A Summary of the WWDC25 Group Lab

Hello, I’m experiencing a strange issue with a newly created Subscription Group in my iOS app. For all my existing subscription groups, everything works perfectly — initial purchase, renewals, cancellations, all notifications arrive normally. But for this one newly created group, the first purchase never triggers any server notification from App Store Server Notifications (ASSN). ⸻ 📘 Problem Summary • I created a new Subscription Group in App Store Connect. • The products are all Approved and Published for over a week. • Users can successfully purchase the subscription in production. • The purchase is shown as Purchased in the App Store purchase UI. • The receipt can be fetched locally on device. • But my server receives no notifications, including: • DID_RENEW • DID_CHANGE_RENEWAL_STATUS • SUBSCRIBED • ONE_TIME_CHARGE • CONSUMPTION_REQUEST • etc. The old subscription groups still send notifications normally, so the notification URL and server infrastruct

Our team is in the process of updating our apps to comply with Texas's new state law. In order to minimize user confusion and provide the most ideal flow to access the app as possible, we have a few questions we would like answered. Summary of questions: Is isEligibleForAgeFeatures intended to be accurate and accessible before the user has accepted the Age Range permissions prompt? As other US states and/or other countries adopt a similar law going forward, will this instance variable cover those locations? Will the runtime crashes on isEligibleForAgeFeatures and other symbols in the DeclaredAgeRange framework be addressed in a future RC or in the official release? Details and Investigations: With regards to isEligibleForAgeFeatures, our team has noticed that this value is always false before the age range prompt has been accepted. This has been tested on the XCode RC 26.2 (17C48). Assuming the request needs to be accepted first, isEligibleForAgeFeatures does not get updated immediately when the user

Hello, I have a problem with a subscription: it is not recognised by my application (under TestFlight); it is as if it did not exist. I have two subscriptions in the same group, a premium subscription that works perfectly and a basic subscription that is not recognised. I have checked everything at least twenty times. Its status is ‘Ready to submit’. I asked GPT 5.1 and Claude AI, but clearly both of their AIs are out of date and are giving me an obsolete procedure with App Store Connect options that don't exist.

If I have two iOS apps, with bundle ids com.mycompany.A and com.mycompany.B, and they both have the shared group id of group.com.mycompany.B, then they can read/write data to same file (in shared defaults or, for example, a Realm database saved to the same shared group location). What I have noticed is that if both apps get installed and some data X written to shared defaults (but data which isn't accessed by both apps i.e. if only app A uses this data), then if app A is deleted and reinstalled then X is not deleted in this situation (unless both apps A and B are deleted). I guess that is to be expected as they both use the same group id and the OS won't clear that area out unless both apps are deleted. However I think I am seeing a situation where if app A has group.com.mycompany.A as its group and app B has group.com.mycompany.B as its group, then this is still the same situation - data written by app B for doesn't get deleted if only app B is deleted/reinstalled

Hi everyone, I am really not sure where else to go for a piece of mind because our recent review experience has been far from clear (and probably fair). We are a photo editing app developers who deal with AI models, effects and transformations on a constant basis. I believe last year we (like many other apps in the category) introduced effects that get two people in different photos and unite them in one cute/fun/cozy/emotional picture. Be it a couple, a mother and daughter - you name it. Of course all the templates are pre-set, there is no option for users to generate any scene by text-to-image or image-to-image model. Otherwise it would be unsafe. When submitting our app to review in May, 2025 we first faced the situation that this kind of effects are not welcome because of: Guideline 1.1 - Safety - Objectionable Content The app references or includes features that some users may find objectionable or could be used to create objectionable content. Specifically: The app includes templates for generating cont

Hello, I am encountering the following error when uploading a build to App Store Connect: ITMS-90555: Thinned app size is too large – Your on-demand resources in the universal variant are 30 GB, which exceeds the maximum allowable size. After app thinning, the total size of your on-demand resource asset packs in any variant must be less than 30 GB. Our application includes a large amount of font resources delivered via ODR. Before making structural changes, I need clarification because the documentation does not fully explain how ODR size calculations work per variant. Environment Xcode: (latest stable) Distribution method: App Store submission ODR total size before thinning: approximately (28 GB) Build processing fails immediately with the ITMS-90555 error Questions How exactly does App Thinning compute the size of ODR asset packs per variant? Is ODR size evaluated: Per device-specific variant, Or is the “universal variant” treated as an additional variant that must independently stay under 30GB? The documen

