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`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
FamilyActivityTitleView Label has wrong text color when app is using different than system theme
Hello, In a new app I am working on I noticed the FamilyActivityTitleView that displays "ApplicationToken" has wrong (black) color when phone is set to light mode but app is using dark mode via override. We display user's selected apps and the labels are rendered correctly at first, but then when user updates selection with FamilyActivityPicker, then those newly added apps are rendered with black titles. The problem goes away when I close the screen and open it again. It also doesn't happen when phone is set to dark theme. I am currently noticing the issue on iOS 18.4.1. I have tried various workarounds like forcing white text in the custom label style, forcing re-render with custom .id value but nothing helped. Is there any way how to fix this?
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May ’25
SwiftUI internal crash when interacting with long list quickly
Hello! We encountered a very intermittent crash with our application starting with devices running iOS 18.4. We have a screen that can display a long list of products in 2 states (expanded or collapsed) based off of a boolean if the user has interacted with that product yet. With this list, we very intermittently encounter a crash when we scroll like crazy up and down the list search the list quickly (search is performed each character change and list is filtered) Our project has iOS 17.0 as a minimum deployment target, and is Swift 6 enabled. Again, this started happening only with iOS 18.4, and is still visible (handful of occurrences each week). The crash report seems to be very internal to SwiftUI/Obj-c runtime. 5895AC17-6886-4070-BC80-8912E8394BDB.crash Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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Jun ’25
tvOS Remote Control Entitlements
I've been looking for a solution to configure the Apple TV remote(s) from the 5th generation and upwards. Some of the basic functionalities are disabling buttons on the physical remote control while maintaining proper functionality on remote controller apps on iOS devices. There seems to be a lack of relevant entitlements in that category, and without it I can't seem to figure out a way to make it work. Any ideas on the matter? Maybe a workaround that allows to configure the Apple TV to work with other remotes? Thank you in advance to anyone that put in thought to my query.
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May ’25
Specific ARKit node not showing in AR
After two types of objects correctly inserted as nodes in an augmented reality setting, I replicated exactly the same procedure with a third kind of objects that unfortunately refuse to show up. I checked the flow and it is the same as the other objects as well the content of the LocationAnnotation, but there is surely something that escapes me. Could someone help with some ideas? This is the common code, apart of the class: func appendInAR(ghostElement: Ghost){ let ghostElementAnnotationLocation=GhostLocationAnnotationNode(ghost: ghostElement) ghostElementAnnotationLocation.scaleRelativeToDistance = true sceneLocationView.addLocationNodeWithConfirmedLocation(locationNode: ghostElementAnnotationLocation) shownGhostsAnnotations.append(ghostElementAnnotationLocation) }
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Jun ’25
Checking the contents of a TextField variable method not working
Hoping someone can help me with this… The error is… Generic parameter ‘/‘ cannot be inferred. .multilineTextAlignment(.center) .onAppear(perform: { var checkFirstCardLatitude = cards.firstCardLatitude let charArray = Array(checkFirstCardLatitude) let allowed: [Character] = ["-", ".", "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"] for char in charArray { if char != allowed { cards.firstCardLatitude = "000.000000" // Reset Text Field } } })
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Widget Configuration Search with group headers...
I am working on a widget that allows the user to specify a list of items. Each item is an AppEntity and has an id, a type and a name. In the DisplayRepresentation I have and icon / image for each type. So when I tap on the specified items option a list of user specified items comes up with the option to search, select, deselect items. This works nicely. I sort them suggested entities by type then name so the list is predictable. How would like to be able to have a group / type header for each type of item. However, I don't know how to do that with the AppEntities. Help would be appreciated. I noticed that HomeKit takes a different approach. They have a list of items at the bottom labeled "Choose Scene Or Accessory". You can move the items up / down in the list, you can delete, and add items. When you tap "Add an item" in the list it goes to a search screen where the items are grouped by the room and have the individual items beneath them. I don't like that you have to select one item at a time but I love having the headings for the rooms. The question here is how did they do that? Is there sample code somewhere that does something similar.
