In the WWDC 2025 session "Build a UIKit app with the with the new design", at the 23:22 mark, the presenter says:
And finally, when you no longer need the glass on screen animate it out by setting the effect to nil.
The video shows a UIVisualEffectView whose effect is set to a UIGlassEffect animating away as its effect is set to nil. But when I do this in my app (or a sample app), setting effect to nil does not remove the glass appearance. Is this expected? Is the video out of date? Or is this a bug?
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Hi,
I have added widgets to my iOS app and I would like to make this feature only accessible to "pro" users that have made a non-consumable in-app purchase.
Currently, I am doing the following: I store an "isUnlocked" property in the Keychain after the purchase is made
I read data to be displayed in the widget and here I also query the Keychain and store whether the widget is unlocked
I have no refresh policy, but only change the widget data on a significant time change
a different view is displayed when the app is locked
Some dummy code snippets:
func getTimeline(in context: Context, completion: @escaping (Timeline<Entry>) -> Void) {
		let entry = readContents()
		let timeline = Timeline(entries: [entry], policy: .never)
		completion(timeline)
}
struct WidgetEntryView: View {
		let entry: Provider.Entry
@Environment(\.widgetFamily) var family
@ViewBuilder
var body: some View {
switch family {
case .systemSmall:
if !entry.isUnlocked {
LockedWidgetView()
} else if let event = entry.event {
SmallWidgetEventView(event: event)
} else {
NoDataWidgetView()
}
...
func applicationSignificantTimeChange(_ application: UIApplication) {
		if #available(iOS 14.0, *) {
				WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines()
		}
...
However, 2 unexpected things happen: the view is refreshed intraday (not only at midnight i.e. at significant time change)
sometimes the LockedWidgetView is displayed.
Especially the latter is problematic, because it gives false information to a user that has already made the in-app purchase.
How can I achieve my goal of only displaying info when the user has made the in-app purchase?
Thanks in advance.
P.S. Although it would not have my preference, I would also find it acceptable if the widget is only shown as option to add once the purchase is made. In other words, I was considering changing the Widget itself:
struct MyWidget: Widget {
private var supportedFamilies: [WidgetFamily] = isUnlocked() ? [.systemSmall, .systemMedium] : []
but I believe I cannot re-initialise the widget from the app when the user makes the in-app purchase, because the only refresh option that I have is
WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines()
Hi,
In my apps, the recent iOS 16.0 beta 7 (20A5356a) broke the .timer DateStyle property of the Text view, in a SwiftUI widget.
In previous OS and beta, Text(Date(), style: .timer) was correctly displaying an increasing counter.
In iOS 6.0 beta 7, Text(Date(), style: .timer) does not update anymore, (and is offset to the left).
The other DateStyle (like .offset, .relative, ...) seems to update correctly.
Anyone noticed that (very specific) problem ?
I created a Radar for this FB14766095, but thought I would add it here for extra visibility, or if anyone else had any thoughts on the issue.
Basic Information
Please provide a descriptive title for your feedback:
iOS 18 hit testing functionality differs from iOS 17
What type of feedback are you reporting?
Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior
Description:
Please describe the issue and what steps we can take to reproduce it:
We have an issue in iOS 18 Beta 6 where hit testing functionality differs from the expected functionality in iOS 17.5.1 and previous versions of iOS.
iOS 17: When a sheet is presented, the hit-testing logic considers subviews of the root view, meaning the rootView itself is rarely the hit view.
iOS 18: When a sheet is presented, the hit-testing logic changes, sometimes considering the rootView itself as the hit view.
