My app displays vertically scrollable text to the user which could be as short as a single screen or as long as a book chapter: imagine something like an e-book reader which uses scrolling rather than page-turning. A long time ago when development first started, I tried using UITextView, but the size of text that could be handled was quite limited (a figure of 32767 points seems to stick in the memory). Accordingly I came up with a custom solution in which a UIScrollView handled scrolling gestures and a custom UIView rendered just the part of the text that was visible at that time. That works, but it becomes cumbersome to add support for features such as selection handles and loupes. 18 years later, is there a more smoothly integrated way of displaying long scrollable text?

I’m using MFMailComposeViewController to send emails from my app. Since updating to iPadOS 26.4, there is no way to cancel the mail composer because the “X” button in the top-left corner has disappeared. On iPhone with iOS 26.4, everything still seems to work as expected. Is this a known issue, or am I missing something? Has anyone else experienced this, or found a workaround?

I am encountering a consistent, reproducible crash in our app when presenting a UIDatePicker configured with the calendar style. The crash triggers every single time the picker is invoked and points directly to the modern date picker's internal UICollectionView. The Exception: *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'UICollectionView internal inconsistency: attempted to set layout with the collection view requiring a reload' let datePicker = UIDatePicker() datePicker.datePickerMode = .date datePicker.preferredDatePickerStyle = .compact This crash is occuring in inline style too when I try to open the calendar. I tried this in other apps. It works fine. I didn't override any collectionView layouts

All of these issues appear when the search controller is set on the view controller's navigationItem and the search controller's searchBar has its scopeButtonTitles set. So far the following issues are affecting my app on iOS/iPadOS 26 as of beta 7: When the scopeBarActivation of UISearchController is set to .onSearchActivation, the preferredSearchBarPlacement of the navigationItem is set to .integratedButton, and the searchBarPlacementAllowsToolbarIntegration is set to false (forcing the search icon to appear in the nav bar), on both iPhones and iPads, the scope buttons never appear. They don't appear when the search is activated. They don't appear when any text is entered into the search bar. FB19771313 I attempted to work around that issue by setting the scopeBarActivation to .manual. I then show the scope bar in the didPresentSearchController delegate method and hide the scope bar in the willDismissSearchController. On an iPhone this works though the display is a bit clunky. On an iPad, the scope bar does appear via the code in didPresentSearchController, but when any scope bar button is tapped, the search controller is dismissed. This happens when the app is horizontally regular. When the app on the iPad is horizontally compact, the buttons work but the search bar's text is not correctly aligned within the search bar. Quite the mess really. I still need to post a bug report for this issue. But if issue 1 above is fixed then I don't need this workaround. When the scopeBarActivation of UISearchController is set to .onSearchActivation, the preferredSearchBarPlacement of the navigationItem is set to .stacked, and the hidesSearchBarWhenScrolling property of the navigationItem is set to false (always show the search bar), and this is all used in a UITableViewController, then upon initial display of the view controller on an iPhone or iPad, you are unable to tap on the first row of the table view except on the very bottom of the row. The currently hidden scope bar is stealing the touches. If you activate and then cancel the search (making the scope bar appear and then disappear) then you are able to tap on the first row as expected. The initially hidden scope bar also bleeds through the first row of the table. It's faint but you can tell it's not quite right. Again, this is resolved by activating and then canceling the search once. FB17888632 When the scopeBarActivation of UISearchController is set to .onSearchActivation, the preferredSearchBarPlacement of the navigationItem is set to integrated or .integratedButton, and the toolbar is shown, then on iPhones (where the search bar/icon appears in the toolbar) the scope buttons appear (at the top of the screen) the first time the search is activated. But if you cancel the search and then activate it again, the search bar never appears a second (or later) time. On an iPad the search bar/icon appears in the nav bar and you end up with the same issue as #1 above. FB17890125 Issues 3 and 4 were reported against beta 1 and still haven't been fixed. But if issue 1 is resolved on iPhone, iPad, and Mac (via Mac Catalyst), then I personally won't be affected by issues 2, 3, or 4 any more (but of course all 4 issues need to be fixed). And by resolved, I mean that the scope bar appears and disappears when it is supposed to each and every time the search is activated and cancelled (not just the first time). The scope bar doesn't interfere with touch events upon initial display of the view controller. And there are no visual glitches no matter what the horizontal size class is on an iPad. I really hope the UIKit team can get these resolved before iOS/iPadOS 26 GM.

