Accessing a directory on my custom distributed filesystem results in a kernel panic. According to the backtrace, the last function called before the panic is triggered is mac_label_verify(). See the backtrace file attached. mac_label_verify-panic.txt The panic manifests itself given the following conditions: Machine-a: make a directory in Finder. Machine-b: remove the directory created on machine-a in Finder. Machine-a: access the directory removed on machine-b in Finder. Kernel panic ensues. The panic is reproducible on both Apple Silicon and x86-64. The backtrace is for x86-64 as I wasn't able to symbolicate it on Apple Silicon. Not sure how to tackle this one. Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Hi, been exploring macOS VM on both Parallels and UTM and they lack some "GPU/graphics" things vs native MacOS which could be useful on some situations (testing some non trusted graphics apps on a Mac VM) so providing similar usefulness as Windows Sandbox.. Current limitations: 1)In MacOS VM night mode doesn't work.. 2)HDR support isn't exposed even when enabling HDR on host 3)missing GPTK support for the Paravirtual GPU (Paravitual GPU supports Metal but isn't enough for GPTK to work which complains about unsupported GPU).. 4)OpenCL is supported but only the CPU device.. so expose GPU device in addition to current CPU only device.. 5)OpenGL only supports the software renderer.. I assume OpenGL driver on Apple M1-4 GPUs being Metal based, and being Metal supported no reason for software renderer only thanks..

I'm playing around with using an app to automate some of my personal work flows, and one of the things I wanted to do was to be able to drag a .webloc file onto my app icon in the dock, to launch it. I've got public.data set up as a document type for it in Xcode, which translated to <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Viewer</string> <key>LSHandlerRank</key> <string>Default</string> <key>LSItemContentTypes</key> <array> <string>public.data</string> </array> </dict> </array> in the Info.plist for it, which seems correct. When I drag a .webloc file onto the Dock icon, it appears to be willing to accept it, but nothing seems to happen. In the app, I've got an AppDelegate.swift file which has extension Notification.Name { static let receivedURLsNotification = Notification.Name("ReceivedURLsNotification") } class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate { func application(_ application: NSApplication, open urls: [URL]) { guard !urls.isEmpty else { return } NotificationCenter.default.post(name: .receivedURLsNotification, object: nil, userInfo: ["URLs": urls]) } } (I copied it almost verbatim from a Medium post.) In the app swift file, I have @main struct LoggerApp: App, DropDelegate { @NSApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) var appDelegate I set a breakpoint on application(_:NSApplication, open:[URL]), and did my drag, and the breakpoint never triggered. I added the application(didFinishLaunching(_:Notification) method, and that does get invoked when the app launches, so the app delegate does seem to be working. That seems to indicate the problem is somewhere else?

I want to open a view in my App that contains a Model3D view and I want that object to rotate continuously around the Y axis while it is visible. Is it possible to animate the rotation of a Model3D view? I've tried this code, but the object just sits there and doesn't rotate. import RealityKit import RealityKitContent import SwiftUI struct QuantumComputerArea: View { @State var degreesRotating = 0.0 var body: some View { VStack { Model3D(named: "quantumComputer") { phase in switch phase { case .empty: ProgressView() case let .failure(error): Text(error.localizedDescription) case let .success(model): model .resizable() .scaledToFit() .offset(x: -75, y: 0) .rotation3DEffect(.degrees(degreesRotating), axis: (x: 0, y: 1, z: 0)) @unknown default: fatalError() } //phase } //Model3D .onAppear { withAnimation(Animation.linear(duration: 10).repeatForever(autoreverses: false)) { degreesRotating = 360 } } } //VStack } //View } //View I'm probably missing something simple but if anyone has any suggestions (including use a RealityView) I'd be grateful for the advice.

I've found an app that has a call blocking feature an is able to add more than 10_000_000 entries. As I understand it doesn't use more than one extension for it because I see only one in the Call Blocking & Identifying settings menu. How to implement that? My limit now is around 1_800_000 entries.

Hi, i’m doing a work. i need to transfer files (photo, raw format) from sd to iphone. On my iPad pro. i need to move photo first on file, then Import to photo. now. If i do this job for few files there is no problem. if i copy more then 300 files job is not done. when i select raw file on file app, and then click on share/ save to my photo option …. Ther‘s no progress bar, no way to conclude copy with success. At least 298 photo are imported. Whitout any error or warning. Someone do the trick? can be possible to copy from file to file or import from file to photo with a progress bar display? it’s very very strange that the basic is turned off. please help me. thank you very much in advance.

Hi, May I ask if there is any iOS API or similar way to switch between the transparency and ANC modes of AirPods Pro 2? I know there is one way to configure and activate the shortcut in the APP, which requires an inconvenient manual setting. May I ask for any other advice? Thx in advance!

