Hi, I would like to asking , can I setup a. alarm to alert when phone if OFF power ? since we would like to design a timer with emergence alert. so I need a alert on even phone power is off , Thanks.

Hi, I have a document-based SwiftUI multiplatform app, where the document is saved as JSON. Obviously I don't want Quick Look to show the JSON of my file, so I made a Quick Look Preview extension for each platform. The macOS one works… okay, sometimes it's tricky to test and I need to use qlmanage to empty the cache or to show the preview, but it does work. I can even debug it. But the iOS one just never seems to be run. If I show Quick Look in the Files app on iOS, or if I AirDrop a file from my app to my iPhone, it shows as JSON, with an option to open it in my app. If I run the iOS Preview Extension in the debugger and launch the Files app, and then try to use Quick Look in a file there, it shows the JSON and the debugger just stays in the state 'Waiting to Attach'. The preview extensions are not data based; in both of them I have implemented func preparePreviewOfFile(at url: URL) async throws in PreviewViewController.swift. Pretty much the same code except one is using a UIHostingController and the other is using an NSHostingController. The only difference in the Info.plists for the two extensions is that the iOS one uses NSExtensionMainStoryboard while the macOS one uses NSExtensionPrincipalClass. This is how they were set up when I created them from the relevant Quick Look Preview Extension templates. I made a sample project with a much simpler document, UI, etc. and I have the same issue there. The macOS preview works, the iOS one never runs. I have checked that the correct preview extension is embedded in the target for each OS (under Embed Foundation Extensions in the Build Phases) Is there anything I need to do differently in iOS, or anything I might have inadvertently got wrong? Is there a way to run something similar to qlmanage on iOS, since that sometimes seems to help on macOS? Incidentally, I have also added Quick Look Thumbnail extensions, and they work on both platforms.

When using libXML2 to parse HTML, by default, libXML2 normalizes and merges whitespace characters (including line breaks) on text nodes, which can cause line breaks within tags such as,, script, style, etc. to be removed or merged. But for tags like, line breaks and whitespace are meaningful and need to be preserved. How should it be set up?

I have a SwiftUI document-based app that for the sake of this discussion stores accounting information: chart of accounts, transactions, etc. Each document is backed by a SwiftData DB. I'd like to incorporate search into the app so that users can find transactions matching certain criteria, so I went to Core Spotlight. Indexing & search within the app seem to work well. The issue is that Spotlight APIs appear to be App based & not Document based. I can't find a way to separate Spotlight data by document. I've tried having each document maintain a UUID as a document-specific identifier and include the identifier in every CSSearchableItem. When performing a query I filter the results with CSUserQueryContext.filterQueries that filter by the document identifier. That works to limit results to the specific file for search operations. Index updates via CSSearchableIndexDelegate.reindex* methods seem to be App-centric. A user may have file #1 open, but the delegate is being asked to update CSSearchableItems for IDs in other files. Is there a proper way to use Spotlight for in-app search with a document-based app? Is there a way to keep Spotlight-indexed data local within the app & not make it available across the system? I.e. I'd like to search within the app only. System-level searches should not surface this data.

