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How to check for cancellation of background task
When using the old withTaskCancellationHandler(operation:onCancel:isolation:) to run background tasks, you were notified that the background task gets cancelled via the handler being called. SwiftUI provides the backgroundTask(_:action:) modifier which looks quite handy. However how can I check if the background task will be cancelled to avoid being terminated by the system? I have tried to check that via Task.isCancelled but this always returns false no matter what. Is this not possible when using the modifier in which case I should file a bug report? Thanks for your help
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Mar ’25
Control Widget SF image cannot stably display
I'm working on the control widget which should display the SF image on the UI, but I have found that it cannot be displayed stably. I have three ExampleControlWidget which is about the type egA egB and egC, it should all be showed but now they only show the text and placeholder. I'm aware of the images should be SF image and I can see them to show perfectly sometimes, but in other time it is just failed. This's really confused me, can anyone help me out? public enum ControlWidgetType: Sendable { case egA case egB case egC public var imageName: String { switch self { case .egA: return "egA" case .egB: return "egB" case .egC: return "egC" } } } struct ExampleControlWidget: ControlWidget { var body: some ControlWidgetConfiguration { AppIntentControlConfiguration( kind: kind, provider: Provider() ) { example in ControlWidgetToggle( example.name, isOn: example.state.isOn, action: ExampleControlWidgetIntent(id: example.id), valueLabel: { isOn in ExampleControlWidgetView( statusText: isOn ? Localization.on.text : Localization.off.text, bundle: bundle, widgetType: .egA //or .egB .egC ) .symbolEffect(.pulse) } ) .disabled(example.state.isDisabled) } .promptsForUserConfiguration() } } public struct ExampleControlWidgetView: View { private let statusText: String private let bundle: Bundle private var widgetType: ControlWidgetType = .egA public init(statusText: String, bundle: Bundle, widgetType: ControlWidgetType) { self.statusText = statusText self.bundle = bundle self.widgetType = widgetType } public var body: some View { Label( statusText, image: .init( name: widgetType.imageName, // the SF Symbol image id bundled in the Widget extension bundle: bundle ) ) } } This is the normal display: These are the display that do not show properly: The results has no rules at all, I have tried to completely uninstall the APP and reinstall but the result is same.
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Mar ’25
Control Center Widget icon disappear occasionally
Hi folks, We are trying to develop a widget on iPhone control center. We follow the Apple design guideline to export our resource file using custom icon and the button icon always show on debug build. However, when we deploy to TestFlight, under some scenario, such as app upgrade, we found that the icon image disappear occasionally. Anyone could help? Thank you in advance!
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Feb ’25
Widgets not showing up in MacOS widget gallery
I have a multiplatform app that I've been working on that targets iphones, ipad, and macos. I also have a widgetextension that targets all three devices. On iphones and ipads, the widgets show up in the widget gallery with no problems. But on the mac, the widget center does show my app, but its widgets are "from iPhone" meaning that if my app was not install on an iphone, they just won't show up on the mac at all. I have not idea of what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it. Do I need to create a widget extension for the mac seperately?
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Feb ’25
Swipe gestures for widgets
Hey, I am building some widgets and I'm quite surprised that Swipe gestures for widgets is not supported. It means the user must sacrifice home screen real estate to view multiple widgets to receive the same information. Ideally, swiping left / right inside of the widget should give a developer access to present different views. I realize that it means that a user would need to swipe outside of the widget, (or swipe to the beginning/end of the series of views inside of the widget) for the page to swipe, but I'd argue that this is the intuitive behavior of what widget scrollview would or should look like anyway.
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Feb ’25
Refresh Widget doesn't work from background push notification.
As stated in other posts like: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/734488 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/652946?answerId=823555022#823555022 Even though the recommended way from Apple documentation is to use push notifications to reload widgets timelines calling WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines(), it is unreliable and I couldn't find a pattern of why it works 10% of times and not the other 90%. While the debugger is connected to the App it always works though. My widget needs to reflect updated information otherwise it becomes useless since it display smart home devices states such as the Apple Home widget does as well.
