It seems fetch() does not include credentials (cookie) even when credentials: include is used and Safari extension has host_permissions for that domain when using from a non-default Safari profile.
It includes credentials (cookie) when using from the default profile (which has the default name Personal).
Is there anyone who has this problem?
I try to request in popup.js like this:
const response = await fetch(
url,
{
method: 'GET',
mode: 'cors',
credentials: 'include',
referrerPolicy: 'no-referrer',
}
);
and it does not include the credentials (cookie) from host_permissions.
I already posted https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/764279, and opened feedback assistant (FB15307169).
But it is still not fixed yet. (macOS 15.4 beta 3)
I hope this is fixed soon.
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Summary:
We are facing a serious issue on iPhone where multiple passkey authentication problems occur when accessing passkey-enabled login pages via shortcuts placed on the iPhone Home Screen. These issues may also occur when opening the same pages directly in a standard browser window. However, launching the login pages from a Home Screen shortcut appears to increase the likelihood of encountering these issues.
Affected Services (examples, not exhaustive):
Amazon
GitHub
Adobe
Observed Issues:
Issue 1: A passkey authentication dialog/popup shows two times without any user operation:
What happens due to this issue:
Login does not complete after the first passkey authentication.
A second passkey authentication UI automatically appears.
Completing or canceling the second authentication allows the login to proceed.
Issue 2: Login remains stuck until the user manually invokes passkey again
What happens due to this issue:
The login page does not advance after the first authentication.
The user must tap the ID/username field again to manually trigger the passkey UI.
Completing the second authentication enables login.
Issue 3: Automatic second authentication occurs, but login still fails
What happens due to this issue:
A second automatic authentication UI appears.
Login still does not complete.
Tapping the ID field no longer opens the passkey UI; instead, the password auto-fill panel appears.
Passkey login becomes impossible.
Observed reproduction steps (not guaranteed but most consistently observed):
On iPhone, navigate to a passkey-enabled login page (e.g., Amazon, GitHub, Adobe) using a browser.
Create a shortcut from the browser's share menu and place it on the Home Screen.
Launch the login page from the Home Screen shortcut.
Tap the ID/username field to invoke the passkey prompt.
Complete passkey authentication.
→ One of the issues described above occurs.
Environment:
Device: iPhone SE
OS: iOS 18.6.2
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
WebKit
Safari
Safari and Web
Passkeys in iCloud Keychain
I have a very specific issue that happens only on iOS Simulator version 18.4.
It does NOT happen when I run my app on a real iOS 18.4 device through Testflight.
My app displays a WebView (courtesy of Capacitor, url scheme capacitor://).
Inside that Webview I'm using Firebase JS API (11.2.0) and calling signInWithEmailAndPassword, which works well in all other contexts, i.e. browser, Android webview, iOS webview in all other Simulator versions, and on real devices.
Only when running in Simulator 18.4, I get a failed network request:
cannot parse response
Fetch API cannot load https://identitytoolkit.googleapis.com/v1/accounts:signInWithPassword?... due to access control checks.
Failed to load resource: cannot parse reponse
error: FirebaseError: (auth/network-request-failed)
Everything is working correctly for both:
Capacitor app webview installed on a real 18.4 device with Testflight
Safari (non-webview) in the 18.4 Simulator
The issue is severe for us, because we are unable to develop our app and test it in the simulator on 18.4 Simulator before pushing it through Testflight internal release.
Request headers on the failed request (no response status or headers available).
Request
Accept: /
Content-Type: application/json
Origin: capacitor://localhost
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_4 like Mac OS X) - AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148
X-Client-Version: Mobile/JsCore/11.2.0/FirebaseCore-web
X-Firebase-Client: (...)
I recently upgraded my device from IOS 18.4 to IOS 26. My web extension has disapeared from safari. I can see it in Settings > Apps > Safari > Extensions and when I turn it on and re-open safari. I just get a mesasge that says "{extension name} is no longer avaiable". I have tried Manifest V2 and Manifest V3 both yield the same results. The current production extension bundled with the IOS app has the same problem. I can no longer use or test my own extension !? Help please !
