I have an app which passes GroupActivity messages between instances running on iOS and visionOS provided both instances were built from the same target. They do not pass successfully if the apps were built from different targets, even though the one is a duplicate of the other. I have a sample demonstrating the issue: https://github.com/bwake2012/GroupActivitiesColors I need different targets because not all third party libraries support all devices. Libraries which support connected external hardware may never support visionOS. Multiple targets is the simplest way I can see to deal with that. The two targets are duplicates, except for the destinations. The app instances appear to join the session correctly. You can see screen shots from two devices in the same session. I see errors in the debugger: messageStream(for:messageType:):618 Explanation: Decoding message from data Error: Swift.DecodingError.valueNotFound(Any, Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [CodingKeys(stringValue: "message", intValue: nil), CodingKeys(stringValue: "t", intValue: nil)], debugDescription: "Decoder for value of GroupActivitiesColors.ChooseColorMessage.self not found.", underlyingError: nil))

I have a text based action for iPhone and Mac Catalyst I am developing in Xcode 14.3.1 on macOS 13.4.1. I have the container app, an action and an AppGroup defined. I have confirmed that I can read the necessary shared defaults when the action launches. At this point the UI for the action is a simple textview in which I hope to display a modified version of the text passed to the action in the NSExtensionItems. I am not using a simulator. I am running the action directly using Xcode. What is happening is that the ActionViewController viewDidLoad runs but no visible window opens. In the console I see this as the action launches: 2023-07-05 18:27:23.692277-0700 XYZ[4634:279295] [ViewBridge] ViewBridge attempted to look up a hosted window with identifier 8E816BD5-67D3-402D-ADEB-AC59EDFA1F3B, but it was never registered. 2023-07-05 18:27:23.692408-0700 XYZ[4634:279295] [WindowHosting] UIScene property of UINSSceneViewController was accessed before it was set. .... The last line above is repeated 12 times.... Any helpful ideas would be deeply appreciated! Steve

iOS 18 (22A3354) will not offer a option in settings (> Apps > Phone) after calling openSettings to enable live caller id lookup extension. iPhone and MacBook are in the same network. The PIRService runs on MacBook and is reachable via iPhone Safari (via http://MacBookPro:8080/). Hummingbird print log: hb_method=GET hb_uri=/ [Hummingbird] Request. After deploying the application via Xcode to the iPhone no requests are printed in the terminal. The extension was added like documented and bundle id is also checked multiple times. issuerRequestUri in service-config.json is http://MacBookPro:8080/issue. As far as I can tell, everything has been set up in accordance with the Testing Live Caller ID instructions. Is there something missing?

I am trying to get universal links to work in our app Firefox iOS The Problem: I am not able to get universal links to work for our release app or beta app scheme locally or with a TestFlight build. I am able to get it working on our development scheme with a locally hosted app site association file. I also was able to get it working using our development scheme but setting the bundle id to the release app bundle id. I also built a demo app with the release app id and the release app development certificate. It succeeded there as well. Implementation Steps: Added associated domains entitlement to the production and beta schemes for our main app target (No associated domains entitlements or capabilities added for any extensions) Confirmed that the bundle ids associated with these schemes have the associated domains capability Added applinks:blog.mozilla.org to associated domains list Confirmed in code that user activities are being handled via SceneDelegate.swift Steps to Debug: I have gone through and validated every step in the provided Universal Link Debugging. All were successful: Associated Domains Development -> Diagnostics: Opens Installed App Validate AASA host and applinks match curl -v https://blog.mozilla.org/.well-known/apple-app-site-association returns the expected json file swcutil dl correctly downloads the AASA blob swcutil verify succeeds I have inspected the IPA of our beta build and confirmed the App ID and the associated domains is an entitlement. I have looked at the console logs filtering by swcd. I am not seeing any errors and I see the download for the AASA file kick off: Beginning data task AASA-4BABF039-3C69-4E36-AA4E-ECCDF3D14878 { domain: bl….mo….org, bytes: 0, route: cdn } There is only one error that appears in the console but our app is not enterprise-managed so I assume this is normal. Error getting enterprise-managed associated domains data. If this device is not enterprise-managed, this is normal: Error Domain=SWCErrorDomain Code=1701 "Failed to get associated domain data from ManagedConfiguration framework." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Failed to get associated domain data from ManagedConfiguration framework., Line=298, Function=<private>} I have run Sysdiagnos and identified for our App ID: Site/Fmwk Approval: approved I am at a loss as to what is preventing universal links from working even though all validation steps pass.

