When my macOS app (currently in TestFlight and set for Mac App Store distribution) tries to terminate another app, both terminate() and forceTerminate() consistently return false. However, I can retrieve a list of all running applications so some related APIs do work. I suspect this limitation is due to sandboxing. I have three questions: Is there any permission or entitlement I can add in Xcode to allow my app to terminate other applications? If no such permission exists, is there a way to guide users on how to launch my app (distributed through the Mac App Store) without sandboxing? For example, could they set it up to launch as a daemon or agent? If unsandboxing is impossible, would I need to create a separate target specifically without sandboxing? In other words, my MacOS app would communicate with my unsandboxed daemon that would do all the terminate()-ing?

Hi, I would like to know if it is safe to call the uploadTask from URLSession from the main thread ? We've a user who is reporting repeated crashes at startup, here is the stack we see: Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Termination Reason: FRONTBOARD 2343432205 <RBSTerminateContext| domain:10 code:0x8BADF00D explanation:scene-update watchdog transgression: app<com.appspot.myApp(E7590BB1-722C-491D-9199-F867DE4B880A)>:2212 exhausted real (wall clock) time allowance of 10.00 seconds ProcessVisibility: Background ProcessState: Running WatchdogEvent: scene-update WatchdogVisibility: Background WatchdogCPUStatistics: ( "Elapsed total CPU time (seconds): 21.260 (user 10.230, system 11.030), 35% CPU", "Elapsed application CPU time (seconds): 0.006, 0% CPU" ) reportType:CrashLog maxTerminationResistance:Interactive> Triggered by Thread: 0 Thread 0 name: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Thread 0 Crashed: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x1def7a688 mach_msg2_trap + 8 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x1def7dd98 mach_msg2_internal + 80 2 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x1def7dcb0 mach_msg_overwrite + 424 3 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x1def7dafc mach_msg + 24 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x1968d8f14 _dispatch_mach_send_and_wait_for_reply + 544 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x1968d92b4 dispatch_mach_send_with_result_and_wait_for_reply + 60 6 libxpc.dylib 0x21714a930 xpc_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync + 256 7 Foundation 0x18d80a3ac __NSXPCCONNECTION_IS_WAITING_FOR_A_SYNCHRONOUS_REPLY__ + 16 8 Foundation 0x18d806b14 -[NSXPCConnection _sendInvocation:orArguments:count:methodSignature:selector:withProxy:] + 2160 9 CoreFoundation 0x18eb868dc ___forwarding___ + 1004 10 CoreFoundation 0x18eb86430 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 96 11 CFNetwork 0x1900c71e0 -[__NSURLBackgroundSession setupBackgroundSession] + 800 12 CFNetwork 0x1900b3e80 -[__NSURLBackgroundSession initWithConfiguration:delegate:delegateQueue:delegateDispatchQueue:] + 552 13 CFNetwork 0x1900b4784 +[NSURLSession _sessionWithConfiguration:delegate:delegateQueue:delegateDispatchQueue:] + 1496 14 MyApp 0x1054210b4 CombineBgXferRepository.session.getter (in MyApp) (CombineBgXferRepository.swift:62) + 7966900 15 MyApp 0x105422fa4 CombineBgXferRepository.startUploadTask(fileURL:request:) (in MyApp) (CombineBgXferRepository.swift:310) + 7974820 If it is ok to call this uploadTask from the main thread, does this crash indicate a problem with the operating system? Are there scenarios where the background upload service does not respond to requests?

Under iPhone iOS18.1 and Xcode 16.1, use Matter and MatterSupport to pair Matter devices. It was found that Matter over WIFI devices could not trigger the PASE process try deviceController?.setupCommissioningSession(with: payload, newNodeID: commissioningDeviceID) After some time: func controller(_: MTRDeviceController, statusUpdate status: MTRCommissioningStatus) Return failure

