Native WeatherKit fails for our app on both development and TestFlight distribution builds, with the WeatherKit service enabled. Team ID: YCF2TGZAX8 Bundle ID: org.walktalkmeditate.pilgrim Call: try await WeatherKit.WeatherService.shared.weather(for: location, including: .current) Error (immediate, every call): Error Domain=WeatherDaemon.WDSJWTAuthenticatorServiceListener.Errors Code=2 "(null)" What we've verified: WeatherKit enabled under BOTH the Capabilities tab AND the App Services tab for this App ID. com.apple.developer.weatherkit entitlement confirmed in the signed binary (codesign -d --entitlements). Fails identically on (a) Xcode-direct development builds and (b) TestFlight distribution builds. Physical device (iPhone SE 3rd gen) signed into iCloud / an Apple Account. Survives app delete + reinstall AND a device reboot, on both build types. GPS/CoreLocation works fine; only WeatherKit auth fails. Not a timeout or rate-limit. First appeared on Xcode 26 beta; never resolved on stable Xcode 26.3 (17C529), iOS 18.x. This matches the pattern in threads 786126, 810137, 811225, and 789900, where the WeatherKit auth backend hasn't registered/synced the bundle ID for JWT issuance even with App Services on, and Apple resolves it server-side. Could someone check the backend WeatherKit registration for org.walktalkmeditate.pilgrim? Happy to provide a sysdiagnose. Will also file a Feedback report and add the FB number here.

Is there any UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities string that can be used to restrict an app to Apple TV 4K (2nd generation) or later hardware? I can’t find one. I’m working on a tvOS app that uses Continuity Camera. That feature only works on Apple TV 4K (2nd gen) and Apple TV 4K (3rd gen) hardware. There seems be no way to warn App Store customers that the app will not work on Apple TV 4K (1st gen). In the App Store or TestFlight, a user with a 1st gen device incorrectly sees a compatibility note that the app “Works on this Apple TV”. Setting a minimum OS version is not currently a helpful path for me — even tvOS 26.5 is compatible with 1st generation hardware. I can’t think of a good way to prevent users with an incompatible Apple TV 4K from installing an app that won’t work on their 1st generation devices. Any ideas? Am I missing something?

