We have an IOS app and its watch extension. The watch extension having complications as well created with clockKit Also we are providing a watch face with our custom complications for the user. Everything working fine watch series 6 and above Now we have an issue reported by a customer in watch series 3 (the watch Os version in 8.8), in which the watch face is not able to add as it showing the error "Watch Face Unavailable" So when we tried to create a another watch face for watch series 3, the complication list on the watch extension as well as the watch app of iPhone are not listing our app name Because of this issue we can't create a custom watch face for the watch series 3 with our complications So why the watch app in iPhone is not listing our watch app name in the list of complications Please update if anyone having similar issues

watchOS 10.4 Beta2 (21T5196d) broke its browser component! You can send youtube.com to your Apple Watch via iMessage, and then open it! Everything worked fine in the official version of watchOS 10.3; you couldn't watch videos because the Apple Watch's WebView doesn't have a video component, but you could at least browse web pages normally. However, in watchOS 10.4, WebView is completely broken, and you can't even view the homepage recommendations or try searching for content properly — web pages refresh automatically within seconds and keep crashing repeatedly. Please revert everything back to the state of watchOS 10.3! The minimal demonstration link to reproduce this bug: https://ling-bucket.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/apple/minimalVideo.MOV

My watch APP needs to keep Bluetooth connected with peripherals whether it is in the foreground or background, but the results of my test show that the connection in the background is very unstable, sometimes you can keep the Bluetooth on for a day, but sometimes it will be disconnected 50 times a day, and every time it is disconnected, I will immediately initiate a reconnection, it is certain that there is no problem with the peripheral Bluetooth, because I have another iOS device that has been stably connected to the peripheral, I want to know what causes this instability, and if there is any solution, if someone can provide relevant advice, I will be very grateful

How to develop Complications for Watch 8.0 and earlier in Xcode 15

I have paired two iWatch，the app in the second one can not have a reachable session with iPhone app Xcode 15 iPhone 13 pro 17.1.2 iWatch S9 10.1 iWatch S9 10.1.1

Hello! I'm working on the watchOS app that provides user with multiple fancy complication sets. There are about 50 widgets in our WidgetBundle now. With this amount we reached memory limit and the app crashes: Thread 1: EXC_RESOURCE (RESOURCE_TYPE_MEMORY: high watermark memory limit exceeded) (limit=15 MB) I inspected complicationExtension.appex content and find out that most volume is occupied by the executable: Localized strings (12 langs) altogether - 165 KB Assets.car - 1.1 MB Imported fonts TTF files altogether - 866 KB complicationsExtension executable file - 8.2 MB Why it takes so much space and how can it be made smaller?

Errors: ''Invalid info.plist key. The key 'NSHealthShareUsageDescription'' ''Invalid info.plist key. The key 'NSHealthUpdateUsageDescription'' The app works fine when I just run it on hardware without deployment, but as soon as I try to distribute it, this shows up. The keys above are both defined and described in my App and extensions lists, so what's wrong?

I have a Watch companion app. The SwiftUI previews fail to build for the watch app. The errors indicate it is trying to build Swift package targets that are meant for iOS only, not the watch. The watch does not include these dependencies so it is perplexing it will try to build them. Digging into the scheme for the watch app, it includes the iOS target as you can see the screenshot. This seems to be the default when you create a new watch target. If I uncheck the boxes for the iOS target, previews will build fine. But I think this means that each time I build my Watch target, it will not simultaneously build my iOS target. I'm not sure of the impact of that. Is this a known limitation with Previews? Is there another workaround?

I am making an application that plays music and vibrates at regular intervals. When you put your arm down, the following situation occurs. Music stops (volume goes to 0?) Vibration stops How can I make it so that it does not stop even if I put my arm down? Supplementation In the WatchOS settings, "Always on" is enabled. I use AVAudioPlayer for sound playback.

when i select target as "All builds" i am getting list of simulators . but when i select target as "SCPNative" i am not getting list of simulators. Deployment target is 7.0 whereas sdk is 10.2.

I am trying to add a watch target in my existing project using XCode 15.1 but I am not able to see any watch simulators for this to run my watch app. I created a small sample project separately where I can see watch simulators reflecting in the run destination. Can somebody please help me to locate which property or setting I need to check which is disabling XCode to show watch simulators? I have downloaded the watch simulator.

