I have a visionOS app using Apple's WebView and WebPage to display web content. When viewing a live YouTube stream last night, YouTube put up the warning in the area that would have the chat window: Oh no! It looks like you're using an older version of your browser. Please update it to use live chat. Anyone know if YouTube is generating this from the server based on the WebPage's user agent string, from Javascript running in the browser engine, or something else? Anyone know if and how it is possible to resolve this? (See right side of YouTube web page from a screen grab):

Hi, it seems that with iOS26 the system displays two entries in the screentime report for apps that use a WKWebView: one for the app itself and one for the website that was displayed in the app. We don't see this behaviour in iOS18.7. I'm reseaching how to disable the recording for the webviews in one of our apps (written in Swift with UIKit). The STWebpageController looked promising, especially the field suppressUsageRecording, but the whole class is poorly documented. We initialized it with the bundle identifier of the app and set the url of the wkwebview as the url in STWebpageController. It looks a bit like this: webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config) view.addSubview(webView) //setup STWebpageController webpageController = STWebpageController() do { try webpageController!.setBundleIdentifier(bundleIdentifier) } catch{ } webpageController!.suppressUsageRecording = true addChild(webpageController!) view.addSubview(webpageController!.view) webpageController!.view.frame = view.frame webpageController!.didMove(toParent: self) //load url in webView let request = URLRequest(url: url, cachePolicy: .reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData) webview.load(request) webpageController?.url = request.url This has no effect on the recorded screentime for the webview inside our app - we still see the same time for the container app and the included webview. Any suggestions? Thanks, Heiko

Since Xcode 26 our tests are crashing due to the Main Thread not being able to deallocate WKNavigationResponse. Following an example: import Foundation import WebKit final class WKNavigationResponeMock: WKNavigationResponse { private let urlResponse: URLResponse override var response: URLResponse { urlResponse } init(urlResponse: URLResponse) { self.urlResponse = urlResponse super.init() } convenience init(httpUrlResponse: HTTPURLResponse) { self.init(urlResponse: httpUrlResponse) } convenience init?(url: URL, statusCode: Int) { guard let httpURLResponse = HTTPURLResponse(url: url, statusCode: statusCode, httpVersion: nil, headerFields: nil) else { return nil } self.init(httpUrlResponse: httpURLResponse) } } import WebKit import XCTest final class ExampleTests: XCTestCase { @MainActor func testAllocAndDeallocWKNavigationResponse() { let expectedURL = URL(string: "https://galaxus.ch/")! let expectedStatusCode = 404 let instance = WKNavigationResponeMock() // here it should dealloc/deinit `instance` automatically } Here the call stack: Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 CoreFoundation 0x101f3dd54 CFRetain.cold.1 + 16 1 CoreFoundation 0x101e14860 CFRetain + 104 2 WebKit 0x10864dd24 -[WKNavigationResponse dealloc] + 52

