Hello, I'm working with Live Activities and noticed that sometimes an activity transitions to .dismissed, even though the user hasn't manually swiped it away and system conditions appear to be completely normal — such as: The activity is still within its intended 8-hour lifetime The battery level is high The app is active or recently active The activity is lightweight (not using frequent updates) According to the ActivityKit documentation: /// The Live Activity ended and is no longer visible because a person or the system removed it. case dismissed This doesn’t clarify why the system would dismiss an activity when all conditions seem fine. Additional context: When reviewing system logs via Console.app, we’re seeing messages such as: liveactivitiesd Removing activity from replicator: 381F3DDC-585B-4021-B075-548606F543DA for relationship IDs: [C7AB9C2A-49DD-43FC-BB58-D768ECF9D354] This suggests that the system is actively removing the activity, but there’s no API or reason provided that helps us understand why this is happening. Questions: What are the system-level triggers that could cause a Live Activity to be dismissed under normal conditions? Is there a known set of heuristics (e.g., memory pressure, resource constraints) that might apply? Is there a way to distinguish between system-triggered dismissal and user-initiated swipe-to-dismiss? Any best practices to reduce the likelihood of unexpected system removal? This is especially important for our use case, where users rely on Live Activities to view real-time flight and boarding information — and losing the activity unexpectedly negatively affects user experience. Thanks in advance for any insight!

I have an objective-c watch app and have added a swift widget style compilation to it and am having problems. The complication works fine but the name in the iPhone watch app complication picker stubbornly remains as the watchkit app name despite me trying various ways of changing it. Here are the various CF bundle name and display name values I am using: phone app values CFBundleIdentifier - com.Distribution-Systems-Associates.Tennis-Watch-v1 CFBundleName - $(PRODUCT_NAME) CFBundleDisplayName - Tennis Scorekeeper watchkit app CFBundleIdentifier - com.Distribution-Systems-Associates.Tennis-Watch-v1.watchkitapp CFBundleName - Tennis Scorekeeper CFBundleDisplayName - Tennis Scorekeeper WatchKit extension CFBundleIdentifier - com.Distribution-Systems-Associates.Tennis-Watch-v1.watchkitapp.watchkitextension CFBundleName - Tennis Scorekeeper CFBundleDisplayName - Tennis Scorekeeper __Watchkit complication __ CFBundleIdentifier - com.Distribution-Systems-Associates.Tennis-Watch-v1.watchkitapp.watchkitextension.Tennis-Watch-V1-Complication Changing the values in the complication doesn't seem to matter. Every other name in both my iPhone and watch apps are as expected. ChatGPT suggested that I try adding a localized name in the watchkit app but that didn't seem to do much of anything useful. I have run this though Chat quite a bit to see if I could get any accidental insights that way and while it has been interesting, it has also been not terribly helpful. I didn't post any of the complication code because that seems to be fine. However, I can do that if needed. The complication works as intended (starts the app). The various names everywhere else show up as intended. It's just that this one name refuses to be overridden. Thoughts?

Trying to start a live activity without showing anything, and update its UI while app is being terminated. However, we found very inconsistent behavior - sometimes it shows sometimes not - could you help figure out the cause?

Is there any way to obtain the ControlWidget installed by user, I use WidgetCenter.shared.getCurrentConfigurations cannot work

