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Xcode26+iOS26系统,UICollectionView的reloadData不会触发调用UICollectionViewCell的layoutSubviews方法。
问题场景: Xcode26+iOS26系统,UICollectionView的reloadData不会触发调用UICollectionViewCell的layoutSubviews方法。 正常场景: Xcode26+iOS18及以下系统,UICollectionView的reloadData能够触发调用UICollectionViewCell的layoutSubviews方法。 UITableView的reloadData,会正常调用UITableViewCell的layoutSubviews方法。
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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NavigationSplitView + inspector causes Sidebar state issues on Mac Catalyst
Hi everyone! I've encountered an issue on Mac Catalyst: using the latest inspector modifier causes abnormal Sidebar and Columns state in NavigationSplitView. Sample Code: struct ContentView: View { @State private var isPresented = false var body: some View { NavigationSplitView { List { ForEach(0..<20, id: \.self) { item in Text("Item \(item)") } } } content: { List { ForEach(0..<20, id: \.self) { item in Text("Item \(item)") } } } detail: { List { } } .inspector(isPresented: $isPresented) { Form { } } } } Steps to reproduce: Xcode 16 beta 7, create a new iOS project Paste the code above Enable Mac Catalyst Run on Mac (macOS 15 beta 9) Press Command+N three times to open 3 new windows Click the Sidebar Toggle button The issue occurs (see screenshot below) Through testing, I found that as long as the inspector modifier is attached, the issue occurs. Also, the problem only appears in the 3rd and subsequent newly opened windows—the first two windows work as expected. FB20061521
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Display .icon files in SwiftUI
Is there a way to display a .icon file in SwiftUI? I want to show the app icon in the app itself but exporting and including the app icon as a PNG feels redundant. This would consume a lot of unnecessary storage especially when including a lot of alternative app icons. There has to be a better way Otherwise I would file a feedback for that Thank you
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NSSheetMoveHelper Sends Parent Windows Flying If Sheet Window Frame is Resized on macOS Tahoe
So I noticed this: A sheet window is presented. The sheet window has some UI that makes it expandable say a little arrow expandable button. Click the little expandable button. Now the sheet window controller calls - (void)setFrame:display:animate: on its window to resize. The parent window flies across the screen to the lower left corner. I'm on Tahoe 26.1. Seems to be related to NSSheetMoveHelper. Not sure how long this bug has been around. Workaround is to call -setFrame:display:animate: and pass NO to the animate flag. Then the sheet window resizes (but not animated which doesn't look as good as the old behavior but better than suddenly disappearing). I think Apple may already knows about this bug b/c in an Apple app on Tahoe I see a sheet resizing being done with no animation...
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit Tags:
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Can SwiftUI Views serve as delegates?
Structs are value types, and the SwiftUI gets reinitialized many times throughout its lifecycle. Whenever it gets reinitialized, would the reference that the delegator has of it still work if the View uses @State or @StateObject that hold a persistent reference to the views data? protocol MyDelegate: AnyObject { func didDoSomething() } class Delegator { weak var delegate: MyDelegate? func trigger() { delegate?.didDoSomething() } } struct ContentView: View, MyDelegate { private let delegator = Delegator() @State counter = 1 var body: some View { VStack { Text("\(counter)") Button("Trigger") { delegator.trigger() } } } func didDoSomething() { counter += 1 //would this call update the counter in the view even if the view's instance is copied over to the delegator? } }
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Folder icon change in FileProvider mount in Finder
We are creating a Replicated FileProvider based application, where we need to change folder icons for root level folders. I tried below two approaches. This using NSFileProviderDecorations + Custom UTType, this changed the UI as shown: This using Custom UTType, this had no UI change: How can we change the default folder icon, to our custom icon?
