Recently Upgraded my System to macOS 15 Sequoia Beta and Xcode 16 Beta. Everything downloaded and working fine but Predictive Code Completion Model Stuck in Downloading. System - MacBook Air 2020, M1, 16GB RAM, 256GB(114GB available) storage.

i build apps that act as Screen Readers to 1) add Vim motions everywhere on macOS 2) click (and more) AX Elements through the keyboard 3) scroll through the keyboard. it works extremely well with native apps. with non-native apps, i need to blast them with some extra AX Attributes (AXManualAccessibility, AXEnhancedUserInterface) to get them to expose their AX Elements. but there are a couple of apps tho which i can't get them to expose their AX Elements programmatically. now the weird thing is as soon as i start VoiceOver, those apps open up. or for some, if i use the Accessibility Inspector to go through their AX Elements, then they start opening up. so i'm wondering, is there one public known way that i'm missing to open up those apps, or is Apple using private APIs? any way i could make my apps behave like VoiceOver or the Accessibility Inspector to force those recalcitrant apps to open up? thanks in advance.

Hi, this is the 3rd time I'm trying to post this on the forum, apple moderators ignoring it. I'm a deep learning expert with a specialization of image processing. I want to know why I have hundreds of AI models on my Mac that are indexing everything on my computer while it is idle, using programs like neuralhash that I can't find any information about. I can understand if they are being used to enhance the user experience on Spotlight, Siri, Photos, and other applications, but I couldn't find the necessary information on the web. Usually, (spyware) software like this uses them to classify files in an X/Y coordinate system. This feels like a more advanced version of stuxnet. find / -type f -name "*.weights" > ai_models.txt find / -type f -name "*labels*.txt" > ai_model_labels.txt Some of the classes from the files; file_name: SCL_v0.3.1_9c7zcipfrc_558001-labels-v3.txt document_boarding_pass document_check_or_checkbook document_currency_or_bill document_driving_license document_office_badge document_passport document_receipt document_social_security_number hier_curation hier_document hier_negative curation_meme file_name: SceneNet5_detection_labels-v8d.txt CVML_UNKNOWN_999999 aircraft automobile bicycle bird bottle bus canine consumer_electronics feline fruit furniture headgear kite fish computer_monitor motorcycle musical_instrument document people food sign watersport train ungulates watercraft flower appliance sports_equipment tool

Is there any official way to download IPSW files for older versions of macOS like macOS 13 for use with a VM app like Parallels or UTM?

Is it possible to style a Picker on macOS to look like it was in a Form, but without actually being in a grouped Form? Unfortunately I can't use Form because its style is not customizable enough. I've tried setting various buttonStyles but I only got close to what I want. The biggest problem is that the picker is left-aligned and I need it right-aligned.

Our app exports a number of file types in info.plist. For each of these file types, we export various possible file name extensions. For example, for one of our file types, we specify the possible extensions ".data", ".fitdat", and ".profitdata". In the settings of our app, we allow the user to select their preferred extension to be used, i.e. the extension to be used when, e.g., saving a document with "Save As..." panel without explicitly specifying the extension. For this, we override NSDocument's fileNameExtensionForType:saveOperation to return the presently preferred extension. This has stopped working, probably starting from macOS 14. If the user does not specify the extension in the NSSavePanel, it's always the first extension (".data") that gets added to the file name. I guess it's a consequence of the introduction of UTType, which has its own preferredFilenameExtension, which in turn probably just grabs the first extension we specify in our info.plist Any advice how to resolve this? Is there any way to override NSSavePanel's selection of extension if the user does not specify one? Thanks for any advice in advance Kurt

Hello Apple official engineer? I am a User of iOS 18 Beta & MacOS Sequoia Beta. I found some errors and uncomfortable problems of the Operating systems, so I want to notice them to you. The iOS 18 the tabs of Control center. I want to delete empty of one, but the is no way to delete. There was no control component. How should I do? -_- text of item that modified its size in the control panel protruded out of the container. the rounder container can't contain the text. The text should be more smaller or container should be changed. the responses when I touch has delay. Our family all use iPhone 12Pro or 13, when iOS 17 came out and I installed it, our phones became slower. If iOS 18 (official) assigns more processors, I think only iPhone 15 and 16 don't have lags. Also, There are some thing problem in the MacOS Sequoia(15) it doesn't support Xcode 15(.4). I should download 16 Beta!!! it has so many lag more than iOS 18. The Mac's benefit was soft screen but it become very hard moving ^^(??) this is not sure... after I update MacOS 15, the macbook makes "zzzzzzziiiii" sound when I charge. the beta does not 100% localized. I'm Korean but many messages and systems sometimes show the english. Pls check this contents!

This is quite an issue I also had for iOS 17 as well, but I accidentally ended the process though and I had to wait till iOS 17 was released. This year with iOS 18, I get the same issue except I did actually download it. It installed and went through as it prompt me to close iTunes before installing it. However, as I open iTunes after it was installed, my hopes weren’t up at all and it gave me another prompt to download it again. The prompt that was given to me is: A software update is required to connect to iPhone. I clicked install and waited for the process to download. However it never did download for some reason, and as I thought it was working, few minutes goes by and I get a new message saying: Installation Failed: Can’t install the software because it is not currently available from the Software Update server. So what now? This also occurs with public beta and developer beta. I know there’s such thing as a mobile framework for it to work but how do I get it to work on iTunes? I’m running High Sierra by the way. Does anyone have a solution to this? I have a backup of my iPhone via iTunes made before I download it in case if I have to downgrade it but it won’t be possible if iTunes won’t recognize my iPhone.

my macOS process is crashing when i keep my mac sleep for about 1 hour. Under Crash Reports, Console app shows two type of file. .diag type .ips type ips file doesn't shows exact line of crash as you can see below sample. Thread 67 Crashed: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x19a4aea60 __pthread_kill + 8 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x19a4e6c20 pthread_kill + 288 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x19a3f3a30 abort + 180 3 libsystem_malloc.dylib 0x19a303dc4 malloc_vreport + 896 4 libsystem_malloc.dylib 0x19a307430 malloc_report + 64 5 libsystem_malloc.dylib 0x19a321494 find_zone_and_free + 528 6 Firewall.so 0x103c8a744 TunnelSendQueue::ResumeSend() + 460 resource.diag file sgowing warning about exceeding limit of 150 wakeups per second over 300 seconds. attached here. reasource_consumptions_W36RNW09G.wakeups_resource_diag.txt is this something macOS stopping app because of some resource consumptions?

