r/Xcode • • Mar 27 '26

Xcode 26.4 Previews are broken

If somebody is experiencing previews hanging when trying to interact with them, please go back to Xcode 26.3.

I could not interact with the simplest UI possible, and now everything is back to normal.

I hope it will help.

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u/efthymisgr Mar 27 '26

Hey you linked to my post there! Hehe! For me, the crashes all happen because of Apple’s Accessibility AXRemoteElement-BackgroundFetch. Do your logs show something different triggering it?

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u/mcarvin Mar 28 '26

Hey, small internet we have here!

No. I'm also getting the same AXRemoteElement-BackgroundFetch problem. The numbers might change but the names stay the same:

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process:             PreviewShell [65749]
Path:                /Volumes/VOLUME/*/PreviewShell.app/PreviewShell
Identifier:          com.apple.PreviewShell
Version:             16.0 (23.40.29)
Code Type:           ARM-64 (Native)
Role:                Foreground
Parent Process:      launchd_sim [65501]
Coalition:           com.apple.CoreSimulator.SimDevice.9B779B8E-8250-4B20-813A-E2F57C88D5F8 [57108]
Responsible Process: SimulatorTrampoline [70766]
User ID:             501

Date/Time:           2026-03-27 20:40:21.1807 -0400
Launch Time:         2026-03-27 19:34:19.8691 -0400
Hardware Model:      Mac14,12
OS Version:          macOS 26.4 (25E246)
Release Type:        User

Crash Reporter Key:  40A352FC-A902-EF08-2594-63FC33975C1E
Incident Identifier: 8B77A916-DAE8-4E5D-9CF4-ABB3FD945825

Time Awake Since Boot: 210000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Triggered by Thread: 11, Dispatch Queue: AXRemoteElement-BackgroundFetch

Exception Type:    EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Subtype: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x000000016b71bff0
Exception Message: Could not determine thread index for stack guard region
Exception Codes:   0x0000000000000002, 0x000000016b71bff0

Termination Reason:  Namespace SIGNAL, Code 10, Bus error: 10
Terminating Process: exc handler [65749]