App is not showing in the share menu of shared options in shared extension in iOS8

Question

I'm developing share extension for my app. Every thing is fine, but i'm facing one main problem, my app is not in the share menu while sharing from photos app.

Below is the plist of my shared extension. enter image description here

It's not showing in the list, below is the screenshot:

But when i go to more option, set the switch of my extension off and on, now it is showing in the list, But i need to do it every time, below are the screenshots:

Every time i ran the extension from X-Code, It's not showing the share menu, i need to go to more option, set the switch off and on again, then only it is showing. Can it show every time in the share menu? Is there anything i'm missing in the plist or extra configuration required?

I need your valuable suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Update:

I have checked it in iOS9. It's working fine without any issues.

I'm facing this issue since iOS 14. in safari, app only showing in share option from second attempt. — Milan Mendpara, Oct 02 '20 at 05:45

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 14 '17 at 05:56

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For anyone having the same problem and not finding a solution, worth trying also to check "Deployment Target" of the extension.

It can be different that the main app and is setup by default when the extension is created.

In my case it was higher than what I had on my device.

answered Apr 14 '17 at 05:56

CristiC

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This was the problem for me and it fixed it! Thanks – horseshoe7 Jan 31 '18 at 16:26
This was my problem too! Thank you SO much! – astro4 Aug 12 '20 at 19:44
This was my case too. Runner deployment target was 9.0 and share extension was 14.0. – Amal Paul Nov 14 '20 at 16:27

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered May 26 '15 at 16:26

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This is a bug in iOS. There is no workaround in the current version. File a bug report with Apple and hope that they fix it soon.

answered May 26 '15 at 16:26

Tom Harrington

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But we can see other apps like 'Viber', 'WhatsApp'. Will it show in the share menu once the app is in the App Store? – Ashok May 27 '15 at 05:20
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The bug only seems to affect development builds installed with Xcode, not apps installed from the app store. – Tom Harrington May 27 '15 at 15:35
Yeah, Agree. Thank you. – Ashok May 28 '15 at 05:14
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This has been a bug in iOS 8, and has been acknowledged by Apple. In [iOS 9 beta 4's release notes](https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releasenotes/General/RN-iOSSDK-9.0/), this was included: `Debugging an action or sharing extension can cause the extension to be missing in the UIActivityViewController object.` – Rizwan Sattar Jul 26 '15 at 01:43
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I understand this is a bug, but is there any way of testing (not debugging) the app extension without submitting the application to the app store? – Philippe Paré Sep 08 '15 at 19:42
Do the same thing @AshokKumarS describes in the question, turning it off and then back on. – Tom Harrington Sep 08 '15 at 20:35
Is there a bug number for this? @RizwanSattar I could no longer access this bug listing in the iOS9 release notes. – William Ku Oct 15 '15 at 02:28
@WilliamKu rdar://20905192, http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=4933673157656576 Here's a cached changelog from beta 4, which lists the change: http://bgr.com/2015/07/21/ios-9-beta-4-released-change-log/ – Rizwan Sattar Oct 16 '15 at 20:07

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 15 '20 at 11:36

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I encountered this issue on iOS 14 Beta, resolved by restarting the device.

answered Sep 15 '20 at 11:36

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Thank you for saving me hours of reading in the documentation for the thing I thought I have missed :D – Omar Masri Oct 20 '20 at 09:33
Works perfectly – Duc Trung Mai Dec 05 '20 at 07:21
Thanks Apple that helped. This also applies for non beta 14.7 devices -.- – Nico S. Aug 15 '21 at 19:02

Sanju · Answer 4 · 2018-05-15T14:20:27.130

Step by step flow for creating Share Extension

Then just Run the application

Check Out Plist count to be 1 (1 = allows attachment 1) for images

Plist

<key>NSExtension</key>
    <dict>
        <key>NSExtensionAttributes</key>
        <dict>
            <key>NSExtensionActivationRule</key>
            <dict>
                <key>NSExtensionActivationSupportsImageWithMaxCount</key>
                <integer>1</integer>
            </dict>
        </dict>
        <key>NSExtensionMainStoryboard</key>
        <string>MainInterface</string>
        <key>NSExtensionPointIdentifier</key>
        <string>com.apple.ui-services</string>
    </dict>

Useful inks

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/ExtensibilityPG/ShareSheet.html

http://www.appcoda.com/ios8-share-extension-swift/

http://www.appcoda.com/tag/app-extension/

Sharing data from Extension to Main App information link & How to create Today's extension?

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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I faced the same issue. I found, that in the Build Settings (of extension target) field Wrapper Extension was empty, while it should be assigned as "appex". Assigning "appex" to Wrapper Extension solved my problem.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

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answered Aug 20 '16 at 11:43

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Jeezus Christ, you saved my life. Thank you so much! – Michael Voline Jun 09 '20 at 01:46

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 22 '21 at 10:07

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I had encountered with the same problem and fixed it by changing deployment target version for the extension. In my case ios version of the device that was tested was lower than my target ios version for the extension

answered Mar 22 '21 at 10:07

mehmetdelikaya

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App is not showing in the share menu of shared options in shared extension in iOS8

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Step by step flow for creating Share Extension

Check Out Plist count to be 1 (1 = allows attachment 1) for images

Useful inks

Sharing data from Extension to Main App information link & How to create Today's extension?

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