There's a 128mb limit for donating items to core spotlight. As far as I understand, there's a warning that shows in the Xcode console when either approaching or hitting that limit. It would be great if there was an API to check the current status of available storage for QA purposes to see if we're either donating too much or can donate more. Thanks!
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I received this erroe:”400 / Missing or incorrectly formatted device token payload”, when wanted sign up chat gpt
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Hi everyone,
i'm trying to request in a AppIntent an array of strings. But I want to give the user the chance to add more than one String.
Yet, I do it so:
import AppIntent
struct AddHomework: AppIntent {
// some Parameters
@Parameter(title: "Tasks")
var tasks: [String]?
@Parameter(title: "New Task") //Only for the special request
var input: String?
private func collectTasks() async throws -> [String] {
var collectedTasks: [String] = tasks ?? []
while true {
if !collectedTasks.isEmpty {
let addMore = try await $input.requestConfirmation(for: "Möchtest du noch eine Aufgabe hinzufügen?")
if !addMore {
break
}
}
let newTask = try await $input.requestValue("Please enter your task:")
collectedTasks.append(newTask)
}
return collectedTasks
}
@MainActor
func perform() async throws -> some IntentResult {
let finalTasks = try await collectTasks()
// some more code
return .result()
}
}
But this is not working. The Shortcut is ending without requesting anything. But it is not crashing.
I would thankfully for some help.
So what's the point of being able to block unto 50 apps per ManagedSettingStore via store.application.blockedApplications (which works fine) until removing the blocked apps or clearing the store. Where the following occurs
if you have a social networking group with more than 9 apps only 9 apps will go back into the group and all the others will go onto the springboard all jumbled
if you end up with an empty group then tap into the group, it is removed then during the reset all apps are placed back on to the springboard
Hi there,
I am using WeatherKit to display weather forecast information in an app.
I would like to include some information about when the weather forecast was issued for my users to see.
This information is included in the response Metadata as documented in the WeatherKit REST API docs:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi/metadata
Specifically there is a “reportedTime” property which I would like to use here.
However I am consuming WeatherKit via the Swift API, I don’t see this property available via the Swift APIs.
How can I access the reportedTime property via the WeatherKit Swift APIs? Or is it not exposed via the Swift APIs?
When fetching Apple Savings transactions via FinanceKit, the data is missing key context about where the deposit originated from.
Here’s an example transaction I retrieved:
Transaction(
id: 77371A0C-7122-42C7-BEBC-85BDF654AD2B,
accountID: 68D9FE9D-6DA6-4A27-BB9D-19209CD29A56,
transactionAmount: 1.46 USD,
creditDebitIndicator: .credit,
transactionDescription: "Deposit",
originalTransactionDescription: "",
merchantCategoryCode: nil,
merchantName: nil,
transactionType: .deposit,
status: .booked,
transactionDate: 2025-08-20 13:44:26 +0000,
postedDate: 2025-08-20 13:44:26 +0000
)
As shown:
transactionDescription is just "Deposit"
merchantName is nil
No indication of the source account
In contrast, the Wallet app clearly shows context for Apple Savings account deposits, such as:
"Apple Card" (daily cash)
"Bank of America" (external transfer)
"Interest Paid" (we do see "Interest" come through correctly)
Without this metadata, third-party apps cannot replicate Wallet’s clarity about where a deposit came from. Every deposit simply appears as "Deposit", which is ambiguous.
Request:
Please expose additional metadata for Apple Savings account transactions, for example:
sourceAccountName (e.g. “Apple Card” or “Bank of America”)
transactionOriginType (cashback, external bank transfer, interest)
institutionIdentifier or similar for external banks
This would allow developers to show clear, Wallet-quality transaction details and avoid confusing users.
Impact:
The lack of source info makes Savings deposits nearly indistinguishable from one another, even though Wallet provides this context. For apps leveraging FinanceKit, this results in a poorer experience compared to Apple’s own Wallet.
