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Hi! I have over 800 days strike in closing my move circle. However oerfect month badge is not popping up for November, we have now mid of Dec and still no update. I updated iOS to 26, did multiple resets and hard resets and still no badge. I checked many forums and post but any of given tips is working in my case. i know it sounds funny, but it’s frustrating that I’m not getting this little gold medal to keep me motivated 😅 does anyone know how to deal with it? Is it common issue?

I need to design an iOS app but have no experience (I only know embedded C). The app should be fairly simple, it just needs to create a binary file based on options (enable/disable) and then send that binary file using BLE. I already have a Python script which runs on Windows/Mac that generates the binary file and sends the binary file over BLE. But now I need to get this working on an iOS app. I can connect to the bluetooth receiver (BT401) using the Lightblue app to send and receive commands via UART pass through. A similar app already exists (VOG-Altimeter) where altitudes are enabled/disabled.... I need to do the same sort of thing and once the settings have been made, generate the binary file and send it via BLE. So the steps are: Create a bluetooth connection (to the BT401) like the LIghtblue app does Create a binary file based on the settings like I currently do with the Python script Send the binary file via BLE connection (to the BT401) like I currently do with the Python script. I already have this working with the Python script, but don't know how to develop an app to do the same. Can anyone help or give me pointers on how to proceed ? I tried ChatGPT but it couldn't even get the BLE connection to work.

When updating an existing advanced app clip experience, the change doesn't actually apply. It shows the correct image in the UI, but when you use the app clip it shows the old image. Looking into it more, the status has "UPDATE_SUBMITTED". Seems related to this issue (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/810544) and this issue (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/810351).

We recently released an update to our app to prepare for TX SB2420. Almost immediately on release, we started getting crash reports of crashes when calling isEligibleForAgeFeatures. Crashed: com.apple.root.user-initiated-qos.cooperative EXC_BAD_ACCESS KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS 0x0000000000000004 Is it possible that these are beta users that have IOS 26.2 RC or is there a bug in the release version of IOS 26.2? Note: The crash reports are coming from Crashlytics so we are not getting OS build identifiers other than version "26.2"

Hello, I am developing a macOS menu bar window-management utility (similar in functionality to Magnet / Rectangle) that relies on the Accessibility (AXUIElement) API to move and resize windows and on global hotkeys. I am facing a consistent issue when App Sandbox is enabled. Summary: App Sandbox enabled Hardened Runtime enabled Apple Events entitlement enabled NSAccessibilityDescription present in Info.plist AXIsProcessTrustedWithOptions is called with prompt enabled Observed behavior: When App Sandbox is enabled, the Accessibility permission prompt never appears. The app cannot be manually added in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. AXIsProcessTrusted always returns false. As a result, window snapping does not work. When App Sandbox is disabled: The Accessibility prompt appears correctly. The app functions as expected. This behavior occurs both: In local builds In TestFlight builds My questions: Is this expected behavior for sandboxed macOS apps that rely on Accessibility APIs? Are window-management utilities expected to ship without App Sandbox enabled? Is there any supported entitlement or configuration that allows a sandboxed app to request Accessibility permission? Thank you for any clarification.

During internal testing, we observed the following behavior and would appreciate clarification on whether it is expected and supported in production environments. When generating an elliptic-curve cryptographic key pair using "kSecAttrTokenIDSecureEnclave", and explicitly specifying a "kSecAttrAccessGroup", we found that cryptographic operations (specifically encryption and decryption) could be successfully performed using this key pair from two distinct applications. Both applications had the Keychain Sharing capability enabled and were signed with the same provisioning profile identity. Given the documented security properties of Secure Enclave, backed keys, namely that private key material is protected by hardware and access is strictly constrained by design, we would like to confirm whether the ability for multiple applications (sharing the same keychain access group and signing identity) to perform cryptographic operations with the same Secure Enclave–backed key is expected behavior on iOS. Specifically, we are seeking confirmation on: Whether this behavior is intentional and supported in production. Whether the Secure Enclave enforces access control primarily at the application-identifier (App ID) level rather than the individual app bundle level in this scenario. Whether there are any documented limitations or guarantees regarding cross-application usage of Secure Enclave keys when keychain sharing is configured. Any guidance or references to official documentation clarifying this behavior would be greatly appreciated.

Following an unexpected error message while working in Xcode, the project file xcodeproj is no longer synced in iCloud Drive. The Finder shows a cloud icon with a ! and an error message : (NSFileProviderErrorDomain error -2005.) If the local file is zipped, and unzipped elsewhere on iCloud Drive, then the unzipped file can still not be iCloud Synced. Restoring the file from a Time Machine archive does not solve the issue. Apple Care Support finds that iCloud Drive is working fine except for this xcodeproj file and says the issue is Xcode related.

