In the session on StoreKit 2 (which looks amazing!), the presenter says: In fact, if your app is running when a purchase is made on another device, you'll be notified about the new transaction. This seems to mean that when an app uses the listener API to be notified of transactions, it will get transactions that happened on other devices. My app offers purchases across other platforms in addition to iOS, and when a purchase happens we register it with our own account system. If a user has the app running on both their iPad and iPhone and makes a purchase on the phone, if the iPad gets notified of it the same way it would of a purchase made on the iPad, both devices will try to report it to our system. This seems undesirable. What's the recommended approach here? Should we just make sure our system will disregard duplicate transaction reports? Or is there a way to know whether a transaction originated on this device? I don't see a property on the transaction type that looks like it could accomplish this. Maybe the deviceVerification properties? But that's seems more like the new edition of transaction receipt verification - failing that check would presumably mean that the purchase is invalid, not that it didn't happen on this device...?

I have an iOS app that I'm looking to make available as a Catalyst app. I have various view controllers that I present using custom animations and presentation styles via UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate, UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning, UIPresentationController, et al. Most of the view controllers I present with my custom styles are UINavigationController instances (or subclasses thereof). And when I build and run my Catalyst app on Ventura, the titles and bar items for the navigation items of the view controllers in the navigation stack get moved to the title bar of the application, and the navigation bar doesn't appear at all in the presented view controller. Why is this happening, and how do I stop it? I've looked through the documentation for the APIs I mentioned above and tried setting various things that seemed like they could conceivably be relevant - UIPresentationController.shouldPresentInFullscreen, UIViewController.modalInPresentation, etc - and have had no luck.

In the WWDC 2025 session "Build a UIKit app with the with the new design", at the 23:22 mark, the presenter says: And finally, when you no longer need the glass on screen animate it out by setting the effect to nil. The video shows a UIVisualEffectView whose effect is set to a UIGlassEffect animating away as its effect is set to nil. But when I do this in my app (or a sample app), setting effect to nil does not remove the glass appearance. Is this expected? Is the video out of date? Or is this a bug?

As of iOS 14, UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource has a reorderHandlers property. It's demonstrated in some sample code and talked about in WWDC 2020 session on Advances in Diffable Data Sources. The presenter states that you have to provide a canReorder and didReorder closure to enable the feature. The sample code uses it in a collection view with a list layout configuration, and configures the list cells with reorder accessories. The canReorder and didReorder methods are called as expected. But if I remove the reorder accessories from the cells, reordering no longer works - it doesn't call either closure. It also doesn't work in my app, where I have a grid layout using a compositional layout. How do I enable reordering on UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource without list cells and reorder accessories?

I work on an iOS app that displays images that often contain text, and I'm adding support for ImageAnalysisInteraction as described in this WWDC 2022 session. I have gotten as far as making the interaction show up and being able to select text and get the system selection menu, and even add my own action to the menu via the buildMenuWithBuilder API. But what I really want to do with my custom action is get the selected text and do a custom lookup-like thing to check the text against other content in my app. So how do I get the selected text from an ImageAnalysisInteraction on a UIImageView? The docs show methods to check if there is selected text, but I want to know what the text is.

