iPadOS 17.7.7

Problem Many developers run into a persistent “Tunnel connection failed” error when trying to connect an iPad or iPhone for debugging. Even after reconnecting USB-C or Lightning and tapping “Trust This Computer” multiple times, the connection won’t establish. The issue isn’t on the Mac — it’s the iPad not activating its tunneled connection properly. What I discovered The iPad’s Developer Mode networking stack can become unresponsive. By enabling a few developer networking options and running the “Test Responsiveness” function, the system restarts the underlying network daemons and reopens the tunnel instantly. No reboot, no re-pairing, no resets required. Prerequisites iPad with Developer Mode enabled iPad and Mac on the same Wi-Fi network (or paired once via USB for trust) Xcode compatible with your iPad’s iOS version Steps to fix On your iPad, open Settings → Developer. Scroll to Networking and turn on: Network Link Conditioner → On Network Override → On Under the same Networking section, tap Responsiveness

I’m using a 9th gen iPad, updated iPadOS 26 a few weeks ago, but I can’t use the 3D background, can’t find any way to use the 3D background. Is it a system issue or is it my iPad’s issue?

Since iPadOS 26.1 I notice a new annoying bug when changing the dark mode option of the system. The appearance of the UI changes, but no longer for view controllers which are presented as Popover. For these view controllers the method traitCollectionDidChange() is still called (though sometimes with a very large delay), but checking the traitCollection property of the view controller in there does no longer return the correct appearance (which is probably why the visual appearance of the popover doesn't change anymore). So if the dark mode was just switched on, traitCollectionDidChange() is called, but the traitCollection.userInterfaceStyle property still tells me that the system is in normal mode. More concrete, traitCollection.userInterfaceStyle seems to be set correctly only(!) when opening the popover, and while the popover is open, it is never updated anymore when the dark mode changes. This is also visible in the standard Apps of the iPad, like the Apple Maps App: just tap on the map icon at th

I have an iOS/iPadOS app and 'm trying to communicate with usb smart card reader using CryptoTokenKit on all platforms (ios/ipados/macos). Minimal Repro Code import CryptoTokenKit import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State var status = var body: some View { VStack { Text(Status: (status)) } .padding() .onAppear { let manager = TKSmartCardSlotManager.default if manager != nil { status = Initialized } else { status = Unsupported } } } } And my entitlement file has only one key: com.apple.security.smartcard = YES Behavior • iPadOS (on device): status = Initialized ✅ • macOS (native macOS app, with the required CryptoTokenKit entitlement): status = Initialized ✅ • macOS (Designed for iPad, regardless of CryptoTokenKit entitlement): status = Unsupported → TKSmartCardSlotManager.default is nil ❌ Expectation Given that the same iPadOS build initializes TKSmartCardSlotManager, I expected the iPad app running in Designed for iPad mode on Apple silicon Mac to behave the same (

I have an iPad app that supports multiple scenes. I discovered some issues with my app's user interface that I would like to tweak based on whether the user has setup multitasking (in iPadOS 26) as Full Screen Apps or Windowed Apps. Is there any API or way to determine the current iPadOS 26 multitasking setting? I've looked at UIDevice.current.isMultitaskingSupported and UIApplication.shared.supportsMultipleScenes. Both always return true no matter the user's chosen multitasking choice. I also looked at UIWindowScene isFullScreen which was always false. I tried to look at UIWindowScene windowingBehaviors but that was always nil.

TN 3115 states that apps that do not use AccessorySetupKit will loose the ability to launch into the background to service bluetooth in iOS26. Starting in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, only apps that use AccessorySetupKit to setup Bluetooth accessories will be relaunched. Is there any more information regarding this? Will it affect any app under iOS26 or only those build against the iOS26 SDK? My app (dev build) is still relaunched, even though I'm running iOS26, so I wonder if there are any more conditions checked.