I need to know the current date to query CloudKit data with it, like: let predicate = NSPredicate(format: "publishedAt <= %@", currentDateAndTime) I don't need high precision, even +/- a few minutes is fine, but I can't rely on device's time since the user can manually change it. Researching this myself I see that the most reliable method is to get the date from the server. There are NTP servers, but accessing them requires additional libraries which adds complexity. TrueTime (last updated 6 years ago) and Kronos (updated like once a year) seem outdated, given how much Swift has changed in the past years. I can make an HTTP request to a website like Google or Apple and read the current time from its headers. But I don't know if this method is reliable. I know I can create a dummy record in CloudKit, update it, and read its modificationDate. But it feels hacky. Maybe there is another way to fetch the current date directly from CloudKit? It feels like it should be easy and there is a straightforward solution, but I just can't find it.

Hello, I'm using CoreData + CloudKit and I am facing the following error 134100 "The managed object model version used to open the persistent store is incompatible with the one that was used to create the persistent store." All my schema updates are composed of adding optional attributes to existing entities, adding non-optional attributes (with default value) to existing entities or adding new entities Basically, only things that lightweight migrations can handle. Every time I update the schema, I add a new model version of xcdatamodel - who only has a single configuration (the "Default" one). And I also deploy the updated CloudKit schema from the dashboard. It worked up to v3 of my xcdatamodel, but started to crash for a few users at v4 when I added 16 new attributes (in total) to 4 existing entities. Then again at v5 when I added 2 new optional attributes to 1 existing entity. I'm using a singleton and here is the code: private func generateCloudKitContainer() -> NSPersistentCloudKitContainer { let container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(name: "MyAppModel") let fileLocation = URL(...) let description = NSPersistentStoreDescription(url: fileLocation) description.shouldMigrateStoreAutomatically = true description.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey) description.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey) let options = NSPersistentCloudKitContainerOptions(containerIdentifier: "iCloud.com.company.MyApp") options.databaseScope = .private description.cloudKitContainerOptions = options container.persistentStoreDescriptions = [description] container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true container.loadPersistentStores { description, error in container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergePolicy(merge: .mergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicyType) if let error { // Error happens here! } } return container } I can't reproduce it yet. I don't really understand what could lead to this error.

Hi everyone, I've recently implemented CKSyncEngine in my app, and I have two questions regarding its behavior: Duplicate FetchedRecordZoneChanges After Sending Changes: I’ve noticed that the engine sometimes receives a FetchedRecordZoneChanges event containing modifications and deletions that were just sent by the same device a few moments earlier. This event arrives after the SentRecordZoneChanges event, and both events share the same recordChangeTag, which results in double-handling the record. Is this expected behavior? I’d like to confirm if this is how CKSyncEngine works or if I might be overlooking something. Handling Initial Sync with a "Sync Screen": When a user opens the app for the first time and already has data stored in iCloud, I need to display a "Sync Screen" temporarily to prevent showing partial data or triggering abrupt, rapid UI changes. I’ve found that canceling current operations, then awaiting sendChanges() and fetchChanges() works well to ensure data is fully synced before dismissing the sync screen: displaySyncScreen = true await syncEngine.cancelOperations() try await syncEngine.sendChanges() try await syncEngine.fetchChanges() displaySyncScreen = false However, I’m unsure if canceling operations like this could lead to data loss or other issues. Is this a safe approach, or would you recommend a better strategy for handling this initial sync state?

I have two recordTypes in CloudKit: Author and Book. The Book records have their parent property set to an Author, enabling hierarchical record sharing (i.e., if an Author record is shared, the participant can see all books associated with that author in their shared database). When syncing with CKSyncEngine, I was expecting handleFetchedRecordZoneChanges to deliver all Author records before their associated Book records. However, unless I’m missing something, the order appears to be random. This randomness forces me to handle two codepaths in my app (opposed to just one) to replicate CloudKit references in my local persistency storage: Book arrives before its Author → I store the Book but defer setting its parent reference until the corresponding Author arrives. Author arrives before its Books → I can immediately set the parent reference when each Book arrives. Is there a way to ensure that Author records always arrive before Book records when syncing with CKSyncEngine? Or is this behavior inherently unordered and I have to implement two codepaths?

