If someone in Apple WWDR sees this, please take the feedback to heart and report it up the chain: When you announce that a technology is being deprecated — such as CGDisplayStream — and also publish WWDC sessions about the intended replacement — ScreenCaptureKit — then you also need to give third-party developers a clear deadline by which this technology will be deprecated so that they can plan engineering efforts around implementing the new feature, and have ample time to communicate this to their customers. If it's important for third-party developers to get on board with this change, you should use every available means to communicate this to them, including multiple email alerts to their registered email address. Additionally, if you plan to make a BREAKING change in a framework that results in a wildly different user experience, you should probably hold that off until the summer release for the next major OS. What you should definitely NOT do is roll out a new privacy prompt in a mid-year release of macOS; or give your developers, customers, and AppleSeed program participants zero advance notice that this alert is coming, ignore your own Human Interface Guidelines when designing said prompt, and perform no user experience design testing (aka "putting on your customer hat") during a presumed internal alpha testing cycle to refine the experience and still find the most effective and least annoying way to present this additional prompt and spur change with your third-party developers. Oh, wait, you've done exactly all those things the wrong way with respect to ScreenCaptureKit. Right now, a host of Apple device administrators and client platform engineers are sending mountains of feedback to you, and they're also scrambling to contact third-party developers to let them know this is coming. Most of the vendors being discussed in private forums are said to be caught off guard by this change. We anticipate that users are not going to like this, and there is no way we can manage it with MDM or configuration profiles. In short, the current experience is a ghastly mess. WE, the administrators, will get blamed for this, not the third-party developers. WE will have to explain to our leadership why this experience is terrible and cannot be managed. Engineers need deadlines to help plan their work and prioritize tasks. In this case, vendors have had no firm deadline for this effort. There's already precedence for Apple announcing estimated deadlines for deprecations and feature removals. You do your developers and customers a great disservice by not communicating schedules to them. Please do better. P.S.: Feedback filed as FB13619326.

Hello: I was reading about Mail Privacy Protection because a customer issue case, and how it don't work with VPNs. The final user sees all the time a message on the email top, and then the final user claims to the vpn owner. Which are the hostnames to set in the VPN as whitelisted to remove the message from there? Thanks in advance

In other frameworks, I've seen codeSignature included in dynamic cases, but this time Apple said, "Signatures are so required in these cases where the listed SDKs are used as binary dependencies." Does that mean that even if the .framework file of the SDK you are deploying is static, you have to include codeSignature?

I'm following the steps outlined to be able to email users that have used Apple Sign-in that is listed here and I have a green check for SPF status. I used my email <my_email_here>@gmail.com, but when I try to send an email from the email address configured to the private relay email I don't see my test email coming through. I also tried sending an email from a non configured email and I don't back any sort of error message, not sure if I should though. Is there a delay in how quickly the email is received?

Hi, I encounter a problem about the permission using Flutter. I already add the following items in iOS/Runner/Info.plist <key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key> <string>We need access to your camera to take photos.</string> <key>NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription</key> <string>We need to access your current location for manage the dispatching routing.</string> <key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key> <string>We need to access your current location for manage the dispatching routing.</string> <key>NSMicrophoneUsageDescription</key> <string>We need access your microphone to talk to driver.</string> <key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key> <string>For uploading driver's report including dispatch and clock in/out</string> And call this in my code: Map<Permission, PermissionStatus> statuses = await [ Permission.camera, Permission.locationWhenInUse, Permission.locationAlways, Permission.microphone, ].request(); But why there is no any dialog asking for permission and when going to settings-> "App name", and there are no items in "Allow {App Name} to Access" for setting permission manually. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot. Here is the information of flutter doctor ``[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.10.6, on macOS 13.6.4 22G513 darwin-x64, locale zh-Hant-TW) [✗] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices ✗ Unable to locate Android SDK. Install Android Studio from: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html On first launch it will assist you in installing the Android SDK components. (or visit https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos#android-setup for detailed instructions). If the Android SDK has been installed to a custom location, please use `flutter config --android-sdk` to update to that location. [✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 15.2) [✗] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome) ! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable. [!] Android Studio (not installed) [✓] VS Code (version 1.62.0) [✓] VS Code (version 1.86.1) [✓] Connected device (2 available) [✓] Network resources``

for ios sdk, only NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes is required? Note You only need to supply NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes for apps and third-party SDKs on iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files?language=objc

i have a code only static library framework and added PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file inside. because there are no resources required in runtime, app using that framework can build without embedding. finally there are no PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file in app bundle. is this correct intended operation? some steps to propagate and merge static framework's privacy manifest to app's privacy manifest not needed?