Typically, you can use the @@extension_id special string to reference the absolute path into the bundled resources of an extension, such as an image or a custom font, in a CSS file.
However, this broke with Safari 18.
Consider this section in a popup.css file:
.card-icon {
height: 16px;
width: 20px;
background-image: url(safari-web-extension://__MSG_@@extension_id__/images/card.svg);
background-size: 20px 16px;
}
In Safari 17.4, once loaded in the browser, @@extension_id is replaced with E8BEA491-9B80-45DB-8B20-3E586473BD47, and the background-image reads as so:
background-image: url(safari-web-extension://E8BEA491-9B80-45DB-8B20-3E586473BD47/images/card.svg);
But as of Safari 18, the @@extension_id just collapses to an empty string, and the background-image reads as so:
background-image: url(safari-web-extension:///images/card.svg);
and the svg fails to load with the following error: "Failed to load resource: You do not have permission to access the requested resource."
This is a regression, does to match the behavior of the other major browsers, and should be fixed.
Filed with Feedback ID: FB15104807
Since Xcode 26 our tests are crashing due to the Main Thread not being able to deallocate WKNavigationResponse.
Following an example:
import Foundation
import WebKit
final class WKNavigationResponeMock: WKNavigationResponse {
private let urlResponse: URLResponse
override var response: URLResponse { urlResponse }
init(urlResponse: URLResponse) {
self.urlResponse = urlResponse
super.init()
}
convenience init(httpUrlResponse: HTTPURLResponse) {
self.init(urlResponse: httpUrlResponse)
}
convenience init?(url: URL, statusCode: Int) {
guard let httpURLResponse = HTTPURLResponse(url: url, statusCode: statusCode, httpVersion: nil, headerFields: nil) else {
return nil
}
self.init(httpUrlResponse: httpURLResponse)
}
}
import WebKit
import XCTest
final class ExampleTests: XCTestCase {
@MainActor func testAllocAndDeallocWKNavigationResponse() {
let expectedURL = URL(string: "https://galaxus.ch/")!
let expectedStatusCode = 404
let instance = WKNavigationResponeMock()
// here it should dealloc/deinit `instance` automatically
}
Here the call stack:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 CoreFoundation 0x101f3dd54 CFRetain.cold.1 + 16
1 CoreFoundation 0x101e14860 CFRetain + 104
2 WebKit 0x10864dd24 -[WKNavigationResponse dealloc] + 52
I'm working on a Safari web extension that uses the nativeMessaging facility to communication with native code.
When I want to notify the javascript extension from the embedding application, I use SFSafariApplication::dispatchMessage. As per the documentation, this call
... ensures that Safari is launched and that your extension is running before delivering the message.
Everything works fine when the background script is running.
However, after the background script gets unloaded at some point in time (non persistent background page, default behavior for a manifest V3 extension), the background script is not reloaded by the message from the native app (background script still appears unloaded in the developer menu of Safari, double-checked using a counter stored in browser.storage.local incremented on message reception). In this case, the completion handler of the application gets no error (error == nil) as if the message was correctly delivered.
I was able to reproduce this behavior with the sample app delivered for WWDC20 (after upgrading the manifest from v2 to v3 to make it non-persistent).
Is it supposed to work ? What I'm doing wrong ?
I'm not loving the huge Favorites icons in Safari on MacOS 26, is there a way to reduce the size of them so that we can see more favorites on the list without scrolling down?
