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Cannot configure contentShape for final preview of .contextMenu(menuItems: , preview: )
Without using a custom preview, you can set .contentShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) so that in the "zoomed in" preview of the contextMenu you can have a custom cornerRadius. However, this does not work if you create a custom preview, because then the ContentShape gets applied only to the LIFT PREVIEW, and not to the FINAL PREVIEW state. Heres a sample code - I'd love some support! :) import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { VStack { Rectangle() .fill(Color.blue) .frame(width: 300, height: 300) .cornerRadius(30) .contentShape(.contextMenuPreview, RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) .contextMenu { Button("Hello") {} Button("Goofy") {} } preview: { Rectangle() .fill(Color.blue) .frame(width: 300, height: 300) .cornerRadius(30) //.contentShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) //.contentShape(.contextMenuPreview, RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) } Text("contextMenu item with large cornerRadius is not working as expected... No way to set contentShape to custom corner radius for final preview - not the lift preview") } } }
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May ’25
Debugging Snapshot Thread Confinement Warning in UITableViewDiffableDataSource
I first applied a snapshot on the main thread like this: var snapshot = NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot<Section, MessageViewModel>() snapshot.appendSections([.main]) snapshot.appendItems([], toSection: .main) dataSource.applySnapshotUsingReloadData(snapshot) After loading data, I applied the snapshot again using: Task { @MainActor in await dataSource.applySnapshotUsingReloadData(snapshot) } On an iPhone 13 mini, I received the following warning: Warning: applying updates in a non-thread confined manner is dangerous and can lead to deadlocks. Please always submit updates either always on the main queue or always off the main queue However, this warning did not appear when I ran the same code on an iPhone 16 Pro simulator. Can anyone explain it to me? Thank you
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May ’25
Is applicationDidFinishLaunching: guaranteed to be called before INIntent delegate methods when app is launched via a Shortcut?
I have a question about the app lifecycle when my app is launched via a Shortcut. I'm adding a INIntent to a Mac app. So my app delegate implements: - (nullable id)application:(NSApplication *)application handlerForIntent:(INIntent *)intent Then my custom intent handler implements the two protocol methods -confirmIntentNameHere:completion: and -handleIntentNameHere:completion: During my testing -applicationDidFinishLaunching: is called before the intent methods, so I can forward methods to my main window controller to perform the shortcut actions, since it's already ready. ....But if this is not always the case, I can still perform them but I'd have to move the code out of the window controller to perform the action "headless" if invoked before my app has built its UI. Just wondering if this is something I should be prepared for. Thanks in advance.
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May ’25
SwiftData/ModelSnapshot.swift:46: Fatal error: A ModelSnapshot must be initialized with a known-keys dictionary
I'm running into a crash when trying to delete an item from a list that's loaded using SwiftData. The app works fine when selecting or displaying the data, but the moment I confirm a deletion, it crashes with this error: SwiftData/ModelSnapshot.swift:46: Fatal error: A ModelSnapshot must be initialized with a known-keys dictionary This happens right after I delete an item from the list using modelContext.delete(). I’ve double-checked that the item exists and is valid, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The data is loaded using @Query and everything seems normal until deletion. For further information, I have tried this on a new IOS project where I have one super Model class with a cascading relationship on a child class. When trying to delete the parent class while connected to one or more children, it still gives me the error. The same thing is happening with my original project. Class A has a relationship (cascading) with Class B. Attempting to delete Class A while there are relationships with Class B throws this error. If anyone has experienced this or knows what causes it, please let me know. I’m not even sure where to start debugging this one. Thanks in advance!
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May ’25
How to create a QuickTime recording like panel?
QuickTime recording palette behaves in a way which I want to replicate in my desktop app - specifically the behaviour when switching spaces, it appears on top. Currently, my app appears on all spaces, and even over fullscreen applications BUT it already exists when I switch to the space, this feels disjointed. I can't find a solution to this behaviour. Here's the Window Collection Behaviours I've tried (on an NSPanel): FullScreenAuxiliary - appears over fullscreen apps. CanJoinAllSpaces - appears on all spaces. These two options make the dock show up on all spaces in the same position, but on each space they already exists. I've tried this behaviour too: MoveToActiveSpace - which as per docs would move the window into active space only when its reopened, mine stays open all the time. I can't find any more information on how QuickTime achieves this.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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May ’25
Regarding ARKit camera feed zoom and macro support for closer object
I am currently developing an AR experience using ARKit with SceneKit and am looking to implement functionality that enables: Zooming into the AR camera feed, ideally leveraging the ultra-wide or telephoto lenses available on supported devices. Macro-style focus capabilities, allowing users to view and interact with virtual content closely aligned with small or nearby real-world objects (within a few centimeters). My objective is to ensure that ARKit continues to render the scene accurately while enabling a zoomed-in view or macro-level focus for better detail visibility and alignment. Could you please advise on: Whether ARKit currently supports camera zoom or allows access to macro or ultra-wide cameras within an ARSession. Limitations or considerations when using multi-camera setups in conjunction with ARKit. Any guidance or references to documentation or sample code would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Ayush
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May ’25
Bundling OSX installer plugin with productbuild/pkgbuild
I'm trying to create a .pkg installer with productbuild/pkgbuild. But I'd also like to add my custom installer plugin to this. I'm using the following script. I'd like to add my bundle into this script. Since there are no official docs from apple how to do this nor there are a lot of updated resources, here are some things I have tried. adding the following line to Distrubtion.xml <bundle id="pluginid" path="path/to/myplugin.bundle"/> adding component tag to pkgbuild also doesn't do anything --component "path/to/myplugin.bundle" The bundle itself is build with XCode - it is a simple UI for user to type some input in Apple provides documentation for Distribution.xml file, which supports different UI elements but doesn't support text input - docs I have been also looking at this tutorial , it is very outdated but i could still fit it to my needs except the part where the .bundle file needs to be inserted into .pkg. Note - there is no option to view the contents of .pkg file build with pkbuild/productbuild How can i do this process correctly? I would like to link my installer pane plugin to a generic .pkg(with licenses and so on). I'd appreciate any kind of help!
