How to resolve: 'keyWindow' was deprecated in iOS 13.0

swift ios13 uiwindow uiscene
Hardy picture Hardy · Jul 21, 2019 · Viewed 51.9k times · Source

I'm using Core Data with Cloud Kit, and have therefore to check the iCloud user status during application startup. In case of problems I want to issue a dialog to the user, and I do it using UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController?.present(...) up to now.

In Xcode 11 beta 4, there is now a new deprecation message, telling me:

'keyWindow' was deprecated in iOS 13.0: Should not be used for applications that support multiple scenes as it returns a key window across all connected scenes

How shall I present the dialog instead?

Answer

matt picture matt · Sep 12, 2019

The accepted answer, while ingenious, might be overly elaborate. You can get exactly the same result much more simply:

UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first

I would also caution that the deprecation of keyWindow should not be taken overly seriously. The full warning message reads:

'keyWindow' was deprecated in iOS 13.0: Should not be used for applications that support multiple scenes as it returns a key window across all connected scenes

So if you are not supporting multiple windows on iPad there is no objection to going ahead and continuing to use keyWindow.

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