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Hi everyone, I submitted an appeal to the App Review Board over 14 days ago, but I still haven’t received any update or acknowledgment. I’m now at a standstill, as this delay is blocking my app release and preventing me from moving forward. Is there a typical timeframe for ARB responses? And is there any recommended way to follow up or get the appeal looked at? Any insight from others who’ve been through the process would be appreciated. Thanks.

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I’m opening this discussion because we’ve encountered a repeated Guideline 4.3 rejection for an update, despite having previously addressed the same concern with the App Review team and reaching a resolution. Several weeks ago, we went through a detailed review process regarding Guideline 4.3. We provided full technical explanations, clarified our development structure, redesigned parts of the UI, and made all adjustments requested by the App Review team. That update was ultimately approved, and the app has been live on the App Store since then without any issues. However, our new submission—which includes only a critical bug fix—is now being rejected again for the same 4.3 reason. No changes have been made to the concept, design, or core functionality since the previously approved version. The update is not introducing new features or new UI; it simply resolves a performance bug affecting downloads and uploads, which users are already experiencing in the live version. We operate a single developer account, and our apps are entirely built in-house. Although we use open-source VPN cores (such as Xray-core and Clash), these frameworks are publicly available on GitHub and are commonly used by many developers. Our implementations, configurations, and UI are fully custom and not shared with any other apps. This was already reviewed and confirmed in our previous submission. We have already sent clear and detailed technical explanations through the Resolution Center—similar to what was accepted in our earlier approval—but unfortunately, it hasn’t resolved the issue this time. This situation is becoming difficult for us because: The current live version has a performance bug that users are already affected by. We are in the middle of ongoing campaigns, meaning delays can lead to financial impact. Negative user feedback due to this unresolved bug could permanently damage the app’s reputation. Since this exact concern was previously reviewed, discussed, and resolved with App Review, we are unsure why the same guideline is suddenly being applied to a simple bug-fix update. So I wanted to ask the community: Has anyone faced a similar situation where a previously resolved 4.3 issue resurfaced on later updates? Are there any specific details or approaches that helped clarify the situation for the review team? Is there anything additional we should highlight to prevent misunderstanding on automated or manual review? Any insights or shared experiences from other developers would be extremely valuable. Thank you in advance for your time and support.

Hello, everyone! I encountered problems during the application review process. My app has been in the "Waiting for Review" state for over one week, while usually the review process is completed within 12 hours. And currently, there is no update of any information, and it is unknown what kind of problem has hindered it. Has anyone else experienced such a delay recently? Any suggestions on how to speed up the process or upgrade issues with Apple would be greatly appreciated.

After uploading the build to Test Flight, we are successfully able to download the ODR tags. Submitting that same build for an App Review, they are having issues. After further investigation, they are not able to resolve the hostname when trying to download the tag. This failure on the app is causing our app to be rejected. It would be great to get some guidance on how best to resolve this situation for the App Review team. Thanks!

If the extension uses manifest v3 and a background script in the form of a service worker, then in Safari it is not possible to open the background script debugging window. If I expand the Developer menu in Safari, there is nothing under Web Extension Background Data (or disappear after click), which is an error. In other browsers (Edge, Chrome, Opera, Firefox) this works correctly. If I switch the background script back to non-persistent script mode, everything works fine and from the Developer menu and the Web Extension Background Data submenu I am able to open the background script debugging window for the extension. Am I doing something wrong?

Hello I have developed a standalone app for watchOS - trying my best to use best practices and floowing the (limited)documentation. But here I am, unable to distribute - or even Validate - my apps archive in Xcode. As far as I can tell, bundle_id's are correct. It has an iOS wrapper (set up by New Project), Skip install has been tried in every combination. I'm at a loss. I'm sure there is some simple setting or workflow that I am missing, but I've been at it for days. Yes. Days. Has anyone recently created and successfully distributed a standalone watch app that could help me troubleshoot? I would be extremely appreciative. My kids would too. They miss their dad (just one 5 more minutes, I think I got it!)(I didn't get it) Thank you bob

I have been able to train an adapter on Google's Colaboratory. I am able to start a LanguageModelSession and load it with my adapter. The problem is that after one simple prompt, the context window is 90% full. If I start the session without the adapter, the same simple prompt consumes only 1% of the context window. Has anyone encountered this? I asked Claude AI and it seems to think that my training script needs adjusting. Grok on the other hand is (wrongly, I tried) convinced that I just need to tweak some parameters of LanguageModelSession or SystemLanguageModel. Thanks for any tips.

