Life Dev

@import AdSupport;

I installed the new iOS10 yesterday to my iPad and at first glance, it looks more or less the same. Then I locked the iPad and I saw one of the major changes - the lock screen was different. The clock was not in the centre of the screen but rather on the left side. And then the familiar message “slide to unlock” was nowhere to be found. After a second or two, a new message appeared - “press home to unlock”. Wait, what? I ignored it and tried to unlock it the old-fashioned way. It didn’t work. Instead, I was greeted by a new notification screen, most of it empty. I swiped back and then swiped to the other direction only to find the new home for the camera. Neat. But the iPad was still locked so I swiped right again to exit the camera screen... which didn’t work. I had to press the home button to close it.

Okay, so back where I started. As I was wondering what was the new way to unlock the iPad the hint reappeared “press home to unlock”. What if I didn’t know which button (or switch) was “home”? Guess it’s more or less intuitive since there is only one button on the iPad anyway. I pressed it and - voila - the passcode prompt appeared. I will just have to live with it.

I didn't believe this line will fix my crash, but guess what - It did.

After spending insane amount of time trying to debug this dreaded error and trying every suggestion out there - from deleting the Info.plist file and replacing it with an old copy, through copying over some other project's Info.plist file, to the boring deleting and reinstalling Xcode and my Storyboard file - I stumbled on the solution by accident.

Look closely and tell me if you can spot the difference between these two screenshots.

Why on Earth would you allow the user to edit this field by hand and not validate it after? And how is this error message supposed to guide you to solve the issue?

Anyway, now I can finally move on with my life and begin experimenting with iOS9. Staring happily at this: