“offloading”

Hello everybody! In my app I allow the user to change TTS voices and English Alex voice is one of possible options. However, there are some cases when it's treated as available when it's actually not. It results in pronouncing the TTS utterance with another voice. To prepare the list of available voices I use next code: NSMutableArray *voices = [NSMutableArray new]; for (AVSpeechSynthesisVoice *voice in [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice speechVoices]) { tt[voices addObject:@{ tttt@id: voice.identifier, tttt@name: voice.name, tttt@language: voice.language, tttt@quality: (voice.quality == AVSpeechSynthesisVoiceQualityEnhanced) ? @500 : @300 tt}]; } To start the playback I use the next code (here it's simplified a bit): AVSpeechUtterance *utterance = [[AVSpeechUtterance alloc] initWithString:text]; utterance.voice = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithIdentifier:voice]; [AVSpeechSynthesizer speakUtterance:utterance]; Cases when AVSpeechSynthesisVoice returns Alex as available when it's not: The easiest way to reproduce it is

Hello, I am experiencing a critical blocking issue developing a watchOS app. While the iPhone 15 Pro Max is fully Connected via USB (confirmed green light in Network Settings), the Apple Watch Series 7 (watchOS 11.2) remains unreachable by Xcode. Mac: Mac Mini (macOS 15/16). Devices: iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18+), Apple Watch Series 7 (watchOS 11.2). Xcode: 16.4 / Build 26.4. Hardware: Direct USB-C connection (USB 2.0 480Mb/s protocol). Technical Evidence of Protocol Failure: Missing Staging Folders: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/watchOS DeviceSupport does not exist, implying the handshake fails before symbol stripping/sync begins. CoreDevice Error: Consistently receiving: Previous preparation error: A connection to this device could not be established.; Timed out while attempting to establish tunnel using negotiated network parameters. Missing Keychain Entries: No com.apple.coredevice keys found in Keychain Access, suggesting the Trusted Host handshake is incomplete. mDNS/Discovery: xcrun devicectl list devices sh

Some users at a certain company reported they are having problems when using my VPN app for Mac (Packet Tunnel Povider), with SMB:Initiating an SMB upload will fail and then their VPN client will disconnect, in some cases the computer needs to be reboot.I've collected logs for my client (nothing suspicious there), and I also got the logs from thier Console.Those are some relevant lines from the Console, but again I don't see anything suspicious:default 17:27:16.194234 -0400 secd Microsoft Outloo[303]/1#16 LF=0 copy_matching Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-34018 Client has neither com.apple.application-identifier, com.apple.security.application-groups nor keychain-access-groups entitlements UserInfo={NSDescription=Client has neither com.apple.application-identifier, com.apple.security.application-groups nor keychain-access-groups entitlements} default 17:27:16.252627 -0400 com.apple.WebKit.WebContent Current memory footprint: 14 MB default 17:27:18.079823 -0400 symptomsd rssi (-53) or transmitRate (58

We are developing an app which connects to a BLE peripheral in the background whenever it gets close to it. What we have used so far is that we monitor a circular region. When the phone enters the region the app will start scanning for peripherals and when it discovers the peripheral it connects to it. This worked pretty well for the last few iOS versions, perhaps iOS 14-16. It wasn't perfect but for the most part it would feel like it connected rather quickly when you would approach the BLE peripheral. If you listen to music via BLE or talk to someone using your BLE headset then it could sometimes work noticeably worse. But, as said, for the most part it would work satisfactory. Starting with iOS 17 and analyzing the functionality over the past 6 months or so we've noticed a clear worsening of it. It does generally connect to the peripheral but the user might often have to wait for quite some time. Rather frequently the user must even light up the screen of the phone before anything even happens. It appears

Auditing:Question: What will change/improve in proper way to offload audit information (log to SIEM systems) comparable to Apple > GitHub > swift-log idea, but build into OS auditing systems?Answer:File a Radar to request streaming of OpenBSM logs to syslog.File another Radar to request macOS Catalina be upgraded with the latest version of OpenBSM, which supports exporting to plain text natively.FileVault:Question: In the WWDC Catalina beta, enabling FileVault with fdesetup includes a dialog window for user approval (see below). Is there a way to suppress this window from appearing?Answer: Dialog window was added as ransomware protection. File a Radar to request an MDM option for suppressing dialog window.Endpoint Security:Question: Will the new EndpointSecurity framework be available for iOS/iPadOS?Answer: No.Kernel Extensions:Question: Any timeline on when they will be fully deprecated?Answer: Apple does not comment on future product releases.Question: Beyond disabling SIP, are there other wa

Hi All, We are developing a hybrid MVNO and want to use Wi-Fi Passpoint to enable offload from our users phones when they are in range of our Wi-Fi network. The user experience of installing a .mobileconfig file is too many steps and a bad user experience which causes low adoption among our users. Instead, we want to use the NEHotspotConfigurationManager to configure a HS2.0 network using EAP-TLS. We configure these elements using NEHotspotConfiguration NEHotspotHS20Settings NEHotspotEAPSettings Our code to execute above is shown below: func configureProfile(certificate: String, issuingCa: String, caChain: [String], resolve: @escaping RCTPromiseResolveBlock, reject: @escaping RCTPromiseRejectBlock) { #if !targetEnvironment(simulator) let keychainQuery = [kSecClass as String: kSecClassCertificate] as [String: Any] as CFDictionary let status = SecItemDelete(keychainQuery) print(Delete status (status)) let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: serverCA, withExtension: crt)! let caCert = try! String(content