We are seeing a reproducible scenario on iOS 26 where incoming VoIP push notifications are never delivered when the device has been idle and screen-locked for 30+ minutes. The same failure was observed simultaneously on WhatsApp, and Microsoft Teams and our app as well, on the same device during one incident, confirming this is a platform-level issue and not specific to our implementation. We have captured full system logs across three separate incidents. Below are the exact log sequences. Incident — All VoIP apps fail simultaneously (Our app, WhatsApp, Teams) Device: iPhone 17 Pro · iOS: 18.x · Network: 5G NSA (kNRNSA) The device had been idle with the screen locked for approximately 31 minutes. An LTE cell handover caused apsd to begin an APNs reconnection. powerd entered policy 3 before apsd reached channel-flow viable, defuncting the app. 17:45:59.562 symptomsd New RRC 0 when previous 1 from pdp_ip0 ↑ Radio drops to RRC_Idle. Device has been idle since 17:14:56 (31 min). 17:46:01.206 CommCenter #I Mapping the registration state to kRegisteredHome ↑ LTE cell handover triggers RRC reconnect. 17:46:01.330 apsd [C138 IPv4#b71cac13:5223 ready parent-flow (satisfied (Path is satisfied), interface: pdp_ip0[lte], scoped, ipv4, ipv6, dns, expensive, uses cell, LQM: good)] event: path:satisfied_change @594.391s ↑ APNs path re-satisfied. Reconnection begins. channel-flow viable NOT yet reached — TLS handshake still in progress. 17:48:08.057 apsd Powerd has requested assertion activity update ↑ Warning: powerd about to change policy. ── 2 minutes 40 seconds after APNs reconnect started ── 17:48:41.248 powerd Sending com.apple.powerd.assertionpolicy 3 17:48:41.250 apsd Update assertion policy 3 17:48:41.250 powerd Activity changes from 0x1 to 0x0. UseActiveState:0 17:48:41.250 powerd hidActive:0 displayOff:1 assertionActivityValid:0 ↑ Screen off, device locked. OS enters restricted idle. apsd restricted. APNs reconnection abandoned. 17:48:42.669 kernel necp_process_defunct_list: necp_update_client abort nexus error (2) for pid 1518 Comera ↑ Kernel terminates Comera's network stack via NECP. No API available to prevent this. WhatsApp and Teams remain suspended — no DEFUNCT, but apsd in policy 3 means no push delivery for them either. ── Dead zone: VoIP pushes for all 3 apps undeliverable ── 17:50:04.028 powerd Process CommCenter.104 Created SystemIsActive "com.apple.ipTelephony.sipIncoming.cell" ↑ Incoming cellular PSTN call forces system wake. 17:50:04.494 powerd Sending com.apple.powerd.assertionpolicy 0 17:50:04.598 apsd Update assertion policy 0 ↑ Full wake. Queued VoIP pushes from Comera, WhatsApp, and Teams are delivered simultaneously. Gap between channel-flow viable needed and actual delivery: 4 minutes 3 seconds. Recovery trigger: external cellular call from carrier — not any app action. Working case (same test, different conditions) Device: iPhone 17 Pro · iOS: 26.5.1 · Screen unlocked, no hotspot 19:2x:xx apsd policy state {downgradeWhenLocked: NO, isSystemLocked: NO, isConnectedOnUltraConstrainedInterface: NO} ↑ Device unlocked. No policy 3. Comera NOT defuncted. Push delivered. Call rings normally. Our implementation PKPushRegistry is held strongly and re-registered on every applicationWillEnterForeground reportNewIncomingCall(with:update:completion:) is called synchronously within pushRegistry(_:didReceiveIncomingPushWith:) VoIP background mode entitlement is present App has com.apple.developer.pushkit.voip entitlement Questions Is there any entitlement or API to prevent NECP from defuncting a process holding an active PKPushRegistry? The VoIP push entitlement exists for exactly this background delivery scenario. Is pushDisallowed being applied to apps with VoIP push entitlements when InternetSharingActive == 1 intentional? Should VoIP entitlements exempt an app from the Internet Sharing Policy gate in dasd? Is there a documented way to know when apsd has fully completed APNs reconnection (i.e. channel-flow viable) so a server can time push retries more accurately within a call validity window? What is the recommended apns-expiration value for VoIP pushes to survive brief APNs reconnection windows without exceeding a 60-second call validity period? Full log stream captures available for all incidents.

Does Apple WatchOS 27 support my iOS 27 app being notified when the user wakes up?

We have a published, approved App Clip that works correctly via QR code and the Safari Smart App Banner, but URL-based invocation does not trigger the App Clip card in any context. Most notably, Apple's own default App Clip URL does not work either: https://appclip.apple.com/id?p=hazel-torus.Clip **Tapping this link in Messages or Notes does nothing. ** Long-pressing it shows a generic website link preview rather than the App Clip card, even though appclip.apple.com is Apple's domain and requires no configuration on our end. Setup details: App Clip bundle ID: hazel-torus.Clip Team ID: 2UNR2APH47 App Clip experience URL: https://passportreader.app/open AASA includes a correctly formatted appclips key with 2UNR2APH47.hazel-torus.Clip (confirmed via https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/passportreader.app that AASA is correctly cached) Associated Domains entitlements (appclips:passportreader.app) are present on the App Clip target App and App Clip experience are both Approved / Ready for Sale Tested on two physical devices, neither with the full app installed Since QR and Safari banner invocation work, the App Clip itself and its entitlements appear correctly configured. The fact that even Apple's own appclip.apple.com URL fails, and is treated as an arbitrary website link, suggests this may be a backend indexing issue specific to this App Clip rather than a client-side configuration problem. Has anyone else encountered this, or know what could cause appclip.apple.com to not be recognized as an App Clip URL?

I have a WebView App for my WordPress site. For multilanguage support I am using gTranslate. This works fine on any browser (also Safari) and also in my App on Android - but it does NOT work on iPhones. gTranslate is using GoogleTranslate. On iPhones it is kicked on correctly, but just does not translate the page. Do you have any clue why this is the case? What is hindering gTranslate (Google-Translate) to run on iPhones? My WebViews is starting with this - do I need something special for iOs?: <WebView style={{ flex: 1 }} ref={webViewRef} source={{ uri: initialUrl }} applicationNameForUserAgent={APP_AGENT} javaScriptEnabled={true} domStorageEnabled={true} sharedCookiesEnabled={true} cacheEnabled={false} thirdPartyCookiesEnabled={true} originWhitelist={['*']} setSupportMultipleWindows={false} startInLoadingState={true} .... If you don't know a solution: Is there another service I can or should use for iPhones? What I want to achieve is: The app should start (automatically) in the language of the user (from device-locales) - on iPhone in the same way like on Android. BTW: I don't habe an iPhone and therefore can't test myself. I receive the messages from my users.

