We've observed an issue where the video button on the CallKit UI is disabled during Video VoIP calls.
This issue appears to be specific to notch devices running SDK 26 and iOS 26 beta 7, specifically on iPhone 11. We have not seen this behavior on devices with Dynamic Island or on older iOS versions.
For further details, please refer to the attached video and sysdiagnose file. : FB19827793
Our experimentation suggests this issue is exclusively present on non-Dynamic Island devices with iOS 26 beta.
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When fetching Apple Savings transactions via FinanceKit, the data is missing key context about where the deposit originated from.
Here’s an example transaction I retrieved:
Transaction(
id: 77371A0C-7122-42C7-BEBC-85BDF654AD2B,
accountID: 68D9FE9D-6DA6-4A27-BB9D-19209CD29A56,
transactionAmount: 1.46 USD,
creditDebitIndicator: .credit,
transactionDescription: "Deposit",
originalTransactionDescription: "",
merchantCategoryCode: nil,
merchantName: nil,
transactionType: .deposit,
status: .booked,
transactionDate: 2025-08-20 13:44:26 +0000,
postedDate: 2025-08-20 13:44:26 +0000
)
As shown:
transactionDescription is just "Deposit"
merchantName is nil
No indication of the source account
In contrast, the Wallet app clearly shows context for Apple Savings account deposits, such as:
"Apple Card" (daily cash)
"Bank of America" (external transfer)
"Interest Paid" (we do see "Interest" come through correctly)
Without this metadata, third-party apps cannot replicate Wallet’s clarity about where a deposit came from. Every deposit simply appears as "Deposit", which is ambiguous.
Request:
Please expose additional metadata for Apple Savings account transactions, for example:
sourceAccountName (e.g. “Apple Card” or “Bank of America”)
transactionOriginType (cashback, external bank transfer, interest)
institutionIdentifier or similar for external banks
This would allow developers to show clear, Wallet-quality transaction details and avoid confusing users.
Impact:
The lack of source info makes Savings deposits nearly indistinguishable from one another, even though Wallet provides this context. For apps leveraging FinanceKit, this results in a poorer experience compared to Apple’s own Wallet.
Thanks!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
I’m testing FinanceKit with Apple Cash and noticed that transfers don’t include any counterparty information.
Here’s an example transaction I fetched:
Transaction(
id: 5A96EA49-B7C9-4481-949D-88247210C1D7,
accountID: 28D7C0E2-DC2A-4138-B105-BCE5EE00B705,
transactionAmount: 30 USD,
creditDebitIndicator: .credit,
transactionDescription: "Transfer",
originalTransactionDescription: "",
merchantCategoryCode: nil,
merchantName: nil,
transactionType: .transfer,
status: .booked,
transactionDate: 2025-08-19 21:57:54 +0000,
postedDate: 2025-08-19 21:57:55 +0000
)
As you can see:
transactionDescription is just "Transfer"
originalTransactionDescription is empty
merchantName is nil
No counterparty details are exposed
In contrast, the Wallet app clearly shows the other person’s name and avatar for Apple Cash transfers, making it easy to understand who the payment was with. In FinanceKit, there’s no way to distinguish between transfers with different people — every transfer looks identical.
Questions
Is there a hidden or planned field for Apple Cash counterparty information?
Can FinanceKit provide at least minimal metadata (e.g., contact name, initials, or a privacy-preserving identifier)?
Is there any workaround today to correlate Apple Cash transfers with contacts?
Feature request: Please expose counterparty information for Apple Cash transfers. Even something as simple as a stable identifier or name string would enable developers to build Wallet-quality transaction detail screens.
Thanks!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Hi all — I’m building a Wallet-style transaction details view using FinanceKit and I’m running into a gap around merchant location.
What I’m seeing
FinanceKit gives me great core fields (amount, currency, status, dates, MCC, merchantName, transactionDescription), but I’m not seeing any address or place/location metadata on a Transaction.
