In a UIKit screen you set label.text = result inside a network response callback, and sometimes the screen updates late or not at all. What's causing that?
The URLSession callback arrives on a background queue, so you touched the UI from a background thread. UIKit isn't thread safe and rendering is tied to the main run loop, so updates get dropped, delayed, or crash.
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