After declaring NSNearbyInteractionUsageDescription in accordance with the official documentation, a permission prompt used to appear asking if the user wants to allow Nearby Interaction permissions. Additionally, I could see two related permissions in the app’s settings. This behavior was working correctly on iOS 17. However, after upgrading to iOS 18, the permission prompt no longer appears upon reinstalling the app, and the related settings are no longer visible in the app settings. I would like to confirm if there are any additional configurations required for iOS 18 to make Nearby Interaction permissions function as expected. Thank you very much for your assistance. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/nearbyinteraction/initiating-and-maintaining-a-session ios 17: visable, ios 18 : gone

The Nearby Interaction Accessory Protocol Specification defines a lightweight, transport-agnostic, and application-level protocol that facilitates configuring, starting, and maintaining an Ultra Wideband (UWB) ranging session between an accessory and an Apple device. **An app on a supported UWBenabled Apple device is required in order to allow users to set up, configure, and use their accessories. Does this app need us to develop? Can I use the Find My app to add my accessories and use the UWB high-precision lookup feature?

Hi everyone, I’m having trouble getting my iPhone 11 to detect a DWM3001CDK as an accessory using the Apple Nearby Interaction app. Here’s the background: Two years ago, I successfully tested UWB ranging between the same devices (iPhone 11 and DWM3001CDK, which is based on the Qorvo DW3110 IC and an nRF52833 SoC with Bluetooth 5.2). At that time, the Nearby Interaction app was in beta and worked well for my tests. Now, with the stable version of the app, I’m encountering an issue. Here’s what I’ve done so far: I erased the DWM3001C and flashed it with the Qorvo Nearby Interaction firmware (v3.2.0, "DWM3001CDK-QANI-FreeRTOS_full_QNI_3_0_0.hex") using J-Flash Lite V7.86g on Windows. With this configuration, I can connect the iPhone 11 to the accessory using the Qorvo NI apps, both in the foreground and background. However, when I compile and run the project "ImplementingSpatialInteractionsWithThirdPartyAccessories" (available on the Apple Developer website) on my iPhone 11 (running iOS 17.7), the app remains stuck on the "Scanning for accessory" screen and doesn’t find the device, even though I’ve given the app permission to use Bluetooth. Could this be due to an issue with the firmware I flashed on the DWM3001CDK, or might there be something else causing the problem? Any help or insights would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.

I’m thinking about making an app that requires two UWB things to work. I can’t seem to find anything about them and I haven’t got the money to just try it out. The questions are: how far can the iPhone be to a moving UWB chip to make a connection? can this work in the background? If so, is it intermittent? i need to be able to detect moving objects pretty reliably and have the app respond when it isn’t open. I guess a bit like the Covid tracking stuff. would the Apple frameworks allow for me to do this?

Hi, We try to geolocate with UWB signal an app in background with NXP UWB Kit. We use Nearby Interaction method in background Apple documentation indicate to use this class: NINearbyAccessoryConfiguration but we have this error when we try to create the session: NIERROR_ACCESSORY_PEER_DEVICE_UNAVAILABLE_FAILURE_REASON any body can help us to use successfully this functionnality ?

Hi all! Do you know if there is a sample project in Swift that I can use to detect obstacles using the Ultra Wideband?

Hi, The nearby interaction app provided by apple gives me a range of just 15m and frequent data stops with my UWB hardware. However, the NXP Trimensions AR app gives a distance of more than 30 m with the same hardware non stop. Could anyone help me solve this issue Thank you https://developer.apple.com/documentation/nearbyinteraction/implementing_spatial_interactions_with_third-party_accessories

I understand that the Nearby Interaction framework is available on watchOS 8+, and I want to make a watch app that displays distance estimation between multiple watches (not iPhones) using UWB through Nearby Interactions. I see in the documentation that an iPhone can discover multiple device "discovery tokens" and create NISessions with them using the Multipeer Connectivity framework, but it looks like the Multipeer Connectivity framework is not available on watchOS? So, how might I make an independent watch app that can discover multiple nearby watches and setup NISessions with them? Thanks!

Hello dear when i use geolocator after i'll get this error Could not build the precompiled application for the device. Error (Xcode): Undefined symbol: OBJC_CLASS$_LocationServiceStreamHandler Error (Xcode): Undefined symbol: OBJC_CLASS$_PositionStreamHandler Error (Xcode): Linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) Error launching application on iPhone. and didn't app running so plz guide i'm a too much upset

I'm trying to develop a iOS mobile app with using flutter, which can scan nearby wifi access points and connect to a one of them. I ran the app on a physical device with a free apple developer account. When I scan for the wifi access points, it throws an error with saying wifi scan is not supported. I just used wifi_scan library in flutter. Is it required to have a paid developer account to test this feature (wifi scanning and connection) ? Does iOS natively give the access to apps to scan wifi? Thanks

Hello, We are working with Nearby Interaction (UWB) technology to provide high-accurate location use cases to our customers. According to Apple's documentation, in order to enable background sessions starting iOS16, the two devices need to be paired. The accessory needs to implement Nearby service and mandated encrypted characteristic. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/nearbyinteraction/ninearbyaccessoryconfiguration So far we tested this with "PIN-based" secure pairing and everything works fine. Can you confirm if "Just works" PIN-less pairing is expected to work as well here? The documentation is not clear on this respect. We would basically indicate IoNone local capabitilities for the accessory gap parameters if this is expected to work. Thanks in advance! Regards.