Hi everyone, I’m currently developing an app using Apple’s RoomPlan framework, and so far, everything is working great! However, I’d like to extend the functionality to include scanning smaller objects, such as light switches or power outlets, in addition to the walls and larger furniture that RoomPlan already supports. From what I understand, based on the documentation, RoomPlan doesn’t natively support the detection or measurement of smaller objects like these. Is that correct? If that’s the case, does anyone have suggestions or ideas on how this could be achieved? Perhaps by integrating another framework or technology alongside RoomPlan? I’d appreciate any insights or advice from those who have worked on similar use cases. Thanks in advance!

I'm a complete newbie to Swift and app development, but I'm playing around with an idea that uses the ScreenTime API. Some of the articles (and AI) mention that you need to request access through Apple to use this, but based on my research it seems like this is a bit outdated. Can anyone provide a clear answer here + any resources you've used to navigate this? The documentation is pretty sparse. Thank you in advance!

Creating my first IOS appIntents. I created two simple appIntents. One to create a random number and the other to store it (actually it just prints it). Yet, when I run a shortcut that connects the two, the one that stores it is not receiving the entity. It receives nil instead of the entity created in the first step.

I am writing a SwiftUI-based app and have the following requirements: Use a file browser (such as UIDocumentPickerViewController) to find an arbitrary file (not one that the application knows how to open) which is external to the app bundle but local to the device the app is running on - either in local storage or on an iCloud drive. Save this location. At a later time, open this file. The file should open in an app that knows how to open it or in a browser. Do all of the above in a way that works with multiple devices (synced via CloudKit/SwiftData). For example, select a file on my iCloud drive on my Mac, then save it (using CloudKit/SwiftData) and open it on an iPad that has an app that can open it. I am addressing requirement #1 using UIDocumentPickerViewController wrapped with a UIViewControllerRepresentable. It returns a security-scoped URL. (Note: this worries me because of requirement #4). I use the Bookmark API to implement requirement #2. For requirement #3, I load the bookmark data, convert it back to a security-scoped URL and either Link("Open", destination: url) or @Environment(\.openURL) private var openURL if url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() { defer { url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() } openURL(url) { accepted in // do something here } } Both of these implementations fail. The Link call responds with "invalid input parameters" (Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain, Code=-50), the openURL() call just returns false. So, my questions are: Since it appears the Link and openURL work for internet URLs, but not for security-scoped file URLs, how to I cause a document to be opened (using an application which knows how to open it or a browser). Since UIDocumentPickerViewController is returning a security-scoped URL, how can I make this work on a different device than the one on which the user selected the document? (Assuming, of course, that we are talking about a document that is on an iCloud drive that both devices have access to).