Hello, I am trying to get the elements from my SwiftData databse in the configuration for my widget. The SwiftData model is the following one: @Model class CountdownEvent { @Attribute(.unique) var id: UUID var title: String var date: Date @Attribute(.externalStorage) var image: Data init(id: UUID, title: String, date: Date, image: Data) { self.id = id self.title = title self.date = date self.image = image } } And, so far, I have tried the following thing: AppIntent.swift struct ConfigurationAppIntent: WidgetConfigurationIntent { static var title: LocalizedStringResource { "Configuration" } static var description: IntentDescription { "This is an example widget." } // An example configurable parameter. @Parameter(title: "Countdown") var countdown: CountdownEntity? } Countdowns.swift, this is the file with the widget view struct Provider: AppIntentTimelineProvider { func placeholder(in context: Context) -> SimpleEntry { SimpleEntry(date: Date(), configuration: ConfigurationAppIntent()) } func snapshot(for configuration: ConfigurationAppIntent, in context: Context) async -> SimpleEntry { SimpleEntry(date: Date(), configuration: configuration) } func timeline(for configuration: ConfigurationAppIntent, in context: Context) async -> Timeline<SimpleEntry> { var entries: [SimpleEntry] = [] // Generate a timeline consisting of five entries an hour apart, starting from the current date. let currentDate = Date() for hourOffset in 0 ..< 5 { let entryDate = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .hour, value: hourOffset, to: currentDate)! let entry = SimpleEntry(date: entryDate, configuration: configuration) entries.append(entry) } return Timeline(entries: entries, policy: .atEnd) } // func relevances() async -> WidgetRelevances<ConfigurationAppIntent> { // // Generate a list containing the contexts this widget is relevant in. // } } struct SimpleEntry: TimelineEntry { let date: Date let configuration: ConfigurationAppIntent } struct CountdownsEntryView : View { var entry: Provider.Entry var body: some View { VStack { Text("Time:") Text(entry.date, style: .time) Text("Title:") Text(entry.configuration.countdown?.title ?? "Default") } } } struct Countdowns: Widget { let kind: String = "Countdowns" var body: some WidgetConfiguration { AppIntentConfiguration(kind: kind, intent: ConfigurationAppIntent.self, provider: Provider()) { entry in CountdownsEntryView(entry: entry) .containerBackground(.fill.tertiary, for: .widget) } } } CountdownEntity.swift, the file for the AppEntity and EntityQuery structs struct CountdownEntity: AppEntity, Identifiable { var id: UUID var title: String var date: Date var image: Data var displayRepresentation: DisplayRepresentation { DisplayRepresentation(title: "\(title)") } static var defaultQuery = CountdownQuery() static var typeDisplayRepresentation: TypeDisplayRepresentation = "Countdown" init(id: UUID, title: String, date: Date, image: Data) { self.id = id self.title = title self.date = date self.image = image } init(id: UUID, title: String, date: Date) { self.id = id self.title = title self.date = date self.image = Data() } init(countdown: CountdownEvent) { self.id = countdown.id self.title = countdown.title self.date = countdown.date self.image = countdown.image } } struct CountdownQuery: EntityQuery { typealias Entity = CountdownEntity static var typeDisplayRepresentation = TypeDisplayRepresentation(name: "Countdown Event") static var defaultQuery = CountdownQuery() @Environment(\.modelContext) private var modelContext // Warning here: Stored property '_modelContext' of 'Sendable'-conforming struct 'CountdownQuery' has non-sendable type 'Environment<ModelContext>'; this is an error in the Swift 6 language mode func entities(for identifiers: [UUID]) async throws -> [CountdownEntity] { let countdownEvents = getAllEvents(modelContext: modelContext) return countdownEvents.map { event in return CountdownEntity(id: event.id, title: event.title, date: event.date, image: event.image) } } func suggestedEntities() async throws -> [CountdownEntity] { // Return some suggested entities or an empty array return [] } } CountdownsManager.swift, this one just has the function that gets the array of countdowns func getAllEvents(modelContext: ModelContext) -> [CountdownEvent] { let descriptor = FetchDescriptor<CountdownEvent>() do { let allEvents = try modelContext.fetch(descriptor) return allEvents } catch { print("Error fetching events: \(error)") return [] } } I have installed it in my phone and when I try to edit the widget, it doesn't show me any of the elements I have created in the app, just a loading dropdown for half a second: What am I missing here?

I found the live activity process cannot write to the app group and FileManger, can only read the app group. When I write using FileManager in a live activity process, the console prompts me with a permission error. When I write using UserDefault(suit:) in the live activity process, I read a null value in the main app. Is this the case for real-time event design? I haven’t seen any documentation mentioning this. Does anyone know, thank you very much.

I tested it on the app I work with and others I use and the notification message is not appearing when using sleep mode Iphone: 13 mini IOS: 18.4.1

I tested it on the app I work with and others I use and the notification message is not appearing when using sleep mode. Someone knows something about this, and if it is mapped for correction? Iphone: 13 mini IOS: 18.4.1

I have implemented a Live Activity that includes two buttons. Currently, both buttons utilize deep links to open the main application, where I then detect the URL to perform the corresponding action. My primary question is: Is it possible to update a button's title and/or color within a Live Activity without requiring the main application to open?

I need to implement a VPN connection from the ios 17 widget without opening the main application. (I have seen such an implementation in other applications) How can this be implemented?

Does live activity require notification permission? If you need to update card data through APNS, I remember that it was required in the past, otherwise the card could not be created. This year I tried it and some apps did not have notification permission, but they could also use live activity and update data

We are developing a service that uses the “More Frequent Updates” feature of Live Activities. I have a question regarding the push notification budget for Live Activities. According to the documentation and the following session: WWDC23 Session 10185 – “What’s New in ActivityKit” https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10185/ At 11:58, it is stated that there is no limit on the number of updates when using low priority (5). Could you confirm whether updates sent with low priority (5) are indeed not subject to the Live Activity push notification budget?