I am making an app like Taxi Driving, where users can add location and driver to that location. The problems I am facing are below: Drawing a route on MKMap - I get the route polyline and I render that on the map. Now what should happen as I am driving, the drove part of the polyline should get removed or may be turned grey, non-drove part should be blue. Currently, I am only able to do this by again getting a route from my current location and re-drawing on the map which is not a good thing I suppose. Show driving instructions - I need to show step-by-step instructions which I get in the MKStep under the MKRoute object. But I don't get the icons that I can show such as Turn Right or Turn left the only thing I have is plain text. I need an icon along with it and also how to identify once I have crossed the step and show the next step as my next instruction. These two are the major problems I am facing and I need to do this with Apple native map view itself so no third-party integration I want.

We are implementing indoor positioning and proximity sensing in our iOS app using iBeacons. We have placed multiple beacons to detect the proximity of one point of interest(POI). We are using the startRangingBeacons method in the CLLocationManager class and implementing corresponding delegates to receive the ranging information. With all required foreground and background permissions granted, when a user walks from one POI to another, beacon ranging is working as expected and we are continuously receiving the sightings in the app. We have observed that, if user stops walking for a few minutes at a POI and then device automatically pauses the scan. Hence, we will not receive any beacon signals. When there is a movement, it performs beacon ranging again for a minute or so, then stops again for longer time even when user is walking. The interval between the pausing and resuming the service is not a constant. We have also observed that sometimes it takes more than 15 minutes to resume the service once the system pauses the ranging automatically. Is it an expected behavior? How long does it usually take for beacon ranging services to resume after the user starts moving? Is there any way we can reduce this delay between the pause and resume of ranging beacons? Appreciate your support

Hello, I have a question regarding the UWB (Nearby Interaction) distance measurement feature. When testing with the iPhone 14 and UWB devices (DWM3000, DW3210, NXP SR040, SR150), measurements are possible up to 5-10 meters in an indoor environment without obstacles. However, when the UWB device is inside a car, distance measurement is possible only up to about 2-3 meters from outside the car. Based on these tests, Nearby Interaction seems to be a feature designed for close-range (visually perceptible distances, around 4 meters or so). It appears that the distance range for utilizing Nearby Interaction is somewhat limited. Do you have any data on the maximum distance range for UWB distance measurement with an iPhone?

Hi everyone, I followed https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/700295 to try to make sure one iPhone could perform UWB ranging with more than iPhone by creating a separate NISession for each phone and storing it in a dictionary, but I have not been able to get distance measurements from more than one phone at the same time. It seems that MPCSession allows all phones to see each other, but when it comes to UWB measurements, only 2 phones are able to exchange distance and angle measurements at the same time. It seems once an NISession starts working, it does not give other NISessions a turn to work. I set the MPC delegate to the same ViewController class, maybe that is the issue, but I have seen that Qorvo also set their Bluetooth connection delegate to the same class, and it works with their DWM3001CDK. Can you please help me make sure that each phone can receive distance and angle updates from multiple phones simultaneously?

Hi, sorry if the sentence is wrong as I am using the translate function. I am looking to create an AR application using Nearby Interaction and ARkit. The devices to be used are iPhone 15pro and apple watch 9. The iPhone implementation will measure the distance to the apple watch while simultaneously using AR to track images. The apple watch implementation will only measure the distance to the iPhone. Is it possible to implement this feature? If you know of any, I would like to know.

Hi everyone, I am trying on iOS 17.1.1 the Nearby Interaction framework and SceneKit. I am testing it on iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Pro Max. if NISession.deviceCapabilities.supportsDirectionMeasurement { print("Interact using device distance and direction.") } else if NISession.deviceCapabilities.supportsPreciseDistanceMeasurement { print("Interact using distance only.") } iPhone 12 Pro Max is working normally, but supportsDirectionMeasurement property in iPhone 15 Pro Max returns false and i cant use the SceneKit. Is anyone experiencing the same issue? Regards, Shin

Scenario: We have a museum where each exhibit has a UWB BLE accessory. A user moves around the museum with their phone application in the background. Once a user enters an exhibit area (Determined by UWB distances) a background task is initiated (audio/notification/widget). The Question: In our current understanding of the protocol, the user must pair to each exhibit anchor beforehand, significantly impairing the user experience and bloating their Bluetooth-paired device list. Is it possible now or potentially in the future to not require pairing for pre-approved devices? Alternatively, pairing to a hub that acts as an intermediary between the phone and accessories also seems like an appropriate compromise.

Hello, Our team is working on a mobile app that uses Nearby Interaction framework (UWB technology) to get real-time high-accuracy ranging information with our third-party UWB-enabled device. So far everything works fine, background sessions included as explained in wwdc2022/10008 video. We are using Bluetooth LE to exchange the UWB parameters as recommended by Apple. Our next goal is to go for a full hands-free configuration of the UWB session. Let's think of an access control use case where UWB is used to measure the distance between the user and the door (credentials exchanged via Bluetooth). What we want to achieve is to start the UWB session without requiring the user to take the phone out of his wallet and open the access control app. What it works for us today is if the user starts the app, then switches off the screen and puts the phone into his pocket. The app is still running in background, so the Bluetooth Scan keeps working, the Bluetooth session starts, the UWB parameters exchanged and the UWB session started in the background, all good. But what if the user killed the app or never started it after reboot? How can we force the app to start from killed state when the BLE / UWB third-party accessory comes into proximity? iBeacon seems like a promising approach, but according to the forums, in iOS 16 the app will not be restarted from killed state. Is this correct? Any idea / suggestion about how to let the OS start our app when the user approaches the BLE / UWB accessory and the app is in killed state? Thanks in advance for your time. Regards.