For many years, I've noticed that although in native code I can handle continuous and simultaneous Apple pencil and touch inputs using UIKit, Safari and WKWebView's PointerEvents only seem to allow you to use one input type at a time. i.e. Apple Pencil down blocks touch input until lifted and touch input blocks Apple Pencil input. It's as though requiresexclusivetouchtype has been set in the underlying webkit implementation. There's decades of research (e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1866029.1866036 ) and several existing native applications in production showing that multimodal inputs open-up many unique and useful applications and interactions. Even a simple "hold object with finger" + "draw with stylus" controls are the norm. I recently built a native application using multimodal simultaneous inputs, but this is impossible to port to web due to the unexpected behavior of PointerEvents (and touch events, and mouse events; any variant exhibits the same behavior). I've researched and attempted to apply every possible flag, change, and css code to get this working, but I think the behind-the-scenes implementation is what's blocking the simultaneous touch types. This is unexpected and undesired behavior because it's inconsistent with the native behavior. If it's unintended, it's a big priority to fix for creating better user experiences on the iPad. If it's intended, I do not believe that's reasonable (even if it might be more complex and used for more advanced applications). Please expose a way to support simultaneous touch types in iPadOS/iOS in both Safari and WKWebView. At minimum, may we have a discussion on how to support the desired behavior? The simplest solution I can think of is to provide a webkit-platform-specific boolean in Safari and WKWebView called requiresExclusiveTouchType, which is set to False by default to keep the current behavior, and settable to True to get the more flexible behavior I'm expecting.

Hi folks, When doing HLS v6 live streaming with fmp4 chunks we noticed that when the encoder timestamps slightly drift and a #EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY tag is created in either the audio or video playlist (in an ABR setup), the tag is not correctly handled by the player leading to a broken playback containing black screen or no audio (depending on which playlist the tag is printed in). We noticed that this is often true when the number of tags is odd between the playlists (eg. the audio playlist contains 1 tag and the video contains 2 tags will result in a black screen with audio). By using the same "broken" source but using Shaka player instead won't break the playback at all. Are there any possible fix (or upcoming) for AV Player?

Use case: When users open any URL in iOS Safari and tap the share button, the share extension can automatically receive the PDF version of the webpage from Safari. We've observed that the system Markup app and the Apple Books app can automatically receive a PDF file from Safari. However, our custom share extension only receives the webpage URL. While iOS Safari provides an "Options" button to manually share a webpage as a PDF, this feature is not intuitive and requires user education. Could someone help to identify the correct NSExtensionActivationRule (or any other solution) that would allow our share extension to directly receive the PDF snapshot from Safari without requiring additional user actions?

Hello I want to report an issue on macOS, I also reported this issue on feedbackassistant, but I didn't get a response from the feedbackassistant. I am sorry it might not be appropriate to post it here, if so, you can move or delete this post or ask me to to so. Thanks. In short words, Chrome/Edge/Firefox users who manually set the browser as default browser in the macOS System setttings, will lose their default browser setting after browser a upgrade. What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) Install Chrome Canary, in my case I was using 134.0.6961.0. After installation, open it from launchpad, but don't set it as the default browser in the browser (2) Go to macOS's system settings, search Deafult Web Browser, set the new installed Chrome Canary as default browser (3) Go to Chrome Canary's Settings->About Chrome (4) Wait for Chrome update information to be updated (it will auto update to the latest version) (5) Check result of system default browser. Click a link from Notes, it will navigate to Safari. What is the expected result? System default browser should not change What happens instead? The System default browser changed to the topmost browser of the brower list in system settings. Click a link from Notes, it will be opened in Safari. Notes This bug also happens on Firefox and Edge, it should be a macOS bug. This bug is similar to https://issues.chromium.org/issues/346505950 Looks like after installation, macOS recognize the newly installed version of browser as a new browser, even though the signature of the application remained the same. In Local Network of macOS settings, some Edge users see multiple entries with the same name.

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.

We encountered an issue with universal links where the link failed to open the iOS application from Safari when triggered by an javascript outside a click event. However, when we modified the code to open the link directly via a user click, the application launched as expected. Based on our testing, this issue seems to occur only when there is information for the application cached in Safari (i.e. IDP page cached, redirects to our app, javascript based universal link navigation fails). Here is a code example of what caused the universal link failure: const openUniversalLink = () => { buttonClicked = True } useEffect(()=> { if (buttonClicked) { window.location.href = universal_link } } <Button onClick={openUniversalLink} /> Here is a code example of what caused our universal links to open successfully: const openUniversalLink = () => { window.location.href = universal_link } <Button onClick={openUniversalLink} /> Are there defined practices of when we are able to open universal links triggered by javascript vs when they must be opened directly through user action?