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Buttons on tvOS with text are blurred
When adding buttons to a sheet, on tvOS the text is blurred in the buttons, making it illegible. Feedback: FB21228496 (used GPT to extract an example from my project for a test project to attach here) // ButtonBlurTestView.swift // Icarus // // Test view to reproduce blurred button issue on tvOS // import SwiftUI struct ButtonBlurTestView: View { @State private var showSheet = false @State private var selectedTags: [Int] = [] @State private var newTagName: String = "" // Hardcoded test data private let testTags = [ TestTag(id: 1, label: "Action"), TestTag(id: 2, label: "Comedy"), TestTag(id: 3, label: "Drama"), TestTag(id: 4, label: "Sci-Fi"), TestTag(id: 5, label: "Thriller") ] var body: some View { NavigationStack { VStack { Text("Button Blur Test") .font(.title) .padding() Button("Show Test Sheet") { showSheet = true } .buttonStyle(.borderedProminent) .padding() Text("Tap the button above to open a sheet with buttons inside a Form.") .font(.caption) .foregroundColor(.secondary) .multilineTextAlignment(.center) .padding() } .navigationTitle("Blur Test") .sheet(isPresented: $showSheet) { TestSheetView( selectedTags: $selectedTags, newTagName: $newTagName, testTags: testTags ) } } } } struct TestSheetView: View { @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss @Binding var selectedTags: [Int] @Binding var newTagName: String let testTags: [TestTag] var body: some View { NavigationStack { VStack { // Header VStack { Text("Testing") .font(.title2) .bold() Text("Test TV Show") .font(.subheadline) .foregroundColor(.secondary) } .padding() // Form with buttons Form { Section(header: Text("Summary")) { Text("This is a test") .font(.subheadline) .foregroundColor(.secondary) } Section(header: Text("Tags")) { tagsSelectionView } } } .navigationTitle("Add") #if !os(tvOS) .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline) #endif .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .cancellationAction) { Button("Cancel") { dismiss() } } ToolbarItem(placement: .confirmationAction) { Button("Add") { dismiss() } } } } } private var tagsSelectionView: some View { VStack(alignment: .leading) { // Tag pills in a grid let columns = [GridItem(.adaptive(minimum: 80), spacing: 8)] LazyVGrid(columns: columns, alignment: .leading, spacing: 8) { ForEach(testTags, id: \.id) { tag in TagPill( tag: tag, selected: selectedTags.contains(tag.id) ) { if selectedTags.contains(tag.id) { selectedTags.removeAll { $0 == tag.id } } else { selectedTags.append(tag.id) } } } } Divider() // Add new tag button HStack { TextField("New tag name", text: $newTagName) #if os(tvOS) .textFieldStyle(PlainTextFieldStyle()) #else .textFieldStyle(RoundedBorderTextFieldStyle()) #endif Button("Add") { // Test action newTagName = "" } .disabled(newTagName.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces).isEmpty) } } } } // Tag Pill - matches the structure from original project private struct TagPill: View { let tag: TestTag let selected: Bool let action: () -> Void var body: some View { Button(action: action) { Text(tag.label) .font(.callout) .lineLimit(1) .padding(.horizontal, 12) .padding(.vertical, 8) .background( Capsule() .fill(selected ? Color.accentColor : Color.secondary.opacity(0.15)) ) .overlay( Capsule() .stroke(selected ? Color.accentColor : Color.secondary.opacity(0.35), lineWidth: 1) ) .foregroundStyle(selected ? Color.white : Color.primary) .contentShape(Capsule()) } .buttonStyle(.plain) #if os(tvOS) .focusable(true) #endif } } struct TestTag { let id: Int let label: String } #Preview { ButtonBlurTestView() }
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iOS 18.1 crash UIHostingView.layoutSubviews() / swift_unknownObjectWeakAssign / objc_storeWeak
We're seeing sporadic crashes on devices running iOS 18.1 - both beta and release builds (22B83). The stack trace is always identical, a snippet of it below. As you can tell from the trace, it's happening in places we embed SwiftUI into UIKit via UIHostingController. Anyone else seeing this? 4 libobjc.A.dylib 0xbe2c _objc_fatalv(unsigned long long, unsigned long long, char const*, char*) + 30 5 libobjc.A.dylib 0xb040 weak_register_no_lock + 396 6 libobjc.A.dylib 0xac50 objc_storeWeak + 472 7 libswiftCore.dylib 0x43ac34 swift_unknownObjectWeakAssign + 24 8 SwiftUI 0xeb74c8 _UIHostingView.base.getter + 160 9 SwiftUI 0x92124 _UIHostingView.layoutSubviews() + 112 10 SwiftUI 0x47860 @objc _UIHostingView.layoutSubviews() + 36
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Should TabView with .page style support keyboard left/right navigation automatically?
