Is there now a way to open SwiftUI Scenes on macOS in an App Kit app?
Asked on 2025-07-15
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Yes, there is now a way to open SwiftUI scenes on macOS in an AppKit app. This is made possible through a feature called Scene Bridging. Scene Bridging allows your AppKit lifecycle apps to interoperate with SwiftUI scenes. You can use it to open SwiftUI-only scene types or utilize SwiftUI-exclusive features directly from AppKit code. This includes scene types like Menu Bar, Extra, and Immersive Space, as well as scene modifiers like Window Style and Immersive Environment Behavior.
For more details, you can refer to the session What’s new in SwiftUI (14:01).
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