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Jun ’25
Opening FileDocument with URL → should only be called in the main thread
Its document says openDocument can open a document at a specific URL. So I've saved a model as a JSON object with its URL and a bookmark as Data. With its security-scoped bookmark data resolved, I am able to open a document except that the app will crash right after opening a document. Console says should only be called in the main thread struct ContentView: View { @EnvironmentObject var bookmarkViewModel: BookmarkViewModel var body: some View { VStack { } .onAppear { loadBookmarks() } } extension ContentView { func loadBookmarks() { print("1 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread Task { for bookmarkItem in bookmarkViewModel.bookmarkItems { // resolving a security-scoped bookmark print("2 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread if let _ = resolveBookmark(bookmarkData: bookmarkItem.bookmarkData) { print("3 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread do { print("4 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread try await openDocument(at: bookmarkItem.bookmarkURL) print("5 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread } catch { print("\(error.localizedDescription)") } } } } } } Well, the application is on the main thread. I've checked every line before and after opening a document with its URL. Call what on the main thread? This is confusing. Thanks. class BookmarkViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var bookmarkItems: [BookmarkItem] = [] var defaultFileManager: FileManager { return FileManager.default } var documentURL: URL? { ... } init() { fetchBookmarkItems() } func fetchBookmarkItems() { bookmarkItems.removeAll() if let documentURL { let bookmarkFolderURL = documentURL.appending(path: "MyApp").appending(path: "Bookmarks") do { let contents = try defaultFileManager.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: bookmarkFolderURL.path) for content in contents { ... let fileURL = bookmarkFolderURL.appending(path: content) let data = try Data(contentsOf: fileURL) let bookmarkItem = try JSONDecoder().decode(BookmarkItem.self, from: data) bookmarkItems.append(bookmarkItem) } } catch { print("Error fetching folder content: \(error.localizedDescription)") } } } } struct BookmarkItem: Codable, Hashable { let bookmarkURL: URL let date: Date let bookmarkData: Data let open: Bool }
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May ’25
NSDocument disregards save panel!
In a previous post entitled “Save fails after Save As” I described a strange problem involving the Save and Save As operations in a macOS app I wrote: see https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/779755. Since that posting (unanswered up to now) I tried various modifications of my app, in order better to understand the problem. Now, at the time of that posting I was using a version of the app that attempted — clumsily and incompletely — to circumvent the problem. Since then I decided to eliminate from my app this unsuccessful workaround. My app is called Goperfekt (it’s in the App Store) and is meant for macOS 11 to 15. I recently created a “bare bones” version of the app: this bare-bones version is called Goperf and contains the bare minimum necessary to save and open files of the exact same two file types as in Goperfekt, namely gop (an exported type that conforms to public.data), sgf (an imported type that conforms to public.text). Goperf and Goperfekt both use dataAfType:error: as their writing method. (Yes, Objective-C… but I’ve been working on that app on and off for nearly twenty years and when Swift came out my Obj-C project was already too advanced…) The problem is the following. In Goperfekt under macOS 15 the Save and Save As operations do not work as they should (see description below). In Goperfekt under macOS 12 and 11 the Save and Save As operations work perfectly, just as they should. (Unfortunately I do not have machines running macOS 14 or 13 at the moment.) Goperf, the bare-bones version, on the other hand, works perfectly in all three versions of macOS that I have (11, 12, 15). Here is a description of the problem with Goperfekt under macOS 15. The precise app behavior described below presupposes that the user has activated the option System Settings/Desktop & Dock/Windows/Ask to keep changes when closing documents. If you deactivate this option, the app misbehaves similarly, though somewhat differently. First three important facts (Goperfekt and Goperf in macOS 11, 12, 15): I can open an already existing gop file, modify the document, and save it in that gop file, or save it as another gop file, without any problem. I can also open an already existing sgf file, modify the document, and save it in that sgf file, or save it as another sgf file, without any problem. I can also save a new document as a gop file. BUT in Goperfekt in macOS 15 it is possible neither to save a new document as an sgf file, nor to open a gop file and save it as an sgf file, IN CASES 1 AND 2 the parameter typeName received by dataOfType:error: is not “com.red-bean.sgf” (corresponding to the imported sgf extension) as it should, but “com.florrain.goperfekt-document” (corresponding to the exported gop extension). The result is a file with the sgf extension (such as “A.sgf”, as specified in the save panel), but this file is really a gop file with the