Hi, I'm developing an independent WatchOS application, and trying to use background URL sessions to download new content for complication update. I think my download tasks are scheduled up appropriately, during a background refresh, following all documented guidelines from apple documentation. Everything seems to work as intended on the simulator. But when running on the real device (from XCode, using a self-signed certificate), the updates become quite unreliable (and the debug process is very frustrating btw). Most of the times, the scheduled download never finishes until the app returns to foreground. And I get the following error in the logs : BackgroundSession ... connection to background transfer daemon [interrupted | invalidated] I read that this might be due to a code signing issue. Does it mean that I have to register to an apple developer account to get it working on the real device ? (Needless to say that I'm not naturally inclined to subscribe while I'm not sure to get the app running as intended...) Thanks a lot for any help

I'm trying to build a WatchOS 9 corner complication with WidgetKit (using Xcode 14 beta 3). I'd like my complication to look like the battery one in the bottom right corner. Here's my view: struct HydrationProgressCorner: View {     var entry: Provider.Entry     var body: some View {         Text("\((100 * entry.progress / entry.target).rounded(.towardZero).formatted())%")             .widgetLabel {                 ProgressView(value: entry.progress, total: entry.target)                     .tint(.blue)                     .widgetAccentable()             }     } } How can I get my text to follow the curvature of the watch face?

When an iPhone is paired with an Apple Watch and receives a critical alert, no sound is played. This makes it very easy to miss such notifications and defeats entirely the purpose of critical alerts. For context, we build an app that improves the care coordination of heart attacks. We send critical alerts to notify healthcare professionals of such emergencies. These events may occur at night, when the user does not wear the Watch, and will therefore be likely to miss the notification entirely, which can be catastrophic. I have searched online thoroughly for work-arounds but have not found anything. Others have asked this before elsewhere but have not found definitive answers: link. Is there anything we can do as developers to force critical alerts to be handled by the phone, or at least to force the phone to ring when receiving a critical alert? Edit: I am aware that in the Watch app, it is possible to prevent notifications from being mirrored by the Watch. However, this requires the end user to exit my app and navigate their settings. It is also impossible for my app to check if this was done correctly. As such, I am completely in the blind as to whether the user has set up their notifications correctly.

Hi all, I am working with an older watch app that still uses the older template that combines the WatchKit App and WatchKit App Extension targets. While trying to migrate the ClockKit complication to the new WidgetKit complication, I cannot get the widget complications to load anything from user defaults. It seems like the widget complications are not using the same user defaults as the watch app though being in the same App Group. I experimented with a new watch app using the new SwiftUI template and the WidgetKit complication was able to load data from user default successfully. Did anyone got WidgetKit complication to load data successfully from user default with the older watch app template? Thanks in advance!

Hi, Where can we detect the widget URL when a user press a complication for both ClockKit and SwiftUI?

I recently raised this post explaining how I couldn't seem to get watchOS 9 complications to work, and I've figured out a partial fix. The original post details the issues with complications - and some are still valid - but this fix applies to both my complications and Home Screen / Lock Screen widgets. I was following the various WWDC 2020/2022 videos and the Emoji Rangers sample code, adding bits here and there, and assuming they were completely valid. Sadly, this bit of code in the widget's dynamic intents IntentTimelineProvider getTimeline really just banjaxed everything: // Create entries for one day, 15 minutes apart let currentDate = Date() for minuteOffset in stride(from: 0, to: 60 * 60 * 24, by: 15) { let entryDate = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .minute, value: minuteOffset, to: currentDate)! entries.append(EventEntry(date: entryDate, event: event)) } If I remove that, and generate a different timeline with specific dates and times (for example: now, in 10 mins, in 2 hours, in a day, etc.) the complications appear correctly, as do Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. The outstanding issues with complications are: The previews all use the same data, but getSnapshot() is supposed to return the data specific to that event from the configuration, i.e. if let theId = configuration.event?.identifier. "Christmas" is correct, but "Gallery Opening" is using Christmas's data. Once I've selected the event I want to use in a complication the edit screen shows it as totally blank, not even a placeholder: I hope this little fix works for you guys. And, if you know how to fix the above issues, let me know. (iOS 16.1 beta 1, Xcode 14.1 beta 1)

I've implemented delegate method suggested in the article https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/converting-a-clockkit-app and double (even triple) checked kind and extensionBundleIdentifier of my StaticConfiguration But when I install the app version containing WidgetKit complications they don't replace old ones from ClockKit on the watch face. In the same time old complications are not displayed - I see empty slots. When I check setup in Watch app on the phone I see that old complications remain assigned. If I switch manually to WatchKit based they work fine. It would be helpful if Coffee Tracker code example (referenced in WWDC video and documentation) become updated with migration code.

I like to keep my apps watch face complication up to date when the user completes an activity but calling WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines() is not working as well as the old complication update now I want to go back to complications. I used to call CLKComplicationServer.sharedInstance().reloadTimeline(for: <#T##CLKComplication#>) which would update my complication instantly. The simulator seams to up date widgets immediately but now my app has been released pn the App Store it is not updating. Any one else experiencing this.