I want to add a Control Center widget for my app that will open the app to a particular feature. I'm looking at the "Open your app with a control" example here, which seems like exactly what I want: Set your control’s action to an app intent that conforms to OpenIntent to open your app when someone uses a control. Using OpenIntent allows you to take someone to a specific area of your app when a control performs its action. The example doesn't show exactly how to hook up the LaunchAppIntent to a control widget, but I'm guessing it's something like this: @available(iOS 18.0, *) struct OpenFeatureControl : ControlWidget { var body: some ControlWidgetConfiguration { StaticControlConfiguration(kind: "com.example.OpenFeature") { ControlWidgetButton(action: LaunchAppIntent()) { Image(systemName: "book") } } .displayName("Launch Feature") } } But there's one critical piece missing here: how is the target feature actually opened? My initial assumption would have been that once the app launches or resumes, there's a call to some method like continueUserActivity that has a user-info dict with some key whose value is the LaunchAppEnum. But I've put breakpoints on all those methods in my app and none of them get called (I'm using UIKit scene lifecycle). I also tried a regular AppIntent with a perform method that talks to my app directly: @available(iOS 18.0, *) struct OpenFeatureIntent : AppIntent { static let title: LocalizedStringResource = "Open My Feature" static let opensAppWhenRun: Bool = true init() {} func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult { //MAIN_APP is defined in Active Compilation Conditions in build settings #if MAIN_APP let url = URL(string: "myapp://openfeature")! UrlHandler.instance().handle(url) #endif return .result() } } But when run, this simply does nothing. Launching an app directly to a particular view or feature seems like a common use-case for control widgets, and there are apps doing it, but I can't find an example of how it's supposed to work. And the docs are really not helpful. Can anyone provide the missing piece here? What's the expected plumbing in an OpenIntent that actually launches particular UI in the app?

I've got a Catalyst app that exposes some custom context menu items via the buildMenu API. When it runs on Tahoe, there's some weirdness with how the images in the menu items are sized. See attached screenshot below. The three items on the bottom are using SF Symbols for their images, and the rest are using custom images from an asset catalog. Is this a bug in Tahoe 26.0? Or should I be resizing my images before giving them to UIAction? If the latter, what should the size be, and is this documented somewhere or available from an API?

I've got a UIBarButtonItem in my app that currently presents an action sheet of items. I want to switch this to a UIMenu with iOS 14's new APIs for buttons and bar button items. But somme of the contents of the action sheet change based on the state of the view controller when the action sheet is triggered. With the action sheet, I generate a different action sheet every time the bar button item's target action is called. But with the new APIs, I have to generate the menu ahead of time and assign it to the button. What's the best way to get the menu to update every time it's presented? I tried UIDeferredMenuElement, but it caches the result of its provider. Feedback FB7824467 suggests adding a property to UIDeferredMenuElement to disable the caching of the provider result.

