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I first started using the SwiftUI pushWindow API in visionOS 26.2, and I've reported several bugs I discovered, listed below. Under certain circumstances, pushed window relationships may break, and this behavior affects all other apps, not just the app that caused the problem, until the next device reboot. In other cases, the system may crash and restart. (FB21287011) When a window presented with pushWindow is dismissed, its parent window reappears in the wrong location (FB21294645) Pinning a pushed window to a wall breaks pushWindow for all other apps on the system (FB21594646) pushWindow interacts poorly with the window bar close app option (FB21652261) If a window locked to a wall calls pushWindow, the original window becomes unlocked (FB21652271) If a window locked in place calls pushWindow and the pushed window is closed, the system freezes (FB21828413) pushWindow, UIApplication.open, and a dismissed immersive space result in multiple failures that require a device reboot (FB21840747) visionOS randomly foregrounds a backgrounded immersive space app with a pushed window's parent window visible instead of the pushed window (FB21864652) When a running app is selected in the visionOS home view, windows presented with pushWindow spontaneously close (FB21873482) Pushed windows use the fixed scaling behavior instead of the dynamic scaling behavior I'm posting the issues here in case this information is helpful to other developers. I'd also like to hear about other pushWindow issues developers have encountered, so I can watch out for them. Questions: I've discovered that some of the issues above can be partially worked around by applying the defaultLaunchBehavior and restorationBehavior scene modifiers to suppress window restoration and locking, which pushWindow appears to interact poorly with. Are there other recommended workarounds? I've observed that the Photos and Settings apps, which predate the pushWindow API, are not affected by the issues I reported. Are there other more reliable ways I could achieve the same behavior as pushWindow without relying on that API? I'd appreciate any guidance Apple engineers could provide. Thank you.

I have a framework, which depends on a library (GPGME) to do its actual encryption. As a consequence of using this external library, there are header files which have GPGME types in them... @interface E3Gpgme : NSObject ... /*****************************************************************************\ |* Call GPGME to sign \*****************************************************************************/ - (int) signWithMode:(gpgme_sig_mode_t)mode userId:(NSString *)signingKeyOrEmail srcStream:(E3Stream *)src dstStream:(E3Stream *)dst error:(NSError **)error; ... @end . This means the E3Gpgme class header file has to #import <gpgme.h> to get those type definitions. That is then proving problematic because the framework modularisation fails, with <e3gpgme.h> obviously not being a part of the framework, so the project refuses to build. I can see a few ways around this: Just don't run the modularisation check. That doesn't sound like a fantastic option import the GPGME headers (there's only 2) into the project and bundle them as if they were project ones. Again, not a great option, I don't expect GPGME to change its API but it runs the risk of there being a mismatch in future if the library code itself remains external. So what's the best-practice for requiring a dependency on a library, not a framework ? Is there a way to copy the library binary into a folder inside the framework folder and make sure you link with that ? Assuming that's the shared library it ought to still be ok for the LGPL licensing... Is there a better way ? I'm sure I'm not the first person to run into this :)

Hello Apple Developers and users I am writing this message reguarding some help on some performance codes/settings I can use for my Macbook since I recently downloaded the MacOs Tahoe 26.2 and its been very glitchy and laggy with gaming and just using my mac normally I have tried using a FPS unlocker and downloading Metal 4 the FPS unlocker hasent worked at all I am still stuck on the normal 60 FPS and need some advice/help. Thank you. Kind regards Zachary

We recently released a new version of our app that included an app clip. The actual app has been approved and released to the store. Advanced experience tab for in app store connect the status is just stuck in "Received" from 5days. https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/21878333

I've coded a text-adventure game in SwiftUI. (My game has no graphics or sound effects.) My app already supports keyboard navigation; I would like to add support for game controllers on iPhone. I can't figure out how to do it. I especially can't see any way to allow controller users to enter text in a TextField. I've read https://developer.apple.com/documentation/gamecontroller/supporting-game-controllers and it's all about button events. There's no reference to SwiftUI at all in that documentation, or any input-method editing at all. The only mention of "keyboard" is about treating the keyboard itself as if it were a game controller providing button events. How do I implement this?

Hello, When I recently distributed my app, I received the following warning message: "Starting April 2026, all visionOS apps must be built with the visionOS 26 SDK or later, included in Xcode 26 or later, in order to be uploaded to App Store Connect or submitted for distribution." However, the Apple Developer News page dated February 3 (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=ueeok6yw) states that apps submitted to the App Store must meet the version 26 requirement starting April 28, 2026. I need to clarify whether the mandatory enforcement begins on April 1, 2026, or April 28, 2026. As the major specification changes in version 26 are significantly impacting our current app development, the exact deadline is critical for us to determine our updated development schedule. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/814892 Thank you.