Hi guys, I'm trying to use sign in with apple in javascript, I followed the guider in the website, and almost find everything I can find in Google, but nothing help, here is my situation:
I create a new App: com.yuhan.test.app
I create a new service ID: com.yuhan.test.service
configure a domain and return url
domain: tts.perterpon.com
returnURL: https://tts.perterpon.com/login
create a new key for Sign In with Apple.
my html code is here, it's easy, but it always told me invalid_client, I think I have done anything I need to do, can somebody help me? Thank you so much.
you can test my online web site: https://tts.perterpon.com/login.html
`
const buttonElementNew = document.getElementById('appleid-signin');
buttonElementNew.addEventListener('click', async () => {
try {
const data = await AppleID.auth.signIn()
console.log('Try/Catch Data', data.authorization.id_token);
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append("token", data.authorization.id_token);
await fetch("", {
method: "POST",
body: formData,
});
// Handle successful response.
} catch (error) {
// Handle error.
}
});
</script>
We are currently supporting an Apple Pay-enabled card program as an issuer/issuer processor and have successfully completed In-App Push Provisioning integration within our iOS application. The in-app flow is fully operational, including issuer-side cryptographic exchange and Mastercard MDES network tokenization.
We are now looking to extend this integration to support Apple Pay Web Push Provisioning, allowing cardholders to add eligible cards to Apple Wallet directly from our web application.
We would appreciate guidance on:
-The process for enrolling in Apple Business Register (if required)
-Enabling Web Push Provisioning for an issuer profile
Required entitlements or provisioning certificates
Any additional onboarding steps specific to issuer-level Web provisioning
We understand that Web Push Provisioning requires issuer-level enablement beyond standard Apple Pay on the Web, and we would like clarification on the correct path to activate this capability.
Thank you in advance for your guidance.
Hi everyone,
I’m building a React Native iOS app where I’m integrating Wazo (native WebRTC) and Jitsi (WebView / WebRTC).
Use case:
Wazo is used to maintain a background call session (mainly signaling + audio keep-alive).
Jitsi is used in the foreground for video calls.
Problem:
When Jitsi starts, it takes control of the microphone and camera.
The Wazo call disconnects after ~5 minutes (likely due to media / audio session conflict).
Even if Wazo audio/video is muted or tracks are disabled, the session still drops.
My questions:
Is it officially supported or recommended to run two WebRTC stacks (Wazo + Jitsi) simultaneously on iOS?
Can Wazo stay connected without active audio/video tracks while Jitsi uses mic/camera?
Is there a way to release Wazo media streams temporarily (but keep signaling alive) while Jitsi is loading or active?
Are there any AVAudioSession / background mode limitations on iOS that make this impossible by design?
If this is not supported, what is the recommended architecture (single WebRTC pipeline, switching media ownership, etc.)?
Environment:
iOS (React Native)
Wazo SDK (native WebRTC)
Jitsi Meet (WebView)
CallKit + PushKit enabled
Any guidance, documentation, or real-world experience would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance 🙏
I don't know why but all of a sudden when I build the extension it just doesn't load in Safari. The build executes fine but the extension doesn't load. Sometimes, through trying different combinations of clearing the build folder, building, archiving, ... it suddenly loads. And the next time I build again it doesn't load properly. So I can't do any work on it or test anything.
I don't know why all of a sudden I am getting this behavior. It looks like engineers at Apple are constantly trying to overcomplicate a process that is at least ten times simpler in any other browser. This is ridiculous. Is this what our annual fee goes to? And they don't even provide any support for that. Several times I've tried to get some help here just to have to spend hours upon hours to figure it out by myself. I'm so tired of this.
PLATFORM AND VERSION
iOS
Development environment: Xcode 16.2, macOS 15.3.2
Run-time configuration: iOS 15-18
This happens in iOS, and leads to to the hybrid home page showing users as wrongly unauthenticated, since the at cookie is missing. For context, we have a JWT token that is stored in the Keychain, and on app launch, before any WKWebViews are created, we synchronize this to the WKWebsiteDataStore as an at cookie.
We have analytics instrumentation on our websitef to show that WKWebView randomly refuses to send out any cookies.
–
The following is a snippet from an explanation to the WebKit Slack:
We are having an issue on iOS, in which WKWebView loads pages (and even subsequent reloads) without any cookies, even though we have stored cookies in WKWebsiteDataStore.default() before hand right after application launch and becoming a key window. We reference this object, store it as a singleton, (as well as a process pool), and then all webview configurations are initialized with the same data store, the same process pool, every call on the main thread. From reading the source code, it seems that if the internal IPC logic fails, the APIs for deleting and setting data records and cookies fail without any feedback in completion handlers.