We have a custom SecurityAgentPlugin that is triggered by multiple authorizationdb entries. Some customers report that the SecurityAgent process takes window focus even though no UI or windows are displayed. Our plugin explicitly ignores the _securityAgent user and does not show any UI for that user. However, in macOS 26.1, it appears that the plugin still causes the SecurityAgent to take focus as soon as it is triggered. Is this a change in macOS 26.1 or a bug? Can we do anything to prevent "focus stealing"?

Trying to figure out how to send btc, eth, etc, phone to phone. Square app allows for the phone to turn into a payment terminal for fiat currencies and payment systems. the data encryption logic and sending p2p is similar but can that functionality be enabled for alternative purposes i.e. sending crypto phone to phone (designated wallet on one phone to designated wallet on another)?

Hi, I'm trying to implement web-browser SignIn with Apple with my new app. I'm trying to "Associate your website to your app" like described in this doc: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/capabilities/configure-sign-in-with-apple-for-the-web So I created a Service ID for this specific login. I want this login page to display my app icon and name when presented to users. My issue: When I associate my new app the the service, the link is somehow not working. The login page show the "service" login (with a generic apple logo and the Service ID's name) instead of the actual App name. I'v been able to link my new service to older apps succesfully !!! (the login page correctly shows the old apps icons and names) Why is my new app not associated with the service ? I am missing something here ? is there an additionnal step that I need to take in order to link the service to my newest app ? Thanks !

Trying to post a question about packages on this forum, I keep cueing the message: 'This post contains sensitive language. Please revise it in order to continue.' There is nothing in my query that is remotely ‘sensitive’. I don’t know what to do next. Thanks in advance for any advice. Regards, Lar

Hi, I'm experiencing intermittent delays with URLSession where requests take 3-4 seconds to be sent, even though the actual server processing is fast. This happens randomly, maybe 10-20% of requests. The pattern I've noticed is I create my request I send off my request using try await urlSession.data(for: request) My middleware ends up receiving this request 4-7s after its been fired from the client-side The round trip ends up taking 4-7s! This hasn't been reproducible consistently at all on my end. I've also tried ephemeral URLSessions (so recreating the session instead of using .shared so no dead connections, but this doesn't seem to help at all) Completely lost on what to do. Please help!

I'm unable to sign the an example application using xcode and "automatically manage signing". The error I'm getting is: CodeSign [...] (in target 'foobar' from project 'foobar') Signing Identity: "Apple Development: [xxxx] " /usr/bin/codesign --force --sign 4ABB258102FF656E9F597546A49274C28D2B8B3E -o runtime --timestamp\=none --generate-entitlement-der [filename] 4ABB258102FF656E9F597546A49274C28D2B8B3E: no identity found Command CodeSign failed with a nonzero exit code However, I am able to see a certificate and a private identity on my keychain: % security find-certificate -aZ | grep -i 4ABB258102FF656E9F597546A49274C28D2B8B3E SHA-1 hash: 4ABB258102FF656E9F597546A49274C28D2B8B3E and % security find-key -s | grep -q 'Apple Development' && echo YES YES what is puzzling is that security does not find an identity: % security find-identity -p codesigning Policy: Code Signing Matching identities 0 identities found Valid identities only 0 valid identities found but XCode claims that everything is working fine. Anybody knows what might I be missing? I tried logging out, requesting new certificates, rebooting, moving them to another keychain, and asking to developer friends.

I have an Xcode app where currently txt files in the project display text data as a list. I can search through the lists and have buttons that will swap between different lists of information that you can look through. The next task is I have URL connections to docx files on a SharePoint site. I am trying to use an URLsession function to connect to the URL links to download the documents to the document directory then have the application read the doc information to then be displayed as the txt info would. The idea is that the docx files are a type of online update version of the data. So when the app is used and on wifi, the app can update the list data with the docx files. I have code set up that should access the URL files but I am struggling to figure out how to read the data and access from this Documents directory. I have been looking online and so far I am at a loss on where to go here. If anyone can help or provide some insight I would greatly appreciate it. I can try and provide code samples to help explain things if that is needed.

