Using NSUserDefaults with Xcode 8 and iOS 10

Question

NSUserDefaults no longer appears to be a class in the iOS 10 SDK:

let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults() 

This fails to compile. Was this class removed?

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Answer 1

NSUserDefaults has been renamed to UserDefaults. standardUserDefaults() has been renamed to standard().

let defaults = UserDefaults.standard 

This now works.

Pre-release documentation link.