wrong extension! You can see that by asking Goperfekt to open “A.sgf” (which will generate an alert), or by opening "A.sgf” in TextEdit. You can also add .gop to the name “A.sgf” and then ask Goperfekt to open “A.sgf.gop”, which it will do without a problem. Nor is it possible to open an sgf file and save it as a gop file. Here the parameter typeName received by dataOfType:error: is not “com.florrain.goperfekt-document” (the exported type) as it should, but “com.red-bean.sgf” (the imported type). The result is a file with the gop extension (such as “A.gop”, as specified in the save panel), but this file is really an sgf file with the wrong extension! You can see that by asking Goperfekt to open “A.gop” (which will generate an alert), or by opening "A.gop” in TextEdit. You can also add .sgf to the name “A.gop” and then ask Goperfekt to open “A.gop.sgf”, which it will do without a problem. Somewhere behind the scenes (only in Goperfekt on macOS 15) NSDocument disregards what was specified by the user in the save panel and sends to dataAfType:error: the wrong file type! Why on Earth? If, after having created a file “A.sgf” that is really a gop file, I change something in the document and try to save this change in “A.sgf”, the system displays a somewhat puzzling alert, and diagnostic messages appear in the Xcode console. According to the circumstances, these messages can contain such puzzling labels as NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension or NSFileCoordinator. Similarly for a file “A.gop” that is really an sgf file. Conclusion: search as I may, I could not find what makes Goperfekt misbehave in macOS 15 but not in macOS 11 or 12, while the bare-bones Goperf behaves perfectly in all three versions.
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Jun ’25
Application crashes when using TextEditor(text, selection)
I have a TextEditor, to the constructor of which in addition to the text I pass an object of the TextSelection? type. I check on the Simulator with iOS 18.2. An attempt to clear the text leads to a crash with the message "Thread 1: Fatal error: String index is out of bounds" in Xcode. More about the error: libswiftCore.dylib`_swift_runtime_on_report: -> 0x194f32024 <+0>: ret More about the reproduction conditions: struct MyView: View { @Bindable private var viewModel = MyViewModel() @State var myTextSelection: TextSelection? = nil var body: some View { ZStack { // Some other code myEditor // Some other code } .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .primaryAction) { Button { viewModel.clear() } label: { Label("Clear", systemImage: "eraser") } } } } var myEditor: some View { ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) { TextEditor(text: $viewModel.text, selection: $myTextSelection) .disableAutocorrection(true) .autocapitalization(.sentences) } // Some other code } } MyViewModel: @Observable final class MyViewModel: ObservableObject { var text: String = "" func clear() { text = "" } }
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May ’25
How to detect UIScreen changes in a UIView subclass?
I'm looking for a reliable way to detect when the UIScreen of a UIView changes. I'm developing a renderer SDK that provides a custom UIView subclass which performs OpenGL / Metal rendering, driven by a CADisplayLink. To support scenarios like screen mirroring or external displays on iPad, I need to ensure the CADisplayLink is created using the correct UIScreen, so the refresh rate is accurate. Ideally, I’d like a way to be notified in the view itself (without requiring scene delegate integration) whenever self.window.windowScene.screen changes, even if trait values remain the same. Any ideas or workarounds that work safely in production would be hugely appreciated! Since iOS 13, the architecture is: The app can have multiple UIScene instances (typically UIWindowScene). Each UIWindowScene can have multiple UIWindows. Each UIWindow hosts a view hierarchy. To determine the correct UIScreen, I access self.window.windowScene.screen. If any component in that key path changes (window, windowScene, or screen), I need to detect it and react. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: Overriding willMoveToWindow: and didMoveToWindow: This allows me to detect changes to window, but if windowScene (of the window) or screen (of the scene) changes directly, I get no notification. Overriding traitCollectionDidChange: This works if the screen change causes a difference in traits (e.g., a different displayScale), but fails if the old and new screens share the same traits (e.g., identical scale). Listening to UIScene-related notifications Notifications like UISceneDidDisconnectNotification or UISceneWillEnterForegroundNotification only indicate scene lifecycle events, not that a particular view or window has moved to a different screen. Using KVO to observe self.window.windowScene.screen I found WebKit does something similar, but in practice this causes crashes. The error message suggests that "windowScene" is not KVO-compliant, and my experience confirms it's not safe in production. Apple's official guidance uses UIWindowSceneDelegate In this example, Apple shows how to update a CADisplayLink in a UIWindowSceneDelegate's windowScene:didUpdateCoordinateSpace:interfaceOrientation:traitCollection:. However, as an SDK provider delivering just a UIView, I don't have control over the host app's UIWindowSceneDelegate.
