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Can you not get stuck installing every single time
Razvan_Ma
This is my 4th MacBook, newer model than the others and installing this piece of junk from the app store has failed every. single. time. Stuck installing at about 80%. Restart never helps. Feels great having to browse through libraries and other hidden folders just to be able to install this thing again.Once you get it running, it's decent at least. Got a lot of useful features, simple and good UI. Although it's rather slow and an immense resource hog, kind of like Chrome, but with ridiculously slow start-up and search(<=> build) times and very poor caching.
Important bug - Alt Click crashes
Sorin Miroiu
Hi. Whenever i'm holding Alt key and then left click on another swift file to open it in a slipt view it crashes. There aren't any steps to reproduce, since it happens on any class. Macbook pro 13 mid 2012 (manufactered in late 2015) with lastest updates.Thank you
Worst IDE
C. Il.
The way apple treats the iOS development comunity is sad. The ammount of MAGICAL bugs that get fixed by deleting derived data, or another weird folder, or giving your mac a restart - is insane. When the top answers on stackoverflow sound like "have you tried closing it? restarting it? deleting derived data?" - you know you have a huge problem.Build times are abysmal. Error reporting for Swift or mixed projects is a JOKE. Live views? A JOKE. Go and take a lesson from Unity's IDE.And this has gone on for YEARS. Good thing Apple came out with new M1 chips so that this piece of garbage behaves a bit better. It's sad that only way xcode performance will be improved its because of the hardware team.
Love it
Lucian Boboc
A lot of hard work has been put into Xcode lately. Swift 5.1 started to look strong and it will just get better from now going forward. Congratulations to the Apple teams that made this possible. There is room for improvements like build time and autocomplete but i'm sure there is just a matter of time till those will work flawlessly
Xcode 26.6 includes Swift 6.3.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, visionOS 26.5, and macOS 26.5.
This update adds support for Google Gemini in the coding assistant, in addition to Anthropic Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex. It also enables use of other compatible agents through the Agent Client Protocol, and provides bug fixes and improved stability.
Version 26.6
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Size
2.4 GB
Category
Developer Tools
Compatibility
Requires macOS 26.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
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