Hi, May I ask if there is any API or similar way inside the iOS app to set up/switch the transparency and ANC modes of the AirPods Pro 2? One way is to set up one shortcut and activate that shortcut in the app, but it requires manually setting for a shortcut, which is not convenient. Thx for any advice on that!

Hi. I’m not sure where to post it, but after 1.5 years with the AWU2 the main Watch face is still bugged, missing seconds (two digit) in format. In the attached example it shows “06:30:5” for 10 seconds until it hits ”06:31:00”. I’m not sure if it’s only related to Danish AWU’s. But it is so annoying, and has forced me to change watch to Garmin in the past. PLEASE FIX IT, please please.

I have an app whose logic is in C++ and rest of the parts (UI) are in Swift and SwiftUI. When an exception is raised by some C++ code, I'm using the Linux signal handler mechanism to trap it. From my previous post, I understand that fatal exceptions like SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGFPE etc., there's nothing much that can be done by the process. My only intent for using a signal handler is to log something, so that it becomes easy to fix during development. Ofc, even that logging can fail, based on the severity of the exception, but that's okay... make an attempt to log - if it works, great, else the process can terminate. I'm registering for SIGSEGV and SIGFPE with the following code // ExceptionHandlingCpp.hpp file struct tSignals { SignalHandlerFunc signalHandlerFunc; uint32_t signal; [[maybe_unused]] uint8_t reserved[4]; }; // ExceptionHandlingCpp.cpp file tSignals ExceptionHandlingCpp::unixSignals[] = { {HandleSignals, SIGFPE, {0}}, {HandleSignals, SIGSEGV, {0}}, {HandleSignals, SIGKILL, {0}}, }; std::string ExceptionHandlingCpp::signalToString(int signal) { switch(signal) { case SIGFPE: return "SIGFPE"; case SIGSEGV: return "SIGSEGV"; case SIGKILL: return "SIGKILL"; default: return "Unknown signal"; } } void ExceptionHandlingCpp::RegisterSignals() { LOG("ExceptionHandlingCpp::RegisterSignals()"); struct sigaction sa; sa.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO; for(int i = 0; i &lt; sizeof(unixSignals)/sizeof(tSignals); ++i) { sa.sa_sigaction = unixSignals[i].signalHandlerFunc; if(sigaction(unixSignals[i].signal, &amp;sa, nullptr) == 1) { LOG("Failed to set " + signalToString(unixSignals[i].signal) + "'s signal handler!"); } else { LOG(signalToString(unixSignals[i].signal) + "'s signal handler set sucessfully!"); } } } In my signal handler (HandleSignals method), immediately after trapping a signal, I log something and set the default handler... This breaks out of the loop that occurs when returning from the signal handler. // ExceptionHandlingCpp.cpp void ExceptionHandlingCpp::HandleSignals(int pSignal, siginfo_t *pInfo, void *pContext) { LOG("ExceptionHandlingCpp::HandleSignals(int, signinfo_t*, void*)"); LOG("signal = " + signalToString(pSignal)); UnregisterSignals(pSignal); LOG("Returning from exception handler..."); } void ExceptionHandlingCpp::UnregisterSignals(int pSignal) { LOG("UnregisterSignals(int)"); struct sigaction defaultAction {}; defaultAction.sa_handler = SIG_DFL; if(sigaction(pSignal, &amp;defaultAction, nullptr) == -1) { LOG("Error in resetting action for " + signalToString(pSignal)); } else { LOG("Successfully reset " + signalToString(pSignal) + "'s action to default!"); } } When I test this code by raising SIGSEGV (as shown below), void ExceptionHandlingCpp::DereferenceNullPtr () { LOG("DereferenceNullPtr()"); int* ptr = nullptr; LOG("Raising exception..."); int value = *ptr; } everything works as expected. Signal handler is invoked, default handler is set and the process immediately quits. But when I try to raise a SIGFPE, void* ExceptionHandlingCpp::DivisionByZero ([[maybe_unused]] void* pParms) { LOG("DivisionByZero()"); int num1; int num2; int result; num1 = 5; num2 = 0; LOG("Raising exception..."); result = num1 / num2; LOG("Returning from DivisionByZero() method"); return nullptr; } my signal handler is not invoked (as shown in the logs below). The process doesn't terminate either. It seems that the flow simply 'walks over' this division by zero instruction as if nothing happened and returns from that method, which shouldn't have happened, as the process should've terminated after reaching my signal handler. RegisterSignals() SIGFPE's signal handler set sucessfully! SIGSEGV's signal handler set sucessfully! SIGKILL's signal handler set sucessfully! .... DivisionByZero() Raising exception... Returning from DivisionByZero() method .... AppDelegate.applicationWillBecomeActive(_:) AppDelegate.applicationDidBecomeActive(_:) ... // UI is displayed Why is SIGFPE not raised? What am I missing here?

