iOS & iPadOS 13 Beta

Release Notes
Update your apps to use new features, and test
your apps against API changes.

Overview
This version is intended exclusively for software developers
to test their apps and start adopting the new technologies in
iOS. Make sure to back up your device and install only on
systems you are prepared to erase if necessary.
Important Note for Thrill Seekers: If you’re interested in
living on the edge and trying out the great new features in
iOS & iPadOS 13, we strongly advise waiting for the many
bug fixes and refinements coming to the public beta later
this month.
General
Known Issues
• To edit your widgets, you might need to rotate iPad to
landscape orientation. (49162249)
• The EU volume limit warning might not appear when
exceeding the maximum volume limit. (51068683)
• When AirPlay mirroring is used with certain apps, the
mirrored output might produce unexpected results.
(51116513)
• Following an update to iOS & iPadOS 13, users with
large photo libraries might need to wait for an extended
 period while their device displays the Apple logo with a
progress bar. (51147659)
• If Face ID stops working unexpectedly, restart your
device and try again. (51205195)
• macOS 10.15 beta or Xcode 11 beta is required to sync
or update a device running iOS & iPadOS 13.
(51325292)
Deprecations
• The UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend key is no longer
supported in iOS & iPadOS 13. Update your apps to
handle modern multitasking. (43958234)

Accessibility
Known Issues
• When Reduce Transparency is enabled,
AVPlayerViewController might not display video
correctly. (51144377)

Activity
Known Issues
• Activity might quit unexpectedly when viewing Trends
on the last day of the month. (51299302)
• Friend Activity Sharing history might list inaccurate
calorie counts. (51265705)

App Store
Known Issues
• SKStoreProductViewController currently returns a blank
page. (50955943)

Apple CryptoKit
Known Issues
• When using the SecureEnclave API with access control
set on keys, users might not be prompted to
authenticate. This might cause subsequent operations
requiring authentication to fail. (51279188)

Audio
New Features
• Voice Processing mode can now be enabled on
AVAudioEngine. (50906329)
• New AVAudioNode types can be used to wrap a user-
defined block for sending or receiving data in real time.
• A new method is available for an AVAudioEngine-based
app to retrieve a list of all nodes attached to an
AVAudioEngine instance.
• A new rendering mode in AVAudioEnvironmentNode
selects the best spatial audio rendering algorithm
automatically based on the output device.
• A new AVAudioSession property allows system sounds
and haptics to play while the session actively uses
audio input.
• A new enumeration, AVAudioSessionPromptStyle,
informs apps which style of voice prompt they should
play based on other audio activity in the system.
• AVAudioSessionRouteSharingPolicy now permits apps
to specify route-sharing policies so their audio and
video routes to the same location as AirPlay.
• Audio Unit Extensions now support user presets that
are available across all host applications.

Known Issues
• Some real–time audio applications might exhibit audio
artifacts. (50870425)

Deprecations
• The OpenAL framework is deprecated and remains
present for compatibility purposes. Transition to
AVAudioEngine for spatial audio functionality.
• AUGraph is deprecated in favor of AVAudioEngine.
• Inter-App audio is deprecated. Use Audio Units for this
functionality moving forward.
• Carbon component-based Audio Units are deprecated
and support will be removed in a future release.
• Legacy Core Audio HAL audio hardware plug-ins are no
longer supported. Use audio server plug-ins for audio
drivers moving forward.

Audio Sharing
New Features
• Audio sharing is compatible with AirPods (1st
generation or later) and PowerBeats Pro. iPhone 8 or
later, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation or later), iPad
Pro 11-inch, iPad Pro 10.5-inch, iPad (5th generation or
later), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad mini (5th
 generation), or iPod touch (7th generation or later) is
required. (51331268)

Known Issues
• Initiating a phone call using Siri from one device might
result in the call being routed to the other device.
(50792780)
• Adjusting the volume level during audio sharing might
produce unexpected results. (50967849)
• If an audio device disconnects unexpectedly during
audio sharing, it might not reconnect. Restart your iOS
device and try connecting again. (51037861)

