I'm currently testing the CLMonitor API and have a question about CLServiceSession management. When my app is relaunched from a terminated state in the background due to CLMonitor events, do I still need to create and maintain a CLServiceSession instance? I'm wondering if CLServiceSession is necessary even when I don't need to continuously receive GPS updates through liveUpdates. Since CLMonitor can trigger app launches for region monitoring events without requiring constant location updates, I'm unclear about whether the CLServiceSession is still required in this scenario. Any clarification on the proper implementation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

As GeoCoder is now deprecated I am struggling to get the country only information from the new MKReverseGeocoding. Maybe someone can guide me or give me direction? Or is this just not possible anymore? let request = MKReverseGeocodingRequest(location: self.lastLocation ?? fallbackLocation) request?.getMapItems { items, error in guard let items = items else { return } self.cityName = items.first?.addressRepresentations?.cityWithContext ?? "" self.countryName = items.first?.addressRepresentations?.regionName ?? "" } I couldn't find anything here, sure you can get the full Address but I need single values to store so the user can search for (example City, Country) In case the structure is always the same, let us say the country is always third part, sure I could split the string but it is not a reliable way to do this, at least for me. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello, CLServiceSession is not on macOS. Does anyone have a drop-in CLServiceSession like replacement for macOS that wraps CLLocationManager? I would like to migrate to the latest for the other platforms. FWIW I filed FB17910626 Thanks!

Pinned 2 homes address for the same contact Steps Initial check in Apple Maps No saved places or pinned addresses appear. Open Personal Contacts You have two addresses stored in your contact card: Main and Home. Pin & Edit “Main” You pinned the Main address in Maps. Refined the location on the map. Renamed it (but still saved under the type “My Home”). Open “Home” Address in Contacts Refined the location again. Changed the type to “My Home.” Attempted to rename, but no option to change the label. Final Saved Places View Shows two entries both called “Main.” Opening either of them displays the same details for the Home address. Saved Places list only shows the full address text, without the ability to rename them inside Maps. Results Both addresses appear duplicated with the same name (“Main”), even though they point to different underlying addresses. When selecting either entry, Apple Maps incorrectly shows the same Home address details. The Saved Places section does not allow renaming; it defaults to showing the full address string. Issues Identified Sync Conflict Between Contacts & Maps Apple Maps pulls labels/types from Contacts, but the edits don’t update consistently across apps. Duplicate Naming Bug Both “Main” and “Home” collapse into “Main” in Saved Places, making them indistinguishable. One-to-One Mapping Failure Regardless of which saved place you open, Maps shows the same Home entry, meaning the system isn’t correctly binding each saved place to its respective contact address. Renaming Limitation Apple Maps doesn’t allow renaming saved addresses directly — it relies on Contacts. Since Contacts only supports preset labels (Home, Work, School, etc.), custom naming is blocked.

