I'm seeing a Live Activity that's ended almost immediately after I'm creating it. I'm not ending the activity in my code, so something is happening at the system level. iOS version is 18.3.1. Looking at the logs for liveactivitiesd, I see that it was successfully created: default 12:57:34.837266-0800 liveactivitiesd Created activity: 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B default 12:57:34.837639-0800 liveactivitiesd Starting activity: identifier: 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B; createdDate: 2025-02-17 20:57:34 +0000; state: active; deviceIdentifier: local; resolvedContentSources: [ActivityKit.ActivityContentSource.process(target: <snip>), ActivityKit.ActivityContentSource.sync]; lastUpdateDate: 2025-02-17 20:57:34 +0000; endingOptions: nil default 12:57:34.858701-0800 liveactivitiesd Activity did start 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B But then moments later, it's immediately ended: default 12:57:34.933963-0800 liveactivitiesd Ending activity 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B for XPC participant content source <private> default 12:57:34.933983-0800 liveactivitiesd Stopping activity: 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B default 12:57:34.934019-0800 liveactivitiesd Activity: identifier: 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B; createdDate: 2025-02-17 20:57:34 +0000; state: active; deviceIdentifier: local; resolvedContentSources: [ActivityKit.ActivityContentSource.process(target: <snip>), ActivityKit.ActivityContentSource.sync]; lastUpdateDate: 2025-02-17 20:57:34 +0000; endingOptions: nil should be discarded now default 12:57:34.934442-0800 liveactivitiesd Activity discarded: 22713DF6-E853-4B34-85FA-CD08D8FCA91B Again, I'm not ending this activity in my code. I'll occasionally see this happen in my app, and the only solution I've found is to restart my device. Afterwards, everything seems fine. Is this a bug?

Hi there, This is my first time posting here. I'm working on small projects on Swift and SwiftUI now and then. I'm currently trying to develop an application that gets some bus arrival data using API and displaying them with live activities. The thing is that I'm not quite sure how frequently updates work yet. Still trying to figure out if I can update the live activity everytime the data coming right from the API changes or use push notification updates each minute passing by, but that is another thread that I'm going to focus with more details. Everytime i'm trying to deploy my app on my iphone or a simulator this error keeps popping up and I can't figure out why. Any ideas? Let me know if you need any snippet of my code. SendProcessControlEvent:toPid: encountered an error: Error Domain=com.apple.dt.deviceprocesscontrolservice Code=8 "Failed to show Widget 'com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit' error: Error Domain=FBSOpenApplicationServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "The request to open "com.apple.springboard" failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The request was denied by service delegate (SBMainWorkspace)., BSErrorCodeDescription=RequestDenied, NSUnderlyingError=0xb1282dfe0 {Error Domain=SBAvocadoDebuggingControllerErrorDomain Code=1 "Failed to get descriptors for extensionBundleID (com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit)" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to get descriptors for extensionBundleID (com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit)}}, FBSOpenApplicationRequestID=0xe5da, NSLocalizedDescription=The request to open "com.apple.springboard" failed.}." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to show Widget 'com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit' error: Error Domain=FBSOpenApplicationServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "The request to open "com.apple.springboard" failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The request was denied by service delegate (SBMainWorkspace)., BSErrorCodeDescription=RequestDenied, NSUnderlyingError=0xb1282dfe0 {Error Domain=SBAvocadoDebuggingControllerErrorDomain Code=1 "Failed to get descriptors for extensionBundleID (com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit)" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to get descriptors for extensionBundleID (com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit)}}, FBSOpenApplicationRequestID=0xe5da, NSLocalizedDescription=The request to open "com.apple.springboard" failed.}., NSUnderlyingError=0xb1281d830 {Error Domain=FBSOpenApplicationServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "The request to open "com.apple.springboard" failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=The request was denied by service delegate (SBMainWorkspace)., BSErrorCodeDescription=RequestDenied, NSUnderlyingError=0xb1282dfe0 {Error Domain=SBAvocadoDebuggingControllerErrorDomain Code=1 "Failed to get descriptors for extensionBundleID (com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit)" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to get descriptors for extensionBundleID (com.gregorikouk.MapKitTut.BusWidgetKit)}}, FBSOpenApplicationRequestID=0xe5da, NSLocalizedDescription=The request to open "com.apple.springboard" failed.}}} Domain: DTXMessage Code: 1 User Info: { DVTErrorCreationDateKey = "2023-10-02 21:06:04 +0000"; } -- System Information macOS Version 14.0 (Build 23A344) Xcode 15.0 (22265) (Build 15A240d) Timestamp: 2023-10-03T00:06:04+03:00

