I'm using the new AlarmKit framework to schedule and trigger alarms in my Swift app in iOS 26 beta 4 (23A5297i). I'm trying to customize the alarm sound using a sound file embedded in the app bundle or by referencing known system tones. Problem: No matter what I pass to .named("sound-2"), whether a file bundle url, .named("sound-2.caf"), tried .mp3, .caf & .aiff, or a known iOS system sound like .named("Radar") ("Chimes", etc.), the alarm always plays the default system alert tone. There's no error or warning, but the custom or specified sound is silently ignored. sound: .named("sound-2") Question: What is the correct method or approach to play custom sound / music when Alarm Triggers? What .named("...") expects file name, file Path URL or System sound name? Is there any specific audio file length accepted or specific format? Challenge: The alarm functionality feels incomplete without support for custom sounds. A single default alert tone is often not sufficient to wake up users effectively. Hope it will be fixed in the next iOS updates.

I developed a shortcut feature for my app using the AppIntents framework, which can display a maximum of 10 shortcuts in the Shortcuts app. However, I've noticed that apps like Tesla and Porsche have a significantly larger number of shortcuts, far exceeding 10. After searching online, I found that they might be using Intent Extensions and the SiriKit framework. I customized an Intent through SiriKit, checked the option for "Intent is user-configurable in the Shortcuts app" and "Add to Siri." I can find this shortcut when I search for it, but it does not appear on the homepage or under the app category. Is there any way to resolve this?

Title: I want to display the BIMI brand logo in the iOS mail app Body: To: Apple Email Service Representative We provide an email service called Docomo Mail. Reference: Docomo Mail: https://www.docomo.ne.jp/service/docomo_mail/ As stated in the press release below, NTT Docomo has implemented support for BIMI, which is considered useful in preventing phishing scams. https://www.docomo.ne.jp/binary/pdf/info/news_release/topics_240522_00.pdf This is in compliance with the requirements for implementing BIMI in Apple's email client. https://developer.apple.com/jp/support/bimi Regarding this, could you please display the BIMI brand logo in the Apple email app even when using Docomo email? Thank you in advance

Hi all, I’m working on a Screen Time app using Managed Settings and ShieldConfiguration, and I’ve run into an issue where screen time is still being counted while the shield is shown — even when the user never interacts with the underlying app content. This happens both when I use the default shield and when I configure a custom ShieldConfiguration with a ShieldAction. As long as the shield is visible, the time appears to count toward the app’s usage. For example, if I leave the shield up for 20 minutes, Screen Time logs it as 20 minutes of app usage — even if no content is accessed behind the shield. Is this expected behavior? Is there a way to prevent Screen Time from counting time while the shield is shown? Any insights or workarounds would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Connor

Hi Team, We are encountering issues while implementing the live translation feature in our VoIP application using CallKit on iOS 26.0. Specifically, we are attempting to use the CXSetTranslatingCallAction transaction to enable translation programmatically during an active call. However, executing this transaction results in the following error: "Couldn't communicate with a helper application." This occurs consistently when we attempt to trigger the translation setup without user interaction. We are seeking clarification on the following points: Is it possible to enable CallKit's live translation feature using CXSetTranslatingCallAction purely programmatically, without requiring the user to interact with the system-provided Call UI? What does the above error indicate in the context of CXSetTranslatingCallAction? Are there specific conditions, entitlements, or background service requirements that must be fulfilled to communicate with CallKit? Code snippet: let translationAction = CXSetTranslatingCallAction(call: callUUID, isTranslating: true, localLocale: Locale.init(identifier: "es-ES"), remoteLocale: Locale(identifier: "en-US")) let transaction = CXTransaction(action: translationAction) callController.request(transaction) We would deeply appreciate any guidance you can provide regarding the feasibility of our approach and how to address this error. Thank you for your support.

Call blocking using a third-party CallKit app is not longer working with the latest iOS 26 Public Beta (23A5297m). We've tried several different Call Blocking apps (that used to work fine on iOS 18.5) and their call blocking functionality is not working anymore. All calls pass through and the phone rings on those "blocked" numbers. We got several user complaints about our app that is not working on iOS 26 Public Beta. We've filed 2 bug reports with Feedback Assistant: FB19140680 FB19140594 Please fix this issue in the next Beta versions of iOS 26 to have a stable iOS 26 release in the future. Thank you in advance.