I’m trying to understand the expected behavior of TabView when using .tabViewStyle(.page) on iPadOS with a hardware keyboard. When I place a TabView in page mode, swipe gestures correctly move between pages. However, left and right arrow keys do nothing by default, even when the view is made focusable. This feels a bit surprising, since paging with arrow keys seems like a natural keyboard interaction when a keyboard is attached. Right now, to get arrow-key navigation working, I have to manually: Make the view focusable Listen for arrow key presses Update the selection state manually This works, but it feels a little tedious for something that seems like it could be built-in. import SwiftUI struct PageTabsExample: View { @State private var selection = 0 private let pageCount = 3 var body: some View { TabView(selection: $selection) { Color.red.tag(0) Color.blue.tag(1) Color.green.tag(2) } .tabViewStyle(.page) .indexViewStyle(.page) .focusable(true) .onKeyPress(.leftArrow) { guard selection > 0 else { return .ignored } selection -= 1 return .handled } .onKeyPress(.rightArrow) { guard selection < pageCount - 1 else { return .ignored } selection += 1 return .handled } } } My questions: Is this lack of default keyboard paging for page-style TabView intentional on iPadOS with a hardware keyboard? Is there a built-in way to enable arrow-key navigation for page-style TabView, or is manual handling the expected approach? Does my approach above look like the “SwiftUI-correct” way to do this, or is there a better pattern for integrating keyboard navigation with paging? For this kind of behavior, is it generally recommended to use .onKeyPress like I’m doing here, or would .keyboardShortcut be more appropriate (for example, wiring arrow keys to actions instead)? Any guidance or clarification would be greatly appreciated. I just want to make sure I’m not missing a simpler or more idiomatic solution. Thanks!
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Menu presentation in UIHostingController issues
Looking to see if anyone has experienced this issue, and is aware of any workarounds. With an app migrating towards SwiftUI Views but still using UIKit for primary navigation, my app makes use of UIHostingController to push SwiftUI Views onto a UINavigationController stack in a lot of areas. With iOS 26, I notice that SwiftUI's Menu view really struggles to present when contained in a UIHostingController. An error is logged to the console on presentation, and depending on the UI, the Menu won't present inside of it's container, or will jump around the screen. The bug, it seems is based in a private class UIReparentingView and I am curious if anyone has found a work around for this issue. The error reported is: Adding '_UIReparentingView' as a subview of UIHostingController.view is not supported and may result in a broken view hierarchy. Add your view above UIHostingController.view in a common superview or insert it into your SwiftUI content in a UIViewRepresentable instead. The simplest way to see this issue is to create a new storyboard based project. From the ViewController present a UIHostingController with a SwiftUI view that has a Menu and then simply tap to open the Menu. Thanks for any input!
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CarPlay: CPListTemplate item limit and image memory usage
I’m working with CPListTemplate in CarPlay and have run into two issues: Item limit: The documentation states that maximumItemCount is 500. In practice, when providing a list of ~2–4k items, only the first 500 are displayed. However, Apple Music on CarPlay seems to handle larger lists without this limitation. Is there an API-level approach or recommended pattern to support lists beyond this cap? Image memory usage: Cells don’t appear to load lazily. Even with small images, the first 500 items load all their artwork into memory immediately, resulting in ~400–700 MB usage and high CPU loads. This seems excessive for CarPlay environments. Is there a best practice for deferring or managing image loading within CPListTemplate? Any official guidance or known workarounds for these two issues would be very helpful.
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Using HealthKit to display data on CarPlay UI
I'd like to investigate creating a safety feature for Type 1 Diabetics driving a car. Allowing HealthKit glucose data (read from a Dexcom G7 or similar) to be displayed as part of the CarPlay UI background or show an icon/button with the number visible. I'd also like to include a warning system for glucose low's that alerts the driver audibly. Has anyone looked into that before?
