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When I try to get a new API Key I get the following error. "API Keys cannot be created due to an invalid Program License Agreement. Please update this agreement and try your request again." I have been to the agreement section, and it says: "Issued October 8, 2025. Accepted November 19, 2025." Any idea why I still get this error?? Not sure if that makes a difference. I had a paid account, but I didn't renew it because I don't need it anymore, and I was told that I can still use this account for free for app testing.

Hello, I’m experiencing an issue with StoreKit 2 when passing a new appAccountToken for each purchase request. Case-ID: 15948169 (for DTS reference) Description of the Problem When initiating a purchase, I generate a new UUID to use as the appAccountToken: let serverTransactionId = UUID() let options: Set<Product.PurchaseOption> = [ .appAccountToken(serverTransactionId) ] let result = try await product.purchase(options: options) Expected Behavior: Each new purchase should return the updated appAccountToken that I pass into the purchase options. Actual Behavior: The payload response after success always contains the same appAccountToken from the very first transaction. It ignores subsequent UUIDs I pass and keeps reusing the original one. This causes issues because the same identifier is being reused across multiple transactions, making it difficult to map purchases to the correct user session. Steps to Reproduce Generate a fresh UUID using UUID(). Pass it as .appAccountToken when calling purchase(). Complete the transaction in the sandbox environment. Inspect the payload response → The appAccountToken value is always the same as the first one used, not the newly provided one. Additional Info I do have a focused test project that reproduces this issue. The issue appears specific to appAccountToken persistence across multiple transactions. Has anyone else experienced this behavior with StoreKit 2? Is this expected (Apple caching the first token) or could this be a bug?

Hello, I would like to clarify how link association and app-opening preferences work in iOS, specifically when a user opens a URL in a browser that can be handled by an installed application. I have noticed the following behavior: When a user taps a URL that can be opened by an app, iOS sometimes asks whether to open the link in the app or continue in the browser. After choosing an option once (for example, "Open in App" or "Stay in Browser"), it seems that this preference becomes persistent. Even after deleting the application and reinstalling it, the browser (Safari or third-party browsers) sometimes continues to open the link directly in the browser without asking the user again. In some cases, it appears impossible to reset or clear this association, and the user is not prompted again to choose how the link should be opened. My questions are: How exactly does iOS store link-handling preferences between apps and browsers? Are these preferences saved on the system level, inside Safari, or associated with the app installation itself? Is there a way for a user to manually reset or clear these link-opening associations? Should deleting and reinstalling the app reset these preferences, or is the behavior expected to persist? Is this behavior different for Universal Links, App Clips, or for regular URL scheme associations? This situation is important for us because it affects user experience, and at the moment it is difficult to understand or reproduce the internal logic behind these link associations. Thank you in advance for your clarification.

Is foundation models matured enough to take input from the Apple Vision framework to generate responses? Something similar to what google's gemini does although in a much smaller scale and for a very specific niche.

Hi, After enabling the new Enhanced Security capability in Xcode 26, I’m seeing install failures on devices running < iOS 26. Deployment target: iOS 15.0 Capability: Enhanced Security (added via Signing & Capabilities tab) Building to iOS 18 device error - Unable to Install ...Please ensure sure that your app is signed by a valid provisioning profile. It works fine on iOS 26 devices. I’d like to confirm Apple’s intent here: Is this capability formally supported only on iOS 26 and later, and therefore incompatible with earlier OS versions? Or should older systems ignore the entitlement, meaning this behavior might be a bug?

Currently, if as a library author you are shipping dependencies as code, you can use the #if DEBUG preprocessor check to execute logic based on whether app is being built for Debug or Release. My concern is more about the approach that should be taken when distributing frameworks/xcframeworks. One approach I am thinking of using is checking the presence of {CFBundleName}.debug.dylib in the main bundle. Is this approach reliable? Do you suggest any other approach?

