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iOS Your experience with Xcode agentic coding

Honestly I'm not going to turn it on. Anything shipping my code to other companies' servers is not desirable. Local models doing predictive auto complete is fine, but I don't want anything more right now.

I also generally have extremely negative experiences with these sorts of things already and have had to reject a few pull requests from AI slop already

But I'm curious to hear others' opinions too
 
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The actual Xcode integration (before this latest release) is rough, to be generous. Seems like there's an issue with scrolling views within the coding assistant that significantly slow down and eventually crash the app.

I find it better to have the project folder open in a terminal running Claude Code.
 
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casperes1996 said:
Honestly I'm not going to turn it on. Anything shipping my code to other companies' servers is not desirable. Local models doing predictive auto complete is fine, but I don't want anything more right now.
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I'd be concerned about that too. Using the integration feature in a sandbox (toy application) would help, but that would limit the use cases to ones that don't depend on the full project's code, or where you're just starting a project, not adding to a proprietary body of completed code.
 
getting it to run with a local model would be great, but I imagine the wait times and context windows will be atrocious on lower RAM models. i remember using mistral code briefly, albeit just in ollama in cli, inputting basic text prompts and it was pretty decent, I got it to generate a Swift file with C compatible functions that succesfully compiled into a dylib that I linked without trouble in a C program
 
MisterSavage said:
I'm going to wait until the RC to give it a try.

I've been enjoying using Claude from the terminal.
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Claude from the Terminal… isn’t it free?

I have a free ChatGPT edu unlimited account from my school, so I use it alongside my Xcode coding intelligence. Same for the ChatGPT features in Apple Intelligence.

I tried using the coding intelligence, but I mainly use it for brainstorming and correcting my code in my Swift apps and C++ code. Just don’t make the prompts too difficult or complicated; if you do, it can cause Xcode to crash. I’ve experienced this a few times.
 
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Not for making any meaningful amount of changes to an app. I'm more than getting my money's worth out of $20 a month.
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Is it better than ChatGPT ? Because sometimes chat gpt agentic coding gets it wrong and messes up your program/iOS apps even using it in Xcode. So don’t rely solely to build a full fledged app without any edits to make it work
 
I seem to get the best overall results from Googles Geminii AI, but they all seems to have a relatively small context buffer and start loosing (deleting/forgeting) perfectly good sections of code.
 
MisterSavage said:
I've been an iOS dev for a very long time. I'll be fine.
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I recently started iOS development because I didn't get a Mac until last year. However, I don’t mind using ChatGPT’s agentic coding on Xcode. I don’t need to rely heavily on AI; I only use it for fine-tuning and corrections.
 
goldmac2006 said:
Is it better than ChatGPT ? Because sometimes chat gpt agentic coding gets it wrong and messes up your program/iOS apps even using it in Xcode. So don’t rely solely to build a full fledged app without any edits to make it work
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I slop away on a separate branch and use version control as checkpoints and then squash merge them into main / dev branches when ready.
 
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I found it inferior to Cursor on smaller, personal projects. It frequently indicated that it could not complete the task.
It can handle compilation errors and start using new APIs.

I have the Cursor agent test compile and deal with any errors it introduces.
 
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I have paid Claude subscription and it seems to work great at creating and editing code in Xcode. Started from scratch and had it make AVP App that opens and does what I expect. I have not written any code. I did write the permissions in info.plist - Claude told me how. So now I have a snarky ghost that floats around and comments on noises or other things. It has eyes and a mouth that animate with the speech. I can change the mood of the response and the color of the ghost. I have minimal Xcode experience but seems pretty easy with Claude.
 
ForkHandles said:
My question that I came to ask is about privacy.

Claude wants access to my iCloud Folder. I ask it what for and it explained and that sounded ok. I want to read the same somewhere on the Apple Site. If anyone finds it can you send me a link please?
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what is the context of the access request? did it request it at startup or was it trying to do something?
 
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It asks for access to the iCloud folder as that is where the project files are stored. This contains personal files, not a chance in hell I can simply say yes.

It describes its workflow as XCode passing it the relevant sections of relevant files that it needs to interpret the project. Which sounds good? I’d just like to read it the same on the Apple developer website.
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in that case it's easier to just move the files , otherwise it will have access to the entire folder if you say yes afaik
 
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