I'm working on an app that uses CloudKit sharing functionality. The sharing features have been working great, but recently I no longer get the user names back from the CKShare.Participant when a user accepts the sharing request.
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I'm using the built-in UICloudSharingController to set up the share, which works and sets up the share properly.
When the invited user accepts the share, the owner gets a notification of the change in the zone and then fetches the CKShare.
The fetched CKShare object has an array of share participants (CKShare.Participant), which has a nameComponents property. I've used this in order to get the first and last name of the participants to display in the UI. This was all working fine until recently.
Now, however, I'm only getting values in nameComponents for the owner of the share. The accepted participants have nil values for the nameComponents.givenName and nameComponents.familyName.
I have not changed anything in this part of my code in some time, so don't think I've caused this. I've tried this on iOS 11, 11.4, 12, 12.1 and all have the issue. This leads me to believe there might have been a change on the server side from Apple.
Note
I am not requesting .userDiscoverability permissions. I have not had to do that in order to get the names once a user accepts. I realize that I can request that and then use CKDiscoverUserIdentitiesOperation to get the names. But I'd rather not as I don't want the dialog, which is confusing for users.
Has anyone seen this change? Or better, yet, does anyone have any suggestions for tracking down the cause or fixing it?
Thanks.
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At some point I noticed I’m seeing vcard coding or something to that effect and a bunch of my iPhone contacts. Please look at the example is there any way to fix this without having to go into each individual contact and delete the tags etc. it looks to be some type of V card code reference.
As you can see in the attached image for Apple headquarters, there is corrupted data. This is happening in a lot of my contacts I am seeing things such as X-SOCIALPROFILE at the end of phone numbers, etc..
I have another client that is experiencing the same issue (both with phone number and country name fields). I am posting something to the Apple forum hoping that someone there has an answer.
I think I figured out the issue.
Adding my work email, I had accidentally checked sync contacts. It is Microsoft based so it corrupted a bunch of my contacts trying to pull vCard data etc.
Also, Facebook messenger was corrupting my contacts
I disabled both of these syncing features, on my Mac went into contacts and searched for “x”
I found a lot of things like X-social etc appended to phone numbers etc
Based on this search in contacts I has to manually cleanup about 30 contacts. After about 1 hour my phone was synced to the updated iCloud contacts and everything is good.
Bottom line. Choose one source of truth to sync your contacts like iCloud.
Don’t allow 3rd party apps to access your contacts.
If you need anymore information let me know
Pretty new to CloudKit. Trying to get all the contacts who are using my app. According to the docs and the tutorials out there I'm calling this:
discoverAllIdentities(completionHandler:)
The issue is that only my user (the one who is logged in on the device where the app is running) is returned. So I did some digging and noticed that if I call this one:
discoverUserIdentity(withPhoneNumber:completionHandler:)
and I use phone number directly the user is returned.
So after more investigation, I figured that the reason I do not get those users is that in my Contacts those users do not have their iCloud email stored. So once I add the email, they are returned by discoverAllIdentities(completionHandler:). So it appears the default implementation of that method is tied to iCloud emails for the discovery instead of phone number.
Is it possible to use phone number for discoverAllIdentities(completionHandler:)? Since, I don't think that as you add a new contact you would record anything but just phone number, so you will be missing to discover all those users.
Any kind of help is highly appreciated.
I'm currently building an app that allows user to share events and check in their guests simultaneously using multiple phones. I managed to set up CKQuerySubscription and update, delete and create works fine but only on the primary phone (the one sharing the event).
I recently found out that for a non-primary user to get notifications, it has to get notifications from CKDatabaseNotification which i set up and it works as I am getting remote notifications when I make changes through CloudKit Dashboard.
But the notification i get (CKDatabaseNotification) does not come with anything that would allow me to find what records changed. I've tried casting it as CKNotification as suggested on this link but as expected it fails.
I have a custom zone set up and my questions are as below:
How do I get any information about what changed from a CKDatabaseNotification?
Am I even doing that the right way? I've read somewhere else as well that some people managed to set up subscription through CKQuerySubscription on a shared database as long as it is on a custom zone, which I have but my codes told me subscription failed.
The CKDatabaseNotification will only tell you that something has changed, not what it is. The recommended path forward is you use a CKFetchDatabaseChangesOperation to find out what record zones have changes. Then you use the record zone IDs from that operation in a CKFetchRecordZoneChangesOperation to get all the changes.
There's a bit more information in the CloudKit Quick Start Guide
I'm cherry picking some relevant info below:
After app launch or the receipt of a push, your app uses CKFetchDatabaseChangesOperation and then CKFetchRecordZoneChangesOperation to ask the server for only the changes since the last time it updated.
The key to these operations is the previousServerChangeToken object,
which tells the server when your app last spoke to the server,
allowing the server to return only the items that were changed since
that time.
First your app will use a CKFetchDatabaseChangesOperation to find out
which zones have changed
Then
Next your app uses a CKFetchRecordZoneChangesOperation object with the
set of zone IDs you just collected to do the following:
• Create and update any changed records
• Delete any records that no longer exist
• Update the zone change tokens
The WWDC video CloudKit Best Practices addresses this topic as well.
I am trying to share records between users on CloudKit but I'm having trouble allowing users to accept shares. When a user opens a share on their device, their status on the share continues to show up as "invited" rather than switching to "accepted." The UserDidAcceptCloudkitShare function does not get called.
Am I wrong to think that opening a share is equivalent to accepting? If so, what is the trick to having a user accept a share?
Please excuse my ignorance, as I'm new to CloudKit and iOS in general. Thanks.
A number of iOS apps I develop are used in scenarios where the Organisation has a number of Drivers and the iPhone is shared between them. Each Driver has his own app credentials, logs in to the app, and is presented with his own set of data. The Firebase data is persisted as he is offline most of the day and I use keepSynced(true) to ensure data is up-to-date.
The problem I'm having is that once a user logs out with the Firebase method FIRAuth.auth()!.signOut() then when a different user logs in, he sees the previous users' data. I'm guessing that because the data is persisted it is not cleared from the cache. However, I am retrieving the data by the user id so this doesn't quite explain it.
What is the best pattern to permit multiple users to use the same iOS app with Firebase ?
Try creating multiple instances of FIRApp, each with a different name, using the +configureWithName:options: method. Then use the different apps in FIRAuth +authWithApp and elsewhere as needed.
I haven't actually done this and am too new to Firebase to say it's the best pattern, but it seems like it should work.
One thing to note from the docs is that, "On Android and iOS, Analytics are only logged for the default app." One solution might to keep the __FIRAPP_DEFAULT app, and then make a named app for each user type.