Apple Patches HealthKit and StoreKit Issues in visionOS 26.6 Beta 5

Apple pushed visionOS 26.6 Developer Preview Beta 5 to Vision Pro testers on Tuesday, carrying build number 23O5765a. The update lands exactly one week after Beta 4 and marks what’s likely the home stretch before a release candidate — but the real news this time is what’s been fixed, not what’s been added.

Apple’s release notes for Beta 5 zero in on two areas: HealthKit and StoreKit. On the health data side, the update fixes a bug where the authorization screen wouldn’t display when an app requested blood pressure readings — both diastolic (HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureDiastolic) and systolic (HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureSystolic). That’s a critical fix for any health or fitness app that reads blood pressure data from Apple Health on Vision Pro. The second HealthKit fix addresses time-weighted average statistical queries returning inflated values when discrete quantity samples — resting heart rate, for instance — overlapped in time.

On the commerce side, StoreKit testing gets a meaningful fix: SKTest sessions in the simulator were failing to connect to the test environment, which blocked developers from running in-app purchase tests during development. That kind of silent connectivity failure is frustrating precisely because it doesn’t crash — it just quietly breaks your test flow.

As with most mid-cycle beta releases, there are no headline user-facing features in this build. The 26.6 cycle has been tracking a steady weekly cadence since late May, with Beta 1 arriving on May 27. If Apple holds to pattern, Release Candidate builds could start circulating within the next two weeks, followed by a stable public release alongside updates for iOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, macOS 26.6, and watchOS 26.6.

For developers enrolled in the Apple Developer Program, the update is available through Settings > General > Software Update on Vision Pro. The usual server-side caching delay applies — Apple notes that regional CDN nodes may hold the update for up to 30 minutes before it shows up on every device.

IT-NEWS notes that the emphasis on HealthKit reliability suggests Apple sees health tracking as a growing use case for Vision Pro. The headset has been steadily picking up health and fitness features — from mindfulness sessions to workout tracking — and making sure third-party developers can reliably read health data without authorization hiccups is table-stakes infrastructure work.