Xcode Tips and Tricks Group Lab

A Podkey summary of Xcode Tips and Tricks Group Lab, from WWDC 2026.

This batch of Xcode updates is full of the kind of changes that don’t always look dramatic in a keynote, but absolutely change how your day feels. There’s a lot here about reducing friction: quicker experiments in Swift files, fewer project merge conflicts, faster ways to split code up, better debugging, and a handful of quality-of-life fixes that should’ve existed a while ago and now finally do.

• Run little experiments without leaving the file
• Xcode gets a little more personal
• A faster way to break up giant files
• The project file finally causes less pain
• Feature flags and filtering get much better
• SwiftUI previews do more of the repetitive work
• Debugging tools that are more than cosmetic
• Yes, there’s finally a Delete Derived Data command
• Cloud builds, faster builds, and cleaner settings
• Docs and source control are less clunky

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