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May ’25
Room Plan Issue (structure.capturedStructure)
Hi everyone, My app crashed when using the merge room feature. I suspect the issue might be caused by a wall having more than 4 edges. Has anyone experienced a similar problem and found a solution? I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thank you all, and have a great day! let capturedStructure = try await structure.capturedStructure(from: self.rooms)
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May ’25
Open new document in SwiftUI on iOS
I have a SwiftUI document based app. The iOS version has a Scene Delegate: class SceneDelegate: NSObject, UIWindowSceneDelegate { func scene(_ scene: UIScene, openURLContexts URLContexts: Set<UIOpenURLContext>) { for context in URLContexts { let url = context.url // url.scheme = my custom scheme let text = ... extracted from url ... // I want to open a new untitled document with text // but 'newDocument' has been explicitly marked unavailable for iOS } } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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May ’25
Deadline for Adopting Scene-Based Life-Cycle in UIKit Apps
I found the following statement on the site https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3187-migrating-to-the-uikit-scene-based-life-cycle: "Soon, all UIKit based apps will be required to adopt the scene-based life-cycle, after which your app won’t launch if you don’t. While supporting multiple scenes is encouraged, only adoption of scene life-cycle is required." Could you please clarify when exactly apps will no longer be able to launch if they do not adopt the scene-based life-cycle? I would like to confirm the deadline as the impact of this change is significant.
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May ’25
How to get the date range of the data that is currently displayed in a Apple Chart?
I have a Swiftui app, and I'm using the Apple Chart framework to chart user transactions over time. I'd like to be able to show an annotation at the top of the chart that shows the date range of the records currently visible on the chart. Much like Apple does in their Heath App charts. But I just can't seem to find a method to read the current date range displayed on the chart once the user has scrolled though the chart. Has anyone done anything similar, or maybe seen some sample code? So far I'm striking out on this... Thanks in advance
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May ’25
Crash when minimizing on external display and unplugging it (iOS App on Mac)
Our iOS app, when running as an iOS App on Mac, crashes consistently under the following scenario: 1. Launch the app on an external display. 2. Minimize the app window. 3. Disconnect the external display. The app crashes every time under these conditions. The crash log shows the following call stack: *** Assertion failure in -[UINSWorkspace _maximumContentSizeForWindowOnScreen:], UINSWorkspace.m:401 -[UINSWorkspace _maximumContentSizeForWindowOnScreen:]: screen parameter should not be nil ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x000000018e841df0 __exceptionPreprocess + 176 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x000000018e306b60 objc_exception_throw + 88 2 Foundation 0x000000018fb6aa78 -[NSCalendarDate initWithCoder:] + 0 3 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a59110 -[UINSWorkspace _maximumContentSizeForWindowOnScreen:] + 184 4 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3e748 -[UINSSceneViewController _usableScreenSizeWithSceneSize:shouldOverride:] + 412 5 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3d55c -[UINSSceneViewController _effectiveScaleFactorForLayoutWithOverride:] + 88 6 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3f3a8 -[UINSSceneViewController _updateZoomFactors] + 28 7 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3f248 -[UINSSceneViewController _updateZoomFactorsAndDoLayout] + 24 8 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3df80 -[UINSSceneViewController _doUpdates:] + 104 9 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a99ad460 -[UINSSceneViewController observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 176 10 Foundation 0x000000018facb0d8 -[NSKeyValueObservance observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 388 11 Foundation 0x000000018facb0d8 -[NSKeyValueObservance observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 388 12 Foundation 0x000000018fa8f7b4 NSKeyValueNotifyObserver + 252 13 Foundation 0x000000018fb3c560 NSKeyValueDidChange + 388 14 Foundation 0x00000001903149a0 NSKeyValueDidChangeWithPerThreadPendingNotifications + 160 15 AppKit 0x00000001924673d4 -[NSThemeFrame _didChangeContentLayoutRect] + 76 16 AppKit 0x000000019246521c -[NSWindow _oldPlaceWindow:fromServer:] + 744 ) It seems like the system attempts to access a screen object that is already nil after the external monitor is removed. This leads to an assertion failure in UINSWorkspace. Is there any known workaround or update planned to address this issue? Thank you.