Hi From https://developer.apple.com/metal/jax/ I checked all active workflows on https://github.com/jax-ml/jax and any open issues with tags Metal and seems in DEC 2025 the Jax maintainers have closed all issues citing No active development on Jax-metal and the project seems dead. We need to know how can we leverage Apple silicon for accelerated projects using popular academia library and tools . Is the JAX project still going to be supported or Apple has plans to bring something of tis own that might be platform agnostic . Thanks

I’m seeing a camera/capture routing issue on visionOS when multiple WindowGroups are open at the same time. I have a SwiftUI view that starts an AVCaptureSession on onAppear and stops it on onDisappear. The camera feed is displayed in a subview that only exists inside one window. However, when I open additional windows (other WindowGroups) in the same app, the camera perspective/route changes unexpectedly — it looks like the capture is being re-associated with a different scene/window, even though the camera view never moved and no other view starts capture. Expected behavior Opening additional windows should not affect the active capture session or camera routing for the existing camera view. The camera feed should remain stable and tied to the window hosting. Actual behavior When multiple windows are open, the camera feed “switches perspective” / appears to re-route, as if the system changes which scene is considered active for capture. This happens without any explicit code calling startSession() again and without the camera view being present in the other windows. Additional context This app is running in an unbounded scene and uses Unity PolySpatial.

I get the following error when running this command in a Jupyter notebook: v = tf.Variable(initial_value=tf.random.normal(shape=(3, 1))) v[0, 0].assign(3.) Environment: python == 3.11.14 tensorflow==2.19.1 tensorflow-metal==1.2.0 { "name": "InvalidArgumentError", "message": "Cannot assign a device for operation ResourceStridedSliceAssign: Could not satisfy explicit device specification '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0' because no supported kernel for GPU devices is available.\nColocation Debug Info:\nColocation group had the following types and supported devices: \nRoot Member(assigned_device_name_index_=1 requested_device_name_='/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0' assigned_device_name_='/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0' resource_device_name_='/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0' supported_device_types_=[CPU] possible_devices_=[]\nResourceStridedSliceAssign: CPU \n_Arg: GPU CPU \n\nColocation members, user-requested devices, and framework assigned devices, if any:\n ref (_Arg) framework assigned device=/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0\n ResourceStridedSliceAssign (ResourceStridedSliceAssign) /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0\n\nOp: ResourceStridedSliceAssign\n [...] [[{{node ResourceStridedSliceAssign}}]] [Op:ResourceStridedSliceAssign] name: strided_slice/_assign" } It seems like the ResourceStridedSliceAssign operation is not implemented for the GPU

Hi everyone, My app has been stuck in “Waiting for Review” since February 9, and it’s now been over 7 days. Usually my reviews start much faster, so this feels unusually long. I already contacted Apple Developer Support twice, but I haven’t received any response yet. There’s one thing I’m slightly worried about. When I submitted the app, the submission page was still processing (loading spinner was spinning), and I clicked the “Submit for Review” button during that time. The screen then transitioned to another page (see attached screenshot). At the time I didn’t think much of it, but now I’m wondering if that could have caused some kind of issue. Is anyone else currently experiencing unusually long “Waiting for Review” times? Did something similar happen in your case? Any insights would be really appreciated.