For example, a small/local merchant where I can plausibly infer a single place:
Fetched transaction:
Transaction(
id: 8D142B16-3E0E-40B8-945A-2E7C0CF65F1D,
accountID: 14939CF4-DBC3-4A9D-8292-5FEA495B8461,
transactionAmount: 47.24 USD,
creditDebitIndicator: .debit,
transactionDescription: "Local Dental Care",
originalTransactionDescription: "Local Dental Care",
merchantCategoryCode: 8021,
merchantName: "Local Dental Care",
transactionType: .pointOfSale,
status: .booked,
transactionDate: 2025-08-20 22:27:50 +0000,
postedDate: 2025-08-21 11:22:06 +0000
)
Because this appears to be a single-location practice, I can usually resolve it to a place using MapKit search heuristics.
But for big-box chains, I don’t get enough signal to determine which store:
Fetched transaction:
Transaction(
id: 3F8E9F74-7565-4D24-9038-8FD709184799,
accountID: 14939CF4-DBC3-4A9D-8292-5FEA495B8461,
transactionAmount: 441.77 USD,
creditDebitIndicator: .debit,
transactionDescription: "The Home Depot",
originalTransactionDescription: "The Home Depot",
merchantCategoryCode: 5200,
merchantName: "The Home Depot",
transactionType: .pointOfSale,
status: .booked,
transactionDate: 2023-12-27 23:07:02 +0000,
postedDate: 2023-12-29 03:09:41 +0000
)
There’s no store number, address, phone, or any stable identifier. With hundreds of locations, I can’t deterministically choose a map pin or fetch the right brand assets.
What I’m trying to achieve
I’d like to replicate the Apple Wallet experience: show a small map snapshot and merchant visuals (logo/name that match Apple Maps / the Place Card) on the transaction detail screen. Without a location hint, I have to either:
Ask users to pick a store manually, or
Make a guess based on a coarse, app-defined region
…neither of which feels great.
Questions
Is there any way in FinanceKit today to access merchant location or a resolvable identifier (e.g., address, city/state, store number, Apple Maps place identifier, network merchant ID/MID, terminal ID, etc.)?
If not, can FinanceKit expose additional merchant metadata (even opt-in / privacy-preserving) to enable Wallet-like enrichment? A few examples that would unblock this:
merchantAddress (or components: street/city/region/postalCode/country)
merchantPhone (often unique per store)
merchantIdentifier (stable per physical location, e.g., network merchant ID / store number)
mapsPlaceURL or mapsPlaceIdentifier (linkage to the Apple Maps Place Card)
brandAssetURL (logo/brand reference similar to what Wallet shows)
With even one of the above, I could reliably:
Render an accurate map snapshot,
Fetch the correct brand assets, and
Avoid prompting the user or inferring via fuzzy search.
Context / constraints
I do not want to (and shouldn’t need to) request or monitor the user’s device location to resolve a merchant’s store location.
For small merchants, MapKit text search is often enough. For large chains, I need a store-level identifier.
If there’s an existing field or recommended approach I’m missing, I’d love pointers. If not, please consider this a feature request for richer merchant metadata in FinanceKit so developers can build Wallet-quality transaction details.
Thanks!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
I have a public and accessible .well-known/apple-app-site-association
file for both my domain.com and subdomain.domain.com with
"paths": ["*"] .
Both example.com and blog.example.com are added in Associated domains and any link that contains domain.com and domain.com/path normally deep links into my app.
I used to have an *.example.com that successfully deep linked all my subdomains into my app but now I had to remove it as some subdomains will need to link to other apps, but some should still link to the same app.
I removed * but left blog.example.com as that specific subdomain still needs to deep link into my app. But now blog.example.com is not even being recognized by my app and any link starting with blog.example.com just opens in safari.
What am I missing? Why is this happening ?
For call reported in lockscreen, after updating the CXCallUpdate for an active callkit reported call with reportCallWithUUID:updated:. The display namer in the callkit UI is not getting updated.