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May ’25
CarPlay selection highlightning
It looks like I'm one of the rare developers dealing with CarPlay... I develop a CarPlay extension for my apps. A few things: especially when using the CarPlay I/O window in iOS Simulator, I get random selection highlightning for list items: I have three list templates in a tab template; once I reselect a list using the tab which has been selected before, the initial list item highlights / returns to normal every refresh of the list content; while this doesn't happen for my real world Sony CarPlay device, I'd rather not see such disturbing highlighting for my users. I do not update the template structs or items here, it is just content like text of detailText I update. Question: how to remove highlightning programmatically - especially for devices with touch screen? I have one user who reports auto-selection of UI elements while driving; I assume this is some problem with his touch screen, but it may be a general issue too. Question: anyone with similar observations connecting my iPhone to the stand-alone Car Play simulator doesn't work; I had it working before, so it might be related to a recent iOS beta... Any hints / observations are welcome. The CarPlay community really seems to be small and I'd like to hear other's experience on the named items.
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May ’25
visionOS NavigationSplitView - Refreshable ProgressView Disappears
Description I've encountered an issue with NavigationSplitView on visionOS when using a refreshable ScrollView or List in the detail view. The Problem: When implementing pull-to-refresh in the detail view of a NavigationSplitView, the ProgressView disappears and generates this warning: Trying to convert coordinates between views that are in different UIWindows, which isn't supported. Use convertPoint:fromCoordinateSpace: instead. I discovered that if the detail view includes a .navigationTitle(), the ProgressView remains visible and works correctly! Below is a minimal reproducible example showing this behavior. When you run this code, you'll notice: The sidebar refreshable works fine The detail refreshable works only when .navigationTitle("Something") is present Remove the navigationTitle and the detail view's refresh indicator disappears minimal Demo import SwiftUI struct MinimalRefreshableDemo: View { @State private var items = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"] @State private var detailItems = ["Detail 1", "Detail 2", "Detail 3"] @State private var selectedItem: String? = "Item 1" var body: some View { NavigationSplitView { List(items, id: \.self, selection: $selectedItem) { item in Text(item) } .refreshable { items = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"] } .navigationTitle("Chat") } detail: { List { ForEach(detailItems, id: \.self) { item in Text(item) .frame(height: 100) .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) } } .refreshable { detailItems = ["Detail 1", "Detail 2", "Detail 3"] } .navigationTitle("Something") } } } #Preview { MinimalRefreshableDemo() } Is this expected behavior? Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a solution that doesn't require adding a navigation title?
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May ’25
SwiftUI Picker does cause unresponsive views
Using the native SwiftUI.Picker to set a @State which is then used to render different child views based on the selected state (using a switch-case inside body) seems to cause those child views to be unresponsive. The following code below is a replicates the issue. The solution I am currently using is to build my own custom Picker that relies on SwiftUI.Buttons to set the state. This works. enum PickerSelection: Hashable { case binding, ownState } struct MainApp: View { @State private var pickerSelection: PickerSelection? = nil @State private var isToggled: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack(alignment: .leading) { /// Changing `pickerSelection` via `SwiftUI.Picker` causes child views' toggles to be unresponsive. Picker("Picker", selection: $pickerSelection) { Text("No Option").tag(Optional<PickerSelection>(nil)) Text("Binding").tag(PickerSelection.binding) Text("Own state").tag(PickerSelection.ownState) } /// Changing `pickerSelection` via a custom `Button`-based picker works as expected. CustomPickerWithButtonBased(pickerSelection: $pickerSelection) switch pickerSelection { case .binding: ChildViewWithBinding(isToggled: $isToggled) case .ownState: ChildViewManagingOwnState() case .none: EmptyView() } Spacer() } .padding() } } struct ChildViewWithBinding: View { @Binding var isToggled: Bool var body: some View { Toggle("ChildViewWithBinding", isOn: $isToggled) } } struct ChildViewManagingOwnState: View { @State private var isToggled: Bool = false var body: some View { Toggle("ChildViewManagingOwnState", isOn: $isToggled) } } struct CustomPickerWithButtonBased: View { @Binding var pickerSelection: PickerSelection? var body: some View { HStack { Button { pickerSelection = .binding } label: { Text("Binding") } Button { pickerSelection = .ownState } label: { Text("OwnState") } } } } Am I missing something with Picker?
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May ’25
tvOS: Using .onExitCommand to Navigate to Home Tab Before Exiting — Is This Acceptable?
