HealthKit Blood Pressure authorization broken on iOS 26.5 RC

Hello,

I'm experiencing a bug on iOS 26.5 RC1/RC2 where the Blood Pressure option is silently excluded from the HealthKit permission dialog (when requesting HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureSystolic and HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureDiastolic). This does not reproduce on iOS 26.4.2 or earlier.

What happens:

When BP types are requested alone, a blank white modal slides up and immediately dismisses — no permission UI is shown. When BP is requested alongside other types, a normal dialog appears for those other types, but Blood Pressure is simply absent from the list.

The completion handler returns success = YES, error = nil in both cases, but BP permission is never granted. The result:

  • Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → [app] shows Blood Pressure as requested but not granted
  • getRequestStatusForAuthorizationToShareTypes for the BP types keeps returning ShouldRequest indefinitely
  • HealthKit queries for BP samples return no data

Workaround:

Manually toggling Blood Pressure to ON in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → [app name] fixes everything - queries work, notifications fire, and getRequestStatusForAuthorizationToShareTypes correctly returns HKAuthorizationRequestStatusUnnecessary.

Environment:

  • Confirmed broken: iOS 26.5 RC1 (23F75) and RC2 (23F77), iPhone 11; iOS 26.5 RC1 (23F73), simulator
  • Confirmed working: iOS 26.4.2 (device), iOS 26.4.1 (simulator)

Feedback filed as FB22735935.

Same

Thanks for filing the feedback report and sharing the workaround. Yeah, this seems to be a regression.

Best,
——
Ziqiao Chen
 Worldwide Developer Relations.

Same issue. We saw this in the beta, but assumed it was too glaring to actually ship. It appears you simply can't get blood pressure on 26.5 at all without making the user go through a bunch of manual steps.

Same issue in iOS 26.5 23F77 :-(

This is a serious bug that has not yet been resolved. Blood Pressure is a sensitive, critical health metric — silently breaking its authorization flow has real impact on users who depend on it. 2026/5/19

Experienced the same bug, filed as FB22846729

HealthKit Blood Pressure authorization broken on iOS 26.5 RC
 
 
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