Using Apple SwiftUI Translate library: when calling: try await session.prepareTranslation() the first time, the API's Language Download sheet does not show (or shows briefly and dismisses immediately) Even when the sheet doesn't show, the keyboard is lowered, as though the sheet would be appearing, but then the keyboard raises as though the sheet was dismissed. The following Errors are printed in the console dozens of times; but on all subsequent executions, the API Language Download sheet shows as expected. The trigger code is in a function which is executed when a Translate button is tapped. Any ideas would be welcome! Console Error on first execution only LaunchServices: store (null) or url (null) was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} Attempt to map database failed: permission was denied. This attempt will not be retried. Failed to initialize client context with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} LaunchServices: store (null) or url (null) was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} Attempt to map database failed: permission was denied. This attempt will not be retried. Failed to initialize client context with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} LaunchServices: store (null) or url (null) was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} Attempt to map database failed: permission was denied. This attempt will not be retried. Failed to initialize client context with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} Error returned from iconservicesagent image request: <ISBundleIdentifierIcon: 0x300df3c30> BundleID: (null) digest: 7749FEEE-F663-39B4-AD68-A18CFF762CCC - <ISImageDescriptor: 0x3033b26c0> - (64.00, 64.00)@2x v:4 l:5 a:0:0:0:0 t:() b:0 s:2 ps:0 digest: DF83A970-D4C9-3D90-BB7D-0BC21FC22E03 error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-609 "Client is disallowed from making such an icon request" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Client is disallowed from making such an icon request} Error returned from iconservicesagent image request: <ISTypeIcon: 0x300d0fb70>,Type: com.apple.appprotection.badge.faceid - <ISImageDescriptor: 0x3033ad0e0> - (32.00, 32.00)@2x v:0 l:5 a:0:0:0:0 t:() b:0 s:2 ps:0 digest: 648D7A72-90CB-3858-9409-5C554BB43B8E error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-609 "Client is disallowed from making such an icon request" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Client is disallowed from making such an icon request} Connection interrupted, finishing translation with error Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=14 "(null)" Got response from extension with error: Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=14 "(null)" Reported that remote UI finished but didn't get finished configuration, reporting the error as: Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=20 "(null)" VS terminated with error: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)" UserInfo={Terminated=disconnect method} Reported that remote UI finished but didn't get finished configuration, reporting the error as: Error Domain=TranslationErrorDomain Code=14 "(null)" VS terminated with error: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)" UserInfo={Terminated=disconnect method} VS terminated with error: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)" UserInfo={Terminated=disconnect method} VS terminated with error: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)" UserInfo={Terminated=disconnect method} VS terminated with error: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)" UserInfo={Terminated=disconnect method} Trigger the Translation: // check if we need to create a translation configuration if configuration == nil { configuration = TranslationSession.Configuration.init( source: Locale.Language(identifier: sourceLanguageCode), target: Locale.Language(identifier: targetLanguageCode) ) } else { // or just update the target code then invalidate the config to re-trigger the refresh of .translationTask() configuration?.source = Locale.Language(identifier: sourceLanguageCode) configuration?.target = Locale.Language(identifier: targetLanguageCode) configuration?.invalidate() } Prepare and check if Download sheet should be presented: .translationTask(configuration) { session in do { // prepare translation & present API download sheet if lanugage download needed. try await session.prepareTranslation() } catch { print("Translate failed: \(error)") } }

I'm currently finding it impossible to get a text filtering extension to be invoked when there's an incoming text message. There isn't a problem with the app/extension because this is the same app and code that is already developed, tested, and unchanged since I last observed it working. I know if there's any history of the incoming number being "known" then the extension won't get invoked, and I used to find this no hindrance to testing previously provided that: the incoming number isn't in contacts there's no outgoing messages to that number there's no outgoing phone calls to the number. This always used to work in the past, but not anymore. However, I've ensured the incoming text's number isn't in contacts, in fact I've deleted all the contacts. I've deleted the entire phone history, incoming and outgoing, and I've also searched in messages and made sure there's no interactions with that number. There's logging in the extension so I can see its being invoked when turned on from the settings app, but its not getting invoked when there's a message. The one difference between now and when I used to have no problem with this - the phone now has iOS 18.5 on it. Its as if in iOS 18.5 there ever was any past association with a text number, its not impossible to remove that association. Has there been some known change in 18.5 that would affect this call filtering behavior and not being able to rid of the incoming message caller as being "known" to the phone? Update I completely reset the phone and then I was able to see the the message filter extension being invoked. That's not an ideal situation though. What else needs to be done beyond what I mentioned above in order to get a phone to forget about a message's number and thus get an message filtering extension to be invoked when there's a message from that number?

If there are multiple virtual displays connected when an app starts using SCStream, then if there is any change in the configuration of connected virtual screens (one of them gets disconnected, reconnected, etc), a new SCStream will always stream the content of the last connected virtual screen, no matter which virtual screen is intended to be streamed. This happens despite the fact that the SCContentFilter is properly configured for the stream, with the filter's content having the right displayID with the proper frame in the global display coordinate system and the filter also confirms that it knows the proper contentRect size and pointPixelScale. When all virtual displays are disconnected and reconnected, things return to normal - it's as is SCStream somehow gets confused and can't properly handle or internally reenumerate multiple virtual screens until none is connected. This issue does not normally come up, as most users will probably have only one virtual displays (like a Sidecar display) connected at most. However some configurations (like systems using multiple DisplayLink displays or apps using the undocumented CGVirtualDisplay to create virtual screens) encounter this issue. Note: this is a longstanding problem, has been like this from the first introduction of ScreenCaptureKit and even before, affected CGDisplayStream which similarly confused virtual screens.

