Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type, not 'String'

Question

Here is a fun issue I\'m running into after updating to Swift 2.0

The error is on the if let url = URL.absoluteString line

Answer 1

absoluteString isn't an optional value, its just a String. You can check if the URL variable is nil

if let url = yourURLVariable {
    // do your textView function
} else {
    // handle nil url
}