macOS keeps Saved Application State per app, and on macOS 26 its mere
existence — even describing zero windows, which repeated dev kills
guarantee — counts as "a restored session": SwiftUI then treats every
scene's defaultLaunchBehavior as moot and presents nothing. The app
launched as a windowless shell with no way back, since windowOpener is
captured by the first scene that appears — so Open Recent, the
re-grant Grant click, and Dock reopen all silently buffered or
no-opped. Proven by -ApplePersistenceIgnoreState YES presenting
correctly on the same state; with the fix, welcome presented 3/3
consecutive plain launches.
Three changes:
- App.init registers ApplePersistenceIgnoreState — restoration is the
registry's job (02 § Launch and window lifecycle), every scene
already declares restorationBehavior(.disabled), and AppKit's layer
was pure liability. Registered before NSApplicationMain runs, which
is what makes a registration-domain default early enough.
- The restore bootstrap presents at every launch as the app's one
reliable presenter; welcome is never system-presented (.suppressed)
— the pass opens it when nothing else lands on screen.
LaunchPlan.presentsBootstrap retired.
- captureWindowActions returns the replayed Finder-open count so the
pass counts those as opens — a cold document launch doesn't get
welcome stacked beside its board.
Both suites green, verify-editions 30/30.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SR4XGjmBE16ZUYWpfFHXwY
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