A Summary of the WWDC25 Group Lab

There's plenty of articles out there about programatically grouping push notifications. However I have tried setting the thread-id in the push payload when sending a push, or setting the threadIdentifier for a received push in a notification service extension to be the same for several pushes. But if within the iPhone Settings / Notifications the user selects to display pushes as List and turns off Notification Grouping, then each notification resulting from the push appears on its own separately. Is there something other than thread-id/threadidentifier that is used to programmatically group them? If not then whats the point of these as grouping and display is actually under the control of user.

I am trying to add webhook subscriptions for TestFlight build processing completion and TestFlight beta build review completion events. These were showcased in the WWDC25 session: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/324/ Currently, I am able to receive webhook events for distribution updates, and the corresponding checkmark option is available in the App Store Connect portal. However, there is no checkmark option in the portal to subscribe to beta build-related events. In the video, there is clearly a checkmark option for the beta review event subscription (at 4:55). The current documentation also does not mention beta processing and beta review event subscriptions. It only lists the event types that are visible in the web portal: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/webhookeventtype When I try to add the BUILD_BETA_DETAIL_EXTERNAL_BETA_STATE_UPDATED event (as shown in the video at 6:10) via the PATCH API request, I get the below error. errors: [ { id: ****-****-*

I have a question about creating an external beta test in TestFlight.Can I choose to only send the beta test to certain 'groups' (3rd column) or will the beta test be automatically sent to everyone on the external testing list?

I have set up a share extension in my app and I have successfully enabled app groups. The share extension grabs the URL of a webpage. I would like that URL to be passed back to my app to be upload to Google Cloud Firestore and I want to use delegates to notify my main app when the share extension has grabbed a URL. How can I use delegate methods within the app group?

I've looked around quite a bit at the EventKit documentation and done all the searching I could think of, as well as examining the EKCalendar and EKEventStore types. Trying to find out how to view, modify, and create groups of reminders lists.

Looking at this article ... https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/21080/In-Depth-with-RegEx-Matching-Nested-Constructions, where it says The Push-down Automata roughly 1/4 way down, although am not sure the same will be using Swift. Apparently using (?<S>Agora)(?(S)(?!)|(.*)) should work but does not.Any suggestions for using conditional group ?

Is it a bad idea to use the App Group ID as an UserDefaults' suiteName? This seems to be a general aproach I see on code bases out there. When using the App Groups ID as a UserDefaults suiteName: extension UserDefaults { static let shared = UserDefaults(suiteName: group.com.example.app)! } I'm getting this warning/error: [User Defaults] Couldn't read values in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x000000000> (Domain: group.com.example.app, User: kCFPreferencesAnyUser, ByHost: Yes, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): Using kCFPreferencesAnyUser with a container is only allowed for System Containers, detaching from cfprefsd An App Groups ID with the same String (group.com.example.app) is defined in Signing & Capabilities > App Groups. If I change the suitName or change the App Groups ID the warning goes away. Is it not a good idea to use the App Group ID as an UserDefaults' suiteName? Does anybody had the same problem? I searched everywhere about thi

Group messaging doesn't work for text messages for some reason