Hi, We have several Apps that use CEF internally for real-time offscreen HTML rendering. Specifically, we have a framework with an embedded XPC service that itself uses CEF to render HTML and sends the resulting IOSurface back to the host App via XPC for rendering in a Metal pipeline. So far our Apps have only been available as a direct download, but recently we have been trying to submit one of them to the MAS and have run into several issues, CEF being one of them. The core of the issue seems to be that submission to the MAS requires that all executables, including XPC services, be signed with the sandbox entitlement. After enabling the sandbox on the host App, my XPC service with CEF continued to function as before. However, after signing the XPC service with the sandbox entitlement, it stopped working. After some research, it seems that the issue here is that the XPC service once signed with the entitlement is running in its own sandbox, and because CEF uses global Mach ports for internal communication, this then fails. Further, I have read from other developers that even if these issues are overcome by e.g. modifying CEF, they have been rejected by the review team because CEF uses some private API calls. So my question is, does anyone have concrete information on whether or not it will be possible to successfully submit an App using CEF in this way (App > Framework > XPC > CEF) for publication on the MAS? Further, as an alternative I have been looking at WebKit, specifically WKWebView and calling "takeSnapshot", as this seems to be the only documented way to retrieve pixels. However, it seems that this method is not designed for real-time rendering. Assuming that CEF is a non-starter for the MAS, is there anything specific that Apple recommends for real-time offscreen HTML rendering? Cheers, Dave Lincoln

I have an iOS/iPadOS app and 'm trying to communicate with usb smart card reader using CryptoTokenKit on all platforms (ios/ipados/macos). Minimal Repro Code import CryptoTokenKit import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State var status = "" var body: some View { VStack { Text("Status: \(status)") } .padding() .onAppear { let manager = TKSmartCardSlotManager.default if manager != nil { status = "Initialized" } else { status = "Unsupported" } } } } And my entitlement file has only one key: com.apple.security.smartcard = YES Behavior • iPadOS (on device): status = "Initialized" ✅ • macOS (native macOS app, with the required CryptoTokenKit entitlement): status = "Initialized" ✅ • macOS (Designed for iPad, regardless of CryptoTokenKit entitlement): status = "Unsupported" → TKSmartCardSlotManager.default is nil ❌ Expectation Given that the same iPadOS build initializes TKSmartCardSlotManager, I expected the iPad app running in Designed for iPad mode on Apple silicon Mac to behave the same (or to have a documented limitation). Questions Is CryptoTokenKit (and specifically TKSmartCardSlotManager) supported for iPad apps running on Mac in Designed for iPad mode? If support exists, what entitlements / capabilities are required for USB smart-card access in this configuration? If not supported, is Mac Catalyst the correct/only path on macOS to access USB smart-card readers via CryptoTokenKit? Are there recommended alternatives for iPad apps on Mac (Designed for iPad) to communicate with USB smart-card readers (e.g., ExternalAccessory, DriverKit, etc.), or is this scenario intentionally unsupported? Thanks!

Hello, Our organization Apple Developer account has been in pending status for over 30 days and we need guidance. Timeline: Paid annual $99 membership renewal fee (payment processed successfully) Changed Account Holder as required Submitted verification documents (passport, employment letter, business registration) Received response that verification could not be completed Updated Apple ID information to match passport exactly Sent follow-up email 30+ days ago - no response since Current status: Account shows "pending" Payment status: Successfully processed We have contacted support multiple times but haven't received updates for over a month. This is severely impacting our business. Questions: Has anyone experienced similar issues with account holder verification? What additional steps can we take? Is there an escalation process we should follow? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I am encountering an issue where I am unable to install the app from TestFlight. The installation fails or does not proceed as expected. Please advise on how this can be resolved. I have tried restarting the device and reinstalling TestFlight and reinvite the users but the problem persists.

