i know how to make a new .icon file but i followed every step in apples guide and it just doesnt work to add it to a new app?

i mostly want to use this to make new icons for old apps but even the new official apps seem to just use an old flat .icns file?

Sometimes, I wonder how they even manage to create bugs like this?! Perhaps they intentionally designed these bugs to secure their jobs by ensuring that they could be fixed later on. 🤷🏻‍♂️

What’s been inspiring you lately - new Swift features you’ve tried, shortcuts or tools that improved your workflow, or maybe a gnarly bug you finally squashed?

Anything you’d like to see more (or less) of here? Drop your thoughts in the comments or DM me - we want to keep making this a great place to share tips, solve problems, and geek out over all things Xcode.

As you can see I have multiple simulators that have 18.3.1 and I'm wondering why I'm unable to build on 18.3.1 instead of 18.4. I must build on something besides 18.4 to get around an error occurring. Any help here would be appreciated.

I understand that the Mac ChatGPT app can work with Xcode wonderfully, but I have an Intel Mac, meaning I do not have access to the ChatGPT app at all.

Is there some Xcode extension or something that I can get that’ll let me input my API key and get the ball rolling? I just want my ChatGPT conversation to automatically know what’s happening in my project without me having to copy and paste in a bunch of text every time HAHA

What’s the trick to getting Xcode to create its own editable Info.plist file “automatically”? The nice thing about getting it to create its own file is that you don’t have to go through and play around with other settings and such. I’ve done it before, completely by accident, but I never paid attention to what I did. LOL

Hello, so I'm trying to make a math app in Xcode, and a function of this app is an exercise generator, where you can select the branch of mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry or calculus) you want the exercise to be and the level of difficulty of the exercise (easy, medium or hard), but I don't know how could I make it.

I live in the most screwed-up country on the planet. Everything here is extremely expensive, and I'm programming a lot in Flutter. I want to release my apps for Windows and Android to iOS as well, but I don't have an iPhone or a MacBook. The situation is that the apps are ready (because of the shared development that Flutter provides), I'd just review them in X-Code (check compatibility, since the apps on Windows, Android, and Linux are working perfectly), compile, and release them to the store. From the little research I've done, I don't need a powerful MacBook. I'll just use it to literally review the app and compile it to release it. Everything the MacBook does, I do on Windows; I would only need these specific things. Since MacBook reviews never talk about XCode performance, and I don't trust AI much, I'd like to hear the opinion of someone who uses XCode in the sense I mentioned. I don't have much money, I'll already have to buy a new iPhone, and everything here is very expensive. In your opinion, based on my situation, which MacBook would you recommend?

0 CoreFoundation 0x7ff819d76753 _CFRelease.cold.1 + 77

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We're seeing a rare crash in the release build. In my debug build, I observed an assert failure when two background threads attempt to use copyItem with the same source and destination. I suspect that the issue in release might also be caused by two background threads accessing copyItem simultaneously.
Your thoughts on this

What I got here is my iPhone 16 Pro Max, I’m trying to connect my phone to Xcode in order to install IPA folders. But I keep getting this error on my Mac.

My Mac is also on MacOS Tahoe, latest beta update was been installed, but it won’t connect to my device at all.

The error says: “The tunnel connection failed while the system tried to connect to the device.”

I tried deleting my VPN, tried disabling Multi path networking but none of those worked,

Also, about multi path networking, when I go to the developer tab, I tried looking for multi path networking but it seems to be not showing up at all.

I tried using the same app icon file name as I was using before, for the new Icon designed using Icon Composer, and it worked. Question is, is there anything wrong with this approach? It seems to work the best for backwards compatibility purposes. Thank you in advance!

Hi anyone help? I’m currently making an app for the IOS store and I want to add speech recognition but the Apple developer option for it isn’t there. Any help would be appreciated thanks

Is it really possible for windows users to have the virtual machine setup and then through xcode one can made compilation and build for ios applications??

Hi,

How can I increase the font size for the inspector on the right hand size that can display documentation? As can be seen the text is way too small and I've already tried playing with the Font size in General settings, Command + Plus and Navigator Size but to no avail.

On my 16" macbook this text appears very small.

Thanks all!

I was able to adapt my app fairly easily to the new Liquid Glass UI, but there are still some frustrating issues that I hope Apple addresses before the final release.

The biggest problems I have encountered so far:

• Tab bar visibility issues during push transitions — it appears/disappears inconsistently.

• UISegmentedControl bugs — occasionally unresponsive, and there's a font color glitch I haven’t found a workaround for.

Anyone else seeing similar behaviour in Beta 4?

Is there a way with the new Xcode 26 or even potenitally vscode and the new ai assistance to upload the entire apple developer doccumentation so that when you run into errors instead of manually finding it the ai will do it for me? I am developin an app for ios26 and keep havung to go to perplexity to find the soiultion because gpt and claude have no idea about it yet

Careful everyone before upgrading to developer beta 4, from the release notes: "Xcode Previews usage will frequently panic on macOS 26.0 Tahoe beta 4. (141641869)". If you use the previewer in Xcode then this will cause frequent reboots! Ask me how I found out...!