I couldn't decide whether to post this question here or in SwiftUI Q&A as there's a lot of overlaps. We're trying to create something similar to UIViewRepresentable for UIKit. This might not work for complicated cases where the View has many pieces but as long as it works for simple cases, we're happy. The only problem right now is figuring out the correct height. Currently, the height anchor is assigned to CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude, which works but when inspecting the layout in View Hierarchy, it appears the wrapped view is getting stretched all the way down. Also, sometimes View Hierarchy isn't able to draw the wrapped View and I'm unsure if it's a problem of View Hierarchy or our implementation. final public class SwiftUIConfigurationContainerView<T: View>: UIView { private var contentView: UIView? public override var intrinsicContentSize: CGSize { contentView?.intrinsicContentSize ?? super.intrinsicContentSize } private var preferredContentSize: CGSize? public init(@ViewBuilder _ content: @escaping () -> T) { super.init(frame: .zero) setUpContentView(content) } @available(*, unavailable) required init?(coder: NSCoder) { return nil } private func setUpContentView(_ content: @escaping () -> T) { let contentView = UIHostingConfiguration { [weak self] in VStack(spacing: .zero) { content() .onGeometryChange(for: CGSize.self, of: \.size) { size in self?.preferredContentSize = size self?.invalidateIntrinsicContentSize() } .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, alignment: .center) Spacer(minLength: .zero) } } .minSize(width: .zero, height: .zero) .margins(.all, .zero) .makeContentView() self.contentView = contentView addSubview(contentView) contentView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ contentView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: leadingAnchor), contentView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: trailingAnchor), contentView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: topAnchor), contentView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude), ]) } }

What is the correct configuration of the Info.plist to get a UISceneAccessory to display on an external monitor? I'm currently getting: Info.plist contained no UIScene configuration dictionary (looking for configuration named "scene-accessory") My Info.plist looks as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>UIApplicationSceneManifest</key> <dict> <key>UIApplicationSupportsMultipleScenes</key> <true/> <key>UISceneConfigurations</key> <dict> <key>UIWindowSceneSessionRoleExternalDisplayNonInteractive</key> <array> <dict> <key>UISceneDelegateClassName</key> <string>$(PRODUCT_MODULE_NAME).AccessorySceneDelegate</string> <key>UISceneConfigurationName</key> <string>scene-accessory</string> </dict> </array> <key>UIWindowSceneSessionRoleApplication</key> <array> <dict> <key>UISceneConfigurationName</key> <string>Default Configuration</string> <key>UISceneDelegateClassName</key> <string>$(PRODUCT_MODULE_NAME).SceneDelegate</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </dict> </dict> </plist> And the view controller scene registration code: class ViewController: UIViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let sceneConfiguration = UISceneConfiguration(name: "scene-accessory") let accessory = UISceneAccessory.externalNonInteractive(sceneConfiguration: sceneConfiguration) let registration = registerSceneAccessory(accessory) registration.isEnabled = true } } Thanks!

Since iOS26 the UISplitViewController is displayed in a way where the primary column (red) overlaps the secondary column (blue) instead of displaying them next to each other like before. Several Apple apps still display the columns next to each other, like Notes, Mail and Photos. What is the correct way to display the columns next to each other again using UIKit and if possible Storyboards.

I've gotten diagnostics from a couple of my users experiencing a rare issue. The logs in the diagnostics clearly show that the view controller where the issue occurs gets viewDidLoad called twice, and then does not get viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear. This triggers a bug for me because the view controller loads the data it's meant to display in viewWillAppear. I can work around this by changing my data loading logic, but I'd like to know what the underlying issue is. Can anyone point me to some possible ways I could be triggering this weird UIKit behavior?

I've got a note editor view in my app that's built around a UITextView. At the top of the text view, it displays some metadata about the note, like location of the note (it's an e-reader app - think highlighting text and adding a note to it). I want this metadata to be able to scroll out of view if you scroll down in the text view. But it shouldn't simply be text in the text view - it's a UIView that takes the full width of the text view, with some UILabels in it. The height is on the order of 60 points tall. What's the best way to achieve this? Should the view that contains the labels be in a text attachment? Or should it be a subview of the UITextView? Or should I do something custom like make it a subview of the view that contains the UITextView and watch the UITextView's scroll position and apply a transform to move it to match?

I made a few attempts to implement a similar label but I'm not sure if it's possible using public APIs. Could you give any tips about how to approach implementing this? Thank you!