We have an iphone app that has an embedded webview using webkit, and we found the app crashes when we navigate to an specifc internal website. When I opened the ips file I see this stacktrace on the com.apple.main-thread WebCore::JSDOMRect::subspaceForImpl(JSC::VM&) WebCore::JSDOMRect::create(JSC::Structure*, WebCore::JSDOMGlobalObject*, WTF::Ref<WebCore::DOMRect, WTF::RawPtrTraits<WebCore::DOMRect>, WTF::DefaultRefDerefTraits<WebCore::DOMRect>>&&) WebCore::toJSNewlyCreated(JSC::JSGlobalObject*, WebCore::JSDOMGlobalObject*, WTF::Ref<WebCore::DOMRect, WTF::RawPtrTraits<WebCore::DOMRect>, WTF::DefaultRefDerefTraits<WebCore::DOMRect>>&&) JSC::JSValue WebCore::CloneDeserializer::readDOMRect<WebCore::DOMRect>() WebCore::CloneDeserializer::readTerminal() WebCore::CloneDeserializer::deserialize() WebCore::SerializedScriptValue::deserialize(JSC::JSGlobalObject&, JSC::JSGlobalObject*, WTF::Vector<WTF::Ref<WebCore::MessagePort, WTF::RawPtrTraits<WebCore::MessagePort>, WTF::DefaultRefDerefTrait WebCore::SerializedScriptValue::deserialize(JSC::JSGlobalObject&, JSC::JSGlobalObject*, WebCore::SerializationErrorMode, bool*) WebCore::SerializedScriptValue::deserialize(OpaqueJSContext const*, OpaqueJSValue const**) API::SerializedScriptValue::deserialize(WebCore::SerializedScriptValue&) ScriptMessageHandlerDelegate::didPostMessage(WebKit::WebPageProxy&, WebKit::FrameInfoData&&, API::ContentWorld&, WebCore::SerializedScriptValue&) WebKit::WebUserContentControllerProxy::didPostMessage(WTF::ObjectIdentifierGeneric<WebKit::WebPageProxyIdentifierType, WTF::ObjectIdentifierMainThreadAccessTraits<unsigned long long>, unsigned lon WebKit::WebUserContentControllerProxy::didReceiveMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&) IPC::MessageReceiverMap::dispatchMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&) WebKit::WebProcessProxy::dispatchMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&) WebKit::WebProcessProxy::didReceiveMessage(IPC::Connection&, IPC::Decoder&) IPC::Connection::dispatchMessage(WTF::UniqueRef<IPC::Decoder>) IPC::Connection::dispatchIncomingMessages() WTF::RunLoop::performWork() WTF::RunLoop::performWork(void*) __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ __CFRunLoopDoSource0 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 __CFRunLoopRun CFRunLoopRunSpecific GSEventRunModal -[UIApplication _run] UIApplicationMain main start I assume something is crashing after deserializing a JSDomRect. This is crashing on an Iphone 13 with os 18.6.2 but this doesn't crash on iphone 11 os 26.0 I'm executing the app from xcode and I'm not able to see the stacktrace listed before in xcode, to be able to see variables and to understand what is being deserialized. I've also tried using safari mac develop, but safari stops debugging as soon as the app crashes. I've also tried attaching a remote process into the webkit I've downloaded from here https://webkit.org/getting-the-code/ but didn't have luck so far. Do you know how can I debug what's causing the crash?

