iPadOS 17.7.7

Hi I am an amateur developer (I dabble a bit) and I was wondering how to install apps from Xcode projects to an iOS/iPadOS device without using the App Store or using beta testing (as installing my own apps on my own devices this way tends to get eventually stopped by iOS and forces me to re-authenticate something for security reasons to continue using the app).

When I upgraded my 2nd gen iPad Pro to iPadOS 17 beta 1, the entry method changed from the 0 large numbers that normally show for a numerical passcode to a text entry field - but the passcode worked. Now I updated to Beta 2 and it says press home to upgrade, then shows the passcode textfield, but doesn't accept my Passcode anymore. Any hints?

According to Apple's documentation USBDriverKit for iPadOS has been available since DriverKit 19 and the M1 iPad were released. However, using Xcode 15.0.1, I am unable to link to or even find USBDriverKit from within Xcode. Is the documentation incorrect? If not what do I need to do in order to access and leverage USBDriverKit? From what I've read, USBSerialDriverKit is not available. As I have a USB based serial device that I want to use from the iPad, the next obvious step is to write my own USB device extension using USBDriverKit as a provider. If you have experience with this and can definitively say whether or not what I'm attempting is even within the realm of possibility, please chime in. Thanks. -Michael

Hi, the new style of tab bar is at top, sort of a picker style , how to enforce SwiftUI to use it in old style fashion at bottom in iPadOS same as iOS ? — Kind Regards

My company has an app that consists of a full screen web application in a WebView. The app makes extensive use of audio. At one point, a reading passage is presented to the user, and audio is downloaded (essentially cached) as the page loads, allowing the user to read along with a narrator as sentences in the passage are highlighted sequentially. The audio is played from the downloaded blob resource just using a standard html5 audio player. This has worked great for many years, until iOS 15.4. Now, it seems to choke on audio files that are larger than about 70KB, and sends something into an endless loop, eventually causing the audio to stop playing. The strange thing is that the WebView remains responsive. The user can still tap buttons, for example, but that loop continues, as I can see in the Safari debugger and, I'm guessing, would eventually crash the app. No error ever occurs that I can tell. I'm not quite sure what other info to share at this point, but I thought I'd ask to see if anyone out there has r

After upgrading my iPad to iPadOS 26.0, I noticed that when using UIPopoverPresentationController, the popover no longer appears at the expected position. According to the debug logs, the position of the arrow indicator is printed correctly. Interestingly, the issue can be fixed temporarily by switching between portrait and landscape orientations. Could you please help me resolve this issue? UIAlertController *newSheet = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@111111 message:@2222222222222 preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleActionSheet]; UIAlertAction *action = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@1112313 style:(UIAlertActionStyleDefault) handler:^(UIAlertAction * _Nonnull action) { }]; [newSheet addAction:action]; newSheet.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationPopover; UIPopoverPresentationController *popover = [newSheet popoverPresentationController]; popover.sourceView = cell; [self presentViewController:newSheet animated:YES completion:nil];

According to a post on hackingwithswift.com, this should work on iOS/iPadOS: import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @FocusState private var focused: Bool @State private var key = var body: some View { Text(key) .focusable() .focused($focused) .onKeyPress { press in key += press.characters return .handled } .onAppear { focused = true } } } It does not work for me using a hardware keyboard on an iPad running the latest iPadOS 17.4 beta but it does work on my Mac. FB13644182

Since iPadOS 18.x WKWebView seems to have a bug within its Fullscreen API (which can be enabled via WKPreferences.isElementFullscreenEnabled). This bug has the effect that websites trying to make an element (for example a video player) fullscreen fail to do so. This does not always happen, most of the time the fullscreen mode does work fine, but sometimes (far too often to be ignored) it does not. If an instance of WKWebView shows this issue, it can not be fixed by reloading the page or loading other pages, this issue exists in this instance forever. My App is a web browser App so I can create and remove WKWebView instance easily (by opening or closing Tabs). And there are times where I never see this bug, and times where ever other tab shows this bug. It's totally unreliable. The App does not show any issues at all when running under iPadOS 17 or older. The issue is only present under iPadOS 18.x. After some testing I've found out that when the bug has affected an instance of WKWeb

Hi, I'm new again to the platform (haven't coded here since Interface Builder) and I'm curious that there was no iPadOS available to select when XCode asked me to download platforms on first start, nor when I selected File / New / Project. Is it subsumed in the iOS target? Or is my machine perhaps too old to allow it as an option? Thanks! Chris

During the Platforms State of the Union, it was said that we could make our apps the default app used for email in iOS and iPadOS. I can't find the session where this will be discussed? Where is the appropriate lab for this? Is this forum the correct place to ask questions about it? I need one of those nice Apple employees that stand at the entrance to the lab, telling me where I'm supposed to go to ask my question.

Dear Apple Support, We are experiencing an issue where iPhone-only apps (marked as Designed for iPhone in the App Store) are not appearing at all in the App Store on newer iPads running iPadOS 26.2 (A16 chip model), including in managed distributions via Apple Business Manager. The app in question is X App, and it works fine on older iPads with previous iPadOS versions. Is there a policy change or stricter enforcement starting from iPadOS 18 or later that prevents iPhone-only apps from being searchable, visible, or assignable on iPad devices (especially supervised/managed ones)? If yes, does the developer need to update the app to Universal or add explicit iPad compatibility in App Store Connect for it to become available again? We would appreciate any official reference or confirmation on this behavior. Thank you for your assistance.