iOS: IBOutlet nil in Xcode 6

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Using iOS 8 and Xcode 6. I embedded a UIWebView in a controller using a storyboard, and hooked everything up. When I run it, though, the webView is coming up nil. Any thoughts?

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i am having the same issue when instantiating a view controller from a storyboard. — Kyle, Jul 15 '14 at 13:21
same issue here. My web view is always nil when the view controller loads — zumzum, Jul 25 '14 at 04:17
Am also having the same problem. My others viewcontrollers were fine, now any new view controller created within SB have all nil IBOutlets — Andyy, Jan 07 '15 at 04:11
Same issue. On Simulator all works fine, on device some of the outlets are nil — zshcbka, Jan 07 '15 at 20:58

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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What helped me is this answer #1 here.

Clean project
Close XCode
Delete all contents of ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/
Restart MacOs

Exactly in this order.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Jan 07 '15 at 21:21

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '15 at 07:36

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Modify weak @property for webView.

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changing to strong doesn't help. – zshcbka Jan 07 '15 at 21:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

I encountered this problem myself and finally found a solution: At some point Apple changed the way View Controllers are linked with their xib files. Xcode no longer automatically matches, for example, ViewController.swift and ViewController.xib. Instead you must explicitly specify a nib name in your code. Try calling:

NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("ViewController", owner: self, options: nil)

or, in Objective C:

[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"ViewController" owner:self options:nil];

in your VC's initializer, before you use any IBOutlets (replacing "ViewController" with the name of your View Controller). This is what finally worked for me (in Swift).

iOS: IBOutlet nil in Xcode 6

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