Hello everyone.
I have a very strange behavior with smart app banners in Safari.
When I don't have installed app on my phone, I can't see the banner on our product main page. When I installed the app, I can see the banner, which allows me to go directly to the app. When I put any other app's ID in the meta tag it works perfectly even if I don't have its installed app.
So the code is right, what can be the reason of this behavior? Any settings of the app are required?
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I'm trying to set up a smart app banner for my app, but it doesn't appear on the website when I try to test it.
I have the meta tag on my website:
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=6740216045" />
When I inspect the website, I can see that the meta tag is showing up in the head, but the banner is nowhere to be found. I tried clearing website data but still no dice.
Hello,
I am developing a Mac application via Mac Catalyst and encountering an issue with WKWebView. Specifically, I'm loading a webpage (e.g., https://translate.google.com) in WKWebView, but when I press the copy button on the page, the content doesn't actually copy to the clipboard.
I've attempted modifying the UserAgent without any success. Here is the relevant part of my code:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let config = WKWebViewConfiguration()
config.preferences = WKPreferences()
config.defaultWebpagePreferences.preferredContentMode = .desktop
let webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: config)
webView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
view.addSubview(webView)
webView.scrollView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false
webView.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
webView.scrollView.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
webView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.leadingAnchor).isActive = true
webView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.topAnchor).isActive = true
webView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.trailingAnchor).isActive = true
webView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.bottomAnchor).isActive = true
if let url = URL(string: "https://translate.google.com") {
let req = URLRequest(url: url)
webView.load(req)
}
}
If "Not Secure Connection Warnings" is enabled in the Settings > App > Safari, are no HTTP connections allowed? Setting NSAppTransportSecurity does not seem to apply either.
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
Hi,
I have implement a WebRtc cameras server:
IP camera -> ffmpeg -> WebRtc -> browser
The video codec used is H264.
I test it on a MAC mini using safari browser (latest version)
The Rtc peer connection is correctly connect but the video is not display.
looking for the event on the video control, I got this:
loadstart
progress
suspend
On the MAC, I have also a chrome browser installed and trying the same, it works fine, I got this:
loadstart
progress
loadmetadata
loadeddata
canplay
canplaythrough
playing
the video control on the html page is declared like this:
Does anyone have an idea why the video stay suspend or have a clue or tips to make it work?
Thanks in advance
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
I'm currently experimenting to add 3d stereo images in HEIC format to my daily Mars Rover Images website https://areo.info/mars20 which can be opened on a Vision Pro. Only a few images are yet converted into that mode, those on the sol 1411 page.
As I'm currently only working in the Vision Pro Simulator from Xcode, no real 3d effect if of course visible and I'm curious if anyone using the real hardware can confirm that the images are working.
Especially the eye distance correction is important to know about as the Mars Rover camera has a much wider pupil distance than humans and while I entered that distance in the conversion tool, I'm not sure if it worked well. So feedback is welcome!
For those who like to try to create stereo images themselves: I used https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ImageIO/writing-spatial-photos to create a HEIC file from two JPEGs.
iOS16 and iOS17 were fine, but on iOS18, our Safari extension that blocks content via static rulesets randomly stops working. Frequently, when a tab is left in the background for a long time (i.e. hours), the content blocker will stop working (until I either kill safari, or reload the extension). I've debugged this and the background.js script reports the ruleset as being loaded, but nevertheless, our rules aren't applied.
I really don't think that it's an issue with the way that the rules are defined, since iOS16 and iOS17 worked fine, and on iOS18, the rules DO work. They just stop working after a while.
"declarative_net_request": {
"rule_resources": [
{
"id": "ruleset_1",
"enabled": true,
"path": "ruleset_1.json"
}
]
},
Some theories:
I have other content blockers on my phone that have LOTS of rules (adguard). Could I be seeing the effects of too many rules? Can I debug this somehow? Do logs get printed somewhere when the max rule limit is reached?
Does the use of private and regular tabs mess things up?
Please, any input is appreciated, as all of our logs are normal and error-free.
As of IOS 18.3, there browser.tabs.create methods active property which is supposed to determine whether a tab get open in the active window or not is not working as it should. I have the active property set to false but the tab still gets opened and is active on the window. Tested on older ios versions 18.2 and below and it works as it should.
please advise
crash screenshot below:
Safari throw a ViewTransition error, called ' Unhandled Promise Rejection: AbortError: Old view transition aborted by new view transition.' however, i don't find how to catch it.
i used 'try..catch' or Promise.catch, or catch it in finished/ready/updateCallbackDone Promise. These all don't work.
We are having an issue on our website whilst using Iphones. A soon as the page loads it crashes and the it seems A problem repeatedly occurred to display page. This has been happening lately.
This is the link. Can someone tell us what could be the issue?
https://www.showshappening.com/TheTravellers/Travellers-Concert-2024
Thanks
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
How can i add Authorization header to a wkwebview. I checked https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsurlrequest#1776617 which says Authorization header is a reserved http header and shouldn’t be set. I want to set it when requesting a url to the server which will be used for verification. How can i do that?
I have a url that I want to stream, the stream is protected by basic auth.
I am using URLAuthenticationChallenge (wkwebview navigation delegate function) method to provide my credentials.
the credential changes with every stream url.
