I’m trying to enroll in the Apple Developer Program as an individual. I’ve gone through the steps on the website and started the purchase process. However, after a couple of days when I return to the site, it doesn’t remember my progress — I have to start the enrollment from scratch every time. Is this expected behavior? Am I missing a step to save my progress or complete the enrollment properly? Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hi, I have an iOS app where bluetooth scanner and bluetooth keyboard both should work simultaneously. I have used 'pressesBegan' method to fetch the characters which are coming from the bluetooth keyboard. This method is fetching all the bluetooth keyboard inputs correctly. But this method is also called when the characters are coming from the bluetooth scanner. In the 'pressesBegan' method, I have to separate the inputs which are coming from the bluetooth keyboard and are coming from bluetooth scanner. They both have some different use in the app. I have already tried with the fetching speed of the characters, but no luck in case of high speed typing. So characters fetching speed will not work in our case. Is there any way to separate the inputs based on some other factorials? Or any other info in the 'pressesBegan' method which can separate the input that it is coming from scanner or is coming from keyboard. Any suggestion regarding this will be helpful. Thanks in advance.

i have a swift app,in latest version , i change some class module . in old version used archivedData(withRootObject rootObject: Any) to save class model. in lastest version crashed -[NSKeyedUnarchiver decodeObjectForKey:]: cannot decode object of class

I have a TabView with a sample tabItem as follows: .tabItem { Label ("Import", systemImage:"doc.on.doc") .accessibilityLabel("Import Text") } But accessibility settings for large display size on does not seem to work, nor do dynamic font sizes: .tabItem { Label ("Import", systemImage:"doc.on.doc") .font(.largeTitle) .accessibilityLabel("Import Text") } The tabItems appear as a fixed size. The tab contents scale well, so this does not look pleasant at all. Is this a known bug in SwiftUI?

I’m working on a macOS Accessibility setup for a French-speaking user and I’ve hit a wall. (I'm not a developper and I'm trying to help my kid with dyslexia) I successfully built a custom word prediction panel using the Panel Editor (Keyboard) in macOS Accessibility > Keyboard > Accessibility Keyboard. Here’s what I have so far: • The prediction panel works system-wide: I can use it to type in Finder, Safari, Notes, TextEdit, and even browser search bars. • The panel appears above all applications and suggestions show up correctly. • However, it does not work inside Google Docs (tested in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox). Selecting a word from the panel does nothing in the Docs editor. I suspect this is because: • Google Docs does not use a standard macOS text input field. • Docs is a web app that relies on custom JavaScript editors, contentEditable elements, and canvas rendering, so macOS Accessibility APIs (AXTextField, AXInsertText, etc.) don’t register or inject text events. • Accessibility tools like the Accessibility Keyboard rely on native macOS text input methods, which don’t hook into Google Docs’ custom editor. Important: I’m not a programmer. I’d like to know if there is an easy fix or option in macOS, Google Chrome, or Google Docs that would make my custom prediction panel work, before going into custom development. Technical setup: • MacBook Air (M2, 2022) • RAM: 8 GB • macOS: Sequoia 15.3.1 • Language: French (system and keyboard) • Accessibility Keyboard: Enabled via Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard • Custom panel: Built using Panel Editor (Keyboard), named “Philemon Prédiction” • Browsers tested: Chrome, Safari, Firefox (same issue) • Behavior: Panel is visible, suggestions appear, but inserting text does nothing in Google Docs Has anyone worked around this limitation? Is there a simple setting, workaround, or accessibility option to bridge macOS Accessibility input with Google Docs’ editor? Thanks a lot!

Hello, my submission is based on Haptics. Without it the App doesn't make sense. And only real iPhone can give this opportunity. But it says that Xcode playgrounds will be tested on Simulator. Is it indeed like this? What can I do? Thank you in advance!