I'm experiencing app crashes when calling the CLMonitor initialization function: let monitor = await CLMonitor("my_monitor") According to WWDC 2023: Meet Core Location Monitor, when creating a CLMonitor object with the same identifier, it should access the existing monitor without any mention of app crashes or buggy behavior. However, in my actual testing, attempting to create a CLMonitor object with the same identifier immediately causes an app crash. Here's part of the crash log: Last Exception Backtrace: 0 CoreFoundation 0x19c4ab21c __exceptionPreprocess + 164 (NSException.m:249) 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x199945abc objc_exception_throw + 88 (objc-exception.mm:356) 2 Foundation 0x19b7a9670 -[NSAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 288 (NSException.m:252) 3 CoreLocation 0x1aa25cbb4 +[CLMonitor _requestMonitorWithConfiguration:locationManager:completion:] + 516 (CLMonitor.mm:516) 4 libswiftCoreLocation.dylib 0x22bf6085c CLMonitor.init(_:) + 488 (CLMonitor.swift:280) 5 libswiftCoreLocation.dylib 0x22bf604b9 <deduplicated_symbol> + 1 6 MiniPlengi 0x106372ec9 closure #1 in static CLMonitor.loplatMonitor.getter + 1 (CLMonitor+Extensions.swift:31) 7 MiniPlengi 0x1062ce325 0x106290000 + 254757 8 MiniPlengi 0x1062f6a29 specialized thunk for @escaping @isolated(any) @callee_guaranteed @async () -> (@out A) + 1 (/<compiler-generated>:0) 9 MiniPlengi 0x1062ce325 0x106290000 + 254757 10 libswift_Concurrency.dylib 0x1a7f75241 completeTaskWithClosure(swift::AsyncContext*, swift::SwiftError*) + 1 (Task.cpp:537) Furthermore, even though I've written code to create CLMonitor objects based on a singleton structure to handle these crash cases, the app still crashes: extension CLMonitor { static var loplatMonitor: CLMonitor { get async { struct Static { static var monitor: CLMonitor? static var initializationTask: Task<CLMonitor, Never>? } // If already initialized if let monitor = Static.monitor { return monitor } // If there's an initialization task in progress, wait for its result if let task = Static.initializationTask { return await task.value } // Create new initialization task let task = Task { let monitor = await CLMonitor("my_monitor") Static.monitor = monitor Static.initializationTask = nil // Clean up task after completion return monitor } Static.initializationTask = task return await task.value } } } Is the CLMonitor API still in a stabilization phase and not recommended for production release? I would appreciate guidance on the correct usage. If these issues are expected to persist, I'm wondering if I should continue using the existing CLCircularRegion API instead. Any insights or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, We are a software and hardware development company for the forestry and environmental sectors. We have been based in Quebec (Canada) for over 30 years now. Our Canadian market covers Quebec, Ontario, and the Maritime provinces in the east. We are currently expanding across Canada and into the northern United States. We are on Android platforms with several map and data entry applications. To ensure the success of our expansion, we aim to become part of the Apple family, which is why we are contacting you today. We have developed our own GNSS receiver to increase the location accuracy of our users. It uses Bluetooth BLE to communicate with mobile devices and a high-precision GPS that transmits its position using the NMEA protocol. We would like this device to be compatible with an iPhone/iPad. We have developed a mock location application in MAUI (multi-platform). Based on our interpretation of your documentation, we understand that the concept of mock location does not exist at Apple. How can we ensure that our Bluetooth GNSS device is compatible with your iPhone/iPad devices and that they can use the position of the Bluetooth device rather than the internal GPS of your devices? We are a reseller for Juniper Systems, and we know that they have an app on the App Store that has the same features as our product. https://junipersys.com/index.php/support/article/14709 We look forward to your follow-up and recommendations.

Hello Apple Developer Team, I’m currently using Apple MapKit JS as the main map provider for our logistics, telematics, and HR platform TADMIN, and we are extremely satisfied with its reliability, accuracy, and visual quality. We would now like to expand our Apple integration by migrating our backend reverse geolocation services to Apple as well. However, our current usage requirements significantly exceed the standard 25,000 daily service request limit. At this stage, we already need between 250,000 and 350,000 reverse geocoding requests per day, and this number will continue to grow rapidly. Our TADMIN Tracking product processes live GPS data from connected vehicle telematics boxes, and each vehicle sends an average of 1.5 pings per minute in normal mode. We currently manage around 140 vehicles and are already in discussions with new customers that will add over 1,000 additional vehicles to the platform soon. As our customer base continues to expand, we expect this growth trend to accelerate significantly over the coming months. We already make extensive use of caching to minimize redundant geolocation calls. For example, we reuse location data when vehicles remain within a defined radius. However, since trucks rarely stay stationary for long, there is still a constant flow of new coordinates that require reverse geolocation. To give you a broader picture: TADMIN is a comprehensive SaaS ecosystem for the transport and logistics industry, combining HR management, telematics and tracking, dispatching, and data analysis into one integrated platform. The Tracking module is just one part of this system and serves as the live data backbone for our dispatching, HR, and telematics analytics modules. We would therefore like to increase our quotas for: Service Requests (especially Reverse Geocoding) Snapshot Requests, which we use for our Geofence Alerts. These are sent via push notification and email, and we would love to include the snapshot images in the emails for a clear and visually rich presentation MapKit JS Views, since we also use MapKit JS heavily in our web dashboards, for example in our tracking portal Higher quotas would allow us to rely even more on Apple services, including Autocomplete and Geocoding for customer-facing address searches inside our applications. We already have three apps published on the App Store, with a fourth one scheduled for release this week, and I will soon be upgrading my Apple Developer account to an Organization Account for our company. We are currently evaluating providers for this next stage of integration, as we are preparing a new major version of our TADMIN software, which will introduce a reworked telematics backend. Our goal is to migrate to Apple’s geolocation and map services as part of this new release. Could you please advise how we can best address this use case, for example through higher quotas or an adjusted configuration? Thank you very much for your time and support. Best regards, Timo Köhler Founder & CTO, TADMIN GmbH

Are the apple weather precipitation radars available through the rest API or have I hit a brickwall. Would love to have the visuals of the native overlays in my app, cant find an affordable/comparable API. Any help would be appreciated. I really need the smooth hourly scrubbing. Not keen on rendering my own with vectors yet. Thank you.

