Even default Safari Web Extension project is not displayed on iOS 18.4 simulator ("No extensions installed"), so it's not possible to test extensions in simulator, only on real device.

Hello WebKit Team, I’m writing to ask if iOS provides a native way to intercept AJAX (XMLHttpRequest or fetch) calls inside WKWebView. On Android, this is handled via: shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) but iOS currently seems to have no equivalent. We’ve tried: WKURLSchemeHandler → works only for custom schemes URLProtocol with WKProcessPool → unreliable for AJAX in WebView JavaScript injection → partial and unofficial Could you please clarify: Is there a recommended native approach to intercept AJAX requests? If not supported, is it planned for future releases? Any official workaround or guidance? This is critical for debugging, analytics, and compliance in hybrid apps.

My iOS app uses a WKWebView with a WKUIDelegate method (webView:createWebViewWithConfiguration:forNavigationAction:windowFeatures:) to handle popup windows. This works for most cases, but during OAuth flows on certain sites (e.g., canva.com), the popup WKWebView attempts to send results back to the main WKWebView using JavaScript like window.opener.postMessage(...). However, window.opener is always null in the popup, preventing the message from being posted and blocking login completion.I've researched this and found suggestions that it's by design, as WKWebView instances are isolated for security reasons. Has anyone encountered this and found a reliable workaround (e.g., bridging communication between the main and popup WKWebViews without relying on window.opener)?

在 iOS 平台使用 WKWebView 通过file://协议加载本地 HTML 文件时，存储在localStorage中的数据会在 App 后台切换、进程重启后偶尔丢失；但相同代码在安卓 / 鸿蒙平台无此问题。 现在的文档 仅明确了「默认数据存储（defaultDataStore）可将网站数据持久化到磁盘，非持久化存储（nonPersistent）仅存内存」的基础规则； 未提及「file://协议内容即使使用默认持久化存储，也会被归为临时内存存储」这一关键场景限制； 仅在WKURLSchemeHandler关联说明中隐含「自定义 URL 协议可处理 WebKit 原生不支持的 URL 方案」，但未直接关联file://的存储问题。 我找不到如何处理这个问题的官方文档，仅仅有其他的博客说需要增加http/https加载就没有这个问题。 请提供给我官方文档或者官方回复 关于出现这种file:/加载html出现问题的处理办法

As of iOS 26.1, Safari and WebKit views have an issue when rendering the <details> html tag. The disclosure-closed icon / character appears as an emoji arrow ▶️ instead of the unicode character ▸ (U+25B8 - Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle) For example: <details> <summary>Summary</summary> <p>Additional details....</p> </details> This wasn't the case in iOS 26.0 / iOS 18. From what I can observe it seems ▶ (U+25B6 - Black Right-Pointing Triangle) may be used in iOS 26.1 which renders as the emoji ▶️ on iOS (at least as far back as iOS 18). The only workaround I found for the moment is to specify explicit CSS to revert back to using the ▸ (U+25B8 - Black Right-Pointing Small Triangle) details > summary { list-style-type: "▸ "; } details[open] > summary { list-style-type: "▾ "; } Is this expected? I've filed a feedback for this FB20997955. Thanks!

I'm building a macOS extension that needs to track multi-step navigation chains (A → B → C) to adjust behavior based on where users came from. Current approach: Using webNavigation.onBeforeNavigate to detect intermediate steps, but experiencing issues in Safari that don't occur on Chrome/Firefox/Edge. Questions: Is webNavigation the right API for tracking redirect chains in Safari? Does ITP/Private Browsing affect event delivery? Any alternative approaches recommended? (Safari version 26.0.1) Any guidance appreciated!