When connecting my iphone (14pro with iOS 17.2.1) with a paired apple watch (series 9 with OS 10.3), it is not showing up on the devices/simulators list in xcode 15.1. Beyond unpairing/repairing the watch, restarting either iphone or watch, connecting/disconnecting the iphone from the computer or deleting xcode and re-installing xcode, any other suggestions? Under the WatchApp field it shows "no eligible device connected", however, under the console the Apple Watch does appear. I have tried just about everything and can't get the watch to appear in Xcode. I am running all this on a MacBook Pro with Sonoma. Thanks for any assistance!

Hi folks! We are developing a WatchOS companion app which records Accelerometer data. We call CMSensorRecorder.recordAccelerometer(forDuration: _) and retrieve the data by calling CMSensorRecorder.accelerometerData(from: _, to: _). So far so good. But the issue arises when we have a data for say 2 hours. We get the accelerometer data in the SwiftUI Task or using GCD's background queue. The data we get is in the loop, enumerating the CMSensorDataList. The loop goes on when the app is active. But as soon as the Watch app goes to inactive state, say applicationWillResignActive is called, the loop is suspended. I know this is the default behaviour of the OS. But this makes our data parsing so slow that sometimes it takes an hour or so to get 2 hours data. This is making our app not user friendly. Is there a way we can keep our app alive as soon as the data is being processed? Or is there another way for faster data processing that we can send the raw data to phone using WCSession so that the data gets there as soon as recording stops? Thanks

I can't get the simplest Widget to work. I simply want to present the app's icon. It does what it's supposed to do in the simulator but on the actual device it only says "Please adopt containerBackground API" at the place where the Widget would have shown otherwise. I found out that I am supposed to add .containerBackground(Color.clear, for: .widget) for no reason at all to make this work. However, when I do that, I just get a gray circle where the app icon was supposed to show. The png files should be fine because again on the simulator it works so I have no idea what I am doing wrong. If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong or if someone can share their Widget class that would be awesome - I literally only want to show my app's icon on the Watch face but I already fail at that, no idea why they made WidgetKit impossible to work with. import SwiftUI import WidgetKit struct IconEntry: TimelineEntry { let date = Date() let icon: Image } struct IconProvider: TimelineProvider { func placeholder(in context: Context) -> IconEntry { return IconEntry(icon: getImageForContext(context, color: false)) } func getSnapshot(in context: Context, completion: @escaping (IconEntry) -> ()) { let entry = IconEntry(icon: getImageForContext(context, color: false)) completion(entry) } func getTimeline(in context: Context, completion: @escaping (Timeline<Entry>) -> ()) { let entry = IconEntry(icon: getImageForContext(context, color: false)) let timeline = Timeline(entries: [entry], policy: .never) completion(timeline) } } struct IconWidget: Widget { let kind: String = "IconWidget" var body: some WidgetConfiguration { StaticConfiguration(kind: kind, provider: IconProvider()) { entry in IconView() .containerBackground(Color.clear, for: .widget) } .supportedFamilies([.accessoryCircular, .accessoryCorner, .accessoryRectangular]) .description(Text("Show the app's icon on a watch face.")) } } struct InlineWidget: Widget { var body: some WidgetConfiguration { StaticConfiguration(kind: "Inline", provider: IconProvider()) { entry in Text("App Title") .containerBackground(Color.clear, for: .widget) } .configurationDisplayName("App Title") .description("Description") .supportedFamilies([.accessoryInline]) } } func getImageForContext(_ context: TimelineProviderContext, color: Bool) -> Image { var fileNameToUse = "iconColor.png" if(!color) { fileNameToUse = "iconAlpha.png" } let displaySize = context.displaySize if(displaySize.width == 0 || displaySize.height == 0) { return Image(uiImage: .init()) } let uiImage = UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: fileNameToUse).resizeImage(width: displaySize.width, height: displaySize.height) let image = Image(uiImage: uiImage) return image } struct IconView: View { @Environment(\.widgetRenderingMode) var widgetRenderingMode var body: some View { imageFor(widgetRenderingMode) .resizable() .onAppear { print("ICON VIEW \(widgetRenderingMode == .fullColor ? "COLOR" : "ALPHA")") } .containerBackground(Color.clear, for: .widget) } } private func imageFor(_ widgetRenderingMode: WidgetRenderingMode) -> Image { switch widgetRenderingMode { case .fullColor: return Image(uiImage: UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "iconColor.png")) default: return Image(uiImage: UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "iconAlpha.png")) } } @main struct IconBundle: WidgetBundle { @WidgetBundleBuilder var body: some Widget { IconWidget() InlineWidget() } } extension UIImage { func resizeImage(width: CGFloat, height: CGFloat) -> UIImage { let edgeLength = min(width, height) let newSize = CGSize(width: edgeLength, height: edgeLength) UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, false, 0.0) self.draw(in: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: newSize.width, height: newSize.height)) if let resizedImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext() { UIGraphicsEndImageContext() return resizedImage } else { return UIImage() } } }

