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"Waiting for Handoff" Dialog Appearing in iOS 18 App Clip

When opening our App Clip from a Live Activity, the iOS system Handoff alert blocks our app on open. It is reproducible 100% of the time. The description in the system alert is: Waiting for Handoff to {My App}. We never had this issue before and believe it is related to iOS 18. I don't have Handoff enabled anywhere in my app.

All uses of NSUserActivity explicitly block handoff userActivity.isEligibleForHandoff = false

We have been able to locate this same issue in other iOS apps that use Live Activities and App Clips. Is this an iOS 18 system-level bug?

"Waiting for Handoff" Dialog Appearing in iOS 18 App Clip
 
 
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