AVFoundation
New Features
• AVFoundation now supports encoding video with alpha
channels using HEVC. Videos encoded in this manner
are broadly supported in AVFoundation APIs, and by
Safari within web pages. Technical details of the format
can be found in the Interoperability Profile specification.
(8045917)

Known Issues
• Long-form video apps using the
AVInitialRouteSharingPolicy Info.plist key might exhibit
inconsistent AirPlay route suggestions. Manually route
to an AirPlay-capable TV using an in-app
AVRoutePickerView or by using the Now Playing
control in Control Center to test AirPlay and adoption of
 prepareRouteSelectionForPlaybackWithCompletionHan
dler:. (50924593)

Books
Known Issues
• Books and PDFs imported into the Books app might not
upload to iCloud Drive. (47124224)
• Books stored in iCloud Drive might not appear in
Books. (48685806)

CarPlay
Known Issues
• The state shown on the garage door button might be
incorrect when it first appears in the CarPlay
Dashboard. (49282265)
• Images within navigation apps might display at
unexpected sizes. (49380030)
• To return to the Home screen from the Maps widgets
screen, tap the button in the lower left corner of the
screen. (50855855)
• You might need to launch Maps before asking Siri for
directions. (50860819)
• If your iPhone displays a blank screen after using
CarPlay, pull down Notification Center then swipe up to
unlock. (51164072)

Core Haptics
Known Issues
• By default, haptics are disabled when microphone
recording begins. You can override this by setting the
AVAudioSession property
allowHapticsAndSystemSoundsDuringRecording to true
before activating its audio session. (25811898)
• Events — such as
CHHapticEventTypeAudioContinuous,
CHHapticEventTypeHapticContinuous, and
CHHapticEventTypeAudioCustom — can’t be resumed
during the event; no output occurs for that event, only
for subsequent events. This applies to playback at a
specific time offset, seeking, and resuming. (29274583)
• When audio generated by Core Haptics is played using
an audio session category or mode that normally
supports Bluetooth or wired headphone output, no
audio plays. (29939183, 50905288)
• CHHapticDynamicParameter instances with nonzero
relative times that are sent as part of a
sendParameters:atTime:error: call on a
CHHapticAdvancedPatternPlayer with the atTime
parameter set to 0.0 are incorrectly applied at the
beginning of the CHHapticPattern, instead of the
expected nonzero relative time. This doesn’t occur on a
CHHapticPatternPlayer. (46316890)
• Both vibrations generated through
AudioServicesPlaySystemSound and vibration patterns
generated through the user-created tap-to-vibrate UI
are attenuated when compared to prior versions of iOS.
(47448156)
• Parameter Curves are not supported with a
CHHapticAdvancedPatternPlayer, only a
 CHHapticPatternPlayer. No error is generated when a
CHHapticPattern containing a Parameter Curve is
passed to a CHHapticAdvancedPatternPlayer.
(47891515)
• Brief audio distortion occurs when starting a Playback
category app such as Music in the background. For
example, brief distortion occurs if you start the app from
Control Center while Core Haptics audio playback using
a AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord audio
session is already underway. (48121467)
• Following any decompression to uncompressed
floating-point samples, the total limit on all
CHHapticEventTypeAudioCustom resources per
process is eight megabytes. (48659023)
• Multiple overlapping Parameter Curves for the same
CHHapticDynamicParameterID might result in playback
artifacts. (50026384)
• The default value for
CHHapticDynamicParameterIDAudioBrightnessControl
should be 0, not 1. (50310604)
• Creating a CHHapticEventTypeHapticContinuous event
with an CHHapticEventParameterIDAttackTime of 1.0,
and then dynamically increasing the attack time by 1.0,
causes erroneous behavior. The expected behavior is
the attack time should saturate at 1.0; therefore
increasing the attack on an event that already has
maximum attack (1.0) should have no effect.
(50386282)
• Starting a CHHapticPatternPlayer multiple times results
in multiple playbacks stacked together, instead of
restarting playback. (50878861)
• The maximum duration for a
CHHapticEventTypeHapticContinuous haptic event is
 30 seconds. Events exceeding this limit can be
constructed and accepted by CHHapticPatternPlayer,
but haptic playback will fade out after 30 seconds.
(51322525)
Core Image
New Features
• The filterWithImageURL:options: and
filterWithImageData:options: initializers no longer
support RAW version 5 and earlier. Version 6 and later
remain supported. (50911303)
• Added new APIs for instantiating and modifying the
built-in Core Image filters.
• The CICoreMLModel filter is enhanced to support
models with an input or output of type
MLFeatureTypeMultiArray.
• Metal CIKernel instances support arguments with
arbitrarily structured data.
• Metal CIKernel instances support returning a group of 2
× 2 pixels.
• The integer values of CIFormat symbols, such as
kCIFormatARGB8, have changed to a new set of
values that are consistent across platforms. The former
values remain supported for backward compatibility;
however, you should avoid dependancies on specific
numerical values.