I have a simple model @Model final class Movie: Identifiable { #Index\<Movie\>(\[.name\]) var id = UUID() var name: String var genre: String? init(name: String, genre: String?) { self.name = name self.genre = genre } } I turned on SQL debugging by including '-com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug 3' argument on launch. When I fetch the data using the following code, it selects 3 records initially, but then also selects each record individually even though I am not referencing any other attributes. var fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor\<Movie\>() fetchDescriptor.propertiesToFetch = \[.id, .name\] fetchDescriptor.fetchLimit = 3 do { print("SELECT START") movies = try modelContext.fetch(fetchDescriptor) print("SELECT END") } catch { print("Failed to load Movie model.") } I see it selecting the 3 rows initially, but then it selects each one separately. Why would it do this on the initial fetch? I was hoping to select the data that I want to display and let the system select the entire record only when I access a variable that I did not initially fetch. CoreData: annotation: fetch using NSSQLiteStatement <0x600002158af0> on entity 'Movie' with sql text 'SELECT 1, t0.Z_PK, t0.ZID, t0.ZNAME FROM ZMOVIE t0 LIMIT 3' returned 3 rows with values: ( "<NSManagedObject: 0x600002158d70> (entity: Movie; id: 0xa583c7ed484691c1 <x-coredata://71E60F4C-1A40-4DB7-8CD1-CD76B4C11949/Movie/p1>; data: <fault>)", "<NSManagedObject: 0x600002158d20> (entity: Movie; id: 0xa583c7ed482691c1 <x-coredata://71E60F4C-1A40-4DB7-8CD1-CD76B4C11949/Movie/p2>; data: <fault>)", "<NSManagedObject: 0x600002158f00> (entity: Movie; id: 0xa583c7ed480691c1 <x-coredata://71E60F4C-1A40-4DB7-8CD1-CD76B4C11949/Movie/p3>; data: <fault>)" ) CoreData: annotation: fetch using NSSQLiteStatement <0x600002154d70> on entity 'Movie' with sql text 'SELECT 0, t0.Z_PK, t0.Z_OPT, t0.ZGENRE, t0.ZID, t0.ZNAME FROM ZMOVIE t0 WHERE t0.Z_PK = ? ' returned 1 rows CoreData: annotation: with values: ( "<NSSQLRow: 0x600000c89500>{Movie 1-1-1 genre=\"Horror\" id=4C5CB4EB-95D7-4DC8-B839-D4F2D2E96ED0 name=\"A000036\" and to-manys=0x0}" ) This all happens between the SELECT START and SELECT END print statements. Why is it fulfilling the faults immediately?

I'm unable to view Changes or Diff View in the Deploy Schema Changes Dialog due to an Internal Error.

The problem is that the iCloud Drive directory of my app does not appear in my iCloud Drive in Finder despite the (I think) correct settings in my info.plist file (see below). In Terminal, I can see the folder and it also contains .txt files. What can I do to make the folder visible in Finder and the Files app? <key>NSUbiquitousContainers</key> <dict> <key>iCloud.vmk.NewsSwiper</key> <dict> <key>NSUbiquitousContainerIsDocumentScopePublic</key> <true/> <key>NSUbiquitousContainerName</key> <string>RSS-Filter</string> <key>NSUbiquitousContainerIdentifier</key> <string>iCloud.vmk.NewsSwiper</string> <key>NSUbiquitousContainerSupportedFolderLevels</key> <string>Any</string> </dict> </dict>

I am trying to migrate my Core Data model to a new version with a new attribute added to it. Since my app supports macOS 13 I am not able to use the newly introduced Staged migrations. After much digging I found that the app is not able to find the Mapping Model when one of the attribute has "Preserve after deletion" enabled. I have enabled migration debbuging using com.apple.CoreData.MigrationDebug 1 I am getting following error error: CoreData: error: (migration) migration failed with error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134140 "Persistent store migration failed, missing mapping model." What is the way out here?

When I try to promote schema to production, I get following error: Cannot promote schema with empty type 'workspace', please delete the record type before attempting to migrate the schema again However, in hierarchical root record sharing, I think it should be completely legit use case where there is empty root record (in my case workspace) to which other records reference through ->parent reference. Am I missing something? Is this weird constraint imposed on CloudKit?