At WWDC25 we launched a new type of Lab event for the developer community - Group Labs. A Group Lab is a panel Q&A designed for a large audience of developers. Group Labs are a unique opportunity for the community to submit questions directly to a panel of Apple engineers and designers. Here are the highlights from the WWDC25 Group Lab for watchOS (part 2). 7. For widget (complication) update budgets, is there an overall budget or are scheduled update separate from APNS updates? For context I have a complication that is updated on a fixed schedule (every 20 min), but there can be times of the day that are more "interesting" where pushes make sense. Like timeline updates, the system budgets WidgetKit push notifications and delivers them opportunistically. You can use WidgetKit push notification updates as an addition to timeline updates. For more information, see Updating widgets with WidgetKit push notifications. 8. It seems like the new Control Center widgets can be sourced from either the iPhone or directly on the Watch. Can we control whether a control appears in the watch list, or will it always be a combination of all controls from both sources? iPhone controls will be automatically available on the companion Apple Watch, even if they don’t have an associated watchOS app. When an iPhone control is tapped on the Apple Watch, the action is performed on the iPhone. Controls whose actions foreground the iOS app will not appear on Apple Watch. If a watchOS app has controls, no controls will appear on Apple Watch from the companion iOS app. 9. From UI/UX perspective, what are the current practices for Designing watchOS apps that feels native. The WWDC23 session Design and build apps for WatchOS 10 covers the details of watchOS design principles and how to apply them in your app using SwiftUI. A lot of SwiftUI APIs, such as NavigationSplitView, vertical tab view, list view, and etc, already implement the look and feel native to watchOS. 10. When adopting the new design system on watchOS, it seems like the main place we will use the glass effect is for our buttons in toolbar? Standard buttons in system apps seem to continue to use a flat appearance and full width. We leave the choice to you – You can use the new GlassButtonStyle API or .buttonStyle(.glass) to apply the liquid glass material to buttons. Learn when to use the Liquid Glass styles in Get to know the new design system. 11. Is there any way to gracefully migrate extensions when their bundleIDs have to change? e.g., converting a multi-target watch app to single-target, which drops the .watchkitextension from both the app and WidgetKit ext bundleIDs Updating a watchOS app to single-target is covered in TechNote TN3157: Updating your watchOS project for SwiftUI and WidgetKit. Xcode provides a tool that can do the update automatically, and the technote describes the details about how to use it and how to clean up the project after the automatic update. If there's something that technote doesn't address, please reach out to us on the Developer Forums. 12. What is the status of WatchConnectivity? Is that still the preferred way for iOS + watchOS communications? The Watch Connectivity framework is still supported, and is appropriate for the communication between an watchOS app and its companion iOS app. The systems also provide other APIs for the apps to exchange data. For example, watchOS supports Apple Push Notification service (APNs). If data for your widget changes on your server, your widget can receive a WidgetKit push notification, and update accordingly. That’s the preferred mechanism for widget updates.

The contacts app has fields for Phonetic and Pronunciation. My app adds phonetic data to the phonetic field to help Siri better understand contacts stored in Greek, Cyrillic, or Georgian. However, using the phonetic field causes the sorting order of contacts to be messed up. For example, Greek B (beta) is represented as a phonetic sound of V, resulting in a completely incorrect sorting order. The pronunciation field doesn’t seem to affect the sorting order, but I’m not sure what it does or should do. My questions are: Do we understand the difference between phonetic and pronunciation, and how Siri actively uses them? If the phonetic field is the correct one to use, how can we raise a feature request with Apple to add an option to sort contacts based on phonetic fields or not? Here’s a test you can try: Create a new contact with the following details: First name: test Last name: test Phonetic first name: Billy Phonetic last name: Idol Ask Siri to show the contact Billy Idol. It will return the “test test” contact. Switch from the phonetic to the pronunciation fields. Now, Siri won’t find Billy Idol.