Core Media
Known Issues
• You might experience interruptions when attempting to
play Amazon Prime Video. (46791204)
• Support for low-latency HLS isn’t yet available in iOS &
iPadOS 13 beta. (51241703)

Core ML
Known Issues
• In the MLRecommender model, the exclude and restrict
parameters are required, but they should be optional.
For default behavior, pass in an empty list for restrict
and the list of query items for exclude. (50348777)

Device Management
Known Issues
• After completing User Enrollment you might be
prompted to reenter your Managed Apple ID credentials
when viewing account details in Settings > Passwords
& Accounts. (48605466)
• After completing User Enrollment, Reminders can’t be
enabled for the Managed Apple ID. (48820760)
• On User Enrollment, Notes might not show data for the
enterprise account until the device is restarted.
(49833240)
• MDM can’t install enterprise apps on Chinese devices
until the App Store is approved to use WLAN
connection. (50785136)
• Users can’t accept an invitation to App and Book
Assignments. (50832260)
• MDM queries might return unmanaged data, such as
profiles and certificates installed using Apple
Configurator. (50857952)
• MDM servers will return a server error instead of a
license not found error when installing Volume
Purchase Program (VPP) apps without a license
assigned. (50905338)
• Installing apps using MDM with purchase method set to
none will fail If the app isn’t already in the user’s
purchase history. (50909360)
• On a User Enrollment, you might be unable to install
enterprise apps after removing and then reenrolling in
MDM. (50959631)
• The Enterprise iCloud Drive will be inaccessible from
managed apps when the managed “Open-in” restriction
is enabled on a User Enrollment. (51016087)

Files
Known Issues
• Using Files in Schoolwork isn’t currently supported.
(50114382, 50709151)
• Apps might not appear as expected within Files.
(50539041)
• If the layout of documents browser ends up in an
inconsistent state, toggle the view options. (51160246)
• Attempting to connect to SMB servers from Files and
from apps using UIDocumentBrowserViewController
currently produces an error message. (50987682)
• APFS formatted drives aren’t currently supported.
(51071338)
Find My
Known Issues
• When performing an action in Find My that generates
an email, you might see references to the Find My
Friends and Find My iPhone apps. (51123613)
• The “Notify when found” feature is currently
unavailable.
• Apple Pay cards might remain suspended after a
device exits Lost Mode.
• While iOS & iPadOS 13 remains in beta, offline-finding
capability is limited.
• The “Repeat Every Time” option for location
notifications is currently unavailable. (51271728)

Home Screen
Known Issues
• Tapping on a Continuity Handoff suggestion while the
suggested app is in the foreground results in app
exposé rather than the Continuity Handoff suggestion.
(47974821)
• If the Quick Action menu is invoked on an app that has
a badged icon, the badge layers behind the icon until
the Quick Action menu is dismissed. (48374339)
• Dragging app icons from Spotlight currently has no
effect. Instead, drag app icons from the Dock.
(49004339)
• The Files document popover on the Home screen
doesn’t expand or scroll. (49087149)
• When using right-to-left languages, opening a folder
from the Home screen containing multiple pages of
apps will launch unexpectedly to the leftmost page
rather than the rightmost page. (50365467)
• On the lock screen, you can’t adjust playback volume
while a track is paused. (50389611)
• Some items in Quick Action menus have unexpectedly
large icons. (50561570)
• When the user drags content into Split View or Slide
Over, targetContentIdentifiers and
UISceneActivationConditions predicates aren’t used to
select an appropriate window scene. (50784657)
• When viewing widgets for the first time after restarting
your device, the Show More toggles might not appear
until you exit and reopen the widget view. (50966601)
• While Airplane Mode is enabled, you might be
prompted to turn Wi-Fi on even though it’s already on.
(51080243)