In macOS Tahoe, users can tint folders or add symbols. But when trying to access that customized icon in Swift, the system always returns the default folder icon. NSWorkspace.shared.icon(forFile: url.path) try url.resourceValues(forKeys: [.effectiveIconKey]).effectiveIcon try url.resourceValues(forKeys: [.customIconKey]).customIconKey All of these give back the standard folder icon without any of the user-applied customization. So the question is: Is there any API or workaround in Swift to retrieve the actual customized folder icon (including tint and symbol) as displayed in Finder on macOS Tahoe?

Unable to open mach-O at path: /AppleInternal/Library/BuildRoots/4~B5FIugA1pgyNPFl0-ZGG8fewoBL0-6a_xWhpzsk/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Binaries/RenderBox/install/TempContent/Root/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/RenderBox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/default.metallib Error:2 This happens only on macOS Sequoia - not on macOS Tahoe. I have got a noticeable amount of lag in the animations of my App where this Warning arises I've tried to isolate the respective animations from the main thread too - still getting the same issue with the lag Is it possible to resolve it, as I want backwards compatibility with my app for the users

I implemented BGContinuedProcessingTask in my app and it seems to be working well for everyone except one user (so far) who has reached out to report nothing happens when they tap the Start Processing button. They have an iPhone 12 Pro Max running iOS 26.1. Restarting iPhone does not fix it. When they turn off the background processing feature in the app, it works. In that case my code directly calls the function to start processing instead of waiting for it to be invoked in the register block (or submit catch block). Is this a bug that's possible to occur, maybe device specific? Or have I done something wrong in the implementation? func startProcessingTapped(_ sender: UIButton) { if isBackgroundProcessingEnabled { startBackgroundContinuedProcessing() } else { startProcessing(backgroundTask: nil) } } func startBackgroundContinuedProcessing() { BGTaskScheduler.shared.register(forTaskWithIdentifier: taskIdentifier, using: .main) { @Sendable [weak self] task in guard self != nil else { return } startProcessing(backgroundTask: task as? BGContinuedProcessingTask) } let request = BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest(identifier: taskIdentifier, title: title, subtitle: subtitle) request.strategy = .fail if BGTaskScheduler.supportedResources.contains(.gpu) { request.requiredResources = .gpu } do { try BGTaskScheduler.shared.submit(request) } catch { startProcessing(backgroundTask: nil) } } func startProcessing(backgroundTask: BGContinuedProcessingTask?) { // FIXME: Never called for this user when isBackgroundProcessingEnabled is true }

Hello, I am having a recurring issue using Swift Playgrounds version 4.6.4 on macOS 26.1. Upon opening a file and every other time I start typing in the code section I get a prompt, the image below, two or three times. It doesn't matter if I accept or decline all or some of the prompts, as soon as I start typing on another line I get prompted another two or three times for permission. It appears to me that prompt generates every time the preview pane tries to update. Declining the prompt breaks the preview but accepting the prompt only gets you through a single line of code before it appears again. I believe this issue started after I updated to macOS26.1 as I had not encountered it before. I've also opened other files with Swift Playgrounds and encounter the same problem. It could also be unrelated to the update and could be an issue with some permission setting somewhere, however, I have been unable to find what or where it could be. Is anyone else experiencing this? Thank you for your time :)

it seems that is going to the appstore to find the app to execute the share but my app is not in the appstore yet. I am using a sandboxed user and a non sandboxed user, I have tried real phones connected to xcode and simulator same effect, looking for how to test my ckshare in testflight thanks

I've tried SpeechTranscriber with a lot of my devices (from iPhone 12 series ~ iPhone 17 series) without issues. However, SpeechTranscriber.isAvailable value is false for my iPhone 11 Pro. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/speechtranscriber/isavailable I'am curious why the iPhone 11 Pro device is not supported. Are all iPhone 11 series not supported intentionally? Or is there any problem with my specific device? I've also checked the supportedLocales, and the value is an empty array. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech/speechtranscriber/supportedlocales