I have looked around a bit, but didnt find a quick answer for this in swift 3. I get todays weekday like this:
let weekday = Calendar.current.component(.week
Swift5 get week day from DateFormatter
func getTodayWeekDay()-> String{ let dateFormatter = DateFormatter() dateFormatter.dateFormat = "EEEE" let weekDay = dateFormatter.string(from: Date()) return weekDay }