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May ’25
Fatal error: Duplicate keys of type 'AnyHashable2' were found in a Dictionary.
I have encountered the following error and reduced my code to the minimum necessary to reliably reproduce this error. Fatal error: Duplicate keys of type 'AnyHashable2' were found in a >Dictionary. This usually means either that the type violates Hashable's >requirements, or that members of such a dictionary were mutated after insertion. It occurs when instances of a swiftdata model are inserted (the error occurs reliably when inserting five or more instances. Fewer insertions seems to make the error either more rare or go away entirely) and a Picker with .menu pickerStyle is present. Any of the following changes prevents the error from occuring: adding id = UUID() to the Item class removing .tag(item) in the picker content using any pickerStyle other than .menu using an observable class instead of a swiftdata class I would greatly appreciate if anyone knows what exactly is going on here. Tested using XCode Version 16.4 (16F6), iPhone 16 Pro iOS 18.5 Simulator and iPhone 15 Pro iOS 18.5 real device. import SwiftUI import SwiftData @Model class Item { var name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } } struct DuplicateKeysErrorView: View { @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext @Query(sort: \Item.name) private var items: [Item] @State var selection: Item? = nil var body: some View { List { Picker("Picker", selection: $selection) { Text("Nil").tag(nil as Item?) ForEach(items) { item in Text(item.name).tag(item) } } .pickerStyle(.menu) Button("Add 5 items") { modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) } } .onAppear { try! modelContext.delete(model: Item.self) } } } #Preview { DuplicateKeysErrorView() .modelContainer(for: Item.self) }
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Jun ’25
CPTabBarTemplate in CarPlay Simulator: Tab Becomes Inactive on Re-selection
I am facing an issue in my CarPlay app using CPTabBarTemplate. The app has two tabs, and on launch, the first tab is correctly selected. However, when I tap on the first tab again, instead of staying active, it becomes inactive. This behavior is unexpected, as re-selecting the active tab should typically maintain its selected state. Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a workaround to prevent the tab from becoming inactive?
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May ’25
ssue with Session Sharing Between Safari and ASWebAuthenticationSession
We are experiencing an issue with session sharing on iOS and would appreciate your guidance. We operate and control our own OpenID Connect (OIDC) server. Our iOS application uses ASWebAuthenticationSession to authenticate users. We're unable to get the authentication session to be shared between the Safari app and the app's ASWebAuthenticationSession. This results in users having to re-authenticate despite being logged in via Safari. We've attempted various configurations related to cookie SameSite settings. These adjustments resolved the session sharing issue on Android using Chrome Custom Tabs. However, no changes we've tried have enabled session sharing to work as expected on iOS. According to documentation from Apple, Microsoft, Okta, and Auth0, session sharing between Safari and ASWebAuthenticationSession should work. Question: Are there any additional settings, configurations, or platform limitations we should be aware of that could impact session sharing on iOS? Where else can we look to resolve this issue?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: General
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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
Status Bar Driving Orientation
With CarPlay, is it possible to programmatically know which side of the screen the status bar is placed on?
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Jun ’25
FamilyActivityTitleView Label has wrong text color when app is using different than system theme
Hello, In a new app I am working on I noticed the FamilyActivityTitleView that displays "ApplicationToken" has wrong (black) color when phone is set to light mode but app is using dark mode via override. We display user's selected apps and the labels are rendered correctly at first, but then when user updates selection with FamilyActivityPicker, then those newly added apps are rendered with black titles. The problem goes away when I close the screen and open it again. It also doesn't happen when phone is set to dark theme. I am currently noticing the issue on iOS 18.4.1. I have tried various workarounds like forcing white text in the custom label style, forcing re-render with custom .id value but nothing helped. Is there any way how to fix this?