I'm trying to migrate from Complication with CLKComplication to WidgetKit. I have implemented the required methods in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit/converting-a-clockkit-app, but the migration is not working. There is no evidence that the method for migration is also called. It was the same with Xcode 14.0.1 and Xcode 14.1RC. class ComplicationController: NSObject, CLKComplicationDataSource, CLKComplicationWidgetMigrator { ...     @available(watchOS 9.0, *)     var widgetMigrator: CLKComplicationWidgetMigrator {         return self     }     @available(watchOS 9.0, *)     func widgetConfiguration(from complicationDescriptor: CLKComplicationDescriptor) async -> CLKComplicationWidgetMigrationConfiguration? {         return CLKComplicationStaticWidgetMigrationConfiguration(kind: "MyWidget", extensionBundleIdentifier: "com.example.myapp.mywatchkitapp.mywidget")     } } What's wrong? Has anyone been able to migrate?

I’m trying to create complications für the Watch using the new WidgetKit. While the complications do show up fine in the preview in Xcode and also in the Simulator, on a real device the complications do never shown anything. The complications are listed and can be selected in the watch face settings, but the preview is always black, and when added to a watch face, it shows nothing. I can tap on this „nothing“ and the App launches, so the complication is actually there. But it doesn’t show anything. This is also true for the Watch App on the iPhone, which lets me add the complications to a watch face, but it also shows nothing. But in the Simulator everything works as expected, the complications show their content just fine. So it looks like the code is fine. The iPhone runs the iOS 16.1, and the watch runs watchOS 9.1 (right now the latest public releases) Does anyone having the same issue and maybe a solution or a hint, what exactly I should check?

Hello, I try to add a couple of Complications to my App. Most of the Complications needs to be Configurable, so I use an IntentConfiguration for them. I use this recommendations function to create my complications.     func recommendations() -> [IntentRecommendation<ConfigurationIntent>] {         var recommendations = [IntentRecommendation<ConfigurationIntent>]()        for vehicle in vehicleStatusList {             let intent = ConfigurationIntent() intent.vehicleItem = VehicleItem(identifier: vehicle.id, display: vehicle.name)             recommendations.append(IntentRecommendation(intent:  intent, description: vehicle.name))         }         return recommendations     } But with this I get the result from the screenshot... How can I change this to get a better User Experience? When I click one item in the List, I get a correct Complication. But it would be nice to have a change to name them correctly... The first in the List is a StaticConfiguration...

I’ve created a single-target watchOS app in Xcode 14, but I can’t seem to get ClockKit complications working. I’ve added a CLKComplicationDataSource class to my watch target, and in the Info pane for my target I have set the CLKComplicationPrincipalClass key to MODULE-NAME.ComplicationController I haven’t yet added Complication placeholder images to my Assets.xcassets, but as far as I am aware, that shouldn’t be a problem while I am still testing. However, when I run it on a watchOS simulator, the complications never show up on the watch complications list when adding a complication. All of the tutorials I can find for ClockKit complications reference older two-target WatchKit apps. Do the newer single target apps no longer support ClockKit? If so, how can I make a two-target WatchKit app with Xcode 14? Unfortunately I cannot use WidgetKit for my complications because I need to support watchOS 7 at least, and WidgetKit only supports watchOS 9+ Thanks for your help

I have an apple watch series 1 that I am attempting to pair but it says it cant find a software update because I am not connecting to the internet. But i am. Any advice? Is this watch even compatible with my phone?

Anyone got a fix? I’ve tried multiple iPhones all are updated. I reset the watch multiple times and still stuck on the error Unable to Check for Update Checking for a software update failed because you are not connected to the Internet.

I have a project on watchOS with Complications. Right now it works like this in ClockKit, when the app is not running on the watch, transferCurrentComplicationUserInfo method is utilized to manage the transfer of user information. This involves the ComplicationController being launched by the system, which then initiates the WCSession to receive data and update complications. My issue: How should I implement real-time update of complications transferCurrentComplicationUserInfo does not guarantee that my app will be launched by the system?

I want to create interactive watch face widget in a way, so user can see some data from my app on the Watch Face widget and then tap on the widget (complication) to change the data without moving inside the app. Does it possible? Or after the tap user always will be moved inside my app? I saw interactive widgets was introduced for iOS and macOS on WWDC23 https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10028. But can smth like that be developed for WatchOS?

Anyone who has successfully migrated to using WidgetKit for their Apple Watch complications, your help would be greatly appreciated! I've migrated to WidgetKit for my Watch app. On the Apple Watch Face Editor, the new Widget names and options appear correctly. However, on the iPhone Apple Watch app, it offers both WidgetKit and old ClockKit complications... this should not be. I also have found rendering issues where Watch Faces on the main My Watch tab have blank gaps for WidgetKit complications, when selecting the Watch Face they then render (see photos) I've put in a feedback FB12460375 Have tried a full clear and reinstall of my app on both devices, no change. This issue occurs on WatchOS 9.5.2 / iOS 16.5.1 and WatchOS 10 Beta 2 / iOS 17 Beta 2 Any other ideas?