iOS System Integration

You MUST use this skill for ANY iOS system integration including Siri, Shortcuts, widgets, in-app purchases, background tasks, push notifications, and more.

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Quick Reference

Symptom / Task	Reference
Siri, App Intents, entity queries	See skills/app-intents-ref.md
App Shortcuts, phrases, Spotlight	See skills/app-shortcuts-ref.md
App discoverability strategy	See skills/app-discoverability.md
Core Spotlight indexing	See skills/core-spotlight-ref.md
LLM search over app content, SpotlightSearchTool	See skills/core-spotlight-ref.md
Widgets, Control Center controls	See skills/extensions-widgets.md
Widget API reference	See skills/extensions-widgets-ref.md
Live Activities, Dynamic Island, push-to-start, broadcast	See skills/live-activities.md
Live Activities / ActivityKit API reference	See skills/live-activities-ref.md
Apple Pay (physical goods, services, donations)	Use axiom-payments instead
In-app purchases, subscriptions	See skills/in-app-purchases.md
StoreKit 2 API reference	See skills/storekit-ref.md
Commitment billing plans, subscription bundles/suites, group/volume subscriptions, retention offers, offer codes	See skills/storekit-ref.md
In-game content (Unity plug-ins, asset packs + IAP)	See skills/in-app-purchases.md, skills/background-assets.md
Calendar events, reminders (EventKit)	See skills/eventkit.md
EventKit API reference	See skills/eventkit-ref.md
Contacts, contact picker	See skills/contacts.md
Contacts API reference	See skills/contacts-ref.md
Localization, String Catalogs	See skills/localization.md
Apple terminology matching, glossary, pseudolocalization, TMS	See skills/localization-research-ref.md
Privacy manifests, permissions UX	See skills/privacy-ux.md
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi accessory pairing (AccessorySetupKit, iOS 18+)	See skills/accessorysetupkit.md
AccessorySetupKit API (descriptor fields, events, auth-settings flow)	See skills/accessorysetupkit-ref.md
Measure distance/direction to a paired accessory (Bluetooth Channel Sounding, iOS 27)	See skills/accessorysetupkit-ref.md (Part 7)
Weather data, forecasts, attribution (WeatherKit)	See skills/weatherkit.md
VoIP calls, CallKit, VoIP push, caller ID/blocking	See skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit.md
CallKit / LiveCommunicationKit / IdentityLookup API reference	See skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit-ref.md
SharePlay, GroupActivities, shared sessions, spatial Personas	See skills/shareplay.md
GroupActivities API reference (GroupSession, messenger, journal)	See skills/shareplay-ref.md
SharePlay coordinated audio/video playback	Use axiom-media (skills/shareplay-playback.md) instead
Suggested actions for a messaging conversation (SuggestedActionsView, com.apple.developer.suggested-actions entitlement, OS27)	Use axiom-ai (skills/suggested-actions.md) instead — Apple-Intelligence-backed; the entitlement/capability is the integration half
AlarmKit (iOS 26+)	See skills/alarmkit-ref.md
Timer patterns, scheduling	See skills/timer-patterns.md
Timer API reference	See skills/timer-patterns-ref.md
Background tasks, BGTaskScheduler	See skills/background-processing.md
Background task debugging	See skills/background-processing-diag.md
Background task API reference	See skills/background-processing-ref.md
Background Assets (large content delivery, FM adapter shipping, Apple-hosted vs server-hosted)	See skills/background-assets.md
Background Assets API reference (incl. localized asset packs, Steam conversion)	See skills/background-assets-ref.md
On-Demand Resources migration (deprecated in 27)	See skills/background-assets.md
Push notifications, APNs	See skills/push-notifications.md
Push notification debugging	See skills/push-notifications-diag.md
Push notification API reference	See skills/push-notifications-ref.md
Push without APNs on restricted/local networks (Local Push Connectivity, NEAppPushProvider, MCX iOS27)	See skills/local-push-connectivity.md

Decision Tree

digraph integration {
    start [label="Integration task" shape=ellipse];
    what [label="Which system feature?" shape=diamond];

    start -> what;
    what -> "skills/app-intents-ref.md" [label="Siri / App Intents"];
    what -> "skills/app-shortcuts-ref.md" [label="Shortcuts / phrases"];
    what -> "skills/app-discoverability.md" [label="discoverability\nstrategy"];
    what -> "skills/extensions-widgets.md" [label="widgets /\nControl Center"];
    what -> "skills/live-activities.md" [label="Live Activities /\nDynamic Island"];
    what -> "skills/in-app-purchases.md" [label="IAP / subscriptions"];
    what -> "skills/eventkit.md" [label="calendar / reminders"];
    what -> "skills/contacts.md" [label="contacts"];
    what -> "skills/localization.md" [label="localization"];
    what -> "skills/privacy-ux.md" [label="privacy / permissions"];
    what -> "skills/accessorysetupkit.md" [label="accessory pairing\n(Bluetooth/Wi-Fi)"];
    what -> "skills/weatherkit.md" [label="weather / forecasts"];
    what -> "skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit.md" [label="VoIP calls /\ncaller ID"];
    what -> "skills/alarmkit-ref.md" [label="alarms (iOS 26+)"];
    what -> "skills/timer-patterns.md" [label="timers"];
    what -> "skills/background-processing.md" [label="background tasks"];
    what -> "skills/background-assets.md" [label="large asset delivery /\nFM adapter shipping"];
    what -> "skills/push-notifications.md" [label="push notifications"];
    what -> "skills/local-push-connectivity.md" [label="push without APNs\n(local network / MCX)"];
}

