:
// ERROR: Sending 'self.modelContext' risks causing data races
let serviceFromContext = ItemService(context: modelContext)
// Swift Data doesn't let you create child contexts, so the same context must be used in order to change data without saving.
}
}
@ModelActor
actor ItemService {
init(context: ModelContext) {
modelContainer = SwiftDataStack.shared.container
modelExecutor = DefaultSerialModelExecutor(modelContext: context)
}
func expensiveBackgroundTask(saveChanges: Bool = true) async throws -> PersistentIdentifier? {
// Do something expensive...
return nil
}
}
Core Data has the same problem:
/// This actor does multiple things without saving, until committed in Core Data.
actor CoreDataHelper {
let parentContext: NSManagedObjectContext
let context: NSManagedObjectContext
/// In Core Data, I can create a child context from a background context.
/// This lets you modify the context and save it without updating the main context.
init(progress: Progress = Progress()) {
parentContext = CoreDataStack.shared.newBackgroundContext()
let childContext = NSManagedObjectContext(concurrencyType: .privateQueueConcurrencyType)
childContext.parent = parentContext
self.context = childContext
}
/// To commit changes, save the parent context pushing them to the main context.
func commitChange() async throws {
// ERROR: Sending 'self.parentContext' risks causing data races
try await parentContext.perform {
try self.parentContext.save()
}
}
func makeChanges() async throws {
// Do unrelated expensive tasks on the child context...
// As with the Swift Data example, I am unable to create a service that uses the current actors context from here.
// ERROR: Sending 'self.context' risks causing data races
let service = ItemService(context: self.context)
}
}
Am I going about this wrong, or is there a solution to fix these errors?
Some services are very large and have their own internal state. So it would be very difficult to merge all of them into a single service. I also am using Core Data, and SwiftData extensively so I need a solution for both.
I seem to have trapped myself into a corner trying to make everything concurrency save, so any help would be appreciated!
Hi! I use Tips with CloudKit and it works very well, however when a user want to remove their data from CloudKit, how to do that?
In CoreData with CloudKit area, NSPersistentCloudKitContainer have purgeObjectsAndRecordsInZone to delete both local managed objects and CloudKit records, however there is no information about the TipKit deletion.
Does anyone know ideas?
I have not had any successful Schema Migration with CloudKit so far so I'm trying to do with with just very basic attributes, with multiple Versioned Schemas
This is the code in my App Main
var sharedModelContainer: ModelContainer = {
let schema = Schema(versionedSchema: AppSchemaV4.self)
do {
return try ModelContainer(
for: schema,
migrationPlan: AppMigrationPlan.self,
configurations: ModelConfiguration(cloudKitDatabase: .automatic))
} catch {
fatalError("Could not create ModelContainer: \(error)")
}
}()
var body: some Scene {
WindowGroup {
ItemListView()
}
.modelContainer(sharedModelContainer)
}
And this is the code for my MigrationPlan and VersionedSchemas.
typealias Item = AppSchemaV4.Item3
enum AppMigrationPlan: SchemaMigrationPlan {
static var schemas: [any VersionedSchema.Type] {
[AppSchemaV1.self, AppSchemaV2.self, AppSchemaV3.self, AppSchemaV4.self]
}
static var stages: [MigrationStage] {
[migrateV1toV2, migrateV2toV3, migrateV3toV4]
}
static let migrateV1toV2 = MigrationStage.lightweight(
fromVersion: AppSchemaV1.self,
toVersion: AppSchemaV2.self
)
static let migrateV2toV3 = MigrationStage.lightweight(
fromVersion: AppSchemaV2.self,
toVersion: AppSchemaV3.self
)
static let migrateV3toV4 = MigrationStage.custom(
fromVersion: AppSchemaV3.self,
toVersion: AppSchemaV4.self,
willMigrate: nil,
didMigrate: { context in
// Fetch all Item1 instances
let item1Descriptor = FetchDescriptor<AppSchemaV3.Item1>()
let items1 = try context.fetch(item1Descriptor)
// Fetch all Item2 instances
let item2Descriptor = FetchDescriptor<AppSchemaV3.Item2>()
let items2 = try context.fetch(item2Descriptor)
// Convert Item1 to Item3
for item in items1 {
let newItem = AppSchemaV4.Item3(name: item.name, text: "Migrated from Item1 on \(item.date)")
context.insert(newItem)
}
// Convert Item2 to Item3
for item in items2 {
let newItem = AppSchemaV4.Item3(name: item.name, text: "Migrated from Item2 with value \(item.value)")
context.insert(newItem)
}
try? context.save()
}
)
}
enum AppSchemaV1: VersionedSchema {
static var versionIdentifier: Schema.Version = Schema.Version(1, 0, 0)
static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] {
[Item1.self]
}
@Model class Item1 {
var name: String = ""
init(name: String) {
self.name = name
}
}
}
enum AppSchemaV2: VersionedSchema {
static var versionIdentifier: Schema.Version = Schema.Version(2, 0, 0)
static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] {
[Item1.self]
}
@Model class Item1 {
var name: String = ""
var date: Date = Date()
init(name: String) {
self.name = name
self.date = Date()
}
}
}
enum AppSchemaV3: VersionedSchema {
static var versionIdentifier: Schema.Version = Schema.Version(3, 0, 0)
static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] {
[Item1.self, Item2.self]
}
@Model class Item1 {
var name: String = ""
var date: Date = Date()
init(name: String) {
self.name = name
self.date = Date()
}
}
@Model class Item2 {
var name: String = ""
var value: Int = 0
init(name: String, value: Int) {
self.name = name
self.value = value
}
}
}
enum AppSchemaV4: VersionedSchema {
static var versionIdentifier: Schema.Version = Schema.Version(4, 0, 0)
static var models: [any PersistentModel.Type] {
[Item1.self, Item2.self, Item3.self]
}
@Model class Item1 {
var name: String = ""
var date: Date = Date()
init(name: String) {
self.name = name
self.date = Date()
}
}
@Model class Item2 {
var name: String = ""
var value: Int = 0
init(name: String, value: Int) {
self.name = name
self.value = value
}
}
@Model class Item3 {
var name: String = ""
var text: String = ""
init(name: String, text: String) {
self.name = name
self.text = text
}
}
}
My experiment was:
To create Items for every version of the schema
Updating the typealias along the way to reflect the latest Item version.
Updating the Schema in my ModelContainer to reflect the latest Schema Version.
By AppSchemaV4, I have expected all my Items to be displayed/migrated to Item3, but it does not seem to be the case.
I can only see newly created Item3 records.
My question is, is there something wrong with how I'm doing the migrations? or are migrations not really working with CloudKit right now?
Hi,
Before the iOS 17.2 update the saving behavior of SwiftData was very straightforward, by default it saves to persistence storage and can be configured to save in memory only. Now it saves to memory by default and to make it save to persistence storage we need to use modelContext.Save(). But if we don't quit the App the changes will be saved after a while to persistence storage even without running modelContext.Save() ! How confusing can that be for both developer and the user ! Am I missing something here ?
--
Kind Regards
if it set com.apple.CoreData.ConcurrencyDebug 1 as launch arg the app always crashes and i cant proceed into the app. is there a way to only raise a warning for these issues so that i can go into the app and check every place in one session for coredata errors?