Xcode 15 enables you to develop, test, and distribute apps for all Apple platforms. Code and design your apps faster with enhanced code completion, interactive previews, and live animations.

Use Git staging to craft your next commit without leaving your code. Explore and diagnose your test results with redesigned test reports with video recording. And start deploying seamlessly to TestFlight and the App Store from Xcode Cloud. Creating amazing apps has never been easier.

Features

Ready, set, code.

Xcode 15 is now 50% smaller on the Mac App Store, with downloadable simulator runtimes for all platforms. Enhanced code completion helps you write safer code faster, now referencing all your assets. And projects build faster thanks to improvements in the compiler and a brand-new linker, optimized for the multicore architecture of Apple silicon.

Stay organized

The new Bookmark navigator helps you keep track of landmarks in your code and organize your tasks. Localization assets are streamlined in the new String Catalog, giving you a centralized way to review and update them. And documentation shines in Xcode 15, with a beautiful new design, and real-time preview.

Swift and SwiftUI

Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode 15 work together as one. Powered by the new Swift macros, Xcode Previews are easier to use and now work across SwiftUI, UIKit, and AppKit. The new interactive timeline helps you develop and design your widgets. And working with different platforms and devices is easier: you can choose them right in the preview canvas to make sure your views look great everywhere.

Beyond debugging

Use the power of macros in the source editor, setting breakpoints and stepping into the generated code. Access debug output with ease using the structured console.

What's New

Xcode 26.2 includes Swift 6.2.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2, visionOS 26.2, and macOS 26.2.

  • This update adds support for Metal 4 GPU profiling in the Metal debugger, and provides bug fixes and improved stability.

Xcode 26.0.1 includes Swift 6.2 and SDKs for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and macOS 26. This update fixes an issue with the OAuth token expiration period and improves token caching when using Claude in Xcode.

Enhance your development workflow with coding intelligence features that help you write code, generate tests and documentation, fix errors, refactor existing implementations, and navigate codebases. Xcode has integrated support for ChatGPT and Claude user accounts. You can also use your API key for any model provider that supports the Chat Completions API, or download and run a local model on Macs with Apple silicon.

  • Interact with code using natural language in the coding assistant, with automatic context gathering, conversation history, and file attachment support.
  • Coding Tools provide contextual actions to quickly generate documentation, explain highlighted code, generate previews and playgrounds, and make inline changes.
  • Predictive code completion is faster and uses more context from your code, all running locally.

Also in Xcode 26:

  • The #Playground macro enables interactive debugging and code exploration in the preview panel.
  • Icon Composer streamlines icon creation from a single design with adjustable depth properties and dynamic lighting effects, and offers customization across Default, Dark, and Mono rendering modes.
  • A redesigned tab experience simplifies navigation with features like in-tab navigation and pinning to keep files in focus.
  • Compilation Caching accelerates build times with performance improvements when switching between branches or performing clean builds.
  • New instruments enhance app analysis with Processor Trace capturing every function call, SwiftUI for view profiling, Power Profiler for battery and thermal analysis, and CPU Counters for identifying performance bottlenecks.
  • Swift concurrency debugging follows execution across asynchronous functions and threads with readable concurrency type representations and enhanced visibility for task properties and relationships.
  • String Catalogs simplify localization with type-safe Swift symbols for direct string access, autocomplete support, and AI-generated contextual comments using on-device intelligence.
  • Voice Control now supports code dictation in Swift with syntax-aware recognition and automatic formatting.