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MacOS shortcut for running Javascript on a Safari page fails
I'm trying to run a MacOS shortcut using the "Run JavaScript on Active Safari Tab" action. I consistently get the error "Make sure that 'Allow JavaScript from Apple Events' is enabled in the Develop menu in Safari." The Develop menu in Safari does not contain this switch (in Tahoe 26.5.1), but if you go to Developer Settings... a dialog opens that includes the required switch. I've ensured that the switch is set on, but I continue to get the runtime error in the shortcut JavaScript. What am I missing?
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Safari shows "Fraudulent Website Warning" for clean domain — all security databases clear, Chrome works fine
Safari continues to display a "Fraudulent Website Warning" for openvan.camp despite the domain being clean across all major security databases for over a week. Chrome, Firefox, and all other browsers open the site without any warnings. Domain: openvan.camp Warning appeared: March 18, 2026 Warning type: Fraudulent Website Warning (red screen) Current security database status: Google Safe Browsing: ✅ Clean (transparencyreport.google.com) Google Search Console: ✅ No security issues Spamhaus DBL: ✅ Removed from blocklist Fortinet FortiGuard: ✅ Category "Travel" VirusTotal: ✅ 0/65 vendors URLVoid: ✅ 0/35 engines Steps taken: Removed the third-party ad network (Adsterra) that caused the original flag — March 18, 2026 Migrated hosting to Scaleway (AS12876, France), IP: 151.115.84.228 Configured SPF, DKIM, DMARC records Created functional abuse@ and postmaster@ role accounts Submitted review via websitereview.apple.com — no response after 5 days What we believe is happening: Apple's Safe Browsing database appears to have an independent entry for this domain that has not been updated despite all underlying security databases clearing the flag. Safari's warning persists even after deleting ~/Library/Safari/SafeBrowsing/ cache and re-downloading the database — which confirms this is not a local cache issue. Steps to reproduce: Open Safari on macOS or iOS Navigate to https://openvan.camp/ Safari displays "Fraudulent Website Warning" Open the same URL in Chrome — no warning Expected behavior: No warning should be shown. The domain is legitimate, clean, and verified. Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Is there any additional channel to escalate beyond websitereview.apple.com?
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`WKHTTPCookieDataStore` cookie data loss and synchronization issues seen at scale
Hello, I am investigating a WKWebView cookie reliability issue with WKWebsiteDataStore.default() / persistent website data, and I would like to request a supported public API to force persistent cookie durability. We set persistent cookies from native code through the public WKHTTPCookieStore API: let dataStore = WKWebsiteDataStore.default() let cookieStore = dataStore.httpCookieStore await cookieStore.setCookie(cookie) The cookies have Max-Age / maximumAge set, so these are persistent cookies, not session-only cookies. Reproduction pattern: Use WKWebsiteDataStore.default(). Clear existing cookies. Set a persistent cookie through WKHTTPCookieStore.setCookie. After setCookie completes, terminate WebKit's NetworkProcess soon afterward. Create or reuse a WKWebView with the same WKWebsiteDataStore.default(). Load a same-origin page or trigger a same-origin fetch. I also have reproducible WebKit source-level test cases for this, in the style of TestWebKitAPI / WKHTTPCookieStore tests. The tests exercise persistent WKWebsiteDataStore.default() cookies, terminate the NetworkProcess after the cookie mutation, and then verify that a top-level load, same-origin fetch, and WKHTTPCookieStore cookie read can miss the cookie on an unpatched WebKit build. Observed result: The next top-level HTTP request, and sometimes a same-origin fetch, can omit the cookie that was just set. After the NetworkProcess is relaunched, WKHTTPCookieStore.allCookies() can also fail to show the recently set cookie. If I wait long enough after the cookie mutation before terminating the NetworkProcess, the problem disappears. In local simulator testing, this lines up with CFNetwork appearing to debounce/coalesce persistent cookie writes in an approximately 2-to-10 second window. That makes this look like setCookie completion means the current NetworkProcess / CFNetwork cookie store accepted the cookie in memory, but the persistent cookie backing store has not necessarily been written yet. If the NetworkProcess dies before that delayed write, the replacement NetworkProcess appears to reload stale cookie state from disk. This is especially painful for apps that bridge native authentication state into WKWebView. The app sees setCookie complete, assumes the cookie is ready, and then a later WebKit NetworkProcess termination can cause authenticated web requests to be sent without the expected auth cookie. We believe that, at scale, this is a mechanism causing a baseline of about 5% of our HTTP requests, as measured by HAProxy, to lack cookies that should be present. We know those cookies should be present because we duplicate the same values as URLRequest headers under different keys, and the headers are present while the corresponding Cookie header entries are missing. The API gap is that there does not appear to be a supported public equivalent of Android WebView's CookieManager.flush(). There is no public way for an app to say: "I just mutated persistent WKWebView cookies; please synchronously/asynchronously flush the persistent cookie store before I proceed." Request: Please expose a public flush API for persistent WKHTTPCookieStore / WKWebsiteDataStore cookies, for example an async API shaped like: try await websiteDataStore.httpCookieStore.flush() or: try await websiteDataStore.flushCookies() The important behavior would be: after WKHTTPCookieStore.setCookie / deleteCookie completes, an app can explicitly request durability; the flush completion should mean persistent cookie state has been handed to the backing persistent store, not merely accepted by the current NetworkProcess; if flushing is impossible because the relevant process/state is gone, the API should fail or report that, rather than silently succeeding; the API should be safe for App Store apps and should not require private SPI. Question: Are there any recommended supported patterns today for forcing persistent WKWebView cookies to reach durable storage after native WKHTTPCookieStore mutations? Is there an official supported way to force or observe cookie durability for persistent WKWebsiteDataStore cookies? If not, is the recommended approach simply to re-apply critical cookies before loads and tolerate NetworkProcess loss as unrecoverable app-side state? This issue is not just theoretical. It affects auth/session reliability when WebKit's NetworkProcess is terminated before the backing persistent cookie write completes. Apps can reduce unnecessary cookie churn, but without a flush API there is no supported way to close the durability window after setting important persistent cookies.