I have an iOS app that can play audio books as FairPlay DRM'd audio streams. I'm using AVContentKeySession to fetch keys and AVQueuePlayer to play. It works great on iOS, but on Catalyst (Monterey 12.3.1, M1 Max MacBook Pro) it crashes. When it happens in debug, I get a message "Too few bits left in input buffer" printed to the console, and an exception is thrown in the guts of what appears to be core media. Here's the output from [NSThread callStackSymbols] when paused on an exception breakpoint at that point: 0   ???                       0x0000000156b8cc9c 0x0 + 5749918876, 1   BRFree                    0x000000010445cf08 main + 0, 2   AudioCodecs               0x0000000157918c24 _ZL11GetPropertyPvjPjS_ + 52, 3   AudioToolboxCore          0x00000001862536a4 _ZN15ADTSAudioStream11ParseHeaderER27AudioFileStreamContinuation + 1060, 4   AudioToolboxCore          0x000000018624259c AudioFileStreamParseBytes + 412, 5   MediaToolbox              0x00000001915f7d98 FigManifoldCreateForICY + 2176, 6   MediaToolbox              0x00000001915f7718 FigManifoldCreateForICY + 512, 7   MediaToolbox              0x00000001916bbd78 FigPlayerStreamCreate + 315920, 8   MediaToolbox              0x0000000191a269a0 FigMetadataConverterCreateForQuickTimeToFromiTunes + 45888, 9   MediaToolbox              0x0000000191a4a290 FigMetadataConverterCreateForQuickTimeToFromiTunes + 191536, 10  MediaToolbox              0x0000000191a2a470 FigMetadataConverterCreateForQuickTimeToFromiTunes + 60944, 11  MediaToolbox              0x0000000191a28c34 FigMetadataConverterCreateForQuickTimeToFromiTunes + 54740, 12  MediaToolbox              0x0000000191a413b4 FigMetadataConverterCreateForQuickTimeToFromiTunes + 154964, 13  MediaToolbox              0x0000000191a2f144 FigMetadataConverterCreateForQuickTimeToFromiTunes + 80612, 14  MediaToolbox              0x00000001917cae64 FigAlternateFilterMonitorCreateForThermalNotification + 30428, 15  MediaToolbox              0x00000001917ccb44 FigAlternateFilterMonitorCreateForThermalNotification + 37820, 16  MediaToolbox              0x00000001917cb134 FigAlternateFilterMonitorCreateForThermalNotification + 31148, 17  CFNetwork                 0x0000000189937cd4 _CFHostIsDomainTopLevelForCertificatePolicy + 27728, 18  Foundation                0x0000000185ba980c __NSBLOCKOPERATION_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK__ + 24, 19  Foundation                0x0000000185ba96b4 -[NSBlockOperation main] + 104, 20  Foundation                0x0000000185ba9644 __NSOPERATION_IS_INVOKING_MAIN__ + 24, 21  Foundation                0x0000000185ba88dc -[NSOperation start] + 788, 22  Foundation                0x0000000185ba85c0 __NSOPERATIONQUEUE_IS_STARTING_AN_OPERATION__ + 24, 23  Foundation                0x0000000185ba8478 __NSOQSchedule_f + 184, 24  libdispatch.dylib         0x00000001099f60f4 _dispatch_block_async_invoke2 + 148, 25  libdispatch.dylib         0x00000001099e2394 _dispatch_client_callout + 20, 26  libdispatch.dylib         0x00000001099eb778 _dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 980, 27  libdispatch.dylib         0x00000001099ec814 _dispatch_lane_invoke + 492, 28  libdispatch.dylib         0x00000001099f9fc8 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 408, 29  libdispatch.dylib         0x00000001099f9d3c _dispatch_worker_thread + 264, 30  libsystem_pthread.dylib   0x00000001094e1890 _pthread_start + 148, 31  libsystem_pthread.dylib   0x00000001094ebaa8 thread_start + 8 In the Debug Navigator, the top of the stack looks a little different: #0 0x0000000184bdeb3c in __cxa_throw () #1 0x000000015791941c in ACMP4AACLowComplexityDecoder::GetProperty(unsigned int, unsigned int&, void*) () #2 0x0000000157918c24 in GetProperty(void*, unsigned int, unsigned int*, void*) () #3 0x00000001862536a4 in ADTSAudioStream::ParseHeader(AudioFileStreamContinuation&) () #4 0x000000018624259c in AudioFileStreamParseBytes () #5 0x00000001915f7d98 in ___lldb_unnamed_symbol598$$MediaToolbox () What's going wrong here? Can anyone give me direction on what to fix? Or is FairPlay audio not even expected to work in Catalyst at this point?

UILargeContentViewerInteraction, added in iOS 13, works out of the box on the tab bar in a UITabBarController, and it's easy to set up on a custom view using the UILargeContentViewerItem properties on UIView. But how do I set it up on a UITabBar that's not connected to a UITabBarController? There don't appear to be any relevant properties on UITabBarItem. To try this, I made a sample app, added a tab bar, set up some items, set their largeContentSizeImage properties for good measure, ran the app, set text size to a large accessibility value, and long-pressed on the items, and I get no large content viewer. I also tried adding a UILargeContentViewerInteraction to the tab bar, and implemented the viewControllerForInteraction method in the delegate.

I have a button in my iOS app that opens the Settings app to my app's Notification permissions section. I use UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString for this (or UIApplicationOpenNotificationSettingsURLString on iOS 15.4 and later). On Catalyst, both of these simply open the settings screen that is auto-generated from the Settings bundle. How do I get it to open to the appropriate place in System Settings?

In iOS 26 beta 3, it was possible to have a UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction work with a WKWebView's scroll view. But it stopped working in beta 4, and is still broken in beta 5 today. Is this expected? Or is this a bug that will be fixed before public release? Filed as FB19386650 with a trivial sample app.