Since macOS 26 (Tahoe), getaddrinfo() with AF_UNSPEC for a hostname whose DNS answer contains only A records (no AAAA) fails in forked child processes when the parent performed DNS resolution, or otherwise initialized os_log, before forking. This is a regression: the same code works on macOS 15.x and earlier. The child crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS (KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS) inside the NAT64 synthesis path: _os_log_preferences_refresh (libsystem_trace.dylib) <- faulting frame os_log_type_enabled (libsystem_trace.dylib) nw_path_access_agent_cache (Network) _nw_path_update_is_viableTm / nw_path_snapshot_path / nw_path_evaluator_evaluate nw_nat64_v4_address_requires_synthesis _gai_nat64_second_pass (libsystem_info.dylib) si_addrinfo -> getaddrinfo Runtimes that install a SIGSEGV handler (Ruby, Python) do not die; instead the DNS helper thread spins at 100% CPU and the process hangs. We have also captured a parent-side variant where a later fork() deadlocks in the atfork prepare path itself: libSystem_atfork_prepare -> nw_path_prepare_fork -> _os_unfair_lock_lock_slow. Minimal trigger in C: os_log_t log = os_log_create("com.example.repro", "repro"); os_log(log, "init"); struct addrinfo hints = { .ai_family = AF_UNSPEC, .ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM }, *res; getaddrinfo("api.stripe.com", "443", &hints, &res); // parent: IPv4-only host if (fork() == 0) { getaddrinfo("api.stripe.com", "443", &hints, &res); // child: crashes in _os_log_preferences_refresh _exit(0); } Observed behavior and boundaries: Reproduces on 26.1 through 26.5.1 (25F80). Not reproducible on macOS 15.x. Only AF_UNSPEC lookups of IPv4-only hostnames are affected. AF_INET hints, IPv6-capable hostnames (for example google.com), numeric literals, and localhost are all immune. AF_INET6-only lookups neither trigger nor prevent it. The failure is all-or-nothing per parent process: once a parent is in the affected state, every forked child fails. On 26.5.1 it reproduces most reliably when the process was exec'd over a prior os_log-using image (for example Ruby launched via bundle exec, where the bundler Ruby execs the target Ruby in the same process), and intermittently from a bare shell. On 26.1 even bare runs reproduced readily. This is consistent with per-process logging state surviving exec and then being inherited invalid across fork. I understand that officially only async-signal-safe calls are supported between fork and exec. But this worked through macOS 15, and it breaks the pre-forking worker model used by major Ruby and Python frameworks (Resque, Unicorn, multiprocessing) on developer machines. Filed as FB21364061 in December 2025, no response so far. Is this a known issue, and is a fix present or planned in macOS 26.6 or the macOS 27 beta?

I have a question regarding parental control features within a region with age assurance regulations. The DeclaredAgeRange docs here suggests that age range can be "set" by the user or their parent or guardian: Check the ageRangeDeclaration to understand how the person or their parent or guardian set their age range. The declaration method indicates whether the age was self-declared, guardian-declared, or verified using a payment method, government ID, or another method. Based on this, I'm assuming the parent has the ability to override the user's real age (ex: 13 year old set to 18+?). Is that a correct assumption? Or do users that belong into a regulated region always return their true age for the purposes of Texas SB2420?

I am currently experiencing a bug where everyday at 5:30pm I have to manually go into Settings and turn off Screen Time's Downtime because it automatically locks me out of almost all of my apps. I am not able to toggle the "Scheduled" option, preventing me from editing Downtime. Is there any improvements with iOS27 that will be able to fix this bug? The goal is to not use Downtime anymore (aka it is not scheduled).