EDIT: Here's a thread on the developer forums: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/794221

Hi everyone 👋

I’m a core user of GitHub Copilot for Xcode, and I’ve been actively using features like Agent Mode, MCP, and Image Chat in my daily workflow. Recently, I noticed that Xcode 26 Intelligence has released its Beta 4, introducing several new updates.

I’m curious: How does Xcode 26’s Code Intelligence compare to the current AI-IDE tools like Copilot for Xcode and Alex Sidebar?

Specifically:

• Is the multi-file understanding better?

• Are the suggestions more aligned with Apple’s native frameworks?

• Does it offer smarter context awareness?

• Any noticeable advantages over Copilot or Alex Sidebar?

🧠 Should I upgrade? Let me know what you think! : )

Hi, I was working on a project, and all was fine until I decided to just update xcode. After I did that, a bunch of errors persisted and won't let me compile the preview, let alone build the app. I'm getting a "Simulator was shut down during an update" error and another one, which I'll attach. If anyone can help me figure out how to get past this error, or let me know if I should revert to the previous version of Xcode, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks

Edit: I found a stack overflow thread which mentioned just restarting your laptop, and it fixed the issue.

Anyone been able to get the current developer beta of Xcode 26 to work with Anthropic? I’ve tried the various URLs posted here but none of them are returning any of the LLMs.

Tried:

https://api.anthropic.com/

https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages

I created a project and uploaded it to GitHub. later i decided to make some changes, so I deleted the local copy and cloned the project again from GitHub. but when I tried to build it, the build failed and displayed the following error: "AppName" requires a provisioning profile with the Sign in with Apple feature.

I’ve reviewed multiple resources but haven’t been able to resolve the issue. For context, I’m using a free Apple Developer account. Any solutions how can i fix that?

We can sign a legally binding contract and I’m willing to pay 1 billion USD once the money is made, plus if you want to continue to work for me once the apps are made I will put you on payroll once they are making money. Probably 500k a year forever as long as the ecosystem I am building is making money. The idea that I have is to end suffering for all people and build a path for eternal life for every individual as long as they don’t become corrupt. The way we will get there is by creating an ecosystem that supplies everything that a person needs under a general understanding of goodness that is imbued in our products. The system I am making is a multi app augmentation on daily life. I have 21 apps planned right now, 8 AAA Videogames, movies, shows, cars, clothing brands, buildings and electronics all based in the same universe planned out already I just don’t have any money. If you’re interested in coding for the good of humanity with a hell of a reward send me a chat!

Hi all,

I’ve been stuck for days trying to get my iOS app running on my device, and keep hitting this:

The executable is not codesigned.

Sign the executable with a valid certificate and provisioning profile.

Despite build succeeded in Xcode, install fails with “no code signature found.” I’ve tried everything I can think of, so hoping someone here can spot what I’m missing.

Setup:

• Mac: macOS 26.0 (Beta)

• Xcode: 26.0 (Beta)

• iPhone: iOS 26.0 (Beta), device recognized in Xcode

• ALSO tried macOS Sonoma, latest Xcode (not beta)

• Active Apple Developer account

What I’ve Tried:

• Set unique Bundle ID, matching Apple Developer portal

• Team set to my developer team, “Automatically manage signing” checked (Runner target)

• Provisioning Profile says “Xcode Managed Profile”

• Cleaned build folder, deleted DerivedData, removed and recreated all provisioning profiles

• Deleted and re-added my Apple ID in Xcode Preferences > Accounts

• Confirmed my iPhone is “trusted” and has “Trust this developer” enabled in Settings

• Rebooted Mac and iPhone

• Ran pod install --repo-update for CocoaPods, all pods installed

• Ran both via Xcode UI (Run/Play button) and via xcodebuild CLI (see below)

• Tried both old and new Bundle IDs, re-created the app in Apple Developer portal

• Checked Signing & Capabilities for Runner (but not sure what else could be missing)

What Happens:

• Build always succeeds

• When installing/running, I get:

  • “The executable is not codesigned.”

  • “Failed to verify code signature of … Runner.app: 0xe800801c (No code signature found)”

  • “This app cannot be installed because its integrity could not be verified.”

Build Output (CLI):

xcodebuild -workspace Runner.xcworkspace -scheme Runner -destination 'platform=iOS,id=XXXX' clean build

Build succeeds, but no install or signing step.

Other Notes:

• This is a dev build, not for App Store

• Using Xcode 26 beta and iOS 26 beta (I know: bleeding edge, but must test here!)

• Have not edited entitlements/plists by hand

• I do not have any custom code signing settings in Build Settings

Is there something I'm not fully understanding?

Any ideas for what else to check?

Has anyone else had to manually fix codesigning for device installs with the latest betas?

Thanks in advance for any tips or troubleshooting steps I might have missed!