Hi Apple Developer Team, In my tvOS app built with SwiftUI, I have a tab-based interface with several sections. The first tab (index 0) is the Home tab. Other tabs include Contact, WiFi, Welcome, etc. I want to handle the remote's Menu / Back button (.onExitCommand) so that: If the user is on any tab other than Home (tabs 1, 2, 3, etc.), pressing the Menu button takes them back to the Home tab. If the user is already on the Home tab, then pressing the TV/Home button (not Menu) behaves as expected — suspending or exiting the app (handled by the system, no code involved). Here's a simplified version of what I implemented: .onExitCommand { if selectedTab != 0 { selectedTab = 0 focusedTab = 0 } else { // Let system handle the exit when user presses the TV/Home button } } This behavior ensures users don’t accidentally exit the app when they're browsing other tabs, and provides a consistent navigation experience. Question: Is this an acceptable and App Store-compliant use of .onExitCommand on tvOS? I'm not calling exit(0) or trying to force-terminate the app — just using .onExitCommand for in-app navigation purposes. Any official guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Prashant
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May ’25
NewDocumentButton in DocumentGroupLauchScene crashes for SwiftData Document-Based App
I have a SwiftData document-based app. It is initialized like this: @main struct MyApp: App { @State private var showTemplatePicker = false @State private var documentCreationContinuation: CheckedContinuation<URL?, any Error>? var body: some Scene { DocumentGroup(editing: .myDocument, migrationPlan: MyMigrationPlan.self) { CanvasView() } DocumentGroupLaunchScene(Text("My App")) { NewDocumentButton("New", contentType: .canvasDocument) { try await withCheckedThrowingContinuation { continuation in documentCreationContinuation = continuation showTemplatePicker = true } } .fullScreenCover(isPresented: $showTemplatePicker) { TemplateView(documentCreationContinuation: $documentCreationContinuation) } } background: { Image("BoardVignette") .resizable() } } } extension UTType { static var canvasDocument: UTType { UTType(importedAs: "com.example.MyApp.canvas") } } Pressing the New button crashes with: #0 0x00000001d3a6e12c in (1) suspend resume partial function for closure #1 () async -> () in SwiftUI.IdentifiedDocumentGroupDocumentCreation.createNewDocument(with: SwiftUI.IdentifiedDocumentGroupConfiguration, url: Swift.Optional<Foundation.URL>, newDocumentProvider: Swift.Optional<SwiftUI.AsyncNewDocumentProvider>, _: (Swift.Optional<SwiftUI.PlatformDocument>) -> ()) -> () () All sample code that I've seen uses a FileDocument but SwiftData's setup doesn't have one so it's not completely clear how you should be using NewDocumentButton with a SwiftData file. The crash happens even before my prepareDocumentURL handler is called (I set a breakpoint and it never stops). My hunch is that the crash is because it's not able to match my contentType to a Document. Can anyone at Apple help? I don't think this use-case has been documented well.
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May ’25
Does adding a bar button item to the navigation bar programmatically when offering scene support differ from the old app delegate approach
I have used the following code for years to add a right bar button item to the navigation bar, but for some unknown reason, this no longer works. It stopped working when I updated my app to have Scene support. I don't understand what is preventing this code from working. @interface ViewController () @end @implementation ViewController - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view. NSLog(@"viewDidLoad"); // Add a Share Button UIBarButtonItem *shareButton; shareButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAction target:self action:@selector(editProject:)]; self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = shareButton; self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor]; } -(void) editProject:(id)sender { } @end To test this, I created a brand new test app that does nothing except for attempting to add this button. The autogenerated code gives you the following project and I simply modified the ViewController class as shown above: What do I need to do differently to make the right bar button item to display? I know that I can add buttons using the storyboard that can be controlled via IBOutlets, but just want to know if its still possible to do this programmatically.
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May ’25
`SwiftUI.Table` Select and Done buttons breaking navigation on iPadOS?
https://github.com/apple/sample-food-truck Hi! I'm following along with the sample-food-truck application from WWDC 2022. I'm seeing some weird navigation issues when building the app for iPadOS. The Table component displays a Select Button for selecting elements and a Done Button disabling that state. These buttons seem to be breaking something about navigation on iOS 18.4.1. It's a nondeterministic issue… but tapping the buttons seems to lead to some corrupt state where the app transitions out of OrdersView and back to TruckView. This code from FoodTruckModel seems to be making a difference: Task(priority: .background) { var generator = OrderGenerator.SeededRandomGenerator(seed: 5) for _ in 0..<20 { try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: .secondsToNanoseconds(.random(in: 3 ... 8, using: &generator))) Task { @MainActor in withAnimation(.spring(response: 0.4, dampingFraction: 1)) { self.orders.append(orderGenerator.generateOrder(number: orders.count + 1, date: .now, generator: &generator)) } } } } Commenting out that code and disabling the new Order values coming in seems to fix the issue. Is there any public documentation for me to learn about the Select and Done buttons? I don't see anywhere for me to learn about how these work and what my ability is to customize their behavior. Any ideas? I can repro from device and simulator.
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May ’25
UIPageViewController embedded in UIScrollView ignores the first pan gesture on its pages
I have a UIPageViewController embedded in a UIScrollView and each page has a drawing view with a UIPanGestureRecognizer to free-draw. With this setup, the 1st time I attempt to draw, the pan gesture is ignored. It works the 2nd time I perform the gesture. In my case I need to wrap the UIPageViewController in a UIScrollView to have a pull to refresh mechanism (set thescrollView.refreshControl). I’ve tried every combination of UIGestureRecognizerDelegate methods (shouldRecognizeSimultaneously…, require(toFail:), etc.) with no luck. This is my view hierarchy: ScrollView |- UIPageViewController |- Page 1 | |- DrawingView with UIPanGestureRecognizer |- Page 2 |- DrawingView with UIPanGestureRecognizer Is this a known limitation when a UIPageViewController is nested inside another scroll view? Reproduction steps (tested on iOS 18.4 / Xcode 16.3, iPhone 16 Pro) Launch the app; the first page shows a white canvas in the bottom part. Try to draw immediately → nothing happens. Lift your finger and draw again → works. Here is a link for the sample project with the reproducible code: https://github.com/marcod-storyteller/page-controller-sample P.S: If the UIPageViewController has a .pageCurl transition style instead, the problem disappears.