we have three problem when using the push notification on Live Activity. 1. What is the specific callback strategy for the activityUpdates property in ActivityKit? We found that in actual user scenarios, there is a probability that we may not receive callbacks. From the community experience, there are some resource optimization strategies that do not perform callbacks. From this perspective, the explanation is kind of vague. Is there any clear feedback to understand why callbacks are performed/not performed? 2.what is the specific description of the wake-up strategy, when background app receive Live Activity offline start Push? From community experience, we can see that the system may wake up for a duration of 0-30s due to resource optimization strategies, or not wake up/not deal with it. Is there an official description of the wake-up strategy? or we also have to follow this description: Wake up of apps using content-available pushes are heavily throttled. You can expect 1-2 wakeup per hour as a best case scenario in the hands of your users. so this cannot be assumed to be a reliable wake-up on demand mechanism for an app. 3 How can we determine user have selected (allow or always allow) of the Live Activity permission? When we use real-time activity offline push, there are two system prompts in iOS: the first prompt : allow and disallow real-time activity the second prompt : always allow and disallow Is there an interface that can directly determine which permission the user has chosen (allow/always allow)? (By the way, we can get disallow status). At present, we haven't seen any interface in the official documentation/interface that can determine (allow/always allow). The difference here will affect the generation of Update Token. Without Update Token, we can not update our activity instance.

not sure where to post this hence adding here. how to run in this full screen mode even when the screen is locked. As far as I looked, it’s only live activities that the developers are made available with. Is there a way to create our own UI on lockscreen, given a similar usecase exists?

How to execute code on main app when interacted with a live activity, given that they are already interactable. is there a way without opening the app? what are the best ways?

Is it possible to display a live activity on the lock-screen without a dynamic island? Or at least without expanding the dynamic island more than just for a small icon? struct SomeWidgetLiveActivity: Widget { var body: some WidgetConfiguration { ActivityConfiguration(for: SomeAttributes.self) { context in } dynamicIsland: { context in DynamicIsland { DynamicIslandExpandedRegion(.leading) { // Seems to be mandatory, any way around it? } } compactLeading: { } compactTrailing: { } minimal: { } } I couldn't quite find a way. Thank you

i got some problem for the LiveAcitvity when i start it with notification. The LiveActivity can not show,but it can work when i update or end a LiveActitvity; And so,i think my configeration is right like the code; thanks in advance

Hello everyone, I have an app leveraging SwiftData, App Intents, Interactive Widgets, and a Control Center Widget. I recently added Live Activity support, and I’m using an App Intent to trigger the activity whenever the model changes. When the App Intent is called from within the app, the Live Activity is created successfully and appears on both the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. However, if the same App Intent is invoked from a widget, the model is updated as expected, but no Live Activity is started. Here’s the relevant code snippet where I call the Live Activity: ` await LiveActivityManager.shared.newSessionActivity(session: session) And here’s how my attribute is defined: struct ContentState: Codable, Hashable { var session: Session } } Is there any known limitation or workaround for triggering a Live Activity when the App Intent is initiated from a widget? Any guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! David

Live activity does not update its content's text color when the iPhone goes to sleep mode. Only the background color of live activity changes to dark mode but all the contents stay in light mode.

I've built an app that supports live activities, but when trying to build and deploy I'm getting the error: Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile doesn't include the com.apple.developer.live-activity entitlement." Looking in Xcode - under signing and provisions, there is no "Live Activity" option to select. Looking in the developer portal, similarly under Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles, there is no "Live Activity" option. I've added com.apple.developer.live-activity to my entitlements file for both my widget and my main app target, and added NSSupportsLiveActivities to my info.plist files. I'm building on Xcode Version 16.0 Any ideas on how to fix this? Super confused! Thanks in advance!

My app will be woken when Activity.pushToStartTokenUpdates delivered the new token. But I want to know how can I get the activity.pushTokenUpdates when my server start an live activity via push notification, because without the activity.pushTokenUpdates, my server can't deliver update information after start the live activity. For now, I check the activities when my app switch foreground/background. But how can I be notified when my app is in foreground and server start an live activity by push notification. I've tried "content-available": 1 in LA's payload aps, but I also can't be notified in the didReceiveRemoteNotification in appDelegate.

