Apple releases Xcode 26.1.1 with coding intelligence improvements

Avatar for Marcus Mendes | Nov 11 2025 - 2:01 pm PT
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Apple updated Xcode today with multiple welcome bug fixes, including some performance updates to its new AI-assisted coding features. Here’s what’s new.

Xcode 26.1.1 includes support for Swift 6.2.1

If you’ve been using the new coding intelligence features onXcode, you might have noticed a few performance issues, including some related to its native ChatGPT integration.

Today, Apple released Xcode 26.1.1, which brings multiple bug fixes, including:

Coding Intelligence

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: Improved the memory usage of the Coding Assistant in projects with large git repositories. (155382239)
  • Fixed: Coding tools may become unavailable in the source editor, and may fail when used in menus. (160972804)
  • Fixed: The Coding Assistant’s “find text in file” tool may return incorrect line numbers, causing failed text replacements. (161690692)
  • Fixed: Users interacting with ChatGPT in Xcode might experience performance issues when the assistant is applying code changes. (163507099)

The update also fixes a bug that prevented background indexing from completing for some projects, as well as other issues affecting CallKit, Instruments, Interface Builder, Localization, Previews, Simulator, Swift Packages, Swift Testing, and Xcode Cloud.

Alongside the bug fixes are new features for Devices, Enhanced Security, and Instruments, including the ability to gather a full sysdiagnose directly from a connected device usingxcrun devicectl device sysdiagnose.

To read the full release notes for Xcode 26.1.1,follow this link.

Have you been using the new Coding Intelligence features in Xcode? Let us know in the comments.

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Avatar for Marcus MendesMarcus Mendeshttps://www.threads.com/mvcmendes

Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.

He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.