There seems to be a regression in the behavior of UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction on iOS 26.1 when it's over a WKWebView. If the web view's scroll view's topEdgeEffect.style is changed to .hard and then back to .soft, it will stop tracking the color of the content underneath it and use the wrong-mix in color in its blur. I've filed this as FB20655398. Here's some sample code to illustrate the issue. The test.html file being loaded is just a bunch of div elements with lorem ipsum. private var webView: WKWebView? = nil override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let config = WKWebViewConfiguration() let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config) webView.navigationDelegate = self self.view.addSubview(webView) webView.autoPinEdgesToSuperviewEdges() webView.isInspectable = true self.webView = webView let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "test", withExtension: "html")! webView.loadFileURL(url, allowingReadAccessTo: Bundle.main.bundleURL) let blurView = UIView() self.view.addSubview(blurView) blurView.autoPinEdgesToSuperviewEdges(with: .zero, excludingEdge: .bottom) let label = UILabel() label.text = "This is a title bar" blurView.addSubview(label) label.autoAlignAxis(toSuperviewAxis: .vertical) label.autoPinEdge(toSuperviewEdge: .bottom, withInset: 8) label.autoPinEdge(toSuperviewSafeArea: .top, withInset: 8) let interaction = UIScrollEdgeElementContainerInteraction() interaction.scrollView = webView.scrollView interaction.edge = .top blurView.addInteraction(interaction) self.webView?.scrollView.topEdgeEffect.style = .hard DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfterUnsafe(deadline: .now() + .seconds(2)) { self.webView?.scrollView.topEdgeEffect.style = .soft } registerForTraitChanges([UITraitUserInterfaceStyle.self]) { (self: Self, previousTraitCollection: UITraitCollection) in self._updateWebViewColors() } } private func _updateWebViewColors() { let dark = self.traitCollection.userInterfaceStyle == .dark let text = dark ? "#FFFFFF" : "#000000" let bg = dark ? "#000000" : "#FFFFFF" let js = "document.body.style.color = '\(text)';\ndocument.body.style.backgroundColor = '\(bg)';" self.webView?.evaluateJavaScript(js) { res, err in if let err { print("JS error: \(err)") } } } If you run that, then change the system them to dark mode, you get this. Has anyone else seen this before? Know how to work around it?

I notice in iOS 14 beta 4, collection views show index views on their trailing edge if the data source implements indexTitlesForCollectionView - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uicollectionviewdatasource/2851455-indextitlesforcollectionview?language=objc and indexPathForIndexTitle - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uicollectionviewdatasource/2851456-collectionview?language=objc. But I don't see a way to control any aspect of its appearance. On UITableView this shows up as the sectionIndexColor - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitableview/1614915-sectionindexcolor?language=objc property. Does this property exist on UICollectionView somewhere I didn't think to look? Or is it just not there (yet)? FB8284500

I want to offer a pay-as-you-go introductory offer for a subscription in my iOS app. But it's not clear to me what the actual pricing is if the offer is on a subscription whose period is more than 1 unit (2 month, 3 month, 6 month, etc). For example, say I have a subscription that costs $20 per renewal and renews every 6 months. I set up an intro offer of the "Pay as you go" type (SKProductDiscountPaymentModePayAsYouGo) whose duration is 12 months and price is $10. Is the user going to get charged $10/month for 12 months (renewing 12 times), or $10 per 6 months for 12 months (renewing twice)? The documentation - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/in-app_purchase/subscriptions_and_offers/implementing_introductory_offers_in_your_app?language=objc isn't all that clear on this. If I set this up with a local StoreKit test file - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/setting_up_storekit_testing_in_xcode?language=objc and try it in a simulator, the system purchase sheet appears to actually display it wrong. In my scenario above, the simulator shows a trial of "$10 per month for 2 months". I've filed this as FB8998598.