Mobile Agent - Intune for iOS v21.3.0
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Summary of Mobile Agent - Intune for iOS v21.3.0
The Mobile Agent - Intune for iOS v21.3.0 release delivers important bug fixes and performance improvements to enhance the user experience and reliability of the ServiceNow Mobile Agent app on iOS devices. This update addresses issues affecting date handling, app stability, writeback actions, offline functionality, and UI responsiveness.
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Key Fixes and Improvements
- Date Handling Corrections: Fixed an issue where the reservation screen defaulted to yesterday’s date instead of today, and resolved discrepancies between dates shown on the mobile app and the ServiceNow platform for scheduled start and end times.
- App Stability Enhancements: Addressed crashes caused by badge count integer overflow and fixed upload failures and crashes when uploading files in impersonation mode.
- Writeback and Action Item Reliability: Resolved server errors (HTTP 500) occurring during writeback when actions have parameter screens and AutoRedirectDestinationId configured, ensuring successful form submissions and closing of Work Order Tasks.
- Session and UI Behavior: Improved session timeout handling by restoring the last viewed page after reactivation or pull-to-refresh, fixed unresponsive Submit and Cancel buttons after writeback errors, and corrected visibility of the Filter button on list screens after pagination.
- Notification Handling: Fixed issue where a change instance alert incorrectly appeared when tapping notifications within the same instance.
- Smart Assessment Stability: Prevented crashes when descriptive elements in questionnaires are set as rich text.
- Offline Functionality: Corrected attachment visibility for photos added via the New Defect form while offline, ensuring images appear immediately in Attachments and Activity Stream without waiting for sync.
Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
By updating to this release, customers can expect a more stable and reliable Mobile Agent experience on iOS devices. The fixes improve data accuracy, prevent app crashes, enhance offline usability, and ensure smoother interaction with forms and workflows. Users will benefit from consistent behavior between the mobile app and the ServiceNow platform, reducing frustration and improving productivity in field and mobile service management scenarios.
Next Steps
- Download the latest Mobile Agent app version from the Apple App Store to receive these fixes and improvements.
- Encourage users to try the demo account option available post-download for evaluation and training.
- Monitor app performance and user feedback post-upgrade to confirm issues are resolved and to identify any new areas for improvement.
The iOS v21.3.0 release provides fixes for the application.
Download the latest mobile app version
To download the latest release, visit the Apple App Store. Users can launch a demo to try the Mobile Agent. You can use a demo account from the initial post-download screen or the instance list screen.
Fixed in this release
| Problem | Short description | Description | Steps to reproduce |
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iOS Mobile PRB1991062 |
Default date in the reservation screen is set to yesterday instead of today | The default date automatically fills the Date field on the 'Make a reservation' screen with yesterday's date instead of today. |
Notice that the auto-filled date is not the current date. |
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iOS Mobile PRB2001344 |
The date shown on the mobile device is not the same one displayed in the platform | Scheduled start and Estimate end time is not the same between the Mobile Agent App on iPhone and the platform. | |
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iOS Mobile PRB2006489 |
A NSGenericException Task gets created in a session that has been invalidated | File upload gets stuck or the app crashes while uploading files in impersonation mode. |
Expected behavior: The upload should be successful. Actual behavior: The upload gets stuck and the app intermittently crashes. |
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iOS Mobile PRB2011334 |
The Agent app crashes on iOS devices | When the user has a badge count over a certain value, the initializer traps with a fatal integer overflow, causing the app to crash. | |
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iOS Mobile PRB2006738 |
iOS writeback returns HTTP 500 when an action has a parameter screen and AutoRedirectDestinationId is configured | When an action has both a parameter screen (ParameterData) and an AutoRedirectDestinationId configured server-side, the iOS mobile client includes DestinationSubmittedForm in the writeback request alongside ParameterData. The server does not accept this combination and returns HTTP 500. |
Expected behavior: The writeback request is submitted successfully. The server responds 200 and the WOT is closed. Actual behavior: The server returns HTTP 500 and the WOT close action fails. |
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iOS Mobile PRB2011561 |
Restore the last page when pulling to refresh or session timeout | When the user reactivates their hybrid webpage session after timeout (due to inactivity, backgrounding, or locking) or performs a pull-to-refresh, they are not returned to their last visited page. | |
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iOS Mobile PRB2009678 |
Submit/Cancel buttons freeze after a writeback error on an action item form | When filling in an action item form (for example, a labor action item on a case), submission returns a server-side error. The error banner is shown correctly but the Submit and Cancel buttons on the form become completely unresponsive. The user cannot retry submission or dismiss the form — the only recovery is to force-close the app. |
Expected behavior: Selecting Submit retries the writeback. Selecting Cancel dismisses the form. Actual behavior: Both Submit and Cancel are completely unresponsive. |
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iOS Mobile PRB2004817 |
The Filter button on list screens is hidden when the initial page load returns only one item and never re-appears after more items load via pagination | The Filter button should be shown on the top-right of the list screen if more than one item is displayed, but it doesn't appear. | |
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iOS Mobile PRB2011924 |
Change Instance Alert is shown to the user when a notification is tapped on in the 'Notifications' tab for the same instance | ||
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iOS Mobile PRB2007442 |
A smart assessment crashes when a descriptive element is set as richText | The application crashes. |
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iOS Mobile PRB2008581 |
An offline new-defect form photo is not visible in the Attachments/Activity Stream until sync | When a new record is created offline via the New Defect Form, callAddAttachmentsScript (CellsContainerTemplateHandler+Redirection.swift) returns early without calling addParameterScreenAttachments, so the offline document cache is never updated with the form-input attachment. |
Expected behavior: The form photo is visible in Attachments and Activity Stream immediately after the defect is created, without requiring sync. Actual behavior: The form photo is invisible until sync completes. |
This version also includes other minor bug fixes and performance improvements.