Recently, my application has a crash, which did not exist before iOS18, how can I fix this problem, the following is crash stack my code how i ues it darkText = NSAttributedString.getHtmlText(self.bannerModel?.darkText ?? "")

As a system & security administrator I started to install a lot of Unixes, 20 years ago with a dual volume for security purpose, inside critical infrastructures: volume mount options ------------------------------------------------ / ro /var rw, nosuid, nodev Everything which could be end user or admin modifiable and to be referenced from / was defined through simple symbolic links: /tmp --> /var/tmp /home --> /var/home /local --> /var/local /opt --> /var/opt /private --> /var/private And through many tests, and real attacks pressure of every day, with such a configuration, even as root, it was impossible to damage the system. Many attacks struck us ( ~ 20 / day )… none succeeded ( at least as I was aware of, and as I wasn't fired ). Why did Apple chose a rather more complex way similar architectures with the 2 volumes: volume mount options ------------------------------------------------ / ro /System/Volumes/Data rw, nosuid, nodev with a new concept of firmlinks which is not compatible with any other Unix FS, which brought Apple to put fundamental components of their new APFS outside of the FS internals ( in plain old files ) and which is rather very tricky to understand and to manage for system and security administrator? To give just one example of an highly deceiving point: it isn't now possible to make a quick carbon copy of a volume with tools as simple as cp or rsync because of new extended attributes. Real life teach us everyday that complexity is one of the biggest enemy of performance and security. What are the advantages of this sibling volumes architecture? ( I am not talking here of the real internal advantages of APFS versus HFS and traditionnal Unix UFS or ZFS, which I much easily grasped and verified in real life. ).

Hello, I have many problems to manage the new structure of the volumes introduced with High Sierra and Big Sur around the use and configuration of the APFS. Where could I find a technical documentation about this APFS organisation? By technical documentation I don't mean a theoretical nice PowerPoint for the boss. I mean a real technical documentation which will permit me for example: • to understand how is built and organized the complete set of different APFS volumes to install a new macOS, • to build an installer on an USB key which will be usabel for a highly secured environment where an Internet connection is not allowed and not possible, • to build a script to check that an actual APFS set of volumes doesn't present any major discrepency, a kind of meta-fsck, not the Disk Utility way, but the engineer way, essentially running through command line, and fully compatible with the traditionnal system, network and security administration. Sorry, I am a very special case of developper. I only develop tools from shell scripts to make system, network and security administration. And to build more scripts withm them. My answer to Select a Subtopic could have been: system administration, technical documentation

While playing with this app I found something odd: let dylib1 = dlopen("/System/Library/Frameworks/CreateMLComponents.framework/CreateMLComponents", O_RDONLY)! let s1 = dlsym(dylib1, "CreateMLComponentsVersionString")! var info1 = Dl_info() let success1 = dladdr(s1, &info1) precondition(success1 != 0) print(String(cString: info1.dli_sname!)) // CreateMLComponentsVersionString let path1 = String(cString: info1.dli_fname!) print(path1) // /System/Library/Frameworks/CreateMLComponents.framework/Versions/A/CreateMLComponents let exists1 = FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: path1) print(exists1) // true let dylib2 = dlopen("/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Foundation", O_RDONLY)! let s2 = dlsym(dylib2, "NSAllocateMemoryPages")! // var info2 = Dl_info() let success2 = dladdr(s2, &info2) precondition(success2 != 0) print(String(cString: info2.dli_sname!)) // NSAllocateMemoryPages let path2 = String(cString: info2.dli_fname!) print(path2) // /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation let exists2 = FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: path2) print(exists2) // false The app runs fine and prints true for exists1 and false for exists2. That means that while both dlsym calls succeed and both dladdr calls return paths (within CreateMLComponents.framework and Foundation.framework correspondingly) the first file exists while the second file doesn't exist. This raises quite a few questions: Why some of the dylib files (in fact – most dylibs inside /System/Library/Frameworks hirerarchy) don't exist at the expected locations? Why do we have symbolic link files (like Foundation.framework/Foundation) that point to those non-existent locations? What is the purpose of those symbols links? Where are those missing dylib files in fact? They must be somewhere, no?! I guess to figure out the answer I could search the whole disk raw bytes for a particular byte pattern to know the answer but hope there's an easier way to know the truth! Why do we have some exceptional cases like "CreateMLComponents.framework" and a couple of others that don't follow the rules established by the rest? Thanks!

My phone gets very hot and then turns on and off, and it's been crashing a lot lately

Anyone download this yet and have your system data blow up in size? Lesson learned to never download beta of anything. Can barely work in Xcode 16 now, another beta I should not have downloaded :/ Anyway to reduce this size of system data properly? Thanks!

After iOS beta 2. download in iPhone 12 touch not work properly. Please fix this issue and please understand my problem. It’s a difficult problem for me. Please fix this issue as soon as possible.

This is the worse service, Developer support do not respond its been 2 months and I cant even put the app live and am losing a lot of business, I can’t go live with this problem. We have been trying to change this account type from individual to business. This is frustrating, What kind of support that do not respond to their customers, Android fixed this long time, I can’t go live with this , I am even struggling to get the DNS number. What does one has to do here to get help, Honestly . So disappointed on apple support Sindi

it is normal that my phone restarts approximately every 5 minutes

Hi there, From "Platforms State of the Union" Video macOS section I know macOS has new API of user space file system and iPhone mirroring, and delivers new APIs including user space file system support and major improvements to MapKit. But I lookup the API diff, I don't find any added API. Where can I find the user space file system API ? I really want to develop an APP which need user space file system API. Platforms State of the Union Video corresponding timeline detail: https://youtu.be/YJZ5YcMsgD4?t=3153

I'm looking for a solution to install a binary on a macOS system where System Integrity Protection (SIP) is enabled, and the target installation location is protected by SIP. I need to achieve this without booting into recovery mode to disable SIP. Is there any method to achieve this, such as by creating separate packages that can handle SIP-protected locations, developing or using installer applications capable of navigating SIP constraints, leveraging specific entitlements or permissions to facilitate the installation, or utilising Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions for deployment? If anyone has experience or insights on any reliable ways to accomplish this, please share any detailed steps, tools, or best practices that could be useful.