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Cannot configure contentShape for final preview of .contextMenu(menuItems: , preview: )
Without using a custom preview, you can set .contentShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) so that in the "zoomed in" preview of the contextMenu you can have a custom cornerRadius. However, this does not work if you create a custom preview, because then the ContentShape gets applied only to the LIFT PREVIEW, and not to the FINAL PREVIEW state. Heres a sample code - I'd love some support! :) import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { VStack { Rectangle() .fill(Color.blue) .frame(width: 300, height: 300) .cornerRadius(30) .contentShape(.contextMenuPreview, RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) .contextMenu { Button("Hello") {} Button("Goofy") {} } preview: { Rectangle() .fill(Color.blue) .frame(width: 300, height: 300) .cornerRadius(30) //.contentShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) //.contentShape(.contextMenuPreview, RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 30)) } Text("contextMenu item with large cornerRadius is not working as expected... No way to set contentShape to custom corner radius for final preview - not the lift preview") } } }
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Debugging Snapshot Thread Confinement Warning in UITableViewDiffableDataSource
I first applied a snapshot on the main thread like this: var snapshot = NSDiffableDataSourceSnapshot<Section, MessageViewModel>() snapshot.appendSections([.main]) snapshot.appendItems([], toSection: .main) dataSource.applySnapshotUsingReloadData(snapshot) After loading data, I applied the snapshot again using: Task { @MainActor in await dataSource.applySnapshotUsingReloadData(snapshot) } On an iPhone 13 mini, I received the following warning: Warning: applying updates in a non-thread confined manner is dangerous and can lead to deadlocks. Please always submit updates either always on the main queue or always off the main queue However, this warning did not appear when I ran the same code on an iPhone 16 Pro simulator. Can anyone explain it to me? Thank you
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May ’25
Is applicationDidFinishLaunching: guaranteed to be called before INIntent delegate methods when app is launched via a Shortcut?
I have a question about the app lifecycle when my app is launched via a Shortcut. I'm adding a INIntent to a Mac app. So my app delegate implements: - (nullable id)application:(NSApplication *)application handlerForIntent:(INIntent *)intent Then my custom intent handler implements the two protocol methods -confirmIntentNameHere:completion: and -handleIntentNameHere:completion: During my testing -applicationDidFinishLaunching: is called before the intent methods, so I can forward methods to my main window controller to perform the shortcut actions, since it's already ready. ....But if this is not always the case, I can still perform them but I'd have to move the code out of the window controller to perform the action "headless" if invoked before my app has built its UI. Just wondering if this is something I should be prepared for. Thanks in advance.
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May ’25
SwiftData/ModelSnapshot.swift:46: Fatal error: A ModelSnapshot must be initialized with a known-keys dictionary
I'm running into a crash when trying to delete an item from a list that's loaded using SwiftData. The app works fine when selecting or displaying the data, but the moment I confirm a deletion, it crashes with this error: SwiftData/ModelSnapshot.swift:46: Fatal error: A ModelSnapshot must be initialized with a known-keys dictionary This happens right after I delete an item from the list using modelContext.delete(). I’ve double-checked that the item exists and is valid, and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The data is loaded using @Query and everything seems normal until deletion. For further information, I have tried this on a new IOS project where I have one super Model class with a cascading relationship on a child class. When trying to delete the parent class while connected to one or more children, it still gives me the error. The same thing is happening with my original project. Class A has a relationship (cascading) with Class B. Attempting to delete Class A while there are relationships with Class B throws this error. If anyone has experienced this or knows what causes it, please let me know. I’m not even sure where to start debugging this one. Thanks in advance!
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May ’25
How to create a QuickTime recording like panel?
QuickTime recording palette behaves in a way which I want to replicate in my desktop app - specifically the behaviour when switching spaces, it appears on top. Currently, my app appears on all spaces, and even over fullscreen applications BUT it already exists when I switch to the space, this feels disjointed. I can't find a solution to this behaviour. Here's the Window Collection Behaviours I've tried (on an NSPanel): FullScreenAuxiliary - appears over fullscreen apps. CanJoinAllSpaces - appears on all spaces. These two options make the dock show up on all spaces in the same position, but on each space they already exists. I've tried this behaviour too: MoveToActiveSpace - which as per docs would move the window into active space only when its reopened, mine stays open all the time. I can't find any more information on how QuickTime achieves this.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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May ’25
Regarding ARKit camera feed zoom and macro support for closer object
I am currently developing an AR experience using ARKit with SceneKit and am looking to implement functionality that enables: Zooming into the AR camera feed, ideally leveraging the ultra-wide or telephoto lenses available on supported devices. Macro-style focus capabilities, allowing users to view and interact with virtual content closely aligned with small or nearby real-world objects (within a few centimeters). My objective is to ensure that ARKit continues to render the scene accurately while enabling a zoomed-in view or macro-level focus for better detail visibility and alignment. Could you please advise on: Whether ARKit currently supports camera zoom or allows access to macro or ultra-wide cameras within an ARSession. Limitations or considerations when using multi-camera setups in conjunction with ARKit. Any guidance or references to documentation or sample code would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Ayush
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May ’25
Bundling OSX installer plugin with productbuild/pkgbuild
I'm trying to create a .pkg installer with productbuild/pkgbuild. But I'd also like to add my custom installer plugin to this. I'm using the following script. I'd like to add my bundle into this script. Since there are no official docs from apple how to do this nor there are a lot of updated resources, here are some things I have tried. adding the following line to Distrubtion.xml <bundle id="pluginid" path="path/to/myplugin.bundle"/> adding component tag to pkgbuild also doesn't do anything --component "path/to/myplugin.bundle" The bundle itself is build with XCode - it is a simple UI for user to type some input in Apple provides documentation for Distribution.xml file, which supports different UI elements but doesn't support text input - docs I have been also looking at this tutorial , it is very outdated but i could still fit it to my needs except the part where the .bundle file needs to be inserted into .pkg. Note - there is no option to view the contents of .pkg file build with pkbuild/productbuild How can i do this process correctly? I would like to link my installer pane plugin to a generic .pkg(with licenses and so on). I'd appreciate any kind of help!