Workaround: Instead of using Airplane Mode, disable
Cellular Data.

iCloud
Known Issues
• If you receive an error trying to sign into iCloud while
attempting to restore from a backup, tap Skip, then
resume signing into iCloud once the restore completes.
(49716545)
• The iCloud Drive section in Settings > General >
iPhone Storage might inaccurately represent the
current state of files on your device. (50362095)
• Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents in shared
folders can only be opened on macOS and iOS. iWork
documents in shared folders are currently unavailable
from iCloud.com. (50738067)
• When creating a new Pages, Numbers, or Keynote
document in a shared folder, you might see the
message: “Couldn’t connect to iCloud.” (50827963)

Workaround: Close and reopen the document.
• Cloud content might not appear in some applications
until the Files app is opened at least once after
updating to iOS & iPadOS 13 beta. (50903924)
• When manually initiating iCloud backup from Settings >
iCloud Account > iCloud > iCloud Backup > Back Up
Now, the progress bar doesn’t complete. However, this
doesn’t mean that the backup isn’t complete. Once the
text below the progress bar changes from “Backing Up”
to “Updating iCloud,” it indicates that the backup
completed. However, the iCloud sync doesn’t complete
due an issue with notes syncing with iCloud. Your notes
might not be up to date on iCloud compared to the
notes on your device. (51030266)

Keyboards
Known Issues
• When multiple keyboard languages are enabled,
tapping blue underlined dictated text to correct it might
present text replacement suggestions in an unexpected
language. (50777944)

Localization
Known Issues
• Devices set to use certain languages might exhibit
clipped or misaligned layout. (51068688)
• Devices set to use certain languages might display
unlocalized text. (47765173, 51197936, 51270878)

Mail
New Features
• Ignore Blocked Senders can now be enabled in
Settings > Mail. The blocked contacts list is shared with
Messages, FaceTime, and Phone. (50775961)

Known Issues
• Mail might quit unexpectedly when turning on Voice
Control or when using VoiceOver, Switch Control, or
Full Keyboard Access to reply to an email. (51023095)

Maps
Known Issues
• If Picture in Picture doesn’t load when using Look
Around, move to another location on the map and try
again. (50669005)
• When sharing a trip ETA, the receiver might not see the
blue route line displayed on the map. (50904902)

Workaround: Tap to view the shared trip from the
Maps Home screen rather than from the Notification
Center banner.
• Maps might quit unexpectedly when selecting a new
time within the transit schedule view. (50974490)
• If the current viewing location isn’t displayed on the
map when using Picture in Picture mode, tap Done and
try again. (51070503)
• Tapping a maps.apple.com URL might open Safari
before opening Maps. (51095623)
• When using Look Around in Picture in Picture mode,
tapping a point of interest on the map might not function
correctly. (51096818)

Memoji
Known Issues
• For best results, open the Memoji editor from within
Messages. (50968307)

Messages
Known Issues
• The Messages icon might display an exclamation mark
before you first open it. (48490814)
• The Messages section in Settings > General > iPhone
Storage shows an inaccurate size and the details view
doesn’t display content to view or delete. (45913540)

Networking
New Features
• All NSURLSessionTask instances with a GET HTTP
method that contain a body now produce the error
NSURLErrorDataLengthExceedsMaximum. (46025234)

Deprecations
• Removed support for FTP and File URL schemes for
Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC). HTTP and
HTTPS are the only supported URL schemes for PAC.
This affects all PAC configurations including, but not
limited to, configurations set using Settings, System
Preferences, Profiles, and NSURLSession APIs such
as connectionProxyDictionary and
CFNetworkExecuteProxyAutoConfigurationURL.
(28578280)
• The NSURLSession and NSURLConnection APIs no
longer support SPDY. Servers should use HTTP 2 or
HTTP 1.1. (43391641)
• Your device might be unable to join certain hidden Wi-Fi
networks. (51005457)

