Hi, I've now identified a few areas when BGContinuedProcessingTask gets expired by the system no progress for ~30 seconds high CPU usage high temperature Some of these I can preempt and expire preemptively and handle the notification, others I cannot and just need to let the failure bubble up. When the failure does bubble up, I'd like to update the title and subtitle. I'm able to update the title, but the subtitle is fixed at "Task Failed" Is there any workaround? Or shall I file a bug here?

I'm building a macOS safari extension and porting its functionality from a chrome extension. The chrome extension uses native messaging hosts to communicate with another process using IPC and holding a persistent connection. To use the same functionality in Safari, I understand that will need to use the handler to communicate it to the containing app, and the app will have to hold the persistent IPC connection. My question derives from that concept: should the app be running in a long-lived state? And if so, how can I ensure that app be running 100% of the time. Also is there any way I can control it's lifecycle with the Safari browser's lifecycle? I will not be using XPC here, but a different UDS to make the connection. Also in addition to that, what would you recommend the best approach is the communicate between the extension and it's handler? -> should it be again a UDS or userDefaults +darwin notification be enough? Also I wouldn't want the inter-message relayed between components to be dropped, is there a fault tolerant architecture you would recommend?

Hello together, the user is able to do recordings with my app. The recordings also runs, while the App is in Background. I have Background Modes Audio & Background enabled. When the user accidentally terminates the App while the recording is still running, the whole recording is lost. I tried AppDelegate applicationWillTerminate on my iOS 26 App and it works perfectly to wrap up the LiveActivity that is shown while the recording is active. But it does not save the Audio and also doesn't update the Widgets (they are interactive and show a different state while recording and stay stuck in recording-state on accidental termination). Any ideas? Best wishes, Dominik

Platform: iOS 26 (23E254) Xcode: 26.0 Reproduces on: Debug builds AND TestFlight Summary: I'm using Apple-Hosted Managed Background Assets with on-demand download policy. The .aar archives download successfully (correct file size, status = downloaded), but the contents are never extracted into the asset pack namespace. AssetPackManager.shared.contents(at:) returns fileNotFound for all path variants, and url(for: FilePath(".")) returns a URL that exists but contains zero children. Root Cause from Sysdiagnose: The backgroundassets.user daemon logs reveal this error on every download attempt: A bundle record couldn't be looked up for the application identifier "AtlasDrift.SnapTrail": Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-10814 "(null)" UserInfo={_LSFile=LSBindingEvaluator.mm, _LSLine=1973, _LSFunction=runEvaluator} Error code -10814 is kLSApplicationNotFoundErr. The BA daemon downloads the .aar blob, then attempts to find the app bundle via LaunchServices to locate the extension for extraction — but the LS lookup fails. Without the extension, extraction never occurs. Verified Configuration Everything matches the documentation and WWDC sessions: Extension embedded at SnapTrail.app/Extensions/BackgroundDownloadExtension.appex Bundle IDs: App = AtlasDrift.SnapTrail, Extension = AtlasDrift.SnapTrail.BackgroundDownloadExtension (correct parent-child pattern) Extension point: com.apple.background-asset-downloader-extension Product type: com.apple.product-type.extensionkit-extension Protocol: StoreDownloaderExtension from StoreKit (for Apple-hosted packs) App group: group.AtlasDrift.SnapTrail (matching in both app and extension entitlements) Info.plist keys: BAAppGroupID, BAHasManagedAssetPacks = YES BAUsesAppleHosting = YES (no BAInitialDownloadRestrictions or other BA keys) .aar Packaging Archives built with xcrun ba-package from the Assets directory. Manifest format: { "assetPackID": "ireland", "downloadPolicy": { "onDemand": {} }, "fileSelectors": [{ "directory": "POIRegions/ireland/IR" }], "platforms": ["iOS"] } Uploaded via App Store Connect API with assetType: "ASSET". Diagnostic Observations AssetPackManager.shared.assetPack(withID:) returns valid metadata (correct download size) ensureLocalAvailability(of:) completes without error assetPackIsAvailableLocally(withID:) returns true url(for: FilePath(".")) returns a URL that exists but has zero children (empty namespace) contents(at:) returns fileNotFound for all path variants tested The extension never runs — breadcrumb file written in init() is never created The -10814 error appears in daemon logs for every download cycle Questions Has anyone successfully used Apple-Hosted Managed Background Assets on iOS 26 beta? Is the daemon's LaunchServices integration known to be broken in this seed? Is there anything about the bundle identifier format or provisioning profile setup that could cause the BA daemon's LS lookup to fail, even though the app installs and runs fine otherwise? Are there any additional Info.plist keys or entitlements beyond what's documented that might be required for the daemon to locate the app bundle? Any guidance would be appreciated. I've filed a Feedback report with the full sysdiagnose attached.