Hi. It is not as much as widgets itself but it goes along with live activities for sure I believe. Question 1: Hybrid Intelligence & Proactive Context How can developers leverage the Intelligence Platform (specifically intelligenceplatformd) to ensure 3rd-party apps provide the same deep proactive context as first-party services like Spotlight, but strictly through on-device processing to maintain total user privacy? Question 2: Autonomous Diagnostics & Private Reporting Is there a roadmap for Feedback Assistant to autonomously aggregate complex system-level interactions—using spindump or system_profiler—to generate "ready-to-implement" solutions for users, while ensuring these diagnostic insights remain local and are never transmitted to Apple or Google without explicit, granular consent? Question 3: Deep Indexing for Hybrid Data Sources With the shift toward ecosystem-wide intelligence, are there upcoming APIs that will allow Siri or App Intents to more deeply index "hybrid" private data sources—such as external databases or complex Markdown structures in Obsidian—without compromising the local-first security model?

Hi everyone, I was watching the "Code-along: Add persistence with SwiftData" session and noticed a strange architectural choice at the end. They track model side-effects directly inside a SwiftUI View's initializer like this: init(activity: Activity, isLast: Bool, isEditing: Bool) { activity.token = withContinuousObservation(options: .didSet) { event in // ... side effects here } } This feels like a significant architectural smell. SwiftUI views are transient structures with no guaranteed lifetime—they can be initialized dozens of times a second during standard layout passes. Furthermore, if multiple views display or interact with the same Activity, this tracking work gets duplicated redundantly. I understand this is a workaround because attaching a standard didSet directly to a stored property inside a @Model class doesn't trigger cleanly due to how the macro expands back-end storage. To keep this data-logic in the model layer where it belongs, I came up with an alternative that maps a custom computed property over a real stored attribute using. Here is the pattern: import SwiftUI import SwiftData @Model class Item { // 1. Persist the actual database column under an internal property name private var _title: String // 2. Expose a public computed property to intercept mutations var title: String { get { _title } set { // Updating the backing variable automatically fires the macro's observation hooks _title = newValue updatedAt = .now // Our derived side-effect! } } var updatedAt: Date init(title: String) { self._title = title self.updatedAt = .now } } Why I prefer this over the WWDC approach: Separation of Concerns: The model handles its own data dependencies (updatedAt), meaning the View layer remains purely declarative. Predictable Execution: The mutation logic runs exactly once per write, regardless of how many views are rendering or re-initializing around the object. No Manual Observation Setup: Because _title is a real, macro-backed attribute, SwiftData’s generated access and withMutation hooks are invoked naturally when the computed property reads or writes to it. We don't have to manually manage tokens or observation blocks. What do you all think? Are there any hidden gotchas to manipulating the schema mapping via originalName like this, or is this a vastly superior layout to WWDC's view-bound observation snippet? The downside is now the SQLIte column is _TITLE instead of TITLE. Is there any workaround for that? There doesn't seem to be @Attribute(columnName: "title")

is there a documented way to schedule when a live activity changes? I have observed other apps that can update their live activities, (countdown timer that changes at 0:00 to 'Timer Complete') I've observed apps that can do this without using a server (my device was in airplane mode) and while the app was backgrounded. but I cant figure out how to do it in my own app

One of the WWDC word clouds included the phrase "Real-time updates for widgets with app is open". Can someone please explain what is going on there and how that is different from what was happening previously? I was under the impression that updates were always happening while the app was running and never counted against whatever app update quota was in place. I am not sure if this is related, but I would love to know in iOS 27 has any sort of increase to the memory or CPU limits on widget updates. For years we have had ideas for more widgets but can't implement them because even staying under the 30MB limit has been nearly impossible.

I asked this elsewhere in the forums and haven't gotten a response, but in one of the WWDC word clouds I saw the label "Extra-small widget option in visionOS", but looking at the WidgetFamily it doesn't look like there is any new size that has been opened up for 27. Is this a new size to be supported or something else entirely?

Can WidgetKit and Live Activities directly leverage Foundation Models, or is the recommended approach to use App Intents and have the model run in the containing app

I hope I'm just missing something is there a way to schedule when a Live Activity should be dismissed, or schedule when its content will change? (local, without a server) I have observed other apps have the ability to swap out their countdown view for a 'timer complete' all while the app is backgrounded and airplane mode is on (ie its not being updated via server) however when trying to build any kind of similar functionality into my own app I come up short, I see no way to schedule when a live activities view will change, and similarly no way to schedule when it should be dismissed, and the system doesn’t treat the stale date as a flag for clearing an out of date live activity

I noticed visionOS 27 introduces an extra-small widget size. Compared to other widget sizes, is this form factor mainly intended for quick actions/triggers rather than displaying app info or status? As a developer, how much interactivity can we build into it — can we attach App Intents to make these extra-small widgets directly actionable, similar to interactive widgets on iOS?

