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Location permission flow on Safari iOS for Prayer Times

  • Incident
  • minor
  • Resolved

On 23 April 2026, screen reader users on iOS Safari reported that the location permission prompt on the Prayer Times page was not completing successfully. Investigation identified three browser-compatibility issues with iOS Safari's Permissions and Dialog APIs, each one masking the next. All three were resolved in releases 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and 2.0.4 of the gablvm_core module, with additional UX and accessibility refinements shipping through release 2.0.8. A subsequent user report was traced to an iOS Safari Website Setting that silently grants location access without showing a system prompt; in that case the application was functioning as designed, but the outcome was not visible to the user. Users who wish to restore the native iOS Safari prompt can change their Safari Website Settings for gablvm.org from 'Allow' to 'Ask'. The application's in-app acceptance flag can be reset at any time by visiting /prayer-times?resetLocation=1. All fixes are live on both origin servers.

Affected Services

  • gablvm.org
  • Prayer Times
  • Posted: Apr 23, 2026, 02:20 UTC
  • Resolved: Apr 23, 2026, 05:30 UTC
  • Duration: 3h 10m

Timeline

  1. resolved

    05:30 UTC

    Incident resolved. A subsequent user report was traced to an iOS Safari Website Setting that grants location access silently without a system prompt. In that case the application was behaving correctly, but the outcome was not visible to the user. Users wishing to restore the native iOS Safari prompt can change their Safari Website Settings for gablvm.org from 'Allow' to 'Ask'. The application's in-app acceptance flag can also be reset by visiting /prayer-times?resetLocation=1.

  2. monitoring

    04:17 UTC

    Two additional iOS Safari compatibility issues were uncovered during regression testing and have been resolved: a user-gesture lifecycle issue affecting the Continue button (2.0.3), and a fallback path that bailed prematurely under Safari private browsing (2.0.4). Further UX and accessibility refinements shipped in releases 2.0.5 through 2.0.8. All fixes are deployed to both origin servers. Monitoring for additional reports.

  3. identified

    02:48 UTC

    Root cause identified for the first reported symptom. A change in iOS Safari's handling of the Permissions API caused the geolocation request to run outside the required user-gesture context, which prevented the native prompt from appearing. A fix has been released as gablvm_core 2.0.2.

  4. investigating

    02:20 UTC

    Reports received that screen reader users on iOS Safari are unable to complete the location permission flow on the Prayer Times page. The dialog either does not appear, or selecting Continue does not trigger the native permission prompt. Engineering is investigating.

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