Hi all, I’m looking for a sanity check on review timelines. My iOS app is already submitted & has been sitting in “Ready for Review” for the past 2 weeks with no status changes. To avoid confusion, this is not a “how to submit” question. App status: Ready for Review (unchanged for 2 weeks).., for anyone who has shipped recently, what’s the longest you’ve seen an app remain in Ready for Review before it’s reasonable to assume it might be stuck and at what point would you reach out for an update, and what channel worked best (Developer Support / App Review contact / other)? Any real-world ranges (days/weeks) are really appreciated. Thanks so much.

I have a total of 100 asset packs associated with my app but I have archived 5 of them. Unfortunately I am now unable to upload any more asset packs (the reported error is "backgroundAsset limit reached -- This app has already reached the maximum number of active backgroundAssets. Maximum allowed is 100.") I assumed that archiving asset packs would make them inactive (and thus not count against the limit). This seems to not be the case and I'm not sure how I can upload new asset packs.

After updated to Tahoe 26.2 and Xcode 26.2 it seems to have forgotten the Model Provider I had configured. I create a new Model Provider and it works fine, until I exit Xcode. When I open Xcode again my Model Provider is gone. It all worked fine before I did the updates of MacOS and Xcode.

I am encountering a cloud signing permission error when archiving and uploading an iOS app using Xcode with Automatically manage signing enabled. Xcode reports that it cannot access or create cloud-managed distribution certificates, and therefore cannot find any App Store provisioning profiles for either the main app target or an associated Notification Service Extension. The error message returned by Apple’s certificate API indicates that access to cloud-managed distribution certificates is forbidden. Error messages Cloud signing permission error You haven't been given access to cloud-managed distribution certificates. Please contact your team's Account Holder or an Admin to give you access. No profiles were found Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Store provisioning profiles matching the app or extension targets. Environment Xcode: 16.x Signing method: Automatic signing (App Store distribution) Apple Developer Program team with existing distribution certificates Apple ID role: Admin (recently upgraded from a lower role) What I have verified Automatic signing is enabled for all targets The correct team is selected Bundle identifiers are valid and already registered The app and extension exist in App Store Connect Distribution certificates already exist in the team (previously created manually) Observed behavior Xcode attempts to access cloud-managed distribution certificates Apple certificate service responds with a permission-denied error As a result, provisioning profiles cannot be generated automatically Question After being upgraded to an Admin role, is there a known delay or additional requirement before an account can access cloud-managed distribution certificates, especially for teams that previously used manually managed distribution certificates? Is there any recommended action (besides waiting or having the Account Holder perform an initial signing operation) to unblock automatic signing in this situation?

MacBook Air M2(2022) macOS Tahoe 26.2 Xcode Version 26.1.1 (17B100) 上記環境でXcodeのGPT-5を使用すると表題の不具合が発生します。 GPTの回答に短いサンプルコードが表示されている状況下でスクロールすると、 カーソルが待機状態になり操作が全くできなくなります。 双眼鏡のアイコンをオフにしてみても症状は解消されませんでした。

Hello, I was just installing an app from TestFlight that has an Essential Asset Pack that's a few GBs in size. It appears the Call To Action inside of TestFlight doesn't take into consideration the Background Asset download status before it changes from Installing to Open. I can't test if this is also the case for apps on the App Store, but I'd expect that it is.

Since recently, when I try to close a thread I created on an answer of mine, I get the following error: Trying later, next day, does not solve it. In the list of all threads, the post is not marked as answered. But if I look via Chrome or plain Safari, I see the answer itself is marked as correct: Which is not the case when opening in Safari Technology Preview (Release 233) where the same answer is still to be accepted:

We have a simple function that retrieves users list via CSIdentityQueryCreate() and CSIdentityQueryExecute(). However, sometimes we get crashes in "com.apple.opendirectory.odxpc.xpc" queue and address sanitizer reports that something inside opendirectory related framework tries to access data that was released: ==327==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address 0x000166890010 at pc 0x000109b51f98 bp 0x00016b6f58d0 sp 0x00016b6f5070 READ of size 5 at 0x000166890010 thread T242 #0 0x000109b51f94 in memcpy+0x294 (libclang_rt.asan_osx_dynamic.dylib:arm64e+0x85f94) #1 0x000191c08e64 in __CFStringCreateImmutableFunnel3+0x4f8 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x2e64) #2 0x000191d2494c in ____CFBinaryPlistCreateObjectFiltered_block_invoke+0xa4 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x11e94c) #3 0x000191c39fc8 in __CFBinaryPlistCreateObjectFiltered+0x698 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x33fc8) #4 0x000191c3aff0 in __CFBinaryPlistCreateObjectFiltered+0x16c0 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x34ff0) #5 0x000191c20b98 in __CFTryParseBinaryPlist+0xe8 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x1ab98) #6 0x000191d11e14 in _CFPropertyListCreateWithData+0x98 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x10be14) #7 0x000191c20a2c in CFPropertyListCreateWithData+0x38 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x1aa2c) #8 0x00019b3a49d0 in ___odxpc_create_connection_block_invoke+0x104 (CFOpenDirectory:arm64e+0x29d0) #9 0x00019189e82c in _xpc_connection_call_event_handler+0x6c (libxpc.dylib:arm64e+0xe82c) #10 0x00019189d128 in _xpc_connection_mach_event+0x4a8 (libxpc.dylib:arm64e+0xd128) #11 0x0001919f98a0 in _dispatch_client_callout4+0xc (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0x1b8a0) #12 0x0001919fc10c in _dispatch_mach_msg_invoke+0x1cc (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0x1e10c) #13 0x0001919e81b4 in _dispatch_lane_serial_drain+0x148 (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0xa1b4) #14 0x0001919fce70 in _dispatch_mach_invoke+0x1d4 (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0x1ee70) #15 0x0001919e81b4 in _dispatch_lane_serial_drain+0x148 (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0xa1b4) #16 0x0001919e8e28 in _dispatch_lane_invoke+0x180 (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0xae28) #17 0x0001919f3260 in _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh+0x120 (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0x15260) #18 0x0001919f2ae4 in _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread+0x218 (libdispatch.dylib:arm64e+0x14ae4) #19 0x000191b93e1c in _pthread_wqthread+0x120 (libsystem_pthread.dylib:arm64e+0x2e1c) #20 0x000191b92b70 in start_wqthread+0x4 (libsystem_pthread.dylib:arm64e+0x1b70) 0x000166890010 is located 10946 bytes after 789838-byte region [0x0001667cc800,0x00016688d54e) freed by thread T240 here: #0 0x000109b09480 in free+0x7c (libclang_rt.asan_osx_dynamic.dylib:arm64e+0x3d480) #1 0x000191c25ca8 in __CFDataDeallocate+0x5c (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x1fca8) #2 0x000191d56940 in _CFRelease+0x124 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x150940) #3 0x00019f8e4540 in DSIdentity::~DSIdentity()+0x80 (OSServices:arm64e+0xe540) #4 0x00019f8e45ec in DSUserIdentity::~DSUserIdentity()+0xc (OSServices:arm64e+0xe5ec) #5 0x000191d56940 in _CFRelease+0x124 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x150940) #6 0x000191c21b28 in __CFBasicHashDrain+0x1a8 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x1bb28) #7 0x000191d56940 in _CFRelease+0x124 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x150940) #8 0x00019f8ec1bc in DSIdentityQuery::~DSIdentityQuery()+0x88 (OSServices:arm64e+0x161bc) #9 0x00019f8ec220 in DSIdentityQuery::~DSIdentityQuery()+0xc (OSServices:arm64e+0x16220) #10 0x000191d56940 in _CFRelease+0x124 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x150940) #11 0x000107eda344 in eka::posix::memory::CFReleaseDeleter<__CSIdentityQuery*>::operator()(__CSIdentityQuery*) const+0x3c (libxxx.dylib:arm64+0x9a344) #12 0x000107eda1c8 (libxxx.dylib:arm64+0x9a1c8) #13 0x000107eda010 (libxxx.dylib:arm64+0x9a010) #14 0x000107e43424 (libx.dylib:axxrm64+0x3424) #15 0x000107e41cc4 in my::helper::EnumerateUsers(std::__1::function<void (my::helper::UserInfo&&, bool&)> const&, unsigned int)+0xf7c (libxxx.dylib:arm64+0x1cc4) ... previously allocated by thread T240 here: #0 0x000109b0938c in malloc+0x78 (libclang_rt.asan_osx_dynamic.dylib:arm64e+0x3d38c) #1 0x0001919b39d4 in _malloc_type_malloc_outlined+0x60 (libsystem_malloc.dylib:arm64e+0x1d9d4) #2 0x000191d11c34 in __CFDataInit+0x214 (CoreFoundation:arm64e+0x10bc34) #3 0x00019f8e3228 in DSIdentityRecord::addJPEGData(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int)+0x28 (OSServices:arm64e+0xd228) #4 0x00019f8e627c in DSIdentity::CreateIdentityFromDSAttributeList(__CFAllocator const*, unsigned int, tDataBuffer*, unsigned int, long, bool, DSIdentityAuthority&, tDirStatus*)+0x1c8 (OSServices:arm64e+0x1027c) #5 0x00019f8ecb64 in DSIdentityQuery::consumeRecordData(unsigned int, tDataBuffer*, long)+0xb4 (OSServices:arm64e+0x16b64) #6 0x00019f900e2c in findRecordsWithNames+0xd0 (OSServices:arm64e+0x2ae2c) #7 0x00019f8ec49c in DSIdentityQuery::performQuery(__CFError**)+0x1c4 (OSServices:arm64e+0x1649c) #8 0x00019f8ec5c4 in DSIdentityQuery::execute(unsigned long, __CFError**)+0x40 (OSServices:arm64e+0x165c4) #9 0x00019f8e06f4 in CSIdentityQueryExecute+0x2c (OSServices:arm64e+0xa6f4) #10 0x000107e4144c in my::helper::EnumerateUsers(std::__1::function<void (my::helper::UserInfo&&, bool&)> const&, unsigned int)+0x704 (libxxx.dylib:arm64+0x144c) EnumerateUsers is our function which basically does this (simplified, error checking skipped): unique_cfref<CSIdentityQueryRef> query(CSIdentityQueryCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, kCSIdentityClassUser, CSGetLocalIdentityAuthority())); CSIdentityQueryExecute(query.get(), 0, &error); unique_cfref<CFArrayRef> userIdentities(CSIdentityQueryCopyResults(query.get())); auto userIdentitiesCount = CFArrayGetCount(userIdentities.get()); for (CFIndex i = 0; i < userIdentitiesCount; ++i) { // do something including calling getpwuid() } unique_cfref is just a std::unique_ptr wrapper that calls CFRelease when we goes out of scope. Looks like something in OpenDirectory tries to access released data (weak references and delayed processing?). The problem seems to occur on macOS 15. Is there any bug/regression, should we file a feedback? Or maybe we do something wrong?

