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Hello, I would like to report a situation that appears to be outside the normal App Review process and may indicate a system issue or an unintended internal flag on my app. My app Vocheo (Bundle ID: com.vocheo) has been stuck in “Waiting for Review” for an unusually long period — a total of ~40 days since the first 2.0 submission on October 26. Across multiple submissions, the review has never meaningfully started. Here is a summary of what happened: Timeline Overview • First 2.0 submission: Oct 26 • Most recent submission: Dec 2 (version 2.1.5) • Total time stuck: ~40 days • Longest individual “Waiting for Review” period: 18 days • Another long period: 8 days • All withdrawals were done on the same day and resubmitted immediately — they did not resolve the issue. Only two submissions ever entered “In Review”, and both resulted in very fast, template-style rejections within minutes. After those, every new submission returned to weeks of “Waiting for Review” with no progress. Attempts to Resolve I have: • Cont

Running Tahoe 26.1 in a virtual machine, I can't sign into my Apple account. There is an error message saying Could not communicate with the server. Internet access otherwise seems to be working in the VM. I tried both UTM and VirtualBuddy. Is this supposed to work?

Hi everyone, I’m unable to enable Xcode Cloud for any app on my account. At the final step of the Xcode workflow setup (“Confirm App on App Store Connect”), pressing Complete always returns: “ could not be added to Xcode Cloud. Authentication credentials are invalid.” This affects both existing apps and completely new test apps with fresh bundle IDs. What I’ve verified • I am Account Holder and Admin. • All agreements are accepted. • App creation, bundle ID registration, and certificate management work normally. • I’ve removed/re-added my Apple ID in Xcode and cleared all Xcode-* tokens from Keychain. • Test apps in clean Git repos reproduce the same error. Support I have already opened Case ID 102769512657 with Apple Developer Support, but I’m posting here in case others have seen this issue or know of additional steps to confirm the provisioning state.

I work on a Qt/QML app that uses Esri Maps SDK for Qt and that is deployed to both Windows and iPads. With a recent iPad OS upgrade to 26.1, many iPad users are reporting the application freezing after panning and/or identifying features in the map. It runs fine for our Windows users. I was able to reproduce this and grabbed the following error messages when the freeze happens: IOGPUMetalError: Caused GPU Address Fault Error (0000000b:kIOGPUCommandBufferCallbackErrorPageFault) IOGPUMetalError: Invalid Resource (00000009:kIOGPUCommandBufferCallbackErrorInvalidResource) Environment: Qt 6.5.4 (Qt for iOS) Esri Maps SDK for Qt 200.3 iPadOS 26.1 Because it appears to be a Metal error, I tried using OpenGL (Qt offers a way to easily set hte target graphics api): QQuickWindow::setGraphicsApi(QSGRendererInterface::GraphicsApi::OpenGL) Which worked! No more freezing. But I'm seeing many posts that OpenGL has been deprecated by Apple. I've seen posts that Apple deprecated Op

Hi team, I’m exploring the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is used to connect LLMs/AI agents to external tools in a structured way. It's becoming a common standard for automation and agent workflows. Before I go deeper, I want to confirm: Does Apple currently provide any official MCP server, API surface, or SDK on iOS/macOS? From what I see, only third-party MCP servers exist for iOS simulators/devices, and Apple’s own frameworks (Foundation Models, Apple Intelligence) don’t expose MCP endpoints. Is there any chance Apple might introduce MCP support—or publish recommended patterns for safely integrating MCP inside apps or developer tools? I would like to see if I can share my app's data to the MCP server to enable other third-party apps/services to integrate easily

I'm getting the following error when I try to make a dev build for iOS even though I am an admin: ✖ Failed to register bundle identifier Apple 403 detected - Access forbidden. This request is forbidden for security reasons - You currently don't have access to this membership resource. Not certain how to proceed from here

We are developing an application use case that requires us to prompt the user to restart their device. We plan to use the system uptime value provided by [NSProcessInfo processInfo].systemUptime to determine if a restart has occurred. Apple's documentation defines this API as 'The amount of time the system has been awake since the last time it was restarted.' Our questions are: Can we reliably use this API, in conjunction with persistent storage, to detect a device restart? Are there any known limitations or considerations when accessing or relying on this API while the application is running in the background?

Hello All, I am new to apple ecosystem. We have a xcode project whose code is scattered across different repos. We are trying setup CI/CD for this Xcode project to get build so that we could know build issue. Clone/Update all repos – which I can do via some script Generate xcode projects from sources synced in step 1. This is where we want your help. How should we approach this? What apple suggest for this ? In this step we don't want to use any third part tool (like CMake) to generate Xcode projects. Build targets to know build errors – This we can easily do via xcodebuild command line tool. Please share you input/thought on this. Your input is highly appreciated.

I want to add the Sign In with Apple feature to my iPadOS application. I've already done the following: Include com.apple.developer.applesignin in mobileprovision Include com.apple.developer.applesignin in entitlements However, I'm getting the following errors: `Authorization failed: Error Domain=AKAuthenticationError Code=-7026 (null) UserInfo={AKClientBundleID=xxxx} LaunchServices: store (null) or url (null) was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 process may not map database UserInfo={_LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler, _LSFile=LSDReadService.mm, NSDebugDescription=process may not map database} Attempt to map database failed: permission was denied. This attempt will not be retried. Failed to initialize client context with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 process may not map database UserInfo={_LSLine=72, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler, _LSFile=LS

Noticed a sudden drop in my keyword rankings recently and after some digging, it looks like Apple rolled out a major ASO update, which a lot of developers seem to be talking about. Curious if anyone has insights on what specifically changed - it seems like the app title may no longer hold the same weight in keyword rankings.