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May ’25
SwiftUI internal crash when interacting with long list quickly
Hello! We encountered a very intermittent crash with our application starting with devices running iOS 18.4. We have a screen that can display a long list of products in 2 states (expanded or collapsed) based off of a boolean if the user has interacted with that product yet. With this list, we very intermittently encounter a crash when we scroll like crazy up and down the list search the list quickly (search is performed each character change and list is filtered) Our project has iOS 17.0 as a minimum deployment target, and is Swift 6 enabled. Again, this started happening only with iOS 18.4, and is still visible (handful of occurrences each week). The crash report seems to be very internal to SwiftUI/Obj-c runtime. 5895AC17-6886-4070-BC80-8912E8394BDB.crash Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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Jun ’25
tvOS Remote Control Entitlements
I've been looking for a solution to configure the Apple TV remote(s) from the 5th generation and upwards. Some of the basic functionalities are disabling buttons on the physical remote control while maintaining proper functionality on remote controller apps on iOS devices. There seems to be a lack of relevant entitlements in that category, and without it I can't seem to figure out a way to make it work. Any ideas on the matter? Maybe a workaround that allows to configure the Apple TV to work with other remotes? Thank you in advance to anyone that put in thought to my query.
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May ’25
Highlight the model not with the eyes, but by clicking a button
Hello, we have a requirement where clicking a button will highlight the model, similar to the effect seen by the eyes. However, the eyes do not see it and it is achieved by clicking a button. What should we do? Thank you for your reply
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Jun ’25
May I ask what the official term is for the top indicator that appears during background recording? I haven't been able to find it in the official documentation.
May I ask what the official term is for the top indicator that appears during background recording? I haven't been able to find it in the official documentation.
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May ’25
Specific ARKit node not showing in AR
After two types of objects correctly inserted as nodes in an augmented reality setting, I replicated exactly the same procedure with a third kind of objects that unfortunately refuse to show up. I checked the flow and it is the same as the other objects as well the content of the LocationAnnotation, but there is surely something that escapes me. Could someone help with some ideas? This is the common code, apart of the class: func appendInAR(ghostElement: Ghost){ let ghostElementAnnotationLocation=GhostLocationAnnotationNode(ghost: ghostElement) ghostElementAnnotationLocation.scaleRelativeToDistance = true sceneLocationView.addLocationNodeWithConfirmedLocation(locationNode: ghostElementAnnotationLocation) shownGhostsAnnotations.append(ghostElementAnnotationLocation) }
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Jun ’25
Checking the contents of a TextField variable method not working
Hoping someone can help me with this… The error is… Generic parameter ‘/‘ cannot be inferred. .multilineTextAlignment(.center) .onAppear(perform: { var checkFirstCardLatitude = cards.firstCardLatitude let charArray = Array(checkFirstCardLatitude) let allowed: [Character] = ["-", ".", "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"] for char in charArray { if char != allowed { cards.firstCardLatitude = "000.000000" // Reset Text Field } } })
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May ’25
Widget Configuration Search with group headers...
I am working on a widget that allows the user to specify a list of items. Each item is an AppEntity and has an id, a type and a name. In the DisplayRepresentation I have and icon / image for each type. So when I tap on the specified items option a list of user specified items comes up with the option to search, select, deselect items. This works nicely. I sort them suggested entities by type then name so the list is predictable. How would like to be able to have a group / type header for each type of item. However, I don't know how to do that with the AppEntities. Help would be appreciated. I noticed that HomeKit takes a different approach. They have a list of items at the bottom labeled "Choose Scene Or Accessory". You can move the items up / down in the list, you can delete, and add items. When you tap "Add an item" in the list it goes to a search screen where the items are grouped by the room and have the individual items beneath them. I don't like that you have to select one item at a time but I love having the headings for the rooms. The question here is how did they do that? Is there sample code somewhere that does something similar.