The application I'm currently working on uses WebKit. Based on the crash analytics, we have noticed that some of our users are experiencing an unusual behavior in the app's WebKit view with macOS 15.3.2. These errors are reported for this version of the OS. The error in the crash log is a SIGABRT error, but there is no relevant information available to address it. In some crash logs, we found this error: "NSInternalInconsistencyException: Returned WKWebView was not created with the given configuration" but there is not any particular way to address it. Is there a way to identify the cause of this error? Alternatively, has anyone encountered this issue and found a solution? OS Version: macOS 15.3.2 (24D81) Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Crashed Thread: 0 Application Specific Information: Returned WKWebView was not created with the given configuration. Thread 0 Crashed: 0 CoreFoundation 0x303111e74 __exceptionPreprocess 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x3027b6cd4 objc_exception_throw 2 CoreFoundation 0x303111d6c +[NSException raise:format:] 3 WebKit 0x34e85cb20 WebKit::UIDelegate::UIClient::createNewPage 4 WebKit 0x34e8a4a80 WebKit::SOAuthorizationCoordinator::tryAuthorize 5 WebKit 0x34e9f04f8 WebKit::WebPageProxy::createNewPage 6 WebKit 0x34ef994c8 WebKit::WebPageProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage 7 WebKit 0x34f0830cc IPC::MessageReceiverMap::dispatchSyncMessage 8 WebKit 0x34ea753b0 WebKit::WebProcessProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage 9 WebKit 0x34f07cfb4 IPC::Connection::dispatchSyncMessage 10 WebKit 0x34f07d3b0 IPC::Connection::dispatchMessage 11 WebKit 0x34f078c50 IPC::Connection::SyncMessageState::ConnectionAndIncomingMessage::dispatch 12 WebKit 0x34f07f4f4 ***::Detail::CallableWrapper&lt;T&gt;::call 13 JavaScriptCore 0x33f3520c0 ***::RunLoop::performWork 14 JavaScriptCore 0x33f352fe8 ***::RunLoop::performWork 15 CoreFoundation 0x30309f8a0 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE0_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ 16 CoreFoundation 0x30309f834 __CFRunLoopDoSource0 17 CoreFoundation 0x30309f598 __CFRunLoopDoSources0 18 CoreFoundation 0x30309e134 __CFRunLoopRun 19 CoreFoundation 0x30309d730 CFRunLoopRunSpecific 20 HIToolbox 0x319aeb52c RunCurrentEventLoopInMode 21 HIToolbox 0x319af1344 ReceiveNextEventCommon 22 HIToolbox 0x319af1504 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter 23 AppKit 0x30a7cd844 _DPSNextEvent 24 AppKit 0x30b133c20 -[NSApplication(NSEventRouting) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] 25 AppKit 0x30a7c0870 -[NSApplication run] 26 AppKit 0x30a797064 NSApplicationMain 27 &lt;unknown&gt; 0x182780274 &lt;redacted&gt; Thread 0 name: t-main-ui Crashed: 0 CoreFoundation 0x303111e74 __exceptionPreprocess 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x3027b6cd4 objc_exception_throw 2 CoreFoundation 0x303111d6c +[NSException raise:format:] 3 WebKit 0x34e85cb20 WebKit::UIDelegate::UIClient::createNewPage 4 WebKit 0x34e8a4a80 WebKit::SOAuthorizationCoordinator::tryAuthorize 5 WebKit 0x34e9f04f8 WebKit::WebPageProxy::createNewPage 6 WebKit 0x34ef994c8 WebKit::WebPageProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage 7 WebKit 0x34f0830cc IPC::MessageReceiverMap::dispatchSyncMessage 8 WebKit 0x34ea753b0 WebKit::WebProcessProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage 9 WebKit 0x34f07cfb4 IPC::Connection::dispatchSyncMessage 10 WebKit 0x34f07d3b0 IPC::Connection::dispatchMessage 11 WebKit 0x34f078c50 IPC::Connection::SyncMessageState::ConnectionAndIncomingMessage::dispatch 12 WebKit 0x34f07f4f4 ***::Detail::CallableWrapper&lt;T&gt;::call

Trying to implement my own forward/back buttons for the new SwiftUI WebView and reading the documentation I’m totally lost. What’s the recommended way of implementing forward/back behavior with this component?

