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Child Views and ViewThatFits
I'd like to support different template views within a ViewThatFits for items within a list, allowing the list to optimize its layout for different devices. Within the child views is a Text view that is bound to the name of an item. I'd rather the Text view simply truncate the text as necessary although it instead is influencing which view is chosen by ViewThatFits. I'd also rather not artificially set the maxWidth of the Text view as it artificially limits the width on devices where it's not necessary (e.g. iPad Pro vs. iPad mini or iPhone). Any guidance or suggestions on how this can be accomplished as it looks very odd for the layout of one row in the list to be quite different than the rest of the rows.
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Jun ’25
Push Notifications for Widgets
With the advent of APNs pushs to Widgets, I would like to confirm some things. I understand that we have a budget of updates for it, however is the budget for APNs part of the budget for background updates? In other words, 1 budget for both or 2 separate budgets? Also, can we make a push to an individual widget, or are we essentially calling .reloadAllTimelines()?
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Jun ’25
Please bring back Slide Over & Split View multitasking to standard iPad view
With the latest iPadOS 26 changes, the traditional multitasking experience using Slide Over and Split View has been removed in favor of Stage Manager. While Stage Manager is a great option for some, the old multitasking UI was more intuitive, stable, and ideal for quick productivity. Please consider restoring the classic multitasking gestures as an optional feature or toggle alongside Stage Manager. Many users like myself rely on the traditional layout for studying, work, and multitasking efficiency.
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Jun ’25
Best way to combine new tab bar with floating action button?
I have a floating action button in my app above a toolbar. The action button adds items to my app, so is pretty important and should be easy to reach. Now with the new liquid glass design, I wonder what the best way is to combine those two. Should I use .tabViewBottomAccessory() for that? Though, that will merge down on scroll. 🤔 Or can I replace the search button in the bottom right with my own custom button action?
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Jun ’25
Supporting Dark and Tinted versions of App Icons on macOS
When exporting an icon using Icon Composer Beta for macOS 26, a light, dark and tinted versions for macOS are created, but I was not able to find how to use them on the Xcode Project. I also tried finding something pointing to that on documentation, but I was not able to find anything. I see that system apps have light, dark and tinted versions on the first beta of macOS 26, which leads me to believe it would be possible for third-party apps to do that same.
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Jun ’25
iOS 14 UIPickerView Selected View Background Color
I have noticed that in iOS 14 the UIPickerView has by default a light grey background on the selected Row like shown here. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/controls/pickers/ I noticed also that pickerView.showsSelectionIndicator is deprecated on iOS 14. Is there a way to change the background color to white and add separators to achieve a pre iOS 14 UIPickerView style? Thank you
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How to listen for Locale change event in iOS using NSLocale.currentLocaleDidChangeNotification?
I have the following function private func SetupLocaleObserver () { NotificationCenter.default.addObserver ( forName: NSLocale.currentLocaleDidChangeNotification, object: nil, queue: .main ) {_ in print ("Locale changed to: \(Locale.current.identifier)"); } } I call this function inside the viewDidLoad () method of my view controller. The expectation was that whenever I change the system or app-specific language preference, the locale gets changed, and this change triggers my closure which should print "Locale changed to: " on the console. However, the app gets terminated with a SIGKILL whenever I change the language from the settings. So, it is observed that sometimes my closure runs, while most of the times it does not run - maybe the app dies even before the closure is executed. So, the question is, what is the use of this particular notification if the corresponding closure isn't guaranteed to be executed before the app dies? Or am I using it the wrong way?