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Jun ’25
Opening FileDocument with URL → should only be called in the main thread
Its document says openDocument can open a document at a specific URL. So I've saved a model as a JSON object with its URL and a bookmark as Data. With its security-scoped bookmark data resolved, I am able to open a document except that the app will crash right after opening a document. Console says should only be called in the main thread struct ContentView: View { @EnvironmentObject var bookmarkViewModel: BookmarkViewModel var body: some View { VStack { } .onAppear { loadBookmarks() } } extension ContentView { func loadBookmarks() { print("1 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread Task { for bookmarkItem in bookmarkViewModel.bookmarkItems { // resolving a security-scoped bookmark print("2 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread if let _ = resolveBookmark(bookmarkData: bookmarkItem.bookmarkData) { print("3 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread do { print("4 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread try await openDocument(at: bookmarkItem.bookmarkURL) print("5 \(Thread.current)") // NSMainThread } catch { print("\(error.localizedDescription)") } } } } } } Well, the application is on the main thread. I've checked every line before and after opening a document with its URL. Call what on the main thread? This is confusing. Thanks. class BookmarkViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var bookmarkItems: [BookmarkItem] = [] var defaultFileManager: FileManager { return FileManager.default } var documentURL: URL? { ... } init() { fetchBookmarkItems() } func fetchBookmarkItems() { bookmarkItems.removeAll() if let documentURL { let bookmarkFolderURL = documentURL.appending(path: "MyApp").appending(path: "Bookmarks") do { let contents = try defaultFileManager.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: bookmarkFolderURL.path) for content in contents { ... let fileURL = bookmarkFolderURL.appending(path: content) let data = try Data(contentsOf: fileURL) let bookmarkItem = try JSONDecoder().decode(BookmarkItem.self, from: data) bookmarkItems.append(bookmarkItem) } } catch { print("Error fetching folder content: \(error.localizedDescription)") } } } } struct BookmarkItem: Codable, Hashable { let bookmarkURL: URL let date: Date let bookmarkData: Data let open: Bool }
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May ’25
NSDocument disregards save panel!
In a previous post entitled “Save fails after Save As” I described a strange problem involving the Save and Save As operations in a macOS app I wrote: see https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/779755. Since that posting (unanswered up to now) I tried various modifications of my app, in order better to understand the problem. Now, at the time of that posting I was using a version of the app that attempted — clumsily and incompletely — to circumvent the problem. Since then I decided to eliminate from my app this unsuccessful workaround. My app is called Goperfekt (it’s in the App Store) and is meant for macOS 11 to 15. I recently created a “bare bones” version of the app: this bare-bones version is called Goperf and contains the bare minimum necessary to save and open files of the exact same two file types as in Goperfekt, namely gop (an exported type that conforms to public.data), sgf (an imported type that conforms to public.text). Goperf and Goperfekt both use dataAfType:error: as their writing method. (Yes, Objective-C… but I’ve been working on that app on and off for nearly twenty years and when Swift came out my Obj-C project was already too advanced…) The problem is the following. In Goperfekt under macOS 15 the Save and Save As operations do not work as they should (see description below). In Goperfekt under macOS 12 and 11 the Save and Save As operations work perfectly, just as they should. (Unfortunately I do not have machines running macOS 14 or 13 at the moment.) Goperf, the bare-bones version, on the other hand, works perfectly in all three versions of macOS that I have (11, 12, 15). Here is a description of the problem with Goperfekt under macOS 15. The precise app behavior described below presupposes that the user has activated the option System Settings/Desktop & Dock/Windows/Ask to keep changes when closing documents. If you deactivate this option, the app misbehaves similarly, though somewhat differently. First three important facts (Goperfekt and Goperf in macOS 11, 12, 15): I can open an already existing gop file, modify the document, and save it in that gop file, or save it as another gop file, without any problem. I can also open an already existing sgf file, modify the document, and save it in that sgf file, or save it as another sgf file, without any problem. I can also save a new document as a gop file. BUT in Goperfekt in macOS 15 it is possible neither to save a new document as an sgf file, nor to open a gop file and save it as an sgf file, IN CASES 1 AND 2 the parameter typeName received by dataOfType:error: is not “com.red-bean.sgf” (corresponding to the imported sgf extension) as it should, but “com.florrain.goperfekt-document” (corresponding to the exported gop extension). The result is a file with the sgf extension (such as “A.sgf”, as specified in the save panel), but this file is really a gop file with the wrong extension! You can see that by asking Goperfekt to open “A.sgf” (which will generate an alert), or by opening "A.sgf” in TextEdit. You can also add .gop to the name “A.sgf” and then ask Goperfekt to open “A.sgf.gop”, which it will do without a problem. Nor is it possible to open an sgf file and save it as a gop file. Here the parameter typeName received by dataOfType:error: is not “com.florrain.goperfekt-document” (the exported type) as it should, but “com.red-bean.sgf” (the imported type). The result is a file with the gop extension (such as “A.gop”, as specified in the save panel), but this file is really an sgf file with the wrong extension! You can see that by asking Goperfekt to open “A.gop” (which will generate an alert), or by opening "A.gop” in TextEdit. You can also add .sgf to the name “A.gop” and then ask Goperfekt to open “A.gop.sgf”, which it will do without a problem. Somewhere behind the scenes (only in Goperfekt on macOS 15) NSDocument disregards what was specified by the user in the save panel and sends to dataAfType:error: the wrong file type! Why on Earth? If, after having created a file “A.sgf” that is really a gop file, I change something in the document and try to save this change in “A.sgf”, the system displays a somewhat puzzling alert, and diagnostic messages appear in the Xcode console. According to the circumstances, these messages can contain such puzzling labels as NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension or NSFileCoordinator. Similarly for a file “A.gop” that is really an sgf file. Conclusion: search as I may, I could not find what makes Goperfekt misbehave in macOS 15 but not in macOS 11 or 12, while the bare-bones Goperf behaves perfectly in all three versions.
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Jun ’25
Application crashes when using TextEditor(text, selection)
I have a TextEditor, to the constructor of which in addition to the text I pass an object of the TextSelection? type. I check on the Simulator with iOS 18.2. An attempt to clear the text leads to a crash with the message "Thread 1: Fatal error: String index is out of bounds" in Xcode. More about the error: libswiftCore.dylib`_swift_runtime_on_report: -> 0x194f32024 <+0>: ret More about the reproduction conditions: struct MyView: View { @Bindable private var viewModel = MyViewModel() @State var myTextSelection: TextSelection? = nil var body: some View { ZStack { // Some other code myEditor // Some other code } .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .primaryAction) { Button { viewModel.clear() } label: { Label("Clear", systemImage: "eraser") } } } } var myEditor: some View { ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) { TextEditor(text: $viewModel.text, selection: $myTextSelection) .disableAutocorrection(true) .autocapitalization(.sentences) } // Some other code } } MyViewModel: @Observable final class MyViewModel: ObservableObject { var text: String = "" func clear() { text = "" } }
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May ’25
Advanced App Clip experience URL Status
Hello Team, We have Advanced App Clip Experiences live but we have add App Clip experience URL since long ago but status remains as Received and never changed to Published, can you please help us to fix this issue. Please see attached. Thanks
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Jun ’25
How to detect UIScreen changes in a UIView subclass?
I'm looking for a reliable way to detect when the UIScreen of a UIView changes. I'm developing a renderer SDK that provides a custom UIView subclass which performs OpenGL / Metal rendering, driven by a CADisplayLink. To support scenarios like screen mirroring or external displays on iPad, I need to ensure the CADisplayLink is created using the correct UIScreen, so the refresh rate is accurate. Ideally, I’d like a way to be notified in the view itself (without requiring scene delegate integration) whenever self.window.windowScene.screen changes, even if trait values remain the same. Any ideas or workarounds that work safely in production would be hugely appreciated! Since iOS 13, the architecture is: The app can have multiple UIScene instances (typically UIWindowScene). Each UIWindowScene can have multiple UIWindows. Each UIWindow hosts a view hierarchy. To determine the correct UIScreen, I access self.window.windowScene.screen. If any component in that key path changes (window, windowScene, or screen), I need to detect it and react. Here’s what I’ve tried so far: Overriding willMoveToWindow: and didMoveToWindow: This allows me to detect changes to window, but if windowScene (of the window) or screen (of the scene) changes directly, I get no notification. Overriding traitCollectionDidChange: This works if the screen change causes a difference in traits (e.g., a different displayScale), but fails if the old and new screens share the same traits (e.g., identical scale). Listening to UIScene-related notifications Notifications like UISceneDidDisconnectNotification or UISceneWillEnterForegroundNotification only indicate scene lifecycle events, not that a particular view or window has moved to a different screen. Using KVO to observe self.window.windowScene.screen I found WebKit does something similar, but in practice this causes crashes. The error message suggests that "windowScene" is not KVO-compliant, and my experience confirms it's not safe in production. Apple's official guidance uses UIWindowSceneDelegate In this example, Apple shows how to update a CADisplayLink in a UIWindowSceneDelegate's windowScene:didUpdateCoordinateSpace:interfaceOrientation:traitCollection:. However, as an SDK provider delivering just a UIView, I don't have control over the host app's UIWindowSceneDelegate.