I'm trying to use the new Apple Maps Server API. As far as I can tell I have set up the token correctly, but my web request is still returning 401 unauthorized. The following is my code in TypeScript: import * as jwt from 'jsonwebtoken'; const JWT_SECRET = "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n" + "MIGTAgEAMBMGBy..............................\n" + "..............................................................\n" + "..............................................................\n" + "-----END PRIVATE KEY-----"; const header = { alg: "ES256", kid: "26DYPK65ZK", typ: "jwt" } // Example payload data const payload = { "iss": "7F3PBYWYMS", "iat": Date.now(), "exp": Date.now() + (1000 * 30 * 60), }; export async function getRestaurants() { let token = jwt.sign(payload, JWT_SECRET, { algorithm: 'ES256', header: header}); const response = await fetch('https://maps-api.apple.com/v1/token (https://maps-api.apple.com/v1/token)', { method: 'GET', headers: { 'Authorization': "Bearer " + token }, }); console.log(response); } What am I doing incorrectly here?

As the title says, I logged in to iCloud on my simulator on my mac mini m2 and turned on icloud sync. My health data is in iCloud but it wont load in. When I go to documents for example I can see documents that I have loaded so I know something is working right. I have tried clicking Feature -> Trigger iCloud sync with no luck. I have tried logging out and logging back in, no luck. I have tried Restarting the simulator with no luck. The app I am building uses health data and there is no other way to get health data (heart rate, workouts, sleep) in the simulator. Please help, Thank you

On Xcode 16 and 16.1 the StoreKit Configuration file is syncing rejected Subscription in status "In Review" but not the new one "Waiting Review " What are the rules to which file will be synced ?

Hi, I developed a system extension that uses the content filter providers of the network extension. When I am using a VPN, I turn on the network extension and the VPN is disconnected. Can this problem be avoided? How to prevent VPN disconnection

Hello! I'd like to ask about the best way of getting a list of DNS servers from the system (iOS & macOS). Why? I am using NEPacketTunnelProvider to implement a VPN app. When a device joins a network with a Captive Portal and the VPN is on, the VPN should redirect DNS queries to the DNS servers that were received from the network's DHCP server. So that my VPN is able to correctly reroute the traffic which is not blocked by the network's gateway and the Captive Portal landing page is served. When I don't do anything, the traffic goes to the tunnel and the tunnel's encrypted traffic is then dropped by the gateway serving the Captive Portal. When I temporarily turn off the VPN, opt out of all the traffic or pass the traffic to the system resolver, the traffic gets affected by other network settings (like DNSSettings) which leads to the same situation - the user not being able to authenticate with the Captive Portal. So far, I have tried multiple ways, including res_9_getservers but unsuccessfully. As a part of my investigation, I have found out that the /etc/resolv.conf file is not populated with DNS servers until the Captive Portal is acknowledged by the user which makes getaddrinfo unusable to achieve my goal. But I am not sure if that's a bug or intended behavior. Thank you for your help!

I have an application, it has main process and some child processes. As we want those child processes to have their own minimum sandbox privilege, not inheriting from parent process, we plan to use XPCService which uses a NSTask to launch those child processes, so those child processes can have its own sandbox privilege. We plan to deliver the application to Mac App Store, so process mode is: the sandboxed main process builds connections to the unsandboxed XPCService, the unsandboxed XPCService launch those sandboxed child processes. Can this process mode pass the Mac App Store rules? I see, there is a rule that all processes must be sandboxed, including XPCService. But I tested locally, the Application downloaded from Mac apple store also launches unsandboxed XPCService, like OneDrive. Do you have any suggestions for my application scenario, sandboxed child processes having its own privilege not inheriting from parent?

Hello, I have a company laptop thats connected to the internet without a VPN. I need to be able to resolve my company's sub domains using a specific dns server, and have all other domains resolved by the system wide name server. In windows, this is trivial to do. In an admin powershell I run "Add-DnsClientNrptRule -Namespace ".foo.mycompany.com" -Nameserver "127.0.0.1" and resolution requests for *.foo.mycompany.com is sent to a name server running on the localhost. All other dns resolution requests are handled by the system configured resolver. MacOS does have the /etc/resolver/ solution for this, but my understanding from these forums is that this is not the recommended approach. Note - I have tried it and it works. AFAIU, the recommended approach is to create a system Network extension using NEDNSProxyProvider, override handleNewFlow() and do what's necessary. The issue with this solution is that it requires handling all the dns flow parsing of DNS datagrams to extract the host forwarding the datagrams to the appropriate dns server Handle responses. Deal with flow control Handle edge cases. I was hoping for something much simpler than us needing to implement datagram parsing. Could you please shed light on our options and how we could proceed ?

