Hello,
I am developing a website which starts a web worker using the js code:
const zarrWorker = new Worker('./zarr_file.js', { type: 'module' });.
The script 'zarr_file.js' is served from the same origin with Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp and Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin and it is importing external modules through the import statement (e.g. import * as zarr from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/zarrita/+esm";).
All the external modules are blocked by Safari with the error Worker load was blocked by Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy, although I can see (by running curl on them) that they correctly set cross-origin-resource-policy: cross-origin`.
The same website works fine in Chrome and Firefox.
Is it a bug or is Safari implementing stricter policies? In the latter case what would be the solution?
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We are encountering a download issue in Safari 18.2 on macOS Sequoia 15.2 where file downloads initiated by our AngularJS application (such as Excel exports) are silently blocked.
There are no errors in the browser console, and the download does not occur.
Interestingly, after testing on Safari 18.3 with Sequoia 15.3, the downloads worked as expected.
However, the problem reappeared on Safari 18.4 with Sequoia 15.4.
We suspect that recent changes in Safari’s security or download handling may be preventing downloads triggered via asynchronous JavaScript (e.g., AJAX calls) that are not initiated directly by user interaction.
We would appreciate any insights, suggestions, or possible workarounds from the community. Looking forward to your guidance on this matter.
We use a direct link mechanism in our app that attempts to open the app if it's already installed; otherwise, it redirects the user to the App Store.
However, when the app is not installed, Safari displays an alert saying:
"Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid."
This popup appears to be caused by attempting to open a custom URL scheme that doesn't resolve.
what is the recommendation from apple to have a smooth transition to our mobile App
Here’s a sample link we’re using:
https://new.oneclear.com/Asset/fe5f7fb6-205a-40f8-9efe-71678361aa2c?t=NTA0NQ==
Hi all,
I'm developing an application that uses WKWebView to display a web application which I augment with iOS native utilities such as Speech to Text and IAP. The application also uses Service workers, so we define AppBound Domains in the info.plist file.
Everything works for this, but when we deploy on a device the application will crash and say we need these entitlements
com.apple.developer.web-browser-engine.networking,
com.apple.developer.web-browser-engine.rendering,
com.apple.developer.web-browser-engine.webcontent,
com.apple.runningboard.assertions.webkit
From what I can see, we do need all of them. However Apple suggest submitting a request to be an Altnerative Browser (https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines)
This is not appropriate for the application in my view since one requirement of being an alternative browser is that you don't modify the resources on the web site - we of course do since we inject javascript in order to bridge between iOS and the contents of the webview.
How are people navigating this issue? I assumed it would be common given the use of Tauri etc. to build similar types of applications, but I don't see much about it.
Thank you!
I am calling fetch with a POST on page1 in Safari. No special cache parameters on the fetch call.
The response from the server is a 303 redirect to page2
The second page -- page2 -- is in my browser's cache with cache-control "public, max-age=31536000, immutable".
For some reason, the page2 redirect is causing a server hit to re-GET the second page every time instead of pulling from cache.
If I instead directly get the second page by doing a fetch on page2, there is no server hit.
If I do this on Chrome or Firefox, it behaves as I would expect, pulling page2 from the cache with no server hit.
In case it matters, the fetch is coming from within an iFrame. Also, if I change the original POST to a GET, the problem still happens.
I am using a pretty old version of Safari on my Mac, so I could chalk it up to that, but I am getting the same behavior with Safari on my iPhone with iOS 18.3.2
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Actually this is a duplicate for https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/106537 but in web-specific forums section.
Is there any video/audio codec best practices, guides, recommendations for app/web developers for best performance (take advantage from HW acceleration), power consumption saving? What are officially supported media containers? What are video encoding profiles, video dimensions, frame rates?
The only official source I have found is https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/delivering-video-content-for-safari?language=objc. But h264 is pretty old. I experimentally found that the VP9 video format is also supported on iOS newer versions. But is this a requirement? Сan i be sure that the video will play on all devices?
My goal is to provide web media content (which will be rendered in my application using WKWebView API) that will be supported by most devices (both iOS and MacOS), takes advantage of such features as hardware decode acceleration and be efficient.
Any hints/info is highly appreciated. Best regards.
I want to confirm the specifications and behavior of Safari.
We have a system built on Microsoft Azure that uses Azure AD B2C for authentication.