Code:
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
@State var isPresentingView: Bool = false
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text("View One")
Button {
isPresentingView.toggle()
} label: {
Text("Present View Two")
}
}
.padding()
.sheet(isPresented: $isPresentingView) {
ContentViewTwo()
}
}
}
#Preview {
ContentView()
}
struct ContentViewTwo: View {
@State var isPresentingView: Bool = false
var body: some View {
VStack {
Text("View Two")
}
.padding()
}
}
extension UIWindow {
public override func hitTest(_ point: CGPoint, with event: UIEvent?) -> UIView? {
/// Get view from superclass.
guard let hitView = super.hitTest(point, with: event) else { return nil }
print("RPTEST rootViewController = ", rootViewController.hashValue)
print("RPTEST rootViewController?.view = ", rootViewController?.view.hashValue)
print("RPTEST hitView = ", hitView.hashValue)
if let rootView = rootViewController?.view {
print("RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: \(Unmanaged.passUnretained(rootView).toOpaque())")
print("RPTEST hitView memory address: \(Unmanaged.passUnretained(hitView).toOpaque())")
print("RPTEST Are they equal? \(rootView == hitView)")
}
/// If the returned view is the `UIHostingController`'s view, ignore.
print("MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView", rootViewController?.view == hitView)
print("MTEST: -")
return hitView
}
}
Looking at the print statements from the provided sample project:
iOS 17 presenting a sheet from a button tap on the ContentView():
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x0000000120009200
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x000000011fd25000
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x0000000120009200
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x000000011fd25000
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
iOS 17 dismiss from presented view:
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x0000000120009200
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x000000011fe04080
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x0000000120009200
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x000000011fe04080
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
iOS 18 presenting a sheet from a button tap on the ContentView():
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x000000010333e3c0
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x0000000103342080
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x000000010333e3c0
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x000000010333e3c0
RPTEST Are they equal? true
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView true
You can see here ☝️ that in iOS 18 the views have the same memory address on the second call and are evaluated to be the same. This differs from iOS 17.
iOS 18 dismiss
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x000000010333e3c0
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x0000000103e80000
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
RPTEST rootViewController's view memory address: 0x000000010333e3c0
RPTEST hitView memory address: 0x0000000103e80000
RPTEST Are they equal? false
MTEST: hitTest rootViewController?.view == hitView false
The question I want to ask:
Is this an intended change, meaning the current functionality in iOS 18 is expected?
Or is this a bug and it's something that needs to be fixed?
As a user, I would expect that the hit testing functionality would remain the same from iOS 17 to iOS 18.
Thank you for your time.
On iOS17, UIDevice.current.batteryLevel is returning values rounded to 0.05, such as 1, 0.95, 0.9. Which used to be a 1% granularity in iOS16. Is this a bug or a new feature?
Using desaturated mode on an image in a widget will break any links or buttons that use the image as their 'label'.
Using the following will just open the app as if there was no link at all - therefore just using the fallback userActivity handler, or any .widgetURL() urls provided.
Link(destination: URL(string: "bug://never-works")!) {
Image("puppy")
.widgetAccentedRenderingMode(.desaturated)
}
The same goes for buttons:
Button(intent: MyDemoIntent()) {
Image("puppy")
.widgetAccentedRenderingMode(.desaturated)
}
I've tried hacky solutions like putting the link behind the image using a ZStack, and disabling hit testing on the image, but they don't work. Anything else to try?
Logged as Feedback #15152620.
Running up Xcode 16.2 Beta 1, a lot of my code that used onPreferenceChange in Views to change @State properties of those views, such as some notion of a measured width is now complaining about mutating the @MainActor-isolated properties from Sendable closures.
Now I've got to hoop-jump to change @State properties from onPreferenceChange? OK, but seems a bit of extra churn.
When I build my app for iPad OS, either 26, or 18.5, as well as iOS on 16.5 from Xcode 26 with UIDesignRequiresCompatibility enabled my app is crashing as it loads the main UIViewController, a subclassed UITabBarController which is being loaded programatically from a Storyboard from another SplashScreen ViewController.
