A Summary of the WWDC25 Group Lab

Are there any active Facebook or discord groups? Sometime appconnect down and would like to ask whether other developer faces the same issue.

I just seen a discussion that had to do with App Groups. What’s the difference between App Groups and iCloud? Thanks, Dan Uff

Hi dev forums fellows 🙂I would like to know if the Ratings summary by country provided in iTunesconnect is for ALL versions OR for the Current Version of the app?Apple support told me that ratings summary in itunesconnect was for all versions of the app BUT i have doubts because if i check using itunes PC v.12.6.3.6 then the app page is showing more ratings for ALL versions by country than the ratings summary i see in iTunesconnect for my app!As Apple recently removed the differenciation Current version VS All versions from the web app page, i really need to know which is the good ratings count for all versionsDoes anyone had the same issue and found an ansewer to this ratings question? thanks in advance for your helpN

We want to switch our subscription to subscription group but we can't find any way to testUpgrade.Downgrade.Crossgrade.When we try to purchase a product from the same group we get a message (from sandbox) You're currently subscribed to this. with [OK] and [Manage] options.However the [Manage] option is not working on the sandbox.How can we test this? Is it only testable on live environment and not sandbox?Thanks

Does the ability to create groups for external testflight users no longer exisit? I was able to do in last week, but it does not exist this week.

Question:Can an APFS container span multiple physical devices?Answer:Not right now. Apple's looking at that, in relation to Fusion drives. No RAID or RAID-like support is planned for APFS.Question:How does CoreStorage interact with APFS during the APFS conversion process?Answer:The plan is to have the APFS conversion process read the Core Storage plus HFS+ metadata and convert them to an APFS container. For encrypted Core Storage volumes, you will likely be prompted for an account password or recovery key before the conversion process begins.Question:Is fdesetup going to be the tool for interacting with APFS encryption, or will there be a new command line tool for managing APFS encryption? If there's a new tool, what is it?Answer:To be determined because Apple still looking at this.With regards to encryption, Apple has started work on this part of APFS but the work is not yet complete.Question:Can APFS recovery key(s) be escrowed when enabling encryption? The goal is to store the recovery key(s) somewhere for

An Application Group with Identifier 'group.com.aaa.aaa.onesignal' is not available. Please enter a different string. How can I Fix this error? I need to add it in this format.

I've got the beta installed on my iPad Mini 2. I just happened to look at the message responses to a group message that I sent which originated from my iPhone 6 Plus (on iOS 8.3) which was sent to a mix of iMessage and regular SMS accounts, and while my original group message was contained in a group message thread, all the responses to it came back in individual threads. I verified that on my iPhone they are all coming back as part of the group message thread. Only seems to be an issue on the iPad and on the iPad with iOS 9 (previous group messaging on iOS 8.3 and below worked as expected).I also checked in Settings -> Messages to see if the Group Messaging option was enabled, and it isn't there anymore. (For that matter, neither is MMS Messaging.) Can anyone else verify that Group Messaging is or isn't working for them as expected?

Ever since I got my 6S Plus with iOS 9, I've had issues getting texts from group message threads, if the thread includes non iPhone people. Anyone else find a fix for this, or know if the 9.1 Betas addresses this any?