Hi Apple Team, We’ve noticed a couple of issues with launching default App Clip in safari and would appreciate your guidance. App Clip Popup Timing: When launching the App Clip using default URL, we sometimes see the small App Clip popup appear before the App Clip banner is displayed. Ideally, the banner should appear first. Cached URL Handling: In certain cases, the App Clip appears to be using a cached URL instead of the most recent one. For example, when we invoke two different App Clip URLs with unique parameters, the App Clip sometimes launches using the previous URL’s data instead of the new one. This behavior is inconsistent and makes it difficult to ensure users are directed to the correct experience each time. Could you please help us understand whether this is expected behavior or if there are any known issues or recommended solutions? Thank you for your time and support. Example

Hi, As a company, we have several apps in the AppStore that contain AppClips. With the latest iOS18 it works without any problems. With all iOS26 betas so far, however, there is always the problem “ASDErrorDomain- Error 507” and the AppClip cannot be opened. You can easily test this by scanning the following QR code with the system camera: You only ever get this error instead of the option to open the AppClip. As the iOS26 beta phase is already at an advanced stage, we are naturally concerned as to whether the problem will be solved.

We're building a UGC AR app and are leveraging App Clips to distribute AR experiences without app download. Since earlier this week, many of our users are reporting sharing experiences as App Clip doesn't work anymore. They are getting the message "AppClip unavailable" on a little card. We attached a QR code to try it yourself and a link to a different experience. We tried with multiple experiences and on multiple devices already. https://scenery.app/experience/1C925FDE-E49A-489B-BA14-58A4E532E645 Interestingly, we can't pinpoint the issue to an exact device or OS. We tested on many devices and on most, the AppClip is being displayed as unavailable, stating "App Clip unavailable", whereas it works on a few. It all worked fine last week (before September 12th). iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS26: works iPhone SE, iOS 17: works iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 26: doesn't work iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 26: doesn't work iPhone 12 mini, iOS 18: does not work iPad 9th gen, iOS 26: doesn't work Please help. Our users are very dissatisfied as they expect this to work and it's a crucial feature. We already filed a radar via Feedback assistant: FB20303890

I am working on an iOS app and I want to achieve on demand module download inside the app when the user clicks on the module icon which he wants to use. The idea is that we have a super app consisting of multiple modules say four independent apps/features and I want to separate each one so that when the user selects a specific app/feature, it’s downloaded on demand and then opened directly within the same super app resulting in a lower app size initially I want to upload all the code of all modules to app store connect but when the user downloads the app, then only one module's code should be available to the user, the rest of the module's code should be downloaded when the user wants to use that module. I know apple restricts downloading new code but in my case I want to upload all the code to app store for review but just give option to the user to get rest of the code when needed. Any guidance, architectural advice, or example implementations would be highly appreciated.

Unexpected behavior encountered when scanning NFC tags. Imagine a link shortener web service where users can create lots of different URLs that are hosted on the same domain eg, https://short.com/unique-path The service has optional App Clip capability -- users can select any of their links and have the service create an App Clip for the selected link(s). Users can encode their URLs into NFC tags and have their customers scan NFC tags. Let's take just two URLs for example: https://short.com/foo https://short.com/bar The /foo link does have an App Clip associated with it while /bar does not have it. Each link has been encoded into appropriate NFC tag. Expected behavior when scanning from an iPhone: /foo -- shows an App Clip popup. /bar -- shows a "Open in Safari" default notification. What's actually happening /foo -- opens App Clip poput with correct metadata (title, subtitle, image) which is totally expected behavior. /bar (the one that doesn't have app clip associated with it) -- opens an App-Clip-like popup with the following error: CPSErrorDomainError 2 (see attachment below) So for some reason when someone scans an NFC tag with a URL that is not an App Clip and never has been -- it always shows that error regardless whether the URL exists or does not exist. I've tried few different/random URLs (which don't have an App Clip associated with it) and all of them show the same error. Additional details: All links use the same domain and URL format: domain.com/path where path is a short string of random a-Z characters. All App Clips are created at the same iOS app. AASA is good: Cache and Debug -- both green. This issue has happened to lots of users on lots of different iPhones and iOS'. Since the issue's been happening to lots of different users on different iPhone(s)/iOS' no sysdiagnose is attached. Actually it works the same on every device/iOS we've tried. Before submitting the issue, I've found few other developers reporting the same issue. What's interesting though is none of the links I've went through comes with a definite answer and it seems like this issue just randomly comes and goes without any specific changes on the server and/or iOS app. Dropping the links of similar issues below. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/671433 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/665969 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/775316 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/764545

