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title: "How to use [weak self] in Swift Concurrency Tasks? – Donny Wals"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-use-weak-self-in-swift-concurrency-tasks-donny-wals-yqspvvehz
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source: "Donny Wals"
published: 2025-09-18T13:59:46.417Z
updated: 2025-09-18T14:00:07.258Z
tags: ["ios", "swift"]
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# How to use [weak self] in Swift Concurrency Tasks? – Donny Wals

**[Donny Wals](https://daily.dev/sources/donnywals)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Explores proper usage of [weak self] in Swift's Task-based concurrency to prevent memory leaks. Explains why immediately unwrapping weak self at the start of a Task doesn't solve memory issues, and demonstrates better approaches like unwrapping self only when needed within loops or using optional chaining. Covers the differences between completion handler patterns and Task-based async code for memory management.

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