Notarization takes almost a week

Hi everyone!

I've send my .dmg file for notarization, it has been accepted on March 5. Since then there weren't any updates, it hasn't changed its status. What might be the problem?

Info about submission: createdDate: 2025-03-05T12:13:18.802Z id: 202d877d-d0c4-4211-bba4-6ebdb169a843 status: Accepted

Answered by DTS Engineer in 828860022

The example you posted shows a status of Accepted. That’s a terminal state. Once the notarisation request gets there, it won’t change again. Moreover, it also means that your submission was… well… accepted, which is good.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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The example you posted shows a status of Accepted. That’s a terminal state. Once the notarisation request gets there, it won’t change again. Moreover, it also means that your submission was… well… accepted, which is good.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Hi! But afaik it should change to Success, no?

Accepted Answer

You had me second guessing myself there for a minute (-: But, no, Accepted is the correct terminal state.

Consider this:

% notarytool history …credentials…
Successfully received submission history.
history
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2025-03-06T12:04:58.570Z
id: 2f6882e6-0f28-49f6-955f-8f7a414eac3c
name: TestTranslocate.dmg
status: Accepted
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
createdDate: 2023-11-01T17:55:16.319Z
id: cca5d303-b1f2-4338-8350-66c9c386e100
name: [redacted].zip
status: Invalid
--------------------------------------------------

And if you want to double check, fetch the notary log:

% notarytool log …credentials… 2f6882e6-0f28-49f6-955f-8f7a414eac3c
{
"logFormatVersion": 1,
"jobId": "2f6882e6-0f28-49f6-955f-8f7a414eac3c",
"status": "Accepted",
"statusSummary": "Ready for distribution",
"statusCode": 0,
"archiveFilename": "TestTranslocate.dmg",
"uploadDate": "2025-03-06T12:04:59.702Z",
"sha256": "5ce15b85a0b89c79287de28132d7aa15301934982a6250a4c70a8e1a67428aee",
"ticketContents": […elided…],
"issues": null
}

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Thank you so much!

Notarization takes almost a week
 
 
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