Hi,
when I display an HTML page with a on Safari iOS, I get a nice UI. Great! At the first look I see a video frame with an arrow-in-a-circle button in the middle. Very nice. I click on the arrow and I get a fullscreen view while the video begins to play. I watch the video then I pause it then I click on the top-left x button. So I go back to my html page and the video is perfectly there as it was before.
But, there is an annoying new detail. The video frame is really dark, it still presents all the controls and a "different" arrow button to play it again. In other words that nice video-frame, that nice picture, is not longer visible on the page. That nice page with nice pictures has now an almost-black rectangle. Too bad.
Sure I can click on the video (outside the controls) then the controls and the black overlaying frame disappear. I can see that nice picture again. Finally. Well, but the arrow-in-a-circle button to play the video disappeared. Now the user cannot longer understand that's a video to play. It looks just like any other pictures to admire statically.
Is any way to get the previous first look of the video? The one clear, with the current frame and the arrow-in-a-circle look?
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Hi Apple Devs & WebKit Team,
We operate https://excnum.com — a personal website currently under reconstruction. It's HTTPS-secure, hosted on a clean VPS, and now features a simple placeholder page with no active forms, scripts, or external redirects.
However, Safari on both iOS and macOS is flagging it as a “deceptive website”, blocking all access. This warning appears even though:
The site uses a valid SSL certificate via Cloudflare
There are no redirects, tracking scripts, or dynamic code
We serve a static landing page (“under maintenance”) with zero interaction
No malware, phishing, or obfuscation exists — verified with multiple tools
A review request has already been submitted at: https://websitereview.apple.com
We believe the site may have been blacklisted previously under past ownership or prior configurations. It has since been completely restructured and cleared, but the Safari warning persists.
This false flag is harming visibility and trust for an otherwise neutral website.
Any advice on how to expedite re-evaluation or request a manual delisting from the deceptive site list would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
— Alex
Admin, EXCNUM.COM
When a DNR rule is set for a specific URL and the request receives a server-side redirect (e.g., 302) to a different URL that does not match the urlFilter, the rule still seems to apply to the redirected request. We are using macOS 15.4 and Safari 18.4.
For example, consider two sequential calls: call1 and call2.
call1 triggers a 302 redirect to call2.
A DNR rule is created to add a "Cookie" header to call1 based on its URL.
Unexpectedly, the same cookie is also added to call2, even though call2's URL does not match the rule's urlFilter.
This results in the Set-Cookie response from call1 being ignored, and call2 receiving the manually set cookie instead—leading to incorrect behavior.
This issue doesn't occur in Chrome or Firefox, where the rule is not applied to the redirected request if the URL no longer matches.
We are looking for assistance in fixing these issues and having our Safari Extension function the same as it does in Firefox and Chrome.
I am encountering an intermittent issue with WKWebView in my iOS app. The problem occurs infrequently, but when it does, the WKWebView consistently displays a white screen and remains in this state until the app is forcefully terminated and relaunched.
To provide more context, here are the key characteristics of the issue:
The white screen problem occurs sporadically and is not easily reproducible.
The WKWebView remains unresponsive despite attempts to interact with it.
Reloading the webpage or navigating to a different URL does not resolve the white screen issue.
The problem persists until the app is terminated and relaunched.
This issue is specific to the WKWebView; other components of the app function correctly.
The WKWebView renders normally, and the main document synchronously loads resources both offline and online without any issues. The bridge and JavaScript execution also work as expected.
However, when interacting with the WKWebView, it becomes unresponsive to user clicks, and the web inspector fails to respond. Additionally, asynchronous network requests also do not receive any response.
The problem occurs exclusively on HTTPS pages, whereas HTTP pages load without any issues. Other components, such as workers, function correctly.
addUserScript injection during WKWebView creation is effective, and evaluateJavaScript during the page loading process works as expected. However, when the document becomes unresponsive, executing evaluateJavaScript only triggers the callback after the WKWebView is destroyed.
I have discovered a reliable method to reproduce the white screen issue in WKWebView. This method involves the following steps and conditions:
Create a WKWebView instance.
Load an HTML page using the loadRequest method(https url request).
Before the WKWebView is attached to the UI (not yet visible to the user), call the evaluateJavaScript function.
This issue has occurred in almost all iOS versions, including the latest iOS 17.x version.
Actually this is a duplicate for https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/106537 but in web-specific forums section.
Is there any video/audio codec best practices, guides, recommendations for app/web developers for best performance (take advantage from HW acceleration), power consumption saving? What are officially supported media containers? What are video encoding profiles, video dimensions, frame rates?
