“A Summary of the WWDC25 Group Lab”

I enrolled for the Apple Developer Program last Thursday (Feb 12) - no status update apart from a message I've seen others have thus processed payment: Purchase your membership. To continue your enrollment, complete your purchase now Your purchase may take up to 48 hours to process. I've reached out to support twice now, no luck. Anything that worked for someone in the same boat? I have a test group planned and would need to apply my app for testflight as soon as possible to leave some headroom.

Hello everyone, I’m currently experiencing unusually long wait times for app reviews and wanted to check if others are seeing similar delays this week. Here is the current status of my submissions: App Store Update: Stuck in Waiting for Review much longer than the typical 24–48 hour window. New Version: A newly submitted version also seems to be stalled in the initial phase. TestFlight Processing: Even TestFlight builds are taking longer than usual to process. Expedited Review: I've attempted an expedited review request and direct communication, but the status remains unchanged so far. What’s confusing is that I see other apps in the same category receiving updates, so I’m unsure if this is a localized technical glitch or a broader delay affecting a specific group of developers. I’m not looking to escalate anything just yet; I’m simply trying to gauge if this is a widespread issue at the moment. I would greatly appreciate any insights into your recent experiences or if you've noticed similar patterns

In iOS 18, TabView with .tabViewStyle(.sidebarAdaptable) introduced a powerful adaptive pattern — tabs in compact, sidebar in regular. However, the current Tab API only supports a title and an image (icon). There is no way to provide a trailing accessory view (e.g., a secondary icon or indicator) for sidebar rows. This is a meaningful gap in the API, because trailing accessories are a well-established pattern throughout UIKit and SwiftUI. Precedent in Apple's own design language Apple already supports trailing accessories in many analogous contexts: UITableViewCell / UICollectionViewListCell — support accessories (disclosure indicators, checkmarks, custom views) via UICellAccessory. UIListContentConfiguration — allows leading and trailing content in list rows. SwiftUI List rows — support Label, HStack with trailing elements, .badge(), and swipeActions. NavigationLink — automatically renders a disclosure chevron as a trailing accessory. UITabSidebarItem (UIKit, iOS 18) — supports configurationUpdateHandler and

Summary: We are facing a serious issue on iPhone where multiple passkey authentication problems occur when accessing passkey-enabled login pages via shortcuts placed on the iPhone Home Screen. These issues may also occur when opening the same pages directly in a standard browser window. However, launching the login pages from a Home Screen shortcut appears to increase the likelihood of encountering these issues. Affected Services (examples, not exhaustive): Amazon GitHub Adobe Observed Issues: Issue 1: A passkey authentication dialog/popup shows two times without any user operation: What happens due to this issue: Login does not complete after the first passkey authentication. A second passkey authentication UI automatically appears. Completing or canceling the second authentication allows the login to proceed. Issue 2: Login remains stuck until the user manually invokes passkey again What happens due to this issue: The login page does not advance after the first authentication. The user must tap the

I have an iOS app with App Groups. The app uses the CallKit extension for call block functionality. All data is stored in UserDefaults(suiteName:) and FileManager.default.containerURL(forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier: ). I am planning to transfer this app to a different Apple Developer account and would like to clarify how App Groups behave after the transfer: Will my main app Target and CallKit Extensions keep access to the same AppGroups containers with the new Team ID? I will recreate the same AppGroups container identifiers on a new account but my concern is about Team ID change, that can lead to loss access to original containers and all data from previous Team ID. I need to clearly understand whether the app can continue accessing the existing App Group container after the Team ID changes, or if I must manually back up data before transfer and restore all data after transfer completed. As long as the App Group still exists on the original developer account and th

I'm building a content filtering app using NEURLFilterManager and NEURLFilterControlProvider (introduced in iOS 26). The app uses a PIR server for privacy-preserving URL filtering. Everything works with development-signed builds, but App Store export validation rejects: Entitlement value url-filter-provider for com.apple.developer.networking.networkextension — not supported on iOS I have Network Extensions enabled on my App IDs in the developer portal, but the provisioning profiles don't seem to include url-filter-provider, and I don't see a URL filter option in the Capability Requests tab. What I've tried: Entitlement values: url-filter-provider, url-filter — both rejected at export Extension points: com.apple.networkextension.url-filter, com.apple.networkextension.url-filter-control — both rejected Regenerating provisioning profiles after enabling Network Extensions capability My setup: iOS 26, Xcode 26 Main app bundle: com.pledgelock.app URL filter extension bundle: com.pledgelock.app.url-filter PIR server

Trying to figure out why my public test group got rejected and what I need to do to rectify and move forward. Is anyone able to help with this?

Hello, I'm trying to submit my first auto-renewable subscription for my app, but it shows Missing Metadata status and I cannot identify which field is incomplete. What I've completed: ✅ Product ID and Display Name ✅ Description ✅ Price: $4.99/month for 175 countries ✅ Duration: 1 month ✅ Localization (English): Display name and description filled ✅ Review Screenshot uploaded ✅ Review Notes provided ✅ Tax Category set ✅ Paid Apps Agreement signed and active ✅ Banking and tax info complete Common issues I've already checked: ✅ Subscription is part of a subscription group (Premium Features) ✅ At least one pricing tier is configured ✅ Localization has both display name AND description ✅ Review screenshot is provided ✅ Paid Apps Agreement is active (not pending) The Problem: Subscription status: Missing Metadata Localization status: Prepare for Submission Need it to show Ready to Submit to include with my app My Question: What field am I missing? I've checked all visible fields but the status won't change

I’m attempting to use a Locked Camera Capture Extension (created from Xcode’s template / following Apple’s “Creating a camera experience for the Lock Screen” guidance). The extension builds, embeds, and installs on a physical device, but I cannot get it provisioned with the required entitlement com.apple.developer.locked-camera-capture. Environment Xcode: 26.0.1 (17A400) iOS: 26.2.1 (device) Apple Developer Program: paid Individual (Team ID: FT55UW9363) Key issue: provisioning profile for the ExtensionKit appex lacks the locked-camera entitlement The locked camera capture target is embedded as an ExtensionKit extension: .../DirectionalCamera.app/Extensions/LockedCapture.appex I decoded the embedded provisioning profile inside that .appex and printed its Entitlements dictionary: security cms -D -i .../DirectionalCamera.app/Extensions/LockedCapture.appex/embedded.mobileprovision > /tmp/locked_profile.plist /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c Print:Entitlements /tmp/locked_profile.plist Entitlements present in the emb

Original Problem We use codesign and notarytool in a scripted environment to build and distribute binaries daily. We also do manual builds by logging into the build server using SSH. This has been working for many years, but after updating to a new Developer ID Application certificate, codesign was failing with errSecInternalComponent and the console logs showed errSecInteractionNotAllowed. Summary of Resolution Attempting to fix the problem resulted in multiple copies of the same Certificate which were NOT shown by Keychain Access. I had to run security delete-identity multiple times to clear out the redundant Identities and then imported the certificate using the security CLI tool. Details I originally followed these instructions for requesting and installing a new certificate: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/certificates/create-developer-id-certificates/ Tip: Use the security tool intead These instructions fail to mention two critical points: 1) they assume the machine you generate the re

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?