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Reply to Device Hub multi-touch gestures
Is this deliberate by Apple or just an oversight that they haven't yet corrected? If it is deliberate then can they explain how we should use the device hub to simulate pinching to zoom a map? I don't have a trackpad (I use a Mac Studio with a Magic Keyboard and a Magic Mouse) and cannot find a way to simulate multi-touch events.
Sep ’26
Reply to Could not launch app on watchOS downloaded from TestFlight
I am seeing the problem as well and have been for a couple of months. One of my beta testers mentioned today that Carrot was reporting it so I searched the forums and found this thread. It's reassuring to know that it is a TestFlight issue because I assumed that I had broken something and have been rolling back lots of code trying to work out what it was that I had broken. One thing I have noticed is that it usually happens after the tester has updated watchOS. I had several reports a couple of months ago after watchOS 26.4 was released. And it has been reported more often again since watchOS 26.5 was released. I always ask them to downgrade to an older beta or the App Store version and it always fixes the problem, even if they then upgrade to the latest beta again.
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May ’26
Reply to WatchOS 26.5 breaks Action Button intent donation
Thanks for your reply. It seems that the intent donation bug in watchOS 26.5 was happening because my app was written a while ago and uses a WatchKit extension. I have now converted my watch app to use a single target and the donation now works again. I am slightly nervous that such a major restructuring will have other knock on effects, but I would probably have had to do it at some time anyway. Thanks again.
May ’26
Reply to Health permissions problem with watchOS 10.6.2
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately they can't update to watchOS 26 because they have older devices (series 4, series 5, or SE 1st gen). And they can't roll back so they are stuck. The reason they are using watchOS 10.6.2 is because it is the latest version that they can use. It was only released 3 months ago and no-one is reporting the issue for older versions of watchOS 10, so it sounds like that permissions bug crept into v10.6.2 for some reason. Thanks again for replying.
May ’26
Reply to Workout Effort Scores
I don't see estimated effort scores in Apple's Fitness app for any workouts created by my app, for any activity type. The only time they are visible is if an effort score has been specifically set by the app (which I got working after your help on that other thread, so thanks for that). I am assuming that the Fitness app shows the effort if one has been set and otherwise shows the estimated effort. Is that the case? Or does the estimated effort get stored in Health Kit but is not used by the Fitness app?
Oct ’24
Reply to Adding workoutEffortScore to HKWorkout
I can't get it working when using relateWorkoutEffortSample. The completion comes back without an error but there doesn't seem to be an effort stored for the workout when I view it in the Fitness app. My code is: HKUnit* effortUnits = [HKUnit appleEffortScoreUnit]; HKQuantity* effortQuantity = [HKQuantity quantityWithUnit:effortUnits doubleValue:effort]; HKQuantityType* effortQuantityType = [HKQuantityType quantityTypeForIdentifier:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierWorkoutEffortScore]; HKQuantitySample* effortSample = [HKQuantitySample quantitySampleWithType:effortQuantityType quantity:effortQuantity startDate:self.startDate endDate:self.endDate]; for (HKWorkoutActivity* activity in self.workout.workoutActivities) [self.store relateWorkoutEffortSample:effortSample withWorkout:self.workout activity:activity completion:^(BOOL success, NSError * _Nullable error) { if (!success) { if (error) NSLog(@"Error saving effort score: %@", error.localizedDescription); else NSLog(@"Error saving effort score"); } else NSLog(@"Successfully saved effort score %d", effort); }];
Sep ’24
Reply to XCode not supporting Apple Watch Series 10 models
Many thanks for the fast, detailed and helpful reply. It helped me realise that I was using the Xcode beta 6. However I downloaded it yesterday from the Downloads page and that page definitely described it as the RC, with a date of September 9th. I suspect I downloaded when the page had been partially updated with the text for the RC but the link to the file hadn't been changed. I was eagerly pressing refresh on that page and downloaded the moment the text changed to say RC with yesterday's date. Anyway it all seems to be working now, so many thanks again for your very helpful response.
Sep ’24
Reply to No swimming distances on watchOS 10
Thanks. I suspect they are different problems because I don't get distance samples for pool swims either, where GPS is not involved. However I have only seen two outdoor swim workouts with watchOS 10, but the GPS trace for both of them was awful. Much worse than I have seen in the past. It's a very small sample and probably too early for me to tell, but I am probably seeing the same GPS issues as you when swimming outdoors with watchOS 10.