See the image there the clock is stopped but on right on the top time is different

I've turned on Swift 6 language mode and noticed that during runtime Xcode gives this warning for a new widget (iOS 17.2): warning: data race detected: @MainActor function at TestWidgetExtension/TestWidget.swift:240 was not called on the main thread struct TestWidget: Widget { let kind: String = "TestWidget" var body: some WidgetConfiguration { AppIntentConfiguration( kind: kind, intent: ConfigurationAppIntent.self, provider: Provider() ) { entry in // LINE 240 TestWidgetEntryView(entry: entry) .containerBackground(Color.white, for: .widget) } } } Is there any way to solve this on my side? Thank you!

body: error when I run the app,and the frame just became freezed.

I have an AppIntent that edits an object in my app. The intent accepts an app entity as a parameter, so if you run the intent it will ask which one do you want to edit, then you select one from the list and it shows a dialog that it was edited successfully. I use this same intent in my Home Screen widget initializing it with an objectEntity. The code needs to run in the app's process, not the widget extension process, so the file is added to both targets and it conforms to ForegroundContinuableIntent, and that is supposed to ensure it always runs in the app process. This works great when run from the Shortcuts app and when involved via a button in the Home Screen widget, exactly as expected. Here is that app intent: @available(iOS 17.0, *) struct EditObjectIntent: AppIntent { static let title: LocalizedStringResource = "Edit Object" @Parameter(title: "Object", requestValueDialog: "Which object do you want to edit?", inputConnectionBehavior: .connectToPreviousIntentResult) var objectEntity: ObjectEntity init() { print("INIT") } init(objectEntity: ObjectEntity) { self.objectEntity = objectEntity } @MainActor func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult & ReturnsValue<ObjectEntity> & ProvidesDialog { // Edit the object from objectEntity.id... return .result(value: objectEntity, dialog: "Done") } } @available(iOS 17.0, *) @available(iOSApplicationExtension, unavailable) extension EditObjectIntent: ForegroundContinuableIntent { } I now want to create a ControlButton that uses this intent: struct EditObjectControlWidget: ControlWidget { var body: some ControlWidgetConfiguration { StaticControlConfiguration(kind: "EditObjectControlWidget") { ControlWidgetButton(action: EditObjectIntent()) { Label("Edit Object", systemImage: "pencil") } } } } When I add the button to Control Center and tap it (on iOS 18), init is called 3x in the app process and 2x in the widget process, yet the perform function is not invoked in either process. No error appears in console logs for the app's process, but this appears for the widget process: LaunchServices: store <private> or url <private> was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} 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={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} What am I doing wrong here? Thanks!

WatchOS26 ControlWidget cannot display image copy or click import Foundation import SwiftUI import WidgetKit import AppIntents internal import Combine struct WidgetToggle: ControlWidget { var body: some ControlWidgetConfiguration { StaticControlConfiguration(kind: "com.example.myApp.performActionButton", provider: TimerValueProvider()) { isRunning in ControlWidgetToggle("WidgetToggle", isOn: isRunning, action: ToggleTimerIntent()) { isOn in Label(isOn ? "Running" : "Stopped", systemImage: isOn ? "hourglass.bottomhalf.filled" : "hourglass") } } .displayName("WidgetToggle") .description("WidgetToggle description") } } struct TimerValueProvider: ControlValueProvider { var previewValue: Bool { return false } func currentValue() async throws -> Bool { return TimerManager.shared.isRunning } } struct ToggleTimerIntent: SetValueIntent { static var title: LocalizedStringResource = "WidgetToggle" @Parameter(title: "Toggle") var value: Bool func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult { TimerManager.shared.isRunning = value return .result() } } class TimerManager: ObservableObject { static let shared = TimerManager() @Published var isRunning = false }

I am developing Live Activities using Swift. The same code can display the lock screen view and Dynamic Island on most devices, but on one specific iPhone 16 Pro Max, the Dynamic Island is not shown. The system version is iOS 18.0. However, other apps on this phone can display the Dynamic Island normally. How should I troubleshoot the issue? Can anyone help me? Thank you.

我们在使用clip轻应用功能，在App Store Connect中配置了高级轻应用体验，并配置了相关的https链接（在构建版本页面此域名是已验证状态），但是我们在使用此链接进行NFC触碰时，不会拉起来clip轻应用，只会显示“XXXX NFC标签”，使用Apple的官方链接：https://appclip.apple.com/id?p=xxxx，是可以拉起来轻应用的，请问各位大佬，我们的问题出现在哪？该如何解决？

https://developer.apple.com/watchos/whats-new/ Is there an example demo available