1. Siri / App Intents / entity queries? → skills/app-intents-ref.md
2. App Shortcuts / phrases? → skills/app-shortcuts-ref.md
3. App discoverability / Spotlight strategy? → skills/app-discoverability.md, skills/core-spotlight-ref.md 3a. LLM search over your app's index (SpotlightSearchTool, LanguageModelSession tool-calling)? → skills/core-spotlight-ref.md
4. Widgets / Control Center controls? → skills/extensions-widgets.md, skills/extensions-widgets-ref.md 4a. Live Activities / Dynamic Island / push-to-start / broadcast? → skills/live-activities.md, skills/live-activities-ref.md
5. In-app purchases / StoreKit? → skills/in-app-purchases.md, skills/storekit-ref.md 5a. Subscription billing plans (12-month commitment), bundles/suites, group/volume purchasing, retention offers, offer-code redemption? → skills/storekit-ref.md
6. Calendar / reminders / EventKit? → skills/eventkit.md, skills/eventkit-ref.md
7. Contacts / contact picker? → skills/contacts.md, skills/contacts-ref.md
8. Localization mechanics (String Catalogs, plurals, RTL)? → skills/localization.md 8a. Localization research (Apple terminology, glossary, pseudolocalization, TMS)? → skills/localization-research-ref.md
9. Privacy / permissions? → skills/privacy-ux.md
10. Alarms (iOS 26+)? → skills/alarmkit-ref.md 10a. Bluetooth/Wi-Fi accessory pairing (iOS 18+)? → skills/accessorysetupkit.md 10b. Weather data / forecasts / attribution (WeatherKit)? → skills/weatherkit.md 10c. VoIP calls / CallKit / VoIP push / caller ID / blocking? → skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit.md
11. Timers? → skills/timer-patterns.md, skills/timer-patterns-ref.md
12. Background tasks / BGTaskScheduler? → skills/background-processing.md, skills/background-processing-diag.md, skills/background-processing-ref.md 12a. Large asset delivery (game packs, localized asset packs, ML models, Foundation Models adapters, ODR migration)? → skills/background-assets.md, skills/background-assets-ref.md
13. Push notifications? → skills/push-notifications.md, skills/push-notifications-diag.md, skills/push-notifications-ref.md 13a. Push/calls on networks without internet, or PTT over an MCX cellular slice? → skills/local-push-connectivity.md
14. Want IAP audit? → Launch iap-auditor agent
15. Want full IAP implementation? → Launch iap-implementation agent
16. Camera / photos / audio / haptics / ShazamKit? → Use axiom-media instead

Cross-Domain Routing

Widget + data sync (widget not showing updated data):

• Widget timeline not refreshing → stay here (extensions-widgets)
• SwiftData/Core Data not shared with extension → also invoke axiom-data (App Groups)

App Intents + security (lock-screen intent risk, prompt injection via Siri):

• Intent/schema API surface → stay here (app-intents-ref)
• Threat modeling, authenticationPolicy gating, schema risk metadata → also invoke axiom-security (skills/agentic-security.md)

Live Activity + push notification:

• ActivityKit push token / broadcast setup → stay here (live-activities)
• Push delivery failures → also invoke axiom-networking (networking-diag)
• Entitlements/certificates → also invoke axiom-build

VoIP push + CallKit (VoIP app killed / pushes stopped arriving):

• VoIP push must report a call to CallKit → stay here (callkit-livecommunicationkit, Part 1)
• PushKit token vs APNs delivery → stay here (push-notifications for the APNs contrast)
• Call audio silent/misrouted → also invoke axiom-media (AVAudioSession category)

Push + background processing (silent push not triggering background work):

• Push payload and delivery → stay here (push-notifications-diag)
• BGTaskScheduler execution → stay here (background-processing)

In-game content (StoreKit + Background Assets, Unity plug-ins):

• Asset packs, IAP mechanics, payment sheet, mock server → stay here (background-assets, in-app-purchases)
• Game input, rendering, game-side performance → also invoke axiom-games / axiom-graphics

Calendar/Contacts + data sync:

• EventKit/Contacts data issues → stay here
• Shared data with widget via App Groups → also invoke axiom-data

watchOS surfaces

• Complications + Smart Stack widgets → See axiom-watchos (skills/smart-stack-and-complications.md)
• Live Activities on Apple Watch → See axiom-watchos (skills/controls-and-live-activities.md)

Conflict Resolution

integration vs axiom-build: When system features fail with entitlement/certificate errors:

• Use axiom-build for signing and provisioning issues
• Use integration for API usage and permission patterns

integration vs axiom-data: When widgets or extensions can't access shared data:

• App Groups and shared containers → axiom-data
• Specifically: GRDB/SQLite database shared with widget/extension/Live Activity → See axiom-data (skills/grdb-app-groups.md)
• Widget timeline, Live Activity updates → integration

integration vs axiom-media: When media features overlap with system features:

• Camera/photo/audio/haptics code → axiom-media
• Privacy manifests for camera/microphone → stay here (privacy-ux)
• Background audio mode → stay here (background-processing)

Anti-Rationalization

Thought	Reality
"App Intents are just a protocol conformance"	App Intents have parameter validation, entity queries, and background execution.
"Widgets are simple, I've done them before"	Widgets have timeline, interactivity, and Live Activity patterns that evolve yearly.
"Localization is just String Catalogs"	Xcode 26 has type-safe localization, generated symbols, and #bundle macro.
"Push notifications are just a payload and a token"	Token lifecycle, Focus levels, service extension gotchas cause 80% of push bugs.
"I'll just bundle the assets, it's simpler"	Bundling ≥10 MB inflates first-install size and pays the cost every update. Background Assets ships with App Store install-progress integration; FM adapters can't be bundled at all. See skills/background-assets.md.
"I'll use URLSession for the asset download"	URLSession doesn't integrate with App Store install progress, charging-aware scheduling, or per-app quota — and can't reach Apple-hosted asset packs at all. Background Assets is the supported channel.
"On-Demand Resources still works fine"	The entire NSBundleResourceRequest family is deprecated in the 27 SDKs ("Use Background Assets instead"). Migrate ODR tags to asset packs. See skills/background-assets.md.
"Just request full Calendar access"	Most apps only need to add events — EventKitUI does that with zero permissions.
"SharePlay is just a message channel between participants"	GroupSession is not Sendable, observation is Combine-only, and the late-joiner delta depends on @Published willSet timing. Migrating it to @Observable silently breaks catch-up.
"The person who started the SharePlay session is the host"	There is no host. Every participant is equal — the framework has no owner or turn-taking concept. lifetimePolicy is the only related control, and it lives on the activity.
"One messenger, I'll pick reliable or unreliable per message"	deliveryMode is a let fixed at init and no send overload takes a mode. Mixed protocols need two GroupSessionMessenger instances.
"I'll request Bluetooth permission and scan for the accessory"	AccessorySetupKit (iOS 18+) pairs in one tap with no broad Bluetooth prompt and grants scoped BT+Wi-Fi access. See skills/accessorysetupkit.md.
"I'll process the VoIP push, then report the call when ready"	iOS terminates your app and stops delivering VoIP pushes if a push doesn't report a call before completion. Report first, fetch after. See skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit.md.
"No internet on this network, so I'll keep my own socket open in the background"	iOS suspends the app and the socket dies. Local Push Connectivity runs a system-managed provider extension for exactly this. See skills/local-push-connectivity.md.
"I'll activate the audio session when the call connects"	CallKit owns the audio session — activate only in provider(_:didActivate:) or audio is silent/misrouted. See skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit.md.
"I'll use CNContactStore directly for picking"	CNContactPickerViewController needs no authorization and shows all contacts.

Example Invocations

User: "How do I add Siri support?" → Read: skills/app-intents-ref.md

User: "My widget isn't updating" → Read: skills/extensions-widgets.md

User: "My Live Activity won't update" / "How do I add a Dynamic Island?" / "Broadcast scores to thousands of Live Activities" → Read: skills/live-activities.md

User: "Implement in-app purchases with StoreKit 2" → Read: skills/in-app-purchases.md

User: "Offer a monthly plan with a 12-month commitment" / "Sell subscription seats to teams" → Read: skills/storekit-ref.md

User: "Deliver level packs only in the player's language" / "Convert my Steam depots to asset packs" → Read: skills/background-assets-ref.md

User: "Let the on-device model answer questions about my app's content" → Read: skills/core-spotlight-ref.md

User: "How do I implement push notifications?" → Read: skills/push-notifications.md

User: "Push notifications work in dev but not production" → Read: skills/push-notifications-diag.md

User: "Our app must receive calls on a ship / hospital network with no internet" / "Push to Talk over a Mission Critical 5G slice" → Read: skills/local-push-connectivity.md

User: "My background task never runs" → Read: skills/background-processing-diag.md

User: "How do I add an event to the user's calendar?" → Read: skills/eventkit.md

User: "How do I let users pick a contact?" → Read: skills/contacts.md

User: "How do I pair a Bluetooth accessory without the permission prompt?" → Read: skills/accessorysetupkit.md

User: "How do I show the weather forecast with WeatherKit?" / "Why was my weather app rejected?" → Read: skills/weatherkit.md

User: "My VoIP app gets killed" / "How do I handle CallKit incoming calls?" / "How do I block spam callers?" → Read: skills/callkit-livecommunicationkit.md

User: "Review my in-app purchase implementation" → Launch: iap-auditor agent