Hello, I would like to understand the update behavior for App Clips. Let's consider a scenario where a user has an App Clip on their device from a previous interaction. If I, as the developer, then publish a new version of the App Clip to the App Store, what is the expected behavior? My main questions are: Will the App Clip be automatically updated in the background? Or, is user action required to get the new version, for example, by deleting the old one and re-launching it from a Smart App Banner or QR code? Any information on this process would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hey everyone, hoping someone here has run into this before. I have a fully functional App Clip (com.didyoucatchit.app.Clip) linked to my main app (com.didyoucatchit.app). The Clip builds and runs perfectly, but I’m seeing issues trying to enable Apple Pay for it. When I try to link my Merchant ID under the “On Demand Install Capable” capability in the Apple Developer portal, I get this error: A relationship in the provided entity is not allowed for this request. The relationship 'undefined' can not be included in a 'bundleIdCapabilities' request. Here’s what I have already configured and confirmed: App Clip capabilities in Xcode include: Apple Pay Payment Processing Associated Domains (appclips:app.didyoucatchit.com) Provisioning profile includes: Apple Pay Payment Processing Associated Domains In-App Purchase On-Demand Install Capable Entitlements file for the Clip: <key>com.apple.developer.associated-domains</key> <array> <string>appclips:app.didyoucatchit.com</string> </array> <key>com.apple.developer.in-app-payments</key> <array> <string>merchant.com.didyoucatchit.app</string> </array> <key>com.apple.developer.parent-application-identifiers</key> <array> <string>$(AppIdentifierPrefix)com.didyoucatchit.app</string> </array> Merchant ID (merchant.com.didyoucatchit.app) is active and connected to Stripe Stripe Apple Pay configuration matches the same merchant ID and certificate Both provisioning profiles have been refreshed and downloaded However: The portal still throws the “relationship 'undefined'” error anytime I try to modify the Clip’s capabilities In testing, Apple Pay doesn’t show up as a payment option in the Clip (using Stripe’s Payment Element integration) Questions: Is this a known issue with the Developer portal when linking App Clips to merchant IDs? Is there a specific way to re-establish the parent–child relationship between the main app and the App Clip so the bundleIdCapabilities request includes the proper relationship JSON? Are there any additional configuration steps required when using Stripe for Apple Pay inside an App Clip? System Setup: Xcode: 16.2 (build 16C5032a) macOS: Sequoia 15.3.1 iOS: 18.5 (testing on physical device) Merchant ID: merchant.com.didyoucatchit.app Main App ID: com.didyoucatchit.app App Clip ID: com.didyoucatchit.app.Clip Any help or insight would be hugely appreciated Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I’m having an issue with an AppClip (uncompressed size 14.8 MB, iOS 17+) that’s supposed to launch from physical QR codes installed on devices in the field. The AppClip works perfectly when invoked via a web referrer, but scanning the physical QR code leads to a "App Clip is unavailable" card. Even testing with an Apple-provided App Clip Code doesn’t work. Everything seems to meet Apple’s requirements, so I’m not sure what’s causing this. Has anyone encountered this or know how to fix it? Thanks in advance for any insights!

I have published the app on the App Store along with its corresponding app clip, my app clip is configured with some advanced experiences for each one of my clients, but whenever some users try to scan an NFC or QR Code they see the card rendering correctly with their configured banner image, but with the message "App Clip Unavailable". The weird thing is that both iMessage and the website to which the associated domain is set and the apple-app-site-association is stored, renders the banner or card correctly, and when the users tap the banner or card they open the advanced app clip experience correctly without any issue. I have attempted to troubleshoot the issue by checking the following: if the app clip is below 15MB if we are using a second level domain in my associated domain both for my app clip and app (excluding the www subdomain). checking if the AASA is correctly stored inside .well-known directory checking the configuration for the advanced experience I opened a case: 102233443873, and added a bunch of videos and screenshot showcasing the issue, but I have not yet received a reply

We are currently implementing App Clips in our app. While we have carefully optimized the App Clip size to keep it lightweight (~3.69MB), we have noticed that on the first load, displaying the App Clip Card and activating the “Open” button takes a surprisingly long time (approximately 2–3 seconds). Subsequent loads appear to perform normally. We understand that this behavior may not be directly controllable from the app development side, but we would like to know if there are any possible ways to improve it. Minimizing the time it takes for users to access the content is extremely important, as delays on the first interaction can negatively impact the user experience. Any guidance or best practices to make the App Clip Card and its “Open” button respond faster on first load would be greatly appreciated.

I am working on enabling app clip experience for one of our products, where App X would use default appclip url of App Y to launch an experiences using UIApplication.shared.open(defaultAppclipUrl). Im successfully able to build and submit to appstore by testing via local expereince, but later noticed a strange behaviour in production without local expereince setup, where tapping a button in App X (with default appclip url) fails to launch the appclip for the first time but loads fine from the second try. I learned that in background Apple would make a API call to fetch details about app clip availability in store and then proceed to launch app clip locally, hence the delay-&gt;timeout-&gt;failure for first tap. Once the invocation starts working it would be consistent. After couple of minutes of break say 20m, it again fails for 1st time. I'm assuming that iOS is invalidating the cache on device regarding availability of appclip in store and hence the API call is made again and there is a delay and failure. can you please help us with this issue.

