NWPathMonitor

Introduction

NWPathMonitor is a class in Network framework, which observes network status and monitor network interface. It’s available in iOS 12 or later.

import Network

You must retain NWPathMonitor instances to get callbacks.

class NetworkMonitorViewController: ViewController {
    let monitor = NWPathMonitor()
}

requiredInterface lets you observe the specific network interface.

let wifiMonitor = NWPathMonitor(requiredInterfaceType: .wifi)

Here is the list of interfaces that NWPathMonitor supports.

monitor.pathUpdateHandler = { path in
    if path.status == .satisfied {
        // Connected
    }
}

Create a background queue, then pass it to start().

let queue = DispatchQueue.global(qos: .background)
monitor.start(queue: queue)

That’s it. Simple right?

NWPath contains information such as available interfaces, iPv6 or iPv4.

You can retrieve it from currentPath.

monitor.currentPath

I introduced NWPathMonitor to explain how it enable you to write such a plain code to detect network changes.

NWPathMonitor is