Sharing a solution for a problem that took me a while to figure out. Problem: During development of a macOS 26 app that uses ScreenCaptureKit, the screen capture permissions were being reset after every build. Each time I compiled and ran the app from Xcode, I had to re-authorize screen capture in System Settings. CGPreflightScreenCaptureAccess() would return false even though I'd just granted permission minutes ago. Root cause: I was using ad-hoc code signing during development. macOS ties screen capture permissions to the app's code signing identity. With ad-hoc signing, the identity changes on every build, so the system treats each build as a "new" app. Solution: Switch to an Apple Development certificate for debug builds. In Xcode: Build Settings → Code Signing Identity → Debug → set to "Apple Development" Make sure your development team is selected After this change, the signing identity remains stable across builds, and screen capture permissions persist. This might be related to the broader issue discussed in this forum about ScreenCapture permissions disappearing — if other developers are seeing permissions vanish, it's worth checking whether the code signing identity is changing between sessions.

Hi there, I signed up for Apple Developer Program a few hours back and am trying to sign and notarize a MacOs App. I am using this command xcrun notarytool history --apple-id "" --password "App-specific-password" --team-id "5XR5PM3Y5S" I keep getting this error. I have verified that the apple-id, password and team-id is accurate. This is surely something on Apple's side. Can you help resolve this ? Error: HTTP status code: 403. Invalid or inaccessible developer team ID for the provided Apple ID. Ensure the Team ID is correct and that you are a member of that team.

Since 2026-03-17 09:06 UTC, all notarization submissions for one of our teams are stuck in "In Progress" indefinitely. Submission logs return "not yet available", indicating Apple's backend has not started processing. Sample submission IDs: 789d40c4-ff83-469f-9b9b-2ac93183125e 2d4685ed-56ac-49db-8e38-63f0b15650c1 5dc3f242-0add-4725-8386-bb32f8383240 18+ submissions affected. Hundreds of successful notarizations before this date with no issues. Please advise or check backend queue status.

My application will create a virtual touchpad. The problem I encountered is: click on the Product menu, select Archives, then select the Distribute App, then click on Drill Distribution, then click on Distribute, and then a prompt appears: Provisioning profile "Mac Team direct Provisioning Profile:"com.xxx.xxx"doesn't match the entitlements file's valuefor the com.apple.developer.driverkit.userclient-access entitlement. But My Identifiers Selected the:DriverKit Allow Any UserClient (development) Do I need toRequest a System Extension or DriverKit Entitlement Select "Virtual HID" in here? https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/system-extension/

Hello, We recently resubmitted our Family Controls (Distribution) request with a much more detailed explanation after our previous declined. Our entire app (including an extension) depends on this capability, and right now we’re completely blocked from launching. Months of work are stuck at this final step and it’s honestly becoming very stressful with no visibility on the timeline. If anyone has experience with the approval timeline after resubmitting, or if someone from Apple could help look into it, it would truly mean a lot. 4C6XLQWZQY Y5JJ7GT6BP 3ZBSC333WU Thank you

Unable to Verify App An internet connection is required to verify trust of the developer "Apple Development: John Doe (ABCXYZ123)". This app will not be available until verified. I've been getting this constantly over the last few weeks. It has been a real struggle to get anything done. Sometimes it goes away on its own after I try to launch the app a few times, but currently it's just staying down and I can't do any work. Apparently there were issues with some Apple server ppq.apple.com before. They seem to be back, because trying again right now: ping ppq.apple.com PING use1-ppq-ext-prod.apple.com (17.33.200.235): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 ^C --- use1-ppq-ext-prod.apple.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss ping apple.com PING apple.com (17.253.144.10): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 17.253.144.10: icmp_seq=0 ttl=60 time=9.776 ms 64 bytes from 17.253.144.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=8.726 ms ^C --- apple.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.726/9.251/9.776/0.525 ms This is incredibly disruptive. Surely there must be a way to disable this online verification? This is a development device that never leaves my desk and never installs any software except the things I build locally from my Mac (which I have trusted on the device).