Thanks!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Since upgrading to iOS18, roomplan crashes have become more frequent
Crash Txt
Hi Apple engineering team,
I’m trying to integrate the new Live Caller ID Lookup (PIR) on iOS using your pir-service-example code as well as a custom mock server in Vapor, but the extension never advances past the /issue/token-key-for-user-token step. I’ve tried both:
1. Official Example
Cloned https://github.com/apple/pir-service-example
Ran PIRService locally
Confirmed that
GET /.well-known/private-token-issuer-directory → 200
GET /issue/token-key-for-user-token → 200 (DER bytes, correct SPKI)
No POST /issue ever fires
2. Mock Server (Vapor)
Implemented all five endpoints (/config, /.well-known/private-token-issuer-directory, /issue/token-key-for-user-token, /issue, /queries)
Verified with curl and openssl asn1parse that:
GET /.well-known/private-token-issuer-directory
Content-Type: application/private-token-issuer-directory
{ "issuer-request-uri":"https://…/issue", "token-keys":[…] }
GET /issue/token-key-for-user-token
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
<DER bytes>
Added Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600 on directory and SPKI
Stubbed POST /issue to always return { "token": "" }
Still no POST /issue request from the extension
Reproduction Steps
Install and enable a Live Lookup extension pointing to my server.
Trigger an incoming call on device.
Watch server logs—only see the two GETs, never /issue or /queries.
Expected Behavior
After fetching the SPKI DER, the framework should issue a POST /issue call (Privacy Pass flow) and then POST /queries.
Observed Behavior
Stuck in an infinite loop of:
GET /.well-known/private-token-issuer-directory
GET /issue/token-key-for-user-token
(repeat…)
No progression to the /issue or /queries endpoints.
What I’ve Tried
Verified JSON kebab-case and headers exactly match examples
Confirmed SPKI DER is valid via openssl asn1parse
Added Cache-Control headers
Tested on real device, localhost url, and ngrok public URL
Mocked a valid-looking token response
Could you advise what additional requirement or format detail I’m missing that prevents from advancing past /issue/token-key-for-user-token?
These are the main files:
LiveLookupExtension.swift
routes.swift
service-config.json
Thanks in advance!
Hi, I am trying to build a command line app that read local mov files and print the text to the terminal. When I open the file with VNImageRequestHandler(url: url), where the url is a hardcode path to my desktop file, the terminal reports CRImage Reader Detector was given zero-dimensioned image (0 x 0). Anyone can help? Thanks!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Files and Storage
App Sandbox
Command Line Tools
I'd like to set the recordingYear in my Spotlight File Importer extension but the property is missing from CSSearchableItemAttributeSet
e.g. in the resulting in mdls I'd like to see:
kMDItemRecordingYear = 2008;
This would allow me to search in Finder by the recording year criteria.
There is a recordingDate property and I tried setting it to Date that only has a year but it didn't work. It just resulted in this:
kMDItemRecordingDate = "2008-01-01 00:00:00 +0000";
I have an iOS app that installs a Content Filter in order to block certain types of content at the network/socket level. The Family Controls framework stipulates that this can only be done successfully on a FamilyControlsMember.child account type (or on a supervised device). Our initial release has been really successful, but I would say that perhaps 75% of our users are .individual (probably over 18). Perhaps a topic for another forum post is to discuss how Apple's policy here doesn't seem to be meeting a real need here for non-minors, but I'll leave that alone for now.
The problem we're facing is that as far as I can tell, the only way to determine if someone has the right account type is to initiate an authorization request using AuthorizationCenter.shared.requestAuthorization(for:) and then inspect the error. I think it could really help the usability of the app if we could detect the account type and preemptively show a helpful message if the authorization could not succeed, and recommend some alternatives. But I've looked so far in vain for some way to do this.
Is there any api in Family Controls (or elsewhere) that can query the system for this information? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
The example database/server provided by Apple for Live Caller ID contains a hardcoded database with a tiny number of pre-defined numbers.
However, its not expected to be representational of an live real world usage server.