Hi there, I have a problem that , after I add website at dock but unable to turn on the website from dock & pop up message also mention that app was damaged. This problem appears after I factory reset my iMac. Please kindly advise. Thank guys.

I am a developer working on a Safari extension that handles video playback, and I’ve encountered an issue with Safari version 18.2. When I open the developer tools to inspect the browser, videos fail to play as expected. It worked well on safari version 18.1. Details: Safari Version: 18.2 Operating System: macOS Sequoia v15.2 Additional Information: I’ve tested the extension with various video formats and sites. Clearing the cache and disabling other extensions did not resolve the issue. There are no error messages displayed in the console related to the extension. If I close inspecting, then extension(video playback) works well. I would appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to address this issue, as it impacts the functionality of my extension. Thank you for your help!

Hi, I'm encountering an issue with the Clipboard API's writeText() method in Safari. It throws a NotAllowedError even when triggered by a user action (selecting an option from a <select> element). Is this expected? This issue seems specific to Safari, as the same code works perfectly in Firefox and Chrome. Perhaps I should send feedback to Apple, but I'd like to post it here first in case I misunderstand something. Problem In Safari, when I try to copy text to the clipboard using navigator.clipboard.writeText() within an input event listener attached to a <select> element, it fails with the following error: NotAllowedError: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission. Environment Safari 18.2 (20620.1.16.11.8) Technology Preview 210 macOS Sequoia 15.2 (24C101) Example I've created a minimal reproducible example on CodePen: https://codepen.io/mshibanami/pen/LEPdxXZ Here's the relevant JavaScript code from the example: selectElement.addEventListener('input', async (event) => { const selectedText = event.target.options[event.target.selectedIndex].text; try { await navigator.clipboard.writeText(selectedText); alert(`Text copied to clipboard: ${selectedText}`); } catch (err) { alert('Failed to copy text to clipboard: ' + err); } }); Firefox and Chrome handle this code without any issues, successfully copying the text to the clipboard, but not Safari. Possible Cause I suspect this issue might be related to WebKit's User Activation API. It seems like Safari is not correctly recognizing the input or change event on a <select> element as a valid user activation for the Clipboard API, even though it is initiated by a user gesture. Questions Is this behavior unexpected? Should Safari allow the Clipboard API to work in this context? (Technically, this might be expected as of now, as such events are not explicitly described in https://webkit.org/blog/13862/the-user-activation-api/.) Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Python version 3.9.1 Selenium version 4.25.0 Safari version 18.1.1 I want to operate Safari using Selenium. For this purpose, I would like to set the UserAgent to iOS and change the viewport. What should I do? The following is the content programmed with the Chrome driver. I would like to achieve this using the Safari driver. import time,os import chromedriver_binary from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver import Safari from selenium.webdriver.safari.options import Options as SafariOptions from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select from selenium.webdriver.chrome import service # selenium 4 from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()),options = chrome_options) # iPhone 13 params viewport = { "width": 390, "height": 844, "deviceScaleFactor": 3, "mobile": True } #Chrome setting ua = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 15_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.4 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Emulation.setDeviceMetricsOverride", viewport) # change user agent driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Emulation.setUserAgentOverride", {"userAgent": ua}) # ページにアクセス driver.get("https://hogehoge")

We are getting the cookie from server side when user will do the login successful. Cookie store into app browser. This cookie need to clear when user will do the logout app. We are using the Cordova framework to create the iOS application. In Cordova i have used plugin to clear the cookie. But in iOS device not able to clear the app browser cookie. And in android device same Cordova plugin is working fine. Why the iOS device not able to clear the cookie using Cordova plugin? Plugin name - https://github.com/Cartegraph/cordova-cookie-master Kindly help me out with the solutions.

I have an endpoint that generates a .ics file. From my mobile app, I open the browser (Safari) and retrieve the .ics file. In Safari, the events are displayed as expected, and I can use the "Add All" button to add them to the calendar. After clicking "Add All," I can select the desired calendar, and the events are successfully added (see screenshots 1 and 2 below). Here’s the initial .ics file response: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:NAME BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250101T195917Z DTSTART:20250102T131600 DTEND:20250102T142500 SUMMARY:My Event 1 UID:unique-uid1 LAST-MODIFIED:20250101T155715Z DESCRIPTION:Description SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250101T195917Z DTSTART:20250103T131600 DTEND:20250103T135600 SUMMARY:My Event 2 UID:unique-uid2 LAST-MODIFIED:20250101T155715Z DESCRIPTION:Description SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR Later, I updated the .ics file with new event details: BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:NAME BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250102T195917Z DTSTART:20250104T131600 DTEND:20250104T142500 SUMMARY:My Event 1 Update UID:unique-uid1 LAST-MODIFIED:20250104T155715Z DESCRIPTION:Description SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250102T195917Z DTSTART:20250105T131600 DTEND:20250105T142500 SUMMARY:My Event 2 Update UID:unique-uid2 LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T155715Z DESCRIPTION:Description SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR I updated everything according to the iCalendar documentation: UID remained unchanged SEQUENCE has been updated DTSTAMP has been updated LAST-MODIFIED has been updated However it seems like that Safari can't handle updates on events. In the preview we can see the changes, but when I click on "Add All" button, nothing happens. The same behavior is working with other calendars like Outlook (web view) or Google Calendar. My Questions: Is there a property missing from my .ics file that is necessary for iOS Safari to handle updates? Is Safari not designed to handle event updates in this way? Should I consider moving to a subscription-based solution to manage updates more reliably? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Description When you try to open an iOS app using Universal links from another app while the opening app is being updating, Safari will open an error screen(app will not launch). Is this a specification of universal links on iOS? Also is it possible for the Main app to detect that the application trying to open Universal Link is being updating? Devices iPad 9thGen/10thGen

