Xcode 9 GM – WKWebView NSCoding support was broken in previous versions

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The error is correct behavior, and not a bug in Xcode 9. Although WKWebView was introduced in iOS 8, there was a bug in -[WKWebView initWithCoder:] that was only fixed in iOS 11, which always crashed at runtime and thus prevented configuring one within Interface Builder.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137160

Rather than allow developers to build something in IB that would be broken at runtime, it is a build error. It’s an inconvenient limitation since iOS 11 was only recently released, but there’s really no other good option.

The workaround for older deployment targets is to continue to add the WKWebView in code, as @fahad-ashraf already described in his answer:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview

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