I’m developing a smart alarm app that makes use of the extended runtime session. I’ve looked at the docs, and one of the background modes for Apple watch is smart alarm. The docs also say that an extended runtime session can only be scheduled one at a time, and while the app is open, which isn’t very intuitive for an alarm app that runs on schedules. I’ve seen other apps do something similar, but I’m trying to make this fully automated, without the user having to do too much manually to reschedule the smart alarm. Is there no way to do this? I would’ve thought the smart alarm background modes would allow to schedule more than 1/a repeating extended runtime session.

content = try String(contentsOfFile: filepath) is the following warning. 'init(contentsOfFile:)' was deprecated in iOS 18: Use init(contentsOfFile:encoding:) instead After internet searching I could find an answer. I would appreciate a rewrite of my code line to get rid of 31 warnings. Thanks a LOT Charlie

I am seeing a weird behavior of the date formatter (Full code is below). When run, this will give the following output: 57: 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days 58: 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days 59: 2 months 60: 2 months, 1 day 61: 2 months 62: 2 months, 1 day 63: 2 months, 2 days So both 59 days and 61 days are 2 months, and both 60 and 62 days are 2 months and 1 day. This of course is especially weird because this means, 2 months also comes after 2 months and a day. Can someone explain to me what is going on here? import Foundation let formatter = DateComponentsFormatter() formatter.unitsStyle = .full let calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian) let today = calendar.date(from: DateComponents(year: 2025, month: 7, day: 26))! for day in 57...63 { let startDate = calendar.date(byAdding: .day, value: -day, to: today)! let components = calendar.dateComponents([.day, .weekOfMonth, .month,. year], from: startDate, to: today) let result = formatter.string(from: components)! print ("\(String(format: "%3d", day)): \(result)") }

I've run Speakerbox(https://docs-assets.developer.apple.com/published/8e99045a90e2/MakingAndReceivingVoIPCallsWithCallKit.zip) to check the behavior of CallKit. When there was one active call and one on hold and another call was received, the behavior was defferent depending on whether I operated it from a headset or not. No headset or operated from CallKit screen When "End & Accept" tapped: the active call is hung up, and the received call is answered. When "End Held & Accept" tapped: the held call is hung up, the active call is held, and the received call is answered. Operated from headset Answer opeation cannot be performed for unknown reasons Disconnect operation caused that all calls other than the one on hold are hung up and the held call is unheld. Hold operation caused that the active call is held and the received call is answered. (Strangely, there are two held calls.) And when I toggle calls at this time, one of the two on hold is hung up for unknown reasons. I tried changing the settings of CXProviderConfiguration and CXCallUpdate, and changing the options in the Audio Session category, but it did not improve. I checked CXActions occurring, and it was as follows. (Call A = held call, Call B = active call, Call C = received call) Disconnect (or Answer?) operation (lacking CXEndCallAction for Call A) CXEndCallAction for Call B CXAnswerCallAction for Call C CXEndCallAction for Call C <- weird CXSetHeldCallAction for Call A onHold=false Hold operation (lacking lacking CXEndCallAction for Call A) CXSetHeldCallAction for Call B CXAnswerCallAction for Call C Toggle calls CXSetHeldCallAction for Call C onHold=true CXSetHeldCallAction for Call A onHold=false CXSetHeldCallAction for Call B onHold=false <- weird CXEndCallAction for Call B

Based on the documentation, I understand that the UnwantedCommunicationReporting extension works with SMS and MMS messages. However, I'd like official confirmation about support for different message types: SMS: Appears to be supported ✅ MMS: Appears to be supported ✅ RCS (Rich Communication Services): Support unclear ❓ iMessage: Support unclear ❓

Hello, my app is frequently loosing / forgetting the Screen Time Permission that had been granted previously on iOS 26. I have experienced it myself, sysdiagnose is in this radar: FB18997699 But also also my App Store users who have updated to iOS 26 already have reported this bug. It would be great if Apple could ensure that this bug is addressed before iOS 26 is released to the public.