error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The application “Google Chrome” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred." UserInfo={NSURL=file:///Applications/Google%20Chrome.app/, NSLocalizedDescription=The application “Google Chrome” could not be launched because a miscellaneous error occurred., NSUnderlyingError=0x6000038376c0 {Error Domain=RBSRequestErrorDomain Code=5 "Launch failed." UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Launch failed., NSUnderlyingError=0x6000038349f0 {Error Domain=OSLaunchdErrorDomain Code=112 "Could not find specified domain" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Could not find specified domain}}}}}

Incident Identifier: 81AB2E74-1895-4DA4-9362-AE9E20B13847 Distributor ID: com.apple.AppStore Hardware Model: iPhone16,2 Process: Uplus [16285] Path: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/F737D7AC-B933-4204-926C-9149AD377F4B/Uplus.app/Uplus Identifier: com.haier.uhome.Uplus Version: 9.0.0 (2024091802) AppStoreTools: 16A242b AppVariant: 1:iPhone16,2:18 Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Foreground Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: com.haier.uhome.Uplus [4813] Date/Time: 2024-10-29 11:43:30.8727 +0800 Launch Time: 2024-10-29 11:43:30.8707 +0800 OS Version: iPhone OS 18.1 (22B5045g) Release Type: Beta Baseband Version: 2.20.02 Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGKILL) Exception Subtype: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000001e95280e0 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x00000001e95280e0 VM Region Info: 0x1e95280e0 is in 0x1e9528050-0x1e956c050; bytes after start: 144 bytes before end: 278383 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL mapped file 1e9528000-1e9528050 [ 80] r--/rw- SM=COW Object_id=f1de19db ---> __TPRO_CONST 1e9528050-1e956c050 [ 272K] r--/rw- SM=COW /usr/lib/dyld mapped file 1e956c050-1e9570000 [ 16K] r--/rw- SM=COW Object_id=f1de19db Termination Reason: <0x2A> 2 Triggered by Thread: 0 Thread 0 Crashed: 0 dyld 0x00000001ac079500 0x1ac03f000 + 238848 1 dyld 0x00000001ac072bcc 0x1ac03f000 + 211916 Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit): x0: 0x2010003030100000 x1: 0x0000000fffffc0d0 x2: 0x0000000000000004 x3: 0x00000001ac047829 x4: 0x0000000000000000 x5: 0x0000000000000000 x6: 0x0000000000000000 x7: 0x0000000000000000 x8: 0x2010003030100000 x9: 0x2010003030100000 x10: 0x000000016b917dfd x11: 0x00000001ac0b4240 x12: 0x0000000000000050 x13: 0x0000000000000044 x14: 0x0000000000052010 x15: 0x0000000000000000 x16: 0x0000000000000000 x17: 0x0000000000000000 x18: 0x0000000000000000 x19: 0x0000000182bb0000 x20: 0x000000016b917b50 x21: 0x000000016b917af8 x22: 0x00000001e9528050 x23: 0x000000016b9177d8 x24: 0x0000000fffffc10c x25: 0x0000000000000000 x26: 0x0000000000000000 x27: 0x0000000000000000 x28: 0x0000000000000000 fp: 0x000000016b917870 lr: 0x84028001ac079380 sp: 0x000000016b9177d0 pc: 0x00000001ac079500 cpsr: 0x60001000 esr: 0x92000047 (Data Abort) byte write Translation fault Binary Images: 0x1044e8000 - 0x10795bfff main_executable_path_missing arm64 /main_executable_path_missing 0x1ac03f000 - 0x1ac0c29a3 dyld arm64e /usr/lib/dyld EOF 18.1.crash

