Our use case is that we need to run a CLI script (on Mac) to set up backend configuration before each test case (UI test on real iOS device). The setup logic is test specific, so using pre-build scripts is not an option. Is this support in any way or what are best practices around such a setup? Ideally, we would still be able to execute the tests from within Xcode.

Our use case is that we need to run a CLI script (on Mac) to set up some backend configuration for a UITest that then runs on iOS (simulator or actual device). The setup logic is test specific so using pre-build scripts is not a an option. Is that support in any way or what would be alternatives to go about this.

I am working on implementing App Clip functionality in my iOS application. While I can successfully launch the App Clip using a QR code, I am unable to launch it through other means such as the Messages app or deep links shared through other applications.

I'm not able to see my account information on the Mac Mini machine with M2 CPU. I log in to my account in Settings, but in Xcode 16.1 it fails with the Decoding Error There was a failure decoding response I think this is the same as here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/767673 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/769069 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/759877

Hello, I am using Xcode 16.1 (16B40) on MacOS Sequoia 15.1.0 using a Macbook pro M1 Max I am developing an app for iOS 17 and 18 using SwiftUI I created UITests to take the screenshots for the appStore on the simulator The tests run well and all of them are succeded The problem appears when I try to get the screenshot files from the xcresult files after the test. There is not any screenshot inside it. I found a data folder and a Info.plist file. In the data folder there are a lot of files with this pattern data.03zD4C6IGFFthK14NwA8mNvcwFHT16g6Tl40Tl1YmBC1bNh6d0YIcnWKyUaQPDXoa8fYo6C3Xcv8xvMtE3_NEXA== and other files with this pattern refs.03zD4C6IGFFthK14NwA8mNvcwFHT16g6Tl40Tl1YmBC1bNh6d0YIcnWKyUaQPDXoa8fYo6C3Xcv8xvMtE3_NEXA== Ok, I tryed to use fastlane to automatize the screenshots but the problem is still present. The xcresult files have not any png file. I had no problems doing this action (getting screenshots from a xcresult file) in previous versions of MacOS and Xcode in my current machine. I just updated my machine to MacOS Sequoia 15.1.1 and the problem is still present Honestly I don't know how to fix this situation. With Xcode 15 I had not any problem with that but I am not sure if Xcode 16.0 was runing without problems because I didn't need to use this functionality in those months Here is my code for a UITest: import XCTest final class ScreenshotsUITests: XCTestCase { let app = XCUIApplication() let device = "iPhone16" override func setUpWithError() throws { continueAfterFailure = true } override func tearDownWithError() throws {} @MainActor func testEnglishScreens() throws { let lang = "en" app.launchArguments.append("UITestMode") app.launchArguments += ["-AppleLanguages", "(en)"] app.launchArguments += ["-AppleLocale", "en_US"] app.launch() executeTestsForMenus(lang: lang, backLabel: "Back") executeTestForMatch(lang: lang) } @MainActor func testSpanishScreens() throws { let lang = "es" app.launchArguments.append("UITestMode") app.launchArguments += ["-AppleLanguages", "(es)"] app.launchArguments += ["-AppleLocale", "es_ES"] app.launch() executeTestsForMenus(lang: lang, backLabel: "Atrás") executeTestForMatch(lang: lang) } private func executeTestForMatch(lang: String) { let startButton = app.buttons["start-button"] startButton.tap() let key4 = app.buttons["key-4"] XCTAssertTrue(key4.waitForExistence(timeout: 30), "Key 4 in match screen is not found") key4.tap() let key2 = app.buttons["key-2"] XCTAssertTrue(key2.exists, "Key 2 in match screen is not found") key2.tap() makeScreenShot("playing", lang: lang) let closeButton = app.buttons["close-button"] XCTAssertTrue(closeButton.exists, "Close button in match screen is not found") closeButton.tap() } private func executeTestsForMenus(lang: String, backLabel: String) { let mainHeader = app.staticTexts["Math match"] XCTAssertTrue(mainHeader.exists, "Header in main screen is not found") makeScreenShot("mainMenu", lang: lang) let