I'm using a file descriptor to write into a file. I've encountered a problem where if the underlying file is removed or recreated, the file descriptor becomes unstable. I have no reliable way to confirm if it's writing on the expected file. let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/path/") try FileManager.default.removeItem(at: url) FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: url.path, contents: .empty) let filePath = FilePath(url.path) var fileDescriptor = try FileDescriptor.open(filePath, .readWrite) // The file is recreated - may be done from a different process. try FileManager.default.removeItem(at: url) // L9 FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: url.path, contents: .empty) // L10 let dataToWrite = Data([1,1,1,1]) try fileDescriptor.writeAll(dataToWrite) // L13 let dataWritten = try Data(contentsOf: url) print(dataToWrite == dataWritten) // false I would expect L13 to result in an error. Given it doesn't: Is there a way to determine where fileDescriptor is writing? Is there a way to ensure that fileDescriptor is writing the content in the expected filePath?

I'm trying to use autofs to mount some macFUSE filesystems. However, autofs requires custom filesystems to provide /sbin/mount_* and this directory is not writable nor modifiable via synthentic.conf Using a launch agent or daemon is not desirable as there is a non-blocking delay before the filesystem gets mounted which causes a race condition. Is there any other option to let diskarbitrationd or autofs to automatically mount a macFUSE filesystem?

Hello, It is possible to encrypt a mac's hard-drive with Filevault. All home user folders are encrypted with the same encryption key. (This is the same encryption key for the whole hard-drive). This encryption key is encrypted with user password. But i don't understand how it works when there are multiple user accounts. Maybe there is a table: The same encryption key is stored several times (one per user account) ? Is there a way for a user to read the filevault encryption key ? Thanks

I noticed that I have duplicate Apps on my iPhone! I've signed up for the Public Beta program, so this might be a feature/bug in the Beta. What I first noticed was that one of my apps showed up in the Doc (I don't remember putting it there) a few days ago, and in looking around, I still have the same app in a folder on my home screen. I thought this could be a nice feature allowing me quick access to it from the Dock and from my folder, but it wasn't the app that I'd want there. I thought I might be able to move it off the dock and back to the folder, but when I did that, the app showed up twice in the folder! I moved a different app to the dock, and it disappeared from the folder which is what I'd expect. So...if I delete 1 of the duplicates in the folder (or from the dock), will that delete both? Here you can see the Alula app in both the 'Remote Control' folder and the Dock: Here too (although the dock is fuzzy because the folder is open): I moved the app from the dock back to the folder, and now there are two there: Here's the Public Beta that I'm running

I have an ansible provisioner that is being triggered, but keeps failing because it cannot write a file out under /System/Volumes/Data/home. There are no files in that directory to clean up. When I do a df it shows that filesystem mount size as 0Bi. I ran the disk utility, but that did not resolve it either. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is blocking my local development.

I'm currently trying to develop a transparent data encryption(TDE) system on MacOS 12.6.8. Our company has its own file encryption format. In order to facilitate safe and convenient file transfer between Windows and Mac platforms, we need to develop a TDE system on the Mac platform (on the Windows platform, we have developed such a system based on the Minifilter framework). I tried to implement this system using a MacFuse based file system and the Endpoint Security system extension, but found that this did not allow complete control of files on the Mac system. For example, when you use Finder to copy an encrypted file, the decrypted data will be copied out. I'm guessing this might be due to Finder or some other system process cache. By referring to the current product introductions of other companies, I learned that the current TDE systems on Mac systems are all based on kernel extension. But I noticed that Apple no longer encourages kernel extension development, and the Mac kernel has fewer and fewer APIs open to development. So I would like to ask is it still feasible to develop a TDE system based on the kernel extension?

Hi, so I have this case where I would like the user to pick a folder where they want to create a file/folder using UIDocumentPicker/Browser and I make the file using open() in cpp and use its fd to read/write to the file. Now, the first thing is I have to call startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() on the directory url, then I make the file, get its fd(file descriptor) and I leave this makefile() function. Every startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() needs to be matched with a stopstartAccessingSecurityScopedResource(). So my question is do I 'have' to call stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() 'just before' calling close() on the fd. Or is it fine to call it after I have made the fd i.e., at the end of the makefile() function? In the tests I did it seems that once the fd is opened, even if stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() is called on it(the directory), I can continue to read/write from the fd until I close() the fd?

So, I'm looking into startaccessingsecurityscopedresource() function and from my current understanding this is to get temporary access to files/folders you don't implicitly have access to i.e., that don't belong to your sandbox. I can understand what it means wrt macOS, iOS, iPadOS, but what does it mean in watchOS and tvOS where there isn't any file sharing between different apps? And what is it's relevance wrt using iCloud (if there is any?)

Dear Apple Developer Forum Community, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to seek assistance regarding an error I encountered while attempting to create a Vedic content in the app from the one YouTube link. I have been unsuccessful in resolving it. I am reaching out to the community in the hope that someone might have encountered a similar issue or have expertise in troubleshooting Xcode errors. Any guidance, suggestions, or solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for your time and assistance. Sincerely, Zipzy [games]