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My app is a VoIP softphone for Mac that allows people to make phone calls to a regular phone numbers. The app exists since before Mac App Store. The app declares itself to the system as capable of handling tel: URLs. Until now, people could change the default handler for tel URLs in FaceTime settings (Default for calls).
In macOS Tahoe 26, this doesn't seem to be possible any more. That option is gone from the FaceTime settings.
Is it completely gone or has it been moved somewhere else? If there is no UI control for this any more, is it possible to change it programmatically?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Hi,
Since I updated my phone to 23A341, my Call filtering app is not blocking calls anymore.
Same release checked on iOS 18 phone, it is working.
I still see the callkit logs into the Console showing that numbers are loaded into the iOS-managed SQlite DB but the calls are not blocked nor identified.
Anyone with the same issue?
BR
I work for a large medical device company.
We have a 1st party BLE enabled medical device that must be very battery efficient. To this end, if a connection is lost, the BLE radio is powered down after 60 seconds and will only turn back on when a physical button on the device is pressed.
I've been tasked with connecting to the device, staying connected to the device, and being able to retrieve data from the device upon a timed action. For instance, this could include a data read and transmission while they sleep. The key part of this is staying reliably connected for extended periods of time.
This is a BYOD setup, and we cannot control power profiles.
I would very much appreciate any information, recommendations, and/or insights into solving this problem.
Thanks!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Processes & Concurrency
Tags:
External Accessory
iOS
Application Services
Core Bluetooth
I'm working on a new app with SwiftData and now adding CloudKit Sync.
Everything is working fine in the simulator against the development CloudKit Schema. I successfully deployed the schema to production.
However, the TestFlight builds fail against production. This is what I see in the logs, but I haven't been able to find info on how to fix it.
Help appreciated.
CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _requestAbortedNotInitialized:](2205): <private> - Never successfully initialized and cannot execute request '<private>' due to error: Error Domain=CKErrorDomain Code=2 "CKInternalErrorDomain: 1011" UserInfo={ContainerID=<private>, NSDebugDescription=CKInternalErrorDomain: 1011, CKPartialErrors=<private>, RequestUUID=<private>, NSLocalizedDescription=<private>, CKErrorDescription=<private>, NSUnderlyingError=0x1078e9fe0 {Error Domain=CKInternalErrorDomain Code=1011 UserInfo={CKErrorDescription=<private>, NSLocalizedDescription=<private>, CKPartialErrors=<private>}}}
CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _performSetupRequest:]_block_invoke(1153): <private>: Successfully set up CloudKit integration for store (<private>): <private>
CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _enqueueRequest:]_block_invoke(1035): Failed to enqueue request: <private>
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134417 UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=<private>}
Problem Summary
Apple's provisioning servers are not generating the com.apple.developer.storekit entitlement for App ID com.driftnotes.app (Team ID: 43Y6AG5NPY), making it impossible to build iOS apps for physical devices despite all configurations being correct.
Environment
macOS: 15.3.1 (24D70)
Xcode: 16.1 (xcode-select version 2409)
Flutter: 3.35.2 • channel stable
Account: Individual Developer (Kazakhstan)
Bundle ID: com.driftnotes.app
Team ID: 43Y6AG5NPY
Error Message
Error (Xcode): Provisioning profile "iOS Team Provisioning Profile: com.driftnotes.app" doesn't include the com.apple.developer.storekit entitlement.
/Users/vyacheslavkuzin/Desktop/FlutterProjects/DriftNotesDart/ios/Runner.xcodeproj
Steps to Reproduce
Configure App ID with In-App Purchase capability (✅ verified in Developer Portal)
Add In-App Purchase capability in Xcode project (✅ done)
Configure entitlements file with StoreKit keys (✅ done)
Enable automatic signing in Xcode (✅ done)
Run: flutter build ios --release
Build completes successfully ("Xcode build done. 13,8s") but fails at signing stage
Expected vs Actual Result
Expected: Provisioning profile should include com.apple.developer.storekit entitlement
Actual: Profile is created WITHOUT the entitlement, despite all configurations being correct
Configuration Details
Developer Portal
App ID com.driftnotes.app has In-App Purchase capability enabled ✅
All agreements are active in App Store Connect ✅
Xcode Project
In-App Purchase capability added via Signing & Capabilities ✅
Automatically manage signing: Enabled ✅
Team: 43Y6AG5NPY (Vyacheslav Kuzin) ✅
Entitlements File (ios/Runner/Runner.entitlements)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>com.apple.developer.in-app-payments</key>
<array>
<string>merchant.com.driftnotes.app</string>
</array>
<key>com.apple.developer.storekit</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
Build Settings
CODE_SIGN_ENTITLEMENTS: Runner/Runner.entitlements ✅
PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER: com.driftnotes.app ✅
DEVELOPMENT_TEAM: 43Y6AG5NPY ✅
Troubleshooting Attempted
Multiple Attempts
Profile Recreation: Manual and automatic profiles recreated dozens of times
Cache Cleanup: Complete removal of:
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/*
~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles/*
Flutter clean & pod cache clean
Signing Methods: Tested both manual and automatic signing management
Wait Periods: 48+ hours for server propagation
Complete Profile Deletion: Removed ALL profiles from Developer account per Apple Support
Apple Support Workaround
Following Senior Advisor recommendation:
✅ Deleted all provisioning profiles from account
✅ Confirmed IAP capability in project
✅ Created StoreKit Configuration File for testing
✅ Verified automatic signing management
✅ Multiple "Try Again" attempts in Xcode
Result: Problem persists
Apple Support Reference
Case #102680105923 - Senior Advisor Simone confirmed after internal team consultation that this requires engineering team attention and directed to Developer Forums.
