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Explains how conditional branches work, how Swift evaluates conditions top-to-bottom and skips remaining branches once a true condition is found, and demonstrates various forms including standalone if, if-else, multiple else-if chains, and nested if statements. Includes a practical temperature-classification coding challenge and tips for using Xcode's auto-indent feature. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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