Hi, We are developing an Enterprise SSO extension for use by our customers. It is working well for username/password. We would like to use external security tokens such as Yubikey, via NFC. This works well inside the container app. However, it looks like NFC might not be available to the SSO extension? The container app is signed with an NFC entitlement, and has the relevant key in the plist for a prompt to show the user. We use a 3rd party package called Yubikit to communicate with the Yubikey in the container app... all good. In the trial I did, I had the SSO appex configured as a Credential extension. I have a demo/sample host app that uses this service, that mirrors what our customer's apps will do. Currently, due to limitations in the server we are connecting to, instead of relying on a 401 authentication challenge, I am "manually" activating the enterprise SSO credential appex using ASAuthorizationSingleSignOnProvider, then our customer's host app will use the token the SSO appex returns for authenticating its API calls. This is working perfectly for the username/password scenario. However some of our customers are very security conscious and require hardware tokens. When I drive the same code in the contained SSO Enterprise app extension, and attempt to activate the NFC reader the same way, it seems like it doesn't have access to NFC? I attempted to add the entitlement to the appex as well but it wasn't even available on the list of entitlements! This leads me to suspect that iOS doesn't allow the SSO appex process to have access to the NFC reader, and there's no way to do what I'm attempting? Note: it is easy for us to move to using a Redirect extension instead if this is the answer, but it doesn't seem that it's likely to help? What is the recommended approach here? Regards, Carl

Before updating to macOS 15 Sequoia, I used to be able to create file bookmarks with this code: let openPanel = NSOpenPanel() openPanel.runModal() let url = openPanel.urls[0] do { let _ = try url.bookmarkData(options: [.withSecurityScope]) } catch { print(error) } Now I get an error Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "Failed to retrieve app-scope key" These are the entitlements: com.apple.security.app-sandbox com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write com.apple.security.files.bookmarks.app-scope Strangely, my own apps continued working, after updating to macOS 15 some days ago, until a few moments ago. Then it seems that all of a sudden my existing bookmarks couldn't be resolved anymore, and no new bookmarks could be created. What could be the problem?

A customer of mine reported that since updating to macOS 15 they aren't able to use my app anymore, which performs a deep scan of selected folders by recursively calling getattrlistbulk. The problem is that the app apparently keeps scanning forever, with the number of scanned files linearly increasing to infinity. This happens for some folders on a SMB volume. The customer confirmed that they can reproduce the issue with a small sample app that I attach below. At first, I created a sample app that only scans the contents of the selected folder without recursively scanning the subcontents, but the issue didn't happen anymore, so it seems to be related to recursively calling getattrlistbulk. The output of the sample app on the customer's Mac is similar to this: start scan /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents level 0 fileManagerCount 2847 continue scan /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents new items 8, sum 8, errno 34 /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents/A.doc /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents/B.doc ... continue scan /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents new items 7, sum 1903, errno 0 /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents/FKV.pdf /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents/KFW.doc /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents/A.doc /Volumes/shares/Backup/Documents/B.doc ... which shows that counting the number of files in the root folder by using try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: path).count returns 2847, while getattrlistbulk lists about 1903 files and then starts listing the files from the beginning, not even between repeated calls, but within a single call. What could this issue be caused by? (The website won't let me attach .swift files, so I include the source code of the sample app as a text attachment.) ViewController.swift

Is it even possible or part of VisionOS? Thanks, Colin

Hi, REQUEST 1: seems Microsoft is ahead of Apple in X86 ARM emulation support at least in features supported.. see: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/11/06/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-27744-canary-channel/ x64 emulated applications through Prism will now have support for additional extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture. These extensions include AVX and AVX2, as well as BMI, FMA, F16C BMI1/2 and F16C aren't yet supported by Rosetta.. would be useful for games like Alan Wake 2.. so asking for Rosetta equaling features to Prism emulator.. REQUEST 2: there is no way to currently enable AVX1/2 on Rosetta Linux.. on macOS using export ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX=1 does the trick.. but not on Linux VM's.. tested setting this via: /bin/launchctl setenv ROSETTA_ADVERTISE_AVX 1 on Mac before VM launch and inside Linux VM but AVX2 isn't exposed..