On i(Pad)OS 18.5 I get this error:
Thread 1: "Could not instantiate class named _TtGC5UIKit17UICoreHostingViewVCS_21ToolbarVisualProvider8RootView_ because no class named _TtGC5UIKit17UICoreHostingViewVCS_21ToolbarVisualProvider8RootView_ was found; the class needs to be defined in source code or linked in from a library (ensure the class is part of the correct target)"
On iPadOS 26 I get this error:
UIKitCore/UICoreHostingView.swift:54: Fatal error: init(coder:) has not been implemented
There is no issue building from Xcode 16.4, regardless of targeted i(Pad)OS.
This issue was in the first iOS 26 beta and it still there with Xcode 26 beta 6 (17A5305f). Feedback is FB18581605 and contains sample project to reproduce the issue.
I assign a target and action to a UISlider for the UIControl.Event.valueChanged value:
addTarget(self, action: #selector(sliderValueDidChange), for: .valueChanged)
Here’s the function.
@objc
func sliderValueDidChange(_ sender: UISlider, event: UIEvent) {
print(event)
}
When printing the event value, there is a crash. When checking the event value with lldb, it appears uninitialized.
Hello!
I have experienced a weird bug in iOS 26 Beta (8) and previous beta versions. The safe area inset is not correctly aligned with the keyboard toolbar on real devices and simulators.
When you focus a new textfield the bottom safe area is correctly placed aligned the keyboard toolbar.
On real devices the safe area inset view is covered slightly by the keyboard toolbar, which is even worse than on the simulator.
Here's a clip from a simulator:
Here's the code that reproduced the bug I experienced in our app.
#Preview {
NavigationStack {
ScrollView {
TextField("", text: .constant(""))
.padding()
.background(Color.secondary)
TextField("", text: .constant(""))
.padding()
.background(Color.green)
}
.padding()
.safeAreaInset(edge: .bottom, content: {
Color.red
.frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
.frame(height: 40)
})
.toolbar {
ToolbarItem(placement: .keyboard) {
Button {} label: {
Text("test")
}
}
}
}
}
Hello Dear Developers,
Is it only to me or in iOS 18 there's a problem with Settings.bundle, Im using my settings.bundle to set my enivement for my app but after upgrading to iOS 18 I can't see my Settings.Bundle in my settings iphone,
just to mention that I also updated my xcode to 16.
Anyone who has occur with this problem? :)
Hello,
I face an error everytime I want to interact with a TextField. The XCode debug area is showing :
CLIENT ERROR: TUINSRemoteViewController does not override -viewServiceDidTerminateWithError: and thus cannot react to catastrophic errors beyond logging them
There is no crash, and the text field is working fine.
I am developing for MacOS using a macbook pro Intel from 2019 with Sonoma 14.5 and Xcode 15.4 and I think that I noticed since the release of Sonoma. I was not particularly concerned by it but I noticed that interacting with the textField was leading to severe hang in my app, and micro-hang in the test app and I am wondering is these two issues could be related.
The message is easy to reproduce. Just create a new Project/Application/App using SwiftUI and add a TextField to the ContentView.
When you start app, click or double click on the text field, enter a message and press enter.
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
@State var value: String = ""
var body: some View {
VStack {
Image(systemName: "globe")
.imageScale(.large)
.foregroundStyle(.tint)
Text("Hello, world!")
TextField(text: $value,
label: {
Text("Test")
}
)
}
.padding()
}
}
Did you notice the same thing ? How I could solve it ?
Note : I already posted the problem on Swift forums but it was close because related to SwiftUI https://forums.swift.org/t/error-when-clicking-on-textfield-client-error-tuinsremoteviewcontroller-does-not-override-viewservicedidterminatewitherror-and-thus-cannot-react-to-catastrophic-errors-beyond-logging-them/72134/1
Thank you
Applying glass effect, providing a shape isn't resulting in the provided shape rendering the interaction correctly.
.glassEffect(.regular.tint(Color(event.calendar.cgColor)).interactive(), in: .rect(cornerRadius: 20))
results in properly drawn view but interactive part of it is off. light and shimmer appear as a capsule within the rect.
