We have developed apps for the App Store for more than 7 years. One day, out of the blue we noticed all our apps have been removed and our account was pending termination. We really didn't know what was going on since we behaved correctly and honestly during all those years of development. After we asked for more info on why our account was in pending termination state we received this reply: Hello [redacted], We received your complaint filed on 2 October 2024 pursuant to the Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services (“P2B Regulation”). This correspondence serves as a response to your complaint. We thoroughly evaluated the activity associated with your Apple Developer Program membership. Our investigations confirm that your Apple Developer Program membership has been repeatedly used for dishonest and fraudulent activity in violation of Section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement, which states: “You will not, directly or indirectly, commit any act intended to interfere with any of the Apple Software or Services, the intent of this Agreement, or Apple’s business practices including, but not limited to, taking actions that may hinder the performance or intended use of the App Store, Custom App Distribution, TestFlight, Xcode Cloud, Ad Hoc distribution, or the Program (e.g., submitting fraudulent reviews of Your own Application or any third party application, choosing a name for Your Application that is substantially similar to the name of a third party application in order to create consumer confusion, or squatting on application names to prevent legitimate third party use). Further, You will not engage, or encourage others to engage, in any unlawful, unfair, misleading, fraudulent, improper, or dishonest acts or business practices relating to Your Covered Products (e.g., engaging in bait-and-switch pricing, consumer misrepresentation, deceptive business practices, or unfair competition against other developers).” We found a pattern of manipulative or misleading behavior. As a result of this behavior, your Apple Developer Program membership has been flagged for termination. These behaviors can include, but are not limited to, inaccurate metadata describing your app or service, misleading app content, engaging in inauthentic ratings and reviews manipulation, providing misleading customer support responses, providing misleading responses in App Store Connect, engaging in misleading purchasing or bait and switch schemes, or other dishonest or fraudulent activity within or outside of the app. Our recent investigation and review of your developer account confirm violations of the App Review Guidelines. Specifically, we received a notice claiming that your [redacted app] allowed users to download media content without authorization from the relevant third-party sources. Our investigations confirmed this behavior which constitutes direct and egregious violations of App Review Guidelines 2.3.1 and 5.2.3. In addition, your binary submission from 1 October 2024 continued to include references to impermissible conduct under Guideline 5.2.3. Given the egregious nature of the violations, your app was removed and your Apple Developer Program account has been flagged for termination. For the sake of clarity, we have included relevant excerpts from the App Review Guidelines below for reference: 2.3.1 (a) Don’t include any hidden, dormant, or undocumented features in your app; your app’s functionality should be clear to end users and App Review. All new features, functionality, and product changes must be described with specificity in the Notes for Review section of App Store Connect (generic descriptions will be rejected) and accessible for review. Similarly, marketing your app in a misleading way, such as by promoting content or services that it does not actually offer (e.g. iOS-based virus and malware scanners) or promoting a false price, whether within or outside of the App Store, is grounds for removal of your app from the App Store or a block from installing via alternative distribution and termination of your developer account. (b) Egregious or repeated behavior is grounds for removal from the Apple Developer Program. We work hard to make the App Store a trustworthy ecosystem and expect our app developers to follow suit; if you’re dishonest, we don’t want to do business with you. 5.2.3 Audio/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media from third-party sources (e.g. Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Vimeo, etc.) without explicit authorization from those sources. Streaming of audio/video content may also violate Terms of Use, so be sure to check before your app accesses those services. Authorization must be provided upon request. The guiding principle of the App Store is to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for users and a great opportunity for all developers to be successful. We work hard to make the App Store a trustworthy ecosystem and expect our app developers to be honest with users and with us. Manipulative or misleading behavior degrades user trust in the App Store and is grounds for removal from the Apple Developer Program. [...] Sincerely, Apple We immediately checked upon the issue and noticed that the feature that Apple has been mentioning was enabled by mistake due to a technical malfunction inside our app and explained this to Apple in detail. We have also immediately submitted a new update to completely remove the code that allow the download of media content from the third party website in order to avoid an issue like this would ever happen in the future and also explained the situation to Apple, being completely transparent. Apple is currently ignoring our explanation and also the fact that we immediately addressed the issue and nothing was done in bad faith. The update we submitted should have completely fixed permanently the issue and yet we got our account terminated. An account with an app downloaded 50M times that have users worldwide and a 4.5 star rating. We never engaged in dishonest or fraudulent behavior and tried to explain this. It’s really disappointing and unfair to be falsely accused of dishonest behavior, and having no way to resolve the issue. We have been at complete disposal and all the facts reported are true and we have always been honest with our users and with Apple. We heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem having our app implemented Siri support, CarPlay support, MacOS support, Widget support and recently working also on the Apple Watch support. I really hope someone of the Apple Review Team could look into this and gave us the opportunity to fix this issue.