Currently i am trying really hard to create experience like the Apple fitness app. So the main view is a single day and the user can swipe between days. The week would be displayed in the toolbar and provide a shortcut to scroll to the right day. I had many attempts at solving this and it can work. You can create such an interface with SwiftUI. However, changing the data on every scroll makes limiting view updates hard and additionally the updates are not related to my code directly. Instruments show me long updates, but they belong to SwiftUI and all the advice i found does not apply or help. struct ContentView: View { @State var journey = JourneyPrototype(selection: 0) @State var position: Int? = 0 var body: some View { ScrollView(.horizontal) { LazyHStack(spacing: 0) { ForEach(journey.collection, id: \.self) { index in Listing(index: index) .id(index) } } .scrollTargetLayout() } .scrollTargetBehavior(.paging) .scrollPosition(id: $position) .onChange(of: position) { oldValue, newValue in journey.selection = newValue ?? 0 journey.update() } .onScrollPhaseChange { oldPhase, newPhase in if newPhase == .idle { journey.commit() } } } } struct Listing: View { var index: Int var body: some View { List { Section { Text("Title") .font(.largeTitle) .padding() } Section { Text("\(index)") .font(.largeTitle) .padding() } Section { Text("1 ") Text("2 ") Text("3 ") Text("4 ") Text("5 ") Text("6 ") } } .containerRelativeFrame(.horizontal) } } @Observable class JourneyPrototype { var selection: Int var collection: [Int] var nextUp: [Int]? init(selection: Int) { self.selection = selection self.collection = [selection] Task { self.collection = [-2,-1,0,1,2] } } func update() { self.nextUp = [ self.selection - 2, self.selection - 1, selection, self.selection + 1, self.selection + 2 ] } func commit() { self.collection = self.nextUp ?? self.collection self.nextUp = nil } } #Preview { ContentView() } There are some major Problem with this abstracted prototype ScrollView has no good trigger for the update, because if i update on change of the position, it will update much more than once. Thats why i had to split calculation and applying the diff The LazyHStack is not optimal, because there are only 5 View in the example, but using HStack breaks the scrollPosition Each scroll updates all List, despite changing only 2 numbers in the array. AI recommended to append and remove, which does nothing about the updates. In my actual Code i do this with Identifiable data and the Problem is the same. So the data itself is not the problem? Please consider, this is just the rough prototype to explain the problem, i am aware that an array of Ints is not ideal here, but the problem is the same in Instruments and much shorter to post. Why am i posting this? Scrolling through dynamic data is required for many apps, but there is no proper solution to this online. Github and Blogs are fine with showing a progress indicator and letting the user wait, some probably perform worse than this prototype. Other solutions require UIKit like using a UIPageViewController. But even using this i run in small hitches related to layout. Important consideration, my data for the scrollview is too big to be calculated upfront. 100 years of days that are calculated for my domain logic take too long, so i have no network request, but the need to only act on a smaller window of data. Instruments shows long update for one scroll action tested on a iPhone SE 2nd generation ListRepresentable has 7 updates and takes 17ms LazySubViewPlacements has 2 updates and takes 8ms Other long updates are too verbose to include I would be very grateful for any help.

So i and many other big youtubers out there use iphones for intense gaming such as callcof duty and fortnite. However apple never listens especially to those of us that have been your guys's clients since the early 2000's. Users have different guinsetups for their games and a lot of the time when in an intense conpetition and the the low battery animation pops up it blocks our screens and that 3 to 4 seconds it takes to disappear makes us lose a game. Apple needs to implement a feature that allows us to toggle the notification even if our phone dies or a more efficient route would be allow us to toggle or set it by default to show that your battery is low on the top of the screen where the black line expands when you start charging your phone so it doesn't affect my gameplay whatsoever. This is a crucial thing apple needs to do, many people won't report it because apple never listens. Another great feature would be if apple could make a charging port on the side for claw players.

Hello everyone, I’m currently enrolling as an Organization from Albania and I’ve been stuck on the "Enrolling" status for 8 business days now. I have my D-U-N-S number sorted and everything was submitted. I sent an email last week to the support but I haven't heard back yet. I’ve already sent another support message 2 days ago but no reply so far. I’m curious to hear from others who have enrolled recently (especially in 2026): How long did your organization verification take? Did you receive a verification phone call, or was it just approved via email? For those in the Balkans/Europe, did you have to provide extra local business registry documents (like the QKB extract) manually? I’m trying to time my launch with my Google Play release, so I’m a bit anxious about the "black hole" of waiting. Any experiences or "nudge" tips would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi, so this is my first app, it's actually almost finished, however coming closer to the app store publishing i have a few questions. First of all, i tried making an app so it's easier for people to download it instead of a website and the app has notifications so PWA are also sometimes hit or miss and my collegues are a tad older so explaining to them how to safe to homescreen for like 50 people is not the best way. So my app is actually only made for collegues of mine, when the app opens it's a registration page which most of the time will be locked.(i assume that's allowed?) There's $ prices involved (max $100) at the end if they win but there's nowhere that they need to pay or anything inside the app, it's leftovers from work related activities that gets distributed amongst the winnners. Nothing goes towards me, i earn nothing. Also it's a football pool(for the world cup) they need to predict the score, get it right and get some points, highest points winners received the prizes. To the people who have made countless apps, is Apple going to allow this app you think? Thanks in advance.

The tutorial only says a notification will be sent, but what happens next..? what should we do about the child account..? are we blocking them..? what happens on the child account? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/testing-age-assurance-in-sandbox

I'm working on adding Spatial Audio support to a game on the Mac. I'm looking at the SpatialAudioRenderer sample but having some issues. It's unclear to me when a device is compatible with Spatial Audio and when I should attempt to render Spatial Audio. There is no property that I can find on the Mac that advertises Spatial Audio compatibility on a device. The sample crashes when the output device is a USB device. This includes the Apple Studio Display. The Apple Studio Display is supposed to be capable of rendering Spatial Audio. The device doesn't work with the sample - do I still need to render down the 7.1.4 source on this device? The sample always renders down to Stereo, but the Apple Studio Display is not a Stereo device. I'm a bit confused by the sample and when/how I should configure the mixing unit.