Hi, I've implemented the Privacy Manifest in my app and specified my tracking domain as required, setting NSPrivacyTracking to true and listing my domain under NSPrivacyTrackingDomains However, on iOS17 when I decline the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) request, the specified tracking domain isn't blocked by iOS, contrary to my expectations. Shouldn't Apple's framework automatically block the domain and indicate this action in Instruments, allowing developers to verify the domain is indeed blocked when tracking is denied? <key>NSPrivacyTracking</key> <true/> <key>NSPrivacyTrackingDomains</key> <array> <string>traking.example.com</string> </array>

As the new requirement for Privacy manifests is coming this Spring 2024 (https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=r1henawx), Apple released a list of SDK's that need to comply with this requirement and provide a privacy manifest file: https://developer.apple.com/support/third-party-SDK-requirements/ I have a SDK project that does not fall under the mentioned requirements。 collects data uses of required reason API includes listed Third-party SDK I have some questions: Do I need to include a privacy manifest file in my SDK project? if so, is a blank privacy manifest file included in the SDK? if not, is it possible to publish an App that use my SDK, without a privacy manifest file?

Hello.We provide our customer with a SDK which we developed. Our customer demands us that our SDK supports privacy manifest requirement. We check if our SDK uses data,APIs and third party SDKs on the list Apple released. When our SDK don't use any data,APIs and third party SDKs, Should we add the privacy manifest file to our SDK?

Hello I have a question regarding App Privacy Details, concerning the “User ID” field. On one of my apps, I use email address as identifier during user authentication. In “App privacy” page (as well in my privacy manifest), I did add “Email Address” as collected data type, and specified that it’s linked to the user. My question is: Should I add “User ID” to my “App privacy details”, since the email address is used as identifier for the user account? Thanks in advance

How can we generate the app privacy report with xcodebuild? Here it is described how to generate the app privacy report using Xcode. We would like to do the same with xcodebuild as part of our automated build pipeline.

Hello, I need to monitor input events and convert keycode to symbol. E.g. convert kHIDUsage_KeyboardQ to symbol according to used keyboard layout. Are there any API to get current keyboard layout (language) in C++? If I understand correctly, the API TISGetInputSourceProperty() is deprecated. Are there any way to monitor keyboard layout changed? (some system notification in case of keyboard layout change) Are there any way to translate keycode to symbol except UCKeyTranslate() which is part of deprecated Unicode Utilities? Thank you in advance.

Hi, I've got swiftUI based application. It seems that on some occasions, when the app starts, I get the following popup window but I don't know which restricted items it attempts to access (passwords,network, etc..) . How can I tell what trigger this elevation message ? Thanks !

My project (an non-sandbox app) was written in Swift on MacOS and it can execute the Apple script successfully. I would like to listen for Privacy &amp; Security &gt; Automation &gt; System Events status changes when the user changes it in System Settings to disable or enable my app feature in MacOS. My app can receive Accessibility changes through this notification "com.apple.accessibility.api" Are there any system notifications for my app to receive Automation &gt; System Events status changes? Thank you!

Hi, We are a fraud detection and prevention company. We provide SDKs to customers to integrate with their applications. I wanted to clarify if we are required to provide the data collection details in the manifest files same question for the system APIs the reasons mentioned for the system APIs don't fit with our use case, how can we get the custom reasons added in case we need to mention those in the manifest.

Hi Team, We have a static framework and we have included the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy for each architecture inside the xcframework and when we try to generate the privacy report it throws error like xcprivacy not found. Can you please tell us how to include the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file for static frameworks.

Hey everyone, Was having a look into this article posted by Apple. I noticed that one of the SDKs I use - FirebaseMessaging - is included on that list. Having a look into the SDK's repository, I noticed that the Firebase team is already addressing the issue, as this PR shows. But, if you look at that SDK's PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file, the NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes property has no value associated with it. Apple clearly states that APIs that use required reason APIs are the ones that need to be updated until Sprint 2024. FirebaseMessaging looks like it doesn't, so why is it included on that list? Looking forward to your feedback.

Hi. My team is still using GLKit. I have no choice but to keep using it to support non-iOS products as well. (We don't have many developers.) While researching 'Privacy Manifest', I found out that the third party library needs to add 'PrivacyInfo'. I confirmed on Xcode that GLKit is Apple SDKs. Does this mean it's not a third party library? Is using GLKit not related to 'Privacy Manifest'?

I’m looking for guidance on what to do with the new changes [coming] (https://developer.apple.com/support/third-party-SDK-requirements/) for adding Privacy Manifest to my app. I’m using on of the listed SDK which they include a Privacy Manifest of their own, do I need to include one in my app or do I just use the third-party’s? Also what happens when a developer hasn't updated its swift package to contain one?