“A Summary of the WWDC26 Group Lab”

Issue: Since Sept 10, 2026, my existing, already-approved auto-renewable subscription group cannot be submitted for review. This is not a new group: all 9 subscriptions in it show Approved, and my app has been live since July 2026. How it started: I changed only the introductory offer (7-day to 14-day free trial) on the monthly products. What App Store Connect shows now: The group is marked “Prepare for Submission” with the banner “Your first subscription group must be submitted with a new app version.” The Draft Submission contains only the group, and Submit for Review is disabled with: “New subscription groups must be submitted with an auto-renewable subscription from within that group.” “Add for Review” is greyed out on every one of the 9 subscriptions, so there is nothing to add to the draft. Impact: I can’t sell a subscription on any tier or billing period, and it has now been 6 weeks of lost revenue. Not the app binary: Builds 497 and 501 we

Hi,Is the following scenario possible with subscription groups:1. Group has two product - premium and business(with trial)2. Usr buys premium3. After a while user changes to business and gets trial for X days4. If he cancels the trial, he stays premium.Questions:1. when upgrading from premium into business , will the user recieve the X days trail?2. After the user cancels the business(within the X days trial), will he automaticly downgraded back into premium?thanks.

Hi! The app that I am building has the ability for users to join and be added to groups. Are there any requirements from Apple beyond the ability to leave and report the group that the user must be able to do? I read through the developer guidelines but I just wanted to make sure before submission. Thank you!

Unable to select internal groups to the build that I've uploaded to the appstore. Why the group name is disabled?

Hi, I'm trying to set up external testing for my iOS app on TestFlight but I can't find the External Testing option anywhere in App Store Connect. My setup: I'm the Account Holder I've uploaded two builds (build 128 via TestFlight Internal Only, build 130 via App Store Connect distribution) I have one internal group with myself added as a tester Both builds show as Complete The UI I see does NOT match the documentation. There is no sidebar with Internal Testing / External Testing sections. I access TestFlight via a dropdown at the top of App Store Connect, which takes me to an iOS Builds list. Clicking into a build shows Test Information, Groups, and Individual Testers — but no way to create an External group or find a public link anywhere. I've tried navigating directly to appstoreconnect.apple.com/apps/[APPID]/testflight/groups but get We can't process your request. Is there a new App Store Connect UI that has moved where External Testing lives? Is there anything else tha

- Create a group- Added people to the group- Added a build to the group- Displays users are invited within that group- Email is never received- Delete group- Add as Itunes Connected User- Everything works as expectedHow do we add users to a group so they can receive invitation emails??

These questions are community-driven. I am also not the original questioner, I'm just posting them with permission. Thank you to the anonymous folks who helped gather this information.Question: Will ASR continue to function with APFS? If not, will imaging via HFS+ (possibly converting to APFS afterwards) continue to be supported moving forward?Answer: Yes, ASR will continue to be supported.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: Yes, fdesetup is still the tool to use going forward.Question: Will the APFS per-file encryption / per-metadata encryption / per-extant encryption mechanisms each need their own recovery key?Answer: Full Volume Encryption for FileVault. Unclear on whether there are recovery keys when using e.g. per file encryption.Question: Can APFS recovery key(s) be escrowed when enabling encryption? The goal is to store the recovery key(s) somewhe

I opened Apple Connect and was setting up a new app and when I go into App Groups, I see this! AltStore?? Cydia?? I didn't put those there, and Im the only one on my team. AltStore group com rileytestut AltStore group.com.rileytestut.AltStore.44K72272WR CY- group com cydia Extender group.CY-931DA672-818E-11E8-AED3-DB7934DE71C9.com.cydia.Extender CY- group lolwtf group.CY-36A1A27E-C8FB-11E6-AC51-975482641AE2.lolwtf

Issue The documentation for get_app_container mentions the use of group identifier, but that does not seem to be working Print the path of the installed app's container Usage: simctl get_app_container [] container Optionally specify the container. Defaults to app. app The .app bundle data The application's data container groups The App Group containers A specific App Group container Steps to reproduce The following command lists the groups and the respective root paths % xcrun simctl get_app_container booted com.apple.DocumentsApp groups group.com.apple.DocumentManager /Users//Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/1308FA26-FB67-4582-89B2-37774D0BCBCE/data/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/80B132E9-43A1-490C-89D1-C935523797BA group.com.apple.FileProvider.LocalStorage /Users//Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/1308FA26-FB67-4582-89B2-37774D0BCBCE/data/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/2A5B9F5E-B9DC-42AE-AE12-50257B58F02C group.com.apple.tipsnext /Users//Library/