Summary: I'm developing an iOS audio app in Flutter that requires background audio playback for long-form content. Despite having a paid Apple Developer Program account, the "Background Modes" capability does not appear as an option when creating or editing App IDs in the Developer Portal, preventing me from enabling the required com.apple.developer.background-modes entitlement. Technical Details: In the app that I am developing, users expect uninterrupted playback when app is backgrounded or device is locked similar to Audible, Spotify, or other audio apps that continue playing in background The Problem: When building for device testing or App Store submission, Xcode shows: Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: com.xxxxx-vxxx" doesn't include the com.apple.developer.background-modes entitlement. However, the "Background Modes" capability is completely missing from the Developer Portal when creating or editing any App ID. I cannot enable it because the option simply doesn't exist in the capabilities list. What I've Tried: Multiple browsers/devices: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, incognito mode, different computers Account verification: Confirmed paid Individual Developer Program membership is active New App IDs: Created multiple new App IDs - capability never appears for any of them Documentation review: Followed all Apple documentation for configuring background execution modes Different regions: Tried changing portal language to English (US) Cache clearing: Logged out, cleared cookies, tried different sessions Apple Support Response: Contacted Developer Support (Case #102633509713). Received generic documentation links and was directed to Developer Forums rather than technical escalation. Has anyone else experienced the "Background Modes" capability missing from their Developer Portal? Has anyone successfully used the App Store Connect API to add background-modes when the GUI doesn't show it? What's the proper escalation path when Developer Support provides generic responses instead of technical assistance? Things I have attempted to solve this: audio_service package: Implemented as potential workaround, but still requires the system-level entitlement Manual provisioning profiles: Cannot create profiles with required entitlement if capability isn't enabled on App ID Other perhaps important facts about the environment where I am building the app: macOS Sonoma Xcode 15.x Flutter 3.5.4+ Apple Developer Program (Individual, paid)

When using libXML2 to parse HTML, by default, libXML2 normalizes and merges whitespace characters (including line breaks) on text nodes, which can cause line breaks within tags such as,, script, style, etc. to be removed or merged. But for tags like, line breaks and whitespace are meaningful and need to be preserved.

We persist ApplicationTokens in a storage container that ShieldConfigurationExtension has access to. In rare, cases all the ApplicationTokens for a user seem to change. We know this because the Application parameter passed into configuration(shielding application: Application) -> ShieldConfiguration function has a Token that does not match (using == ) any of the ones we are persisting in storage. Interestingly, the persisted ones still work, so I don't believe storage has gotten corrupted or anything. We can use them to add or remove shields, we can use them to display labels of the apps they represent, etc. But they don’t match what’s passed into the ShieldConfiguration extension. If the user goes into the FamilyPicker at this point and selects an app of a token that we are already persisting, the FamilyPickerSelection will have a token matching the new one that is passed into ShieldConfigurationExtension, not the one we persisted when they last selected that app. This leads me to believe the tokens are updated/rotated in some cases. When and why does this happen, and how can we handle it gracefully?

When I launch the Quick Look Preview Extension target in Xcode, an app called Quick Look Simulator opens with an almost empty window: Online I read that the Terminal command qlmanage allows to test Quick Look plugins (which I think were an older format for creating Quick Look extensions), but running qlmanage -p /path/to/previewed/file -c public.text -g /path/to/QuickLookPreviewExtension.appex (where QuickLookPreviewExtension.appex is generated by the Xcode build and is located in the DerivedData folder) gives an error Can't get generator at QuickLookPreviewExtension.appex How can I debug a Quick Look Preview Extension?

Hello! https://github.com/apple/live-caller-id-lookup-example/blob/main/Sources/PIRService/PIRService.docc/DataFormat.md The link above shows the data format that the user who gets a call, can get. I wonder if it is also possible to add other fields, for example: "summary". I am currently in the design-phase of an app that aims to present what the last call between the two parties was about, and that information can be gotten from an API that I will build according to Apple's principles that is comaptible with the Live Caller ID Lookup protocol. Therefore adding a field that will present a short summary of the last call will be very handy. Is that possible?

I pull an hourly UV index forecast in my app via WeatherKit, but I’ve noticed it flips back and forth between two "stable" forecasts throughout the day, as if the data source is switching between providers, as a result giving a sense of instability in the presented forecast. Is there any way to lock or specify a single forecast source for greater consistency? I have a feature that notifies users when the UV index crosses a set threshold, but these repeated “back-and-forth” changes trigger multiple alerts that feel spammy and unreliable. Any advice or best practices for handling this would be greatly appreciated.

App includes a functionality based on each Timezone. As i have fetched some of the Timezone values got some mismatched values compared to actual. e.g: America/Denver values is -6 but got -5 Need support regarding fixing this issue.