Exact same app works fine in debug builds, but on release builds I see this stacktrace indicating that assert() was hit. Incident Identifier: *** Distributor ID: com.apple.TestFlight Hardware Model: iPhone14,3 Process: AuditOS [67847] Path: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/*** Identifier: *** Version: 1.0 (15) AppStoreTools: 16C5031b AppVariant: 1:iPhone14,3:18 Beta: YES Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Foreground Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: *** Date/Time: 2025-02-11 12:37:54.7801 -0600 Launch Time: 2025-02-11 12:37:33.1737 -0600 OS Version: iPhone OS 18.3 (22D63) Release Type: User Baseband Version: 4.20.03 Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x000000019d388e2c Termination Reason: SIGNAL 5 Trace/BPT trap: 5 Terminating Process: exc handler [67847] Triggered by Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libswiftCore.dylib 0x000000019d388e2c _assertionFailure(_:_:file:line:flags:) + 264 (AssertCommon.swift:147) 1 SwiftData 0x0000000261842e04 Schema.KeyPathCache.validateAndCache(keypath:on:) + 2628 (Schema.swift:0) 2 SwiftData 0x000000026178cac4 static PersistentModel.keyPathToString(keypath:) + 360 (DataUtilities.swift:36) 3 SwiftData 0x000000026184c9e4 static PersistentModel.fetchDescriptorKeyPathString(for:) + 36 (FetchDescriptor.swift:51) 4 SwiftData 0x00000002617b9770 closure #1 in PredicateExpressions.KeyPath.convert(state:) + 172 (FetchDescriptor.swift:458) 5 SwiftData 0x00000002617b7f48 PredicateExpressions.KeyPath.convert(state:) + 352 (FetchDescriptor.swift:438) 6 SwiftData 0x00000002617bb7ec protocol witness for ConvertibleExpression.convert(state:) in conformance PredicateExpressions.KeyPath&lt;A, B&gt; + 16 (&lt;compiler-generated&gt;:0) 7 SwiftData 0x00000002617baaa0 PredicateExpression.convertToExpressionOrPredicate(state:) + 716 (FetchDescriptor.swift:219) 8 SwiftData 0x00000002617ba6dc PredicateExpression.convertToExpression(state:) + 32 (FetchDescriptor.swift:237) 9 SwiftData 0x00000002617b7cfc PredicateExpressions.Equal.convert(state:) + 328 (:-1) 10 SwiftData 0x00000002617bba08 protocol witness for ConvertibleExpression.convert(state:) in conformance PredicateExpressions.Equal&lt;A, B&gt; + 64 (&lt;compiler-generated&gt;:0) 11 SwiftData 0x00000002617baaa0 PredicateExpression.convertToExpressionOrPredicate(state:) + 716 (FetchDescriptor.swift:219) 12 SwiftData 0x00000002617b7abc PredicateExpression.convertToPredicate(state:) + 28 (FetchDescriptor.swift:244) 13 SwiftData 0x00000002617b7190 nsFetchRequest&lt;A&gt;(for:in:) + 1204 (FetchDescriptor.swift:64) 14 SwiftData 0x0000000261783358 DefaultStore.fetch&lt;A&gt;(_:) + 292 (DefaultStore.swift:496) 15 SwiftData 0x000000026178322c protocol witness for DataStore.fetch&lt;A&gt;(_:) in conformance DefaultStore + 16 (&lt;compiler-generated&gt;:0) 16 SwiftData 0x00000002617847fc asDataStore #1 &lt;A&gt;&lt;A1&gt;(_:) in closure #1 in ModelContext.fetch&lt;A&gt;(_:) + 3152 (ModelContext.swift:2590) 17 SwiftData 0x00000002617a74d8 partial apply for closure #1 in ModelContext.fetch&lt;A&gt;(_:) + 100 (&lt;compiler-generated&gt;:0) 18 SwiftData 0x00000002617a7438 closure #1 in ModelContext.enumerateFetchableStores&lt;A&gt;(_:_:) + 208 (ModelContext.swift:2527) 19 SwiftData 0x00000002617a731c specialized ModelContext.enumerateFetchableStores&lt;A&gt;(_:_:) + 200 (ModelContext.swift:2522) 20 SwiftData 0x00000002617a6f08 ModelContext.fetch&lt;A&gt;(_:) + 144 (ModelContext.swift:2534) 21 SwiftData 0x00000002617a6e70 dispatch thunk of ModelContext.fetch&lt;A&gt;(_:) + 56 (:-1) 22 AuditOS 0x00000001041af3f4 0x10419c000 + 78836 23 AuditOS 0x00000001041bebd5 0x10419c000 + 142293 24 AuditOS 0x00000001041bbbf5 0x10419c000 + 130037 25 AuditOS 0x00000001041d8be5 0x10419c000 + 248805 26 AuditOS 0x00000001041bde6d 0x10419c000 + 138861 27 libswift_Concurrency.dylib 0x00000001aa6bfe39 completeTaskWithClosure(swift::AsyncContext*, swift::SwiftError*) + 1 (Task.cpp:497) The code in question looks like this: func addRecord&lt;T: MyDtoProtocol&gt;(_ someDTO: T) async throws { var zone: ZoneModel? = nil let recordName = someDTO.recordNameType let fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor&lt;T.ModelType&gt; (predicate: #Predicate {$0.recordName == recordName}) &gt; var localEntitites: [T.ModelType] = try modelContext.fetch(fetchDescriptor) &lt;---- I have isolated crash to this line. Basically for each swiftdata model type I have associatedType for Data Transfer Object type and vice versa.