Technical Analysis
What Works
Flutter build completes successfully
Pod install executes without issues (25,9s)
Xcode build finishes successfully (13,8s)
All dependencies resolve correctly
What Fails
Provisioning profile generation: Server creates profile but omits StoreKit entitlement
All profile types affected: Both manual and automatic profiles
Consistent across configurations: Debug, Release, Profile all fail identically
Root Cause
This appears to be a server-side bug where Apple's provisioning systems are not properly correlating the App ID's In-App Purchase capability with the StoreKit entitlement generation for this specific App ID (com.driftnotes.app).
The issue is NOT in client-side configuration - all settings match Apple's official documentation exactly. The problem occurs during the server-side provisioning profile generation process.
Request for Engineering Team
This issue requires attention from Apple's provisioning infrastructure team to resolve the server-side entitlement generation bug for App ID com.driftnotes.app.
Impact
Critical: Complete inability to build iOS app for physical devices
Business: Blocking app deployment and updates
Developer Experience: Extensive time spent on troubleshooting correctly configured setup
All configurations have been verified multiple times and match Apple's official documentation. The issue has been escalated through Apple Support (Case #102680105923) and requires engineering team intervention.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Regular apns will give you a willPresent callback
and there you can decide to suppress showing the notification or suppress its sound etc.
I know the iOS app will give you callbacks for when there's a contentUpdate, yet that doesn't give the option to change the sound.
Is there a way to suppress sound of a received Live Activity when app is in foreground?
Just wanted to clarify some expected behaviors here. It seems that there are two distinct behaviors for Live Activity flows for freshly installed apps.
When you start a Live Activity for the first time and the user hasn't yet clicked on Allow/Don't Allow in the activity interface, there are two different sequences:
Starting a Live Activity locally
Request a Live Activity locally via Swift
Live Activity starts
.pushTokenUpdates is immediately triggered, even if the Allow/Don't Allow buttons appear under the Activity UI
Starting a Live Activity via push-to-start
Send a push-to-start notification to launch a Live Activity
Live Activity starts
.pushTokenUpdates is not triggered, and .pushToken returns nil.
If a user clicks on Allow in the Activity UI, only then is .pushTokenUpdates triggered.
I am running a full-tunnel VPN using a Packet Tunnel Provider. During VPN setup, we configure DNS setting with specific DNS servers for all domains to be used by the tunnel. However, our project requires DNS resolution for every domain from both the VPN-provided DNS servers and the ISP’s DNS servers.
When I attempt to use c-ares or other third-party libraries to resolve domains via the ISP DNS servers, these libraries only detect and use the VPN DNS servers instead. As a result, all queries fail.
Is there a way on iOS to programmatically determine the ISP DNS servers while a full-tunnel VPN is active, or a system API that allows DNS queries to be explicitly resolved using the ISP’s DNS servers?
Hi,
We have a app with some auto-renewing subscription in a group of subscriptions.
When a user upgrade from a subscription to another, the "user receive a refund of the prorated amount of their original subscription" (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/).
How is the prorated calculated ?
Example : subscription to 14,99$ / month. If subscriber upgrade after 10 days, is the refund calculated 10/30 of 14,99$ (so ~5$) ?
I keep getting the following error when trying to run Passkey sign in on macOS.
Told not to present authorization sheet: Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServicesCore.AuthorizationError Code=1 "(null)"
ASAuthorizationController credential request failed with error: Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServices.AuthorizationError Code=1004 "(null)"
This is the specific error.
