Elevate your app’s text experience with TextKit

A Podkey summary of Elevate your app’s text experience with TextKit, from WWDC 2026.A lot of text editing on Apple platforms has always come down to a tradeoff: take the convenience of the built-in text views, or build your own thing if you need real control. What’s interesting here is that Apple is opening up more of TextKit’s internal machinery, so developers can keep a standard UITextView or NSTextView and still customize how text is laid out, drawn, and synced across views. That matters for everything from line numbers and collapsible sections to faster handling of big documents and better SwiftUI integration.Convenience versus controlThe four-layer modelViewport delegate hooksRendering surfaces and reuseMultiple views, one documentLine numbers and collapsible sectionsAttachment reuse and SwiftUI accessThis podcast was created with Podkey. Make your own at https://podkey.fm