I am trying to test using Testflight and have set up a test with a user on an account I also own which is different to me developer account. The app I believe is running in production on a separate device and is working from a user point of view, however I am not able to query the data via the console. As I said I know the user id and password as tey are mine so even when I use the Act as user service it logs in but the query is empty. I'm assuming I'm not doing anything wrong its possibly an security issue that is preventing me accessing this account. My question to the group then is how do I verify the data that is being tested?

Hello, I am trying to access my cloudkit database from the icloud developer dashboard but I am getting the following error: Error looking up Developer Teams XHR request failure Please sign out and try again. I tried signing out but the error persists, Thanks

Some of my customer get the following CloudKit error (I cannot reproduce is myself). Failed to modify some records (CKErrorDomain:2) userInfo: CKErrorDescription:Failed to modify some records CKPartialErrors:{ "<CKRecordID: ooo; recordName=ooo, zoneID=ooo:__defaultOwner__>" = "<CKError 0x600003809ce0: \"Limit Exceeded\" (27/2023); server message = \"AssetUploadTokenRetrieveRequest request size exceeds limit\"; op = ooo; uuid = ooo; container ID = \"ooo\">" This is a CKError.limitExeeded error. I create 200 or less records in a batch operation. So I am below the 400 limit. Searching the Internet for "AssetUploadTokenRetrieveRequest request size exceeds limit": 0 results Can anyone give me a hint?

I'm calling a method with the context as parameter, within the context's perform block – is this really not legal in Swift 6? actor MyActor { func bar(context: NSManagedObjectContext) { /* some code */ } func foo(context: NSManagedObjectContext) { context.performAndWait { self.bar(context: context) // WARN: Sending 'context' risks causing data races; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode // 'self'-isolated 'context' is captured by a actor-isolated closure. actor-isolated uses in closure may race against later nonisolated uses // Access can happen concurrently } } } The warning appears when I call a method with a context parameter, within the performAndWait-block. Background: In my app I have methods that takes in API data, and I need to call the same methods from multiple places with the same context to store it, and I do not want to copy paste the code and have hundreds of lines of duplicate code. Is there a well-known "this is how you should do it" for situations like this? This is related to a previous post I made, but it's a bit flimsy and got no response: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/770605

I'm working through the Develop In Swift tutorial at page [https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/develop-in-swift/navigation-editing-and-relationships-conclusion)] The tutorial has a one to many relationship between Friend and Movie (each friend can have at most one favorite movie and each movie can be the favorite for zero or more friends). An exercise left to the student is to use an .onDelete on the movie detail page to delete that movie as favorite. I modified the Form Form { TextField("Movie title", text: $movie.title) DatePicker("Release date", selection: $movie.releaseDate, displayedComponents: .date) if !movie.favoritedBy.isEmpty { Section("Favorited by") { ForEach(sortedFriends) { friend in Text(friend.name) } .onDelete(perform: deleteFavorites(indexes:)) } } } by adding the .onDelete clause I added private func deleteFavorites(indexes: IndexSet) { for index in indexes { context.delete(movie.favoritedBy[index]) } } to the view. This does delete the favorite movie, but it also deletes the friend. My assumption is that the selected friend should then have no favorite movie rather than being deleted There is an if in the Form that doesn't display the FAVORITED BY section if no friend has that movie as a favorite, but if I delete all the friends who had this movie as a favorite, the section remains (but is empty), until I exit the MovieDetail view and reload it There is no answer for these exercises, so I could be doing it wrong. EDIT: If I delete a movie using the app function to delete a movie, friends that have that movie as a favorite are not deleted and have their favorite movie set to None