settingsButton = app.buttons["settings-button"] XCTAssertTrue(settingsButton.exists, "Settings button in main screen is not found") settingsButton.tap() makeScreenShot("Settings", lang: lang) let backButton = app.buttons[backLabel] XCTAssertTrue(backButton.exists, "Back button in match screen is not found") backButton.tap() let helpButton = app.buttons["help-button"] XCTAssertTrue(helpButton.exists, "Help button in main screen is not found") helpButton.tap() makeScreenShot("Help", lang: lang) backButton.tap() let scoreButton = app.buttons["score-button"] XCTAssertTrue(scoreButton.exists, "Scores button in main screen is not found") scoreButton.tap() makeScreenShot("Scores", lang: lang) backButton.tap() let playButton = app.buttons["play-button"] XCTAssertTrue(playButton.exists, "Play button in main screen is not found") playButton.tap() makeScreenShot("matchBuilder", lang: lang) let startButton = app.buttons["start-button"] XCTAssertTrue(startButton.exists, "Start button in match builder screen is not found") } private func makeScreenShot(_ name: String, lang: String) { takeScreenshot(app, named: "\(lang)-\(name)-\(device)") } } import XCTest extension XCTestCase { func takeScreenshot(_ app: XCUIApplication, named name: String, fullScreen: Bool = false) { let screenshot: XCUIScreenshot if fullScreen { screenshot = app.windows.firstMatch.screenshot() } else { screenshot = XCUIScreen.main.screenshot() } let screenshotAttachment = XCTAttachment( uniformTypeIdentifier: "public.png", name: "screenshot-\(name).png", payload: screenshot.pngRepresentation, userInfo: nil) screenshotAttachment.lifetime = .keepAlways add(screenshotAttachment) } } and here is the content of my testplan file: { "configurations" : [ { "id" : "35BC7C0B-9A5A-4027-9F30-36958C4C1AAF", "name" : "Test Scheme Action", "options" : { "preferredScreenCaptureFormat" : "screenshot", "testExecutionOrdering" : "random", "uiTestingScreenshotsLifetime" : "keepAlways", "userAttachmentLifetime" : "keepAlways" } } ], "defaultOptions" : { "targetForVariableExpansion" : { "containerPath" : "container:myAppProject.xcodeproj", "identifier" : "B27D1B022CA00314001A259B", "name" : "MyAppProject" } }, "testTargets" : [ { "parallelizable" : true, "target" : { "containerPath" : "container:MyAppProject.xcodeproj", "identifier" : "B27D1B122CA00315001A259B", "name" : "MyAppProjectTests" } }, { "parallelizable" : true, "target" : { "containerPath" : "container:MyAppProject.xcodeproj", "identifier" : "B27D1B1C2CA00315001A259B", "name" : "MyAppProjectUITests" } } ], "version" : 1 } I made tests with old projects in my machine and those projects have the same problem with screenshot files in the xcresult bundles I don't know if the problem is in my machine, my Xcode, MacOS or other ting. I don't know how to fix this problem Please, can anyone help me? Thanks in advance

We had Xcode Cloud working with our project. We needed to re-auth the repo which failed and ended up needing to remove the config to reset it up as new. When on AppStoreConenct it shows its now not configured and to setup, which is good but when launch Xcode, press setup Xcode cloud it just gets stuck on loading source code repositories.

Hi! We use to have several workspaces for our SDKs, one of them containing a test application. Everything worked fine. We decided to "merge" all SDKs in one workspace. I create a new workspace, added all SDKs and application inside and made all the required changes. Everything's good, we can generate our XCFramework and run the test application on the simulator. But when I archive the application, it is now exported in an "Other" section of the organizer instead of the original app (bundles identifiers are the same, already checked). I compared with FileMerge the xcproject files from before and after the merge, there is no significant difference between the 2. I compared also the xcarchive folders, and it seems that the archive is now missing the ApplicationProperties key inside. If I add it manually, I can now generate an ipa or send it to testflight. I checked with ChatGPT (just in case), but everything it asked me to check was fine (bundle ids, bundle versions and build number, Bundle os type in info.plist, custom xcconfig (same issue without them)). I'm pretty stuck here :-/ Thanks for your help