This issue exists from iOS 18 and later. Issue is always seen.
Feedback updated with iOS 26 beta logs:
FB13969440
Observed few times that providerDidBegin(_:) delegate never called for the complete app session after app init(as part of this CXProvider registered) which was built with SDK 26 and running on iOS 26.
This issue observed multiple times with our testing. Since there is no providerDidBegin:, client is marking CallKit as not ready and never report any calls for VoIP APNS and ended up in app crash due to "[PKPushRegistry _terminateAppIfThereAreUnhandledVoIPPushes]"
Please refer for sysdiagnose logs : FB19778306
After updating from iOS 18 to iOS 26, our app icon appears to have automatically received the new 'Liquid Glass' effect. We confirmed that this change occurred without us releasing a new app update.
My questions are:
Is this a system behavior where iOS 26 automatically applies the new icon style to existing apps?
If so, is it possible for a developer to control or customize this effect? I am also wondering if there are any methods other than using Icon Composer.
We observed a new crash after upgrading to iOS 18.
This crash does not occur on iOS 17 or earlier.
Crash Stacks From Xcode Organizer
CoreFoundation: __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 160
2. CoreFoundation: __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort.cold.1 + 64
Crash Stacks From APM
I'm working on an app for iOS that will help people get tasks done.
Within the app, we use a ManagedSettingsStore to let the user setup distracting apps. When the user opens any of those apps while it is being shielded, our ShieldConfiguration target opens and displays a screen that we configure with the description of the task they are supposed to do. On the bottom of the view, there are two buttons, one to start the task, and another to dismiss and return to their home screen.
I want to have the button that starts the task open up the main application and deeplink to the focus view with the task that they started. Currently, the only thing that we can tell the system to do is via a ShieldActionResponse which is an enum with 3 cases: none, close, or defer.
None of these three allow us to open the main application. I have found no workarounds that allow us to do it either. I've tried creating a custom URL scheme and calling UIApplication.shared.open(url), but there is no shared application available within the action extension. I have tried using a NSExtensionContext to open a url, but that does not work either. I have even tried starting a live activity to show the user what task they are working on and have a live timer, but that does not work either.
I know it is technically possible, because an app I downloaded does it perfectly. The app is called "Ascent: Screen Time Control". Is there some sort of extension I am missing, or entitlement I have not requested? Any help would be very appreciated.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Family Controls
Device Activity
Managed Settings
Screen Time
We have received some information that with the release of iOS 18, there have been notable changes in how this API behaves, can apple team shed some light on this? on ios 17 this worked without much issues, what has changed on ios 18?
I’m trying to integrate Screen Time usage data into my iOS app.
The goal is to fetch the total time a user spends on their device (daily or weekly), and store this locally for analysis.
So far, I’ve explored the DeviceActivity and FamilyControls frameworks:
1.DeviceActivityReport works but seems tied to extensions that show reports, not directly fetching raw values inside the main app.
2.I haven’t found a way to simply retrieve the total screen-on time (similar to what Settings → Screen Time shows).
My questions:
1.Is there any public API that allows retrieving the user’s total Screen Time (like the one shown in Settings)?
If yes, what’s the correct approach — should I use 2.DeviceActivityMonitorExtension, FamilyActivitySelection, or another framework?
3.If not, is it expected that this data is only available in the Settings app and not exposed to developers?
Any guidance or official confirmation would be really helpful.
Thanks in advance!
We are a research team conducting a study collecting subject's SensorKit speech data, and we've encountered some questions we couldn't resolve ourselves or by looking up the online SensorKit documentation:
Microphone Activation: In general, how is the microphone being turned on to capture a speech session? And how was each session determined to be an independent session?
Negative Values: In the speech classification data, there are entries where some of the start and end values are negative (see screenshot below). How should we interpret and handle these values? Is it safe to filter them out?
Duplicated sessions: From the same screenshot you can see there are multiple session identifiers linked to the same subject with the same timestamp - what does this represent?
