
Apple is finally addressing two long-awaited shortcomings in SwiftUI – Apple's app-building tool used across iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc.
Apple's been pitching SwiftUI as the future of Apple app development for several years now: a modern, faster, cross-platform way for developers to create user interfaces.
However, some glaring missing features have prevented many from seeing the full potential of SwiftUI.
According to Bloomberg, Apple will finally include a built-in rich text editor and an easy solution for embedding web views in SwiftUI.
Both items will likely be announced at WWDC 2025 in June, Apple's yearly developer event.
At the moment the issue of nuisance for a developer using SwiftUI is to support rich text input, you know, text like you'd find in notes or messaging apps, bold, italic, or underlined.
SwiftUI has provided display-side formatting but no editing capabilities. Therefore, developers have had to mix in UIKit resources or apply 3rd-party hacks as messy workarounds.
The second issue is equally as important, web view support. SwiftUI apps currently cannot display basic web content without extra steps.