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Jun ’25
Dynamically resizing NSPreferencePane content
Is it not possible to dynamically change or constrain an NSPreferencePane's mainView size? I have looked all over and this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. The most I can seemingly do is set the frame and hope the user doesn't resize the window. class scor: NSPreferencePane { override func mainViewDidLoad() { mainView = NSHostingView(rootView: ContentView()) mainView.frame = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 668, 1048) } } Here is a screenshot, just with a simple webview as a test, note the scrollbar: My storyboard is just from the default prefpane Xcode template, nothing special. I looked at the header file for NSPreferencePane and came up with nothing. All I can think of is that this is impossible due to the way they are implemented? The only thing we seemingly have access to is mainView, so I can't like constrain the size of mainView to its parent, for example. Additionally, if I make a new preference pane, and make a button or other view that I choose to resize to fill horizontally and vertically, it does that, but not really? Here is what that looks like: The behaviour is similar to the previous preference pane, the width does adapt correctly, the height stays the same, forever. Not that it really matters but I am using macOS 14.7.6 on an M2 air
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Jun ’25
My app refuses to run a print job
Hello I'm currently upgrading an app because said app age requieres an upgrade and I've started a new empty project, when I get to the printing functionality after som weeks of work to my demise I can't get it to work, in essence my code looks like this: let vista = NSView() vista.setFrameSize(NSSize(width: 400, height: 800)) let operacion = NSPrintOperation(view: vista) operacion.run() But I just get this system warning, "This application does not support printing." I´ve had checked the printing option in the project sandbox, and even deleted the sandbox itself with the same result. I even created a new empty project with this sole function with the same result but if I make a new project with a different name it works without a hitch, this error only occurs with projects with the same bundle identifier as my old app. I am a lost with this issue and I greatly appreciate any help. Thanks
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit
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Jun ’25
Search field as in Mail App
How can i achieve the same behavior as the bottom bar on the Mail app? Button -> Search Field -> Button right now, if do as follows, they overlap as if they are not in the same space NavigationStack { VStack { HeaderView() ListView() } } .toolbar(.hidden, for: .tabBar) .searchable(text: $searchText) .searchToolbarBehavior(.minimize) .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .bottomBar) { Button { } label: { Label("Button1", systemImage: "person") } } ToolbarItem(placement: .bottomBar) { Button { } label: { Label("Button2", systemImage: "person") } } }
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI @State var not sync in .popover
struct ContentView: View { @State var visable: Bool = false @State var visableHiddenMenu: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack { Button("xxxx") { visableHiddenMenu = true print("visableHiddenMenu \(visableHiddenMenu)") visable.toggle() } .popover(isPresented: $visable) { VStack { let _ = print("visableHiddenMenu2 \(visableHiddenMenu)") Text("xxxx") } .onAppear { print("appear \(visableHiddenMenu)") visableHiddenMenu = visableHiddenMenu } } } .padding() } } the print is visableHiddenMenu true visableHiddenMenu2 false appear true so why visableHiddenMenu2 print false?
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI List features within complex grids of content
Our app displays complex, data-driven layouts that can display grids of items in addition to full width rows (essentially, nested lists). We'd like to be able to preserve cell/item portability (i.e., display in any content strip) and allow them to carry capabilities like swipe actions. In UIKit we have features in compositional layout that allow for this. However, in SwiftUI the only support seems to be at the List level. Nesting a List within a ScrollView to get swipe actions feels like a dark road. We've rolled our own swipe actions system, but we'd much rather use a native solution. Any other options here? Improvement ticket here FB17994843.
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Jun ’25
Some sharing extensions disabled when running iOS app with Mac Catalyst
When I run my iOS app on a Mac using Mac Catalyst, several sharing options that show up on an iOS device in a share sheet are absent on the Mac. Clicking on Edit Extensions, I see Mail, Message and AirDrop, their switches are on and disabled. All three items show up when I share from Safari or Notes. How can I make Mail, Message and AirDrop available? For example, when sharing data, no share extensions are shown. For text, only Simulator, Shortcuts and Copy are shown.
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Jun ’25
Emulate AppKit NSPopUpButton in SwiftUI
How to make a control that looks and feels as close as possible to NSPopUpButton in SwiftUI, so a Mac user accepts the control as being native Mac UI? Items should have icon and text, I need separators between some items and certain items may be disabled at times, so they should not be selectable. Picker seems to lack some of those features (separators and disabled items), and Menu looks and behaves differently. Any guidance? For now I went with Menu, but find both the "chevron.down" icon at the trailing end as well as the positioning of the menu below the control weird.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
How to replace layoutManager with textLayoutManager for a flexible dynamic height UITextView
In order to create a UITextView like that of the Messages app whose height grows to fits its contents (number of lines), I subclassed UITextView and customized the intrinsicContentSize like so: override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize { var size = super.intrinsicContentSize if size.height == UIView.noIntrinsicMetric { layoutManager.glyphRange(for: textContainer) size.height = layoutManager.usedRect(for: textContainer).height + textContainerInset.top + textContainerInset.bottom } return size } As noted at WWDC, accessing layoutManager will force TextKit 1, we should instead use textLayoutManager. How can this code be migrated to support TextKit 2?
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Jun ’25
Child Views and ViewThatFits
I'd like to support different template views within a ViewThatFits for items within a list, allowing the list to optimize its layout for different devices. Within the child views is a Text view that is bound to the name of an item. I'd rather the Text view simply truncate the text as necessary although it instead is influencing which view is chosen by ViewThatFits. I'd also rather not artificially set the maxWidth of the Text view as it artificially limits the width on devices where it's not necessary (e.g. iPad Pro vs. iPad mini or iPhone). Any guidance or suggestions on how this can be accomplished as it looks very odd for the layout of one row in the list to be quite different than the rest of the rows.