We want to replace our CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps with Xcode Cloud and are currently facing a critical hurdle. For some time now, we’ve observed that the PoC pipelines in Xcode Cloud are having major issues cloning our repositories stored on our Bitbucket Server. More and more pipeline runs are timing out because Xcode Cloud cannot receive the data. Today I spoke with our network team to check whether we might have an issue on our side affecting access to the repository, but we couldn’t find any problems. Cloning the repository to an external machine only takes 30 seconds, so the host’s bandwidth doesn’t seem to be the problem. However, our network specialists did discover one message: Significance: Request abnormal event: high total time Connection abnormal event: client has a slow receive rate If this is the bottleneck in the system, we may ultimately have to stay with Azure DevOps and Fastlane in order to continue providing our product teams with reliable builds. I look forward to your feedback and thank you in advance. Maik

A security scoped bookmark can only be created for URLs that point to resources that exist. What is the preferred/correct API to use to determine if the resource exists? [NSFileManager fileExistsAtPath:] is more explicitly about existence, but might return NO if the app hasn't established access to the resource via an implicit or explicit startAccessingSecurityScopedResource? [NSURL checkResourceIsReachableAndReturnError] might explicitly deal with the latter issue (?), but might also return an error for other reasons than the resource not existing (?). Thanks!

Hello All, I’m a mobile-app developer working with iOS 26+ and I’m using BGContinuedProcessingTask to perform background work. My app’s workflow includes the following business logic: Loading images via PHImageRequest. Using a CLIP model to extract image embeddings. Using an .mlmodel-based model to further process those embeddings. For both model inferences I set computeUnits = .cpuAndNeuralEngine. When the app is moved to the background, I observe that the same workload(all three workload) becomes on average 4-5× slower than when the app is in the foreground. In an attempt to diagnose the slowdown, I tried to profile with Xcode Instruments, but since a debugger was attached, the performance in background appeared nearly identical to foreground. Even when I detached the debugger, the measured system resource metrics (process CPU usage, system CPU usage, memory, QoS class, thermal state) showed no meaningful difference. Below are some of the metrics I captured: Process CPU: 177% (Foreground) → 153% (Background) → ~-24.1% Still >1.5 cores of work. System CPU: 56.1% → 38.4% → ~-17.7% Process Memory: 244.8 MB → 218.1 MB QoS Class: userInitiated in both cases Thermal State: nominal in both cases Given these results, I’m finding it hard to pinpoint why the overall latency is so much worse when the app is backgrounded, even though the obvious metrics show little variation. I suspect the cause may involve P-core vs E-core scheduling, or internal hardware throttling/limit of Neural Engine usage, but I cannot find clear documentation or logging to confirm this. My question is: Does anyone know why a CPU (and Neural Engine)-intensive job like this would slow down so dramatically when using BGContinuedProcessingTask in the background on iOS 26+, despite apparent similar resource-usage metrics? Are there internal iOS scheduling/hardware-allocation behaviors (e.g., falling back to lower-performing cores when backgrounded) that might explain this? Any pointers to Apple technical notes, system logs, or instrumentation I might use to detect which cores or compute units are being used would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and any guidance you can provide. Best regards,

Hello All, I am currently working through ”Keep going with Apps” in Swift Playground. The section in the tutorial “Add a DancingCreature view” will not complete. I have tried to type it is as written in the tutorial and even used the copy and paste button provided. I have restarted the app and my IPad with no success. I have attached a screen shot of the tutorial prompt. Here is the code block: import SwiftUI import Guide struct DancingCreatures: View { //#-learning-code-snippet(varDeclaration) @EnvironmentObject var data : CreatureZoo var body: some View { SPCAssessableGroup(view: self) { VStack { ZStack { /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ ForEach(data.creatures) { creature in /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ Text(creature.emoji) .resizableFont() .offset(creature.offset) .rotationEffect(creature.rotation) /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ } } ZStack { /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ ForEach(data.creatures) { creature in /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.forEach)*/ /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ Text(creature.emoji) .resizableFont() .offset(creature.offset) .rotationEffect(creature.rotation) /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.textView)*/ //#-learning-code-snippet(exp1) //#-learning-code-snippet(animationSolution) //#-learning-code-snippet(exp3) } } /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ .onTapGesture { data.randomizeOffsets() } /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ .onTapGesture { data.randomizeOffsets() } /*#-code-walkthrough(dance.onTap)*/ } } } } struct DancingCreatures_Previews: PreviewProvider { static var previews: some View { DancingCreatures().environmentObject(CreatureZoo()) } } Device information: IPad Pro (11 inch, 2nd gen) iPad OS Version: 26.0.1 Playground Version: 4.6.4 Anyone else come across this? Thank you in advance.