The issue I am facing is that URLAuthenticationChallenge is never called upon refresh or on new URL request until the app is killed and opened again.
I have tried:
clearing cooking
setting cache to ignore
opening an another blank url
using child view approach
setting wkwebview instance to nil
I always end up with 401 in decidePolicy (wkwebview delegate functions) on subsequent refresh call. Upon inspecting I see that it is using my previous used credentials and never calling challenge to update.
*Backend has a no-cache policy in its header.
**I am using http resource, the aim is to have streaming service on iOS.
class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate, WKUIDelegate {
@IBOutlet weak var wkWebView: WKWebView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let url = URL(string: "http://some-ip-address/some-path")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
wkWebView.configuration.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
wkWebView.navigationDelegate = self
wkWebView.load(request)
}
// this is just called once. we want to call it everytime our page refreshes.
// we have tried clearing cache and cookies but failed to call challenge
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, didReceive challenge: URLAuthenticationChallenge,
completionHandler: @escaping(URLSession.AuthChallengeDisposition, URLCredential?) -> Void) {
let credential = URLCredential(user: "user",
password: "password",
persistence: .forSession)
completionHandler(.useCredential, credential)
}
}
We have a Angular/Cordova application which is internal and is deployed on 10th gen iPad's currently. After updating the iOS version to 18.2 (current patch 18.2.1) the touch events on buttons and other views forms such as div are not firing the desired typescript methods. We are getting the touch events on the screen with relevant script which uses eventListner for debugging the touchevent but it doesn't fire at relevant methods at times.
"click" can be replaced with "touchend "and "submit".
document.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
handleGlobalEvent(event, 'click');
});
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
After the release of iOS17, our app has collected JavaScriptCore crashes, and the crash has recently appeared in iOS17 and above. The number of crashes collected recently is increasing.
The following are several complete crash log information. Currently, crashes are only collected on iOS17 and above systems.
2024-05-08_20-45-00.5216_+0800-fdb980f66f56d73b944ccc3466922d7fd0690089.crash
2024-05-11_02-42-46.0303_+0800-5ea1f23ba38c4782b80bd6304a9625e305c296a2.crash
2024-05-13_14-30-03.2084_+0800-d9598b08a153f5214b51257400423d4079049578.crash
Sometimes the Safari App Extension i'm developing does not show up in my Safari Extensions unless i change mu bundle identifier to some unique name.
Even if I delete all other apps i've built with the same (and different) bundle ID, the extension is still does not show up.
The only solution for me is to always change the bundle ID.
For example:
Now it is "kopyl.tab-finder-10"
If i change it to "kopyl.tab-finder-11", the extension does show up in the Safari extensions settings page again.
Is there any other way to fix it?
Hi,
I need a version of a web app to be accessible on a local network (LAN), when the users connect to a wifi without internet access.
I provide a valid TLS certificate to validate the website. There is also a local DNS (dnsmasq), with the following entries to return NXDOMAIN, as specified by the documentation.
server=/mask.icloud.com/
server=/mask-h2.icloud.com/
However, without internet (no cellular data), there is an error in Safari instead of the website. When there is some internet connection, there is a warning that allows to continue to the website by showing the IP address, which is not clear for the user.
iPhone users are very frustrated. Is there a solution?
Update: turns out the testphone with iOS 18 was set to 'Do not disturb'.
Case closed.
Hi all, I created a progressive web app. I is hosted on an actual live domain, served over https.
When installed on an iPhone homescreen on iOS 17.7.2, sending web push notifications works fine:
the response from the push service endpoint has a status code of 201, indicating all is good. In the service worker of the PWA, an eventlistener for the 'push' event is trigggered and displays an OS notification.
On iOS18.0 however, even though the response from the push service endpoint has a status code of 201, there is no notification showing. Even though permission has been granted, and registration.pushManager.subscribe() is successful.
When working locally, I've setup my server to run on localhost in https mode as well by following this excellent Technical Note to setup my own Certificate Authority, have it be trusted by my iOS test devices and have the CA issue a certificate so TLS can be set up.
On this locally running https server, web push notifications do arrive for iOS 17.7.2, but also not for iOS18.0.
I'm not sure how to start debugging this, as I can't seem to get the webinspector to show for the service worker most times, and when I can, there is no console.log() output visible.
This still stands:
So really, I'm looking for a (reliable) way to be able to debug this issues in safari, or find some documentation on what changed for Safari on iOS 18 that requires changes.
Any help or thoughts on this matter?
I have enabled apple pay in my website.. After paying it collect my card details in popup and not showing to proceed the payment..
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Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
We are building a Safari web extension utilising native messaging, to send messages to the Swift native part of the app. We sometimes experience, that the beginRequest handler is executed multiple times, at the same time.
We have a special part of the code in the handler, that must be run only once. Because it uses NS defaults storage, and also because it calls our servers. We have tried to use a serial dispatch queue, as well as other locking and mutex techniques, to no success.
We suspect that the instances of the handler are isolated in a way, that these locks don’t work (maybe they don’t share memory?). But we are not sure. When looking at os_logs from the handlers, they all share the same PID.
Has anyone experienced anything similar and can shed some light on what's going on?