Hi, I'm trying to build an app for WatchOS and want to add a translucent capsule with a background blur to blur my text behind it. I tried asking ChatGPT, but it couldn't give me a sufficient answer. I would appreciate it if someone could suggest how I could create that background blur. Thanks!

We are working on a WatchKit app that streams heart rate data to a companion iOS app. This works very well with WCSession, however, when the WatchKit app sleeps, the data does not continue to stream. The only way to get the data to stream again is by moving/touching the Apple Watch and waking it up again. We tried implementing a WKExtendedRuntimeSession, but we were unable to send data with this session. Is there a way to have data to continue to stream continuously, even if the watchkit app falls asleep? WatchOS: 8.8.1 iOS: 17.0 XCode: 15.0.1

Apple Watch Ultra 2, watchOS 10.2 I'm trying to recognize a finger double-tap gesture in watchOS 10.2 on an Apple Watch Ultra 2 or Apple Watch 9. Apple indicates watchOS will invoke primary watch button of app, but I don't know how to specify button as primary. I've written two small watchOS 10.2 SwiftUI apps to demonstrate the problem. Does anyone see what I'm missing, or can point me to relevant docs? APP #1 - simple one-button tap app. Touching button works, but double tap finger gesture seems recognized by watchOS as blue finger icon appears on top of watch display, shaking back and forth indicating it doesn't know what to do, but doesn't invoke Say Hello button. import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { // Controls whether You did it message is shown @State private var showingSuccessMessage = false var body: some View { VStack { Button("Say Hello") { // This closure is the primary action for the button showingSuccessMessage = true // After 3 seconds, hide the success message DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 3) { showingSuccessMessage = false } } // Toggle the visibility of the success message if showingSuccessMessage { Text("You Did It") } } .padding() } } #Preview { ContentView() } APP #2 - basically same app with tap gesture recognizer. Single touch of text works, but double tap gesture while seemingly recognized by watchOS as blue finger icon appears on top of watch display, shaking back and forth indicating it doesn't know what to do, also won't invoke a touch of the Say Hello text. import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State private var showingSuccessMessage = false var body: some View { VStack { // The view that responds to the tap gesture Text("Tap to Say Hello") .padding() .background(Capsule().fill(Color.orange)) .foregroundColor(.white) .onTapGesture { // The action to perform on tap showingSuccessMessage = true // After 3 seconds, hide the success message DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 3) { showingSuccessMessage = false } } // Toggle the visibility of the success message if showingSuccessMessage { Text("You did it") } } } } #Preview { ContentView() }

For some unknown reason, my apple watch is unable to sync with Xcode and I am unable to build to my Watch. In the Devices and Simulators window, it always shows my Apple Watch as "Connecting" and switches between the following messages: "Waiting to reconnect to [NAME]’s Apple Watch/Xcode will continue when the operation completes." or "Previous preparation error: Unsupported wire protocol version: This host does not support the wire protocol version implemented by the device." The only change that has happened between the apple watch connecting and the error occuring now is I updated my iPhone to IOS v.17. I have tried to restart all devices, Xcode, Reinstall Xcode and nothing has worked. One thing to note is I am not apart of the Apple Developer Program so I will not have access to any of the diagnostic tools apart of that membership to diagnose this issue.

APNs Notification Receive time on Apple Watch Connected with iPhone approximately 10-15 seconds Without Connection with iPhone Immediately (less than a single second) Does anyone know why the situation that I've wrote above?

Project Info:A music player iOS App with watchOS app embedded. Project Structure: app target: music intent extenstion: intent (for iOS platform) watchOS app target: watchKit watchOS extension: watchKit Extension iOS app use intent extension to support SiriKit with play media intent, it works very well. now i want to support Siri on watchOS app, but i don't know how. i have tried to add new watch extension target, but it doesn't work. i t keeps saying "my app doesn't support *** instruction". Please share if I have missed to read through some documentation / reference that solves this problem.