Starting with iOS 18.3, we are getting infrequent crash reports somehow related to web sockets. Are there any new caveats we should be aware of or is it just a CFNetwork bug? Incident Identifier: 0D4343CE-3089-4514-841D-80CEC353B6B8 Distributor ID: com.apple.AppStore Hardware Model: iPhone16,2 AppStoreTools: 16C7015 AppVariant: 1:iPhone16,2:18 Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Non UI Parent Process: launchd [1] Date/Time: 2025-03-18 15:42:14.1732 -0400 Launch Time: 2025-03-15 20:38:20.7015 -0400 OS Version: iPhone OS 18.3.1 (22D72) Release Type: User Baseband Version: 2.40.05 Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 VM Region Info: 0 is not in any region. Bytes before following region: 4373233664 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL UNUSED SPACE AT START ---> __TEXT 104aa4000-104aa8000 [ 16K] r-x/r-x SM=COW /var/containers/Bundle/Application/EDB47FCF-9E2C-4BE3-A771-F6F84BFCAF31/<redacted> Termination Reason: SIGNAL 11 Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [4454] Thread 10 Crashed: 0 CFNetwork 0x0000000193c46aac -[__NSURLSessionWebSocketTask _onqueue_receiveMessageWithCompletionHandler:] + 256 (LocalWebSocketTask.mm:486) 1 CFNetwork 0x0000000193c438b0 -[__NSURLSessionWebSocketTask _onqueue_ioTick] + 636 (LocalWebSocketTask.mm:355) 2 CFNetwork 0x0000000193c46918 __67-[__NSURLSessionWebSocketTask receiveMessageWithCompletionHandler:]_block_invoke + 356 (LocalWebSocketTask.mm:97) 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a2e9248 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32 (init.c:1549) 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a2eafa8 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 (object.m:576) 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a2f25cc _dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 768 (queue.c:3934) 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a2f3158 _dispatch_lane_invoke + 432 (queue.c:4025) 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a2fe38c _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 288 (queue.c:7193) 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a2fdbd8 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 540 (queue.c:6787) 9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x000000021d2e4680 _pthread_wqthread + 288 (pthread.c:2696) 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x000000021d2e2474 start_wqthread + 8 (:-1) Thread 10 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit): x0: 0x0000000000000000 x1: 0x0000000000000000 x2: 0x00000000000003f0 x3: 0x0000000000000001 x4: 0x0000000000000010 x5: 0x00000000b04d793d x6: 0x00000000000013c0 x7: 0x0000000000000000 x8: 0x0000000000000378 x9: 0x0000000000000001 x10: 0x00000001fabc6b40 x11: 0x000000000000000f x12: 0x0000000000ddf700 x13: 0x000000012a1bc1c0 x14: 0x00000001fabc9798 x15: 0x00000001fabc9798 x16: 0x000000018faa1c4c x17: 0x000000019a2ea664 x18: 0x0000000000000000 x19: 0x0000000303a83420 x20: 0x0000000000000000 x21: 0x000000012b42d900 x22: 0x00000001fc8000a8 x23: 0x00000001fc8000a8 x24: 0x00000003036913c0 x25: 0x00000003036913c0 x26: 0x0000000000000001 x27: 0x0000000303afc870 x28: 0x0000000000000001 fp: 0x000000016b95a1f0 lr: 0x0000000193c46a04 sp: 0x000000016b95a170 pc: 0x0000000193c46aac cpsr: 0x40001000 esr: 0x92000006 (Data Abort) byte read Translation fault

Hi all, I need help diagnosing a strange crash that’s affecting only one device model. Issue: My React Native app crashes immediately on launch, but only on the iPad Air (5th generation) running iPadOS 18.5. The app was built with React Native (latest stable version). It runs fine on all other tested iOS and iPadOS devices, both physical and simulators. There’s no crash on iPhone or on older iPads so can somebody please help solve this?

In Availability and pricing section, there's a 500,000 API calls a month per Apple Developer Program membership limitation. Is this just to limit the number of calls for developer in development stage? After the app is uploaded to App store, users download and start to use this app. Will Weather API calls of general App users be included in 500,000 API calls? Thanks.