Hello! I'm trying to implement an editor app (macOS) that allows the user to write code, which will be compiled and executed, showing the result in the editor window. Imagine it like SwiftUI previews, but the graphic output is created with Metal, not SwiftUI. I found that IOSurface can be used to share that kind of data over XPC, so I would not have to rely on the private NSRemoteView. However, I'm confused if it is, at all, possible for my editor app to connect to an XPC Service, that was NOT bundled with it (but compiled by it at runtime). I succeeded to launch an XPC service defined as: <?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>Label</key> <string>com.myteam.myproject.service</string> <key>MachServices</key> <dict> <key>com.myteam.myproject.service</key> <true/> </dict> <key>Program</key> <string>/Path/to/service/run_my_service.sh</string> </dict> </plist> But the call to let connection = NSXPCConnection(machServiceName: "com.myteam.myproject.service") let proxy = connection.remoteObjectProxyWithErrorHandler { error in continuation.resume(throwing: error) } as? MyServiceProtocol fails with "The connection to service named com.myteam.myproject.service was invalidated: Connection init failed at lookup with error 3 - No such process." I have added <key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.mach-lookup.global-name</key> <array> <string>com.myteam.myproject.service</string> </array> to my entitlements. Since the tutorials I followed are quite old, I'm wondering if support for something like this was dropped at some point. Thanks for any advice!

My software installs a privileged daemon using the SMAppService api. After removing the executables and recompiling the software I sometimes find that it needs to be registered again. After doing this, i.e. ensuring the application is properly registered and enabled in Login Items & Extensions the helper is not run when initiated from XPC. SMAppService.status has returned .enabled, and there is a valid job dictionary for the helper. I check the job dictionary with a function called updatePenaltyBoxStatus() that was given to me by a friend but I think originated from Apple. If I logoff (or reboot), login again, manually open Login Items & Extensions to check registration, then retry the application, it works. I don't mind doing this but it is probably a bit much for a lot of my users. Is there a reliable way to do this programatically? Here is my Swift translation of updatePenaltyBoxStatus. I fetch the job dictionary with SMJobCopyDictionary() prior to calling isInPenaltyBox(). I also had to write C wrapper functions for the WIFEXITED and WIFEXITSTATUS macros. func isInPenaltyBox(_ dict: Dictionary<String, Any>?) -> Bool { guard let jobDict = dict else { // If the helper was in the penalty box, unregistering it doesn't change that. So don't override a previous helperInPenaltyBox value return m_penalty_box } if let lastExitStatusObj = jobDict["LastExitStatus"] as? NSNumber { let lastExitStatus = lastExitStatusObj.intValue if wifexited(Int32(lastExitStatus)) == 0 { // It might've stopped or exited due to a signal or whatever. // Regardless, it didn't meet our criteria for winding up in the penalty box. m_penalty_box = false } // Now get the exit status and check for `EX_CONFIG`. let status = wexitstatus(Int32(lastExitStatus)) let newInPenaltyBox = status == EX_CONFIG if m_penalty_box != newInPenaltyBox { Logger.instance.log( "Penalty box change: " + m_ident + " old: " + String(m_penalty_box) + " new: " + String(newInPenaltyBox)) } m_penalty_box = newInPenaltyBox } return m_penalty_box }