A Summary of the WWDC25 Group Lab

I'm trying to share cached data between a tvOS app and a TVService extension. I crated an app group and get a directory based on the identifier. All works fine in the simulator. On the tvOS dev kit however the app does not have write permission the app group directory.I realize the restrictions on tvOS but shared cache data in app groups should be possible according the FAQ:For temporary local storage, apps may access the NSTemporaryDirectory and NSCachesDirectory in their own container, or NSCachesDirectory in a shared container.So how do I get access to the caches in the app group container? has anybody here got this working?

The shortcut app seems to have a bug regarding text match grouping when trying to match a lowercase string to a capital case one. The match happens, but the regular expression groups are not properly displayed. To replicate, create a shortcut with the following actions: Match d-(george) in 2-George check case-insensitive on Show Matches (this will show 2-George) Get Group At Index 1 in Matches Show Text This will not print anything

All identifiers updated in summer 2020 has new value for keychain-access-groups - com.apple.token. What is its purpose? What can happen if this value will not be added to entitlements?

Anyone else have issue where group chats are being split, only working that way on my devices running iIpados 15.2

We are implementing auto-renewable subscriptions on iOS. We face a problem where users can purchase multiple subscriptions on a single Apple ID linked to the device. We are having 3 subscription plans as Regular (Monthly), Regular (Yearly), and Special (Yearly). Now, we have decided that Regular plans will be configured in a separate subscription group and special plan on the other since we don't want the Regular users to know that there is a special plan that is less costly than theirs. (Through Manage Subscription of the device Settings) Scenario 1: If User A subscribes to the Special plan on his Apple Id, his subscription gets active. Now, if on the same Apple ID, user B logs in to the app and is a Regular user then he can purchase any of the Regular plans. But the issue is User A's receipt and User B's receipt cause problems sometime later since their receipts are created on the same Apple ID. We are not able to restrict User B to purchase from User A's device in this case, since the original_tra

I get the distinct feeling, based on the WWDC presentations, that group iMessage apps are either incomplete or not really thought out. Add to this that there are no group conversations possible in the simulator. The group message part of the demo was just a couple of slides and he used the phrase we are recommending for the moment which leads me to believe that Apple probably has unfinished business here. I think that the idea of making MSSession the carrier of data and make each subsequent message create a stack of unprocessed responses so that when the user clicks on the bubble it sees each response and can process them one by one. What I'm wondering is, in the same section, they talk about privacy. So each device will get different identifiers for each user. If you are using the cloud, I don't see how you can then aggregate responses correctly. Take this scenario:I send an iMessage App (IMA) to two of my friends and it asks them to pick what they want for lunch.Friend A responds

Hi everyone, I just started to get income on the App Store and I'm trying to figure out how the financial reports section works. One thing I can't understand is why do I have 2 sets (groups) of transactions when I browse the report for June 2020. The 1st group says I have income of about 50 CAD (with a set of countries in it if I unfold the group) and 37 sales. The 2nd group right below the first one says I have 4 USD income and 3 sales. Why the currency is different if I chose my account currency as CAD and why the transactions have been split in those groups? Moreover, the 1st group has the following countries : Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Japan, Russia, North And South America. And all those transactions are converted to CAD as I expect. The second group has only Great Britain and Poland and their transactions are converted into USD, why's that?

I am adding Group Activities integration with a MacCatalyst app. I have added the Group Activities entitlement in Xcode. I also checked the entitlements with : codesign --display --entitlements :- I can see the entitlement : com.apple.developer.group-session The feature work fine on iPadOS but when I run it on MacOS, the GroupActivitySharingController is not loading properly. I get the following error messages: Cannot run query EXQuery: extension point com.apple.groupactivities platforms: 6 with error: (null) Failed to lookup extension with query EXQuery: extension point com.apple.groupactivities platforms: 6 on <_GroupActivities_UIKit.PeoplePickerController: 0x600005020980> Failed to fetch config for hostViewController <_GroupActivities_UIKit.PeoplePickerController: 0x600005020980> Failed to build remote hostViewController for <_GroupActivities_UIKit.GroupActivitySharingController: 0x1417f1250> Failed to fetch extensionViewController Calling -viewDidAppear: directly on a v

I know that Apple is very aware of privacy concerns. Do Share Play and Group Activities comply with GDPR's legal rules? What kind of servers (e.g. geography) are involved to manage the connection? Thanks Lars

Hello, I am trying to use app groups to share preferences between an app and its QuickLook extension (both sandboxed), but I can't understand why it's not working. For testing, I created an empty macOS app project and added a QuickLook Extension, then on both the targets' entitlement files I added the app group domain in the form teamid.test. Last but not least, in the Info.plist file of the QL extension i added some UTIs to have the QL extension called when previewing. In the QL extension's PreviewViewController.swift file I try to save a value like this: func preparePreviewOfFile(at url: URL, completionHandler handler: @escaping (Error?) -> Void) { let defaults=UserDefaults(suiteName: teamid.***) defaults?.set(1, forKey: test) handler(nil) } If I try to run the app and preview a file though, I get this message in the Console: Couldn't write values for keys ( test ) in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x7fb63681cce0> (Domain: teamid.***, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (n

Hi,We can add app-group to Containig application and app-extension to share the data. But is it also possible to add app-group to iOS plugin's entitlements so that it can also have an access to shared container if needed?Thanks and regards,Sanjay

I'd like to know if there is a way to limit the number of participants in a group activity (SharePlay). Looking through the API, I could not find anything regarding limiting or requiring the number of participants.

Howdy. I recently discussed the tab feature from within Google Chrome. I absolutely love this feature. This is a long shot, but is there any way to create similar tab groups with the available window icons on mac OS?