I'm using navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition to retrieve the users coordinates in a PWA built with Nextjs. getCurrentPosition is called by clicking on a button. If getCurrentPosition is called afterwards, the cached value is returned. On Safari, If I refresh the page, or logout, login and call getCurrentPosition again, the getCurrentPosition error callback is called with an error code 2 - POSITION_UNAVAILABLE. After around five minutes, getCurrentPosition can be called again. Is there some kind of throttling restriction on Safari navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition?

Enhancement in managing tabs in Safari It would really be awesome to bring the fascinating tab management feature of Arc Browser to Safari across iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Especially below listed features; Multitask Create Organize Rev Up Release Notes For further info , here is the official link of Arc Browser, https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/categories/16435255982103-Features.

Safari 18.2 on Sequoia 15.2 sends repeated Authorization header when iCloud Relay is enabled and the page is reloaded. Inside Safari Preferences -> Privacy -> Hide IP address -> from Trackers and Websites (ensure this is enabled) Visit a website that uses HTTP Authorization and authenticate oneself Reload website a couple of times and it will result in an HTTP 400 error due to repeat Authorization header sent by Safari

Hi, I’ve encountered an issue with Safari’s behavior when Prevent Cross-Site Tracking is enabled in iOS, related to DNS filtering via an implemented NEDNSProxyProvider. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown: In Safari, when attempting to query a blocked domain (according to the filtering policy of the NEDNSProxyProvider), the page is blocked as expected. Closing Safari without closing the tab with the blocked domain. Reopening Safari – Expected result: The page remains blocked; Actual result: The page loads and bypasses the NEDNSProxyProvider (no logs are received for this flow). Tapping the refresh button causes the page to be blocked, as the DNS Proxy Provider intercepts the new request. Note: This issue is only reproducible in general tabs in Safari. In private tabs, a fresh DNS query is generated each time, and the blocking behavior works as expected. I also tested Google Chrome, where the domain is blocked consistently. I attempted to filter this issue via Content Filter, but the only connection received by NEFilterDataProvider is for com.apple.Safari.SearchHelper with ssl.gstatic.com. Could you advise on how to handle this behaviour? Would be grateful to hear any ideas

It's being a very long time that I discovery that in some web pages, that use function requestAnimationFrame will cause a lot of cpu, but very little in Chrome. I have already submitted this bug nearly two years ago without printout requestAnimationFrame, no one replied. I submitted again and mention requestAnimationFrame recently, hope there will be some response. If anyone interested in this issue and know some tech in javascript please help. You can enter https://www.baidu.com/ and click one of the topic in all the 百度热搜 which have 弹幕滚动(using requestAnimationFrame, and cause a lot of cpu usage) on right.

We have a web application that uses high resolution images to validate the authenticity of products. For this purpose we want to use the best camera to make the high resolution camera, on iPhone Pro devices this camera is the ultra-wide angle camera. The issue we have is how to confidently select that camera from the list returned by navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices. We can't use the device ID as it change every time (and for every user), we could use the camera name but the string is translate to the device language which is very problematic. We could also just select a specific item in the list but we are not sure that the order is preserved and it makes it hard to deal with other iPhone models that don't have that ultra wide angle camera. Selecting a specific camera looks like an essential feature not only for us. What is the best option, we are looking for something that is future proof and easily scalable.

After updating my phone to iOS 18.2 2 days ago, I noticed that a website I'm working on that uses Rafael JS(https://dmitrybaranovskiy.github.io/raphael) to do some svg rendering which used to work before I updated just stopped working. I notice that Safari tries to load website tries to load 2 or 3 times before showing the error: A problem repeatedly occurred on <website> which I find really odd since this used to work before and I haven't made any changes to the code. This also happens in Chrome on iOS 18.2.