Hello, Since 2017 I provide a free and open source Remote Desktop for macOS, Windows and Linux that supports macOS 10.7 to macOS 15. Screen capture is done with CGDisplayCreateImage and works fine. But there is a problem on macOS 15 Sequoia I can not capture the screen in the pre-login context (I am referring to the login screen before the user access into his account). The screen capture in pre-login context works fine for all macOS versions except macOS 15 Sequoia. In last weeks I tried to fix the issue without success: tried CGDisplayStream tried AVCaptureScreenInput tried ScreenCaptureKit tried to sign the App (and executable) None of these work before the user login, but them works only when the user is logged in. Additional info: I run the App with "launch agent" when user is connected. I run the App with "launch daemon" when user is not connected. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

When I try to use socket to connect to an ipv6 address created by PacketTunnelProvider in my iOS device, an error occurs. Here is the code to create socket server and client: #include &lt;stdio.h&gt; #include &lt;string.h&gt; #include &lt;sys/socket.h&gt; #include &lt;netinet/in.h&gt; #include &lt;arpa/inet.h&gt; #include &lt;unistd.h&gt; int dx_create_ipv6_server(const char *ipv6_address, int port) { int server_fd; struct sockaddr_in6 server_addr; server_fd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (server_fd == -1) { perror("socket() failed"); return -1; } memset(&amp;server_addr, 0, sizeof(server_addr)); server_addr.sin6_family = AF_INET6; server_addr.sin6_port = htons(port); if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, ipv6_address, &amp;server_addr.sin6_addr) &lt;= 0) { perror("inet_pton() failed"); close(server_fd); return -1; } if (bind(server_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&amp;server_addr, sizeof(server_addr)) == -1) { perror("bind() failed"); close(server_fd); return -1; } if (listen(server_fd, 5) == -1) { perror("listen() failed"); close(server_fd); return -1; } printf("Server is listening on [%s]:%d\n", ipv6_address, port); return server_fd; } int dx_accept_client_connection(int server_fd) { int client_fd; struct sockaddr_in6 client_addr; socklen_t client_addr_len = sizeof(client_addr); client_fd = accept(server_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&amp;client_addr, &amp;client_addr_len); if (client_fd == -1) { perror("accept() failed"); return -1; } char client_ip[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN]; inet_ntop(AF_INET6, &amp;client_addr.sin6_addr, client_ip, sizeof(client_ip)); printf("Client connected: [%s]\n", client_ip); return client_fd; } int dx_connect_to_ipv6_server(const char *ipv6_address, int port) { int client_fd; struct sockaddr_in6 server_addr; client_fd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0); if (client_fd == -1) { perror("socket() failed"); return -1; } memset(&amp;server_addr, 0, sizeof(server_addr)); server_addr.sin6_family = AF_INET6; server_addr.sin6_port = htons(port); if (inet_pton(AF_INET6, ipv6_address, &amp;server_addr.sin6_addr) &lt;= 0) { perror("inet_pton() failed"); close(client_fd); return -1; } if (connect(client_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&amp;server_addr, sizeof(server_addr)) == -1) { perror("connect() failed"); close(client_fd); return -1; } printf("Connected to server [%s]:%d\n", ipv6_address, port); close(client_fd); return 0; } @implementation SocketTest + (void)startSever:(NSString *)addr port:(int)port { [[NSOperationQueue new] addOperationWithBlock:^{ int server_fd = dx_create_ipv6_server(addr.UTF8String, port); if (server_fd == -1) { return; } int client_fd = dx_accept_client_connection(server_fd); if (client_fd == -1) { close(server_fd); return; } close(client_fd); close(server_fd); }]; } + (void)clientConnect:(NSString *)addr port:(int)port{ [[NSOperationQueue new] addOperationWithBlock:^{ dx_connect_to_ipv6_server(addr.UTF8String, port); }]; } @end PacketTunnelProvider code: override func startTunnel(options: [String : NSObject]?, completionHandler: @escaping (Error?) -&gt; Void) { let settings = NEPacketTunnelNetworkSettings(tunnelRemoteAddress: "fd84:306d:fc4e::1") let ipv6 = NEIPv6Settings(addresses: ["fd84:306d:fc4e::1"], networkPrefixLengths: 64) settings.ipv6Settings = ipv6 setTunnelNetworkSettings(settings) { error in if error == nil { self.readPackets() } completionHandler(error) } } private func readPackets() { // do nothing packetFlow.readPackets { [self] packets, protocols in self.packetFlow.writePackets(packets, withProtocols: protocols) self.readPackets() } } At main target, in viewcontroller's viewDidAppear, after starting the VPN, executed following code: [SocketTest startSever:@"fd84:306d:fc4e::1" port:12345]; sleep(3); [SocketTest clientConnect:@"fd84:306d:fc4e::1" port:12345]; The startSever is executed correctly, but when executing： connect(client_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&amp;server_addr, sizeof(server_addr)) in clientConnect, the code is blocked until it times out and returns -1. Even if I use GCDAsyncSocket or BlueSocket, I get the same error. The strange thing is that if I use the ipv4 address in PacketTunnelProvider, and change the above code to the ipv4 version and connect to ipv4 address, or use GCDAsyncSocket to perform the corresponding operation, it can be executed correctly. I tried to search Google for problems with ios-related ipv6 addresses, but I still couldn't find a solution. Is this a bug in the ios system or is there something wrong with my code? I hope to get your help!