I have a UIApplicationDelegate, where I want to terminate a live activity (in dynamic island) in applicationWillTerminate. However, ending an activity is asynchronous. When I end it within a Task, it's never called.

For devices running iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 or later, you can add input-push-token: 1 to your payload to start a Live Activity and receive a new push token. After you receive a new push token, you can use it to send updates to a Live Activity. I read from https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ActivityKit/starting-and-updating-live-activities-with-activitykit-push-notifications#Start-new-Live-Activities-with-ActivityKit-push-notifications that I can start a live activity from CUSTOM SERVER by the start token I get from MyApp.Does that paragraph means my CUSTOM SERVER can receive a new token from aps? If not, how can update the live activity started by Push-Notification when MyApp doesn't alive? And what "input-push-token: 1 " can do, when I put it in the payloads?

Our app occasionally crashes when creating a Live Activity using ActivityKit. Crash log analysis indicates a wild pointer issue originating within ActivityKit. The crash appears to be linked to the coexistence of multiple Live Activities. Could this be a compatibility issue with ActivityKit? We would appreciate any guidance or potential workarounds to resolve this issue. Looking forward to your response. Thread 0 Crashed: 0 ActivityKit 0x000000023023d034 0x230235000 + 32820 ( + 13792) 1 ActivityKit 0x000000023023d014 0x230235000 + 32788 ( + 13760) 2 Combine 0x00000001ac5bd168 0x1ac5b5000 + 33128 ( + 292) 3 Combine 0x00000001ac5c0658 0x1ac5b5000 + 46680 ( + 24) 4 Combine 0x00000001ac5d1714 0x1ac5b5000 + 116500 ( + 204) 5 Combine 0x00000001ac5c8da0 0x1ac5b5000 + 81312 ( + 24) 6 Combine 0x00000001ac5e8e98 0x1ac5b5000 + 212632 ( + 2520) 7 Combine 0x00000001ac5d1a4c 0x1ac5b5000 + 117324 ( + 24) 8 Combine 0x00000001ac68316c 0x1ac5b5000 + 844140 ( + 56) 9 Combine 0x00000001ac5d4a4c 0x1ac5b5000 + 129612 ( + 176) 10 Combine 0x00000001ac5bd43c 0x1ac5b5000 + 33852 ( + 392) 11 Combine 0x00000001ac5b7198 0x1ac5b5000 + 8600 ( + 24) 12 Combine 0x00000001ac5ead74 0x1ac5b5000 + 220532 ( + 712) 13 Combine 0x00000001ac5e2320 0x1ac5b5000 + 185120 ( + 24) 14 Combine 0x00000001ac5bfe74 0x1ac5b5000 + 44660 ( + 488) 15 Combine 0x00000001ac5b81b8 0x1ac5b5000 + 12728 ( + 24) 16 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8804 0x1ac5b5000 + 14340 (Just.receive(subscriber:) + 424) 17 Combine 0x00000001ac5f7a7c 0x1ac5b5000 + 273020 (Publishers.Merge.receive(subscriber:) + 820) 18 Combine 0x00000001ac5d9850 0x1ac5b5000 + 149584 (PublisherBox.receive(subscriber:) + 108) 19 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8154 0x1ac5b5000 + 12628 (AnyPublisher.receive(subscriber:) + 64) 20 Combine 0x00000001ac5dc9cc 0x1ac5b5000 + 162252 ( + 548) 21 Combine 0x00000001ac5dc764 0x1ac5b5000 + 161636 (Publishers.HandleEvents.receive(subscriber:) + 620) 22 Combine 0x00000001ac5d9850 0x1ac5b5000 + 149584 (PublisherBox.receive(subscriber:) + 108) 23 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8154 0x1ac5b5000 + 12628 (AnyPublisher.receive(subscriber:) + 64) 24 Combine 0x00000001ac5d92e8 0x1ac5b5000 + 148200 (Publishers.FlatMap.receive(subscriber:) + 416) 25 Combine 0x00000001ac5dc9cc 0x1ac5b5000 + 162252 ( + 548) 26 Combine 0x00000001ac5d9850 0x1ac5b5000 + 149584 (PublisherBox.receive(subscriber:) + 108) 27 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8154 