This bug often happens when returning from the background on iOS after a few hours. Sometimes it happens on cold launches of the app. We have mitigated a similar issue (no cookies being sent) by implementing webViewWebContentProcessDidTerminate and reloading the webview ourselves, we found that whatever webview does to reload if that method is not implemented leads to cookies not being used.
There have been multiple reports of WKWebView losing cookies in recent iOS versions, and we have tried to implement all of the workarounds listed. Setting a maximumAge to the cookies we store, and doing a _ = await websiteDataStore.dataRecords(ofTypes: Set([WKWebsiteDataTypeCookies])) before accessing or modifying websiteDataStore.httpCookieStore
Question: is it safe to work with WKWebsiteDataStore before a WKWebView is added as a view, if so are there any timing considerations? Are there any logs that we can take a look at, this issue is very hard to reproduce, about 2% of our users face it at scale? Is there anything that could be happening within our process (runloop issues, timing) that could be causing this issue?
See multiple reports from other companies that have faced the issue: "Now the Thermonuclear Problem with WKWebViewDataStorage"
https://medium.com/axel-springer-tech/synchronization-of-native-and-webview-sessions-with-ios-9fe2199b44c9
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
They don't exist, because the issue only happens at scale. We just know that no cookies are sent for a small percentage of requests. We believe this to be an issue in which Webkit fails to communicate internally with whatever IPC mechanisms it has.
We have not been able to reproduce this issue consistently. The best we can give is that it happens after a few hours that the app is in the background. This happens regardless of whether the WKWebsiteDataStore is persistent or not, but seems to be much worse when it is persistent. Thus we have disabled persistnet data stores and relied on nonPersistent.
The issue is bad enough that we are trying to move away from relying on cookies for iOS and just use request headers which we can only set on the top level request of WKWebView.
DTS Case-ID: 13154329
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
When creating a passkey with the PRF extension on an iPhone 15 Pro Max using Safari on iOS 18.4.1, PublicKeyCredential.getClientExtensionResults reports true; however there is no hmac-secret extension in the authenticator data as required by WebAuthn Level 3.
I'm in the process of supporting Apple Pay through a 2nd payment gateway for some users, so I need to support two separate Apple Pay relationships. Both require their own apple-developer-merchantid-domain-association. I don't see how I can have both files for the one domain. Is this possible? Is there a workaround other than just replacing the old file with the new one and hoping that doesn't disrupt anything. That seems to be the approach taken by others (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/695538) but it is too high risk for me without any confirmation from Apple that this is ok. I'd also like to avoid having to setup a 2nd domain for these customers, since the current domain is already quite embedded in their operations.
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)?
Hello!
While working with the new Apple Pay SDK for iOS 18, I encountered a bug. When using the Ukrainian language, in the modal displaying the QR code, I noticed that there is a missing bracket for the year variable. This causes incorrect data to be displayed in the QR code.
This seems to be a localization issue specifically with the Ukrainian language in the new SDK, as the bug does not occur with other languages like English.
Has anyone else experienced this? Any advice or information on this bug would be appreciated.
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!
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.
myCode is here
// titleScript = "document.querySelector('#\(rawValue) span')?.textContent"
guard let titleResult = try? await webView.evaluateJavaScript(type.titleScript),
let title = titleResult as? String else { return }
this code has error
Thread 1: Swift runtime failure: Unexpectedly found nil while implicitly unwrapping an Optional value
but edit Code like this
It is works Successful
do {
...
let titleResult = try await webView.evaluateJavaScript(type.titleScript)
let title = titleResult as? String
...
} catch {
LogManager.log(level: .error, self, #function, error, "title is Invalid : \(type.titleScript)")
continue
}
I don't know why guard let _ = try? is Fail