The Inspector Bar in Xcode 12

Exploring Xcode 12

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging
This article has been developed using Xcode 12.1, and Swift 5.3

Prerequisites:

• You will need to have downloaded and installed Xcode

Terminology

Xcode: An IDE for the Mac that allows development of Mac and iOS software

In Depth Xcode

Seeing the Inspector Bar

Make sure that the right-pane of Xcode is visible, and you can do this by selecting the icon at the top-right hand corner of the Xcode interface.

Don’t worry if you select this by accident and the right pane disappears, this is a toggle button so another press will bring the right-pane right back!

Options While Coding

This applies to .swift files, .plist files, .xcassets and others. When you select such a file, you can choose from the following

The File Inspector ⌥ — ⌘ — 1