Hello, we have a file provider based macOS app. Around June we started receiving reports that our users have problems when opening files. Sometimes they get "Invalid argument" alerts after double-clicking on a dataless file. We receive similar errors when trying to materialize the files programmatically from our app (not FP extension)(*): "The operation could not be completed. Invalid argument" code: 22 domain: "NSPOSIXErrorDomain" underlyingError: "cannotMaterialize" code: 33 domain: "libfssync.VFSFileError" We also see those errors with matching timestamps in the output from fileproviderctl dump: > (...) update-item: 🔶 last:(...) (-1min27s) (...) error:'NSError: POSIX 22 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Invalid argument" Underlying={NSError: libfssync.VFSFileError 33 "cannotMaterialize" }}' domain:none category:<nil> (...) At the same time our file provider extension receives fetchPartialContents call or no call at all. If it receives the call it finishes with success and returns correct range: requestedRange: "{0, 15295}" returnedRange: "{0, 524288}" alignment: "16384" Sadly we don't know how to reproduce those issues. We will be grateful for any hints that could be useful in debugging. Some more context: if materializing a file fails with this error, subsequent materialization attempts fail similarly in local testing when downloading a file with the code below, or double-click, we only get regular fetchContents call file returned by fetchPartialContents should have correct size the app is built with XCode 16.1, customers reporting this issue have OS/FP versions: 24F74/2882.120.74 and 24G90/2882.140.30 (*) More or less the code that we use to materialize files func materializeURL(_ url: URL) throws { if try url.isDataless() { var error: NSError? = nil let coordinator = NSFileCoordinator(filePresenter: nil) coordinator.coordinate(readingItemAt: url, error: &error) { _ in } if let error { throw error } } } private extension URL { func isDataless() throws -> Bool { let downloadStatus = try self .resourceValues(forKeys: [.ubiquitousItemDownloadingStatusKey]) .ubiquitousItemDownloadingStatus return downloadStatus == .notDownloaded || downloadStatus == .none } }

On devices and simulators with iOS 26.1, the animation does not work correctly (the initial and final screens are distorted). I use open class func transition(with view: UIView, duration: TimeInterval, options: UIView.AnimationOptions = [], animations: (() -> Void)?, completion: ((Bool) -> Void)? = nil) with options: .transitionFlipFromRight

Hi folks, How can I check the URL we have configured for SKAdNetwork install postback requests? Sadly we've lost any record of this via email on our end, and Apple developer support have asked that I reach out via the forums.

Hi everyone, I work in a large enterprise that maintains an Apple Developer account for developing and distributing internal and customer-facing iOS applications. Right now, the Apple Developer account is registered under the personal email of one employee. This creates operational challenges: if that employee leaves the company, transferring Account Holder responsibilities becomes a cumbersome and time-consuming process. We would like to change the Account Holder’s email to a role-based address that is not tied to any specific employee. This way, ownership and access remain within the company regardless of staff changes. Has anyone done this successfully? Is it possible to convert the existing Account Holder to a non-employee, role-based Apple ID, or is there an official process Apple recommends for this situation? Any guidance or steps would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

UITabBarAppearance *appearance = UITabBarAppearance.alloc.init; [appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.redColor}]; [appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.selected setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.purpleColor}]; appearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor; self.tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance; self.tabBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance; How to resolve?

StoreKit error:Storekit has failed to fetch this product. We implemented in-app purchases using StoreKit2. During testing, we were able to make purchases smoothly in various ways without any issues. However, the reviewers encountered this error, and it happened 100% of the time.