Am I misunderstanding the expected behavior here, or is there a bug in the behavior of @Attribute(.ephemeral) tagged SwiftData model properties? The documentation for .ephemeral says "Track changes to this property but do not persist". I started using .ephemeral because @Transient was inhibiting SwiftUI from reacting to changes to the property through @Observable. I am updating the value of my @Attribute(.ephemeral) property about once a second and I am seeing corresponding console log output showing the property as part of the generated CKRecord object. I then confirmed in the CloudKit dev portal that the .ephemeral property was added to the Record schema and contains real values. The behavior seems as though the .ephemeral property is being completely ignored. This is observed in a new Xcode project using SwiftData with CloudKit, Xcode 16.2, macOS 15.3.1 and during Build & Run testing on physical devices.

I'm having some issues where only a subset of records appear in CloudKit dashboard after I have saved some records in my iOS app using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. I have noticed that when I'm running my app using the development environment of my CloudKit container everything works smoothly and is uploaded as expected but when I'm using the production environment only a subset of records are actually uploaded. I'm pulling my hair on how to debug this. -com.apple.CoreData.CloudKitDebug and -com.apple.CoreData.SQLDebug pukes out too much info in the console for me to pinpoint any issue.

Document based SwiftData apps do not autosave changes to the ModelContext at all. This issue has been around since the first release of this SwiftData feature. In fact, the Apple WWDC sample project (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/building-a-document-based-app-using-swiftdata) does not persist any data in its current state, unless one inserts modelContext.save() calls after every data change. I have reported this under the feedback ID FB16503154, as it seemed to me that there is no feedback report about the fundamental issue yet. Other posts related to this problem: https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/757172 https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/768906 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/764189

I am developing an Xcode app with a job feed, with profile view, with chat eg. I fetch using federatet queries to my microservices thru Apollo Router. Infront of the Apollo Router i Have a Kong that adds a X user ID, that the microservices use for personalized feed and other user info. The info is stored with SwiftData. My thought is that i should add a better way of controlling when i need to fetch. I have a “lastupdateAPI” with different entities (profile, profile picture eg). So when nothing has changed we do not fetch. But rather then using a own API for this, isnt ETag better? Or is it any other recommendations with Xcode Swiftui. Good strategies for not fetching what i already have?

Perhaps I just have the wrong expectations, but I discovered some odd behavior from SwiftData that sure seems like a bug to me... If you make any change to any SwiftData model object — even just setting a property to its current value — every SwiftUI view that uses SwiftData is rebuilt. Every query and every entity reference, even if the property was set on a model class that is completely unrelated to the view. SwiftUI does such a good job of optimizing UI updates that it's hard to notice the issue. I only noticed it because the updates were triggering my debug print statements. To double-check this, I went back to Apple's new iOS app template — the one that is just a list of dated items — and added a little code to touch an unrelated record in the background: @Model class UnrelatedItem { var name: String init(name: String) { self.name = name } } @main struct jumpyApp: App { var sharedModelContainer: ModelContainer = { let schema = Schema([ Item.self, UnrelatedItem.self ]) let modelConfiguration = ModelConfiguration(schema: schema, isStoredInMemoryOnly: false) do { return try ModelContainer(for: schema, configurations: [modelConfiguration]) } catch { fatalError("Could not create ModelContainer: \(error)") } }() init() { let context = sharedModelContainer.mainContext // Create 3 items at launch so we immediately have some data to work with. if try! context.fetchCount(FetchDescriptor<Item>()) == 0 { for _ in 0..<3 { let item = Item(timestamp: Date()) context.insert(item) } } // Now create one unrelated item. let unrelatedItem = UnrelatedItem(name: "Mongoose") context.insert(unrelatedItem) try? context.save() // Set up a background task that updates the unrelated item every second. Task { while true { try? await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 1_000_000_000) Task { @MainActor in // We don't even have to change the name or save the contxt. // Just setting the name to the same value will trigger a change. unrelatedItem.name = "Mongoose" } } } } var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { ContentView() } .modelContainer(sharedModelContainer) } } I also added a print statement to the ContentView so I could see when the view updates. struct ContentView: View { @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext @Query private var items: [Item] var body: some View { NavigationSplitView { List { let _ = Self._printChanges() ... The result is that the print statement logs 2 messages to the debug console every second. I checked in iOS 17, 18.1, and 18.2, and they all behave this way. Is this the intended behavior? I thought the whole point of the new Observation framework in iOS 17 was to track which data had changed and only send change notifications to observers who were using that data.