I have been trying to use TipKit popovers in my App. They all behave as expected in the simulator but on a real device I am seeing some strange behaviors. I have a couple of instances of where the tip is displaying an entire sheet instead of just the popover. In another case I cannot dismiss the Tip. Has anyone seen these behaviors and are there known issues/workarounds for this? I am reluctant to use something that works perfectly in the simulator but gives unpredictable results on a device. Not a good user experience in my opinion.

On iOS:When one receives a file of type .pages by email, Mail displays a large Pages icon and tapping on it opens Pages. (A long-press brings up the more complicated Actions screen).When one receives a file of type .vcf by email, Mail displays a large Contacts icon and tapping on it opens Contacts. (A long-press brings up the more complicated Actions screen).I have my own custom file type, .ripf, and I want to have the same behaviour because that is what my users will expect. Accordingly, in my app's Info.plist I have a CFBundleDocumentTypes dictionary providing a one-element LSItemContentTypes array referring to the name 'com.universalis.ripcard', and a UTExportedTypeDeclarations dictionary associating the UTTypeIdentifier 'com.universalis.ripcard' with a public.filename-extension 'ripf' and a public.mime-type 'text/vnd.universalis.ripcard'. All the other entries in those two dictionaries are present and correct as far as I can tell. Both CFBundleDocumentTypes[0].CFBundleTypeIconFiles and UTExportedTypeDeclarations[0].UTTypeIconFiles contain a list of icon files for the file type.(That rather long paragraph is to avoid boring people by including the entire Info.plist!)Some things do work..ripf files received via AirDrop bring up a suitable "Open with..." message which mentions my app, and tapping the message opens the app..ripf files received as an email attachment display as an icon. But it is the app's icon and not the icon of the file type.BUTTapping on a received file's icon does not open the app, but only opens the generic Actions screen, offering Message, Mail, WhatsApp, Notes, and only then (after the user has scrolled sideways) "Copy to..." my app.Now, the whole apparatus of CFBundleDocumentTypes and UTExportedTypeDeclarations is obscure and under-documented, and indeed the main documenation for the latter has a big warning at the top saying that it is obsolete and not being updated. That doesn't matter so much. What I need to know is:(Less important): How do I get the right file icon?(More important): How do I get my app to open when the icon is tapped, as Pages and Contacts do? There must be a way – unless special cases for those two apps are wired into iOS itself.

How do I handle force quit in Swift? I received crash reports during a tesflight test. I didn't understand what it was: none of my app's symbols were present, and Xcode didn't want them either... unlike two others who were very specific. By doing a few Google queries, I saw that [UIApplication _terminateWithStatus:] + 136 (UIApplication.m:7578). Accompanied by a SIGSEV... corresponded to a simple thing: it's a crash during a force quit. I tested it with two iPhones, connected to my Mac, and launched the app from Xcode on each of them. I waited a bit, then quit it. It immediately went into the background and waited to launch operations with BackgroundTaskManager. I went to the app carousel and quit it with a swipe of my finger. I immediately see in the log that "sceneDidDisconnect" from SceneDelegate is called... then the immediate crash occurs, with the same elements as those received during the test flight crashlog.crash : SIGSEV and [UIApplication _terminateWithStatus:] and identical elements thereafter. And this applies regardless of what I put in "SceneDidDisconnect," a print, and something to close the BGtasks if they are running (but iOS should normally kill them too, right?) .. 1 or 2 secondes after it crashes. At the moment of the crash, the Xcode cursor is positioned on "class Appdelegate" in AppDelegate. class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate { My question is: how do I handle force quit in Swift? I have another Objective-C application that does the same thing and runs identical operations in the background. If I force quit it, there is no crash.

I have a home widget with buttons (new in iOS 17). In order to prevent taking action if the user taps on the widget buttons accidentally, I want to ask the user for confirmation. It appeared that requestConfirmation be exactly what I needed, but no confirmation view shows up when I invoke this method in the perform function. I have tried the following: try await requestConfirmation(result: .result(dialog: "Are you sure you want to do this?") { Image(.mdlsWhite) }) and this alternative: let confirmed: Bool = try await $name.requestConfirmation(for: self.name, dialog: IntentDialog(stringLiteral: msg)) Neither option work. I am starting to think that the requestConfirmation is not to be used with Home Widgets. Is there a better way to handle confirmations for buttons included in a Home Widget?