The only official source I have found is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/delivering-video-content-for-safari?language=objc. But h264 is pretty old. I experimentally found that the VP9 video format is also supported on iOS newer versions. But is this a requirement? Сan i be sure that the video will play on all devices?
My goal is to provide web media content (which will be rendered in my application using WKWebView API) that will be supported by most devices (both iOS and MacOS), takes advantage of such features as hardware decode acceleration and be efficient.
Any hints/info is highly appreciated. Best regards.
Apple must comply with the requirements of the Level Index, the global digital credit gateway, and suspend gift cards and similar services until formal arrangements are made with service providers.
Hello, following problems described here:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/765272
Last version of Safari apparently corrected previous bugs, however we encountered another problem. Right now Safari uses autocomplete feature of some kind (Siri suggested websites/Top hit) which triggers blocking while writing the name of the website. Probably somehow loads website in the background. Problem is, that this behavior is impossible to debug, because this autocomplete doesn't work, while the browser console is open. We are using content script for blocking.
Please advise.
Thanks very much
Topic:
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General
The new WebView implementation in *OS 26 versions is a very valuable addition to the SwiftUI toolset. I was experimenting with it and was wondering how to implement a Pull To Refresh. While this was easily achievable with the "old" WKWebView I was not able to find an API to implement, for example, a page reload when the user uses a pull to refresh gesture.
I tried to attach to a .refreshable(_:) modifier to the WebView but without success.
Is there an official API for that or should maybe .refreshable(_:) already work and it's just a bug or is it simply not yet supported?
Here is a minimal example I was trying but didn't succeed:
struct ContentView: View {
@State private var page = WebPage()
var body: some View {
NavigationStack {
WebView(page)
.refreshable {
page.reload()
}
}
}
}
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you!
<script src="https://js.braintreegateway.com/web/3.92.0/js/client.min.js"></script>
iOS18的app中加载了自己开发的H5页面,H5页面有个input输入框,每次输入框聚焦的时候,都会弹出键盘滑行键入的提示:“滑动手指将字母拼成词以快速键入”,应该怎么修改,达到不每次都弹出这个提示呢
On iOS 18, when setting the src attribute of an tag to a custom scheme (e.g., myapp://image.png) or an HTTP URL (http://example.com/image.png), if crossorigin="anonymous" is applied, the image fails to load. Additionally, images affected by this issue cannot be drawn to a , as the browser treats them as tainted and blocks access to their pixel data.
This issue did not occur in previous iOS versions and seems to be a regression in iOS 18.
Steps to Reproduce:
Open an HTTPS-hosted H5 page in Safari on iOS 18.
Add an tag with crossorigin="anonymous" and set src to either:
A custom scheme:
<img src="myapp://image.png" crossorigin="anonymous">
An HTTP URL (even from the same origin):
<img src="http://example.com/image.png" crossorigin="anonymous">
Observe that the image does not load.
Attempt to draw the image onto a and retrieve its data:
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const img = new Image();
img.crossOrigin = "anonymous";
img.src = "http://example.com/image.png"; // or "myapp://image.png"
img.onload = () => {
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
try {
console.log(canvas.toDataURL()); // Expect base64 image data
} catch (error) {
console.error("Canvas is tainted:", error);
}
};
Notice that the image is blocked, and any attempt to access pixel data results in a CORS error.
Expected Behavior:
* The image should be displayed if it is accessible under normal CORS rules.
* The API should allow access to the image data unless explicitly blocked by the server’s CORS policy.
Actual Behavior:
The image fails to load when crossorigin="anonymous" is applied.
The API does not allow access to the image data, treating it as tainted.
Removing crossorigin="anonymous" allows the image to display in some cases, but this is not a viable workaround when CORS enforcement is required.
Regression:
Works correctly on: iOS 17 and earlier
Broken on: iOS 18
Environment:
Device: iPhone/iPad
iOS Version: 18.0+
Browser: Safari
Suggested Fix:
Apple should investigate this regression and allow custom schemes and HTTP images to be correctly handled under CORS policies when crossorigin="anonymous" is set. If the source allows cross-origin requests, Safari should not block the image or its use in .
Our app is an enterprise app via MDM.
We are experiencing an issue in iPadOS 18.4 when loading an internal HTTPS server via WKWebView in a hybrid iOS app.
Our server uses a self-signed certificate but lacks the digitalSignature usage in its Key Usage extension. (Currently we have no chance to change the server's certificate)
We override webView:didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge:completionHandler: to trust the certificate:
completionHandler(NSURLSessionAuthChallengeUseCredential, credential);
This "completionHandler" works in previous 18.3.2 , but not work in 18.4. May I know is there any changes in 18.4 for the https certification? Why this delegate not work? What we can do to ignore this ssl error and get connection?