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Iphone 17 Pro max wifi problems
My Iphone 17 Pro Max is in ioss 27 and it is having troubles with wifi issues, It works on celluar data but however when conected to wifi it only work son certain programs such as safari, it does not work on imsg, social media and app store. However everything works fine on data, I know its not a wifi problem as my Iphone 16 pro max is having zero issues with the wifi connected to it so I am not sure what the issue is
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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Safari Extension Service Worker not working until page reload
Hello, I am developing a Safari extension that uses service workers and all works well. When the extension is updated, a new content script is injected into the current open tabs however the service worker connection with the new content script does not get established. I confirmed both the old content script and new one is on the page, but the new one just doesn't execute which means it will not connect to the service worker. In Chrome a newly injected content script does work and in FireFox it is handled by FireFox automatically. How can this be done in Safari? Any help would be appreciated.
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iOS 27 DB2: WebAudio / AudioContext Live Stream Stalls on Metadata/Track Transitions (MediaToolbox & Sandbox Violations)
Tested iPhone 16 Pro Max running DB2 Since using iOS 27 Developer Beta, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and applications using WKWebView that route live streaming audio (such as Icecast/SHOUTcast streams) through the Web Audio API (AudioContext / MediaElementAudioSourceNode for canvas visualizers) experience silent playback freezes during track changes. The JavaScript context remains active, and the HTMLMediaElement reports no errors or pauses, but the low-level system audio daemon (audiod) disconnects. The logs indicate a state desynchronization in MediaToolbox triggered by inline metadata frame updates, coupled with massive sandbox violations. Steps to reproduce: Run a PWA or WKWebView on iOS 27 Developer Beta that loads a live audio stream using an tag. Route the media element into the Web Audio API (e.g., audioContext.createMediaElementSource(audioElement)). Play the stream and lock the screen or let it run in the foreground. Wait for a track transition to occur on the live stream server (which pushes an inline ICY metadata update). Observed Result: Audio instantly goes silent at the track boundary. JavaScript rendering loops remain active, but the stream is dead. List of important errors: MediaToolbox parsing failure: <<<< FigStreamPlayer >>>> fpfs_CacheRenderChain: Caching unexpected mediatype metadata Reasoning: When the stream updates its inline metadata, MediaToolbox (FigStreamPlayer) fails to handle the frame descriptor correctly, halting the stream decoder render chain. Audio engine state desynchronization: <<<< FigStreamPlayer >>>> fpfs_SetRateOnTrack: [...] setting rate on track before it has reached playing state - 4 instead Reasoning: WebKit attempts to keep playing or setting the playback rate, but MediaToolbox fails because the underlying decoder track is stuck in an uninitialized/stalled state (4). System Audio Daemon Disconnection: Subsystem: com.apple.audioanalytics | Process: audiod Reporter disconnected. ( function=sendMessage, reporterID=... ) Reasoning: Because the rendering stream stalled, the system audio daemon (audiod) forcibly severs the audio session connection to the browser container. Massive Sandbox Log Flooding (WebKit.WebContent): Sandbox: com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(2719) deny(1) syscall-unix 179 Reasoning: WebKit's WebAudio thread tries to log trace markers to XNU's kdebug_trace64 (syscall 179) but is blocked by the WebContent sandbox profile, resulting in a loop of thousands of denials that clog the thread. What needs to be fixed: MediaToolbox (FigStreamPlayer): Fix the regression where incoming live stream metadata frames stall the render chain when connected to a Web Audio node. WebKit Sandbox Profiles: Update the iOS WebContent, Network, and GPU sandbox rules to allow necessary tracing/diagnostic calls (syscall-unix 179 and mach-lookup com.apple.diagnosticd) in developer beta builds to prevent thread-blocking loops.
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Code signing hang with content blocker and extension
A customer of my Safari app extension is reporting a strange interaction with a 3rd party content blocker that causes Safari to hang, apparently in code signing. Spindumps of Safari show this: Dispatch Thread Soft Limit Reached: 80 (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations) Each spindump has over 20 DispatchQueue "Content Blocker Containing App Validation Queue" In one spindump, it seems to be triggered by this: -[WBSExtensionsController _extensionDiscoveryHasNewResults:] + 244 (SafariSharedUI + 149396) In another: __114-[WBSExtensionsController(SafariExtras) safari_validateContainingAppOfExtensionIfNecessary:attemptRetryOnFailure:]_block_invoke.44 + 52 (Safari + 5305260) I can't reproduce the issue, however, so I'm baffled. The actual code signature of the app, which comes from the Mac App Store, appears to be fine, as verified with the codesign command-line utility.
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app-site-association.cdn-apple.com | Cache not updating
We're handling our universal links (deep links) via our custom router written in express.js. We recently update our .well-known format as per: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/supporting-associated-domains Our own domain link shows them correctly if we apply cache bust to it: Normal link: https://links.sastaticket.pk/.well-known/apple-app-site-association Cache bust: https://links.sastaticket.pk/.well-known/apple-app-site-association?1 Now, since app-site cache is not updating at: https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/links.sastaticket.pk Our main domain link is not getting updated response either. Its been more than 72 hours now. Any help, how to push the app-site cache to update? I can provide more context if needed, Thanks
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CDN域名端口改变
你好,我的app使用的域名在阿里云进行了CDN加速,并配置了80的端口,后来我将端口改成443端口,导致如今app使用异常,是否将端口改回80端口就能恢复访问呢,如有建议,感激回复。
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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Liquid Glass Icon Support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
Hello there, Is it possible to customize the appearance of PWA icons for Liquid Glass? There was a similar question regarding the different icon appearances a few years ago (see thread). Though, as there never was a real conclusion I want to check if there are ways to achieve this by now? So, is it possible to define custom PWA icons for the dark and monochrome (now clear) modes? Can we maybe even use a fully custom Icon Composer icon for Safari PWAs? The icons attribute supports a purpose object with the value monochrome. Can this be used in any way here? If there is no way to customize it, is there at least a way to stop the auto conversion? In my case the white background get’s automatically replaced with the dark mode gradient, but for some reason the black logo isn’t converted/inverted to white leading to black on black logo. Which of course is not intended! I’d appreciate any help or pointer to a resource on that.
