I was trying to figure out why my bottom sheet looks weird and doesn't have the "proper glass" look. I found that this issue seems to be new to iOS 26.1. See the images below, they show the same view hierarchy (in this case UIHostingController configured as bottom sheet that has NavigationStack and content. On iOS 26.1 there seems to be extra two layers of background - even though I am no adding any. iOS 26: iOS 26.1 Has anyone experienced something similar? Any workarounds? I am happy to completely disable the glass effect for this bottom sheet if it helps. The screenshots show one sheet, but the same thing happens for another ones.

Is there a way to get all instances of ManagedSettingsStore that my app has previously configured? I managed to get into a situation, where I removed the identifier in my database, but forgot to clear the store and now the app is shielding couple of apps and I am unable to stop it. What is the proper workflow for this?

Hello, with iOS 16 (multiple betas), I noticed that our VPN configuration created with NEPacketTunnelProvider appears twice in Settings -> General -> VPN & Device Management. I thought that this shouldn't be possible (even if I wanted to) because on iOS apps can provide just one configuration? All the basic configuration for your VPN is static. providerBundleIdentifier & serverAddress are contants in the source code. The only thing that gets changed is onDemandRules. When I inspected the configurations details in Settings, they were identical.

Hello, I am working on an app that scans documents and recognizes the text with help of Vision framework. This works great. I would also like to "recognize" or detect individual images which are part of the document. Does Vision has any support for this or should I be looking into training my own ML model? Below is an example document - I would like to extract the text (already done) and also the image of the building.

Hello, my app sometimes has this super weird issue with scroll in a horizontal section (see the GIF below). The thing is, I have ever spotted it only in this third section and not the two sections above it. All have the same compositional collection view layout and are powered by the diffable data source. I reexamined the item definition and I don't think this could be a case of hash values being same and hence confusing the collection view. It also seems to happen only to these first items. It is not frequent but on my own device I have seen it many times so far. The problem always seems to manifest in similar manner. Anyone seen this? I am hoping that maybe someone will recognize the problem from the GIF.

Hello, I am developing Safari Content Blocker extension and discovered that it frequently fails to load with large amount of rules. Currently I have over 45k and most of the time when I reload the extension on iOS 18 (iPhone 12) it ends with error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "connection to service named com.apple.SafariServices.ContentBlockerLoader" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.SafariServices.ContentBlockerLoader} #0 And the simpler message is just: Couldn’t communicate with a helper application. From what I managed to find (for example here - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/756931) the limit for blocking rules should be 150k items. It was previously 50k but got increased years ago. Is there anything special I need to do to get the extension to work reliably with say 100k items? I am usng the JSON format from the docs: { "trigger": { ... }, "action": { ... } }, { "trigger": { ... }, "action": { ... } } ] My trigger is url-filter and the action is type: block I was thinking about providing multiple JSON files in attachments property of NSExtensionItem but apparently that is not supported. Thanks for help!

Hello, I am working on a NEPacketTunnelProvider and I am not exactly sure if I correctly understand the NEPacketTunnelNetworkSettings. For example the ipv4Settings according to docs: This property contains the IPv4 routes specifying what IPv4 traffic to route to the tunnel, as well as the IPv4 address and netmask to assign to the TUN interface. So this seems like unless I set all the possible routes here, the tunnel should not work for all the traffic? Currently I have this: swift let ipv4Settings: NEIPv4Settings = NEIPv4Settings( addresses: ["192.169.89.1"], subnetMasks: ["255.255.255.255"] ) Which seems to work pretty well, both for WiFi and cellular. In the past I tried various other addresses, even manually including all the IPV4 routes but I never noticed any effect regarding the tunnel. Then there is the includedRoutes property. The routes that specify what IPv4 network traffic will be routed to the TUN interface. So this is basically another way to set the address like in the constructor for NEIPv4Settings? This seems to work best when I don't set anything. I tried setting all the routes but that did not change things a bit. The only difference is when I set includedRoutes to NEIPv4Route.default(). Then some apps stop working when the tunnel is active. This is strange, because even setting all the available routes + default one doesn't fix this "issue". What is the relation between these properties? It is best to not set includedRoutes if the tunnel works fine? And lastly. What about dnsSettings? This looks like another optional property. Does it make sense to manually specify DNS to point maybe to 1.1.1.1?

Hello, I am working on a NetworkExtension that uses NEPacketTunnelProvider. Is there any option to somehow see all traffic that gets send to my extension? Some apps have issues working over my tunnel, so I want to check the connections and see what is happening.

Hello, I am using simple AVCaptureDevice setup to scan QR code from LCD screen, usually the distance is 5 to 15 centimeters. This has been working fine for a long time, with correct focus and everything. Today I noticed that my iPhone 14 Pro cannot focus on these smaller distances while my developer iPhone SE 2020 can easily detect the QR code in basically all cases. I have been using this code to create the capture device: AVCaptureDevice.default(for: .video) And then some settings: if videoCaptureDevice.isAutoFocusRangeRestrictionSupported { videoCaptureDevice.autoFocusRangeRestriction = .near } if videoCaptureDevice.isFocusModeSupported(.continuousAutoFocus) { videoCaptureDevice.focusMode = .continuousAutoFocus } As I said, this worked great prior to noticing the issue on iPhone 14 Pro. After some searching I found recommendations to use another device type like: builtInDualWideCamera and other available types. I tried all of them and they either behave like the default (meaning I cannot scan the code unless I move the phone way out) or they always seem to use the 0.5 Ultra-Wide camera which looks weird and the scanning experience is not ideal. What is the best approach to have QR scanning with these new phones?