I'm trying to test the update process for an app containing an FSKit module that I'm distributing on the Mac App Store. (I'm also distributing the same app directly with Developer ID, but here I'll focus on App Store because that's the behavior I've been looking at first.) To do that I'm using an internal tester group on TestFlight and then testing an update with TestFlight. Below is the behavior I'm seeing on macOS 15.7.2 (24G325). I've noticed that if an app update is triggered while a disk is mounted using the FSKit extension, the disk is automatically unmounted without warning (FB21287341). That's already undesirable itself in my opinion, but on top of the unmount, there are two other problems: That unmount doesn't seem to be a clean unmount and doesn't call functions like synchronize (FB21287688). Now, in my case, my app only provides read-only access, so that doesn't actually matter much in my case. However, I'd imagine if I were to add write access at some point in the future, this would go fr

Hello, I am unable to submit ANY of my apps for External TestFlight review. Every time I try to add a build to an external group and press Submit for Review, I immediately get this error: There was an error processing your request. Please try again later. This happens on multiple apps in the same account: LM Mobile (Apple ID: 6755979316) TPM Mobile (newly created app) All of the following have been verified and are active: Paid & Free App Agreements Banking & Tax forms App Privacy (Published) Test Information is fully completed Multiple clean builds uploaded (1.0.0 build 1 and 2) Correct distribution via App Store Connect selected in Xcode Admin + Account Holder role This clearly confirms that the problem is ACCOUNT-LEVEL on the backend. Case Number: 102766190091 Could an Apple engineer please check and reset the stuck External TestFlight submission state on the server side? Thank you.

Hello, I have an Asset Pack that's a database. I need to use it in 2 apps. I'm curious at the expected functionality of cross app Asset Pack distribution as I've seen conflicting behavior. (1) Each app is required to have its own unique Background Assets Target. (2) Uploading the asset pack requires the App ID to be included. (3) I'm able to access the Asset Pack of App #1 inside of App #2 by using AssetPackManager.shared.ensureLocalAvailability(of:) with local testing (Not TestFlight) This is a technical question as originally I planned to duplicate the upload of the Asset Pack to both individual apps.

Question: How to prevent Flutter app crash on iOS 18 during cold start when iOS traverses view hierarchy before Flutter engine is fully initialized? Help needed: Looking for a way to either delay iOS view hierarchy traversal or ensure Flutter is fully initialized before iOS lifecycle callbacks fire. Problem Summary Our Flutter app crashes on cold start for approximately 1-2% of iOS users. The crash occurs specifically on iOS and only under these exact conditions: When crash happens: User opens app and uses it normally ✅ User minimizes app (goes to background) ✅ User returns to app from background ✅ (works fine) User kills app from app switcher (swipe up to close) User taps app icon to launch again → CRASH ❌ Key observations: Crash is intermittent - app may open on 2nd, 3rd, or 5th attempt 100% reproducible on affected devices by repeating kill→launch cycle ~98% of users have no issues Environment Flutter: 3.38.3 Crash Logs (from Sentry) Crash Type 1: Stack Overflow (most common) OS Version: iOS 18.7.

I'm experiencing an issue where monthly and family monthly subscriptions fail immediately with purchase cancelled in TestFlight, while yearly and family yearly subscriptions work correctly. Setup: All 4 products in same subscription group All show Ready to Submit status Using react-native-iap with StoreKit 2 Testing in TestFlight sandbox The Problem: Yearly subscriptions work fine Monthly subscriptions fail immediately with E_USER_CANCELLED (no dialog appears, user didn't cancel) What I've verified: No active subscriptions (getAvailablePurchases() returns empty) No pending transactions Same subscription group for all products Product IDs match App Store Connect Code is identical for all products Error: E_USER_CANCELLED fires immediately when calling requestPurchase() for monthly products, but yearly products proceed normally. Questions: Why would monthly fail while yearly works (same group, same config)? Could this be sandbox state corruption for monthly products? Should I delete/re

I'm working on a SwiftUI application that uses a couple different webviews in a tabview to render some mdx and codemirror editor. The editor webview, the one that's much more complicated works as expected. Some errors appear in the console due to what I imagine is a race condition that I'll get around to fixing, but it works as expected. The other webview which just renders a single, local html file to display a dead simple summary absolutely refuses to work. It first appears to work as expected (shows the same 'return type unsupported' error in the console though) on the initial request, but then refuses to process any JS functions for that particular webview. Even the functions themselves are being used between the two webviews, and they work as expected in the other. Even worse, when I copy and paste the generated JS code into the safari dev tools it works as expected, even in the broken webview. I've spent almost 12 hours on this today so far, and have made zero progress. I've tried commenting ou