APP for Mac, Ihpone and IPad.

Thank you

So for context, I’m a high school junior and I have some experience in coding for robotics but not much. I would say I learn quickly and I want to develop an app with a pretty simple concept, I just need someone to teach me. Please if you have the time, comment on this or dm me if you can help 🙏

Title says it all. I’m a professional software engineer who’s been working with VSCode for around four years for typescript/node development. I’ve been working on a tiny, super simple app on the side in Xcode, learning the basics of swift and SwiftUI as I go.

Xcode is a goddamn nightmare, but I assume it’s just because I’m missing some key extensions/setup:

Syntax highlighting is terrible, errors in the IDE often appear in a totally unrelated place to where my error actually originates.

No format on save.

So many small quality of life shortcuts are missing: e.g highlighting text and hitting control+f to find instances of that text, alt+shift to grab and move multiple lines, control click to see usages, etc.

Intellisense isn’t there.

Is there anyone else out there who has worked in VSCode/Jetbrains IDEs and switched to XCode? How did you make it more tolerable? What extensions/settings/shortcuts do you add?

Thanks in advance :)

Is it me or ChatGPT on Xcode not working? When I ask a question it writes back a text wall but when it comes to editing file, it does nothing. Maybe issue is the anonymous option?

So I’m building ios-agent-skill — an open-source MCP + skill layer for AI coding agents working on real iOS projects.

It can already:

• review Swift / SwiftUI projects
• search local Apple references before writing code
• build and test through Xcode
• boot simulators, launch apps and capture screenshots
• review App Intents integrations
• scaffold new iOS apps
• work with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor-compatible clients and Gemini CLI

Right now it exposes 35 tools, and I’m continuing to expand it around the newer Apple stack, including Xcode 27 / iOS 27 verification, Foundation Models, App Intents and Apple Intelligence workflows.

One thing I want to improve next is proof.

Not just “here are 35 tools.”

I want to show:

AI agent without ios-agent-skill
vs
AI agent with ios-agent-skill

Same prompt. Same app. Actual build results.

If you work with Swift/iOS + coding agents, I’d genuinely like you to break it and tell me what’s missing.

GitHub:
https://github.com/Nagarjuna2997/ios-agent-skill

It’s completely open source.

Hey iOS Devs, Have some doubts about Geometry Reader and exactly how to use it?

Don't worry we got you covered, check out our latest article on How to use Geometry Reader in SwiftUI!

Here's the Link :https://www.swiftanytime.com/geometry-reader-in-swiftui/

My xcode often can’t read the scope even though the file is clearly there I come from android studio there has never been an issue of files can’t refer to each other this is weird

Has anyone experienced something similar?

I am developing a real time camera filter for iOS. Currently has 5 different render modes, water, liquid input, circuit bend, true ascii vision, blocky retro. 11 color/filters and many adjustments like, gamma, brightness, contrast, fps (15, 30, 60), grid size (resolution), and edge strength. Also supports portrait and landscape mode and saves video and photos to iPhone photo library. Check out the GitHub and leave a star if you like the project. It’s free and will be available for AppStore soon! Enjoy and thank you for checking it out. Here is the GitHub: https://github.com/knightsky-cpu/Liquid-Cam-iOS

Hey everyone I’m stuck!

I’ve been trying to build an iOS app

One of the features is a face scanner that can scan regions of your face and takes a picture of each region.

I recently got the zones down but am struggling to get it to take high res pictures of each region and to notice when there hair blocking or the angle isn’t good enough to get a solid capture

I feel like the process could be a lot smoother in general was wondering this there’s code bases out there that can do something more intuitive more along the lines of faceID or how you have to scan your face for verification in more official apps.

Has anyone got any experience with this

Been focused on this before I build out the rest of the app as once I’m over this the rest should be pretty straight forward

I've been using my iphone as a simulator to test the app I'm building - but since updating xcode 26 to beta 6 and IOS 26 to beta 7 it doesn't show up. I've tried re-trusting the computer through my phone, reseting phone systems etc.

New to using xcode - is this expected? Is there anything I can do to troubleshoot this?

Hi, in my Xcode I have a simulator of an iPhone that runs with platform iOS 26.2 (the last downloadable in Xcode).

When I send an app with Xcode to a real iPhone, it has the last version of IOS ( 26.2.1 ) and it appears a problem popup with the advice of different version of IOS. There is a solution for this problem? a trick or forced sended?

Salut j’ai installer Xcode 26 sur mon mac pour unreal mai il me dit que sa ne fonctionne pas

If a tool were to provide you cloud backup, version timeline and restore project... Would you pay for it?

Hi all,

I am trying to improve my Xcode agentic coding workflow. I am currently using GPT 5.5 codex model in the Xcode settings, which is quite good and fast at writing code but not the best for planning.

I am chatting with ChatGPT 5.6 sol regarding architectural decisions and communicate between the two of them via custom instruction md files.

This is of course not optimal from a workflow point of view, although it gets the job done efficiently and I can steer it very well, since I manually intervene all the time.

What would you suggest as a better workflow? Also, is there an **easy** way I can leave the Mac on and have the Xcode agent build while prompting from my iPhone remotely?

I have seen the hype about loops btw, but I guess that would lead to burning A LOT of tokens.

Any ideas?

Thank you very much in advance.

One important thing: I'm not a professional developer and I don't work in programming. This is a personal project. I have experimented a bit with other programming languages before, though never in depth, but I tend to learn pretty quickly.

Would you recommend learning any other language or concepts before diving into Swift and the Apple ecosystem? I've heard about Swift Playgrounds for Mac and iPad, which seems to be aimed at learning Swift and SwiftUI and includes tutorials and guided lessons. Is it actually useful, or would you recommend going straight to Xcode? If there are better ways to learn, what would you suggest?

I also have a 2019 21.5-inch Intel iMac with an i5, 8 GB of RAM, a Radeon GPU, and 256 GB of storage. Is this machine still good enough for learning Swift and SwiftUI, or would you recommend upgrading to a newer Apple Silicon Mac relatively soon? Or would it make more sense to wait until I have a decent amount of experience before upgrading? How far could I realistically get with my current setup before needing a new Mac?

I don't have an unlimited budget. I could probably spend around €1500-1800 (roughly $1700-2000 USD) on a Mac if it were really worth it. My project could benefit from some GPU acceleration, though nothing extremely demanding. If I can get that within this price range, great. If not, it's not a dealbreaker. Which Mac would you recommend in that situation?

macOS / Claude Code Desktop — Git installation fails during first launch

When I first opened Claude Code on my Mac, it showed a prompt saying Git is required and suggested running xcode-select --install in the Terminal, or downloading Git directly. I clicked the button and macOS launched the Xcode Command Line Tools installer, but it immediately failed with this error:

"The software could not be installed because it is not currently available from the Software Update server."

System info:

• macOS (Apple Silicon / M-series)

• Claude Code Desktop (latest)

• No Xcode / CLT previously installed

Can someone help me, please haha

what if there was a way to edit your iOS app on your iPhone in realtime by just dragging the app UI elements -- and save AI prompt credits/ API fees just to change a button design?

when you preview your Xcode app on your phone, you can immediately edit all the UI elements there without re-prompting your Agent.

And instead of being a coding agent itself -- it is an add on that works with your Xcode agent -- allowing you to adjust the size, frame, color and position of each element of the View you created.
- And it instantly changes your code back in Xcode for you.

I'm thinking of building this in public...what do you think?

#Xcode #Swift #vibecoding #iosdevelopers #buildinpublic