I am seeing a weird behavior of the date formatter (Full code is below). When run, this will give the following output: 57: 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days 58: 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days 59: 2 months 60: 2 months, 1 day 61: 2 months 62: 2 months, 1 day 63: 2 months, 2 days So both 59 days and 61 days are 2 months, and both 60 and 62 days are 2 months and 1 day. This of course is especially weird because this means, 2 months also comes after 2 months and a day. Can someone explain to me what is going on here? import Foundation let formatter = DateComponentsFormatter() formatter.unitsStyle = .full let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian) let today = calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2025, month: 7, day: 26))! for day in 57...63 { let startDate = calendar.date(byAdding: .day, value: -day, to: today)! let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day, .weekOfMonth, .month,. year], from: startDate, to: today) let result = formatter.string(from: components)! print ("\(String(format: "%3d", day)): \(result)") }

Dear Apple Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I’m reaching out to inquire about the limitations of deferred deep linking within iOS applications. Specifically, I’m interested in understanding the constraints and challenges that prevent deferred deep links from functioning as expected in certain scenarios (e.g., when the app is not installed or other related issues). Additionally, I would like to ask if there are any recommended alternative approaches or solutions to implement deep linking, ensuring that users can still be directed to specific content or screens even if they need to install the app first. Your insights and guidance would be greatly appreciated as I work to enhance the user experience in my app. Thank you for your time and assistance. Best regards, Santosh

I have also tested this on iOS 26 (Beta 9 and above), and the CallKit call blocking functionality is not working. Numbers that should be blocked still ring through. Caller Identification continues to function as expected, but blocking entries (addBlockingEntry) are ignored.

In my app, I implemented a screen recording functionality. But there was an unexpected crash. 0 CoreFoundation _CFRelease.cold.1 + 16 1 CoreFoundation ___CFTypeCollectionRelease 2 ReplayKit ___56-[RPScreenRecorder captureHandlerWithSample:timingData:]_block_invoke + 148 3 libdispatch.dylib __dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32 4 libdispatch.dylib __dispatch_client_callout + 16 5 libdispatch.dylib __dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 740 6 libdispatch.dylib __dispatch_lane_invoke + 388 7 libdispatch.dylib __dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 292 8 libdispatch.dylib __dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 540 9 libsystem_pthread.dylib __pthread_wqthread + 292

Our users report frequent crashes with the FamilyActivityPicker. Since this is a screen controlled by Apple, I'm assuming that there's nothing I can do to prevent these crashes. I'm wondering, though, if there's any way to gracefully handle these crashes? When this happens, the following is printed to the console: [com.apple.FamilyControls.ActivityPickerExtension(1121)] Connection to plugin invalidated while in use. Does anyone know how to handle/catch this error?

I'm using the new AlarmKit framework to schedule and trigger alarms in my Swift app in iOS 26 beta 4 (23A5297i). I'm trying to customize the alarm sound using a sound file embedded in the app bundle or by referencing known system tones. Problem: No matter what I pass to .named("sound-2"), whether a file bundle url, .named("sound-2.caf"), tried .mp3, .caf & .aiff, or a known iOS system sound like .named("Radar") ("Chimes", etc.), the alarm always plays the default system alert tone. There's no error or warning, but the custom or specified sound is silently ignored. sound: .named("sound-2") Question: What is the correct method or approach to play custom sound / music when Alarm Triggers? What .named("...") expects file name, file Path URL or System sound name? Is there any specific audio file length accepted or specific format? Challenge: The alarm functionality feels incomplete without support for custom sounds. A single default alert tone is often not sufficient to wake up users effectively. Hope it will be fixed in the next iOS updates.

On my MAC, I have a XPC server running as a daemon. It also checks the clients for codesigning requirements. I have multiple clients(2 or more). Each of these clients periodically(say 5 seconds) poll the XPC server to ask for a particular data. I want to understand how the performance of my MAC will be affected when multiple XPC clients keep polling a XPC server.

I have an app developed by using the Callkit/Call-Blocking and received feedback from individual users, when using [cxcalldirectorymanager reloadextensionwithidentifier] to write call blocking data, it returned error code 11 with the following contents: errorCode: 11 errorDomain: com.apple.callkit.database.sqlite errorDescription: sqlite3_step for query 'DELETE FROM PhoneNumberBlockingEntry WHERE extension_id =?' returned 11 (11) errorMessage 'database disk image is malformed' I want to know the reasons for this error and how to solve it，Thanks!

