When I call https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contactprovider/contactprovidermanager/enable() to request to use Contact Provider, I received a dialog with message like this
"App Name would like to add its contacts as its own list. Contacts added this way can be removed from settings".
I would like to support this message in Japanese or other languages. Is it possible?
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I have an app developed by using the Callkit/Call-Blocking and received feedback from individual users, when using [cxcalldirectorymanager reloadextensionwithidentifier] to write call blocking data, it returned error code 11 with the following contents:
errorCode: 11
errorDomain: com.apple.callkit.database.sqlite
errorDescription: sqlite3_step for query 'DELETE FROM PhoneNumberBlockingEntry WHERE extension_id =?' returned 11 (11) errorMessage 'database disk image is malformed'
I want to know the reasons for this error and how to solve it,Thanks!
Is this intended behavior? I want my app to act like the regular Clock app and snooze alarms when user taps volume down button but apparently volume down button stops the alarm. Is this normal or am I missing something?
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App & System Services
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General
I am trying to build my app and want to be able to integrate with apple ads services so I can get my users attribution token. I tried a added the "com.apple.developer.adservices" entitlement but now that I build my app it fails with the following error
include the com.apple.developer.adservices entitlement. Profile qualification is using entitlement definitions that may be out of date. Connect to network to update.
What do I need to do to make this work, I tried and cant fina any docs online
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App & System Services
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General
anyone has the same problem which is that your device activity extension ain't working even tho all the code work perfectly in the console, I setup it in the right way , tried to make schedule and it did the same exact thing when I tried to create usage threshold. anyone know the reason for this bug?
here is my extension code
import ManagedSettings
import FamilyControls
import Foundation
import OSLog
import UserNotifications
class MonitoringExtension: DeviceActivityMonitor {
private let defaults = UserDefaults(suiteName: "group.com.William.app")
private let logger = Logger(subsystem: "com.William.app", category: "MonitoringExtension")
override func eventDidReachThreshold(_ event: DeviceActivityEvent.Name, activity: DeviceActivityName) {
let activityRaw = activity.rawValue
logger.info("Limite atteinte: \(activityRaw)")
scheduleNotification(title: "Limite dépassée", body: "Tu as utilisé trop de temps sur \(activityRaw).")
guard let data = defaults?.data(forKey: "\(activityRaw)_selection"),
let selection = try? JSONDecoder().decode(FamilyActivitySelection.self, from: data) else {
logger.warning("Pas de sélection pour \(activityRaw)")
return
}
let store = ManagedSettingsStore() // ← LE SEUL QUI MARCHE
store.shield.applications = selection.applicationTokens
if !selection.categoryTokens.isEmpty {
store.shield.applicationCategories = .specific(selection.categoryTokens)
}
logger.info("BLOCAGE ACTIF via ManagedSettingsStore.default")
}
override func intervalDidEnd(for activity: DeviceActivityName) {
super.intervalDidEnd(for: activity)
let store = ManagedSettingsStore()
store.clearAllSettings() // ← Débloque à minuit
logger.info("Restrictions levées à la fin de l'intervalle")
}
private func scheduleNotification(title: String, body: String) {
UNUserNotificationCenter.current().requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .sound]) { granted, _ in
guard granted else { return }
let content = UNMutableNotificationContent()
content.title = title
content.body = body
let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: UUID().uuidString, content: content, trigger: nil)
UNUserNotificationCenter.current().add(request)
}
}
}
As of macOS 26 I have a menu item off a tray app that now is showing an exclamation mark by it when I have not defined one to show.
Where is this coming from?
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App & System Services
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General
Hi Everyone,
When we first hosted our apple-app-site-association file, our hosting provider was unintentionally blocking Apple’s crawler. As a result, Apple’s CDN seems to have cached a timeout / missing file response.
We’ve since corrected the issue — the AASA file is now valid and accessible at: https://our-domain.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
sidenote: I am using "our-domain" as an alias. It is not our actual domain.
We have verified that we return a valid JSON, HTTPS 200, correct MIME type. We used apple recommended tools to check this as well as other tools we found on the internet.
However, when fetching through the Apple CDN:
https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/our-domain.com
we still receive:
Apple-Failure-Reason: SWCERR00301 Timeout Apple-Failure-Details: {"cause":"context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)"}
This has persisted for several days.
Tools like getuniversal.link and yURL show that the CDN works fine in U.S. regions, but in Europe it continues serving the old timeout response.
I’ve already opened a support ticket (Case ID: 102734912696), but the current support channel seems to be general developer account assistance rather than technical. They claim they can only assist us with account related issues (even though I used the code-support form...)