Posting here for wider visibility... All over the internet, apple discussions, etc. Seems that this is affecting thousands of people but apparently not millions...othewise we'd have a fix by now. This started showing up in iOS 18 beta and then continued into 18.0, 18.1, and now 18.2 Symptoms are unable to retrieve emails from IMAP mail server. Some have mentioned Dovecot IMAP server. This author happens to have Dovecot IMAP and yes, once iOS 18.0, 18.x was installed, email sync no longer works.

my Date type data is "2024-12-28 15:00:00 +0000" and when I use Date formatter to format date with timezone TimeZone(identifier: "Asia/Seoul"), date formatter return wrong year like below (lldb) po print(date); let formatter = DateFormatter(); formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "Asia/Seoul"); formatter.dateFormat = "YYYY-MM-dd"; formatter.string(from: date) 2024-12-28 15:00:00 +0000 "2025-12-29" (lldb) po print(date); let formatter = DateFormatter(); formatter.timeZone = .gmt; formatter.dateFormat = "YYYY-MM-dd"; formatter.string(from: date) 2024-12-28 15:00:00 +0000 "2024-12-28"

I’m working on a solution to archive iMessages by using an API or similar mechanism. Here’s the desired workflow: The user provides their phone number to initiate the archiving process. They receive a text message with a URL link. Clicking on the link authorizes the archiving of their iMessages. Once authorized, their text messages are archived. So far, I’ve researched third-party services and APIs but haven’t found any that offer this capability directly for iMessages. Questions: Are there any APIs or frameworks (Apple or third-party) that support accessing and archiving iMessages programmatically?

After setting up all permissions, family members not showing up on the device list

We have a requirement in the App in which for certain countries/regions we have to support only certain languages. If the User's current language is not supported, We would have a custom fallback/default language for specific regions. like it could be Arabic for middle east countries, English for Europe etc. Since iOS localization allows fallback to only one Base localizations, we had to take a custom approach to implement the same. To achieve the same, we checked the User's current language and Country and if required we overrode the "kLanguageBundleKey" property within the Bundle class, and set the following user defaults, (here for example say english) Foundation.UserDefaults.standard.set(["en"], forKey: "AppleLanguages") Foundation.UserDefaults.standard.synchronize(). And it works! The problem is that in iOS, post this override, when the user changes language from the Phone's settings app. Launches our app, Bundle.main.preferredLocalizations.first always gives what we overwrote and not the one present in the Phone's settings. Given this, Is there way to get the user's current language even after such overrides? or should we do the language overrides some other way?

We have minimum deployments set to iOS 15 in one of the app for both application and widget target. When install app in simulator or real device using Xcode 15.4, it works fine in iOS15, iOS16, iOS17 and iOS18 beta. When install app in simulator or real device, using Xcode 16 beta 6, it works fine in iOS16, iOS17 and iOS18 beta but in iOS 15, our app doesn't show in widget gallery.

Hello everyone, I have an app leveraging SwiftData, App Intents, Interactive Widgets, and a Control Center Widget. I recently added Live Activity support, and I’m using an App Intent to trigger the activity whenever the model changes. When the App Intent is called from within the app, the Live Activity is created successfully and appears on both the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. However, if the same App Intent is invoked from a widget, the model is updated as expected, but no Live Activity is started. Here’s the relevant code snippet where I call the Live Activity: ` await LiveActivityManager.shared.newSessionActivity(session: session) And here’s how my attribute is defined: struct ContentState: Codable, Hashable { var session: Session } } Is there any known limitation or workaround for triggering a Live Activity when the App Intent is initiated from a widget? Any guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! David

I'm working with the Apple Watch's acceleration data and have referred to the document Identify the coordinate axes of the device. According to this document, the X-axis points to the right side of the watch, the Y-axis points towards the top side, and the Z-axis points towards the user. However, when I place the watch on a flat surface and move it horizontally to the right, I observe that the X-axis acceleration is negative. Similarly, when I move the watch vertically upwards, the Y-axis acceleration also shows a negative value. Is this expected behavior, or am I misunderstanding something about the coordinate system or acceleration readings?

In the documentation for a Message Filter Extension it states: If you have servers that can help your app extension determine how to handle a message, you must add the Associated Domains capability to your Xcode project and specify those domains. (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sms_and_call_reporting/sms_and_mms_message_filtering/creating_a_message_filter_app_extension) The words servers and domains are in the plural. If it's possible to specify multiple servers/domains for a Message Filter Extension then how is that done? There's no documentation nor reference for that. If multiple domains can be added to the info.plist then what is the iOS behavior in that case? Can the extension supply/change which domain is used at run time?

