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Similar here, but even worse! We are having more and more users who have the same issue after any kind of updates (os updates as well as app updates). The app shows the launch screen and then quits, no even calling didFinishLaunching. In same cases, the workaround is to send the app to icloud (offload) and then restart it, restoring all data from the cloud. Unfortunately, this worked fine in iOS 13 but does not always work in iOS 14.0. Currently, the only way to make the app work again is to delete and reinstall it, letting the user lose all of the data assign to the app. THIS IS A DESASTER for most of our users. We URGENTLY need a solution.

Is Core Telephony APIs (CTGetSignalStrength class) appropriate in this case That class isn’t part of the public iOS SDK. If you have questions about it, you’ll need to raise them with your carrier contact at Apple. Honestly, I think that’s a good way forward here in general. One expected use case for the hotspot helper subsystem is to help carriers offload traffic to Wi-Fi. There are carrier-specific aspects to this that I’m not really up-to-speed with (because they involve stuff that’s not in the iOS SDK). Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple let myEmail = eskimo + 1 + @ + apple.com

Let's be plain about it: UIKit (which basically cover all of the UI Thread territory) isn't thread safe and the things that draw the view hierarchy run on the main thread. The rare exceptions are outstanding enough that they get mentioned explicitly in the documentation as being thread safe or being designed to run in another thread/queue.On the other hand, it really depends on what you're doing and what sorts of latency you're allowing for how much you can offload to another thread. Because the straight forward way of offloading things that were originally done on the main thread to a background thread ends up looking a lot like this: You've got an action method that's responding to the user tapping a button. Gather up all of the relevant parameters and dispatch a block to the worker queue.Inside that worker block, do the computation and work. Gather up the relevant results and dispatch a block to the main queue. Inside this second block, use the passed in results to update the user interfa

Hi, Could you elaborate on When overloaded, stale metal render passes need to be 'aborted', which results in metal callbacks not being called.? This approach seems like dynamic load balancing to maximize throughput. It's unclear how well this could work with current Metal API and seems unlikely to be successful with OS watchdogs. Instead we recommend reducing and optimizing workload. Guidance on that can be found in Improving your game’s graphics performance and settings (even though your app may not be a game). You may also want to consider offloading some rendering work to compute to improve efficiency. See Compute Passes.

From what I have been reading, APFS changes how Fusion works. It's now just a cache repository for meta data, readback cache and writeback cache. It will assist in directory listing. App Nap, Prelinking and directory lookups would likely be the most impacted.I do not know if it will offload files to the SSD that are frequently used like in days past. I'm not saying this is fact but supposition based on what little information I've found so far. The nature of APFS means it is always optimizing content in order to reduce fragmentation so logically it makes sense that it would work off of the HDD and use the Fusion as a cache - such as that for app nap. Anyone else have insight on APFS and Fusion topology? Has it changed Fusion fundamentally?

These are the Developer Forums, where developers of apps for Apple's platforms ask each other for hints and tips on coding. Your question is more of a product support one, so I'd suggest you ask it over at the Apple Support Forums. Thanks. System data is the System, i.e. iOS plus necessary files such as logs and cache files. That number will stay pretty static. There's not really a lot you can do to reduce that. Try and offload some of your data to iCloud. Enable iCloud Photos and turn on Optimise iPhone Storage in Settings > Apps > Photos. Regardless, you have a 64GB iPhone, which isn't that big these days. It might've been fine five years ago, but not really now.

Thanks for the post. Very interesting question about that API! What do you mean for staleness check? Once a Network Extension is installed, authorized by the user, and saved to the system preferences via its respective manager, the configuration is owned by the OS. The OS will continue to invoke the extension binaries as needed, regardless of whether the main app has been force-quit or hasn't been launched in months. I’m interested on the behavior you are seeing is almost certainly caused by a secondary factors. Has the user has offload unused apps? I believe when an app is offloaded, its extension binaries are deleted along with the main app. The VPN profile or Hotspot configuration will still appear in iOS Settings, but the OS will silently fail to invoke the NEHotspotHelper or fail to connect the NEPacketTunnelProvider because the executable no longer exists. You have mentioned 90 days? If this app is being distributed to internal testers or beta users via TestFlight, the app and its exte

We have a UNUserNotification that is scheduled for a certain date. The content of this notification might be subject to change as we get closer to its delivery. My preferred way to do this is to offload the logic for ‘rendering’ the notification to a push provider. At that point your app doesn’t need to resume in the background and update the notification; rather, the push provider just sends the right push notification at the right time.If you can’t do that, refreshing the notification on the client is going to be problematic. BGAppRefreshTask is the right option for this but most developers who try to use this tech (which is equivalent to the old ‘background fetch’ mechanism) are disappointed with how infrequently it resumes their app. Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware let myEmail = eskimo + 1 + @apple.com

Well from a design perspective I like to use @State variables in views just for dealing with state in the view. What you're doing would seem to classify as part of the business logic of your app so I would offload that logic away from your view to your model or view model. Look up MVVM if you don't know what these are. Anyway if you were to take an MVVM approach your code might look like: struct ContentView: View { @ObservedObject var viewModel: MyViewModel var body: some View { Button(action: { viewModel.readApk() }) { Text(Read Apk) } .padding() Button(action: { viewModel.signApk() }) { Text(Sign Apk) } .padding() } } With this approach processString, usingDirString, and returnDirString are all abstracted away from your view. By keeping your view code and your business logic separate it makes it easier to deal with each of them in a more isolated and clear manner.