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May ’25
Room Plan Issue (structure.capturedStructure)
Hi everyone, My app crashed when using the merge room feature. I suspect the issue might be caused by a wall having more than 4 edges. Has anyone experienced a similar problem and found a solution? I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thank you all, and have a great day! let capturedStructure = try await structure.capturedStructure(from: self.rooms)
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May ’25
Open new document in SwiftUI on iOS
I have a SwiftUI document based app. The iOS version has a Scene Delegate: class SceneDelegate: NSObject, UIWindowSceneDelegate { func scene(_ scene: UIScene, openURLContexts URLContexts: Set<UIOpenURLContext>) { for context in URLContexts { let url = context.url // url.scheme = my custom scheme let text = ... extracted from url ... // I want to open a new untitled document with text // but 'newDocument' has been explicitly marked unavailable for iOS } } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: SwiftUI
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May ’25
Deadline for Adopting Scene-Based Life-Cycle in UIKit Apps
I found the following statement on the site https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3187-migrating-to-the-uikit-scene-based-life-cycle: "Soon, all UIKit based apps will be required to adopt the scene-based life-cycle, after which your app won’t launch if you don’t. While supporting multiple scenes is encouraged, only adoption of scene life-cycle is required." Could you please clarify when exactly apps will no longer be able to launch if they do not adopt the scene-based life-cycle? I would like to confirm the deadline as the impact of this change is significant.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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May ’25
How to get the date range of the data that is currently displayed in a Apple Chart?
I have a Swiftui app, and I'm using the Apple Chart framework to chart user transactions over time. I'd like to be able to show an annotation at the top of the chart that shows the date range of the records currently visible on the chart. Much like Apple does in their Heath App charts. But I just can't seem to find a method to read the current date range displayed on the chart once the user has scrolled though the chart. Has anyone done anything similar, or maybe seen some sample code? So far I'm striking out on this... Thanks in advance
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May ’25
Crash when minimizing on external display and unplugging it (iOS App on Mac)
Our iOS app, when running as an iOS App on Mac, crashes consistently under the following scenario: 1. Launch the app on an external display. 2. Minimize the app window. 3. Disconnect the external display. The app crashes every time under these conditions. The crash log shows the following call stack: *** Assertion failure in -[UINSWorkspace _maximumContentSizeForWindowOnScreen:], UINSWorkspace.m:401 -[UINSWorkspace _maximumContentSizeForWindowOnScreen:]: screen parameter should not be nil ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x000000018e841df0 __exceptionPreprocess + 176 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x000000018e306b60 objc_exception_throw + 88 2 Foundation 0x000000018fb6aa78 -[NSCalendarDate initWithCoder:] + 0 3 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a59110 -[UINSWorkspace _maximumContentSizeForWindowOnScreen:] + 184 4 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3e748 -[UINSSceneViewController _usableScreenSizeWithSceneSize:shouldOverride:] + 412 5 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3d55c -[UINSSceneViewController _effectiveScaleFactorForLayoutWithOverride:] + 88 6 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3f3a8 -[UINSSceneViewController _updateZoomFactors] + 28 7 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3f248 -[UINSSceneViewController _updateZoomFactorsAndDoLayout] + 24 8 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a9a3df80 -[UINSSceneViewController _doUpdates:] + 104 9 UIKitMacHelper 0x00000001a99ad460 -[UINSSceneViewController observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 176 10 Foundation 0x000000018facb0d8 -[NSKeyValueObservance observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 388 11 Foundation 0x000000018facb0d8 -[NSKeyValueObservance observeValueForKeyPath:ofObject:change:context:] + 388 12 Foundation 0x000000018fa8f7b4 NSKeyValueNotifyObserver + 252 13 Foundation 0x000000018fb3c560 NSKeyValueDidChange + 388 14 Foundation 0x00000001903149a0 NSKeyValueDidChangeWithPerThreadPendingNotifications + 160 15 AppKit 0x00000001924673d4 -[NSThemeFrame _didChangeContentLayoutRect] + 76 16 AppKit 0x000000019246521c -[NSWindow _oldPlaceWindow:fromServer:] + 744 ) It seems like the system attempts to access a screen object that is already nil after the external monitor is removed. This leads to an assertion failure in UINSWorkspace. Is there any known workaround or update planned to address this issue? Thank you.