Can someone please advise or help us escalate this to the appropriate internal team to refresh the Apple CDN cache for our domain?
Thank you so much for your time and help.
Hi,
A lot of e-mail providers supports OAuth2 authentication.
However, Mail.app on macOS and iOS do not support configuring a mail account that would use OAuth2 authentication, unless it's on its hardcoded list of account providers.
Is there any framework that allows setting up a custom account for my institution, so that we could begin to offer OAuth2 authentication for mail and calendar?
Ok so for some background, our app has a keyboard extension where we run a dictation service. Due to iOS limitations, this requires the user to press a button on the keyboard which will then bring the user to our app to activate an audio session. Once the audio session has been activated, it takes the user back to the original app it came from to continue using the keyboard + dictation service.
The problem we're running into involves iOS 26.0 and the iMessages app. Whenever our app tries to switch back to the iMessages app using Deep Link (specifically the messages:// URL), the iMessages app opens up a new message compose sheet. This compose sheet replaces the view or message thread that the user was previously looking at which we don't want.
This behavior appears to be only happening in iOS 26 and not in any of the previous iOS versions (tested up to iOS 18.6). We know that it should be possible to bring the user back to the messages app without opening up this new compose sheet, because similar apps do the same thing and these apps have been verified to work on iOS 26.
We've tried also using the sms:// URL but that always opens a new message compose sheet regardless of whether or not it's iOS 26.0.
Original discussion pre iOS 26
Our app uses Auth0 with HTTPS callback, we've found the issue where AASA file is not ready immediately when app is initially launched, which is the exact issue from the above link.
The issue seems mostly fixed on later versions on iOS 18, however, we are seeing some indications of a regression on iOS 26. Here's some measurement over the last week.
| Platform | iOS 18 | iOS 26 |
|---------------|----------|--------|
| Adoption rate | 55% | 45% |
| Issue seen | 1 | 5 |
| Recover? | Yes | No |
This only 1 iOS 18 instance was able to recover after 1 second after the first try, however, all iOS 26 instances were not able to recover in couple tens of seconds and less than 1 minute, the user eventually gave up.
Is there a way to force app to update AASA file?
Are there some iOS setting (like using a VPN) that could potentially downgrade the AASA fetch?
Related Auth0 discussion:
https://community.auth0.com/t/ios-application-not-
recognizing-auth0-associated-domain/134847/27
On iOS 26, calling CXCallDirectoryManager.sharedInstance.openSettings() does not navigate to the “Call Blocking & Identification” settings page as documented. Instead, it either opens the main Phone settings page or fails to navigate entirely. This breaks the expected behavior for enabling Call Directory extensions and impacts onboarding flows for apps using CallKit.
Expected:
Settings should open directly to Phone → Call Blocking & Identification.
Actual:
Navigates to the main Phone settings page
This appears to be a regression from previous iOS versions. Documentation still states this API should open the correct page.
According to the documentation, using Scope(restriction: .none) can expose the extension point to third-party app extensions. Below is my implementation, which ultimately results in an error.
Code for declaring the extension point:
@available(iOS 26.0, *)
extension AppExtensionPoint {
@Definition
static var priceExtension: AppExtensionPoint {
Name("priceExtension")
UserInterface(false)
Scope(restriction: .none)
}
}
Code for locating the extension point:
monitor = try await AppExtensionPoint.Monitor(appExtensionPoint: .priceExtension)
When executing the code to locate the extension point, the following error occurs:
However, in practice, I found that declaring the extension point in this way results in an error when trying to locate it:
Error Domain=com.apple.extensionKit.errorDomain Code=19 "Failed to add observer" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to add observer}
Its possible to add the Declared Age Range entitlement to extensions, in particular I'm looking at a Notification Service Extension.
However the DAR requestAgeRange() API takes a view controller as a parameter. Presumably therefore its not possible for a notification service extension to obtain the age range itself directly?
Yes the extension can read it from shared groups if the app reads it and set it into the group. However the scenario I'm thinking of is this:
App runs and gets the age range. Sets its functionality accordingly.
The server sends pushes which are intercepted by the notification service extension, the extension adjusts its functionality based upon what the app wrote to shared groups
The user changes the age range setting, but the app doesn't run.
The extension keeps receiving pushes but its functionality is now out of sync with the age range as its not able to obtain it directly
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App & System Services
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General
One of the responses to a call to AgeRangeService.shared.requestAgeRange is AgeRangeService.Error.invalidRequest.
