If you’re keen on reading about what’s new in Swift or learn about all the cool things that are coming up, you’re probably following several folks in the iOS community that keep track and tell you about all the new things. But what if you read about an upcoming Swift feature that you’d like to try out? Do you have to wait for it to become available in a new Xcode release?
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By default, this will be whichever toolchain shipped with Xcode. So if you have Xcode 15.3 installed running swift --version should yield something like the following output:
We can obtain different versions of Swift quite easily from swift.org on their download page.
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After installing the toolchain, you can activate this new Swift version in Xcode through the Xcode → Toolchains menu. In the screenshot below you can see that I’m using the Swift Development Snapshot 2024-04-13 (a) toolchain. This is the trunk development toolchain that you saw on swift.org.
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