When we logging in, there is a phone authentication feature where a call is made to the registered phone number.
However, this phone authentication does not work properly only on iPhone's Safari. The specific situation is listed below:
When performing phone authentication on iPhone's Safari, a call is made from Azure AD B2C, and pressing the # button on the Safari screen can be done. But then, it transitions to an error screen.
We tried multiple iPhone devices and multiple iOS versions, but the result was the same.
But when accessing the system on a PC, and performing phone authentication, it works without any errors.
Also when we use browsers other than Safari (for example, Google Chrome and Firefox) on the iPhone, the phone authentication works without any errors, too.
Even with Safari, if the device displaying the login screen and the device making the call are different, phone authentication works without any errors, too.(it fails if they are the same device).
We reached out Microsoft about this issue, and they responded that:
The Azure resource called FrontDoor at the front end of Azure AD B2C supports the HTTP/2 protocol, and HTTP/2 protocol is used in communication with Safari.
In Safari's HTTP/2 communication, when a call is received while the screen is displayed, a reset packet is sent to the web server (in this case, the web server is FrontDoor).
This interrupts the session, causing a session termination error on the Azure AD B2C side, and phone authentication fails.
Therefore, we would like to ask you the following two points:
In HTTP/2 communication, does the Safari browser send a reset packet to the web server when it receives a phone call?
If so, what is the cause of this behavior? And are there any measures to prevent the reset packet from being sent?
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
From a mail app or similar, when opening a webpage in Safari as an external browser, JavaScript on the webpage stops running if Safari goes into the background. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
Sample code for the counter:
Behavior: Upon returning from the background, the counter continues for about 7-8 seconds but does not progress further.
For example, if Safari is kept in the background for about 20 seconds and then brought back, the counter stops at around 7-8 seconds and only resumes counting after returning to the foreground.
Expectation: The counter should continue running even if Safari goes into the background.
Dear Apple Developer Support Team,
I am writing regarding critical issues we are facing with Safari web push notifications in our application iLiveMyLife.io, which is severely impacting our ability to maintain reliable communication with our users.
Issue Description:
We are experiencing persistent problems with Safari push notification tokens expiring or becoming invalid without any notification to our server. This creates several critical issues:
Users stop receiving notifications without any indication of failure
Our notification delivery system has no way to detect token expiration
The expiration appears to happen frequently (seemingly almost daily in some cases)
There is no reliable mechanism to re-establish push communication without users manually revisiting the app
Technical Impact:
Our messaging functionality becomes completely unreliable
We must resort to email or SMS as fallback mechanisms, which is not feasible for a real-time communication platform
This makes building any reliable messaging application on Safari practically impossible
The Broader Context:
What makes this situation particularly challenging is that all potential alternative browser APIs that could help address this issue appear to be deliberately disabled or restricted in Safari:
Background Service Workers don't function in the background on iOS Safari
Background Sync API is not supported
WebSockets cannot operate when the app is closed
There's no way to programmatically check the validity of push tokens
The combination of these limitations creates a situation where developers have no viable technical path to build reliable notification systems for PWAs on Safari. This appears to be a systematic restriction rather than individual API limitations.
Requested Information:
Is there a recommended approach to detect Safari push token expiration?
Are there alternative notification mechanisms for PWA applications on Safari that offer more reliability?
Is there documentation on the lifecycle of Safari push tokens that could help us implement proper handling?
Are there plans to improve the Web Push API implementation in Safari to address these reliability issues?
Could you clarify if these limitations are intentional design decisions or technical constraints that might be addressed in future updates?
Business Impact:
This issue fundamentally undermines our platform's core functionality. For a collaborative tool, reliable notifications are essential - users cannot collaborate effectively if they miss updates because their push tokens silently expired. The current state creates confusion among our users, who don't understand why they suddenly stop receiving notifications.
Any guidance or assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated. We're committed to providing an excellent experience on Safari, but the current push notification limitations make this extremely challenging.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Best regards,
Ilya
If we use webView.loadFileURL(indexURL, allowingReadAccessTo: readAccessURL) on an iPad it loads the data and navigation works.
But if we place two hands on top of the screen and move a bit, all click events are not working anymore.
It works again if we call loadFileURL again.