Hi. I'm a 3D designer, using Blender for most of my work. The most recent Blender conference discussed utilizing the Open Shading Language (OSL) in their latest versions, which allows designers to write custom shaders for their workflows. At the moment, only Nvidia Optix GPU's can utilize this language for rendering (from what I understand), but Blender developers stated they are waiting on other GPU manufacturers to implement this feature as well. I'm not sure if there are any licensing issues here, but would this be something Apple could implement in Metal to make their hardware more attractive to the 3D design community? Any help or knowledge on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Overview I have the following view hierarchy that mixes SwiftUI and UIKit: AccordionView └─ VStack ├─ Text ├─ Button └─ UIViewRepresentable └─ UIStackView ├─ UILabel └─ UILabel When tapping the button, the UIViewRepresentable hides and shows its content. This all works as expected. However, in certain circumstances the view's sizing is rendered with the correct size, but the text can often render incorrectly, despite the frame seemingly looking as though it has enough room to render the text. More info Below you can see the UILabel has the correct frame height (the light grey background and coloured borders) but the text is rendered as though it has infinite width along one line. There's a few configurations of my view hierarchy that seem to have this effect. I've added a playground to the bottom of this post of various configurations to show what does and doesn't work, just copy and paste to see for yourself... It seems of the ones that don't work, there's a couple of reasons why that may be: HostedView and TextViewContainer do not do the following (I think we only need to do one of these things for auto layout/stack views to work effectively): a) implement an intrinsic content size b) return a 'good' size for systemLayoutSizeFitting(). UIHostingController shouldn't use intrinsic size (although I'm sure it should) Something related to setting setContentCompressionResistancePriority() or setContentHuggingPriority() but having played about with this it doesn't seem relevant here... I've played around with everything I can think of here but can't find a solution that works for all, although I'm 99% sure it's one or all of the points above. If there are any UIKit gurus out there that can help that would be great! Ive already spent so much time on this 🫨 Playground Swift Playground

I'm building an automated wallpaper updater that fetches images from an API and sets them as desktop wallpaper on macOS Tahoe. The automation uses AppleScript combined with database manipulation to ensure wallpaper applies to all spaces. Current implementation (via Apple Shortcuts): wallpaper_path="$1" osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to tell every desktop to set picture to POSIX file \"$wallpaper_path\"" sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db "UPDATE data SET space=NULL WHERE space IS NOT NULL;" 2>/dev/null killall -HUP Dock Issue First run: Works perfectly - sets wallpaper on all spaces/desktops, "Show on all spaces" is ON After first run: "Show on all spaces" automatically toggles OFF in System Settings Second run onwards: New wallpaper only updates on the active space, inactive spaces show old wallpaper Expected: "Show on all spaces" should remain ON after programmatic wallpaper changes Actual: System Settings automatically disables it, breaking subsequent updates Tested workarounds (all failed): UPDATE data SET space=NULL to clear per-space entries Using every desktop instead of current desktop in AppleScript killall Dock vs killall -HUP Dock vs killall -USR1 Dock Clearing space_id entries from pictures table Running DELETE FROM pictures WHERE space_id IS NOT NULL before setting The database manipulation doesn't prevent macOS from automatically creating per-space entries and disabling the "Show on all spaces" toggle. Question: Is there a way to programmatically set wallpaper while preserving the "Show on all spaces" setting on macOS Tahoe? Environment: macOS: Tahoe (latest) Architecture: Apple Silicon Use case: Daily automated wallpaper updates via Shortcuts

I have a tester who switched phones a few months back. Crucially he no longer has access to the old phone. On his new phone when I send him a test flight invite to his apple account, 123@example, he receives it but it fails to work when he clicks the link. He is getting the following message. The Apple account (123@example) you're currently signed in with does not match the one (456@example) associated with this invitation. He has no idea what email 456 is. Since his old phone was a hand me down, I'm assuming it's someone else's email entirely. I'm trying to figure out how we clear this association out. I tried deleting his app store connect for my app and reinviting him all the way from the beginning. This did not work. As a stopgap I'm giving him a public link under an external testing group but I'd really like to not have to do that. Anyone have any ideas how we can fix this so I can shift him back to the Internal testing group?