Notes
Known Issues
• Using search in Notes might produce unexpected
results. (48238242)
• Notes might not sync with iCloud. (51047383)
• Certain notes may become illegible when the Increase
Contrast accessibility setting is enabled. (51188715)

PencilKit
Known Issues
• PKCanvasView doesn't use the opacity and
background color settings from Interface Builder.
(50870664)

Phone and FaceTime

Known Issues
• Wi-Fi calls might drop when transitioning from Wi-Fi to
a cellular network. (50521720)
• During the initial setup of a device running iOS &
iPadOS 13 beta, you might need to remove and reinsert
the SIM card in order to reach the PIN entry prompt if
SIM PIN is enabled. (50567332)
• When LTE is enabled for Voice & Data (VoLTE), the 2G
or 3G cellular data switch might be hidden. (50978364)
• You might be unable to transfer calls between devices
that share the same iCloud account. (51037256)
• Attempting to take a FaceTime Live Photo of another
user during a Group FaceTime call might cause the
remote user to be disconnected from the call. You can
prevent this by disabling FaceTime Live Photos in
Settings > FaceTime. (51197915)
Photos
Known Issues
• When Autoplay Videos and Live Photos is enabled in
Settings > Photos, content downloads using your
cellular connection when your iOS device isn’t
connected to a Wi-Fi network. (47214673)
• Sometimes tapping a sharing suggestion in Photos
doesn’t allow the photo to be shared. (51200976)

Podcasts
Known Issues
• Transcript search isn’t currently available. (50425804)
• Podcast artwork might unexpectedly overlap other UI
elements. (50859386)
RealityKit
Known Issues
• Objects appear immediately at a destination when
using any animation timing function other than linear()
within move(to:relativeTo:duration:timingFunction:).
(50999980)

Safari and WebKit

Known Issues
• Open tabs might not be preserved when performing a
migration from one device to another. (50975729)
• Keyboard shortcuts might not work when using non-
English language settings. (50979111)

Screen Time
Known Issues
 • Users can select “One more minute” multiple times per
day instead of only once each time they reach the limit
for an app. (48773803)
• If you enable Share Across Devices, Screen Time
settings don’t sync with iCloud until your iOS device is
restarted. Any edits you make to your Screen Time
settings on that device before restarting are lost.
(50194586)
• Messages, FaceTime, and Phone don’t currently
enforce Screen Time’s Communication Limits.
(50876617, 51055350, 51055448)
Sign In with Apple
Known Issues
• Sign In with Apple might unexpectedly appear on
unsupported sites. (50869308)

Siri
Known Issues
• When you edit an app's intent definition file and install
the app, changes aren’t immediately reflected in
Shortcuts. (46645833)

Workaround: Quit and relaunch Shortcuts after
installing a new version of the app, or build and run the
intents extension in Xcode, targeting the Shortcuts app.
• The supportsOnDeviceRecognition property always
returns false the first time it’s accessed. After a few
seconds, accessing it again returns the correct value.
(47822242)
• Siri might be unable to perform actions related to Mail
messages. (48140181)
• To properly support Announce Messages with Siri in
your messaging app, add
INSearchForMessagesIntentIdentifier to your
notification category. (50462393)
• You might be unable to create a reminder at a location
that isn’t a labeled address, such the address labeled
Home in your Me card. (50487978)
• Shortcuts synced to a device running iOS & iPadOS 13
beta from iOS 12 via iCloud Sync don’t function
correctly. (50557374)

