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Copilot doesn't work with new projects

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, swift
Domain
desktop, developer-experience

Research direction

Reproduce the reported flow in Xcode by opening one project, creating another, and checking whether Copilot's file changes reach the new project. Start with the logs in ~/Library/Logs/GitHubCopilot/ and the attached recording; done means Copilot changes are applied correctly after creating and opening another project.

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Description

Describe the bug

When opening one project in Xcode, Copilot works. After creating another project, Copilot can get the file, but the project is unchanged.

Versions

  • Copilot for Xcode: 0.44.149
  • Xcode: 26.1
  • macOS: 26.1

Steps to reproduce
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Screenshots

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cecaa5f0-8de6-491e-8c54-dc3df38fa196

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Additional context

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