Yestoday， I got problem createdDate: 2026-03-17T09:06:38.486Z id: d1c679af-5f41-437b-9ca1-4c96047a58fb name: easyclaw.app.zip status: In Progress -------------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-03-17T03:30:38.278Z id: fe1bb550-7f42-41c8-8d38-40ac7f9e7c91 name: easyclaw.app.zip status: Accepted And retry today monring，waiting again： Successfully received submission history. history -------------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-03-18T02:17:44.322Z id: 141b0dcb-d0fe-464e-9167-3a15e59aec87 name: easyclaw.app.zip status: In Progress

I have been code signing my py2app Python applications for over 5 years. Recently, my application notarizes and staples with no errors. However, when I try to verify the signature I get the above error. I do not see any errors in the appropriate notary log file. Can't figure out how to post the log file. The associated ID is: eb78c6b0-cdd2-414f-9dd3-24315a27d457 Can anyone point me to an appropriate reference ?

I’m looking for guidance from anyone who has experienced a similar situation. I’m a new Apple Developer Program organization member, and this was my first attempt to notarize a macOS app distributed outside the Mac App Store. What happened: My notarization submissions started failing with statusCode 7000 and the message: “Team is not yet configured for notarization.”. I created a support ticket and received the following reply: “We have escalated this issue to our internal team for further investigation and review.” This was more than 2 months ago, and I have not received any further updates since. About 3 weeks later macOS began rejecting my signed app: codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=4 succeeds (reports valid signing identity) spctl -a -vv --type exec returns CSSMERR_TP_CERT_REVOKED Around the same time, I also lost access to the Apple Developer portal. When signing in at developer.apple.com/account, I am redirected to the account access support form instead of the dashboard. My app has not been released to users. If there is an issue with my build, signing, entitlements, or packaging, I am fully willing to fix it immediately. What I cannot understand is the lack of any substantive response from Apple Developer Program Support for over 2 months. What I’m trying to understand: Has anyone encountered this combination of issues: statusCode 7000, Developer ID trust/revocation problems, Blocked developer portal access? Is there any documented appeal, review, or remediation process? If Apple believes a team has violated a policy, how is the developer supposed to find out what needs to be fixed? I’m not asking Apple to bypass security checks. I’m asking for a clear explanation and a path to resolve any issue, if one exists. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

From what I can tell, it seems that this is something standard that we have to deal with; however, what is annoying and frustrating is I paid good money to have this service work. My application is for important internal use at our company, and this is causing major issues and starting to make me look pretty bad, frankly. On top of that, there is no feedback at all, no reason given. Notarizing darwin binaries... Conducting pre-submission checks for aria.zip and initiating connection to the Apple notary service... Submission ID received id: ec041209-5652-4772-8689-e9e654432da8 Successfully uploaded file id: ec041209-5652-4772-8689-e9e654432da8 path: /Users/shaneholloman/git/sources/uicnz/aria/dist/darwin-arm64/aria.zip Waiting for processing to complete.

Since this evening (March 10, 2026), I'm unable to launch any developer-signed app on my physical device (iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 26.4 beta 23E5223k). The error is: "Unable to launch [app] because it has an invalid code signature, inadequate entitlements or its profile has not been explicitly trusted by the user." On the device itself, it shows: "Unable to Verify App - An internet connection is required to verify the trust of the developer." What I've tried: Created a new Apple Development certificate Deleted and reinstalled the app Restarted the device Tested on both Wi-Fi and cellular Confirmed Developer Mode is enabled Removed all third-party CA certificates from the device Verified the code signature is valid (codesign -dv shows correct Authority chain) The root cause: https://ppq.apple.com is currently returning 502 Bad Gateway. I confirmed this both from my Mac (curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://ppq.apple.com → 502) and from Safari on the device. This affects all developer-signed apps, not just a specific project. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there an ETA for the fix? Environment: Xcode 26.3 (17C519) macOS 26.3.1 (25D2128) iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 26.4 (23E5223k)