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Safari 26.5 Web Audio API Glitch: Automatic background audio playback triggering fast-forwarded "buffer catch-up" burst
https://streamable.com/y16s4q When I leave the Spotify Web Player open on its homepage and remain completely idle (without any physical user interaction or clicks), the page somehow self-triggers an active audio stream. Instantly, Safari's standard "This tab is playing audio" speaker icon appears normally on the right side of the URL/Address bar. Simultaneously, the browser emits a 1–2 second burst of extremely accelerated, fast-forwarded, and chaotic audio (resembling a time-stretch or "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect) before going silent or stabilizing.
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How should WKWebView configure networkServiceType for 5G network slicing?
I’m adding 5G network slicing support to a web browser app using WKWebView. The app declares: com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.appcategory: webBrowser-9003 com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.trafficcategory: defaultslice-1 The documentation says that apps should also set networkServiceType on URLRequest or URLSessionConfiguration. However, most requests made by a WKWebView, including subresources, JavaScript fetches, and WebSockets, are created internally by WebKit. Is declaring webBrowser-9003 and defaultslice-1 sufficient for WKWebView traffic, or is there a supported way to configure the network service type for the entire WKWebView network session?
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Capacitor WKWebView on iPhone TestFlight cannot connect to Firebase Realtime Database, RTDB reconnect timeout after 25000ms, iPad works
on hybrid app , capacitor enabled , vuejs , firebase realtime database loading data to welcome page and the rest of data for language learning application, using websockets and firebase database problem: ios iphone when the app is built and run it doesnt load the data for welcome page and the rest of data. tried longpolling instead of websockets, tried directly REST api connection to firebase but no success on both. ps. App Check token is successfully acquired (JS SDK token ready) but Realtime Database reconnects always time out on all iPhones in TestFlight while the same build works on iPad.
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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In the iOS 26.4 beta version of WKWebView, it is impossible to establish an IP type WebSocket connection!
In iOS 26.4 beta, I noticed that when loading pages using WKWebView and using WebSocket to establish IP type addresses, the connection duration was several seconds and sometimes even failed to connect (normally, the connection duration should be in milliseconds). However, when establishing WebSocket connections using domain names, the connections were normal. Additionally, I discovered a special scenario: When directly establishing WebSocket connections using IP type addresses, it remained in the "connect" state. At the same time, based on Wireshark packet capture, it was found that no TCP connection was sent at this time. However, if two connections with the same address were established simultaneously, those two connections could successfully connect. This bug has seriously affected the use of my application service. Is there a chance that this version will solve the problem?
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Safari 17.6 (17618.3.11.11.7, 17618) Crashes on Attempt to Run Extension in Developer Mode
Hi, I'm trying to test out an extension I'm building in Xcode and every time I try to test it, Safari crashes immediately. On later versions of Mac OS, e.g. Sequoia, there's no problem. I'm building this extension as part of a Mac Catalyst app that is a hybrid iPad/Mac OS app. On Safari 26.3 (20623.2.7.18.1) I can just add the source tree as a temporary extension and it works fine. But the .appex file for the same thing is causing the older Safari 17.6 (17618.3.11.11.7, 17618) to throw a fit. Trying to get through this with LLMs has focused on whether the extension target is for iOS and Mac OS or just Mac OS alone, and futzing with UIDeviceFamily the Build Settings. But basically it just doesn't work no matter what I do, and Safari shouldn't crash. Here's the .appex's Info.plist after compilation: % defaults read /Users/[username]/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/PlainSite-[gibberish]/Build/Products/Debug-maccatalyst/PlainSite.app/Contents/PlugIns/PlainSiteRecycler.appex/Contents/Info.plist { BuildMachineOSBuild = 21H1320; CFBundleIdentifier = "com.thinkcomputer.[product].[extension]"; CFBundleShortVersionString = "1.0"; CFBundleSupportedPlatforms = ( MacOSX ); CFBundleVersion = 2; DTCompiler = "com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0"; DTPlatformBuild = 14C18; DTPlatformName = macosx; DTPlatformVersion = "13.1"; DTSDKBuild = 22C55; DTSDKName = "macosx13.1"; DTXcode = 1420; DTXcodeBuild = 14C18; LSMinimumSystemVersion = "12.0"; NSExtension = { NSExtensionAttributes = { SafariWebExtensionPath = src; }; NSExtensionPointIdentifier = "com.apple.Safari.web-extension"; NSExtensionPrincipalClass = "PlainSiteRecycler.SafariWebExtensionHandler"; }; UIDeviceFamily = ( 2, 6 ); } Crash log: Hardware Model: MacBookPro12,1 Process: Safari [44241] Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari Identifier: com.apple.Safari Version: 17.6 (17618.3.11.11.7) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Role: Background Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: com.apple.Safari [1098] Date/Time: 2026-06-12 13:29:10.8546 -0700 Launch Time: 2026-06-12 13:27:27.7047 -0700 OS Version: macOS 12.7.6 (21H1320) Release Type: User Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Subtype: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8 VM Region Info: 0x7ff7b77d1ff8 is in 0x7ff7b3fd2000-0x7ff7b77d2000; bytes after start: 58720248 bytes before end: 7 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL MALLOC_SMALL 7fa313000000-7fa313800000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV GAP OF 0x54a07d2000 BYTES ---> STACK GUARD 7ff7b3fd2000-7ff7b77d2000 [ 56.0M] ---/rwx SM=NUL ... for thread 0 Stack 7ff7b77d2000-7ff7b7fd2000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV thread 0 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Reason: SIGNAL 11 Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [44241] Highlighted by Thread: 0 Backtrace not available No thread state (register information) available Binary Images: 0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ??? Error Formulating Crash Report: dyld_process_info_create failed with 5 Failed to create CSSymbolicatorRef - corpse still valid ¯_(ツ)/¯ thread_get_state(PAGEIN) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port thread_get_state(EXCEPTION) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port thread_get_state(FLAVOR) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port EOF Full Report {"app_name":"Safari","timestamp":"2026-06-12 13:29:12.00 -0700","app_version":"17.6","slice_uuid":"af2262af-647d-3262-adc8-e52c3ef7579e","build_version":"17618.3.11.11.7","platform":0,"bundleID":"com.apple.Safari","share_with_app_devs":0,"is_first_party":0,"bug_type":"309","os_version":"macOS 12.7.6 (21H1320)","incident_id":"8F871759-8566-49DE-A6F9-EE73128BB836","name":"Safari"} { "uptime" : 100000, "procLaunch" : "2026-06-12 13:27:27.7047 -0700", "procRole" : "Background", "version" : 2, "userID" : 503, "deployVersion" : 210, "modelCode" : "MacBookPro12,1", "procStartAbsTime" : 102649791496150, "coalitionID" : 1098, "osVersion" : { "train" : "macOS 12.7.6", "build" : "21H1320", "releaseType" : "User" }, "captureTime" : "2026-06-12 13:29:10.8546 -0700", "incident" : "8F871759-8566-49DE-A6F9-EE73128BB836", "bug_type" : "309", "pid" : 44241, "procExitAbsTime" : 102752878214260, "cpuType" : "X86-64", "procName" : "Safari", "procPath" : "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari", "bundleInfo" : {"CFBundleShortVersionString":"17.6","CFBundleVersion":"17618.3.11.11.7","CFBundleIdentifier":"com.apple.Safari"}, "buildInfo" : {"ProjectName":"Safari","SourceVersion":"7618003011011007","ProductBuildVersion":"618G22","BuildVersion":"12"}, "storeInfo" : {"deviceIdentifierForVendor":"28124F28-A4EB-556C-A50C-D710162ABDA6","thirdParty":true}, "parentProc" : "launchd", "parentPid" : 1, "coalitionName" : "com.apple.Safari", "crashReporterKey" : "134BE33B-9612-8725-73E0-95998174507F", "wakeTime" : 67008, "sleepWakeUUID" : "F942DC6A-04DF-4EE2-AA9F-DB3EDCB24AC3", "sip" : "enabled", "isCorpse" : 1, "exception" : {"codes":"0x0000000000000002, 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8","rawCodes":[2,140701912080376],"type":"EXC_BAD_ACCESS","signal":"SIGSEGV","subtype":"KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8"}, "termination" : {"flags":0,"code":11,"namespace":"SIGNAL","indicator":"Segmentation fault: 11","byProc":"exc handler","byPid":44241}, "usedImages" : [ { "size" : 0, "source" : "A", "base" : 0, "uuid" : "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" } ], "sharedCache" : { "base" : 140703277129728, "size" : 19331678208, "uuid" : "246818c3-4b9f-3462-bcaf-fdf71975e5fe" }, "legacyInfo" : { "threadHighlighted" : 0 }, "trialInfo" : { "rollouts" : [ { "rolloutId" : "61301e3a61217b3110231469", "factorPackIds" : { "SIRI_FIND_MY_CONFIGURATION_FILES" : "652886aa2c02f032beae8316" }, "deploymentId" : 240000028 }, { "rolloutId" : "5ffde50ce2aacd000d47a95f", "factorPackIds" : { }, "deploymentId" : 240000550 } ], "experiments" : [ ] }, "reportNotes" : [ "dyld_process_info_create failed with 5", "Failed to create CSSymbolicatorRef - corpse still valid ¯\(ツ)_/¯", "thread_get_state(PAGEIN) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port", "thread_get_state(EXCEPTION) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port", "thread_get_state(FLAVOR) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port" ] } Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Supported way for iOS Safari Web Extension to hand off captured data to containing app for processing?
In 2018, Apple staff noted that Safari App Extensions had no direct API to communicate with the containing app, and suggested app groups or opening a custom URL scheme as workarounds. On iOS Safari Web Extensions, app groups work for persistence, but opening the containing app from the native extension/background flow does not appear reliable. iOS launch policy seems to require a direct user gesture, and I have not found a documented way for the extension flow to reliably continue into the containing app. Is there a supported iOS architecture for completing an extension-initiated workflow in the containing app, or is the intended model to persist data and require the user to manually open the app? My current architecture is: JavaScript in the Safari Web Extension extracts article content from the page. The native Extension Handler receives that content via native messaging. The Extension Handler writes an encoded request into the App Group container. The containing app watches the App Group container using DispatchSource.makeFileSystemObjectSource and processes new requests. This works on macOS. It also works on iOS when the containing app is already running. The problem is that on iOS, if the containing app is not already running, there is no app process to observe the filesystem event or process the request. I have tried treating the Extension Handler as the place to do more work, but in practice it seems suited only for short-lived relay/persistence work. It is not a reliable place for my app’s main processing pipeline, which includes rendering article content and uploading it to a third-party service. My app is a Safari-native “read later” style tool that uploads simplified articles to the reMarkable Cloud. The containing app contains most of the functionality: SwiftUI UI, WebKit/WebPage rendering, account/cloud logic, and upload orchestration. The Safari extension captures the article, but the app needs to run to complete the user-visible workflow. From a user’s perspective, tapping the Safari extension toolbar button is the action that initiates the workflow. Is there any supported way for that user-initiated extension action to launch or wake the containing iOS app so it can process pending App Group requests? Or should Safari Web Extensions on iOS be designed only to persist work and then ask the user to manually open the containing app? If manual app launch is the intended model, it would be helpful for the documentation to state this explicitly. The current tripartite model strongly suggests that the JavaScript extension, native handler, and containing app can collaborate as parts of one workflow, but on iOS the containing app appears to be available only out-of-band unless already running.