Documents or an Application Support directory in the Library. From everything I’ve read, it seems that Apple’s intent is Library/Application Support. Which is the correct location? Application Support - though it doesn’t really matter except in the case where you have a mixture of “documents” that the user needs to have access to via e.g. the Files app and “non-documents” that they shouldn’t. the app stopped displaying what was two years of data in SQLite. I haven’t yet tested for index corruption, however one of the programmers believes this resulted from an iOS update that needed space and cleared data in the cache (but that makes no sense to myself). You weren’t storing it in the Caches directory, or using the “don’t backup” xattr, were you? OS updates can “offload” apps, but I’ve not seen any reports of that causing problems. Do you vacuum your sqlite db?

My app lets you know if there are upcoming events in your area and it would be nice if it could check every week or so with my server to see if there were any and update the users local Notifications. So this would require it to run in the background and access the web.iOS has a mechanism for this, namely background fetch. You learn more about it in the Background Execution section of the App Programming Guide for iOS.However, if your app is not being run regularly by the user then it’s likely that your app will fall off the background fetch radar. The best way to meet your requirements is to offload this periodic work to a server. That is, have your server poll the event database and, if there’s anything relevant for this user, post a push notification. That is power efficient (no code needs to execute on the user’s device) and reliable.Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware let myEmail = eskimo + 1 + @apple.com

I have a 128 Gig Mac Mini. I was ready to give up on Big Sur after seeing how much free space I needed to free up. Here's how I made the space available. Copy the Big Sur installer to a removable drive and remove it from your startup drive. Run the installer to see how much more space you need. Follow Apple instructions to offload Music and Photos libraries to a removable drive. If you are a developer, you probably have a huge Developer folder in your user library. Copy it to a removable drive and remove it temporarily. These steps worked for me and I was able to upgrade to Big Sur. The installer seemed to do a very good job of cleaning up OS X folders because I had 50 GB available after the install. Plenty of space to copy the Developer folder back to the startup drive.

SOLVED (at least for me)! Over several weeks after upgrading from 13.7 to 14.4.x I tried turning off MANY Settings and offloading all 3rd-party apps -- to no avail. Still sluggish, overheating, and fast battery drain anytime screen was on. An apple-support tech mgr suggested doing a full Settings&Content Reset to confirm if a hardware problem. And phone worked fine as as empty new phone... so was definately confused software. So I re-did a full reset and restored from iCloud backup and it SOLVED this problem on my iPhoneSE(1st gen). So do THIS: do a full icloud-backup (pay 99 cents for 1 month increased storage) (Settings/General/RESET ALL CONTENT AND SETTINGS (As it reboots it will reset/reinstall to 14.4.2) Follow phone setup steps and login into your apple ID and restore from the iCloud backup. After doing those my SE was back to normal!! :)

OK, this specific goal:I need to do a background pull request every 10 seconds using Swift.is not achievable on iOS. Once your app is moved to the background, it is typically suspended, and it can’t make network requests while it’s suspended. There are things you can do to hold off that suspension, and also get resumed in the background, but nothing will give you regular background executable time every 10 seconds.Even if you could, you’d quick run through the user’s battery.You need to rethink your approach. I specifically recommend that you reconsider using push notifications. There’s a reason Apple puts so much emphasis on push notifications. In a push model, you offload this work to a server that doesn’t have to worry about all day battery life.Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware let myEmail = eskimo + 1 + @apple.com

I feel you have a bit wrong idea what Neural Engine is. It have nothing common to CPU or GPU - it's just a machine learning accelerator with very limited area of application - even not every layer type in your model can be used. Look at This FAQ for better understanding what it is and what it can. Q: Is there any low-level API to create my very own work-loads? A: Yes and No. Low level AppleNeuralEngine.framework is private to Apple and you can't use it. But: take a look at ANE Tools - compiler and decompiler for Neural Engine. Also there is coremltools - this will help to interface with TensorFlow and PyTorch Q: Can I use the Neural Engine to offload the CPU? I am especially interested in parallelism using threads. A: Basically - No. ANE can't execute CPU/GPU code and don't have threads. It operates with layer connectivity map and net weights. One more thing - vDSP and veclib DONT use ANE.