I’m encountering a consistent crash in WebKit when using WKWebView to play a YouTube playlist in my iOS app. Playback starts successfully, but the web process terminates during the second video in the playlist. This only occurs on physical devices, not in the simulator. Here’s a simplified Swift example of my setup: import SwiftUI import WebKit struct ContentView: View { private let playlistID = "PLig2mjpwQBZnghraUKGhCqc9eAy0UbpDN" var body: some View { YouTubeWebView(playlistID: playlistID) .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all) } } struct YouTubeWebView: UIViewRepresentable { let playlistID: String func makeUIView(context: Context) -> WKWebView { let config = WKWebViewConfiguration() config.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config) webView.scrollView.isScrollEnabled = true let html = """ <!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0"> <style>body,html{height:100%;margin:0;background:#000}iframe{width:100%;height:100%;border:0}</style> </head> <body> <iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/videoseries?list=\(playlistID)&controls=1&rel=0&playsinline=1&iv_load_policy=3" frameborder="0" allow="encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; fullscreen" webkit-playsinline allowfullscreen ></iframe> </body> </html> """ webView.loadHTMLString(html, baseURL: nil) return webView } func updateUIView(_ uiView: WKWebView, context: Context) {} } #Preview { ContentView() } Observed behavior: First video plays without issue. Web process crashes when the second video in the playlist starts. Console logs show WebProcessProxy::didClose and repeated memory status messages. Using ProcessAssertion or background activity does not prevent the crash. Only occurs on physical devices; simulators do not reproduce the issue. Questions: Is there something I should change or add in my WKWebView setup or HTML/iframe to prevent the crash when playing the second video in a playlist on physical iOS devices? Is there an officially supported way to limit memory or prevent WebKit from terminating the web process during multi-video playback? Are there recommended patterns for playing YouTube playlists in a WKWebView on iOS without risking crashes? Any tips for debugging or configuring WKWebView to make it more stable for continuous playlist playback? Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Subject: iOS 26 WKWebView: Remote Pages Become Unresponsive After Loading Local HTML Files Description We're experiencing a critical issue with WKWebView in a React Native 0.64.3 application where remote web pages become completely unresponsive after loading local HTML files in iOS 26. It works well before iOS26. Environment: React Native 0.64.3 iOS 26.0 Xcode 26.0.1 Using custom WKWebView implementations in Native modules Problem Details App loads local HTML files using loadFileURL:allowingReadAccessToURL: Later, when loading remote pages via loadRequest:, the remote pages load successfully but become unresponsive to user interactions This occurs even when using different WKWebView instances The issue is reproducible 100% of the time once a local file has been loaded Restarting the app and loading remote pages directly works fine Code Example: // Loading local file (works fine) [self.webView loadFileURL:localFileURL allowingReadAccessToURL:accessURL]; // Later, loading remote page (loads but becomes unresponsive) NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:remoteURL]; [self.webView loadRequest:request]; What We've Tried: Using different WKWebView instances for local vs remote content Comprehensive cleanup in dealloc (removing all user scripts and message handlers) Loading blank HTML before switching to remote content Using shared WKProcessPool (understanding its limitations in iOS 15+) Ensuring proper decisionHandler management in navigation delegates Resetting WKWebView configuration settings Clearing cookies and cache between loads Using loadFileRequest:allowingReadAccessToURL: instead of loadFileURL: Key Observations: The remote page renders correctly and network requests complete No JavaScript errors in console The view hierarchy appears normal in Debug View Hierarchy Touch events seem to be delivered but not processed by the web content Questions: Has Apple introduced new security restrictions in iOS 26 that affect the transition from file:// URLs to http:// URLs? Are there specific WKWebView configuration changes required for React Native applications in iOS 26? Could this be related to the React Native bridge or JavaScript context persistence? Any insights or workarounds would be greatly appreciated, as this is blocking our iOS 26 compatibility.

When trying to create an anchor with the download attribute it does not work for PDF files, it displays the files inline. Also when the download attribute is set the target attribute is ignored too. The tag: ... The behavior: It displaies the file in line. The correct behavior: The file should be downloaded and not displayed or at least displayed but with the "_blank" target (new tab). This is an issue when working with WebSockets which is closed when the file is opened inline.

Hello, I'm exploring the new SwiftUI WebView and WebPage APIs introduced in iOS 26, and I have a question about configuring media playback behavior. In our app, we currently use WKWebView with the mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback property set to [] (or WKAudiovisualMediaTypeNone) to allow HTML videos with an "autoplay" attribute to play automatically without requiring user interaction. This property is part of WKWebViewConfiguration and controls which media types require a user gesture to begin playing. According to the official documentation (WKWebViewConfiguration.mediaTypesRequiringUserActionForPlayback), this allows us to support video content that needs to autoplay for our specific use case. With the new iOS 26 WebView and WebPage APIs, I haven't been able to find a way to configure this behavior. Looking through the available configuration options, there doesn't appear to be an equivalent setting. My questions are: Has the default behavior changed for the new SwiftUI WebView? Does it now allow media autoplay by default? If not, is there a way to configure this behavior that I'm missing? If this configuration is intentionally not exposed, what is the recommended approach for apps that need to enable media autoplay? Currently, we're wrapping WKWebView in a UIViewRepresentable to maintain this functionality, but we'd love to migrate to the native SwiftUI WebView later this year if possible. Thank you for any guidance you can provide!