Workaround: To import an existing set of shortcuts,
upgrade a device from iOS 12 to iOS & iPadOS 13 beta
instead of erasing then installing. Alternatively, disable
iCloud sync on iOS & iPadOS 13 beta, enable Allow
Untrusted Shortcuts in Settings > Shortcuts, and use
the Share button to share the shortcuts individually from
the device running iOS 12.
• Shortcuts are currently unavailable when using Siri on
Apple Watch, HomePod, and CarPlay. (50782908)
• Shortcuts opened on iOS & iPadOS 13 beta are
automatically upgraded and can no longer be opened
on iOS 12. If a device with iOS 12 and a device with
iOS 13 share an iCloud account, shortcuts might
become unusable on the device running iOS 12.
(50873839)

Workaround: Disable iCloud Sync between devices
running iOS & iPadOS 13 beta and devices running iOS
12.
• While using non-English languages, asking Siri to
perform actions related to Reminders or Messages
 might cause the corresponding application to quit
unexpectedly. (50952938)
• Shortcuts added to Siri in iOS 12 might not appear after
upgrading to iOS & iPadOS 13 beta. (50957532)
• Currently, the only supported response for
INSearchForMediaIntent is
INSearchForMediaIntentResponseCodeContinueInApp.
(51010311)
• Shortcuts-enabled media apps incorrectly appear to
have SiriKit Media support and subsequently produce
an error. (51010590)
• When Announce Messages with Siri is enabled, music
playback might be interrupted when a message is read.
(51243455)

SwiftUI
Known Issues
• Return types for View modifier methods include
complex generic types. In a future release, these
methods will return simpler types. (46140669)
• Tabs in TabbedView instances are blank if you use
them with a NavigationView. (49958869)
• Image instances don’t use resizing information
configured in asset catalogs. Configure the size of an
image using the resizable(capInsets:resizingMode:)
modifier instead. (49114577)
• The possible values that you can select from a Picker
can’t be accessed from UI automation. (50679414)
• A ScrollView doesn’t always size itself as expected for
its content. (49204262)

Workaround: Size the view that’s inside the ScrollView
 by applying the frame(width:height:alignment:) modifier
to the inner view. (49204262)

Third-Party Apps
Known Issues
• WhatsApp might quit unexpectedly when forwarding
messages to a user who isn’t in the recent contacts list.
(45416129)
• WhatsApp users might receive duplicate notifications or
notifications without content. (50537131)
• Didi might not display map data. (48386075)
• Audio might not play in Instagram stories. (50433755)
• The Wells Fargo app might quit unexpectedly when
opened or during sign-in. (51085418)