What's the problem? My app requests location access and for that I need to provide a description for the user to read so that it is clear why we need this permission. I'm using the latest solution suggested by XCode for my app localization which is using Localizable.xcstrings file. But for the permission description, I'm adding the text to Targets -> Info -> Custom iOS Target Properties -> "Privacy - Location Always and When In Use Usage Description". I understand that the default language is English in this list so I provided it, but now I want this description to be translated to other languages so that my users can read it in their preferred language. What I have tried so far? I tried adding translation to the keys "INFOPLIST_KEY_NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription" and "NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription" in my "Localizable.xcstrings" but it is always showing the description in English

We've encountered a critical issue with the new linker of CLT16 (version 16.1.0.0.1.1729049160) that prevents proper initialization of BLOCK DATA. BLOCK DATA are used to initialize global variables in our Fortran code, and its failure to initialize those variables leads to a program crash. This affects our community of more that thousand scientists worldwide. The current workaround is using the -ld_classic linker option. However, this option is deprecated and will be removed in a future release, as described in the Xcode release note. I've attached a minimal example that reproduces the problem using GNU gfortran with the following instructions (the attached main.f.txt and bd.f.txt need to be rename to main.f and bd.f, respectively): gfortran -c bd.f gfortran -c main.f ar rv libtest.a bd.o main.o gfortran -ld_classic -o good.x -L. libtest.a gfortran -o bad.x -L. libtest.a Running the two programs, one can see that the BLOCK DATA are not initialised without the option ld_classic, $ > ./good.x 3.7273802569289098 2.8083922366048202 $ > ./bad.x 0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000 We kindly request your attention to this matter and a prompt solution or alternative workaround. Best regards main.f.txt bd.f.txt part.txt

Hi team, We're using CocoaPods in our project and we noticed the compiler fails to build certain targets saying it's "Missing required module 'x'" when trying to build them in Swift 6: We realized the modules the compiler is complaining about are pod dependencies required by the other target dependencies, and that this error will only appear when building with Swift 6 unless such dependencies are described on the Podfile as direct dependencies of the target, or we include them in the framework search paths. For example, the error in the image above will show if module 'X' import 'Y' and 'Y' imports 'CocoaLumberJack' and we don't specify a direct dependency between 'X' and 'CocoaLumberJack'. Regardless of the fact that we can manually add the missing module location to the target search paths, we'd like to understand why we're facing this issue in the first place, what changed between Swift 5 and Swift 6 that's requiring us now to explicitly describe these dependencies. I'd appreciate if someone could tell us more about this. We're particularly interested on knowing if this is an intentional change and how to handle it properly. Thanks

I’m using a Mac Mini M2 with macOS Sequoia 15.1 and running a virtual machine with the same OS. While logging into my account works in System Settings, adding it to Xcode 16.1 fails after the initial login with a decoding error: Decoding Error There was a failure decoding response: (HTTP 401, 60 bytes). There are similar issues in https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/767673 and https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/759877

Hi, so i'm trying to use Activity.update but XCode throws an error if I don't use the ios 16 syntax, only to throw a warning that it's deprecated if I do. Screenshots below. Should I bug report or is there a known workaround?

Hai gais.. i have question about xcode installation.. can i use m2/ssd storage to install n running xcode? For free up my internal space

I'm trying to create a preview for my live activities when it's stale, so I created a preview provider. I followed some examples, but XCode says I'm missing preview context. Am I doing something wrong? I tried adding .previewContext(WidgetPreviewContext(family: .systemSmall)) but that doesn't seem to work.