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In SwiftUI, how to animate from an arbitrary corner radius to the corner radius of the display?
I am trying to implement a common UX/UI pattern: one view with rounded corners transitioning to a view that fills the screen (N.B. having the display's corner radius). I got this to work if both corner radiuses are equal to that of the display (see first GIF). However, I cannot seem to get it to work for arbitrary corner radiuses of the smaller view (i.e., the one that does not fill the screen). I expected the be able to combine ContainerRelativeShape with .containerShape (see code), but this left me with a broken transition animation (see second GIF). import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @Namespace private var animation @State private var selectedIndex: Int? var body: some View { ZStack { if let selectedIndex = selectedIndex { ContainerRelativeShape() .fill(Color(uiColor: .systemGray3)) .matchedGeometryEffect(id: "square-\(selectedIndex)", in: animation) .ignoresSafeArea() .onTapGesture { withAnimation() { self.selectedIndex = nil } } .zIndex(1) } ScrollView { VStack(spacing: 16) { ForEach(0..<20, id: \.self) { index in if selectedIndex != index { ContainerRelativeShape() // But what if I want some other corner radius to start with? .fill(Color(uiColor: .systemGray5)) .matchedGeometryEffect(id: "square-\(index)", in: animation) .aspectRatio(1, contentMode: .fit) .padding(.horizontal, 12) .onTapGesture { withAnimation() { selectedIndex = index } } // .containerShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 20)) // I can add this to change the corner radius, but this breaks the transition of the corners } else { Color.clear .aspectRatio(1, contentMode: .fit) .padding(.horizontal, 12) } } } .padding(.vertical, 16) } } } } #Preview { ContentView() } What am I missing here? How can I get this to work? And where is the mistake in my reasoning?
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UISplitViewController.showDetailViewController() not working in iPhone version.
Since updating to Tahoe and Xcode 26 I have found that the UISplitViewController.showDetailViewController() is not working in the iPhone version of my app (it is a universal app). I'm just trying to show a detail view after a tap on a UITableView item. The iPad versions are all working correctly. Has anyone else experienced this or have any advice about what may have changed? Thanks in advance.
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Detecting marked range in UI/NSTextViews at the time of shouldChangeTextIn
We have submitted a feedback for this issue: FB21230723 We're building a note-taking app for iOS and macOS that uses both UITextView and NSTextView. When performing text input that involves a marked range (such as Japanese input) in a UITextView or NSTextView with a UITextViewDelegate or NSTextViewDelegate set, the text view's marked range (markedTextRange / markedRange()) has not yet been updated at the moment when shouldChangeTextIn is invoked. UITextViewDelegate.textView(_:shouldChangeTextIn:replacementText:) NSTextViewDelegate.textView(_:shouldChangeTextIn:replacementString:) The current behavior is this when entering text in Japanese: (same for NSTextView) func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldChangeTextIn range: NSRange, replacementText text: String) -> Bool { print(textView.markedTextRange != nil) // prints out false DispatchQueue.main.async { print(textView.markedTextRange != nil) // prints out true } } However, we need the value of markedTextRange right away in order to determine whether to return true or false from this method. Is there any workaround for this issue?
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Paste button on navigation bar is not shown on iOS/iPadOS 26
The Paste button (using UIPasteControll) located on UINavigationBar is not shown at application startup on iOS/iPadOS 26. This issue will disappear when device is rotated or window size is changed. And this issue does not occur on iOS / iPadOS 18 and earlier. I uploaded the sample project to github at the following URL. https://github.com/gpn-galapagos/PasteButtonApp.git Has anyone had the same issue or knows a workaround?
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WatchOS version lower than deployment target in Xcode 26
Description: I’m encountering an issue where the Apple Watch’s watchOS version is lower than the deployment target specified in my Xcode project. For example, my Watch device is running watchOS 10.6, but my app’s deployment target is set to watchOS 9.6 or 10.6, and Xcode shows an error stating: Error: “watchOS version doesn’t match the app’s deployment target.” Could someone clarify how to properly handle this version mismatch? Environment: Xcode 26 iPhone: iOS 18 Apple Watch: watchOS 10.6 Any guidance or best practices would be appreciated.
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