Hi, I’m a member of the Apple Developer Program and I’m planning to use Apple Maps Server API together with MapKit JS for a production, customer-facing web service. I have reviewed the Apple Developer Program License Agreement (including Schedule 6 – Apple Maps Services) and the documentation, but I still need clarification on several points to ensure that our usage fully complies with Apple’s policies. Daily quota and additional capacity From the documentation, I understand that there is a daily limit of 250,000 map views and 25,000 service calls per Apple Developer Program membership, shared between MapKit JS and Apple Maps Server API. When the 25,000 service calls are exceeded, the API returns HTTP 429. Should this limit be considered a hard limit for production use? The wording “For additional capacity needs, contact us” is unclear. Is there any official channel or program to request a higher quota, or should we assume this is not practically available and design our system to always stay within the documented limit? Caching of geocoding / reverse-geocoding results Schedule 6 section 2.5 restricts caching, prefetching, or storing map data except when temporary and only as necessary for Apple Maps Services, and any cached data must be deleted after use. To understand what “temporary” means in practice, I would like to confirm whether the following scenarios are acceptable: (a) In-memory cache during a single page or tab session: - Store geocoding results (latitude/longitude and normalized address) only in a JavaScript in-memory structure (e.g., a Map object) during the lifetime of the browser tab. - Delete all cached results when the tab is closed or after a short TTL (for example, a few minutes). (b) sessionStorage with a short TTL: - Store geocoding results in window.sessionStorage on a per-tab basis. - Apply a short TTL (for example, a few minutes), and delete the data when the TTL expires or the tab is closed. Are both (a) and (b) considered acceptable forms of “temporary caching” under section 2.5, or should we avoid sessionStorage and limit ourselves to purely in-memory (non-persistent) caching? Use on a commercial customer-facing website Our intended use case is a public website that: Displays store locations on a map Allows users to search for nearby stores Optionally shows routing directions We do not do fleet management, asset tracking, enterprise route optimization, or insurance risk scoring. Is this type of consumer-facing store-locator use case permitted under the Apple Maps Services terms? Any clarification from the Maps or MapKit teams would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Best regards, Naoto Omori

hello I am Asmaa Atine I would like to suggest an improvement for the Apple Maps app. My idea is to allow users to draw the general path they would like to follow directly on the map with their finger, and then have the app automatically generate an optimized route that follows the drawn trajectory as closely as possible. This feature would be very useful in several situations, such as: • when the user wants to pass through a specific area but the suggested routes don’t match, • when they want to avoid certain places or include a particular spot, • or when they simply want a more flexible, intuitive way to customize a route. The concept would be: 1. the user draws a rough path on the map, 2. Apple Maps interprets the drawing, 3. and then proposes the best possible route based on that drawn line. I believe this would greatly enhance the flexibility of Apple Maps and provide a more intuitive way to create personalized routes. Thank you for considering this suggestion, and congratulations on the great work already done on the app.

I am experiencing a persistent issue with my CarPlay application where images rendered within the CarPlay Template interface disappear after the application has been used for an extended period, typically during prolonged navigation. Images used directly within the CarPlay Template framework disappear. In the attached image showing the issue (IMG_1022.PNG), you can see that the icons for 'parking', 'gasstation', 'conveniencestore', and 'favoritespot' are missing. The side bar icons (car, battery, etc.) remain visible, and the text labels are present, but the Template-specific images/icons vanish. Problem Description Images displayed on a custom UIViewController remain visible. Some of our screens integrate a UIViewController (e.g., for map display), and any images rendered on that view controller (not the template itself) continue to display correctly without issue. Example Images IMG_1021.PNG (Normal/Correct Display): This image shows the SearchMenu screen with all icons displayed correctly next to their respective labels ('word', 'home', 'route', 'history', 'parking', 'gasstation', 'conveniencestore', 'favoritespot'). IMG_1022.PNG (Problem State): This image shows the same screen after prolonged use, where the icons next to 'parking', 'gasstation', 'conveniencestore', and 'favoritespot' have disappeared, leaving only the text labels. Question Has anyone encountered a similar issue? This seems to be a rendering or resource management problem specific to images within the CarPlay Template components when the application runs for an extended duration.