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Jun ’25
Push Notifications for Widgets
With the advent of APNs pushs to Widgets, I would like to confirm some things. I understand that we have a budget of updates for it, however is the budget for APNs part of the budget for background updates? In other words, 1 budget for both or 2 separate budgets? Also, can we make a push to an individual widget, or are we essentially calling .reloadAllTimelines()?
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Jun ’25
Please bring back Slide Over & Split View multitasking to standard iPad view
With the latest iPadOS 26 changes, the traditional multitasking experience using Slide Over and Split View has been removed in favor of Stage Manager. While Stage Manager is a great option for some, the old multitasking UI was more intuitive, stable, and ideal for quick productivity. Please consider restoring the classic multitasking gestures as an optional feature or toggle alongside Stage Manager. Many users like myself rely on the traditional layout for studying, work, and multitasking efficiency.
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Jun ’25
Best way to combine new tab bar with floating action button?
I have a floating action button in my app above a toolbar. The action button adds items to my app, so is pretty important and should be easy to reach. Now with the new liquid glass design, I wonder what the best way is to combine those two. Should I use .tabViewBottomAccessory() for that? Though, that will merge down on scroll. 🤔 Or can I replace the search button in the bottom right with my own custom button action?
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Jun ’25
Supporting Dark and Tinted versions of App Icons on macOS
When exporting an icon using Icon Composer Beta for macOS 26, a light, dark and tinted versions for macOS are created, but I was not able to find how to use them on the Xcode Project. I also tried finding something pointing to that on documentation, but I was not able to find anything. I see that system apps have light, dark and tinted versions on the first beta of macOS 26, which leads me to believe it would be possible for third-party apps to do that same.
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Jun ’25
iOS 14 UIPickerView Selected View Background Color
I have noticed that in iOS 14 the UIPickerView has by default a light grey background on the selected Row like shown here. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/controls/pickers/ I noticed also that pickerView.showsSelectionIndicator is deprecated on iOS 14. Is there a way to change the background color to white and add separators to achieve a pre iOS 14 UIPickerView style? Thank you
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Jun ’25
How to listen for Locale change event in iOS using NSLocale.currentLocaleDidChangeNotification?
I have the following function private func SetupLocaleObserver () { NotificationCenter.default.addObserver ( forName: NSLocale.currentLocaleDidChangeNotification, object: nil, queue: .main ) {_ in print ("Locale changed to: \(Locale.current.identifier)"); } } I call this function inside the viewDidLoad () method of my view controller. The expectation was that whenever I change the system or app-specific language preference, the locale gets changed, and this change triggers my closure which should print "Locale changed to: " on the console. However, the app gets terminated with a SIGKILL whenever I change the language from the settings. So, it is observed that sometimes my closure runs, while most of the times it does not run - maybe the app dies even before the closure is executed. So, the question is, what is the use of this particular notification if the corresponding closure isn't guaranteed to be executed before the app dies? Or am I using it the wrong way?
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Jun ’25
Dynamically resizing NSPreferencePane content
Is it not possible to dynamically change or constrain an NSPreferencePane's mainView size? I have looked all over and this doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere. The most I can seemingly do is set the frame and hope the user doesn't resize the window. class scor: NSPreferencePane { override func mainViewDidLoad() { mainView = NSHostingView(rootView: ContentView()) mainView.frame = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 668, 1048) } } Here is a screenshot, just with a simple webview as a test, note the scrollbar: My storyboard is just from the default prefpane Xcode template, nothing special. I looked at the header file for NSPreferencePane and came up with nothing. All I can think of is that this is impossible due to the way they are implemented? The only thing we seemingly have access to is mainView, so I can't like constrain the size of mainView to its parent, for example. Additionally, if I make a new preference pane, and make a button or other view that I choose to resize to fill horizontally and vertically, it does that, but not really? Here is what that looks like: The behaviour is similar to the previous preference pane, the width does adapt correctly, the height stays the same, forever. Not that it really matters but I am using macOS 14.7.6 on an M2 air
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Jun ’25
My app refuses to run a print job
Hello I'm currently upgrading an app because said app age requieres an upgrade and I've started a new empty project, when I get to the printing functionality after som weeks of work to my demise I can't get it to work, in essence my code looks like this: let vista = NSView() vista.setFrameSize(NSSize(width: 400, height: 800)) let operacion = NSPrintOperation(view: vista) operacion.run() But I just get this system warning, "This application does not support printing." I´ve had checked the printing option in the project sandbox, and even deleted the sandbox itself with the same result. I even created a new empty project with this sole function with the same result but if I make a new project with a different name it works without a hitch, this error only occurs with projects with the same bundle identifier as my old app. I am a lost with this issue and I greatly appreciate any help. Thanks
