{"id":48960,"date":"2025-08-19T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T00:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48960"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:13:09","slug":"xcode-26-beta-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/19\/xcode-26-beta-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Xcode 26 Beta 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/xcode-release-notes\/xcode-26-release-notes\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/download\/all\/\">downloads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/xcodereleases.com\">releases<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/xcode-release-notes\/xcode-26-release-notes\"><p>Xcode 26 beta 6 includes SDKs for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and visionOS 26.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Fixed: The coding assistant can be disabled via device management in Xcode 26 Beta 6 by setting <code>CodingAssistantAllowExternalIntegrations<\/code> to false in a configuration profile with a <code>com.apple.dt.XcodePayloadType<\/code>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the only beta 6 change in the release notes, however Apple has now added documentation for lots of changes in beta 5.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/xcode-26-beta-5\/\">Xcode 26 Beta 5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"xcode-26-beta-6-update-2025-08-20\">Update (<a href=\"#xcode-26-beta-6-update-2025-08-20\">2025-08-20<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/08\/in-xcode-26-apple-shows-first-signs-of-offering-chatgpt-alternatives\/\">Samuel Axon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/08\/in-xcode-26-apple-shows-first-signs-of-offering-chatgpt-alternatives\/\"><p>The latest Xcode beta contains clear signs that Apple plans to bring Anthropic&rsquo;s Claude and Opus large language models into the integrated development environment (IDE), expanding on features already available using Apple&rsquo;s own models or OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"xcode-26-beta-6-update-2025-08-26\">Update (<a href=\"#xcode-26-beta-6-update-2025-08-26\">2025-08-26<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@helge\/115072563057189753\">Helge He&szlig;<\/a> has a screenshot of Xcode&rsquo;s Navigators sidebar.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chbeer\/115078557270134587\">Christian Beer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chbeer\/115078557270134587\">\n<p>Xcode 26 still closes my project structure in the project navigator &#x1F92C;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@tonyarnold\/115087869632602059\">Tony Arnold<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@tonyarnold\/115087869632602059\"><p>Entire pieces of Xcode&rsquo;s test infrastructure stopped working on just about every project I work on in the last 6 months. It&rsquo;s not fixed in Xcode 26. <\/p><p>I don&rsquo;t like being negative (no, really, I don&rsquo;t!), but I am so burned out by the state of the tooling on Apple&rsquo;s platforms.<\/p><p>Oh, and don&rsquo;t get me started on the state of build tool plugins in the IDE. Here&rsquo;s a better-than-usual day of Xcode crashes on one of my client projects[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (downloads, releases): Xcode 26 beta 6 includes SDKs for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and visionOS 26.[&#8230;]Fixed: The coding assistant can be disabled via device management in Xcode 26 Beta 6 by setting CodingAssistantAllowExternalIntegrations to false in a configuration profile with a com.apple.dt.XcodePayloadType. 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