Hello everyone, I’m working on adding a Safari extension as an application extension to an iOS app created using Capacitor (generated from a React app). My goal is to bundle the Safari extension within the Capacitor app, allowing it to serve as a companion app for the extension. However, I’ve run into issues where the extension does not show up in Safari's extension settings when I run the app on a device or simulator. Here's an overview of what I’ve done so far: I initially used Capacitor’s command line tools to generate the iOS app from my React project. This app runs fine on its own. To add the Safari extension, I’m not developing a platform-specific extension from scratch; instead, I used the Xcode command line to convert a Chrome extension to a Safari iOS extension. The converted extension functions correctly if paired with the default Swift app that comes with the conversion. Right now, I effectively have two products: The base Capacitor app (without the extension), which I want as my main app. The standalone Safari extension bundled with the Swift app (from the conversion process). My question is: How can I merge these two products so that the Capacitor app becomes the companion app for the Safari extension, allowing the extension to show up in Safari's settings? Are there specific configurations I should adjust in Xcode or within the manifest files to make this work seamlessly? Any guidance or best practices from others who have integrated Safari extensions into non-Xcode-based projects would be much appreciated! Thank you!

I have a working iMessage app in the app store that does NOT have a companion app. iMessage app only. I now want to add stickers to it. I cannot get this to work; stickers do not show up in the stickers section, nor in the "Manage Sticker Apps" section. Problem exists on Xcode 16, latest OS, on all simulators and devices. I tried adding a new "Sticker App Extension" target to the project. I tried adding just the Stickers.xcassets file to the exsisting iMessage extension and the app itself. I tried googling but all examples and tutorials show how to create a complete stickers app, which works correctly. But I do not want the app. Notable mention: If I create a new "Stickers app" project it works, but if I then try to add an iMessage app extension, THAT does not work so I then have a reverse situation in which the stickers extension DOES work but the iMessage app doesn't. I somehow have the feeling that an app cannot have both an iMessage Extension and a Stickers App Extension but the documentation is, of course, in true Apple style, lacking. So how to add a Sticker App Extension to an existing app with an iMessage Extension?

I created a locked camera capture extension as explained in Apple's documentation. I'm trying to explore the possibilities of using a bluetooth peripheral from that extension - anybody knows if this is possible? The CBCentralManagerDelegate reports .unsupported in func centralManagerDidUpdateState, even if I have provided all the permissions in Info.plist.

Capturing a Metal workload in Xcode, exporting a .gputrace file, is there a way to export the data using the command line, just like .memgraph can use malloc_history --quiet to export the data as text

I am recording video on iOS using ReplayKit and found that after copying data in the processSampleBuffer:withType: callback using memcpy, the data changes. This occurs particularly frequently when the screen content changes rapidly, making it look like the frames are overlapping. I found that the values starting from byte 672 in the video data on my device often change. Here is the test demo: - (void)processSampleBuffer:(CMSampleBufferRef)sampleBuffer withType:(RPSampleBufferType)sampleBufferType { switch (sampleBufferType) { case RPSampleBufferTypeVideo: { CVPixelBufferRef pixelBuffer = CMSampleBufferGetImageBuffer(sampleBuffer); CVPixelBufferLockBaseAddress(pixelBuffer, kCVPixelBufferLock_ReadOnly); int ret = 0; uint8_t *oYData = CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddressOfPlane(pixelBuffer, 0); size_t oYSize = CVPixelBufferGetHeightOfPlane(pixelBuffer, 0) * CVPixelBufferGetBytesPerRowOfPlane(pixelBuffer, 0); uint8_t *oUVData = CVPixelBufferGetBaseAddressOfPlane(pixelBuffer, 1); size_t oUVSize = CVPixelBufferGetHeightOfPlane(pixelBuffer, 1) * CVPixelBufferGetBytesPerRowOfPlane(pixelBuffer, 1); if (oYSize <= 672) { return; } uint8_t tempValue = oYData[672]; uint8_t *tYData = malloc(oYSize); memcpy(tYData, oYData, oYSize); if (tYData[672] != oYData[672]) { NSLog(@"$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:%d o:%d temp:%d", tYData[672], oYData[672], tempValue); } free(tYData); CVPixelBufferUnlockBaseAddress(pixelBuffer, kCVPixelBufferLock_ReadOnly); break; } default: { break; } } } Output: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:110 o:124 temp:110 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:111 o:133 temp:111 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:124 o:138 temp:124 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:133 o:144 temp:133 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:138 o:151 temp:138 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:144 o:156 temp:144 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:151 o:135 temp:151 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:156 o:78 temp:156 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:135 o:76 temp:135 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:78 o:77 temp:78 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:76 o:80 temp:76 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:77 o:80 temp:77 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:80 o:79 temp:80 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$------ t:79 o:80 temp:79

I'm building a VPN app with Flutter, and I'm coming across this issue(only on iOS) - "${appName} must be updated by the developer before ${appName} can be connected." I have checked and tried almost all the solutions on the internet, but none work. Can anyone who has encountered this before assist or point me toward resources that can help?

