Settings.bundle issue

Question

I experience a problem while accessing my settings. I added a setting bundle to my Xcode project :

I added the following swift code to access the name_preference key :

Answer 1

UserDefaults crash on missing preference key

Explicit unwrapping is dangerous!: what happens if the string is empty?

Bad:

let crash = settings.stringForKey("name_preference")!

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Using string:

let settings = UserDefaults.standard
if let name = settings.string(forKey: "name_preference") {
    print(name)
}

Using object:

let settings = UserDefaults.standard
if let name = settings.object(forKey: "name_preference") as? String {
    print(name)
}

Test: Go to Settings and enter a string:

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