Application with identifier a is not associated with domain b
I have config the apple-app-site-association link and use ?mode=developer
Could there be any reason for this?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
macOS
Objective-C
Authentication Services
Passkeys in iCloud Keychain
I have base model M4 mini on Mac OS 26 which keeps removing the docked application launcher. I keep adding it back which works till the next incremental update and it's been removed again. The ONLY way I can stop this from happening is to create an alias to the folder and to add that to the dock. I have 3 devices on the 26 Dev beta and the other 2 do not suffer this issue. I was expecting the release candidate to have resolved this but alas it hasn't.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Our app server is having some TLS related issue with the new iOS 26 (It works with iOS 18 and below).
When opening the domain url in iPhone Safari browser with iOS 26, it showing the error as below:
We followed the instructions from this link (https://support.apple.com/en-sg/122756), to run the following command: nscurl --tls-diagnostics https://test.example in Terminal app. It shows TLS failed with error: -9808
Could anyone please help explain what exactly the issue is with our server certificate, and how we should fix it? Thanks so much!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Core OS
I would like to understand the recommended App Store–compliant method for uninstalling applications, particularly in cases where certain apps are owned by root rather than the user.
Currently, since root-owned apps cannot be uninstalled, I display the error message: 'App name couldn’t be moved to the Trash because you don’t have permission to access it. please run sudo chown -R $user /application/appname and try again'
I then instruct users to change the ownership of the app and try again, but this approach does not appear to align with App Store policies.
I tested the accuracy of the depth map on iPhone 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, and found that the variance of the depth map after iPhone 12 is significantly greater than that of iPhone 12.
Enabling depth filtering will cause the depth data to be affected by the previous frame, adding more unnecessary noise, especially when the phone is moving.
This is not friendly for high-precision reconstruction. I tried to add depth map smoothing in post-processing to solve the problem of large depth map deviation, but the performance is still poor.
Is there any depth map smoothing solutions already announced by Apple?
We have developed the driver for the ProCapture video capture card based on PCIDriverKit. The App can communicate with the driver through the UserClient API. Currently, there is an issue where, when the App starts, there is a small probability that it causes a driver crash. However, the crash stack trace does not point to our code but appears to be within the PCIDriverKit framework. We have spent several weeks debugging but still cannot identify the root cause of the crash. Could you please review the crash log and suggest any methods to help pinpoint the issue?
com.magewell.ProCaptureDriver-2025-09-15-153522.ips
com.magewell.ProCaptureDriver-2025-09-15-082500.ips
When I turn the Ringtone and Alerts volume all the way up, I expect standard notifications to play at the loudest level the device allows. In theory, this should match the volume of a critical alert with its sound.volume set to 1.0 in payload.
However, I’ve noticed that non-critical notifications still play quieter than critical alerts under these conditions. Critical alerts with volume: 1.0 sound noticeably louder than standard notifications, even though the Ringtone and Alerts slider is already set to maximum. And I couldn't find a documentation for this behavior anywhere.
Is this expected behavior on iOS? And is there any way to make non-critical notifications play at the same maximum loudness as critical alerts?
Thanks in advance for any clarification.
Hi everyone,
I’ve been receiving App Store Server Notifications (webhooks) normally for a specific transaction. Everything was working fine — I could use the original_transaction_id to query transaction history, and transaction_id to look up specific transactions.
However, starting recently, all API calls for that transaction (both Get Transaction Info and Get Transaction History) now return not found.
• The webhooks used to arrive normally for this transaction.
• I am sure I’m querying the correct environment (production vs sandbox).
• The IDs I’m using are exactly the ones from the last webhook payload.
• I haven’t changed my integration code.
My questions:
1. Under what conditions does Apple’s API return “not found” for original_transaction_id that previously worked?
2. Can Apple actually purge transaction records (in production)?
3. Could this happen due to refunds, revocations, or other account actions?
4. Is this expected behavior, or should I file a DTS (Technical Support Incident)?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Hello im creating an expo module using this new API, but the problem i found currently testing this functionality is that when the task fails, the notification error doesn't go away and is always showing the failed task notification even if i start a new task and complete that one.
I want to implement this module into the production app but i feel like having always the notification error might confuse our users or find it a bit bothersome.
Is there a way for the users to remove this notification?
Best regards!
There is no available API that allows you to connect to Android. The current APIs that are provided are not compatible outside of the Apple Ecosystem. For example, Android requires you to set a service name and a password where iOS sets a service and a PIN authentication strategy in a specific format that’s not compatible. It looks like the implementation is not following the Wifi Aware Specifications.
To enable cross platform interoperability while providing security, could you adopt the same strategy as with Bluetooth and enable iOS users to enable the sharing and subscription of services with Everyone.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Networking
After pairing and having subscribed to a service, and even after having exchanged messages, the service fails after a period of time and both devices need to pair again.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Networking