Hello, I submitted new app update almost a week ago for review, it got rejected one time (I had to add links to privacy policy) and then the version was approved. But my newly added subscription has some "Developer Action Needed" / "Rejected" issue - probably with the localization. I wasn't able to discover the root cause for the rejection so I updated the info to make it clear in my view and resubmitted. However I did not get any confirmation email or something like that and my subscription is "Waiting for Review" for days now, which means I am not able to proceed with the launch of new version. Is there anything I can do? I looked into requesting the expedited review - but I dont see any option to specify I need review of subscription. If I have App Store product page in multiple languages - must the subscription localizations match?

Hello, we have rare case of AuthorizationCenter.shared.requestAuthorization(for: .individual) failing to autorize user on real device - iPhone XR (iOS 16.1.2). It does not throw the standard FamilyControlsError which we are handling, but NSCocoaErrorDomain. This is the entire po description: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "The given data was not a valid property list." UserInfo={NSCodingPath=(), NSDebugDescription=The given data was not a valid property list., NSUnderlyingError=0x283af4d80 {Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Cannot parse a NULL or zero-length data" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Cannot parse a NULL or zero-length data}}} The localized one says: "The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format." This sounds like some error deep in iOS. The testing device has Apple ID logged in and uses passcode. Anything we can do on our end to solve this issue?

Hello, we have been using the new Screen Time APIs for a long time. While the API is simple to work with, we have persistent issues with the FamilyActivityPicker component. I have filled many feedbacks but have yet to notice any changes/fixes in the point releases. One issue we see frequently is that expanding categories does not work. Instead, the picker shows just a single row, and you need to scroll up or down to “refresh” it and make it expand correctly. Another problem is that some apps are “hidden” in the “Other” category, and our users have trouble discovering them. I have been part of a few user interviews we did recently, and basically, every user had some issue with the FamilyActivityPicker. For one user, it just disappeared, and they needed to re-open the app screen, which contains the picker, to fix it. Sometimes the picker shows apps that have already been uninstalled from the device. The system picker from Screen Time works much better. For one, websites have dedicated category, which makes it much easier to navigate. I have seen instances where you would open the “Productivity” category and see like 50 websites - making it super hard to find apps. The system picker also allows users to manually enter a website that FamilyActivityPicker does not provide. Also, the system picker offers a search bar which is not possible with FamilyActivityPicker. Some users get frustrated with finding the specific apps in the picker if they have many apps installed. Since FamilyActivityPicker is critical to user experience in our app, we would appreciate it if the FamilyActivityPicker would be on par with the Screen Time built-in picker. Thanks 🙏

Hello, I am curious if someone else also noticed this. We have started getting reports about our app not working correctly (mostly related to the Device Activity monitor that "runs" in the background, https://developer.apple.com/documentation/deviceactivity/deviceactivitymonitor). Upon checking the Xcode Organizer I can see somewhat significant amount of crashes that mostly appear to happen on iOS 16.6 - it is possible that our users don't wait with updating iOS but still looks suspicious. The crashes are related to ManagedSettings calls outside our own code. We haven't changes this code in a while so this coupled with the fact that these crashes happen "deep" in the ManagedSettings framework leads me to believe there is some other issue.

Hello, we had working DeviceActivityReport in our app for months now. However when building with Xcode 15 (previously betas, now the GM), the activity reports no longer displays anything on iOS 16 devices. If we run it with Xcode 14, it works. But with Xcode 15 builds, the device activity report only works on iOS 17 devices :( I am able to see some somewhat generic errors in the Console.app when opening screen that contains the report. -[_EXServiceClient launchWithConfiguration:error:]_block_invoke failed with error: Error Domain=com.apple.extensionKit.errorDomain Code=2 UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x280b9b600 {Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=<private>}}} Failed to create extensionProcess for extension '<private>' error: Error Domain=com.apple.extensionKit.errorDomain Code=2 UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x280b9b600 {Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=<private>}}}. Failed to make extensionProcess with error: Error Domain=com.apple.extensionKit.errorDomain Code=2 UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x280b9b600 {Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=<private>}}} Failed to get extension process and XPC endpoints with error: Error Domain=com.apple.extensionKit.errorDomain Code=2 UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x280b9b600 {Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=<private>}}} And I managed to find one error that is specific to our activity extension which says just: Cannot track instance that is already dead!

Hello, I am using apply(_:completionHandler:) on the NEHotspotConfigurationManager.shared to prompt the user to join particular WiFi network. In my testing it works all the time, but via Sentry I am getting a lot of errors with this code from the NEHotspotConfigurationErrorDomain domain. In particular I am getting: NEHotspotConfigurationErrorInternal and NEHotspotConfigurationErrorUnknown. It doens't appear to be connected to particular iOS version nor device. The WiFi network should be pretty same too - this is an app that connects to the Nintendo Switch game console. From some anectodal reports it looks like when the user tries to connect via Camera.app (by scanning QR code) that works for the WiFi connection. It is possible to debug this further?