On iOS 26, sliders now support tick marks with a TrackConfiguration. This configuration is used to set up the look and behavior for the slider.

Here we can take example to limit speed slider to only 5 values. Let see how to set the track configuration.

UISlider has a new property called trackConfiguration, by use of it we can now achieve the functionality – for which we have to install some third party libraries.

@IBOutlet weak var slider26: UISlider!

slider26.trackConfiguration = .init(allowsTickValuesOnly: true, neutralValue: 0.25, numberOfTicks: 5)

Here, we have used 3 parameters of trackConfiguration :

• allowsTickValuesOnly – It’s a boolean which states we want user to select values in between the tick values or not.
• neutralValue – It’s a float value which defines the base value for slider. For Example, speed slider can have neutralValue 1.0 (i.e. 0.25 in respect of 0.0 to 1.0 value in UISlider)
• numberOfTicks – It’s a integer to define the number of ticks on slider.
• ticks – It’s nearly looking like undocumented stuff. but Ticks class has ability to define image and title with the tick mark. I have tried, but there is no result getting changed for now. Maybe in the next beta we will get an update for this. Let me show you in code.

@IBOutlet weak var slider26: UISlider!

let ticks: [UISlider.TrackConfiguration.Tick] = [
    .init(position: 0, title: "0.25"),
    .init(position: 0.25, title: "1.0"),
    .init(position: 0.50, title: "1.25"),
    .init(position: 0.75, title: "1.5"),
    .init(position: 1, title: "2.0")
]

slider26.trackConfiguration = .init(allowsTickValuesOnly: true, neutralValue: 0.25, ticks: ticks)

Right now, even if I have passed ticks result is pretty similar like we pass numberOfTicks.

Conclusion

• Xcode 26 beta 2, iOS 26 beta 2 and other beta just released. I will explore and keep posted.

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