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May ’25
Fatal error: Duplicate keys of type 'AnyHashable2' were found in a Dictionary.
I have encountered the following error and reduced my code to the minimum necessary to reliably reproduce this error. Fatal error: Duplicate keys of type 'AnyHashable2' were found in a >Dictionary. This usually means either that the type violates Hashable's >requirements, or that members of such a dictionary were mutated after insertion. It occurs when instances of a swiftdata model are inserted (the error occurs reliably when inserting five or more instances. Fewer insertions seems to make the error either more rare or go away entirely) and a Picker with .menu pickerStyle is present. Any of the following changes prevents the error from occuring: adding id = UUID() to the Item class removing .tag(item) in the picker content using any pickerStyle other than .menu using an observable class instead of a swiftdata class I would greatly appreciate if anyone knows what exactly is going on here. Tested using XCode Version 16.4 (16F6), iPhone 16 Pro iOS 18.5 Simulator and iPhone 15 Pro iOS 18.5 real device. import SwiftUI import SwiftData @Model class Item { var name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } } struct DuplicateKeysErrorView: View { @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext @Query(sort: \Item.name) private var items: [Item] @State var selection: Item? = nil var body: some View { List { Picker("Picker", selection: $selection) { Text("Nil").tag(nil as Item?) ForEach(items) { item in Text(item.name).tag(item) } } .pickerStyle(.menu) Button("Add 5 items") { modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) modelContext.insert(Item(name: UUID().uuidString)) } } .onAppear { try! modelContext.delete(model: Item.self) } } } #Preview { DuplicateKeysErrorView() .modelContainer(for: Item.self) }
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Jun ’25
CPTabBarTemplate in CarPlay Simulator: Tab Becomes Inactive on Re-selection
I am facing an issue in my CarPlay app using CPTabBarTemplate. The app has two tabs, and on launch, the first tab is correctly selected. However, when I tap on the first tab again, instead of staying active, it becomes inactive. This behavior is unexpected, as re-selecting the active tab should typically maintain its selected state. Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a workaround to prevent the tab from becoming inactive?
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May ’25
Grid right to left
Hi, I’d like to display items in a grid from right to left. Like the image: Is this possible with a grid? What would be the best approach in terms of performance?
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Jun ’25
ssue with Session Sharing Between Safari and ASWebAuthenticationSession
We are experiencing an issue with session sharing on iOS and would appreciate your guidance. We operate and control our own OpenID Connect (OIDC) server. Our iOS application uses ASWebAuthenticationSession to authenticate users. We're unable to get the authentication session to be shared between the Safari app and the app's ASWebAuthenticationSession. This results in users having to re-authenticate despite being logged in via Safari. We've attempted various configurations related to cookie SameSite settings. These adjustments resolved the session sharing issue on Android using Chrome Custom Tabs. However, no changes we've tried have enabled session sharing to work as expected on iOS. According to documentation from Apple, Microsoft, Okta, and Auth0, session sharing between Safari and ASWebAuthenticationSession should work. Question: Are there any additional settings, configurations, or platform limitations we should be aware of that could impact session sharing on iOS? Where else can we look to resolve this issue?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: General
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May ’25
How to display such a window in a mixed space
I saw this demo on the website. Do you have the address for the demo? If not, how is the following image content implemented? Can you tell me which style of WindowGroup is used to create this custom window, and the buttons to move and close the window are located at the bottom of the menu bar. Thank you, thank [you]
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