Following up here. This is of course infernally annoying to test and debug: there is no response from Apple on this issue or documentation about VPP vs App Store differences. Furthermore we can only test our attempted changes by submitting a new build to the app store, waiting for approval, and then trying to deploy to our devices with VPP. What we can confirm is: – This is happening with other watch companion apps installed through VPP. HOWEVER a couple of watch companion apps I tested DID work. I would be happy to provide a list for comparison to Apple if it's helpful. – We tried adjusting a bunch of project settings related to optimization, dead code stripping, symbol stripping, etc. following a mix of online and AI-based guidance about potential objective-c metadata issues flagged from the crash logs. Our app is primarily based on Swift 5 but it does target some objective-c pods and frameworks which haven't changed in years. This didn't help. – Our app used the old WatchKit architecture with both an app t
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