I downloaded the official camera sample code（https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/sample-apps/capturingphotos-camerapreview ）it's a .swiftpm package and created a SwiftUI project. I copied the official sample code into this new project, build it, and ran it on an iPhone 13 for testing. I found that there were black empty areas on the top and bottom of the application interface, which means that the application interface cannot be previewed in full screen. I have tried many methods but cannot preview in full screen. How can I modify the code?

hello everybody, I have a new idea for the future a new product the new iPod with integrated mobile router and with more functions also other products in this category more functions you can thinking for gaming and more one function is special for handheld controller. One is Nintendo Switch or other consoles. She have problem with the Wi-Fi. When you most login we are website. This problem is with this problem. Not more a problem. This is the idea one from thousand ideas the best is the software you can use this for working and for the children for the first smartphone you cannot calling all person you can only call the 911 or the family interest you making with FaceTime this is the number one for communication on this iPod. This is a new category and you can music streaming.

I have a TextField and entered for example "sg?!". At the TextField I set the modifier speechAlwaysIncludesPunctuation(). But when I activate VoiceOver the content of TextField is reading. The special characters don't read out. How can I fix this?

I’m trying to understand the best practice for assigning accessibilityTraits to a UITableViewCell that users can select from a list of options. In Apple’s first-party apps like Settings, I’ve noticed an inconsistent approach—some cells use the Button trait, while others simply announce the label along with the Selected trait when applicable, without any additional role like Button or Adjustable. So my question is: What is the most appropriate accessibility trait to use for a selectable table view cell that updates a selection (like a settings option)? Is using .button the right approach, or should we rely solely on .selected? Is there any user experience guideline from Apple that recommends one over the other? Would love to hear how others handle this for clarity and consistency in VoiceOver behavior.

Hey, We've run into an issue where WKWebView contents are not always available for VoiceOver users. It seems to occur when WKWebView contents are loaded asynchronously. I have a sample project where this can be reproduced and a video showing the issue. See FB21257352 The only solution we currently see is forcing an update continuously using UIAccessibility.post(notification: .layoutChanged, argument: nil), but this is ofc a last resort as it may have other unintended side effects.

Individuals with a stroke can end up with vision impairments: specifically Homonymous Hemianopia which basically means the individual has lost sight in (as an example) the left half of both eyes. I'm interested in understanding if it would be possible to help individuals with this vision impairment by providing an accessibility config within the Apple Vision Pro which would first determine an individuals field of view (possibly by showing a field of dots across the entire "screen" and having the individual look at the dot and click. Based on the results of this field of view, this would determine how the screen would be presented to the user moving forward. My mom (82 years old) had a stroke recently and was diagnosed with Homonymous Hemianopia. She lived on her IPhone and would love to get back the ability to text message, use Facebook, and order items from Amazon. Please advise if you believe the Apple Vision Pro would be capable of helping in this area with the suggested development, or other thoughts.

Many of us Bangladeshi iPhone users were upset when Apple changed the font to Bangla in the most recent iOS version (18.4.1). We prefer the old Bangla typeface. I want the old Bangla typeface to return, and so do we. Please consider this.

We have a requirement to manage the shortcuts and hotkeys in our application, and have it to be intuitive and support multi-lingual fully. The understanding that we have currently is that most universal shortcuts and hotkeys on MacOS/iOS are expressed using English/Latin characters’ – and now, when a ‘pure foreign language physical or virtual keyboard’ is the ‘input device’ – we are unclear how the user would invoke such a hotkey. Now, considering cases where other language keyboards have no Latin characters, in these environments, managing shortcuts and hotkeys becomes a rather difficult task. Taking a very simple example, the shortcut for Printing a page is Command/Control + 'P'. This can be an issue on Non English character keyboards like Arabic, where not only are there no letters for P, there is also no equivalent phonetic character as well, since the language itself does not have it. Also – when we are wanting customizability of a hotkey by the user, how would the user express ‘which is the key combination for a given action they want to perform’. So, based on these conditions, in order to provide the most comprehensive and optimal experience for the user in their own language, what is it that Apple recommend we do here, for Hotkeys/Shortcuts support in Pure Languages