Hello! I am experiencing some strange bugs around DeviceActivityEvents: When creating a DeviceActivityEvent we can assign a threshold and applicationTokens. The idea is, that after the user has spent said threshold on said apps, eventDidReachThreshold is called. includesPastActivity is set to false. On iOS 26 however, it happens (quite reliably after updating to a new beta seed) quite often that eventDidReachThreshold is called immediately (after a couple of seconds) instead of waiting for the threshold to be met. Is anyone else seeing similar issues on iOS 26? Only workaround I have found is to ask users to re-grant Screen Time permissions. This only holds for about two weeks though or at most until the next iOS 26 beta update is installed. Feedback filed under: FB18061981 FB18927456

When the iPhone is set to 12-hour time format, obtaining a timestamp similar to "2025-07-18 16:29:00" fails

An issue with the CallKit UI, specifically regarding the functionality of the speaker button. When a user initiates a video call with CallKit and then, using the existing CallKit session, initiates an audio call, there are no issues with CallKit or the audio. However, if the user terminates the video call from the CallKit UI, the active CallKit session ends. To resume the ongoing audio call, we report a new CallKit call upon the end call trigger. While there are no issues with this reporting, the CallKit UI does not provide an audio route for the built-in receiver, and the speaker button remains unresponsive. IPA was build on SDK 18 and running on iOS beta 26. Issue is NOT seen with SDK18 and running iOS 18.x or lower devices. Feedback - FB18855566

I am trying to create an app that allows users to opt in and apply a shield to all of their apps during a specified amount of time each day, but they can always turn the shield off from our app or directly ignore the shield for 1 minute from a shield button. It is important that the user doesn't choose what apps to apply a shield to through the activity picker, as some users might not apply it to all apps. Currently I am doing everything I described in my app and shield all apps and webdomain categories with this: store.shield.applicationCategories = .all() store.shield.webDomainCategories = .all() But the, store.shield.applicationCategories = .all(), seems to block everything except for some system apps like Messages, Phone, FaceTime, Maps, Clock, Settings, Safari, Find My, Clock, Compass, Health, etc. It does block some system apps like Weather, Photos, Camera, Measure, App Store, etc. I know I can fully block applications from it's bundle identifier but I do not want to remove apps from the home screen. I only want to apply a shield to all of them. I have read every apple documentation possible about this and can't see a way to do it, currently how I am doing it seems to be the best way but it is still not enough. Even blocking a specific category token taken from the activity picker won't apply to some system level applications under it unless you get all the application tokens and apply the shield by applications and not category. I am really looking for help to see if there is something I can do to achieve my app's goal.

I have a multiplatform app for Mac and iOS, for which I am implementing a share extension. This share extension has to share settings with the app itself on both platforms. I am currently trying to achieve this by adding all targets to the same App Group and using UserDefaults with the App Group as suiteName. The app consists of three targets: A multiplatform SwiftUI app, an iOS Share Extension, and a macOS Share Extension,. Settings get persisted correctly on Mac and on the iOS 26 simulator. However, on a real iOS 26 beta 3 device, the Share Extension is unable to load UserDefaults (loading anything with the App Group as a suite name returns nil). What could cause this behavior? The following log entries are generated from the Share Extension on the iOS device, but not on the iOS simulator: Couldn't read values in CFPrefsPlistSource&lt;0x1030d3c80&gt; (Domain: MY_APP_GROUP, User: kCFPreferencesAnyUser, ByHost: Yes, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): Using kCFPreferencesAnyUser with a container is only allowed for System Containers, detaching from cfprefsd 59638328 Plugin query method called (501) Invalidation handler invoked, clearing connection (501) personaAttributesForPersonaType for type:0 failed with error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.mobile.usermanagerd.xpc was invalidated from this process." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.mobile.usermanagerd.xpc was invalidated from this process.} LaunchServices: store (null) or url (null) was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={_LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler, _LSFile=LSDReadService.mm, NSDebugDescription=process may not map database} Attempt to map database failed: permission was denied. This attempt will not be retried. Failed to initialize client context with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={_LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler, _LSFile=LSDReadService.mm, NSDebugDescription=process may not map database} [C:1-3] Error received: Invalidated by remote connection.