Hello, I'm exploring the new SwiftUI WebView and WebPage APIs introduced in iOS 26, and I have a question about configuring JavaScript window opening behavior. In our app, we currently use WKWebView with the javaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically property set to true to support a specific use case. This property is part of WKPreferences and controls whether JavaScript can open windows without user interaction. According to the official documentation (WKPreferences.javaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically), this property defaults to false on iOS and true on macOS. With the new iOS 26 WebView and WebPage APIs, I haven't been able to find a way to configure this behavior. Looking through the available configuration options, there doesn't appear to be an equivalent setting. My questions are: Has the default behavior changed for the new SwiftUI WebView? Does it now allow JavaScript to open windows automatically by default on iOS? If not, is there a way to configure this behavior that I'm missing? If this configuration is intentionally not exposed, what is the recommended approach for apps that need to enable automatic window opening? Currently, we're wrapping WKWebView in a UIViewRepresentable to maintain this functionality, but we'd love to migrate to the native SwiftUI WebView later this year if possible. Thank you for any guidance you can provide!

I want to print the content of a WKWebView. I've done some searching, and many people have struggled with this over the years. Some claimed success, but their solutions don't work for me. One person created images for each pages and printed that, but then if you were to print to PDF, you'd get a PDF containing images rather than text. If I just call the printView(_:)) method of the view, I get blank pages. With the following more elaborate code, I get a partial printout, 11 out of what should be about 13 pages. let info = NSPrintInfo.shared info.topMargin = 72.0; info.bottomMargin = 72.0; info.leftMargin = 72.0; info.rightMargin = 72.0; info.isVerticallyCentered = false; info.isHorizontallyCentered = false; info.horizontalPagination = .fit; info.verticalPagination = .automatic; let printOp = webView!.printOperation( with: info ) printOp.canSpawnSeparateThread = true printOp.view?.frame = NSMakeRect( 0, 0, info.paperSize.width, info.paperSize.height ) printOp.runModal(for: webView.window!, delegate: self, didRun: nil, contextInfo: nil ) When I run the above under the debugger, I see console messages saying CGContextClipToRect: invalid context 0x0. Once the print dialog appears, if I touch (but not change) the selected printer, then the page count changes to the correct value.

you guys literally need update this video of introducing the swifui webview. these apis even not exist... https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/231/

Hi folks!! Anyone here experienced issues with video not showing up in webview? I have a simple index.html with a video tag but its doesn't load why?

The app I work on uses WKWebView to render customer data. In iPadOS 26, we observe that there is a delay when resizing the window (and thus the web view) before the content is re-rendered. The same behavior is visible in Safari. For demonstration purposes, consider this test page: https://phet-dev.colorado.edu/html/build-an-atom/0.0.0-3/simple-text-only-test-page.html Initially, the window is small: Then when the window is expanded, the content scales up temporarily: It eventually re-renders to the correct size, but then if you make the window small again, you get (temporarily): Is there anyway around this behavior? We would love to have the content reflow interactively.

Command: com.apple.WebKit.Networking Path: /private/preboot/Cryptexes/OS/System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions/NetworkingExtension.appex/com.apple.WebKit.Networking Identifier: com.apple.WebKit.Networking Version: ??? (8621.3.11.10.3) Resource Coalition: "com.apple.mobilesafari"(1005) Architecture: arm64e Parent: launchd [1] PID: 1708

I have some working Objective-C code that displays a WKWebView and allows printing that content. However, it uses the method -[WKWebView printOperationWithPrintInfo:], which the documentation says is deprecated as of macOS 10.15. However, it doesn't say why this method is deprecated, or what the recommended replacement is. The declaration in WKWebView.h does not even indicate that the method is deprecated. But as an alternative, I tried using +[NSPrintOperation printOperationWithView:printInfo]. Doing it that way just prints a blank page. So, should I keep doing it the doubtful way?