I want to display device activity reports for particular selected apps. for getting a daily basis app uses time. Now, what is happening? there are 10 apps selected from the family activity picker but some apps are displayed in the list. I need all 10 apps or more that I will choose from the family activity picker. The bellow code is used for fetching reports. var body: some View { VStack { DeviceActivityReport(context, filter: filter) } } bellow code is used for the filter @State public var filter = DeviceActivityFilter() init(selectedApps: Set<ApplicationToken>, selectedCategories: Set<ActivityCategoryToken>, selectedWebDomains: Set<WebDomainToken>) { self.selectedApps = selectedApps self.selectedCategories = selectedCategories self.selectedWebDomains = selectedWebDomains self.filter = DeviceActivityFilter( segment: .daily( during: Calendar.current.dateInterval( of: .weekOfYear, for: .now )! ), users: .all, devices: .init([.iPhone]), applications: selectedApps, categories: selectedCategories, webDomains: selectedWebDomains ) } You can see we selected 3 apps from family activity picker but we getting 2 apps from DeviceActivityReport extension following code is for device activity report extension let context: DeviceActivityReport.Context = .totalActivity // Define the custom configuration and the resulting view for this report. let content: (ActivityReport) -> TotalActivityView func makeConfiguration(representing data: DeviceActivityResults<DeviceActivityData>) async -> ActivityReport { // Reformat the data into a configuration that can be used to create // the report's view. var res = "" var list: [AppDeviceActivity] = [] let totalActivityDuration = await data.flatMap { $0.activitySegments }.reduce(0, { $0 + $1.totalActivityDuration }) for await d in data { res += d.user.appleID!.debugDescription res += d.lastUpdatedDate.description for await a in d.activitySegments{ res += a.totalActivityDuration.formatted() for await c in a.categories { for await ap in c.applications { if let apptoken = ap.application.token { let appName = (ap.application.localizedDisplayName ?? "nil") let bundle = (ap.application.bundleIdentifier ?? "nil") let duration = ap.totalActivityDuration let numberOfPickups = ap.numberOfPickups let app = AppDeviceActivity(appToken: apptoken, id: bundle, displayName: appName, duration: duration, numberOfPickups: numberOfPickups) list.append(app) } } } } } return ActivityReport(totalDuration: totalActivityDuration, apps: list) }

Hi There, hopefully someone can help me here, we weren’t aware but our universal links stopped working sometime last year, as they are not used often on the apps, it wasn’t noticed. We checked all the elements and this is the situation: Our apple-app-site-association file is located at https://ourdomain.com.au/.well-known/apple-app-site-association And it is accessible and can be downloaded. We have Associated Domain services enabled for our app Bundle Id: au.com.identifier.app The Entitlements.plist in our app contains the list of associated domains - the second is the full url, the portal won't let me write it as such as it's not the real address. But links for the first two, …ourdomain.com.au domains don’t work Request https://ourdomain.com.au/.well-known/apple-app-site-association downloads the file and returns status code:403 While checking the availability with https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/ourdomain.com.au we get the error: ourdomain.com.au: Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) Going directly to the hosted website: https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/ourdomain-prod-ourdomainwebsite.azurewebsites.net Returns the json: { "activitycontinuation": { "apps": [ "99ABCD88XXX.au.com.identifier.app", "99ABCD88XXX.au.com.identifier.server.adhoc", "99ABCD88XXX.au.com.identifier.server.dev" ] }, "applinks": { "apps": [], "details": [ { "appID": "99ABCD88XXX.au.com.identifier.app", "paths": [ "/m/" ] }, { "appID": "99ABCD88XXX.au.com.identifier.server.adhoc", "paths": [ "/mt/" ] }, { "appID": "99ABCD88XXX.au.com.identifier.server.dev", "paths": [ "/md/*" ] } ] } } It appears to be something in the redirect from the url but debugging shows nothing obvious. Has anyone experienced this before? Thanks

Hello, I have a question about data deserialization using NSKeyedUnarchiver in iOS SDK development. Current Situation: Previously, we were using the NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(with: Data) function We have changed to using the NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchivedObject(ofClasses:from:) method to deserialize complex objects stored in UserDefaults We need to include all types in the ofClasses parameter, including Swift primitive types as well as various custom classes and structs within the project Questions: Implementation Approach: Is it correct pattern to include all classes defined in the project in the ofClasses array? Is this approach recommended? Runtime Stability: When using this approach, is there a possibility of runtime crashes? Are there any performance issues? Alternative Methods: If the current approach is not the correct pattern, what alternatives should we consider? Current Code Structure: All model classes conform to the NSSecureCoding protocol We use the requiringSecureCoding: true parameter We use a whitelist approach, explicitly listing only allowed classes I would like to know if this structure is appropriate, or if we should consider a different approach. Thank you.

