Re: app crashes updating to Xcode 11.2 from 11.1

Same here! It happens in iOS 11.0.1 when I test. No problem on iOS 13. I think there's something to do with UITextView. The app crashes only when I try to open a screen with a TextView. The TextView is added via Storyboard. No problems if I add it via code.

Having the same issue here. Works on iOS 13, crashes on iOS 12 and below.

Would be interesting if someone on this thread did a computer restart to see if it helps this issue...

Same here.

Crashes on a view with UITextView in hierarchy.

Crashes on every iOS except the latest 13.2.

same here. what the ??

I was using custom textview

class CustomTextView : UITextView, UITextViewDelegate {
  
    var textChanged : ((String)->())?
  
    init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame, textContainer: nil)
        self.initialize()
    }
  
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        self.initialize()
    }
   }

But is crashing on

aDecoder: NSCoder method

This is not related to Swift. I am not using any Swift and it still crashes in the same way.

Time to go back to Xcode 11.1 and wait for 11.2.1

We are running into the same issue at the moment with Xcode 11.2.

Everyone experiencing this has filed bugs, right?

That was a beta ?

Did you try with 11.2 release version ?

same here - crashes on a device running 13.1 but works fine on a device running 13.2

You can work around it by making the TextView via code and not using IB. At least worked for me.

But it doesn't look like a nice solution and I would wait for new Xcode release

Cant easily switch from storyboard/XIB to code, our storyboard has tons of view that use tons of UITextViews, would take many days to convert that.

Guess my only option will be to downgrade to XCode 11.1 which then of couse has the problem that we can't use our test devices that were already upgraded to 13.2.  I was eagerly wating this XCode update since we had already a few devices auto-update to the latest and it took way to long for the XCode update to follow up.

Hope this fix by Apple does not take too long since every workaround screws us in some way.

We are seeing the same crash after upgrading to XCode 11.2.

The only solution we have found so far is to replace UITextViews with UIViews in XIBs, and add UITextViews into those UIViews at runtime in code.

Same here happening with UITextView declared in XIBs. Working perfectly on iOS 13.2 and crashing with the previous version. The only workaround I found was to create the UITextView in the viewDidLoad().

I runned in to the same problem with Xcode 11.2.

I runs OK on device iPhone X with iOS 13.2

it crashes for example with Xcode simulator iPhone 6s (10.3.1)

2019-11-01 17:43:51.460 Midi file player[2664:68570] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException', reason: 'Could not instantiate class named _UITextLayoutView'

Same issue here, we're extremely lucky in that this was caught by TF beta users, we would have shipped one big broken update otherwise.

First the release is 4 days late, then it breaks apps, can somebody go to the intern that is working on Xcode right now and take their bong away, please.

We have exactly the same issue, so it seems that new Xcode 11.2.1 is on the way to fix this bug.

On iphone with iOS 13.1.3, it will crash. With iOS 13.2, it is fine.

But with xcode 11.1, all devices work fine.

Verified the crash on iOS 12.4.1. You can temporarily work around the crash by dynamically adding the missing _UITextLayoutView class to the runtime on older versions, but who knows how UITextView will behave after that. Please don't actually ship this "fix".

I've filed feedback report FB7422472 and encourage everyone in this thread to do the same.

Facing the same problem since I've upgraded to XCode 11.2 (11B52) today, with target iOS 13.0 on iPad Air 2 with version 13.1.3

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException', reason: 'Could not instantiate class named _UITextLayoutView because no class named _UITextLayoutView was found; the class needs to be defined in source code or linked in from a library (ensure the class is part of the correct target)'

libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

We found a workaround. Setting DEAD_CODE_STRIPPING = NO in our app’s target fixes the crash. For additional context: https://bugs.swift.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/SR-11564

We are aware of this issue. It specifically affects apps with a UITextView in an Interface Builder file when building with Xcode 11.2 and running on earlier iOS versions.

To continue your app's development, you can do one of two things:

• Instantiate your UITextView in code rather than in Interface Builder
• Continue using Xcode 11.1 to build, test, and submit your apps to the App Store. You can download Xcode 11.1 from the More Downloads page.

having the same issue

Xcode 11.2 crashes for me too but not for anything storyboard or UIKit related. Finding many are having bad access crashes on Xcode 11.2, including pure Swift Packages. See here for further details and temporary workaround: https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher/issues/1330 Xcode 11.2 needs a hot fix! Why would you ship this if this was in beta too?!!?!

same here, it's a bug. Try to init in code rather than storyboard.

Look at this solution on StackOverflow for this issue. It's working:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/58660634/5623035

I have UITextView’s in Storyboard and it’s not crashing for me using Xcode 11.2 on an iOS 12.4 device! I’ve had a build approved and not sure whether to release it or not   ♂

I have a similar but different issue? Works well on iOS and macOS when run from xcode. However, when I try to submit my macOS to appstore, the reviewer give me this crash log

Could not instantiate class named _UITextLayoutView because no class named _UITextLayoutView was found

Same for us! Creating controls in code is no solution/workaround for us. We need a fix in XCode for this.

For those who don't want to downgrade Xcdoe I found a good workaround on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/58699326/3437712

Shoutout to aftab muhammed khan!

When will it be edited?

Looks like Xcode 11.2.1 GM has it fixed.

I don’t understand how Xcode with this kind of bug went out to public.. :/ basic feature, not some crazy new framework etc :/ I would really like to know what happened, how did we get that crash

This is addressed in the GM Seed of Xcode 11.2.1. If you are writing a Mac Catalyst app, please also see the release notes for Xcode 11.2.1.

For any other issues you encounter while using Xcode, please file bug reports.

Updating to XCode 11.2.1 did not help with this crash in my particular situation. 

As a hail Mary, I deleted each text field and then did "control-Z" to undo the delete.  This fixed the crash after watching it crash on XCode 11.2.1 serveral times.  To be more specific, I deleted them all, ran the app, added one back at a time using control-Z to see if a particular one was causing it.   No crashes so I'm releasing it.  Now that we know our testing may not yield the same results when the app is downloaded from the app store, I'll be testing it before the users get to it...hopefully.

I would imagine that by deleting the fields and undoing it, the internals of the text field that were causing the crash were updated to whatever newer stuff likes.  If you're about to throw your computer through the window, this might just save you some money for the window and the computer

Why apple released xcode with this BUG. S U C K S

In my case, any XIB with a UITextView in it will crash.

I tried the above-mentioned technique of deleting the UITextView, and then immediately undoing the delete: this resolves the issue.

Doing a side-by-side Differences compare of XIBs in BBEdit shows only minor metadata changes in the XIB header--the actual TextView definition is unchanged.

XCode 11.2.1 does NOT fix this issue.  I have submitted a bug report to Apple.

This bug is sloppy and unacceptable.  Apple needs to fix this.

I'm having the same issue, Xcode 11.2, crashes on device (13.2.1) but works fine on simulator 13.2. It's crashing with FirebaseAuthViewController for me, there is a storyboard and a textview involved.

  xcode 11.2.1,issue is fixed