Hi, this is a series of questions for the Apple developers, and also for anyone that would like to speculate. How are they able to get trees marked on the in-app map? And how come they are fairly but not completely accurately marked?

Recently I noticed an app called “Lookus”. Even if I force‑kill it, it still seems to obtain information such as my charging status and network status, and it can even send real‑time notifications. I’m curious how this is technically possible. Does anyone know how this could be achieved?

Hey there, is there a way to set the z-index for MarkerAnnotations in MapkitJS? I'm loading up to 200 markers dynamically as the map moves or the user zooms and I want a few specific markers to always be at the top (the best search results). The only way I found is to always remove all markers and then add them again in the right order, but that's visually so annoying to see them disappear and animate in with every tiny movement. I thought about using a default Annotation and setting the z-index myself and trying to rebuild the balloon, including the animation when it's clicked, but the big downside is probably the performance because I won't be able to use shadow DOM elements and have 200 real DOM elements instead. Is there a solution to this right now or is it planned to add a feature like that to Mapkit JS? It's a real blocker for me right now because all the bad content always gets rendered on top when a user zooms in, because I obviously want to show the best content first when the user isn't zoomed in yet. Thank you so much in advance. I really appreciate it. Manuel

Hi everyone, I submitted a request for the Location Push Service Extension entitlement back in November. I received an acknowledgment email from Apple confirming they had received my request, but I never heard back. Assuming the November request might have been lost in the shuffle, I submitted another request in January. It's been a week since then, and I still haven’t received any response. To follow up, I contacted Apple Support with my case number. Unfortunately, it seems they didn’t review the case properly, as the support assistant just sent me generic links about what to do when an app is rejected—which doesn’t apply here. Has anyone else experienced similar delays with this entitlement? Could there be specific reasons for such delays? Any tips on how to escalate this or get it addressed effectively would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!

Hello I'd like to be able to rotate an mapkit.ImageAnnotation. From this post on Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78686475/need-to-style-a-mapkit-js-marker-annotation/78702266#78702266 I understand that it's possible, for example, to the following: map.annotations[0].element.style.cursor = "pointer"; and this works for me. However, I need to do something like the following, but it doesn't work: map.annotations[0].element.style.transform = "rotate(90deg) "; Any ideas how a mapkit.ImageAnnotation and mapkit.MarkerAnnotation can be rotated? Thanks in advance Sam

using the UseAnnotation in the map content does not show the blue user location. I added the info.plist info. Error message: CLLocationManager(<CLLocationManager: 0x300e60d40>) for <MKCoreLocationProvider: 0x303e0e6d0> did fail with error: Error Domain=kCLErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"

I am having issues loading in a mapkit snapshot. I get an error saying that https://domain.com and they're expecting domain.com. I have no idea what could be going wrong here. I set the domains properly in the mapkit tokens. When I click on the link it opens a new tab and loads what the data properly, but somehow in the application on production this error comes up.

Note: I have had issues with CMAltimeter since whats seems to have been a major undocumented modification since iOS 17.4. So I'm using the CMAltimeter absolute locations delivery. Sometimes, the altimeter seems to be in an uncalibrated mode and therefore, no altitude delivery happens. Is there a way to be inform of such state? Currently, it just doesn't work and I can't inform the user about this. They just think the app is broken What message should I give to the users to accelerate the calibration such that the CMAltimeter will work again? Also, users have reported that the CMAltimeter can temporarily stop delivering altitude updates, even though it should. So I guess my question resumes to this: Whats the best practice to handle an uncalibrated CMAltimeter? Thanks!

I'm currently developing an app with mapkit which I may submit to the Swift Student Challenge. So anyways, the app will be used completely offline. I was wondering if there was any way to include very low resolution map tiles with the app files. That way, the app never needs wifi. However, I'm not sure if this is possible, especially since the map would need to be under 20 mb. Thanks.