Hello everyone :) For a project application we try to create a QR code that leads the user to the Software Update settings on iPhone after scanning to improve the accessibility for people who are not experienced in using smartphones. On iOS 18.0.1 I see that using App-prefs: opens the settings app which is a good starting point. Furthermore, using e.g. App-prefs:com.apple.MobileSMS directs the user to the Settings of the Messages app. But things like App-prefs:root=SoftwareUpdate don't work. That's why I wanted to kindly ask, if someone may have other ideas or knows what the exact URL might be for opening the Software Update settings or at least the General settings (App-prefs:root=General doesn't work). If anyone has insights or can share the exact URL scheme for this purpose, I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you so much!

My server that backs my Message Filter Extension stopped receiving messages last night. I thought maybe I had broken something in the iOS code, even though I hadn't touched any of the logic related to filtering. So I rolled back my code to a previous version that was definitely working in both test and production and ran it on my test device, setting a breakpoint on the first line of the func handle(_ queryRequest: ILMessageFilterQueryRequest, context: ILMessageFilterExtensionContext, completion: @escaping (ILMessageFilterQueryResponse) -> Void) method in the extension. When sending a message to it from an unknown number, the breakpoint is never even hit. To ensure it was somehow not my code, I started a new blank app and added the Message Filter Extension target. Running it on my test device, it also doesn't ever hit the breakpoint. Is there some Apple service involved in determining whether to send unknown sender messages to Message Filter Extensions that might be down. Maybe it's a beta issue? I'm on iOS 18.1 Beta 4. But it seems odd that all of my users' devices would be encountering a beta-related issue at essentially the same time.

I've got quite a problem as I've created a Localizible file with String catalog for my iOS app. For testing it out I've added lots of different languages and they all appeared in App settings. However, I need to remove most of them and they are still visible in the settings. What I tried so far: I have deleted EVERYTHING that had word localizable, localizations and etc. From Project Info also all the languages were removed and left only English and French. I also deleted my app, restarted the phone, downloaded the version without localizations from the app store and then install debug version (languages still appeared)

Hi, I am trying to debug a .NET MAUI App on an iPhone in Visual Studio 2022 on Windows. But to do this I need to add my Apple Developer Account to Visual Studio 2022. When I try to do this, I get an error message saying: Error adding account There was an error while trying to log in: Authentication service is unavailable. When I give it a different user ID that is part of the same Apple Developer Account it gives the same error. When I give an incorrect password, the same error appears.

can I publish app to appstore and let it for iphones only not ipads and how to do this?

The time it takes for the data to return using 'YQInAppPurchaseTool.requstProducts(productid)' is too long, ranging from 5 to 30 seconds. How can I keep the request time stable within 10 seconds?

Hello everyone, I’m seeking advice on how to proceed after receiving a Pending Termination Notice for my Apple Developer account. Previously, I uploaded my app twice but it was rejected both times. After making the required adjustments, I resubmitted it and waited for more than a week with the status still “Waiting for Review.” I followed up with Apple twice during this period, but instead of a response, I received the Pending Termination Notice stating that my account was flagged for fraudulent or dishonest activities, with all associated apps removed from the App Store. I am confused by this outcome since I did not engage in any such behavior. I’ve carefully reviewed all app functionalities to ensure compliance. Now, I’m unsure how to move forward—should I continue appealing, or is it better to create a new account and resubmit the app? Any guidance or suggestions on how to resolve this situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I am creating a VoIP application. The VoIP application needs to send and receive RTP packets at 20 ms intervals. The application calls sendto() of the Socket API at 20 ms intervals, but the iPhone buffers the send data inside iOS and then sends RTP packets in batches at 1 second intervals. (I captured the sned packets of iPhone with rvctl and confirmed this. please reffer "Sending at 1 second intervals.png" for detail) Similarly, other devices send RTP packets to the iPhone at 20 millisecond intervals, but the iPhone only receives them at 1 second intervals. (please reffer "Receiving at 1 second intervals.png" for detail) Why is this? If the cause of the delay is in the Wi-Fi protocol and the cause can be found from sysdiagnose, please tell me the search key for sysdiagnose that shows the cause of the delay and the meaning of the corresponding log. I uploaded sysdiagnose and result of lan capture to below. [sysdiagnose and lan capture] https://drive.google.com/file/d/149OPmePAF4hnZj6NeSnKc5NizfitPQDS/view?usp=sharing And, the start and end times, packet number in the lan capture of the call shown in the png example are below Start time; 13:57:22.349608/packet number; 948 End time; 13:57:37.482874/packet number; 2583

I am getting this error while archiving the app. This is happening after upgrading to the latest macOS Sequoia and XCode 16. getting this error. env: node: No such file or directory Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code It was working when I was in XCode 15.4.

I have a ScrollView which has inside a LazyVStack and multiple rows. On the appearing of the ScrollView, I scroll to row 250. When having the VoiceOver running, after opening the app, the focus is on the navigation title as it should be, than, after swiping right to enter the ScrollView, one would expect the focus to be placed on the first visible row, but this is not the case, it scrolls back to some row and focus on that, than reads it. Here is the code to reproduce it, and if you ask me, this is pretty standard stuff I don't do anything special. import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { NavigationView { ScrollViewReader { scrollProxy in ScrollView { LazyVStack { ForEach(1...500, id: \.self) { index in NavigationLink(destination: DetailView(row: index)) { Text("Row \(index)") .padding() .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) .background(Color.gray.opacity(0.2)) .cornerRadius(8) .padding(.horizontal) } } } } .onAppear { // Scroll to row 250 when the view appears withAnimation { scrollProxy.scrollTo(250, anchor: .center) } } } .navigationTitle("Rows") } } } struct DetailView: View { let row: Int var body: some View { VStack { Text("Detail for Row \(row)") .font(.largeTitle) .padding() Spacer() } .navigationTitle("Row \(row) Details") } } @main struct ScrollViewExampleApp: App { var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { ContentView() } } }

I get this error from time to time in UI tests when they are run on CI. Any ideas what might be causing this error?