This has no documentation. What on earth is an invalid request - I mean the app just calls the API, there's no parameters supplied or anything, how can the request ever be invalid?
If the app calls AgeRangeService.shared.requestAgeRange and gets this as a response then what is the app supposed to do with that?
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App & System Services
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General
Hello,
I have a question about data deserialization using NSKeyedUnarchiver in iOS SDK development.
Current Situation:
Previously, we were using the NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(with: Data) function
We have changed to using the NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchivedObject(ofClasses:from:) method to deserialize complex objects stored in UserDefaults
We need to include all types in the ofClasses parameter, including Swift primitive types as well as various custom classes and structs within the project
Questions:
Implementation Approach: Is it correct pattern to include all classes defined in the project in the ofClasses array? Is this approach recommended?
Runtime Stability: When using this approach, is there a possibility of runtime crashes? Are there any performance issues?
Alternative Methods: If the current approach is not the correct pattern, what alternatives should we consider?
Current Code Structure:
All model classes conform to the NSSecureCoding protocol
We use the requiringSecureCoding: true parameter
We use a whitelist approach, explicitly listing only allowed classes
I would like to know if this structure is appropriate, or if we should consider a different approach.
Thank you.
Subject: Call Directory Extension Enable Failure for Individual User
Dear Apple Developer Support,
We are experiencing an issue with our Call Directory Extension where one specific user cannot enable it, while thousands of other users on the same iOS version can enable it successfully.
Issue Details:
App: 美信 (Midea Connect)
Problem: Extension fails to enable with error: "请求'美信'的数据时失败" (Failed to request data from app)
Affected: 1 user out of thousands
iOS Version: 26.0.1
What Works:
All other users can enable the extension normally
Same iOS version, no issues
App Group and Extension identifier are correctly configured
User Has Tried:
Reinstall app - No effect
Toggle extension off/on - Still fails
Restart device - No improvement
Certainly! Here's a concise version of your forum post:
Title: Issues Handling Multiple Incoming Calls in CallKit
Body:
Hello,
I'm using CallKit and I am encountering challenges with handling multiple incoming calls.
Current Configuration:
configuration.maximumCallsPerCallGroup = 5
configuration.maximumCallGroups = 3
This setup aims to allow up to 5 calls per group.
Observed Behavior:
Despite the configuration, the system UI seems to limit the number of calls per group, often defaulting to "End & Accept" instead of "Hold & Accept" when a third call comes in.
Questions:
Is there a documented system-imposed limit on the number of calls per group or total calls, even if maximumCallGroups and maximumCallsPerCallGroup are set higher?
How does the system UI behave when these limits are exceeded? Are there known UI constraints or fallback behaviors?
Are there best practices for handling scenarios where the system UI cannot display all calls, such as gracefully managing incoming calls or providing alternative UI solutions?
Any insights or experiences with similar configurations would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Feel free to copy and paste this directly into the Apple Developer Forums. If you need further assistance or adjustments, let me know!
On iOS 18 and lower version, my application supports automatically switching to [System settings - Personal Hotspot] directly. But on iOS 26, my application will be redirected to [System settings- Apps].
Does iOS 26 disable the behavior of directly jumping to the system hotspot page? If support, could you share the API for iOS 26?
On macOS 26, I've run into a situation when a user “customizes” a folder icon with Finder by assigning/changing an SF Symbol or an emoji, QLThumbnailGenerator keeps returning the stale initially retrieved folder icon (no matter whether it had been customized or not) until my app quits. After the app is re-launched, the icon is correctly retrieved once again.
let generator = QLThumbnailGenerator.shared
let size: CGSize = CGSize(width: 64, height: 64)
let request = QLThumbnailGenerator.Request(fileAt: url, size: size, scale: NSScreen.main!.backingScaleFactor, representationTypes: .icon)
request.iconMode = true
do {
let thumb = try await generator.generateBestRepresentation(for: request)
thumb.nsImage.size = size
return thumb.nsImage
} catch {
print("generateThumbnail: \(error)")
return nil
}
It seems like the QuickLook Thumbnailing cache does not invalidate automatically upon folder customization. Is there any way to manually invalidate the QuickLook Thumbnailing cache?
Hi Guys,
I've been wanting to make a bettermouse-like tool for some time now, but I can't figure out how to modify mouse events to do it. I've managed to get mouse events, like the cursor moving, but I can't seem to modify them. What I try either creates a feedback loop, does absolutely nothing, or makes the cursor have a seizure. Any help is appreciated!
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App & System Services
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General