WKWebView has set the option to disable selection ("document. documentElement. style. webkitUserSelect='none ';") and long press ("document. documentElement. style. webkitTouchCallout='none';"). If there is text on one of the images in WebView, simply tap the image twice and then long press the text. The program will crash with the following error message: 0 CoreFoundation 0x185e058c8 __exceptionPreprocess + 164 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x182d797c4 objc_exception_throw + 88 2 CoreFoundation 0x185e908d4 -[NSException initWithCoder:] + 0 3 QuartzCore 0x18678a874 CA::Layer::set_position(CA::Vec2&lt;double&gt; const&amp;, bool) + 160 4 QuartzCore 0x1869a7270 -[CALayer setPosition:] + 52 5 UIKitCore 0x18c4ac564 -[UIView _backing_setPosition:] + 176 6 UIKitCore 0x18cefdf0c -[UIView setCenter:] + 220 7 UIKitCore 0x18cd9f794 -[_UIEditMenuContentPresentation _displayPreparedMenu:titleView:reason:didDismissMenu:configuration:] + 936 8 UIKitCore 0x18cd9f3c0 __54-[_UIEditMenuContentPresentation _displayMenu:reason:]_block_invoke + 104 9 UIKitCore 0x18ced1060 -[UIEditMenuInteraction _editMenuPresentation:preparedMenuForDisplay:completion:] + 384 10 UIKitCore 0x18cd9f2e4 -[_UIEditMenuContentPresentation _displayMenu:reason:] + 304 11 UIKitCore 0x18cd9f0d8 -[_UIEditMenuContentPresentation displayMenu:configuration:] + 64 12 UIKitCore 0x18ced0344 __58-[UIEditMenuInteraction presentEditMenuWithConfiguration:]_block_invoke + 260 13 UIKitCore 0x18ced1f8c __80-[UIEditMenuInteraction _prepareMenuAtLocation:configuration:completionHandler:]_block_invoke + 80 14 UIKitCore 0x18cc8403c __109-[UITextContextMenuInteraction _editMenuInteraction:menuForConfiguration:suggestedActions:completionHandler:]_block_invoke + 180 15 UIKitCore 0x18cc84584 __107-[UITextContextMenuInteraction _querySelectionCommandsForConfiguration:suggestedActions:completionHandler:]_block_invoke + 148 16 WebKit 0x1a05ae5d4 WTF::CompletionHandler&lt;void (WebKit::DocumentEditingContext&amp;&amp;)&gt;::operator()(WebKit::DocumentEditingContext&amp;&amp;) + 64 17 WebKit 0x1a05bb468 WTF::Detail::CallableWrapper&lt;WTF::CompletionHandler&lt;void (IPC::Connection*, IPC::Decoder*)&gt; IPC::Connection::makeAsyncReplyCompletionHandler&lt;Messages::WebPage::RequestDocumentEditingContext, WTF::CompletionHandler&lt;void (WebKit::DocumentEditingContext&amp;&amp;)&gt;&gt;(WTF::CompletionHandler&lt;void (WebKit::DocumentEditingContext&amp;&amp;)&gt;&amp;&amp;, WTF::ThreadLikeAssertion)::'lambda'(IPC::Connection*, IPC::Decoder*), void, IPC::Connection*, IPC::Decoder*&gt;::call(IPC::Connection*, IPC::Decoder*) + 196 18 WebKit 0x19fcf5db8 WTF::Detail::CallableWrapper&lt;WebKit::AuxiliaryProcessProxy::sendMessage(WTF::UniqueRef&lt;IPC::Encoder&gt;&amp;&amp;, WTF::OptionSet&lt;IPC::SendOption&gt;, std::__1::optional&lt;IPC::ConnectionAsyncReplyHandler&gt;, WebKit::AuxiliaryProcessProxy::ShouldStartProcessThrottlerActivity)::$_1, void, IPC::Connection*, IPC::Decoder*&gt;::call(IPC::Connection*, IPC::Decoder*) + 64 19 WebKit 0x19fce54f0 IPC::Connection::dispatchMessage(WTF::UniqueRef&lt;IPC::Decoder&gt;) + 340 20 WebKit 0x19fcf5aa0 IPC::Connection::dispatchIncomingMessages() + 536 Will the official version have this issue?

I'm developing a cross-platform application using Tauri, which uses WebView technology as the GUI renderer. On macOS, it should be using WKWebView. Based on my tests, all applications developed with Tauri can only run at 60fps on macOS and cannot take advantage of ProMotion displays to achieve a 120fps refresh rate, whereas the same application can run at 120fps on other platforms. I have submitted this issue to Tauri on GitHub, and it appears that this cannot be resolved through external settings, but only by modifying the WKWebView code to support higher frame rates. Is there any possible solution to this?

Is this code invalid on a phone running xcode16 iOS18? Class cls = NSClassFromString(@"WKBrowsingContextController"); SEL sel = NSSelectorFromString(@"registerSchemeForCustomProtocol:"); if ([(id)cls respondsToSelector:sel]) { [(id)cls performSelector:sel withObject:@"http"]; [(id)cls performSelector:sel withObject:@"https"]; } }

This post is an effort to draw attention to a regression in Tahoe that has a large impact on our app. This bug was filed during seed 3 but remains open: FB18869578: Regression: WebView fails to render fonts registered with CTFontManagerRegisterFontURLs or ATSApplicationFontsPath The gist of it is that WKWebView fails to render text that is styled with a “font-family” that references a font that has been loaded into the app using either the ATSApplicationFontsPath Info.plist key or loaded dynamically with CTFontManagerRegisterFontURLs. The area where the text should be is just blank. There is more detail and a reproducer in the bug referenced above. We really hope this bug can get fixed before GA. If anyone else would like to try and reproduce it, you can download a test case from here: https://e3supportuploads.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/8739959ce24de40fa462798a532aaa99fbfc9affba4f2a3e71d397f9e30d2604

Currently I am struggling to find a way to read the status of Safari Web Extension from settings as I can not find any public api listed for iOS as it is already available for macOS.

Our iOS app uses React Native Webview (based on top of WKWebView) to display content. This webview stays in memory throughtout the app's lifecycle. We are observing a high number of webview content process terminations - around 15% of our sessions. (https://aninterestingwebsite.com/documentation/webkit/wknavigationdelegate/webviewwebcontentprocessdidterminate(_:)) What could be the reasons for it? Is there a way to know for sure? Is the 15% of sessions number something that other apps also experience, or should this be lower? Thanks!