We ship WidgetKit complications (StaticConfiguration, TimelineProvider) in a companion iOS + watchOS app and want to send Adobe Analytics when users add, remove, or switch complication kinds/families on their watch face. From the widget extension we only see timeline refreshes via getTimeline, which seems too noisy and unrelated to user intent to use for lifecycle tracking. On iOS we diff WidgetCenter.shared.currentConfigurations() at app launch against persisted state—is that also Apple’s recommended pattern on watchOS, or is there a supported callback we’re missing? How should this work for a companion app (watch collects and relays via WatchConnectivity vs. tracking from the iPhone Watch app) versus a standalone watch app where third-party analytics may only run on-device? We’re especially unsure how reliably removal is detected if the watch app doesn’t launch again after a complication is removed.

When the Age Verification framework validates a user based on both regulated region and age range, which location signal will the framework use for users in regulated regions? a.          The user's current physical location b.          The location associated with the user's Apple account c.          The billing or credit card location If multiple signals are available and inconsistent, what is the expected precedence order?   2. Can you provide a list of regions where age range is specified by default and regions where it is not? My app currently requests consent to share age range information during sign-in or sign-up, and the user's session remains active until sign-out. If a user was under 18 when the app was first installed and selected “decline to share,” but later turns 18 while remaining an active user, what is the recommended in-app approach for requesting age range information at that stage? Additionally, if parental consent is used to allow access for users under 18, how should the app determine when the user turns 18 and becomes eligible for direct age range collection? What are the exact requirements and limitations for receiving real (live) responses from the Declared Age Range API? Will these Age Verification rules/checks applied only to the new Apple Accounts or for existing users too?

I have an iOS app, Timely, that provides App Intents / Shortcuts actions for starting countdown Live Activities. The same action works correctly when run directly from the Shortcuts app or from Shortcuts automations. It also works through Siri when there are no existing Timely Live Activities. However, when one Timely countdown Live Activity is already active, asking Siri to start a second countdown fails. Siri responds with: Something went wrong, please try again. I added focused logging around the exact ActivityKit start path. The intent does start, ActivityAuthorizationInfo().areActivitiesEnabled is true, and the code reaches Activity.request(...). The failure is thrown directly by ActivityKit: [StartCountdownLiveActivityIntent] perform started countdownId=ef6eace3-1186-4263-8215-ddcc80fd34ae activitiesEnabled=true activeActivityCount=1 [StartCountdownLiveActivityIntent] existing activity activityId=D469D281-45BC-42F1-9DC9-83A8F346EC9C eventId=0d1365ee-dc30-4bc9-a6b3-6c9151098b8b state=active eventTime=2026-06-12T17:00:00Z [StartCountdownLiveActivityIntent] before Activity.request eventId=ef6eace3-1186-4263-8215-ddcc80fd34ae enablePushToken=true activitiesEnabled=true activeActivityCount=1 activities=[activityId=D469D281-45BC-42F1-9DC9-83A8F346EC9C,eventId=0d1365ee-dc30-4bc9-a6b3-6c9151098b8b,state=active,eventTime=2026-06-12T17:00:00Z] [StartCountdownLiveActivityIntent] Activity.request threw eventId=ef6eace3-1186-4263-8215-ddcc80fd34ae originalError=visibility localizedDescription=The operation couldn’t be completed. Target is not foreground nsErrorDomain=com.apple.ActivityKit.ActivityAuthorization nsErrorCode=7 nsErrorUserInfo=[:] So the error appears to be: ActivityAuthorizationError.visibility NSError domain: com.apple.ActivityKit.ActivityAuthorization NSError code: 7 Localized description: The operation couldn’t be completed. Target is not foreground The important part is that this only seems to happen when invoked through Siri and only when another Live Activity from the same app is already active. Running the same App Intent through Shortcuts succeeds. Is this an expected limitation of Siri-hosted App Intents / LiveActivityIntent execution, or is this an ActivityKit/Siri bug?