Nearby Sharing a Volume won't work

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Created Oct ’25

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Hi,

we've developed an app for Vision Pro that utilises the GroupActivitites SDK to provide shared experiences for our users.

Remote Participation works great, but we can't get nearby sharing to work. The behaviour we're observing:

User 1 engages share sheet from Volume, 2nd Vision Pro is visible.
User 1 starts nearby sharing
Session initialisation runs for approx. 30 seconds, then fails

Sometimes, the nearby participant doesn't show up at all after the initialisation has failed once.

As stated in the Configure your visionOS app for sharing with people nearby article, we didn't make any changes to our implementation to support nearby sharing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards, David

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Vision Pro Engineer OP

Apple

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Hi @davidcwps,

Are you still seeing this issue with nearby sharing? If so, can you provide some code showing where you start observing for active sessions and how that method is implemented?

if you don't feel comfortable posting that or would like to include more code, feel free to file a feedback report at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com with any attachments and add the FB number here, so I can see it.

Another good test would be to create a small project with the smallest amount of code possible just to set up the session and test it with nearby and see if that works.

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