I'm using FamilyActivityPicker to get consent for app/category management, which returns a FamilyActivitySelection object. I serialize this FamilyActivitySelection object (just applicationTokens and categoryTokens) and pass it to my DeviceActivityMonitor extension via App Group UserDefaults. I am using the JSON encoder/decoder over PropertyList (though both seem to exhibit the same behavior). After inspecting the FamilyActivitySelection object immediately after it's returned by FamilyActivityPicker in the main app, the application.bundleIdentifier property is consistently nil for every Application object within selection.applications. Similarly, category.localizedDisplayName is nil for ActivityCategory objects. This happens whether "Select All Apps" is used or if apps/categories are selected individually. I understand that this is the intended behavior due to Apple's user privacy policies. I read on another post that my app can be provided with bundle identifiers and app names within Shield Configuration extensions and Device Activity Report extensions - I'm not sure which ones or how exactly to do this. I am aware that I can use Label(applicationToken) SwiftUI view to display the app name/icon, but this doesn't give programmatic access to the bundleIdentifier string. My app will not log or export these bundleIdentifiers outside of its sandbox. My goal is to create mappings to the FamilyActivitySelection with the publicly accessible bundleIdentifiers. Any guidance, examples, or clarification on the intended workflow for this scenario would be greatly appreciated!

I have been trying to add improved tvOS login using an Associated Domain and web credentials. In some places, I am seeing that the format is &lt;TEAM_ID&gt;.&lt;BUNDLE_ID&gt;, and in other places I am seeing &lt;APP_ID&gt;.&lt;BUNDLE_ID&gt;. I am having trouble getting both to work, but in order to properly troubleshoot, I want to make sure that I am using the correct identifier. Can someone give me a definitive answer? The documentation says app id, but I have seen Apple engineers in this forum say team id, and many other posts around the internet also saying team id.

Hello everyone, I’ve been trying to pass a URL from Safari (or any other app) into my own app via iOS extensions (similar to how if you go to a website, open the share sheet, and hit the ChatGPT app icon, it opens ChatGPT and pastes the website URL into the chat textbox), and I’m hitting a wall. I’ve attempted both a Share Extension (using SLComposeServiceViewController) and a UI-less Action Extension (using extensionContext?.open(...)), but in both scenarios, my main app never opens. Here’s a summary of my setup: Main App Target plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Editor</string> <key>CFBundleURLName</key> <string>com.elislothower.URLDisplayApp</string> <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key> <array> <string>myapp</string> </array> </dict> </array> <key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key> <array/> </dict> </plist> This means my custom URL scheme is myapp://. My app delegate (or SwiftUI’s .onOpenURL) correctly handles myapp://share?url=... if I open it directly from Safari. Share Extension Attempt Subclassed SLComposeServiceViewController. Plist had com.apple.share-services as the NSExtensionPointIdentifier. I called extensionContext?.open(deepLink) with myapp://share?url=..., but it always returned false. Also, the UI (with Cancel/Post buttons) was overkill for my needs. UI-less Action Extension Attempt Created a no-UI action extension with com.apple.ui-services as NSExtensionPointIdentifier. In my custom ActionViewController, I formed the same myapp://share?url=... deep link and called extensionContext?.open(deepLink). The extension does appear in the share sheet, but again, open(deepLink) returns false—my main app never opens. Confirmed Setup I’ve tested the URL scheme in Safari: typing myapp://share?url=... directly prompts to open my app, and the URL is handled fine there. I’ve ensured both extension Info.plists have <key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key><array><string>myapp</string></array> so they can attempt to open that scheme. Tried on both simulator and physical device. On the physical device, the main app is definitely installed and has been launched at least once. Current Behavior The extension logs that it forms the deep link (myapp://share?url=...) correctly. extensionContext?.open(deepLink) fails (success == false), so the main app never opens. I’ve also tried forcing the call on the main thread, simplifying the URL (like myapp://test), and checking for any typos or case-sensitivity issues—still no luck. Is there a known iOS restriction or trick for allowing an extension (share or action) to open its containing app directly? Have I missed a configuration step or entitlement that’s necessary? Is it possible that iOS is just rejecting the call in these contexts? I’d love any insight or suggestions from those who have successfully launched their main app from an extension. Thank you in advance! ContentView.swift Info.plist URLDisplayAppApp.swift URLDisplayApp.entitlements ActionRequestHandler.swift ActionViewController.swift Info.plist MyAppActionExtension.entitlements

I just launched my watch app with alarms using WKExtendedRuntimeSession, as an api I wish it was possible to: set a small title/message on the alarm ui itself, right now all it displays is the "Alarm from < app name >" with the app icon, but it would be nice to be able to set a short 1~2 line message below it as well! be able to read the current scheduled date, right now it's only possible to know it's scheduled.