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Feb ’25
Core Data Light Migration Crash When Widget is Installed (Error 134100)
I'm experiencing a crash during a lightweight Core Data migration when a widget that accesses the same database is installed. The migration fails with the following error: CoreData: error: addPersistentStoreWithType:configuration:URL:options:error: returned error NSCocoaErrorDomain (134100) error: userInfo: CoreData: error: userInfo: error: metadata : { NSPersistenceFrameworkVersion = 1414; NSStoreModelVersionChecksumKey = "dY78fBnnOm7gYtb+QT14GVGuEmVlvFSYrb9lWAOMCTs="; NSStoreModelVersionHashes = { Entity1 = { ... }; Entity2 = { ... }; Entity3 = { ... }; Entity4 = { ... }; Entity5 = { ... }; }; NSStoreModelVersionHashesDigest = "aOalpc6zSzr/VpduXuWLT8MLQFxSY4kHlBo/nuX0TVQ/EZ+MJ8ye76KYeSfmZStM38VkyeyiIPf4XHQTMZiH5g=="; NSStoreModelVersionHashesVersion = 3; NSStoreModelVersionIdentifiers = ( "" ); NSStoreType = SQLite; NSStoreUUID = "9AAA7AB7-18D4-4DE4-9B54-893D08FA7FC4"; "_NSAutoVacuumLevel" = 2; } The issue occurs only when the widget is installed. If I remove the widget’s access to the Core Data store, the migration completes successfully. The crash happens only once—after the app is restarted, everything works fine. This occurs even though I'm using lightweight migration, which should not require manual intervention. My suspicion is that simultaneous access to the Core Data store by both the main app and the widget during migration might be causing the issue. Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Is there a recommended way to ensure safe migration while still allowing the widget to access Core Data? Any insights or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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Feb ’25
Error when running Live Activities
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
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Feb ’25
Interactive Widget: unable to reload timeline from AppIntent
My app features two kinds of widgets, let's call them kind A and kind B. I have both A and B widgets on my Home Screen. When I tap the button on widget A (associated with App Intent), I expect widget B to also reload. However, if you call WidgetCenter.shared.reloadAllTimelines() inside the perform() method of the AppIntent, the timeline of widget B does not reload immediately. This issue only occurs on a physical device and is not consistently reproducible. On a simulator, however, widget B reloads as expected. FB13152293
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Feb ’25
WidgetKit keep crashing and widgets not displaying
So I have a MacOS application that was working just fine before Xcode 16. The Widgets are not working anymore. The main application and the widgets share a file in a common App Group. The widget app now get a permission error when accessing the file. Also, the Widget Kit simulator keeps crashing. I also try to start a new project in Xcode, add a target with a Widget extension with an App Intent and run it, and it also crashes. Sometimes, it doesn't crash but just display the error: "Failed to load widget. The operation couldn't be completed. (WidgetKit_Simulator.WidgetDocument.Error error 2.). Edited to attach WidgetKit error log widgetKitError.txt
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Feb ’25
How to support foregroundColor (deprecated) and foregroundStyle in watchOS 9/10?
In my Watch app on watchOS 9 I was using .foregroundColor(myColour) to colour the text in a widgetLabel on a corner complication like this: let myColour: Color = functionThatReturnsAColorObjectConstructedLike Color.init(...) // green .widgetLabel { Text(myText) .foregroundColor(myColour) } It worked fine; the widget label was green. Now, in watchOS 10, I see that foregroundColor() is being deprecated in favour of foregroundStyle(), and I can use .foregroundStyle(.green), and - importantly - foregroundStyle() is only available on watchOS 10 and newer. myColour is calculated depending on some other info, so I can't just write .green, and when I use .foregroundStyle(myColour) the widget label comes out as white every time, even if I set myColour = .green. I think I have to use some sort of extension to pick the right combination, something like: extension View { func foregroundType(colour: Colour, style: any ShapeStyle) -> some THING? { if #available(watchOS 10.0, *) { return foregroundStyle(style) } else { return foregroundColor(colour) } } } // Usage let myStyle: any ShapeStyle = SOMETHING? ... .widgetLabel { Text(myText) .foregroundType(colour: myColour, style: myStyle) It doesn't work. I just can't figure out what should be returned, nor how to return it. Any ideas?