My app supports only iPhone mode, and when it runs on an iPad device, it normally displays compatible iPhone mode; But when compatibility mode is displayed normally, everything is fine in the UI. But my code as long as you use the AVPictureInPictureController, open the picture in picture, can lead to code for [UIScreen mainScreen] bounds will change, become the real width and height of the equipment, so the UI disorder; Problems arise when our code is laid out with [UIScreen mainScreen] bounds. Like this: This was normal in iOS16 and iOS17, but suddenly it happened in iOS18 How should my application be compatible with this?

I am creating an application using PKCanvasview. One function of that app is the ability to trace and retrieve a UITextView that has been addSubviewed to a PKCanvasView. We have confirmed that this functionality works correctly in the simulator and on the actual device on IOS 17.4. This feature did not work correctly on the IOS18 simulator and the actual device. Is this a bug? And if it is normal behavior, is there an alternative?

Hi, I have a question regarding reading the configuration of a managed app deployed via an MDM system. The application has an Action Extension and can receive shared files via this extension. The problem I am facing is that I can read the managed configuration in the host app by accessing the UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "com.apple.configuration.managed") dictionary. With this, I can configure the host app. However, I am unable to read this configuration key in the Action Extension part of the application. My question is whether there is any possibility to read the managed configuration even in the extension. So far, I have been unable to figure out how to read it. I found the sample code, but it was not very helpful since it is very basic and does not deal with extensions at all. Any hints are appreciated.

I have a few questions on build options. Deployment post processing - is this for Mac apps? Or is it a setting for Xcode ? Does "Symbols hidden by default" set to yes enable symbolicated crash dumps? Can "Product name" and "Product module name" be different from bundleID component? Generate_Info_Plist is set to no. Will the Application Category value be reflected if there is no Info_plist file generated? I notice in my tests that the category is always wrong and defaults to team name. Privacy - GameKit Friend List Usage Description should this be yes or no if I am using Apple suggested privacy preserving scoped identifier gamePlayerID? Install Group/Permissions/Owner are these referring to setting in Dev environment or are these Mac App Only settings? ( I was not sure if iOS like Unix, has system users exposed at this high level anyway ) How do I export copy of existing build settings to a xconfig file? There was talk of a tool not sure if it is still available. For my TestFlight build for stress testing , what options would you recommend to help debug and trace easily ? Note I have tested the build with various Address Sanitizer, Memory Sanitizer, Guard malloc etc. options enabled to prep but haven't turned any of those on for the test build. Should I be enabling some? ( Some do not work together ) Alternately, if there is a document or video that addresses all of the above please let me know! Thanks in advance!!

I am a developer working on iOS apps. I would like to report an issue occurring in iOS 18 beta and iOS 18.1 beta. Our company has two Enterprise accounts, and we are developing two apps: A app / TeamId: ABCDEFG B app / TeamId: HIJKLMN When we distribute these apps, which have different TeamIds, and install them on a device running iOS 18 beta, both apps install successfully, but only one app will run. (Other app crashed immediately after being launched.) This issue does not occur on versions prior to iOS 18. I would like to know if this is a problem that will be resolved in future updates, or if it is a policy change.

This update seems to have taken away customization features. So now I just have to have the same lock screen and home screen background? There’s no way to have 2 separate images anymore? Also I have my phone in darkmode so now I just have to deal with the ugly black thumbnails for the app? I can’t revert them to normal colors while keeping dark mode?

Hello, using UIDocumentPickerViewController and startAccessingSecurityScopedResource(), I can access to a directory on iOS using Bookmark data, but when I save a Bookmark data, security-scoped bookmark not survive quitting the app and re-launching it. I used the Apple example here but my app doesn't appear in Settings > Privacy > Files and Folders ? Security-scoped bookmark is-it available on iOS ? Thanks.

The main view contains a Form with multiple Sections, including TextFields and NavigationLinks. I used an @FocusState variable to automatically pop up the keyboard when entering the main view, making it easier for users to input content directly in the TextField. However, when I keep the keyboard open and click a NavigationLink in the Section to enter a child view, I can't find a way to automatically dismiss the keyboard upon entering the child view. I've seen several official Apple apps, like Reminders, achieve this. Not dismissing the keyboard causes it to automatically pop up again when returning to the main view, along with triggering a "Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints" error in the console. I asked GPT for help, but the suggestions, like using simultaneousGesture or adding isActive to the NavigationLink (which might be deprecated), haven't worked. Has anyone in iOS development encountered this issue?