UIKit
New Features
• The UITableViewCell class no longer changes the
backgroundColor or opaque properties of the
contentView and any of its subviews when cells
become highlighted or selected. If you are setting an
opaque backgroundColor on any subviews of the cell
inside (and including) the contentView, the appearance
when the cell becomes highlighted or selected might be
affected. The simplest way to resolve any issues with
your subviews is to ensure their backgroundColor is set
to nil or clearColor, and their opaque property is false.
However, if needed you can override the
setHighlighted:animated: and setSelected:animated:
 methods to manually change these properties on your
subviews when moving to or from the highlighted and
selected states. (13955336)
• Since iOS 8, using UISearchController with
UINavigationController has required setting the
definesPresentationContext property of the top view
controller to true. Failure to do so leads to subtle bugs
that can be hard to detect and debug. Starting in iOS &
iPadOS 13 beta, if a view controller’s navigationItem
has a non-nil searchController, when the view controller
is shown in a navigation controller,
UINavigationController automatically sets that view
controller’s definesPresentationContext property to true.
If you are targeting earlier versions of iOS, set this
property before your search controller becomes active.
(31338934)
• The UIRefreshControl class no longer directly modifies
the contentInset of its scroll view. Instead, its
adjustments to the content inset will be incorporated
into the scroll view’s adjustedContentInset. The only
exception is when the scroll view’s
contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior is set to
UIScrollViewContentInsetAdjustmentNever, in which
case the UIRefreshControl instance will modify the
contentInset directly as it did in previous releases.
(35866834)
• If you implement self-sizing cells in a UITableView by
overriding sizeThatFits: without using Auto Layout, the
height you return is interpreted as the desired height for
the contentView of the cell, and UITableViewCell
automatically adds any additional height needed to
allow room for the cell separator. If you implement
manual self-sizing this way, the cell’s contentView width
 is guaranteed to be accurate for you to use in manual
layout calculations when sizeThatFits: is called on the
UITableViewCell. (39742612)
• Trait environments, such as views and view controllers,
now have their traitCollection property populated with
traits during initialization. These initial traits represent a
prediction of the ultimate traits that the trait environment
will receive when it gets added to the hierarchy.
Because the traits that are populated during
initialization are just a prediction, they might differ from
the traits that are received once actually in the
hierarchy. Therefore, when possible you should wait to
perform work that uses the traitCollection until the view,
or view controller’s view, has moved into the hierarchy
— meaning window returns a non-nil value — so that
you don’t have to throw away any work done using the
predicted traits if the actual traits are different. The best
time to use the traitCollection is during layout, such as
inside layoutSubviews, viewWillLayoutSubviews, or
viewDidLayoutSubviews.
• The traitCollectionDidChange: method is only called
when the value of a trait changes. Importantly, because
the trait collection is now initialized to a prediction of the
ultimate traits in the destination hierarchy, when the
initial predicted traits match the ultimate traits in the
hierarchy, traitCollectionDidChange: will not be called
when the trait environment is added to the hierarchy.
Because traitCollectionDidChange: is intended to be an
invalidation callback to notify you that one or more traits
changed, audit your existing implementations of this
method, as well as the UIContentContainer method
willTransitionToTraitCollection:withTransitionCoordinato
r:, for places where you might have been relying on it to
 trigger initial setup. The best place to lazily perform
work that uses the traitCollection is inside one of the
layoutSubviews methods discussed above, but
remember that these layout methods are called any
time layout occurs so be sure to avoid repeating work
when you don’t need to. (46818941)
• You can now enable debug logging to easily see when
traitCollectionDidChange: or
willTransitionToTraitCollection:withTransitionCoordinato
r: is called on your own classes. Turn on the logging by
using the following launch argument: -
UITraitCollectionChangeLoggingEnabled YES. You
might want to temporarily disable the Main Thread
Checker while using this launch argument and running
your app from Xcode to avoid extra log messages for
unrelated classes. (47858564)
• The UITableViewCell class’s contentView property is
always laid out edge-to-edge with adjacent accessories,
both on the leading and the trailing side. This
streamlines the layout code so developers who want
the correct default offset no longer have to align their
content with the content view border or the layout
margin depending on whether there is an accessory on
the trailing side or not. You should now always lay out
their code on the layout margins of the cell’s content
view to get the default system insets. These insets will
be adjusted automatically based on the accessories
visible in the cell to match the system’s default spacing.
(48214114)
• You can now invoke a custom initializer from a creation
block that’s passed through
instantiateInitialViewController(creator:) or
instantiateViewController(identifier:creator:). This
 makes it possible for you to initialize view controllers
with additional context and arguments, while taking
advantage of defining them in a storyboard through
Interface Builder. A custom controller initializer must call
its super.init(coder:) method and pass the coder
argument that it receives through the creation block.
(48313869)

Known Issues
• Specifying UIWindowSceneDestructionRequestOptions
in Swift is currently unavailable. (51036709)

Voice Control
Known Issues
• After you enable Voice Control for the first time,
resources begin downloading in the background. Once
the download completes, you will receive a notification
that Voice Control is ready for use. (50788121)

Watch

Known Issues
• If you pair more than one Apple Watch with your
iPhone, you’re unable to switch the active connection.
(51271140)

Xcode
New Features
• CAMetalLayer is now available in the Simulator.
(45101325)

Known Issues
• In the Simulator, Siri can’t be activated using the
Hardware > Siri menu item. Instead, activate Siri by
clicking and holding down the lock or home button.
Alternatively, if you’re testing an intents extension, you
can fill in a Siri Intent Query when using Siri as the run
target. (48048890)
• You might be unable to create new documents in the
Simulator. (50443693)
• Swift interfaces for several new URLSession APIs are
unavailable. (50517967)
• To enable Dark Mode in Simulator, open Settings >
Developer. (50699968)
• Changing the volume level in Simulator while a video is
playing in Safari mutes the audio. (51207286)