Comments on: iPhone Default User Settings Null?

By: Paul Solt

Paul Solt — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:04:38 +0000

Glad to help.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:24:38 +0000

Thank you. Keep this post up for a long time. Kept getting nil and didn’t know why. My user defaults worked previously, but stopped working after I made changes to the plist. This solved the problem.

By: niclas

niclas — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:42:20 +0000

Thanks! I have a lot of preferences so instead of checking them all for null I call your function before I read my defaults. Maybe a millisecond slower but much easier I think.

By: Paul Solt

Paul Solt — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:17:46 +0000

Glad to hear back from an Alum!

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:12:00 +0000

Thanks Paul, a great post. I found this post while searching for the answer to a related issue. Not only did your post help resolve my other issue, it alerted me to one I hadn’t yet considered. – Gene, RIT Alumni ’80-’84

By: Paul Solt

Paul Solt — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:49:38 +0000

awesome! I’m glad to have helped you.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:46:55 +0000

Great post. My updated app had been rejected with no explanation as to why from Apple, found out it was due to this. I will be referencing your article on my own blog shortly.

By: Paul Solt

Paul Solt — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:27:53 +0000

You’re welcome!

@SamiShaio I would try to avoid situations where it could be null, but that depends on what you’re doing. Keep your settings options simple for the Settings Bundle.

By: Sami Shaio

Sami Shaio — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:47:09 +0000

Thanks this is really helpful. One thing I had to change though is to check that the value for a default is not nil before setting it. Otherwise the app would crash if not all the defaults had non-nil values.

By: cc

cc — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:48:32 +0000

thanks a lot, saved me some time and works great.