Hello, Apple developers. I have joined the MFi certification program. My Accessory to use USB HID IAP2 communication protocol and IOS devices connected, but in the first step, the Accessory to send the following data (0 XFF, 0 x55, 0 x02, 0 x00 to 0 xee, 0 x10) for IOS devices, but the IOS devices have no response, this is probably the reason why?

In the past, I used to ping my iPhone‘s local IP address via UDP. If local network permissions were not enabled, it would return an error. If they were enabled, it would return success, which I used to determine whether my app had local network permissions enabled. Now, with iOS 18, it seems to not work anymore. Regardless of whether local network permissions are enabled, pinging the iPhone‘s local IP address always returns success. Is there any other good method to check this permission status? Case-ID: 9934335

I am getting this error when trying to run the app on an actual IOS device using testFlight. It works well on simulators. I am using expo to build my app. I have done the following: Added Sign in with Apple in Xcode for all the profiles ( i.e. debug and release) Set expo.ios.usesAppleSignIn to true in my app.json ( I think due to this I see Synced capabilities: Enabled: Sign In with Apple while building my app using eas build. ) Make sure that the provision profile has Sign in with App capability. What I am not able to understand is how option provided in provision profile works. Expo creates the profile with type "App Store". I think this is because I am building the expo app with production profile. Does this have to take anything with it? Does the profile with type "App Store" not work when I am testing the app using testFlight? I am so confused right now. Can someone help me figure out the actual issue? I have seen almost all the posts regarding this error. None of those helped! Thanks in advance!

Hello, our app gets rejected as it crashes on launch. According to the logs, it happens because the app attempts to access private-sensitive data. We don't collect any of personal data, so it is probably done by Google Firebase embedded in the app (Core, Firestore, Auth). Maybe you have met similar cases and know any of Firebase settings that disable attempts of accessing privacy-sensitive data? We already set FirebaseDataCollectionDefaultEnabled to NO in info.plist, but it still not enough. Maybe error in facebook sdk? Before that it was written that there was an error when starting the ipad air 5 Log1 Log2 Log3

[Submitted as FB14860454, but posting here since I rarely get responses in Feedback Assistant] In a simple SwiftData app that adds items to a list, memory usage drastically increases as items are added. After a few hundred items, the UI lags and becomes unusable. In comparison, a similar app built with CoreData shows only a slight memory increase in the same scenario and does NOT lag, even past 1,000 items. In the SwiftData version, as each batch is added, memory spikes the same amount…or even increases! In the CoreData version, the increase with each batch gets smaller and smaller, so the memory curve levels off. My Question Are there any ways to improve the performance of adding items in SwiftData, or is it just not ready for prime time? Example Projects Here are the test projects on GitHub if you want to check it out yourself: PerfSwiftData PerfCoreData

I have a Map within a SwiftUI. I initialize a variable like this: var cameraPosition: MapCameraPosition = .userLocation(followsHeading: true, fallback: .automatic) and then I want to zoom map, code like this: let userRegion = MKCoordinateRegion( center: userLocation.coordinate, span: MKCoordinateSpan( latitudeDelta: 0.01, longitudeDelta: 0.01 ) ) cameraPosition = .region(userRegion) But it does't work. How can I solve this problem?