Is there a Description key for an app to explain why it's requesting Accessibility permissions?

Hello, For educational purpose, I try to use a POSIX semaphore sem_t instead of a dispatch_semaphore_t in a sandbox macOS Obj-C app. When using sandbox, the semaphore code creation : sem_t * _unixSemaphore; char nameSemaphore[64] = {0}; snprintf(nameSemaphore, 22, "/UnixSemaphore_sample"); _unixSemaphore = sem_open(nameSemaphore, O_CREAT, 0644, 0); fails, receiving SEM_FAILED and the errno is 78 (not implemented) However, the sem_t _unixSemaphore is created and works fine when I disable sandbox I my entitlements. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you in advance Jean Marie

How do you send an NSURL representing a new file, as returned from an NSSavePanel, to an XPC service such that the service is granted permission to create the file? I can successfully pass an NSURL to the XPC process if the NSURL represents an existing file. This is documented in Apple's Documentation: Share file access between processes with URL bookmarks This involves creating bookmark date while passing 0 in as the options. However, if you try to create bookmark data for an NSURL that represents a file that is not yet created, you do not get any bookmark data back and an error is returned instead: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file couldn’t be opened because it doesn’t exist." Simply passing the file path to the XPC process, by way of: xpc_dictionary_set_string(message, "file_path", url.fileSystemRepresentation); Does not grant the XPC create/write permissions. Is there an API or trick I'm missing? Note that the user should be allowed to save and create new files anywhere of their choosing, thus restricting URLs to only those within a group or container shared between the app and service isn't really viable. Using the latest of everything on macOS with the xpc_session API...

Hi, I am getting into a trap. Please check stack-trace, howto fix this? regards, Joël stack-trace with ExtAudioFileWrite

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/systempreferences The Above documentation of "System Preferences" says deprecated. I assume that some of the panes are not working in latest OS due to this deprecation. My query is , Is there any other alternative to Disable or Enabled Preference Panes which was attained by SystemPreferences Payload. I couldn't find any. Is it entirely stopped and in latest OS's ,it wont allowed to restrict those panes?

By calling the deactivationRequest from the main app bundle, we see Privacy & Security prompts for TouchID to deactivate the System Extension. We want to know if there's way to avoid that prompt. And also need know why the prompt pops up to deactivate our own app's System Extension component. We even tried to call the deactivate request from Daemon which contain the root access. We still see the prompt. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/systemextensions/ossystemextensionrequest/deactivationrequest(forextensionwithidentifier:queue:)

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Hey Team, We're experiencing an issue where push notifications are failing to deliver to certain devices in the production environment. However, they are working fine in the development build on specific devices. Interestingly, the notifications are working fine for a few devices in the same production environment. In the affected devices we have attempted the following things to resolve the issue Verify the device token (& send the notification through apple push notification console) reinstall the application reboot the device Below are the device details Model - Macbook Pro 15-inch, 2018 processor - 2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9 OS Version - macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 I have attached the APSD process console log for the affected device. In which we are getting following error. apsd Peer connection [pid=472] lacks APSConnectionInitiateEntitlement APSD_ConsoleLog.txt Thank you all in advance for any information regarding this issue and we will provide any additional information if needed.

I have an NSTextLayoutManager set up with NSTextContentStorage and NSTextContainer. To work out the height of the content, I call the method updateContentSizeIfNeeded() which contains the code textLayoutManager.enumerateTextLayoutFragments(from: textLayoutManager.documentRange.endLocation, options: [.reverse, .ensuresLayout]) { layoutFragment in height = layoutFragment.layoutFragmentFrame.maxY return false } The first time this is called, it returns the correct height. Then I add a new character to the start of the NSTextContentStorage like so textContentStorage.performEditingTransaction { storage.replaceCharacters(in: NSRange(location:0, length: 1), with: "a") } textLayoutManager.ensureLayout(for: textLayoutManager.documentRange) textLayoutManager.textViewportLayoutController.layoutViewport() updateContentSizeIfNeeded() This time, the height returned is ~600px too big. The state of the NSTextLayoutFragment is set to layoutAvailable The next time I add a character to textContentStorage using the same code above, the height returned is correct again. I can work around this by calling enumerateTextLayoutFragments from the start of the document and not in reverse, then ignoring all fragments except the last one, but I don't know if that's the correct way to do it, or if I should be doing something else

Hi, with the default values the rotation take place but changing the value not. I bind a button to a slider action: -(IBAction)rotateXAction:(id)sender { NSLog(@"%@ \n",sender); BOOL yn = YES; _rotationX = [_sliderX intValue]; if(yn) printf("rotationX %d \n",_rotationX); // value o.k [self setNeedsDisplay:YES]; } The drawRect: will not be called. What is wrong with my code, please tell me. Uwe

Let's say the type of project doesn't work well by using the LSApplicationCategoryType property in Info.plist. How can I trigger it via code in MacOS?