In IOS 18.2 Beta 3 and earlier versions unfortunately it is not possible, to make shortcut use a variable to add a tag to a note. Whenever this is running it opens up the list of tags and asks for manual input instead of using the variable that is placed in the textfield of the apply tag command. Would be great if someone responsible could adjust that so it works. Thxs :-)

Not able to replicate this myself but have had a couple of users report this. I have a Finder Sync Extension. It does not, at least intentionally, change any sidebar icons. The hosting app mostly uses asset catalogs and the icon file it specifies in its info.plist is a icns file, not an iconset. Any idea what may be causing this? Seems odd to me that there isn't some explicit setting to enable this instead of requiring some set of configurations lining up.

We're build a pkg with three apps in it from the command line. There is one primary app and two supporting apps. We build a folder structure inside a temp directory like below (some folder names replaced with generic ones): mkdir -p ./tmp/Applications/.hiddenfolder/ mkdir -p ./tmp/Library/Application\ Support/Company/ mkdir -p ./tmp/Library/Preferences/ mkdir -p ./tmp/Library/Logs/Company/ mkdir -p ./tmp/Library/LaunchAgents/ mkdir -p ./tmp/Library/Company/ mkdir -p ./tmp/Library/LaunchDaemons/ #Grant Logs Folder Read-Write Access to All chmod a+rw ./tmp/Library/Logs/Company/ chmod a+rw ./tmp/Library/Application\ Support/Company/ We then build and sign each app dependency and place them into the temporary folder. For each app we're calling: xcodebuild -workspace "$PROJECT" -scheme "$TARGET" -configuration Release -derivedDataPath "$WORKING" clean build codesign --force --deep -o runtime --entitlements "../$TARGET/$APPLICATION.entitlements" --sign "$DEVKEY" "$WORKING/Build/Products/Release/$APPLICATION.app" cp -R "$WORKING/Build/Products/Release/$APPLICATION.app" "$DESTINATION" The primary app is copied into ./tmp/Applications/.hiddenfolder/ . The other two apps are put in ./tmp/Library/Company/ and ./tmp/Applications/ We then create the component list, build, and notarize the final pkg using the script below: Some definitions of the variables used below: IDENTIFIER=com.company.pkg.app1 (not real id but an example) ROOT=./tmp SCRIPTS=./scripts GUI=./pkggui pkgbuild --analyze --identifier "$IDENTIFIER" --version "$VERSION" --root "$ROOT" --scripts "$SCRIPTS" "$NAME-tmp.plist" /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "SET 0:BundleIsRelocatable NO" "$NAME-tmp.plist" /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "SET 1:BundleIsRelocatable NO" "$NAME-tmp.plist" /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "SET 2:BundleIsRelocatable NO" "$NAME-tmp.plist" pkgbuild --identifier "$IDENTIFIER" --version "$PKGVERSION" --root "$ROOT" --scripts "$SCRIPTS" --component-plist "$NAME-tmp.plist" "$NAME-tmp.pkg" productbuild --synthesize --package "$NAME-tmp.pkg" distribution.xml sed -i "" \ -e '$ i\ \ <title>App1</title>' \ -e '$ i\ \ <background file="background.icns" alignment="bottomleft" scaling="proportional" />' \ -e '$ i\ \ <welcome file="welcome.txt" />' \ -e '$ i\ \ <installation-check script="InstallationCheck()"/> \ <script> \ function InstallationCheck(prefix) { \ if (system.compareVersions(system.version.ProductVersion, '12.0') &lt; 0) { \ my.result.message = "This update requires OS X version 12.0 or later."; \ my.result.type = "Fatal"; \ return false; \ } \ return true; \ } \ </script>' \ "distribution.xml" productbuild --distribution distribution.xml --resources "$GUI" --package-path "./$NAME-tmp.pkg" --sign "$DEVKEY" "$NAME.pkg" Once built and notarized this pkg becomes the base for the installers we give to customers. For each customer we have some custom parameters we set in a plist file inside the pkg, which requires us to expand the pkg out, add the plist file to /Library/Preferences/ in the expanded pkg, and then flattent/re-notarize the edited pkg. What we're running into is that the primary app (App1 above) will intermittently disappear after installation. We check all of the files we lay down in the postinstall script, and usually it detects the app in the correct location (/Applications/.hiddenfolder/), so it appears that it is correctly laying the files down but something is removing the app after installation. A couple of times the postinstall script has detected that the app is not in the correct place and fails, but usually the install will finish and only the other two apps remain. So far we've found no logs or evidence of it being moved or deleted; it just ceases to exist after installation. Has anyone else had this issue and found a solution?

LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme is flagged as deprecated, but it isn't clear to me (very much not a frequent macOS developer) what the alternative is. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

I recently upgared my mac to 15.1, After upgrading I am unable to install app on 15.1 Mac OS 15.1, sequoia. App is getting stuck in “Preparing for the installation” stage.