Swift 6.2: Approachable Concurrency & Default Actor Isolation
Swift 6.2: Approachable Concurrency & Default Actor Isolation Understanding the coming changes to our Swift code. Michael Long ∙ July 2, 2025 ∙ 7 min read![]() ∙ View on Medium![]() Image Apple Swift 6.2 adds some new settings to our Swift projects, allowing us to enable Approachable Concurrency and define the Default Actor Isolation used within our projects. These changes, once implemented, will purportedly simply our mental models of how async/await works in our Swift applications. The net effect is simple enough to understand. When both are enabled, pretty much everything runs on MainActor unless we explicitly indicate that we want to do otherwise. That's all well and good… but implementing those changes can be confusing and some of them lead to significant side-effects in our existing code bases. This article explains… Continue reading This is a member-only story and can only be read on Medium. Sent to sikubaycom.s3cr3tz@blogger.com by Michael Long on Medium Unsubscribe from this newsletter or unsubscribe from all newsletters from Medium Manage your email settings 3500 South DuPont Highway, Suite IQ-101, Dover, DE 19901 Careers·Help Center·Privacy Policy·Terms of service |