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MacOS shortcut for running Javascript on a Safari page fails
I'm trying to run a MacOS shortcut using the "Run JavaScript on Active Safari Tab" action. I consistently get the error "Make sure that 'Allow JavaScript from Apple Events' is enabled in the Develop menu in Safari." The Develop menu in Safari does not contain this switch (in Tahoe 26.5.1), but if you go to Developer Settings... a dialog opens that includes the required switch. I've ensured that the switch is set on, but I continue to get the runtime error in the shortcut JavaScript. What am I missing?
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Safari shows "Fraudulent Website Warning" for clean domain — all security databases clear, Chrome works fine
Safari continues to display a "Fraudulent Website Warning" for openvan.camp despite the domain being clean across all major security databases for over a week. Chrome, Firefox, and all other browsers open the site without any warnings. Domain: openvan.camp Warning appeared: March 18, 2026 Warning type: Fraudulent Website Warning (red screen) Current security database status: Google Safe Browsing: ✅ Clean (transparencyreport.google.com) Google Search Console: ✅ No security issues Spamhaus DBL: ✅ Removed from blocklist Fortinet FortiGuard: ✅ Category "Travel" VirusTotal: ✅ 0/65 vendors URLVoid: ✅ 0/35 engines Steps taken: Removed the third-party ad network (Adsterra) that caused the original flag — March 18, 2026 Migrated hosting to Scaleway (AS12876, France), IP: 151.115.84.228 Configured SPF, DKIM, DMARC records Created functional abuse@ and postmaster@ role accounts Submitted review via websitereview.apple.com — no response after 5 days What we believe is happening: Apple's Safe Browsing database appears to have an independent entry for this domain that has not been updated despite all underlying security databases clearing the flag. Safari's warning persists even after deleting ~/Library/Safari/SafeBrowsing/ cache and re-downloading the database — which confirms this is not a local cache issue. Steps to reproduce: Open Safari on macOS or iOS Navigate to https://openvan.camp/ Safari displays "Fraudulent Website Warning" Open the same URL in Chrome — no warning Expected behavior: No warning should be shown. The domain is legitimate, clean, and verified. Has anyone experienced a similar issue? Is there any additional channel to escalate beyond websitereview.apple.com?
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`WKHTTPCookieDataStore` cookie data loss and synchronization issues seen at scale
Hello, I am investigating a WKWebView cookie reliability issue with WKWebsiteDataStore.default() / persistent website data, and I would like to request a supported public API to force persistent cookie durability. We set persistent cookies from native code through the public WKHTTPCookieStore API: let dataStore = WKWebsiteDataStore.default() let cookieStore = dataStore.httpCookieStore await cookieStore.setCookie(cookie) The cookies have Max-Age / maximumAge set, so these are persistent cookies, not session-only cookies. Reproduction pattern: Use WKWebsiteDataStore.default(). Clear existing cookies. Set a persistent cookie through WKHTTPCookieStore.setCookie. After setCookie completes, terminate WebKit's NetworkProcess soon afterward. Create or reuse a WKWebView with the same WKWebsiteDataStore.default(). Load a same-origin page or trigger a same-origin fetch. I also have reproducible WebKit source-level test cases for this, in the style of TestWebKitAPI / WKHTTPCookieStore tests. The tests exercise persistent WKWebsiteDataStore.default() cookies, terminate the NetworkProcess after the cookie mutation, and then verify that a top-level load, same-origin fetch, and WKHTTPCookieStore cookie read can miss the cookie on an unpatched WebKit build. Observed result: The next top-level HTTP request, and sometimes a same-origin fetch, can omit the cookie that was just set. After the NetworkProcess is relaunched, WKHTTPCookieStore.allCookies() can also fail to show the recently set cookie. If I wait long enough after the cookie mutation before terminating the NetworkProcess, the problem disappears. In local simulator testing, this lines up with CFNetwork appearing to debounce/coalesce persistent cookie writes in an approximately 2-to-10 second window. That makes this look like setCookie completion means the current NetworkProcess / CFNetwork cookie store accepted the cookie in memory, but the persistent cookie backing store has not necessarily been written yet. If the NetworkProcess dies before that delayed write, the replacement NetworkProcess appears to reload stale cookie state from disk. This is especially painful for apps that bridge native authentication state into WKWebView. The app sees setCookie complete, assumes the cookie is ready, and then a later WebKit NetworkProcess termination can cause authenticated web requests to be sent without the expected auth cookie. We believe that, at scale, this is a mechanism causing a baseline of about 5% of our HTTP requests, as measured by HAProxy, to lack cookies that should be present. We know those cookies should be present because we duplicate the same values as URLRequest headers under different keys, and the headers are present while the corresponding Cookie header entries are missing. The API gap is that there does not appear to be a supported public equivalent of Android WebView's CookieManager.flush(). There is no public way for an app to say: "I just mutated persistent WKWebView cookies; please synchronously/asynchronously flush the persistent cookie store before I proceed." Request: Please expose a public flush API for persistent WKHTTPCookieStore / WKWebsiteDataStore cookies, for example an async API shaped like: try await websiteDataStore.httpCookieStore.flush() or: try await websiteDataStore.flushCookies() The important behavior would be: after WKHTTPCookieStore.setCookie / deleteCookie completes, an app can explicitly request durability; the flush completion should mean persistent cookie state has been handed to the backing persistent store, not merely accepted by the current NetworkProcess; if flushing is impossible because the relevant process/state is gone, the API should fail or report that, rather than silently succeeding; the API should be safe for App Store apps and should not require private SPI. Question: Are there any recommended supported patterns today for forcing persistent WKWebView cookies to reach durable storage after native WKHTTPCookieStore mutations? Is there an official supported way to force or observe cookie durability for persistent WKWebsiteDataStore cookies? If not, is the recommended approach simply to re-apply critical cookies before loads and tolerate NetworkProcess loss as unrecoverable app-side state? This issue is not just theoretical. It affects auth/session reliability when WebKit's NetworkProcess is terminated before the backing persistent cookie write completes. Apps can reduce unnecessary cookie churn, but without a flush API there is no supported way to close the durability window after setting important persistent cookies.
