Notarization submissions stuck "In Progress" for 17-60+ hours, status page green

Hi,

I'm a new Apple Developer Program enrollee (1 week in) shipping a Mac app via Developer ID + notarytool. Hardened runtime enabled, properly timestamped, all embedded Mach-O signed inside-out.

10 submissions are stuck "In Progress" - the oldest from 2026-06-07 (60+ hours ago).

One Invalid verdict came back on 2026-06-08 for a real signing issue (unsigned PyQt5 framework binaries) which I've since fixed; the 10 newer submissions should pass cleanly.

Apple's system status page has shown Developer ID Notary Service as green ("Operational") this entire time.

This appears to be a queue issue specific to my account, not a service-wide outage.

xcrun notarytool history:

createdDate: 2026-06-09T16:26:37Z  id: 4c928b64...  status: In Progress  (17h)
createdDate: 2026-06-09T16:25:26Z  id: 74e9feed...  status: In Progress  (17h)
createdDate: 2026-06-08T21:13:31Z  id: 8b246574...  status: In Progress  (37h)
createdDate: 2026-06-08T20:59:37Z  id: 4a529617...  status: In Progress  (37h)
createdDate: 2026-06-08T18:49:33Z  id: ff43d591...  status: In Progress  (39h)
createdDate: 2026-06-08T18:46:27Z  id: 60579d8d...  status: In Progress  (39h)
createdDate: 2026-06-08T18:36:02Z  id: a82fd14b...  status: In Progress  (39h)
createdDate: 2026-06-08T18:22:45Z  id: 4514a5cb...  status: In Progress  (39h)
createdDate: 2026-06-07T21:20:09Z  id: 700c8413...  status: In Progress  (60h)
createdDate: 2026-06-07T20:18:08Z  id: 2ea83c6c...  status: In Progress  (60h)

xcrun notarytool info on each returns "status: In Progress" with no processedDate set. I understand new submitters can get held for extended in-depth analysis on first submissions, but 60+ hours is past any documented expectation for that.

Could a DTS engineer please look at the backend logs and either release the queue or tell me what's specifically blocking these submissions?

Thanks!

You can expect that most uploads will be notarised quickly. Occasionally, some uploads are held for in-depth analysis and may take longer to complete. As you notarise your apps, the system will learn how to recognise them, and you should see fewer delays.

For lots of additional info about notarisation, see Notarisation Resources. Specifically, it links to a Q&A with the notary service team that’s quite instructive.

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Notarization submissions stuck "In Progress" for 17-60+ hours, status page green
 
 
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