Hi Is there a way to create a dynamic app clip card experience? I have advanced app clip experiences set up and working fine already and but I am looking to provider a more dynamic experience. For example, my invocation url now is https://mycompany.com/profile/<profile_slug>, this URL shows the app clip card with the title, subheading, and cover image as configured in app store connect which is right. But I would like to show a different title, subheading, and cover image based on the <profile_slug> in the invocation URL. Like we can show the name as the title, job title as the subheading, and profile's banner image as the cover image for the app clip It seems like this is possible as I have seen one company do this for their product. Apple has no mention for such a thing in their documentation from what I have seen. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

When an Advanced Experience is created for an App Clip, using the Camera app to scan a QR Code whose URL matches the pattern configured in the Advanced Experience will present the App Clip card. Currently, this App Clip card is presented even if the App Clip or main app is already installed In the device. Is it possible to show the card only when neither the App Clip nor main app is installed? For example: User who does not have the App Clip/main app installed on their device scans a QR code that matches an Advanced Experience User taps the yellow button and sees the App Clip card User taps ”Open” on the card and launches the App Clip, the App Clip is now installed in the device. User returns to the Camera app and scans the same QR code again Camera recognizes the QR code, yellow button appears, user taps it At this point, is it possible for the user to be taken directly to the installed App Clip instead of presenting the App Clip card again?

Hei! I'm currently running into an issue that I cannot create App Clip Invocations for a build in Appstore Connect. Tested with Safari, Chrome and Firefox. Also with a Windows machine. I select the build from TestFlight view I click "Add App Clip Invocation" I fill the data in the modal I click "Add" Nothing happens and I don't see any errors in the logs in developer tools with the browsers.

Subject: Need Assistance with App Clip Invocation via URL Hello Developers, I’m currently facing an issue with invoking my App Clip through a URL, specifically when the link is shared via iMessage or Email. Instead of launching the App Clip, the URL redirects to the website. Here’s my current configuration: Approved App with an App Clip Universal Links functioning correctly within the App (verified through AASA file hosted on the website) Associated Domain Entitlements included for both the App and the App Clip Universal Link is expected to invoke the App Clip if the App isn’t installed Advanced Experience configured in App Store Connect The default experience URL from App Store Connect successfully triggers the App Clip, but my custom URL does not. I suspect I might be missing a crucial configuration step. Has anyone encountered a similar issue or have suggestions on what else I should verify? Thank you in advance for your help!

Hi all , I have 2 questions regaridng App Clips. 1 - can we directly invoke App Clips from a HTML Appclip experience url ? We want to directly take users to the App Clips flow without showing App Clips cards or banner. 2 - Does Apple have a plan to support other modern mobile browsers such as Chrome , Edge and Firefox ?

Hi, My app clip card launched well on IOS 18, but failed to open saying "this app clip requires IOS 18.1 or later version" on IOS17, But the target minimum deployments is configured as IOS 15.6, and check ed the app clip no using apis above IOS 18.1, anyone knows what steps i should do to figure out the reasons?

I have hosted the AASA file in our server and added the App associated domain and have added the local Appclip experience in Device settings with the same URL which i create Appclip QR. But when i install build from testflight i dont see the Appclip card coming up.Its working if i directly load it from xcode My associated domain - appclips:acviss.com (configured from main and appclip target) Qr code generated like this AppClipCodeGenerator generate --url https://acviss.com/restaurant1 --foreground 33AA22 --background FFFFFF --output myclip.svg In Device Setting>Developer>Local Experience URL Prefix - https://acviss.com/restaurant1 Bundle Id - com.acviss.RestApp.Clip AASA file hosted at https://acviss.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association

Hello, I'm trying to test an app clip in TestFlight with a Local Experience. Is there any way to test app clips "end to end" from a local experence? The clip I'm developing uses Apple Pay, so we'd like to be able to test the full experience using sandbox accounts. The documentation indicates that this is possible: documentation link Testers can also configure a local experience to launch the App Clip you distribute with TestFlight. However, you must still associate your App Clip with your website so testers can launch it from the TestFlight app. In addition, testers must launch the App Clip from an App Clip experience you configure for testing in App Store Connect at least once to ensure that the App Clip is cached on the device. I've had some success with running the clip from a local Xcode build, then installing a TestFlight build "over top" of the Xcode build, e.g. I can scan a QR code with a URL configured for a local experience and the card will show and launch the clip, but that seems to "expire" after a period of time. More information: App (but not App Clip) is currently live in the app store. App Clip is in TestFlight and launches using TestFlight experiences App Clip and App are associated with our website Am able to launch the app via QR code with a full installation from TestFlight Am able to see Local Experiences when the clip has been built locally and run on my device using Xcode Local Experience does not show when using a fresh install from TestFlight even when configured with the same values Local Expereince does show and work when using a TestFlight build installed over top of an Xcode build

Hello, I am working on app clips and I wish to know how is the code packaged when the build gets uploaded to App Store Connect? Is there any documentation around this or can you help me with what happens while generating the binary? I added 7 files to app clip target. Some are of 1 KB and others are of 2KB when I look for it's size on my MacBook. However when I upload a build to App Store Connect with these 7 files, I am noticing the size of App Clip increasing by almost 1MB. These files are code files i.e. .swift files and not assets. How is it possible to that the App Clip size grows by an MB for these 7 files? Even if I consider them to be 2KB each, shouldn't the app clip size increase just by 14 or so KB's?