We are not receving incoming call from blocked numbers below iOS 26 versions but same in iOS 26 onwards we are receiving the incoming call.. Can you please provide any solutions to fix the issue

I'm just trying to display an image that is stored in the local filesystem, but the more I dig into this the more confused I get. So previously I used this code (it's simplified): func findImage(name: String) -&gt; UIImage? { do { let url = try FileManager.default.url(for: .applicationSupportDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor: nil, create: false) .appendingPathComponent("MyFolder") .appendingPathComponent("\(name).png") guard let image = UIImage(contentsOfFile: url.path) else { return nil } return image } catch { print(error.localizedDescription) } return nil } Notice I create the URL with just .appendingPathComponent() and turning URL to path via url.path. It works! So what's the question? In Improving performance and stability when accessing the file system I've read that you better use the new appendingPathComponent(_:isDirectory:), that's good, will do. Also url.path is deprecated in iOS18. Should I use url.path(percentEncoded:) instead? What should be the value of percentEncoded when accessing the local filesystem? In this adjacent thread I've read: Don't use UIImage(contentsOfFile:) either, because it's a path-based API. There's no URL-based equivalent, which is an Apple clue that should be doing something else. Is this true? Then how should I store and load my images? Just FYI, I create images like this: private func generateThumbnail(name: String) { guard let drawingWidth = canvasGeo?.size.width, let drawingHeight = canvasGeo?.size.height else { return } let thumbnailRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: drawingWidth, height: drawingHeight) Task { UITraitCollection(userInterfaceStyle: .light).performAsCurrent { let image = self.canvasView.drawing.image(from: thumbnailRect, scale: UIScreen.main.scale) guard let data = image.pngData() else { return } // -- HERE do { try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: try FileManager.default.url(for: .applicationSupportDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor: nil, create: true) .appendingPathComponent("MyFolder"), withIntermediateDirectories: true, attributes: nil) let filename = "\(name).png" let url = try FileManager.default.url(for: .applicationSupportDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor: nil, create: true) .appendingPathComponent("MyFolder") .appendingPathComponent(filename) try data.write(to: url, options: .atomic) // -- and HERE } catch { print(error.localizedDescription) } } } } My usecase — just save the user's PencilKit Canvas as an image and display it back to him on a different View. I'm on SwiftUI and iOS 16+. Would be happy to learn the correct way, thanks!

Hi All, I’m puzzled by this issue: my app uses WeatherKit to fetch hourly UV-index and temperature forecasts. The same build, running on the latest iOS, succeeds on most devices but consistently fails on a few. Strangely, the paired Apple Watch version retrieves the data without problems. Could WeatherKit be applying per-user throttling? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I am developing "local push" VoIP application. I have a question about issues I found while testing this app. After repeating a test for 24 hours in which a incoming call followed by an immediate disconnect 0.1 seconds later, the iPhone of incommig call side encountered a 0xBAADCA11 error, causing iOS to force-close the app. (The incidence is low, occurring three times in 17280 times incoming call(24 hours.)) This problem found on iOS17.6.1 (iPhone11Pro). When the same test was performed on iOS18.2 (iPhoneSE3), the problem did not occur. Did iOS take something measures against the 0xBAADCA11 error between iOS17.6.1 and iOS18.2? If yes, I want to encourage customers to upgrade to the latest iOS version, please tell me about it? ※I have attached an ips files and sysdiagnose file of the 0xBAADCA11 error occurring. (please refer sysdiagnose also if you need.) FjSoftPhone-2025-01-16-113049.ips FjSoftPhone-2025-01-16-175253.ips FjSoftPhone-2025-01-17-070449.ips [sysdiagnose_2025.01.17_14-24-48+0900_iPhone-OS_iPhone_21G93.tar.gz] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CV8laKzdnQxvwaAIOwMcXL8rAYL2jq35/view?usp=sharing

Hello everyone. I use Translation Framework in my application. During development everything was fine, Translation framework worked well, but after two or three days of using the production version (that was published in AppStore and available for others also!) - my application stopped working. Translation framework gives errors: Error sending 1 paragraphs Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=16 "Translation failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Translation failed, NSLocalizedFailureReason=Offline models not available for language pair} Failed to translate input 0; returning error: Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=16 "Translation failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Translation failed, NSLocalizedFailureReason=Offline models not available for language pair} Received unbridged NSError to API, converting to .internalError: Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=16 "Translation failed" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Translation failed, NSLocalizedFailureReason=Offline models not available for language pair} Once again - it worked when I developed it, it was released on the AppStore, and suddenly it stopped working!