Platform: macOS 12.4, MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i5, 16GB RAM I'm trying to read an OSLog concurrently because it is big and I don't need any of the data in order. Because the return from .getEntries is a sequence, the most efficient approach seems to be to iterate through. Iteration through the sequence from start to finish can take a long time so I thought I can split it up into days and concurrently process each day. I'm using a task group to do this and it works as long as the number of tasks is less than 8. When it works, I do get the result faster but not a lot faster. I guess there is a lot of overhead but actually it seems to be that my log file is dominated by the processing on 1 of the days. Ideally I want more concurrent tasks to break up the day into smaller blocks. But as soon as I try to create 8 or more tasks, I get a lockup with the following error posted to the console. enable_updates_common timed out waiting for updates to reenable Here are my tests. First - a pure iterative approach. No t

What I am Trying to DoI am trying to show filters on a camera feed by using a Metal view: MTKView. I am closely following the method of Apple's sample code - Enhancing Live Video by Leveraging TrueDepth Camera Data - linkWhat I Have So FarFollowing code works great (mainly interpreted from above-mentioned sample code) :class MetalObject: NSObject, MTKViewDelegate { private var metalBufferView : MTKView? private var metalDevice = MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice() private var metalCommandQueue : MTLCommandQueue! private var ciContext : CIContext! private let colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB() private var videoPixelBuffer : CVPixelBuffer? private let syncQueue = DispatchQueue(label: Preview View Sync Queue, qos: .userInitiated, attributes: [], autoreleaseFrequency: .workItem) private var textureWidth : Int = 0 private var textureHeight : Int = 0 private var textureMirroring = false private var sampler : MTLSamplerState! private var renderPipelineState : MTLRenderPipelineState! private var vertexCoordBuffer

I have had apps on the App Store since 23 April 2014 - over 12 years. While Apple quite rightly trumpets their simplicity of use for their products, their operating systems and their software they have, in my experience, always been majorly deficient in the area that they now call App Store Connect. I think a very large part of the problem is that the people who use the system are afraid to bite the hand that feeds so they just put up with it. Well, it’s time to take a stand. I don’t see any point in getting in to the specifics of my issue here because the original issue is no longer the issue. The issue now is “what do Apple do about it”. I spoke to a human at Apple a couple of weeks ago and he was going to move heaven and earth to solve my issue and he was a nice guy. I got an email from him that I could reply to and he was taking ownership of my case. Then I got this; Dear Francis, Thank you for contacting Developer Support. My name is Bjoern, and I am one of the senior Advisor here in Developer Support. I

To Whom It May Concern:I apparently have a self propagating virus that was introduced to my network by purchase of a used Mac computer from Amazon.com on approximately December 24, 2015. That is when I first started noticing erratic behavior on my machines. I have clean formatted and reinstalled OS from computers on an isolated network that was not infected. As soon as I connect the newly reinstalled OS iMacs to the infected network they become reinfected on first boot. I've spent something like 40 labor hours on this so far and I can't afford anymore resource allocation to this issue until there are some steps to cure the system.This activity on my computer appears to be a nasty virus. From what I can tell, it tries injecting itself in every executable it can locate. It trys to obtain the icloud login credentials, it attempts to obtain administrator credentials, and on one computer it appears to have secured and stolen my credentials to completely hijack the computer. Once it hijacks the computer it deletes

To Whom It May Concern:I apparently have a self propagating virus that was introduced to my network by purchase of a used Mac computer from Amazon.com on approximately December 24, 2015. That is when I first started noticing erratic behavior on my machines. I have clean formatted and reinstalled OS from computers on an isolated network that was not infected. As soon as I connect the newly reinstalled OS iMacs to the infected network they become reinfected on first boot. I've spent something like 40 labor hours on this so far and I can't afford anymore resource allocation to this issue until there are some steps to cure the system.This activity on my computer appears to be a nasty virus. From what I can tell, it tries injecting itself in every executable it can locate. It trys to obtain the icloud login credentials, it attempts to obtain administrator credentials, and on one computer it appears to have secured and stolen my credentials to completely hijack the computer. Once it hijacks the computer it deletes

To Whom It May Concern:I apparently have a self propagating virus that was introduced to my network by purchase of a used Mac computer from Amazon.com on approximately December 24, 2015. That is when I first started noticing erratic behavior on my machines. I have clean formatted and reinstalled OS from computers on an isolated network that was not infected. As soon as I connect the newly reinstalled OS iMacs to the infected network they become reinfected on first boot. I've spent something like 40 labor hours on this so far and I can't afford anymore resource allocation to this issue until there are some steps to cure the system.This activity on my computer appears to be a nasty virus. From what I can tell, it tries injecting itself in every executable it can locate. It trys to obtain the icloud login credentials, it attempts to obtain administrator credentials, and on one computer it appears to have secured and stolen my credentials to completely hijack the computer. Once it hijacks the computer it deletes

To Whom It May Concern:I apparently have a self propagating virus that was introduced to my network by purchase of a used Mac computer from Amazon.com on approximately December 24, 2015. That is when I first started noticing erratic behavior on my machines. I have clean formatted and reinstalled OS from computers on an isolated network that was not infected. As soon as I connect the newly reinstalled OS iMacs to the infected network they become reinfected on first boot. I've spent something like 40 labor hours on this so far and I can't afford anymore resource allocation to this issue until there are some steps to cure the system.This activity on my computer appears to be a nasty virus. From what I can tell, it tries injecting itself in every executable it can locate. It trys to obtain the icloud login credentials, it attempts to obtain administrator credentials, and on one computer it appears to have secured and stolen my credentials to completely hijack the computer. Once it hijacks the computer it deletes