Hi, I am testing payment on simulator. It worked previously but stopped. I am getting an error: <SKPaymentQueue: 0x600000031200>: Payment completed with error: Error Domain=ASDErrorDomain Code=530 "(null)" UserInfo={client-environment-type=Sandbox, storefront-country-code=USA, NSUnderlyingError=0x600000c61fe0 {Error Domain=AMSErrorDomain Code=100 "Authentication Failed The authentication failed." UserInfo={NSMultipleUnderlyingErrorsKey=( "Error Domain=AMSErrorDomain Code=2 "Password reuse not available for account The account state does not support password reuse." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Password reuse not available for account The account state does not support password reuse., AMSDescription=Password reuse not available for account, AMSFailureReason=The account state does not support password reuse.}", "Error Domain=AMSErrorDomain Code=0 "Authentication Failed Encountered an unrecognized authentication failure." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Authentication Failed Encountered an unrecognized authentication failure., AMSDescription=Authentication Failed, AMSFailureReason=Encountered an unrecognized authentication failure.}" ), AMSDescription=Authentication Failed, NSDebugDescription=Authentication Failed The authentication failed., AMSFailureReason=The authentication failed.}}}

Xcode is adding un-wanted menu items to the Edit menu in a Mac Application. There is an automatically generated separator bar and an AutoFill menu item with two sub-menu items. Looking at the source code I see that two other items were suppressed in the initialize method of the AppController like this: NSMutableDictionary *defaultValues = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; //Get rid of Special characters menu item in edit menu: [defaultValues setObject: [NSNumber numberWithBool: YES] forKey: @"NSDisabledCharacterPaletteMenuItem"]; //Get rid of Start Dictation... menu item in edit menu: [defaultValues setObject: [NSNumber numberWithBool: YES] forKey: @"NSDisabledDictationMenuItem"]; [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] registerDefaults: defaultValues]; I guessed that there would also be a key like this: @"NSDisabledAutoFillMenuItem" but adding this to the code does nothing so apparently not. I searched programming forums and posters say that you can fix this by changing the name of the Edit menu to something like (space)Edit but this doesn't work. I searcher the Developer documentation and the Archives extensively for info about these keys but of course found nothing. Control-clicking on these pops up a menu of ways to search for these but none of them find anything. Control, option and command clicking on these keys results in ”?”. I can probably get a pointer to the menu and use NSMenu’s methods to delete these but something like the above would be better. Is there any documentation about this anywhere?

I can't seem to access preview for any of my views in any of my swift projects at all (using Mac to code and using iPhone 16 pro as preview and simulation, simulation can work), even after restarting Mac and Xcode itself. The preview section has a popup saying "Cannot preview in this file, unexpected error occured" (for every file), please tell me what is wrong and help me solve it to see the preview, thank you! details

When connecting xcode and iPhone, the keypad does not appear on the screen where you enter the device password to trust the computer, so the connection is not possible. How do I make the keypad appear? There is no response when I tap the text box.

In WWDC23: Fix failures faster with Xcode test reports, the presenter showed off an Xcode feature called Automation Explorer, that allows playback of a screen recording corresponding to an XCUITest. For the life of me, I have not been able to find out how to enable/use this feature in Xcode 16. I am using Test Plans and have set the UI Testing configuration settings for Automatic Screen Capture to On, and keep all and Preferred Capture Format to Video, but am not seeing any screen recordings being produced after running the tests. Am I doing something wrong?

Hi everyone, I’m planning to develop a cross-platform PDF viewer app for iOS and macOS that will read PDFs from local storage and cloud services (Google Drive, iCloud, WorkDrive, etc.). The app should be read-only and display both the PDF content and its metadata (author, title, creation date, etc.). Key Features: View PDFs: Local and remote (cloud storage integration). Display metadata: Title, author, page count, etc. Cloud integration: Google Drive, iCloud, Zoho WorkDrive, etc. Read-only mode: No editing features, just viewing. Questions: Xcode Template: Should I use the Document App or Generic App template for this? PDF Metadata: Any built-in libraries for extracting PDF metadata in a read-only app? Performance: Any advice or documentation on handling large PDFs or cloud fetching efficiently? Thanks in advance for any advice or resources!