Remove unnecessary UIKit imports

[jkmassel]

Removes import UIKit from files that reference no UIKit symbol — a follow-up to the cross-platform module split in #25344, where a stray UIKit import is what keeps a file (or an entire module) from compiling on platforms without UIKit.

Summary

• 39 files; the repo-wide import UIKit count drops from 946 → 907.
• Imports only — no behavior change, and nothing visual to screenshot.
• Swept WordPress/, Modules/, Sources/, and Tests/. Every candidate was found by a heuristic pass (no UI* identifier, no UIKit-only NS* type, no UIKit extension-on-Foundation call) and then read individually to confirm.

Changes

Action	Files	Rationale
import UIKit → import Foundation	26	The file uses Foundation types (URL, NSCoder, NSLocalizedString, SortDescriptor, HTTPCookieStorage, …) that UIKit was only re-exporting
import UIKit removed	12	Foundation is already imported, or the file uses only SwiftUI / CoreLocation / UserNotifications / the standard library
import UIKit → import QuartzCore	1	CATransaction+Extension.swift — CATransaction is Core Animation, not UIKit; a plain Foundation swap would not compile

UIKit re-exports Foundation, so the Foundation swaps are load-bearing — deleting the import outright would break any file leaning on it for URL/NSCoder/etc. SwiftUI, XCTest, CoreLocation, and WordPressData do not reliably re-export Foundation.

What we deliberately left alone

A first pass caught 17 more files that compile fine without import UIKit but were left untouched on purpose: each one declares or extends a type whose superclass chain roots in UIKit, so the dependency is real — it is inherited rather than spelled. PeopleRoleBadgeLabel is the clearest example:

class PeopleRoleBadgeLabel: BadgeLabel {   // BadgeLabel: UILabel
    override init(frame: CGRect) { ... }   // UIView
    private func setupView() {
        adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true   // UILabel
        layer.cornerRadius = .DS.Radius.small   // UIView
    }
}

Nothing in that file names a UI* symbol, so the compiler does not need the import — Swift only requires a module import to name its types, and inherited member lookup walks the superclass chain regardless. But dropping it would buy nothing: the file can never compile without UIKit, because its superclass is a UILabel. It would only hide a real dependency and break the next edit that names a UIKit type.

Same reasoning for the other 16 — WebKitViewController / TemplatePreviewViewController / BaseRestoreStatusViewController subclasses (all → UIViewController), ReaderBaseHeaderView subclasses (→ UIView), and extensions on WebKitViewController, ListTableViewCell, and StatsViewController.

So the rule this PR applies is "the file has no UIKit dependency," not "the file names no UIKit symbol." Every one of the 39 files here is genuinely UIKit-free.

Test plan

• xcodebuild build — WordPress scheme, iOS Simulator → BUILD SUCCEEDED, 0 errors (all 33 app/module source files)
• xcodebuild build-for-testing — WordPressUnitTests plan → TEST BUILD SUCCEEDED, 0 errors (the 6 test files, across the WordPressTest, WordPressKitTests, and AsyncImageKitTests targets)
• CI green — build #34144, 28/28 checks

Related

• Follow-up to Add cross-platform Swift package tests for macOS #25344

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