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May ’25
CarPlay selection highlightning
It looks like I'm one of the rare developers dealing with CarPlay... I develop a CarPlay extension for my apps. A few things: especially when using the CarPlay I/O window in iOS Simulator, I get random selection highlightning for list items: I have three list templates in a tab template; once I reselect a list using the tab which has been selected before, the initial list item highlights / returns to normal every refresh of the list content; while this doesn't happen for my real world Sony CarPlay device, I'd rather not see such disturbing highlighting for my users. I do not update the template structs or items here, it is just content like text of detailText I update. Question: how to remove highlightning programmatically - especially for devices with touch screen? I have one user who reports auto-selection of UI elements while driving; I assume this is some problem with his touch screen, but it may be a general issue too. Question: anyone with similar observations connecting my iPhone to the stand-alone Car Play simulator doesn't work; I had it working before, so it might be related to a recent iOS beta... Any hints / observations are welcome. The CarPlay community really seems to be small and I'd like to hear other's experience on the named items.
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May ’25
visionOS NavigationSplitView - Refreshable ProgressView Disappears
Description I've encountered an issue with NavigationSplitView on visionOS when using a refreshable ScrollView or List in the detail view. The Problem: When implementing pull-to-refresh in the detail view of a NavigationSplitView, the ProgressView disappears and generates this warning: Trying to convert coordinates between views that are in different UIWindows, which isn't supported. Use convertPoint:fromCoordinateSpace: instead. I discovered that if the detail view includes a .navigationTitle(), the ProgressView remains visible and works correctly! Below is a minimal reproducible example showing this behavior. When you run this code, you'll notice: The sidebar refreshable works fine The detail refreshable works only when .navigationTitle("Something") is present Remove the navigationTitle and the detail view's refresh indicator disappears minimal Demo import SwiftUI struct MinimalRefreshableDemo: View { @State private var items = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"] @State private var detailItems = ["Detail 1", "Detail 2", "Detail 3"] @State private var selectedItem: String? = "Item 1" var body: some View { NavigationSplitView { List(items, id: \.self, selection: $selectedItem) { item in Text(item) } .refreshable { items = ["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"] } .navigationTitle("Chat") } detail: { List { ForEach(detailItems, id: \.self) { item in Text(item) .frame(height: 100) .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) } } .refreshable { detailItems = ["Detail 1", "Detail 2", "Detail 3"] } .navigationTitle("Something") } } } #Preview { MinimalRefreshableDemo() } Is this expected behavior? Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a solution that doesn't require adding a navigation title?
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May ’25
SwiftUI Picker does cause unresponsive views
Using the native SwiftUI.Picker to set a @State which is then used to render different child views based on the selected state (using a switch-case inside body) seems to cause those child views to be unresponsive. The following code below is a replicates the issue. The solution I am currently using is to build my own custom Picker that relies on SwiftUI.Buttons to set the state. This works. enum PickerSelection: Hashable { case binding, ownState } struct MainApp: View { @State private var pickerSelection: PickerSelection? = nil @State private var isToggled: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack(alignment: .leading) { /// Changing `pickerSelection` via `SwiftUI.Picker` causes child views' toggles to be unresponsive. Picker("Picker", selection: $pickerSelection) { Text("No Option").tag(Optional<PickerSelection>(nil)) Text("Binding").tag(PickerSelection.binding) Text("Own state").tag(PickerSelection.ownState) } /// Changing `pickerSelection` via a custom `Button`-based picker works as expected. CustomPickerWithButtonBased(pickerSelection: $pickerSelection) switch pickerSelection { case .binding: ChildViewWithBinding(isToggled: $isToggled) case .ownState: ChildViewManagingOwnState() case .none: EmptyView() } Spacer() } .padding() } } struct ChildViewWithBinding: View { @Binding var isToggled: Bool var body: some View { Toggle("ChildViewWithBinding", isOn: $isToggled) } } struct ChildViewManagingOwnState: View { @State private var isToggled: Bool = false var body: some View { Toggle("ChildViewManagingOwnState", isOn: $isToggled) } } struct CustomPickerWithButtonBased: View { @Binding var pickerSelection: PickerSelection? var body: some View { HStack { Button { pickerSelection = .binding } label: { Text("Binding") } Button { pickerSelection = .ownState } label: { Text("OwnState") } } } } Am I missing something with Picker?
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May ’25
tvOS: Using .onExitCommand to Navigate to Home Tab Before Exiting — Is This Acceptable?