0x1ac5b5000 + 12628 (AnyPublisher.receive(subscriber:) + 64) 28 Combine 0x00000001ac5f062c 0x1ac5b5000 + 243244 (Publishers.CompactMap.receive(subscriber:) + 572) 29 Combine 0x00000001ac5d9850 0x1ac5b5000 + 149584 (PublisherBox.receive(subscriber:) + 108) 30 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8154 0x1ac5b5000 + 12628 (AnyPublisher.receive(subscriber:) + 64) 31 Combine 0x00000001ac5e64e4 0x1ac5b5000 + 201956 (Publishers.SetFailureType.receive(subscriber:) + 552) 32 Combine 0x00000001ac5d92e8 0x1ac5b5000 + 148200 (Publishers.FlatMap.receive(subscriber:) + 416) 33 Combine 0x00000001ac5dc9cc 0x1ac5b5000 + 162252 ( + 548) 34 Combine 0x00000001ac5d9850 0x1ac5b5000 + 149584 (PublisherBox.receive(subscriber:) + 108) 35 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8154 0x1ac5b5000 + 12628 (AnyPublisher.receive(subscriber:) + 64) 36 Combine 0x00000001ac5f062c 0x1ac5b5000 + 243244 (Publishers.CompactMap.receive(subscriber:) + 572) 37 Combine 0x00000001ac5d9850 0x1ac5b5000 + 149584 (PublisherBox.receive(subscriber:) + 108) 38 Combine 0x00000001ac5b8154 0x1ac5b5000 + 12628 (AnyPublisher.receive(subscriber:) + 64) 39 Combine 0x00000001ac5bdd68 0x1ac5b5000 + 36200 (Publishers.ReceiveOn.receive(subscriber:) + 812) 40 Combine 0x00000001ac5f1e10 0x1ac5b5000 + 249360 (Publisher.sink(receiveCompletion:receiveValue:) + 304) 41 ActivityKit 0x00000002302594a0 0x230235000 + 148640 ( + 6064) 42 ActivityKit 0x0000000230258c18 0x230235000 + 146456 ( + 3880) 43 ActivityKit 0x0000000230258410 0x230235000 + 144400 ( + 1824) 44 ActivityKit 0x0000000230258124 0x230235000 + 143652 ( + 1076) 45 ActivityKit 0x0000000230258080 0x230235000 + 143488 ( + 912) 46 ActivityKit 0x000000023026d280 0x230235000 + 230016 ( + 4228) 47 ActivityKit 0x000000023026d39c 0x230235000 + 230300 ( + 4512) 48 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59e7f4 0x1ac59d000 + 6132 ( + 28) 49 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac5a5a90 0x1ac59d000 + 35472 ( + 16) 50 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59f97c 0x1ac59d000 + 10620 ( + 188) 51 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59fa90 0x1ac59d000 + 10896 ( + 28) 52 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59f5ec 0x1ac59d000 + 9708 ( + 28) 53 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001ab37feac 0x1ab37c000 + 16044 ( + 20) 54 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001ab38f428 0x1ab37c000 + 78888 ( + 56) 55 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59ef38 0x1ac59d000 + 7992 ( + 180) 56 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59e0dc 0x1ac59d000 + 4316 ( + 56) 57 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59ec48 0x1ac59d000 + 7240 ( + 396) 58 libswiftDispatch.dylib 0x00000001ac59e188 0x1ac59d000 + 4488 (OS_dispatch_queue.sync(execute:) + 164) 59 ActivityKit 0x000000023026be70 0x230235000 + 224880 ( + 3228) 60 ActivityKit 0x000000023026b400 0x230235000 + 222208 ( + 556) 61 ActivityKit 0x00000002302d10b4 0x230235000 + 639156 ( + 25780) 62 ActivityKit 0x00000002302d0cd0 0x230235000 + 638160 ( + 24784) 63 ActivityKit 0x00000002302d0b94 0x230235000 + 637844 ( + 24468) 64 xxxx 0x0000000100919638 specialized static LiveActivityManager.startActivity(title:) + 169528 (LiveActivityManager.swift:96)

Is there a way to implement controls for background audio using ActivityKit like in the Apple Music application? I didn't found anything in your documentation about handling actions like this except deep links, but they're not suitable for this use case