5G Network Slicing App Category and Traffic Category on built application

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Created Jan ’25

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We found that when we only set one App Category and one Traffic Category in Xcode entitlements, the built application will contain all App Categories and Traffic Categories in the embedded.mobileprovision file, is it expected?

Entitlements file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.appcategory</key>
	<array>
		<string>streaming-9001</string>
	</array>
	<key>com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.trafficcategory</key>
	<array>
		<string>avstreaming-7</string>
	</array>
</dict>
</plist>

embedded.mobileprovision:

<key>Entitlements</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.appcategory</key>
<array>
<string>communication-9000</string>
<string>games-6014</string>
<string>streaming-9001</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.developer.networking.slicing.trafficcategory</key>
<array>
<string>defaultslice-1</string>
<string>video-2</string>
<string>background-3</string>
<string>voice-4</string>
<string>callsignaling-5</string>
<string>responsivedata-6</string>
<string>avstreaming-7</string>
<string>responsiveav-8</string>
</array>

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’25

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is it expected?

Yes. The entitlements in your provisioning profile represent an allowlist. They authorise your app to use these values. The entitlements in your code signature are the entitlements that you actually claim.

I talk about this in a lot more detail in TN3125 Inside Code Signing: Provisioning Profiles.

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