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit
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Jun ’25
Search field as in Mail App
How can i achieve the same behavior as the bottom bar on the Mail app? Button -> Search Field -> Button right now, if do as follows, they overlap as if they are not in the same space NavigationStack { VStack { HeaderView() ListView() } } .toolbar(.hidden, for: .tabBar) .searchable(text: $searchText) .searchToolbarBehavior(.minimize) .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .bottomBar) { Button { } label: { Label("Button1", systemImage: "person") } } ToolbarItem(placement: .bottomBar) { Button { } label: { Label("Button2", systemImage: "person") } } }
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Jun ’25
OS 26: Mini Keyboard Bar Missing with Hardware Keyboard
In iOS 26, the mini keyboard bar does not consistently appear when typing with a hardware keyboard. This behavior differs from iOS 18, where the bar was always visible. See screenshots:
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI @State var not sync in .popover
struct ContentView: View { @State var visable: Bool = false @State var visableHiddenMenu: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack { Button("xxxx") { visableHiddenMenu = true print("visableHiddenMenu \(visableHiddenMenu)") visable.toggle() } .popover(isPresented: $visable) { VStack { let _ = print("visableHiddenMenu2 \(visableHiddenMenu)") Text("xxxx") } .onAppear { print("appear \(visableHiddenMenu)") visableHiddenMenu = visableHiddenMenu } } } .padding() } } the print is visableHiddenMenu true visableHiddenMenu2 false appear true so why visableHiddenMenu2 print false?
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Jun ’25
Liquid glass toolbar: showing wrong light/dark on load
I have a dark background and the initial look of the nav bar is showing like there is a light background. See picture. Has anyone experienced this or know of a solution? If I scroll the table up, it will fix itself and start behaving as I'd expect.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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Jun ’25
iOS 26: TextEditor and Text Attachments
Does the new TextEditor in iOS 26, which supports rich text / AttributedString, also support the ability to add text attachments or tokens? For example, in Xcode, we can type <#foo#> to create an inline text placeholder/token which can be interacted with in a different way than standard text.
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Jun ’25
SwiftUI List features within complex grids of content
Our app displays complex, data-driven layouts that can display grids of items in addition to full width rows (essentially, nested lists). We'd like to be able to preserve cell/item portability (i.e., display in any content strip) and allow them to carry capabilities like swipe actions. In UIKit we have features in compositional layout that allow for this. However, in SwiftUI the only support seems to be at the List level. Nesting a List within a ScrollView to get swipe actions feels like a dark road. We've rolled our own swipe actions system, but we'd much rather use a native solution. Any other options here? Improvement ticket here FB17994843.
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Jun ’25
Some sharing extensions disabled when running iOS app with Mac Catalyst
When I run my iOS app on a Mac using Mac Catalyst, several sharing options that show up on an iOS device in a share sheet are absent on the Mac. Clicking on Edit Extensions, I see Mail, Message and AirDrop, their switches are on and disabled. All three items show up when I share from Safari or Notes. How can I make Mail, Message and AirDrop available? For example, when sharing data, no share extensions are shown. For text, only Simulator, Shortcuts and Copy are shown.
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Jun ’25
Emulate AppKit NSPopUpButton in SwiftUI
How to make a control that looks and feels as close as possible to NSPopUpButton in SwiftUI, so a Mac user accepts the control as being native Mac UI? Items should have icon and text, I need separators between some items and certain items may be disabled at times, so they should not be selectable. Picker seems to lack some of those features (separators and disabled items), and Menu looks and behaves differently. Any guidance? For now I went with Menu, but find both the "chevron.down" icon at the trailing end as well as the positioning of the menu below the control weird.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
Generic parameter 'V' could not be inferred Xcode error Please help
Generic parameter 'V' could not be inferred ERROR
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Jun ’25
iOS 26 List selection radius
Is there any way to influence the corner radius of a selection in the list? Looking at the native Apple Mail app in the iOS 26, it should be.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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Jun ’25
How to replace layoutManager with textLayoutManager for a flexible dynamic height UITextView
In order to create a UITextView like that of the Messages app whose height grows to fits its contents (number of lines), I subclassed UITextView and customized the intrinsicContentSize like so: override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize { var size = super.intrinsicContentSize if size.height == UIView.noIntrinsicMetric { layoutManager.glyphRange(for: textContainer) size.height = layoutManager.usedRect(for: textContainer).height + textContainerInset.top + textContainerInset.bottom } return size } As noted at WWDC, accessing layoutManager will force TextKit 1, we should instead use textLayoutManager. How can this code be migrated to support TextKit 2?
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Jun ’25