We filled a bug report:
FB19812304
How to allocate the width of each column when customizing the rendering of HTML tables on iOS with limited screen width
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
iOS 18.4 introduces the new WKWebExtension API to support extensions in WKWebView. However, for extensions that have migrated to Manifest V3 and use an extension service worker as the background script, it's currently not possible to inspect them through Safari.
This is only thing I can see, I don't know how to inspect the details of the "background.js"
I'm wondering—has this changed? Is it now possible to inspect extension service workers?
In our web application some functionalities will allow user to upload multiple images (More than 25 images) in a single page
It is working find in all OS and browsers except iOS
When user try to upload images directly from camera there will be some overlaps, duplication, missing etc.
This is happening in both Safari and Chrome, we had a thorough check in our application and found every thing is working fine from our end
You can reproduce the issue by creating a web page which accept more than 50 images (we tried the same in ASP MVC Core & PHP) and showing the images in order
access the page through your iPhone using Safari or Chrome
Try to upload images directly from your camera, try sequential images (Image of a stop watch, or some thing like that) so that you can easily identify the order of files uploaded
and check the listing page of uploaded image (Try these steps multiple times)
You can find some images are duplicated and some are missing
I'm creating an iPad app using Xcode 26 Beta 6. I have the following simple code and web page, but when I tap the file selection button, nothing appears. Do I need to add any additional code?
code
struct SwiftUIWebView: View {
@State private var webPage = WebPage()
private let url = URL(string: "https://www.xxxx.com/")!
var body: some View {
WebView(webPage)
.onAppear {
webPage.load(URLRequest(url: url))
}
}
}
web page
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Test</title>
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<input type="file" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
Is there any supported mechanism in Safari Web Extensions (MV3) for capturing or logging network request data (like fetch, XHR, or webRequest) triggered by the web page?
{
"epochTimestamp": 1755169981033,
"expiresAt": 1755173581033,
"merchantSessionIdentifier": "SSH4ADF1D97A60B47FC8537037BE9892237_FF777A9CB5E9EDAB38A01E4EDF71CB5572F19153853DAC70ADC5AA3E75877CB4",
"nonce": "b6f1e016",
"merchantIdentifier": "7C52E6BFA112124092008236BE1EE49791E4E82E9082AD9AC98D55B03A088120",
"domainName": "1960-ikffk.checkout.trypeppr.com",
"displayName": "peppr",
"signature": "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",
"operationalAnalyticsIdentifier": "peppr:7C52E6BFA112124092008236BE1EE49791E4E82E9082AD9AC98D55B03A088120",
"retries": 0,
"pspId": "7C52E6BFA112124092008236BE1EE49791E4E82E9082AD9AC98D55B03A088120"
}
This is generated in the onvalidatemerchant event handler, and passed into session.completeMerchantValidation.
Using a sandbox account with linked cards, the next thing that happens is a "payment not completed" message in the ApplePay popup on the page, and the oncancel event is hit
Inspecting the event, I don't see anything that hints at the issue. There is a sessionError object, but its code is "unknown" and the info object is empty.
My website ccflood.us is a simple map that uses a CSV file for the data that is displayed on the map. It uses the ESRI JS API.
Recently the points on the map began missing the text in the boxes only on Apple devices that have been upgraded to iOS 18.
Has anyone also had this happen to their site? If you have upgraded to iOS 18, try this site on your iPhone then look at it on an Android phone or your desktop browser. You should seet the values in the boxes and a "+" at points that have no value.
If you've had this happen with your site or have heard of a fix, please reply to this post.
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 in wkwebview for authentication purpose?
I'm running apache with following configuration.
/cc require TLS client certificate
/ not require TLS client certificate
Starting with ios 18.4, accessing /cc after / fails with following error:
AH02261: Re-negotiation handshake failed, referer: https://www.example.com/...
SSL Library Error: error:1417C0C7:SSL routines:tls_process_client_certificate:peer did not return a certificate -- No CAs known to server for verification?
It seems like ios 18.4 does not support TLS re-negotiation.
(It worked with ios 18.3 and before)
Is this an expected behavior or a bug?
Topic:
Safari & Web
SubTopic:
General
Anybody succeeded sending a Web Push Message using the new Declarative approach introduced with Safari Version 18.4 (20621.1.14.11.3)?
I will help as well if someone can point me to a solution debugging the entire system using Xcode and Minibrowser? Currently I can't get the MiniBrowser connected to the WebPush Daemon.