There seems to be a performance issue when scrolling using the track pad with SwiftUI scroll views in macOS 15. This issue is NOT present in macOS 14.
When using the track pad the scrolling is not smooth, but "stutters". However scrolling using the scroll bars is very smooth. The "stuttering" is worse if the SwiftUI ScrollView is in the detail view of a NavigationSplitView.
The problem is not noticeable in scroll views with a small number views, but when the more views inside the scroll view, the more prominent the problem becomes.
I have a simple example app that illustrates the problem here (the example app is a simplification of my app Yammixer): https://github.com/danwaltin/SwiftUIScrollViewPerformance
When running this example app on macOS 14 (Sonoma) on an Intel i7 Mac book pro from 2019 the scrolling is "buttery smooth".
But on macOS 15 (Sequoia) on my Apple Silicon M1 Mac book pro the issue is very obvious.
When using Instruments I see that on macOS 15 "flame graph" shows that 85% of the execution time is in a "_hitTestForEvent" method. If the test app does not use NavigationSplitView about 70% of execution time is in the _hitTestForEvent method.
Topic:
UI Frameworks
SubTopic:
SwiftUI
My usage of TextField.focused() works fine in Xcode 14.3.1 but is broken as of Xcode 15. I first noticed it in the second beta and it's still broken as of the 4th beta.
Feedback / OpenRadar # FB12432084
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
@State private var text = ""
@FocusState var isFocused: Bool
var body: some View {
ScrollView {
TextField("Test", text: $text)
.textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
.focused($isFocused)
Text("Text Field Is Focused: \(isFocused.description)")
}
}
}
All of a sudden, after iOS 18.4 was released, I am having tons of navigation problems in my app in production. Buttons navigating to empty pages, views seeming to 'freeze', top navigation bar mismatched with the content of the page. It seems that iOS 18.4 broke a critical piece of UIKit + SwiftUI bridging functionality that my project relies on.
My application is written with both UIKit and SwiftUI components. Here is a breakdown of my setup:
UIApplicationDelegate >
UIWindow >
rootViewController of window is a UITabBarController >
each tab is a UINavigationController
rootViewController of nav controller is a UIHostingController >
rootView of the hosting controller is a SwiftUI View
In my SwiftUI views, I have been using NavigationLink for horizontal 'push' style navigation in my SwiftUI views. I do not use NavigationView, I only rely on the bridging capabilities of UINavigationController to action on my NavigationLinks. This has never been an issue, until iOS 18.4 was released. Now, when running iOS 18.4, I am having all sorts of unexpected behavior in the UI. I will break down 2 of these use cases here:
Use case A:
In one of my SwiftUI views, I have a ForEach for which each element's view is a NavigationLink. This is using the NavigationLink(_ destination:,label:) initializer. Navigating forward from here works/looks normal.
However, once I try to navigate backward from that destination (tap the 'Back' button in top left), the view goes blank and the navigation bar at the top of the page (which is maintained by the UINavigationController instance) does not change. If I call popToRootViewController on that nav controller, the navigation bar at the top of the page returns to its normal state, but the view is still blank.
It is not until after I have called popToRootViewController, and then navigate to a different tab of the UITabBarController and return to the initial tab, does the SwiftuI content view (the one with the ForEach) finally redraw and the view hierarchy is restored.
Here is a warning that is logged in the console when I tap the 'Back ' button:
Top view controller's view unexpectedly not in window for navigation transition. Skipping layout. nav = <UINavigationController: 0x1110bbe00>, topVC = <TtGC7SwiftUI19UIHostingControllerV5MyApp10MyPage: 0x106814e00>
EDIT: If I replace the NavigationLink with a call to UINavigationController.pushViewController, I am still seeing the exact same behavior. Pressing back button makes the view empty > need to pop to root view controller and switch tabs in order to restore the view.