The app added control widgets and crashed online。 SwiftU! static ControlWidgetConfigurationAdaptor._makeWidgetConfiguration(widget inputs:)

I have a macOS safari web extension and It can read the cookies of my website, but when I fully close safari and open it again the extension can't read the cookies anymore. When I try to inspect the cause in the console (safari > develop > web extension background content) everything starts to work again. My safari version is 18.1 (19619.2.8.111.1, 19619)

In Safari Web Extensions on iOS 18, declarativeNetRequest Rulesets and Dynamic Rules take over twice as long to apply -- which causes rulesets to often fail to apply before sites load. In a boilerplate Xcode project you can note the time difference toggling the OISD (https://oisd.nl) ruleset on iOS 17 and iOS 18 simulators. Additionally, if you force quit Safari and reopen to a site with ads blocked by OISD list (e.g. espn.com) the content will be blocked in that initial state on iOS 17, but not in iOS 18 due to the latency. Based on the boilerplate extension, this bug is impacting all Mobile Safari Extensions using declarativeNetRequest Rulesets and Dynamic Rules. We know several other extension developers dealing with this issue. Our team wrote detailed reproduction steps in our Feedback Assistant ticket: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/15196130 but have received no responses. I would attach a screen recording here but it won't allow me.

My server that backs my Message Filter Extension stopped receiving messages last night. I thought maybe I had broken something in the iOS code, even though I hadn't touched any of the logic related to filtering. So I rolled back my code to a previous version that was definitely working in both test and production and ran it on my test device, setting a breakpoint on the first line of the func handle(_ queryRequest: ILMessageFilterQueryRequest, context: ILMessageFilterExtensionContext, completion: @escaping (ILMessageFilterQueryResponse) -> Void) method in the extension. When sending a message to it from an unknown number, the breakpoint is never even hit. To ensure it was somehow not my code, I started a new blank app and added the Message Filter Extension target. Running it on my test device, it also doesn't ever hit the breakpoint. Is there some Apple service involved in determining whether to send unknown sender messages to Message Filter Extensions that might be down. Maybe it's a beta issue? I'm on iOS 18.1 Beta 4. But it seems odd that all of my users' devices would be encountering a beta-related issue at essentially the same time.

Hi, I have a question regarding reading the configuration of a managed app deployed via an MDM system. The application has an Action Extension and can receive shared files via this extension. The problem I am facing is that I can read the managed configuration in the host app by accessing the UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "com.apple.configuration.managed") dictionary. With this, I can configure the host app. However, I am unable to read this configuration key in the Action Extension part of the application. My question is whether there is any possibility to read the managed configuration even in the extension. So far, I have been unable to figure out how to read it. I found the sample code, but it was not very helpful since it is very basic and does not deal with extensions at all. Any hints are appreciated.

I'm developing Locked Camera Capture Extension. I noticed UIViewController's view.frame size on extension is smaller than app's one. It seems extension's View.frame is same as safe-area's frame. WWDC24 session Build a great Lock Screen camera capture experience doesn't mention this issue. It looks like bug for me or is it intended specification to avoid complexity for users ?

I'm developing LockedCameraCapture extension. My extension can capture photo, save to system photo library and load from system photo library. That's pretty nice extension. I want to fix interface orientation to portrait for particular screen(capture screen). But I want some other screen to landscape orientation(photo viewing screen). So, I'm using "supportedInterfaceOrientations" property and "setNeedsUpdateOfSupportedInterfaceOrientations" method for interface orientation flexibility. This code implies the screen only supports portrait orientation. override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask { .portrait } And I call this code to enable orientation setting. // UIViewController # viewDidLoad setNeedsUpdateOfSupportedInterfaceOrientations() My App work as expected, but my CaptureExtension doesn't work. My extension's capture screen can rotate Landscape and that's not intended behavior.

I am getting following error from one of the pod frameworks while running the app (Build is a success). dyld[4373]: Symbol not found: __ZN5swift39swift51override_conformsToSwiftProtocolEPKNS_14TargetMetadataINS_9InProcessEEEPKNS_24TargetProtocolDescriptorIS1_EEN7__swift9__runtime4llvm9StringRefEPFPKNS_35TargetProtocolConformanceDescriptorIS1_EES4_S8_SC_E Referenced from: MyApp.app/Frameworks/vendor.framework/ Expected in: MyApp.app/Frameworks/Alamofire.framework/Alamofire Xcode 16

Hi! I'm developing a custom keyboard and my user reported that they can't switch to my keyboard while using external original iPad keyboard. Unfortunately, I can't test it on a real device and I can't find a way to test it using a simulator. My questions: Is it possible to simulate this case on a simulator? Is it possible to temporarily show a custom keyboard while using an external keyboard on iPad? I saw in the photos that this keyboard has a globe button, but my user told me that nothing happens when they hold or press hit.

I facing issue where the system extension i try to install have message: no related kext found for sysex 'com.apple.usbsoundriver' com.apple.usbsoundriver:extension failed to validate! uninstalling... uninstalling invalid extension com.apple.usbsoundriver Is internet access is required for system extension validation? I install the driver without internet access. This work in some others machine, only fresh reformated Mac machine without internet connection have this issue. Why is this so?

I have installed iOS 18 to my iPhone 13 Pro Max and now the future that can minimise the video call when turned on Picture in Picture mode dose not work anymore in telegram, while the rest of the apps are working fine. if anyone know how to fix this please reply.

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