Thanks in advance, look forward for your reply.
I built and extension for chrome, edge, and firefox. I'm porting the chrome extension to safari using the safari-web-extension-converter tool. This has worked successfully and I was able to publish my extension to the app store.
I made some updates to the service worker code recently and I'm now being hit with an error when trying to load my unsigned extension into safari:
The service_worker script failed to load due to an error.
I've looked online at some other forums and haven't found anything helpful around how to debug this kind of error. Because the service worker is non-persistent in safari, I don't have access to the console logs of the service worker through the Develop > Web Extension Background Context menu.
Has anyone successfully debugged this kind of error? Are there logs I can pull directly from safari that would help me here? Thanks in advance for the help!
When our Safari Web Extension makes a api request from its background script (registered via "scripts" in manifest.json, e.g., "background": { "scripts": ["js/background.bundle.js"] }) to our authenticated API endpoint (https://api-domain/user), the Cookie header is not included in the request. This occurs only when the extension is running within a non-default Safari User Profile. This causes our API to treat the user as unauthenticated. The exact same extension code, manifest, and API call work correctly (Cookie header is present and user is authenticated) when the extension is running in the Default Safari User Profile.
Hi all!
I have been working on a web speech recognition service using the Web Speech API. This service is intended to work on smartphones, primarily Chrome on Android and Safari (or WebKit WebView) on iOS.
In my specific use case, I need to set the properties continuous = true and interimResults = true. However, I have noticed that interimResults = true does not always work as expected in WebKit.
I understand that this setting should provide fast, native, on-device speech recognition with isFinal = false. However, at times, the recognition becomes throttled and slow, yielding isFinal = true and switching to cloud-based recognition.
To confirm whether the recognition is cloud-based, I tested it by disabling the internet connection before starting speech recognition. In some cases, recognition fails entirely, which suggests that requiresOnDeviceRecognition = false is being applied. (Reference: SFSpeechRecognitionRequest.requiresOnDeviceRecognition)
I believe this is not the expected behavior when setting interimResults = true. I have researched the native services used by the Web Speech API on iOS devices, and the following links seem relevant:
• SFSpeechRecognizer
• SFSpeechRecognitionRequest.shouldReportPartialResults
• SFSpeechRecognizer.supportsOnDeviceRecognition
• Recognizing speech in live audio
• Apple Developer Forums Discussion
I found that setRequiresOnDeviceRecognition and setShouldReportPartialResults appear to be set correctly, but apparently, they do not work as expected:
WebKit Source Code
Since the transition to iOS 18.4, we have been having an issue where when loading an m3u8 file specified in the src attribute of a video tag in WKWebView, the ts file is loaded repeatedly.
Are there any good ideas for this?
Also, if there have been any changes to the specifications of WKWebView, we would appreciate it if you could let us know.
How can i add Authorization header to a wkwebview. I checked https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsurlrequest#1776617 which says Authorization header is a reserved http header and shouldn’t be set. I want to set it when requesting a url in wkwebview for authentication purpose?
Hello Apple Developer Team,
I would love to see iCloud Keychain Autofill and Touch ID support extended to Chromium-based browsers on macOS (such as Ecosia, Brave, or Vivaldi).
Currently, Safari allows autofill of passwords using Touch ID, but when using other browsers, I have to manually copy-paste credentials from Keychain Access, which is time-consuming.
Would it be possible for Apple to provide an API or framework that allows non-WebKit browsers to integrate iCloud Keychain autofill while keeping security intact?
This feature would make macOS more convenient for users who prefer alternative browsers while keeping security standards high.
Thanks in advance for considering this!
Best regards, Kilian
Hello,
I am developing a Mac application via Mac Catalyst and encountering an issue with WKWebView. Specifically, I'm loading a webpage (e.g., https://translate.google.com) in WKWebView, but when I press the copy button on the page, the content doesn't actually copy to the clipboard.
I've attempted modifying the UserAgent without any success. Here is the relevant part of my code:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let config = WKWebViewConfiguration()
config.preferences = WKPreferences()
config.defaultWebpagePreferences.preferredContentMode = .desktop
let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config)
webView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
view.addSubview(webView)
webView.scrollView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false
webView.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
webView.scrollView.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
webView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
webView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
webView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor).isActive = true
webView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
if let url = URL(string: "https://translate.google.com") {
let req = URLRequest(url: url)
webView.load(req)
}
}
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Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General