So I am creating an ObjC framework which has mix of ObjC and Swift code: UtilitiesFramework. Here is my StringUtilities class in Swift: @objc public class StringUtilities: NSObject { } I am accessing StringUtilities class in Utilities which is an ObjC class. Here is Utilities.h which is returning StringUtilities and has a forward class declaration for same: @class StringUtilities; // Forward Declaration @interface Utilities: NSObject - (StringUtilities *)stringUtilities; @end Here is Utilities.m which imports generated swift header file: #import <UtilitiesFramework/UtilitiesFramework-Swift.h> // This should provide concrete implementation of StringUtilities @implementation Utilities - (StringUtilities *)stringUtilities { return [StringUtilities new]; } @end I am exposing Utilites.h file to Swift through module.modulemap: module PrivateObjC { header "Utilities.h" } I have set the import path accurately in build settings as: $(SRCROOT)/$(PRODUCT_NAME) Now when I try to access Utilities class in some other swift class it just compiles fine: import PrivateObjC class SomeOperations { func doSomething() { _ = Utilities() // This compiles fine } However when I try to access the StringUtilities through its method, it gives compilation error: import PrivateObjC class SomeOperations { func doSomething() { _ = Utilities().stringUtilities() // This gives compilation error } Here are the errors: value of type Utilities has no member stringUtilities: _ = Utilities().stringUtilities() note: method stringUtilities not imported - (StringUtilities *)stringUtilities ^ note: return type not imported - (StringUtilities *)stringUtilities ^ note: interface StringUtilities is incomplete - (StringUtilities *)stringUtilities ^ note: interface StringUtilites forward declared here @class StringUtilities I thought this scenario is fixed as part of proposal: # 0384-importing-forward-declared-objc-interfaces-and-protocols.md However it is not working for me. May be it is due to it being approved as part of Swift 5.9, whereas in my machine 5.8.1 is used or am I missing anything else over here? Update: I installed Xcode 15 and double checked the swift version which is 5.9, however I am still getting the error. Any idea why it is not working for a framework target?