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Asked: 2026-06-10T11:56:11+00:00

This is a real ‘WTF?’ moment for me. I copied some classes out from

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This is a real ‘WTF?’ moment for me.

I copied some classes out from another project, including copy and pasting the code and some UIBulder components. What did NOT get copied was the XIB file (I went from XIB to storyboard).

My tab / swipe recognizers aren’t activating, and when I drill down the only thing I can discover that can explain it is that somehow, someway, I’m hooking up against the XIB file. (When I click on the little button next to the IBAction/IBOutlet lines in the header, it shows me both the storyboard and the xib file as connected).

I’m not referencing that file anywhere that I can find, it’s just somehow magically recognized in Xcode. I don’t know what to do, how to fix this.

Anyone have any ideas?

Edit: The really annoying bit is that the file doesn’t appear to be in my files list when I check there, I can’t just delete the reference that way. And since it’s referencing the file in the original project, I can’t just delete it. (Any changes made in either project cause changes in BOTH projects; their both using the same xib file for some reason). I should be able to simply delete the reference to the xib file, but I can’t find the reference.

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  1. Editorial Team

    unless the xib file is in the project. it should not have a link to it.

    the xib file connects to the .h file. not the other way around.

    You may want to remove the connections in the storyboard and re-connect them.

    Also make sure that the storyboard is the UI being started and that the item on the navigation stack is actually the storyboard page. But you should be able to connect both the storyboard and the xib file to the class at the same time. You just cannot connect one IBOutlet to more than one object in a single ui component (e.g. two buttons on the storyboard cannot both be connected to @property IBOutlet UIButton *myCurrentButton you must have a separate IBOutlet for each connection. On the other hand, any number of actions can be connected to an IBAction. which is why you get (id) sender on each action.

    I dont know if this is exactly what you are experiencing, but I hope that understanding helps you debug your issue.

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