Hello, I'm observing a persistent and frustrating issue with an accessibility feature called Guided Access that seems to affect many users across different devices and iOS versions. Problem The triple-click gesture (side or home button) to activate Guided Access intermittently stops working after the device has been in normal use for a few days (typically 2-7 days) without a restart. I have done some debugging for Apple in FB16094026 but received no updates after 6 months. So I'm posting here in the hope that this will be solved sooner. A core accessibility feature shouldn't require daily device restarts to function reliably. Details: Guided Access is correctly enabled in Settings > Accessibility. Initially, the triple-click works perfectly. After a period of normal device use (2-7 days), the triple-click no longer triggers Guided Access in any app. Restarting the device temporarily resolves the issue, and Guided Access triple-click works again immediately after a reboot. However, the problem recurs after continued use. Simply toggling the Guided Access setting on/off does NOT fix it. Additional observation: Even trying to select Guided Access manually via the Accessibility Shortcut menu (if multiple shortcuts are enabled) sometimes fails to launch the feature when in this state. Affected: iPhones and iPads Observed on iOS/iPadOS 16, 17, and now 18, indicating it's a long-standing bug. Impact: Guided Access is a crucial accessibility feature for many users (for focus, special needs, parental controls, etc.). Its unreliable activation significantly disrupts daily workflows and reliance on this function. This issue appears to be widespread, with many reports across forums like Apple Support Communities and Reddit. For example, this post received over 1k upvotes. To see more examples please refer to FB16094026. Could Apple please investigate this bug urgently? Thanks.

I remember that Vision Pro's dwell control could previously be set to 0.1 seconds, but now it can't. Is there a way to adjust it?

Hello, I am a student studying accessibility. I aim to analyze the smartphone usage patterns of visually impaired individuals. Therefore, I would like to log the VoiceOver usage records of visually impaired iPhone users. Is there a way to output VoiceOver logs, similar to the AccessibilityService API on Android? Thank you in advance for your responses.

The only way I found to make the accessibility focus work correctly in the detent in a fullscreen cover is to apply the focus manually. The issue is in the ContentView the grabber works while in the fullscreen it does not. Is there something I am missing or is this a bug. I also don't understand why I need to apply focus in the fullscreen cover while in the ContentView I do not. struct ContentView: View { @State private var buttonClicked = false @State private var bottomSheetShowing = false var body: some View { NavigationView { VStack { Button(action: { buttonClicked = true }, label: { Text("First Page Button") .padding() .background(Color.blue) .foregroundColor(.white) .cornerRadius(8) }) .accessibilityLabel("First Page Button") FullscreenView2() } .navigationTitle("Welcome") .fullScreenCover(isPresented: $buttonClicked) { FullscreenView(buttonClicked: $buttonClicked, bottomSheetShowing: $bottomSheetShowing) } } } } struct FullscreenView: View { @Binding var buttonClicked: Bool @Binding var bottomSheetShowing: Bool var body: some View { NavigationView { VStack { Button(action: { bottomSheetShowing = true }, label: { Text("Show Bottom Sheet") .padding() .background(Color.green) .foregroundColor(.white) .cornerRadius(8) }) } .accessibilityHidden(bottomSheetShowing) .navigationTitle("Fullscreen View") .toolbar { ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarLeading) { Button(action: { buttonClicked = false }, label: { Text("Close") }) .accessibilityLabel("Close Fullscreen View Button") } } .accessibilityHidden(bottomSheetShowing) .onChange(of: bottomSheetShowing, perform: { _ in }) .sheet(isPresented: $bottomSheetShowing) { if #available(iOS 16.0, *) { BottomSheetView(bottomSheetShowing: $bottomSheetShowing) .presentationDetents([.medium, .large]) } else { BottomSheetView(bottomSheetShowing: $bottomSheetShowing) } } } } } struct FullscreenView2: View { @State var bottomSheetShowing = false var body: some View { VStack { Button(action: { bottomSheetShowing = true }, label: { Text("Show Bottom Sheet") .padding() .background(Color.green) .foregroundColor(.white) .cornerRadius(8) }) } .accessibilityHidden(bottomSheetShowing) .navigationTitle("Fullscreen View") //.accessibilityHidden(bottomSheetShowing) .onChange(of: bottomSheetShowing, perform: { _ in }) .sheet(isPresented: $bottomSheetShowing) { if #available(iOS 16.0, *) { BottomSheetView(bottomSheetShowing: $bottomSheetShowing) .presentationDetents([.medium, .large]) } else { BottomSheetView(bottomSheetShowing: $bottomSheetShowing) } } } } struct BottomSheetView: View { @Binding var bottomSheetShowing: Bool // @AccessibilityFocusState var isFocused: Bool var body: some View { VStack(spacing: 20) { Text("Bottom Sheet") .font(.headline) .accessibilityAddTraits(.isHeader) Button(action: { bottomSheetShowing = false }, label: { Text("Dismiss") .padding() .background(Color.red) .foregroundColor(.white) .cornerRadius(8) }) .accessibilityLabel("Dismiss Bottom Sheet Button") } .padding() .frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity) .background( Color(UIColor.systemBackground) .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all) ) .accessibilityAddTraits(.isModal) // Indicates that this view is a modal // .onAppear { // // Set initial accessibility focus when the sheet appears // DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1.0) { // isFocused = true // } // } // .accessibilityFocused($isFocused) } }