Am showing daily screen-time of a user in my app in Device Activity Report Extension. The only way to get that is to sum up all the activityDuration of apps/categories/domains. But it differs a lot from phone's settings screen-time, why? I have debugged in details and counted manually the time spent on each app and it turned out that the calculation is appearing correctly in my app but Phone settings showing quite less time on top (Day).

I am developing a CarPlay app, that has been approved for EV Charging entitlement. Could you please confirm if the given entitlement supports CPSearchTemplate template as there is some confusion here. I tried using the template by referring to the below link, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/carplay/cpsearchtemplate Here is the snippet, class SearchCPView: UIResponder, CPSearchTemplateDelegate { var searchTemplate: CPSearchTemplate = CPSearchTemplate() override init() { super.init() searchTemplate.delegate = self } func getSearchTemplate(interfaceController: CPInterfaceController?) -> CPGridTemplate { let searchGridButton = CPGridButton(titleVariants: [CarplayButtonTitles.search], image: UIImage(named: ImagesConstants.CarPlay.searchGrid) ?? UIImage(), handler: {[self] _ in guard let controller = interfaceController else { return } controller.pushTemplate(self.searchTemplate, animated: true) { status, error in print(status) } }) let gridTemplate = CPGridTemplate(title: "", gridButtons: [searchGridButton]) return gridTemplate } func searchTemplate(_ searchTemplate: CPSearchTemplate, selectedResult item: CPListItem) async { print(item) } func searchTemplate(_ searchTemplate: CPSearchTemplate, updatedSearchText searchText: String) async -> [CPListItem] { print(searchText) return [CPListItem(text: "", detailText: "")] } } On push, I am getting an exception, *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Unsupported object <CPSearchTemplate: 0x30056df00> <identifier: 28, userInfo: (null), tabTitle: (null), tabImage: (null), showsTabBadge: 0> passed to pushTemplate:animated:completion:. Allowed classes: {( CPTabBarTemplate, CPActionSheetTemplate, CPAlertTemplate, CPGridTemplate, CPPointOfInterestTemplate, CPInformationTemplate, CPContactTemplate, CPListTemplate )}'

Given that iOS 18.2 is out and following documentation and WWDC example (limited to iOS 18.2+), I am attempting to use @AssistantIntent(schema: .system.search) along an AppIntent. Questions: Has anyone made this to work on a real device?! In my case (code below): when I run the intent from Shortcuts or Siri, it does NOT open the App but only calls the perform method (and the App is not foregrounded) -- changing openAppWhenRun has no effect! Strangely: If my App was backgrounded before invocation and I foreground it after, it has navigated to Search but just not foregrounded the App! Am I doing anything wrong? (adding @Parameter etc doesn't change anything). Where is the intelligence here? The criteria parameter can NOT be used in the Siri phrase -- build error if you try that since only AppEntity/AppEnum is permitted as variable in Siri phrase but not a StringSearchCriteria. Said otherwise: What's the gain in using @AssistantIntent(schema: .system.search) vs a regular AppIntent in this case?! Some code: @available(iOS 18.2, *) @AssistantIntent(schema: .system.search) struct MySearchIntent: ShowInAppSearchResultsIntent { static let searchScopes: [StringSearchScope] = [.general] static let openAppWhenRun = true var criteria: StringSearchCriteria @MainActor func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult { NavigationHandler().to(.search(.init(query: criteria.term)), from: .siri) return .result() } } Along with this ShortCut in AppShortcutsProvider: AppShortcut( intent: MySearchIntent(), phrases: [ "Search \(.applicationName)" ], shortTitle: "Search", systemImageName: "magnifyingglass" )