Hi Apple Developer Team, In my tvOS app built with SwiftUI, I have a tab-based interface with several sections. The first tab (index 0) is the Home tab. Other tabs include Contact, WiFi, Welcome, etc. I want to handle the remote's Menu / Back button (.onExitCommand) so that: If the user is on any tab other than Home (tabs 1, 2, 3, etc.), pressing the Menu button takes them back to the Home tab. If the user is already on the Home tab, then pressing the TV/Home button (not Menu) behaves as expected — suspending or exiting the app (handled by the system, no code involved). Here's a simplified version of what I implemented: .onExitCommand { if selectedTab != 0 { selectedTab = 0 focusedTab = 0 } else { // Let system handle the exit when user presses the TV/Home button } } This behavior ensures users don’t accidentally exit the app when they're browsing other tabs, and provides a consistent navigation experience. Question: Is this an acceptable and App Store-compliant use of .onExitCommand on tvOS? I'm not calling exit(0) or trying to force-terminate the app — just using .onExitCommand for in-app navigation purposes. Any official guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Prashant
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May ’25
NewDocumentButton in DocumentGroupLauchScene crashes for SwiftData Document-Based App
I have a SwiftData document-based app. It is initialized like this: @main struct MyApp: App { @State private var showTemplatePicker = false @State private var documentCreationContinuation: CheckedContinuation<URL?, any Error>? var body: some Scene { DocumentGroup(editing: .myDocument, migrationPlan: MyMigrationPlan.self) { CanvasView() } DocumentGroupLaunchScene(Text("My App")) { NewDocumentButton("New", contentType: .canvasDocument) { try await withCheckedThrowingContinuation { continuation in documentCreationContinuation = continuation showTemplatePicker = true } } .fullScreenCover(isPresented: $showTemplatePicker) { TemplateView(documentCreationContinuation: $documentCreationContinuation) } } background: { Image("BoardVignette") .resizable() } } } extension UTType { static var canvasDocument: UTType { UTType(importedAs: "com.example.MyApp.canvas") } } Pressing the New button crashes with: #0 0x00000001d3a6e12c in (1) suspend resume partial function for closure #1 () async -> () in SwiftUI.IdentifiedDocumentGroupDocumentCreation.createNewDocument(with: SwiftUI.IdentifiedDocumentGroupConfiguration, url: Swift.Optional<Foundation.URL>, newDocumentProvider: Swift.Optional<SwiftUI.AsyncNewDocumentProvider>, _: (Swift.Optional<SwiftUI.PlatformDocument>) -> ()) -> () () All sample code that I've seen uses a FileDocument but SwiftData's setup doesn't have one so it's not completely clear how you should be using NewDocumentButton with a SwiftData file. The crash happens even before my prepareDocumentURL handler is called (I set a breakpoint and it never stops). My hunch is that the crash is because it's not able to match my contentType to a Document. Can anyone at Apple help? I don't think this use-case has been documented well.
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May ’25
Does adding a bar button item to the navigation bar programmatically when offering scene support differ from the old app delegate approach
I have used the following code for years to add a right bar button item to the navigation bar, but for some unknown reason, this no longer works. It stopped working when I updated my app to have Scene support. I don't understand what is preventing this code from working. @interface ViewController () @end @implementation ViewController - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view. NSLog(@"viewDidLoad"); // Add a Share Button UIBarButtonItem *shareButton; shareButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAction target:self action:@selector(editProject:)]; self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = shareButton; self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor]; } -(void) editProject:(id)sender { } @end To test this, I created a brand new test app that does nothing except for attempting to add this button. The autogenerated code gives you the following project and I simply modified the ViewController class as shown above: What do I need to do differently to make the right bar button item to display? I know that I can add buttons using the storyboard that can be controlled via IBOutlets, but just want to know if its still possible to do this programmatically.
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May ’25
`SwiftUI.Table` Select and Done buttons breaking navigation on iPadOS?
https://github.com/apple/sample-food-truck Hi! I'm following along with the sample-food-truck application from WWDC 2022. I'm seeing some weird navigation issues when building the app for iPadOS. The Table component displays a Select Button for selecting elements and a Done Button disabling that state. These buttons seem to be breaking something about navigation on iOS 18.4.1. It's a nondeterministic issue… but tapping the buttons seems to lead to some corrupt state where the app transitions out of OrdersView and back to TruckView. This code from FoodTruckModel seems to be making a difference: Task(priority: .background) { var generator = OrderGenerator.SeededRandomGenerator(seed: 5) for _ in 0..<20 { try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: .secondsToNanoseconds(.random(in: 3 ... 8, using: &generator))) Task { @MainActor in withAnimation(.spring(response: 0.4, dampingFraction: 1)) { self.orders.append(orderGenerator.generateOrder(number: orders.count + 1, date: .now, generator: &generator)) } } } } Commenting out that code and disabling the new Order values coming in seems to fix the issue. Is there any public documentation for me to learn about the Select and Done buttons? I don't see anywhere for me to learn about how these work and what my ability is to customize their behavior. Any ideas? I can repro from device and simulator.
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May ’25
UIPageViewController embedded in UIScrollView ignores the first pan gesture on its pages
I have a UIPageViewController embedded in a UIScrollView and each page has a drawing view with a UIPanGestureRecognizer to free-draw. With this setup, the 1st time I attempt to draw, the pan gesture is ignored. It works the 2nd time I perform the gesture. In my case I need to wrap the UIPageViewController in a UIScrollView to have a pull to refresh mechanism (set thescrollView.refreshControl). I’ve tried every combination of UIGestureRecognizerDelegate methods (shouldRecognizeSimultaneously…, require(toFail:), etc.) with no luck. This is my view hierarchy: ScrollView |- UIPageViewController |- Page 1 | |- DrawingView with UIPanGestureRecognizer |- Page 2 |- DrawingView with UIPanGestureRecognizer Is this a known limitation when a UIPageViewController is nested inside another scroll view? Reproduction steps (tested on iOS 18.4 / Xcode 16.3, iPhone 16 Pro) Launch the app; the first page shows a white canvas in the bottom part. Try to draw immediately → nothing happens. Lift your finger and draw again → works. Here is a link for the sample project with the reproducible code: https://github.com/marcod-storyteller/page-controller-sample P.S: If the UIPageViewController has a .pageCurl transition style instead, the problem disappears.
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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