But the question is how can that be accomplished if its a requirement that the data be KPIR encrypted?
In real world scenarios, the factors that effect whether a number should be blocked or not are continually changing and evolving on a minute-by-minute basis and new information becomes available or existing information changes.
If the database supports tens of millions or hundreds of millions of constantly changing phone numbers, in order to meet the requirements of the Live Caller ID being KPIR encrypted, that would imply the database has to re-encrypt its database of millions endlessly for all time.
That seems unfeasable and impractical to implement.
Therefore how do the Apple designers of this feature envisage/suggest a real-world server supporting millions of changing data should meet the requirement to be KPIR encrypted?
I am a macOS software developer using Xcode and Objective-C. I have a wallpaper app on the App Store, and recently, a few users have asked if the app can be excluded from the ‘Screen Time’ statistics. Is there a way to allow users to choose whether or not the app should appear in the ‘Screen Time’ tracking? I have already set LSUIElement to YES in the info.plist, but the app is still being tracked in ‘Screen Time.
hi
where do we need to upload documents and video for the sharing URL for the apple to review while submitting the APP .
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Does WeatherKit Rest api have the following forecast endpoints?
Pollen and Flu
Air quality
Radar forecast served through a REST API?
Hail
Solar energy
Frost Potential Index
right now it looks like the app type must follow the guidelines like Messenger app, Navigate app, and Music app only. What about the Automotive app itself, What is the flexibility of it?
We have an app for service cars for one brand (officially)(car users around 1m+). but we looking to merge the experience between outside the car and inside the car. Can we top up some features on the app to share some information that is a part of the car like trip calculation or car info display on the screen? or services time to notice them?
And following that question can we know about the exact spot or brief from Apple car play for now and next-gen?
Or can we work with your team closely as a partner? to make things happen and develop it to be a flagship product, we can share some data and talk about it with real insight.
Hello,
I’m developing an app to detect movement past a strong magnet, targeting both Android and iOS. On Android, I’m using the Sensor API, which provides calibrated readings with temperature compensation, factory (or online) soft-iron calibration, and online hard-iron calibration. The equivalent on iOS appears to be the CMCalibratedMagneticField data from the CoreMotion framework.
However, I’m encountering an issue with the iOS implementation. The magnetometer data on iOS behaves erratically compared to Android. While Android produces perfectly symmetric peaks, iOS shows visual peaks that report double the magnetic field strength. Additionally, there’s a "pendulum" effect: the field strength rises, drops rapidly, rises again to form a "double peak" structure, and takes a while to return to the local Earth magnetic field average. The peaks on iOS are also asymmetric.
I’m wondering if this could be due to sensor fusion algorithms applied by iOS, which might affect the CMCalibratedMagneticField data. Are there other potential reasons for this behavior? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Hi Apple Developer,
I’m working on a message-filtering application and reviewing Apple's documentation on message filtering. The documentation clearly states that MMS messages can be filtered. (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/identitylookup/sms-and-mms-message-filtering)
When we refer to MMS, it includes images, short videos, and other supported multimedia formats. However, the ILMessageFilterQueryRequest only provides the message body as a String, meaning we can access text and links but not images or other media files.
Could you please confirm whether Apple allows third-party applications to access multimedia content sent from unknown numbers?
Looking forward to your quick response.
Thanks,
Rijul Singhal
After a user has launched an App Clip Experience from Safari and is done with the activity that the App Clip provides – is there a way for the App Clip to programatically close itself so the user returns to Safari?
In the mobile application we are developing we need to use the "SMS and MMS Message Filtering" functionality to analyze SMS messages received from unknown senders.
The questions that arise about the use of this functionality are:
Does this functionality allow these messages to be sent to solutions deployed in Microsoft Azure?.
If the previous case is confirmed, could we use Rest APIs that we already have deployed in Azure?.
If it were not possible to configure access to an existing Rest API, what would be the definition of the API to be implemented in the cloud for this service?.
And finally, how would the configuration of access permissions to this API deployed in the cloud be?.