Use case B
Another instance of this issue happens whenever I try to use a NavigationLink inside of a view that itself was the destination of a NavigationLink in its parent view (i.e.: Root view > detail view > sub-detail view). For example, take the detail view destination in use case A. I have tapped a NavigationLink from the ForEach and landed on the detail view. Again, so far things work/look normal. Now, if I tap on another NavigationLink from that detail view, the view does not transition to the new page. The top navigation bar does transition, and shows the title and actions associated with this second destination. However, the view of this second destination is not displayed.
It is worth noting that the same warning I mentioned above is also logged when I tap the NavigationLink to navigate to this second destination.
Top view controller's view unexpectedly not in window for navigation transition. Skipping layout. nav = <UINavigationController: 0x109859400>, topVC = <TtGC7SwiftUI19UIHostingControllerVVS_19BridgedPresentation8RootView: 0x300ab8000>
Strangely, if I switch to a different tab of the UITabBarController and back to the initial tab, this second destination's view is successfully rendered. It seems that switching tabs in this UITabBarController is calling something in either SwiftUI or UIKit that is redrawing my views.
Conclusion
This is a serious issue with UIKit + SwiftUI bridging support. I have never had problems like this until devices started running iOS 18.4, and there is nothing in the iOS 18.4 changelog that suggests this was an intentional change. All of a sudden, after updating to the latest iOS version, my app is totally broken.
I want to be clear that I'm not using deprecated NavigationLink methods in these instances. My app's minimum deployment target is iOS 16.
I know that there are more modern navigation APIs like navigation stack, etc. I am looking for answers about my use case: whether it is officially unsupported as of iOS 18.4, whether this setup should be supported and this is indeed some sort of bug in iOS, or anything in-between. I'm happy to provide formatted code if needed for discussion purposes. This is about my entire app's view hierarchy so there are a lot of disparate lines of code that make up this problem.
unifieldFlexKeyboard[53102:24145174] [External] -[UIInputViewController needsInputModeSwitchKey] was called before a connection was established to the host application. This will produce an inaccurate result. Please make sure to call this after your primary view controller has been initialized.
hey
Dear All,
Recent updates in SwiftUI allow to add scope bars just beneath the search bar. Those are limited in space, though.
How does one implement a scrollable filter as is seen in the Apple’s own Developer app?
I have a List in a sidebar style which contains a LazyVGrid and a Section with a simple list contents. Every thing works well except when content increases and layout changes (from two columns to one column) for the LazyVGrid with editMode changing to .active ... LazyVGrid does not expand/resize when the content increases (the increased content gets clipped)...but does when user expands/folds on the section below :(. However LazyVGrid resizes to show the entire content when the content shrinks with editMode reverting to .inactive
Note: If I replace the List with a ScrollView...lazyVGrid resizes perfectly when content increases in editMode = .active....but then I would lose all the Sidebar and List characteristics for the Section below :(
Also, looks like .onMove is not supported in LazyVGrids
Any pointers to solve the LazyVGrid (embedded in a List) not resizing or expanding when content increases ... will be deeply appreciated.
var body: some View {
List {
LazyVGrid(columns: editMode?.wrappedValue == .active ? singleColumn : twoColumns, alignment: .leading, spacing: 10) {
ForEach(editMode?.wrappedValue == .active ? allDashItems : selectedDashItems) { dashitem in
DashItemCell(dashitem)
}
.onMove(perform: moveDashItem)
.environment(\.editMode, editMode)
}
Section(header: Text("Bottom Section")) {
ForEach (sectionList)	{ item in
ListItemCell(item)
}
.onDelete(perform: deleteFolder)
.onMove(perform: moveFolder)
}
}
.listStyle(SidebarListStyle())
}
Hi folks,
I've used a NavigationSplitView within one of the tabs of my app since iOS 16, but with the new styling in iOS 18 the toolbar region looks odd. In other tabs using e.g. simple stacks, the toolbar buttons are horizontally in line with the new tab picker, but with NavigationSplitView, the toolbar leaves a lot of empty space at the top (see below). Is there anything I can do to adjust this, or alternatively, continue to use the old style?
Thanks!