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Feb ’25
Widget archival failed due to image being too large
I'm trying to setup a widget to pull an image down from a webserver and I'm running into an error of Widget archival failed due to image being too large [9] - (1024, 1024), totalArea: 1048576 > max[718080.000000]. I've tried two different approaches to resolve this error and both have failed to resolve the image. I've also confirmed that I'm getting the image in the AppIntentTimelineProvider. private func getImageUI(urlString: String) -> UIImage? { guard let url = URL(string: urlString) else { return nil } guard let imageData = try? Data(contentsOf: url) else { return nil } return UIImage(data: imageData)?.resizedForWidget() } Is there another approach I could take on addressing this issue so the image appears on the widget? Simple approach extension UIImage { func resized(toWidth width: CGFloat, isOpaque: Bool = true) -> UIImage? { let canvas = CGSize(width: width, height: CGFloat(ceil(width/size.width * size.height))) let format = imageRendererFormat format.opaque = isOpaque return UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: canvas, format: format).image { _ in draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: canvas)) } } } extension UIImage { /// Resize the image to strictly fit within WidgetKit’s max allowed pixel area (718,080 pixels) func resizedForWidget(maxArea: CGFloat = 718_080.0, isOpaque: Bool = true) -> UIImage? { let originalWidth = size.width let originalHeight = size.height let originalArea = originalWidth * originalHeight print("🔍 Original Image Size: \(originalWidth)x\(originalHeight) → Total Pixels: \(originalArea)") // ✅ If the image is already within the limit, return as is if originalArea <= maxArea { print("✅ Image is already within the allowed area.") return self } // 🔄 Calculate the exact scale factor to fit within maxArea let scaleFactor = sqrt(maxArea / originalArea) let newWidth = floor(originalWidth * scaleFactor) // Use `floor` to ensure area is always within limits let newHeight = floor(originalHeight * scaleFactor) let newSize = CGSize(width: newWidth, height: newHeight) print("🛠 Resizing Image: \(originalWidth)x\(originalHeight) → \(newWidth)x\(newHeight)") // ✅ Force bitmap rendering to ensure the resized image is properly stored let format = UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat() format.opaque = isOpaque format.scale = 1 // Ensures we are not letting UIKit auto-scale it back up let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: newSize, format: format) let resizedImage = renderer.image { _ in self.draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: newSize)) } print("✅ Final Resized Image Size: \(resizedImage.size), Total Pixels: \(resizedImage.size.width * resizedImage.size.height)") return resizedImage } } These are logs from a failed image render if that helps 🔍 Original Image Size: 720.0x1280.0 → Total Pixels: 921600.0 🛠 Resizing Image: 720.0x1280.0 → 635.0x1129.0 ✅ Final Resized Image Size: (635.0, 1129.0), Total Pixels: 716915.0
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Feb ’25
WidgetKit Simulator with Intent Configurations
Xcode 16.2 are unavailable to develop widget with dynamic options, no matter SiriIntent or AppIntent that I try to use. I have try to start a complete new project, then add widget with app intent checkbox check, with zero code changed then i press command run and WidgetKit Simulator present CHSErrorDomain error 1103 always, if i try to add widget directly from desktop, dynamic options are available to select but widgets doesn't seem like load successfully, it is stuck same in the WidgetKit Simulator. I also try to start a new project in my other MacBook but no luck, this error are presenting all the time, I'm totally stuck here, does anybody having this issue?
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Jan ’25
WidgetKit widgets vanish in Montery with Xcode 16
We have recently added WidgetKit widgets to an existing product, and they've been working great on Macs using Big Sur and later. Recently, when installing a build on a Montery Mac, the widgets were no longer in Notification Center. After some trial and error, we discovered that if we build the project with Xcode 15.4, the widgets appear, but if we build with Xcode 16, the widgets vanish. This seems to happen on Macs running Big Sur or Monterey. The project is being built on Macs running Sonoma (both Apple Silicon and Intel). Is there a build setting in Xcode 16 that may have this effect?
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Jan ’25
Widget AppIntent perform network request
I had write a widget after iOS 17+, It had a Toggle to perform a appintent . When switch the toggle, the appintent will perfrom , just like ` func perfrom() async throws -> some IntentResult { // first let first = try await getFristValue() let second = try await getSecondValue(by: first) let third = try awiat getThirdValue(by: second) return .result() } ` and I found, it will work when I am debugging connect with Xcode. But, when I don't connect xcode, it will not work. How can I fixed it ?
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Jan ’25