I'm facing a bizarre issue with the Apple's Accessibility APIs. I am registering an AXObserver that listens for, among other things, the kAXSelectedTextChangedNotification. For many new users, the kAXSelectTextChangedNotification is not triggered, even though they have enabled Accessibility permission for the app. Other notifications are getting through (kAXWindowMovedNotification, kAXWindowResizedNotification, kAXValueChangedNotification etc - full list here), just not the kAXSelectedTextChangedNotification! We've found that we can reproduce the error by removing accessibility permission for the app and rebooting our computers. After restarting and reenabling accessibility permissions, the kAXSelectedTextChangedNotification was not received, even though other notifications were fine. Strangely, the issue can be resolved by launching Apple's Accessibility Inspector app on an impacted computer. Once the Accessibility Inspector is loaded, the kAXSelectedTextChangedNotifications start coming through as expected. This implies to me that either: We are missing some needed setup when starting the observers. Accessibility Inspector gets it right, thus ‘starting’ the system properly. Accessibility Inspector is using some Apple private APIs that we don’t have access to. Things I’ve tried: I've tried subscribing the AXSelectedTextChangedNotification to different AXUIElements, including the SystemWide element, the Application element, and children elements from the AXApplication. None of these received the kAXSelectedTextChangedNotification, until Accessibility Inspector is booted up. No surprises here, as Apple's documentation confirms that you should add the notification to the root Application AXUIElement if you want to receive notifications for all its children. I had a theory that the issue might be due to my code calling AXUIElementCreateApplication multiple times, possibly creating multiple "Applications" in Apple's Accessibility implementation. If that’s the case, the notifications might be sent to the wrong application AXUIElement. However, refactoring my code to only call AXUIElementCreateApplication once didn't resolve the issue. I thought the issue may be caused by subscribing the AXSelectedTextChangedNotification on the high-level application element (at odds with Apple's documentation). I've tried traversing the child AXUIElements until we find one with the kAXSelectedTextAttribute and then subscribing to that. This did not resolve the issue. I don’t think it's the correct path to continue exploring, given that the notifications are received correctly after AccessibilityInspector is launched. There is one exception to the above: if I add the kSelectedTextChangedNotification listener to a specific text field AXUIElement, I do receive the notification on that text field. However, this is not practical; I need a solution that will work for all text fields within an app. The Accessibility Inspector appears to be doing something that causes the selected-text-changed notifications to be correctly passed up to the high-level application AXUIElement. Another thought is that I could traverse the entire Accessibility hierarchy and add listeners to every subview that has the kAXSelectedTextAttribute. However, I don’t like this long-term solution. It will be slow and incomplete: new elements get added and removed frequently. I just want the kAXSelectedTextChangedNotification to be received by the high-level Application AXUIElement, which the documentation suggests it should be. I also have evidence that this can work, since notifications start coming through after Accessibility Inspector is launched. It’s just a matter of discovering how to replicate whatever Accessibility Inspector is doing. An interesting wrinkle: I implemented the 'traverse' strategy above, but was surprised by how few elements were in the hierarchy. Most apps only go down ~2-3 levels, which didn't seem right to me. Perhaps the Accessibility tree isn't fully initialized? I tried adding a 5-second delay to allow more initialization time, but it didn't change anything. Does anyone have any ideas? Here's our file.

I am invoking the UIImagePickerController of type UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary from my viewController. I want shift the keyboard focus to the Cancel button which is the first interactive element on the gallery picker. When a user has full keyboard access turned on they should be able to tap tab and interact with the gallery picker modal. How do I achieve this?