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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Iphone 17 Pro max wifi problems
My Iphone 17 Pro Max is in ioss 27 and it is having troubles with wifi issues, It works on celluar data but however when conected to wifi it only work son certain programs such as safari, it does not work on imsg, social media and app store. However everything works fine on data, I know its not a wifi problem as my Iphone 16 pro max is having zero issues with the wifi connected to it so I am not sure what the issue is
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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Safari Extension Service Worker not working until page reload
Hello, I am developing a Safari extension that uses service workers and all works well. When the extension is updated, a new content script is injected into the current open tabs however the service worker connection with the new content script does not get established. I confirmed both the old content script and new one is on the page, but the new one just doesn't execute which means it will not connect to the service worker. In Chrome a newly injected content script does work and in FireFox it is handled by FireFox automatically. How can this be done in Safari? Any help would be appreciated.
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iOS 27 DB2: WebAudio / AudioContext Live Stream Stalls on Metadata/Track Transitions (MediaToolbox & Sandbox Violations)
Tested iPhone 16 Pro Max running DB2 Since using iOS 27 Developer Beta, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) and applications using WKWebView that route live streaming audio (such as Icecast/SHOUTcast streams) through the Web Audio API (AudioContext / MediaElementAudioSourceNode for canvas visualizers) experience silent playback freezes during track changes. The JavaScript context remains active, and the HTMLMediaElement reports no errors or pauses, but the low-level system audio daemon (audiod) disconnects. The logs indicate a state desynchronization in MediaToolbox triggered by inline metadata frame updates, coupled with massive sandbox violations. Steps to reproduce: Run a PWA or WKWebView on iOS 27 Developer Beta that loads a live audio stream using an tag. Route the media element into the Web Audio API (e.g., audioContext.createMediaElementSource(audioElement)). Play the stream and lock the screen or let it run in the foreground. Wait for a track transition to occur on the live stream server (which pushes an inline ICY metadata update). Observed Result: Audio instantly goes silent at the track boundary. JavaScript rendering loops remain active, but the stream is dead. List of important errors: MediaToolbox parsing failure: <<<< FigStreamPlayer >>>> fpfs_CacheRenderChain: Caching unexpected mediatype metadata Reasoning: When the stream updates its inline metadata, MediaToolbox (FigStreamPlayer) fails to handle the frame descriptor correctly, halting the stream decoder render chain. Audio engine state desynchronization: <<<< FigStreamPlayer >>>> fpfs_SetRateOnTrack: [...] setting rate on track before it has reached playing state - 4 instead Reasoning: WebKit attempts to keep playing or setting the playback rate, but MediaToolbox fails because the underlying decoder track is stuck in an uninitialized/stalled state (4). System Audio Daemon Disconnection: Subsystem: com.apple.audioanalytics | Process: audiod Reporter disconnected. ( function=sendMessage, reporterID=... ) Reasoning: Because the rendering stream stalled, the system audio daemon (audiod) forcibly severs the audio session connection to the browser container. Massive Sandbox Log Flooding (WebKit.WebContent): Sandbox: com.apple.WebKit.WebContent(2719) deny(1) syscall-unix 179 Reasoning: WebKit's WebAudio thread tries to log trace markers to XNU's kdebug_trace64 (syscall 179) but is blocked by the WebContent sandbox profile, resulting in a loop of thousands of denials that clog the thread. What needs to be fixed: MediaToolbox (FigStreamPlayer): Fix the regression where incoming live stream metadata frames stall the render chain when connected to a Web Audio node. WebKit Sandbox Profiles: Update the iOS WebContent, Network, and GPU sandbox rules to allow necessary tracing/diagnostic calls (syscall-unix 179 and mach-lookup com.apple.diagnosticd) in developer beta builds to prevent thread-blocking loops.
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Code signing hang with content blocker and extension
A customer of my Safari app extension is reporting a strange interaction with a 3rd party content blocker that causes Safari to hang, apparently in code signing. Spindumps of Safari show this: Dispatch Thread Soft Limit Reached: 80 (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations) Each spindump has over 20 DispatchQueue "Content Blocker Containing App Validation Queue" In one spindump, it seems to be triggered by this: -[WBSExtensionsController _extensionDiscoveryHasNewResults:] + 244 (SafariSharedUI + 149396) In another: __114-[WBSExtensionsController(SafariExtras) safari_validateContainingAppOfExtensionIfNecessary:attemptRetryOnFailure:]_block_invoke.44 + 52 (Safari + 5305260) I can't reproduce the issue, however, so I'm baffled. The actual code signature of the app, which comes from the Mac App Store, appears to be fine, as verified with the codesign command-line utility.
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app-site-association.cdn-apple.com | Cache not updating
We're handling our universal links (deep links) via our custom router written in express.js. We recently update our .well-known format as per: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/supporting-associated-domains Our own domain link shows them correctly if we apply cache bust to it: Normal link: https://links.sastaticket.pk/.well-known/apple-app-site-association Cache bust: https://links.sastaticket.pk/.well-known/apple-app-site-association?1 Now, since app-site cache is not updating at: https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/links.sastaticket.pk Our main domain link is not getting updated response either. Its been more than 72 hours now. Any help, how to push the app-site cache to update? I can provide more context if needed, Thanks
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Jul ’26
CDN域名端口改变
你好,我的app使用的域名在阿里云进行了CDN加速,并配置了80的端口,后来我将端口改成443端口,导致如今app使用异常,是否将端口改回80端口就能恢复访问呢,如有建议,感激回复。
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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Liquid Glass Icon Support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
Hello there, Is it possible to customize the appearance of PWA icons for Liquid Glass? There was a similar question regarding the different icon appearances a few years ago (see thread). Though, as there never was a real conclusion I want to check if there are ways to achieve this by now? So, is it possible to define custom PWA icons for the dark and monochrome (now clear) modes? Can we maybe even use a fully custom Icon Composer icon for Safari PWAs? The icons attribute supports a purpose object with the value monochrome. Can this be used in any way here? If there is no way to customize it, is there at least a way to stop the auto conversion? In my case the white background get’s automatically replaced with the dark mode gradient, but for some reason the black logo isn’t converted/inverted to white leading to black on black logo. Which of course is not intended! I’d appreciate any help or pointer to a resource on that.