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Sep ’23
Reply to Device Hub multi-touch gestures
Is this deliberate by Apple or just an oversight that they haven't yet corrected? If it is deliberate then can they explain how we should use the device hub to simulate pinching to zoom a map? I don't have a trackpad (I use a Mac Studio with a Magic Keyboard and a Magic Mouse) and cannot find a way to simulate multi-touch events.
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Sep ’26
Reply to Could not launch app on watchOS downloaded from TestFlight
I am seeing the problem as well and have been for a couple of months. One of my beta testers mentioned today that Carrot was reporting it so I searched the forums and found this thread. It's reassuring to know that it is a TestFlight issue because I assumed that I had broken something and have been rolling back lots of code trying to work out what it was that I had broken. One thing I have noticed is that it usually happens after the tester has updated watchOS. I had several reports a couple of months ago after watchOS 26.4 was released. And it has been reported more often again since watchOS 26.5 was released. I always ask them to downgrade to an older beta or the App Store version and it always fixes the problem, even if they then upgrade to the latest beta again.
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May ’26
Reply to WatchOS 26.5 breaks Action Button intent donation
Thanks for your reply. It seems that the intent donation bug in watchOS 26.5 was happening because my app was written a while ago and uses a WatchKit extension. I have now converted my watch app to use a single target and the donation now works again. I am slightly nervous that such a major restructuring will have other knock on effects, but I would probably have had to do it at some time anyway. Thanks again.
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May ’26
Reply to Health permissions problem with watchOS 10.6.2
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately they can't update to watchOS 26 because they have older devices (series 4, series 5, or SE 1st gen). And they can't roll back so they are stuck. The reason they are using watchOS 10.6.2 is because it is the latest version that they can use. It was only released 3 months ago and no-one is reporting the issue for older versions of watchOS 10, so it sounds like that permissions bug crept into v10.6.2 for some reason. Thanks again for replying.
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May ’26
Reply to Workout Effort Scores
I don't see estimated effort scores in Apple's Fitness app for any workouts created by my app, for any activity type. The only time they are visible is if an effort score has been specifically set by the app (which I got working after your help on that other thread, so thanks for that). I am assuming that the Fitness app shows the effort if one has been set and otherwise shows the estimated effort. Is that the case? Or does the estimated effort get stored in Health Kit but is not used by the Fitness app?
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Oct ’24
Reply to Adding workoutEffortScore to HKWorkout
I can't get it working when using relateWorkoutEffortSample. The completion comes back without an error but there doesn't seem to be an effort stored for the workout when I view it in the Fitness app. My code is: HKUnit* effortUnits = [HKUnit appleEffortScoreUnit]; HKQuantity* effortQuantity = [HKQuantity quantityWithUnit:effortUnits doubleValue:effort]; HKQuantityType* effortQuantityType = [HKQuantityType quantityTypeForIdentifier:HKQuantityTypeIdentifierWorkoutEffortScore]; HKQuantitySample* effortSample = [HKQuantitySample quantitySampleWithType:effortQuantityType quantity:effortQuantity startDate:self.startDate endDate:self.endDate]; for (HKWorkoutActivity* activity in self.workout.workoutActivities) [self.store relateWorkoutEffortSample:effortSample withWorkout:self.workout activity:activity completion:^(BOOL success, NSError * _Nullable error) { if (!success) { if (error) NSLog(@"Error saving effort score: %@", error.localizedDescription); else NSLog(@"Error saving effort score"); } else NSLog(@"Successfully saved effort score %d", effort); }];
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Sep ’24
Reply to XCode not supporting Apple Watch Series 10 models
Many thanks for the fast, detailed and helpful reply. It helped me realise that I was using the Xcode beta 6. However I downloaded it yesterday from the Downloads page and that page definitely described it as the RC, with a date of September 9th. I suspect I downloaded when the page had been partially updated with the text for the RC but the link to the file hadn't been changed. I was eagerly pressing refresh on that page and downloaded the moment the text changed to say RC with yesterday's date. Anyway it all seems to be working now, so many thanks again for your very helpful response.
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Sep ’24
Reply to No swimming distances on watchOS 10
Thanks. I suspect they are different problems because I don't get distance samples for pool swims either, where GPS is not involved. However I have only seen two outdoor swim workouts with watchOS 10, but the GPS trace for both of them was awful. Much worse than I have seen in the past. It's a very small sample and probably too early for me to tell, but I am probably seeing the same GPS issues as you when swimming outdoors with watchOS 10.
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Sep ’23