Hello, We received a rejection on one of our IOS applications because we were doing Microsoft MSAL login through the user's browser. The representative recommended that we use Webview to do in-app logins. However when we tried to handle the custom app uri redirection (looking like myapp://auth/), Webview does not seem to send the user back to the application. Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks!

Hi Developers, I am working on a small project and I noticed that my website header looks different in Safari on macOS compared to Windows browsers like Chrome and Edge. In Safari, the header text and spacing look slightly shifted (screenshot attached). On Windows browsers, everything looks perfectly aligned. Here is my live project for reference: https://gratuitycalculatorae.com/ Screenshot from Safari (macOS): Is this related to Safari-specific CSS rendering? Should I use -webkit- specific fixes or is there a better cross-browser solution? Any guidance or best practices would be really helpful. Thanks

I'm using the new iOS 26 WebPage/WebView for SwiftUI in a NavigationStack. The initial load works as expected, but when loading items from the back/forward lists, the content jumps beneath the navigation bar: struct WebPageTestView: View { var webPage = WebPage() var body: some View { NavigationStack { WebView(webPage) .toolbar { Button("Back") { if let backItem = webPage.backForwardList.backList.last { webPage.load(backItem) } } Button("Forward") { if let forwardItem = webPage.backForwardList.forwardList.first { webPage.load(forwardItem) } } } } .task { webPage.isInspectable = true webPage.load(URL(string: "https://domchristie.co.uk/")) } } } I have run this on the iOS 26.0 and 26.1 Simulators and get the same issue. The demo website does not use any JavaScript. I was able to replicate this behaviour using a wrapped WKWebView and calling the .ignoresSafeArea(.all) modifier.

using renderInContext fetch pixel faild if subviews contains WKWebView, the code is as follows: self.contentView = [SimpleClearContentView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 100, 100, 100)]; contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; self.contentView.webView = [[WKWebView alloc] init]; self.contentView.webView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 50, 100); // make web view clear bg color self.contentView.webView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; self.contentView.webView.scrollView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; // webView load clear background webpage [self.contentView.webView loadRequest:xxx]; [self.view addSubView:contentView]; // this method still return 0.0f anywhere -(CGFloat)getPixelAlphaAtPoint:(CGPoint)point { unsigned char pixel[4] = {0}; CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(); CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(pixel, 1, 1, 8, 4, colorSpace, kCGBitmapAlphaInfoMask & kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedLast); CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -point.x, -point.y); WKWebView *webView = self.contentView.webView; [webView.layer renderInContext:context]; CGContextRelease(context); CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace); CGFloat alpha = pixel[3]/255.0; return alpha; }

Can we Wrap a website in a React Native Web view and Make it live on iOS? Here is an example code (Just a web application wrapped inside React Native ) import React, { useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react"; import { BackHandler, StyleSheet } from "react-native"; import { SafeAreaProvider, SafeAreaView } from "react-native-safe-area-context"; import { WebView } from "react-native-webview"; export default function App() { const webviewRef = useRef<WebView>(null); const [canGoBack, setCanGoBack] = useState(false); // Handle Android back button useEffect(() => { const backHandler = BackHandler.addEventListener("hardwareBackPress", () => { if (canGoBack && webviewRef.current) { webviewRef.current.goBack(); return true; // prevent app exit } return false; // allow app exit }); return () => backHandler.remove(); }, [canGoBack]); return ( <SafeAreaProvider> <SafeAreaView style={styles.container} edges={["top", "bottom", "left", "right"]}> <WebView ref={webviewRef} source={{ uri: "https://www.kallardo.com/" }} style={styles.webview} startInLoadingState={true} javaScriptEnabled={true} domStorageEnabled={true} onNavigationStateChange={(navState) => setCanGoBack(navState.canGoBack)} /> </SafeAreaView> </SafeAreaProvider> ); } const styles = StyleSheet.create({ container: { flex: 1, }, webview: { flex: 1, }, }); I want to know will we get approval easier or makes it complicated or not allowed