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Safari 26.5 Web Audio API Glitch: Automatic background audio playback triggering fast-forwarded "buffer catch-up" burst
https://streamable.com/y16s4q When I leave the Spotify Web Player open on its homepage and remain completely idle (without any physical user interaction or clicks), the page somehow self-triggers an active audio stream. Instantly, Safari's standard "This tab is playing audio" speaker icon appears normally on the right side of the URL/Address bar. Simultaneously, the browser emits a 1–2 second burst of extremely accelerated, fast-forwarded, and chaotic audio (resembling a time-stretch or "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect) before going silent or stabilizing.
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How should WKWebView configure networkServiceType for 5G network slicing?
I’m adding 5G network slicing support to a web browser app using WKWebView. The app declares: com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.appcategory: webBrowser-9003 com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.trafficcategory: defaultslice-1 The documentation says that apps should also set networkServiceType on URLRequest or URLSessionConfiguration. However, most requests made by a WKWebView, including subresources, JavaScript fetches, and WebSockets, are created internally by WebKit. Is declaring webBrowser-9003 and defaultslice-1 sufficient for WKWebView traffic, or is there a supported way to configure the network service type for the entire WKWebView network session?
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Jun ’26
Capacitor WKWebView on iPhone TestFlight cannot connect to Firebase Realtime Database, RTDB reconnect timeout after 25000ms, iPad works
on hybrid app , capacitor enabled , vuejs , firebase realtime database loading data to welcome page and the rest of data for language learning application, using websockets and firebase database problem: ios iphone when the app is built and run it doesnt load the data for welcome page and the rest of data. tried longpolling instead of websockets, tried directly REST api connection to firebase but no success on both. ps. App Check token is successfully acquired (JS SDK token ready) but Realtime Database reconnects always time out on all iPhones in TestFlight while the same build works on iPad.
Topic: Safari & Web SubTopic: General
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In the iOS 26.4 beta version of WKWebView, it is impossible to establish an IP type WebSocket connection!
In iOS 26.4 beta, I noticed that when loading pages using WKWebView and using WebSocket to establish IP type addresses, the connection duration was several seconds and sometimes even failed to connect (normally, the connection duration should be in milliseconds). However, when establishing WebSocket connections using domain names, the connections were normal. Additionally, I discovered a special scenario: When directly establishing WebSocket connections using IP type addresses, it remained in the "connect" state. At the same time, based on Wireshark packet capture, it was found that no TCP connection was sent at this time. However, if two connections with the same address were established simultaneously, those two connections could successfully connect. This bug has seriously affected the use of my application service. Is there a chance that this version will solve the problem?
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Safari 17.6 (17618.3.11.11.7, 17618) Crashes on Attempt to Run Extension in Developer Mode
Hi, I'm trying to test out an extension I'm building in Xcode and every time I try to test it, Safari crashes immediately. On later versions of Mac OS, e.g. Sequoia, there's no problem. I'm building this extension as part of a Mac Catalyst app that is a hybrid iPad/Mac OS app. On Safari 26.3 (20623.2.7.18.1) I can just add the source tree as a temporary extension and it works fine. But the .appex file for the same thing is causing the older Safari 17.6 (17618.3.11.11.7, 17618) to throw a fit. Trying to get through this with LLMs has focused on whether the extension target is for iOS and Mac OS or just Mac OS alone, and futzing with UIDeviceFamily the Build Settings. But basically it just doesn't work no matter what I do, and Safari shouldn't crash. Here's the .appex's Info.plist after compilation: % defaults read /Users/[username]/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/PlainSite-[gibberish]/Build/Products/Debug-maccatalyst/PlainSite.app/Contents/PlugIns/PlainSiteRecycler.appex/Contents/Info.plist { BuildMachineOSBuild = 21H1320; CFBundleIdentifier = "com.thinkcomputer.[product].[extension]"; CFBundleShortVersionString = "1.0"; CFBundleSupportedPlatforms = ( MacOSX ); CFBundleVersion = 2; DTCompiler = "com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0"; DTPlatformBuild = 14C18; DTPlatformName = macosx; DTPlatformVersion = "13.1"; DTSDKBuild = 22C55; DTSDKName = "macosx13.1"; DTXcode = 1420; DTXcodeBuild = 14C18; LSMinimumSystemVersion = "12.0"; NSExtension = { NSExtensionAttributes = { SafariWebExtensionPath = src; }; NSExtensionPointIdentifier = "com.apple.Safari.web-extension"; NSExtensionPrincipalClass = "PlainSiteRecycler.SafariWebExtensionHandler"; }; UIDeviceFamily = ( 2, 6 ); } Crash log: Hardware Model: MacBookPro12,1 Process: Safari [44241] Path: /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari Identifier: com.apple.Safari Version: 17.6 (17618.3.11.11.7) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Role: Background Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: com.apple.Safari [1098] Date/Time: 2026-06-12 13:29:10.8546 -0700 Launch Time: 2026-06-12 13:27:27.7047 -0700 OS Version: macOS 12.7.6 (21H1320) Release Type: User Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Subtype: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8 VM Region Info: 0x7ff7b77d1ff8 is in 0x7ff7b3fd2000-0x7ff7b77d2000; bytes after start: 58720248 bytes before end: 7 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL MALLOC_SMALL 7fa313000000-7fa313800000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV GAP OF 0x54a07d2000 BYTES ---> STACK GUARD 7ff7b3fd2000-7ff7b77d2000 [ 56.0M] ---/rwx SM=NUL ... for thread 0 Stack 7ff7b77d2000-7ff7b7fd2000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV thread 0 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Reason: SIGNAL 11 Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [44241] Highlighted