When the marked text is touched, or when the cursor is moved between the marked text, the marked text will be disappear In order to implement the function of active input, we use the setMarkedText(_:selectedRange:) method provided by UITextDocumentProxy to insert and mark the input text, but when the marked text is touched, or when the cursor is moved between the text, the marked text will be disappear. This is a very obvious error and cannot be avoided. So far, this problem still occurs on devices with the system version of iOS 27 beta , so we cannot use this method to perfectly implement the function of active input, which is a big trouble for us. We want the text to be displayed normally after the user touches the marked text. And the cursor can move in the marked text, so that the user can perform operations such as insert, remove, etc. May I ask what methods can be used to achieve the above effect? If this is a bug, please fix it as soon as possible. More details can be found by the video link: [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dd8VhBJ88og] STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1.Use the setMarkedText(_:selectedRange:) method provided by UITextDocumentProxy to insert and mark text 2.Touch the marked text or long press the cursor to move to the marked text

When appending additional UIAction children to the horizontal edit menu UIMenu returned in the delegate method func textView(_ textView: UITextView, editMenuForTextIn range: NSRange, suggestedActions: [UIMenuElement]) -> UIMenu? If the menu is long enough to need an overflow chevron vertical menu (introduced in iOS 26) my UIAction only show either a title or an image not both, is UIAction the right UIMenuElement type to supply here? How to get both the title and the image to appear in the overflow vertical menu?

For developing an iOS fully-featured code editor (i.e line numbers + color pass for syntax highlighting + collapsible sections + debug markers/highlights) what would be the best strategy for iOS 27? UITextView with new viewport control delegate Custom TextKit2 UIView Custom TextKit1 UIView (this was the recommendation I got as of WWDC25)

In the past few years, there hasn't been much updates around Storyboards and yet it seems like Xcode supports them. Even before the first release of SwiftUI, many developers stopped using Storyboards for compelling reasons such as: They introduce two sources of truth for the UI It's not easy to read the content during code-review They can cause merge conflicts Often they fail to load, especially after a new major release of Xcode, without any error I was wondering whether there's a dedicated team working on Storyboards or if they're just abandoned. I understand this question may overlap with what the Xcode team does; so, let me rephrase it: in a large project, what are the pros and cons of using Storyboards when building views using UIKit? For instance, do they work well with things such as navigation by employing segues, the liquid glass or the new resizing feature? Finally, one of the benefits of using Storyboards is the fact that they visualize the UI, including the constraints. However, since now we can UIViewController in Preview, can we safely say that Previews can deliver the same thing?

I am giving the user a view onto a selection of database records. There could be a handful of these, there could be 10,000 of them. At present I use a UITableView. Cells are therefore created or recycled on demand. When a cell is created, it is displayed with default "empty" contents and it sends a message to the server to request a record. When the record arrives, the cell is then able to change its own contents so that the record appears on the screen. There are of course various optimisations, such as cancelling a request if the cell goes offscreen before a reply is received; or delaying a request if it looks as if the cell will end up being off the screen once scrolling has stopped. All this happens with fixed-height cells. Accordingly the UITableView has all the data it needs to work out where every one of the 10,000 cells is. I now want to extend this to variable-height cells. That is: cells whose height depends on the content received from the database. Accordingly, when a cell receives its data it may find itself having to change its own size. Is this structure practicable with UITableView?

What is the expected behaviour of UISlider.TrackConfiguration.Tick's title and image properties? On iOS, these seem to be no-ops. The docs also don't indicate what these properties do. let ticks = [ UISlider.TrackConfiguration.Tick(position: 0, title: "Slow", image: UIImage(systemName: "tortoise.fill")), UISlider.TrackConfiguration.Tick(position: 1, title: "Fast", image: UIImage(systemName: "hare.fill")) ] let configuration = UISlider.TrackConfiguration(ticks: ticks) let slider = UISlider() slider.trackConfiguration = configuration

UITabBarController's new prominentTabIdentifier property is a really nice addition! Thank you! Will there be official support via the UITab API for using the underlying _UITabBarAuxiliaryView as a primary action as many apps, such as the Apple Design Award Finalist, Structured, does for presenting a sheet, for example?

What improvements have been made in iOS27, and what can we expect to see in terms of performance enhancements in UIKit this year? How would these changes help enhance our app’s user experience?

I have not yet completed the migration to scene delegate. If I still build with Xcode 26, will my app continue to launch on iOS 27 even if I release updates (still built with Xcode 26) after the iOS 27 release?

The docs for UIWritingToolsCoordinator's isWritingToolsAvailable have been updated in the 27 SDK. Previously, the docs stated: Writing Tools support might be unavailable because of device constraints or because the system isn’t ready to process Writing Tools requests. They now say: Writing Tools support might be unavailable because of device constraints. Is this a change in behaviour between SDK 26 and 27, or have the docs just been updated to more accurately describe the behaviour?