Hi everyone 👋 I'd like to use coremltools to see how well a model performs on a remote device as part of a CI/CD pipeline. According to the Core ML Tools "Debugging and Performance Utilities" guide, remote devices must be in a "connected" state in order for coremltools to install the ModelRunner application. The devices in our system have a "paired" state, and I'm unable to set the them as "connected." The only way I know how to connect a device is to physically plug it in to a computer and open Xcode. I don't have physical access to the devices in the CI/CD system, and the host computer that interacts with them doesn't have Xcode installed. Here are some questions I've been looking into and would love some help answering: Has anyone managed to use the coremltools performance utilities in a similar system? Can you put a device in a "connected" state if you don't have physical access to the device and if you only have access to Xcode command line tools and not the Xcode app? Is it at all possible to install the coremltools ModelRunner application on a "paired" device, for example, by manually building the app and installing it with devicectl? Would other utilities, such as the MLModelBenchmarker work as expected if the app is installed this way? Thank you!

I want to make a app that indicates that the app is recording in the background using a indicator on the dynamic island or on the top of the phone screen but i can't figure it out on Xcode. Saw a guy do it by making live activities true but can't seem to find that option in background mode in capabilities. any ideas?

I'm using Xcode cloud to create testflight builds, and I noticed that a few weeks ago these builds no longer contain any "What to Test" info. We include a TestFlight/WhatToTest.de-DE.txt file in our repo, and that file seems to be picked up correctly, at least the logs say Saving “What to test” notes Found notes for de-DE Any ideas of what I should be looking into or change?

This is a screenshot from the Swift Task track in Xcode. I made these tasks with public actor ResourceManager { func foo() { for observer in observers { Task(name: "ResourceManager notify observers") { await notification(observer) } } } } I am confused why each of the task is showing as a separate task in the task lifetime summary. Is there a way to queue the trace in Instruments into the fact that these are indeed the same task?

Hello, According to documentation, the App Store does not re-download the entire app when updating, but instead generates an update package containing only the changed content compared to the previous version. I’d like to clarify the following points: 1. Granularity of file changes If only part of a large file changes, does the update package include the entire file, or does it patch only the modified portions within that file? 2. Guideline on separating files The documentation recommends separating files that are likely to change from those that are not. How should this be interpreted in practice? 3. Verifying the diff result Is there a way for developers to check the actual diff result of the update package generated by the App Store without submitting the app? Is there a diff command tool or comparison method closer to the actual App Store update process? 4. Estimating update size during development For apps with large-scale resources, minimizing update size is critical. Are there any tools or best practices to estimate the size of the update package before submitting to the App Store? Any clarification or reference materials would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.