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Xcode – Interface builder changes do not reflect in runtime

After some months of not opening this project, when I opened it today, every new view I add to my ViewController’s interface in the corresponding Storyboard is not reflected. For instance, changing a button background does not reflect in the app at runtime.

Also, adding new views and referencing them through a @IBOutlet doesn’t work as well. I get a nil view reference on my viewDidLoad. Weirdly enough, all the views I had before, and am accessing on the viewDidLoad are not nil. Only the new views I add have this problem.

I have tried clearing the DerivedData folder and simulator caches but I ran out of stuff to try out. Anyone else having this issue?

To sum it all, every change I do on the interface builder now is to being applied to my view.

I am running Xcode 12.5.

EDIT: I tried adding a UILabel programmatically and it works. So, this is something that is wrong with how the storyboard creates the view reference in the ViewController. I still need help tho.

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
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    I found the issue after some hours. What led to this was that somehow, when I localized the storyboard in the past, XCode created one storyboard per language instead of just creating 2 .string files for each language. So this did the trick:

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    After:

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    Problem solved! Thank you all


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    One scenario in which that might happen is this:

    1. You have multiple targets with different sets of storyboards for each target
    2. You modify a storyboard that is not accessible in the current target that you build
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    Have you checked the constraints? any of them are overlapped/ clipped or not defined any constraints at all? (In case of new Views and not the BG color)

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