Currently, im on MacOS Tahoe 26 Public Beta 2, build number 25A5327h. I just recently updated to this, and now, whenever I open some sites like Amazon, or ChatGPT, it freezes my entire browser and I have to force quit it. I tried deleting the SpeakSelection.plist file which everyone swore worked, but not for me. Is this because the new update messed with resource allocation or did my user data corrupt mid-update and i have to transfer all my stuff to a new user?

Reproducibility 100% on iOS 15.4 and iOS 16.6 Zero crash on iOS 18.6 Xcode 26.1 Steps to Reproduce Xcode 26.1 → New iOS App Replace ViewController.swift with the 20-line code below Run on real device • iPhone XR iOS 15.4 • iPhone 13 iOS 16.6 Tap the link → breakpoint in decidePolicyFor lldb → po navigationAction.sourceFrame Actual Result (lldb) po navigationAction.sourceFrame nil Swift declaration lies: public var sourceFrame: WKFrameInfo { get } // non-optional → Instant EXC_BREAKPOINT libswiftFoundation.dylib`URLRequest._unconditionallyBridgeFromObjectiveC Objective-C tells the truth: po [(WKNavigationAction *)navigationAction fixedSourceFrame] nil iOS 18.6 → same code prints a valid WKFrameInfo, no crash. Expected sourceFrame must be declared WKFrameInfo? in Swift or at least documented “can be nil on iOS 15–16”. Impact Every WKWebView app that touches sourceFrame on iOS 15.4 & 16.6 ships with a latent crash. Production Workaround @implementation WKNavigationAction (Safe) (WKFrameInfo *)fixedSourceFrame { return self.sourceFrame ? self.sourceFrame : nil; } @end Minimal Test (copy-paste) import UIKit import WebKit class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate { lazy var web = WKWebView(frame: view.bounds) override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() web.navigationDelegate = self view.addSubview(web) web.load(URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://www.apple.com")!)) } func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, preferences: WKWebpagePreferences, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationActionPolicy, WKWebpagePreferences)->Void) { print(navigationAction.sourceFrame) // ← crashes on 15.4 & 16.6 decisionHandler(.allow, preferences) } }

Safari is acting up. It’s appearing on my screen as a blank black screen, and then it’s retreating to the homepage.

//Is my post method correct because google and claude are telling me I must use content type for the json and use .setvalue. I thought that my process was correct because I encode the data to turn into json and then make the request func createTask(_ task: Task) async throws -> Task { if let url = URL(string: "(baseURL)/todos"){ var request = URLRequest(url: url) request.httpMethod = "POST" let encoder = JSONEncoder() do{ let data = try encoder.encode(task) request.httpBody = data let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request) return task //we want to make encoder and then turn the data into json and put it in body } catch{ throw JSONErrors.encodingFailed } } else{ throw URLError(.badURL) } }

Hello - we have a Mac application that uses a browser extension and the web extension JS APIs to communicate with Safari. As of macOS 15.4 / Safari 18.4 the tab OnAttached and tab onDetached events are no longer received. After some testing we verified that the events were working properly as of macOS 15.3 / Safari 18.3 but appear to have been broken in macOS 15.4. Note a similar issue was reported previously for Safari 17.6 and was fixed in macOS 15.0 (FB14324177). We have made a TestFlight version of our app (Tabby) available to simplify debugging via https://testflight.apple.com/join/Va8Zdv9d. To reproduce the issue: Install the Tabby TestFlight build on macOS 15.4 or 15.4.1 Open Safari, go to Safari settings and select the Extensions tab Enable the Tabby extension and grant permissions to all windows all the time Open a Safari window with at least 3 tabs Note the open window and tabs displayed in Tabby In Safari, perform a tab detach by dragging a tab out of the window Expected behavior Within Safari the detached tab should now be in it’s own window, and via the onDetached event Tabby should update to show the tab in it’s own window AND removed from the original window. Observed Safari fails to send the onDetached event and Tabby will continue to display the detached tab in its original window in addition to the new window. You can also use the repro steps above to observe the onDetached event being received or not by Tabby in the Safari developer console. The same steps but re-attaching the tab to the original window can be used to observe the onAttached event being received or not. We’ve attached two screen recordings to the Feedback ID below, one showing the events working on macOS 15.3, and one showing the events failing to be received on macOS 15.4.1. Note it also fails on macOS 15.4. FEEDBACK ID: FB17367977

Hello, Recently, there is an issue in my service that after typing korean at input element, first click event is not working. But i knew that other services are also having same problem. It happens only on Safari. Could you guys check this issue? Thank you.