Another Negative Values: The same question for speech recognition data's average pause duration, what does the -1 mean and should we remove them as well?
(Note that these screenshot got rid of subject IDs for privacy purposes but each screenshot was from one subject.)
We greatly appreciate your time and help.
Hello, I am building an iMessage extension for my app and I am struggling to figure out how to test it. The extension allows users to send their friends an interactive widget and the recipient experience is very important to test.
I tried to do it in the simulators, but simulators do not support iMessage. I have got a second iPhone and created a sandbox account, but I cannot install TestFlight with the sandbox account, as this feature is not supported.
Reddit, Stackoverflow, ChatGPT and Apple Developer support also did not help. Can someone share their experience with testing recipient experience in the iMessage extension?
I'm currently experimenting with AlarmKit and, when configuring an alarm with a Relative schedule, but that never repeats, I find that it is still scheduled in the AlarmManager, but the documentation says that an alarm that has no repeat schedule will be removed from the AlarmManager after firing.
This behavior is experienced both in my project and with the sample code AlarmKit-ScheduleAndAlert
To reproduce, create a non-repeating alarm, and, after firing, it will still be on the list marked as Scheduled
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Hello.
I've implemented the Live Caller ID Lookup feature in my app, but sometimes I get a weird error. When I call LiveCallerIDLookupManager.shared.refreshPIRParameters(...) from my app, it sometimes throws an error:
Error Domain=com.apple.CipherML Code=1100 "Unable to query status due to errors: The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to query status due to errors: The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection., NSUnderlyingError=0x118f65740 {Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1022 "The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection., NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://www.example.com/config}}}
What does this error mean? And where did the example.com part come from? What should I do to get rid of this error? My Service URL is hardcoded in the Live Caller ID Lookup Extension of my app and it is definitely not example.com.
In release mode, the values are missing. I don't know what's wrong with it. If I install the debug version first and then overwrite it with the release build, I can retrieve the values stored in debug mode. But if I uninstall completely and install the release version directly, it's empty
I am developing multi timer app which works in background mode.
at first, I could go multi timer in background mode using background mode 'audio' which uses slient wav file.
However, app has rejected background mode 'audio' should not use which not for audio app.
I want to know how to develop timer app which works in background mode in ios platform.
native ios timer that let us alarmed time. so I want develop that kind of app
Sincerely,
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
I’m currently developing a spam number blocking app using CallKit.
I’ve confirmed that up to iOS 26 beta 5, there is a bug where number blocking doesn’t work.
In my current tests, the ringtone doesn’t sound and the blocking works fine, but the call still appears in the missed calls list, which is bothersome.
If the bug is fixed in future versions (as it was in previous versions), is there a way to block the number so that it also does not appear in missed calls?
Hi everyone,
I’m building a sports performance app for Apple Watch that uses the onboard IMU to analyze swings and impacts in sports like tennis and golf. The goal is to estimate club/racket head speed, ball speed, and shot quality in real time from wrist motion data.
With Core Motion, I can currently get deviceMotion updates at ~100 Hz. While this is fine for general movement tracking, the actual ball impact happens much faster — 5–10 ms in tennis and ~0.5 ms in golf. Many of the high-frequency vibration/impact components are missed at 100 Hz, making it hard to directly measure or more accurately estimate certain performance metrics.
Questions for Apple / community:
1. Is there a way to access raw accelerometer and gyroscope data at higher sampling rates (e.g., 500–1000 Hz) on Apple Watch?
2. If not, is this due to hardware limitations or an API/software constraint?
3. Are there any research, partner, or beta programs that allow deeper sensor access for sports-science use cases?
Even modest increases in IMU sampling could unlock more accurate ball-speed estimates, impact force analysis, and strike-quality detection without needing external sensors — making Apple Watch a best-in-class wearable for precision sports analytics.
Happy to share more about the current approach, sample data, and potential use cases if helpful.
Thanks,
Max