by Thread: 0 Backtrace not available No thread state (register information) available Binary Images: 0x0 - 0xffffffffffffffff ??? (*) <00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> ??? Error Formulating Crash Report: dyld_process_info_create failed with 5 Failed to create CSSymbolicatorRef - corpse still valid ¯_(ツ)/¯ thread_get_state(PAGEIN) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port thread_get_state(EXCEPTION) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port thread_get_state(FLAVOR) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port EOF Full Report {"app_name":"Safari","timestamp":"2026-06-12 13:29:12.00 -0700","app_version":"17.6","slice_uuid":"af2262af-647d-3262-adc8-e52c3ef7579e","build_version":"17618.3.11.11.7","platform":0,"bundleID":"com.apple.Safari","share_with_app_devs":0,"is_first_party":0,"bug_type":"309","os_version":"macOS 12.7.6 (21H1320)","incident_id":"8F871759-8566-49DE-A6F9-EE73128BB836","name":"Safari"} { "uptime" : 100000, "procLaunch" : "2026-06-12 13:27:27.7047 -0700", "procRole" : "Background", "version" : 2, "userID" : 503, "deployVersion" : 210, "modelCode" : "MacBookPro12,1", "procStartAbsTime" : 102649791496150, "coalitionID" : 1098, "osVersion" : { "train" : "macOS 12.7.6", "build" : "21H1320", "releaseType" : "User" }, "captureTime" : "2026-06-12 13:29:10.8546 -0700", "incident" : "8F871759-8566-49DE-A6F9-EE73128BB836", "bug_type" : "309", "pid" : 44241, "procExitAbsTime" : 102752878214260, "cpuType" : "X86-64", "procName" : "Safari", "procPath" : "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari", "bundleInfo" : {"CFBundleShortVersionString":"17.6","CFBundleVersion":"17618.3.11.11.7","CFBundleIdentifier":"com.apple.Safari"}, "buildInfo" : {"ProjectName":"Safari","SourceVersion":"7618003011011007","ProductBuildVersion":"618G22","BuildVersion":"12"}, "storeInfo" : {"deviceIdentifierForVendor":"28124F28-A4EB-556C-A50C-D710162ABDA6","thirdParty":true}, "parentProc" : "launchd", "parentPid" : 1, "coalitionName" : "com.apple.Safari", "crashReporterKey" : "134BE33B-9612-8725-73E0-95998174507F", "wakeTime" : 67008, "sleepWakeUUID" : "F942DC6A-04DF-4EE2-AA9F-DB3EDCB24AC3", "sip" : "enabled", "isCorpse" : 1, "exception" : {"codes":"0x0000000000000002, 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8","rawCodes":[2,140701912080376],"type":"EXC_BAD_ACCESS","signal":"SIGSEGV","subtype":"KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007ff7b77d1ff8"}, "termination" : {"flags":0,"code":11,"namespace":"SIGNAL","indicator":"Segmentation fault: 11","byProc":"exc handler","byPid":44241}, "usedImages" : [ { "size" : 0, "source" : "A", "base" : 0, "uuid" : "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" } ], "sharedCache" : { "base" : 140703277129728, "size" : 19331678208, "uuid" : "246818c3-4b9f-3462-bcaf-fdf71975e5fe" }, "legacyInfo" : { "threadHighlighted" : 0 }, "trialInfo" : { "rollouts" : [ { "rolloutId" : "61301e3a61217b3110231469", "factorPackIds" : { "SIRI_FIND_MY_CONFIGURATION_FILES" : "652886aa2c02f032beae8316" }, "deploymentId" : 240000028 }, { "rolloutId" : "5ffde50ce2aacd000d47a95f", "factorPackIds" : { }, "deploymentId" : 240000550 } ], "experiments" : [ ] }, "reportNotes" : [ "dyld_process_info_create failed with 5", "Failed to create CSSymbolicatorRef - corpse still valid ¯\(ツ)_/¯", "thread_get_state(PAGEIN) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port", "thread_get_state(EXCEPTION) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port", "thread_get_state(FLAVOR) returned 0x10000003: (ipc/send) invalid destination port" ] } Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Supported way for iOS Safari Web Extension to hand off captured data to containing app for processing?
In 2018, Apple staff noted that Safari App Extensions had no direct API to communicate with the containing app, and suggested app groups or opening a custom URL scheme as workarounds. On iOS Safari Web Extensions, app groups work for persistence, but opening the containing app from the native extension/background flow does not appear reliable. iOS launch policy seems to require a direct user gesture, and I have not found a documented way for the extension flow to reliably continue into the containing app. Is there a supported iOS architecture for completing an extension-initiated workflow in the containing app, or is the intended model to persist data and require the user to manually open the app? My current architecture is: JavaScript in the Safari Web Extension extracts article content from the page. The native Extension Handler receives that content via native messaging. The Extension Handler writes an encoded request into the App Group container. The containing app watches the App Group container using DispatchSource.makeFileSystemObjectSource and processes new requests. This works on macOS. It also works on iOS when the containing app is already running. The problem is that on iOS, if the containing app is not already running, there is no app process to observe the filesystem event or process the request. I have tried treating the Extension Handler as the place to do more work, but in practice it seems suited only for short-lived relay/persistence work. It is not a reliable place for my app’s main processing pipeline, which includes rendering article content and uploading it to a third-party service. My app is a Safari-native “read later” style tool that uploads simplified articles to the reMarkable Cloud. The containing app contains most of the functionality: SwiftUI UI, WebKit/WebPage rendering, account/cloud logic, and upload orchestration. The Safari extension captures the article, but the app needs to run to complete the user-visible workflow. From a user’s perspective, tapping the Safari extension toolbar button is the action that initiates the workflow. Is there any supported way for that user-initiated extension action to launch or wake the containing iOS app so it can process pending App Group requests? Or should Safari Web Extensions on iOS be designed only to persist work and then ask the user to manually open the containing app? If manual app launch is the intended model, it would be helpful for the documentation to state this explicitly. The current tripartite model strongly suggests that the JavaScript extension, native handler, and containing app can collaborate as parts of one workflow, but on iOS the containing app appears to be available only out-of-band unless already running.
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