Hello, I am following up on several notarization requests in order to understand the process better. I submitted my first notary request yesterday and it took several hours to complete (where I submitted two other requests along the way thinking they may be stuck). They were all accepted after ~3 hours had passed since the first request was made. In that time I discovered a bug and had to rebuild/codesign, and submitted to notarize again. I've now had two requests with the new build (.zip file) "in progress" for ~18 hours. The bug fix I made between builds was innocuous and I'm wondering if my jobs are getting flagged due to recent account lockouts when I was first setting up my organizations' developer account. I've seen several replies here in the forum from DTS Engineers - hi Quinn :), so I'm aware of the possibility of 'rare' in-depth analysis, however I've experienced it in 100% of my requests. What is causing my requests to always require in-depth analysis and is there anything I can do to prevent it? My notarytool history is below for reference. Thank you in advance. createdDate: 2026-03-15T22:59:23.053Z id: 9c7ecc81-daf4-4cae-afe9-7f8186067f79 status: In Progress -------------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-03-15T21:10:04.576Z id: a1df8b50-c897-49f5-ad0d-f2264a03f145 status: In Progress -------------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-03-15T20:41:24.946Z id: 640e7cd6-035f-437b-9eab-9a3db415911a status: Accepted -------------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-03-15T18:40:26.944Z id: 00b9e907-04eb-4561-8353-dae7520202e0 status: Accepted -------------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-03-15T17:16:48.426Z id: 3163ba2b-e3c8-4216-ae8a-bac351b82f8a status: Accepted

All of my notarization submissions have been stuck at "In Progress" for up to 10 days. I have 6 submissions spanning from March 4 to March 11, 2026, and none of them have completed or returned any errors. Affected submissions: dbf20b57-0073-444a-b09a-ac6747b7398e (submitted Mar 4) — In Progress d5886683-be64-455c-805d-cd8b12bbcd35 (submitted Mar 4) — In Progress 10bfa709-da17-49cf-9c89-63f93b5fb756 (submitted Mar 4) — In Progress e8d0866e-43f8-4a18-8129-64e6c5d3895a (submitted Mar 9) — In Progress f9526f25-5650-4c45-98ae-d778c58a2ffa (submitted Mar 9) — In Progress 82ec211f-9179-41fd-afe0-937c9b2c2750 (submitted Mar 11) — In Progress Running `notarytool log` returns "Submission log is not yet available." Team ID: CB4U5M6U9H It is an Electron-based app built with electron-builder. Steps taken to ensure compliance: Signed with a valid Developer ID Application certificate Hardened runtime enabled (hardenedRuntime: true) Proper entitlements configured (com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit, com.apple.security.cs.allow-unsigned-executable-memory, com.apple.security.cs.disable-library-validation) Entitlements inherited for child processes via entitlements.mac.inherit.plist Electron Fuses configured to disable Node.js CLI flags in production (resetAdHocDarwinSignature enabled) App submitted as a zip archive via notarytool submit I've tried resubmitting multiple times across different builds, but all submissions remain stuck. I also have an open support case (102836201208) that was escalated to Senior Advisors on March 11, but have not received any update. Could someone from the notarization team please investigate?

Hi, I have uploaded the package to notarize using the xcrun command. Verbose logs shows that the upload is success and it shows the submission id as well. After that it is in loop to get the status of the upload. Following is the command I have used. Some part of the command verbose log Multiline [08:46:48.984Z] Info [UPLOAD] Starting S3 multipart upload of file at 'file:///var/folders/ty/lkzb6dxj0hq_b0wplk5lz6jw0000gp/T/TemporaryItems/NSIRD_notarytool_AtDtEn/Fiery%20Remote%20Scan.dmg' with part size 5 MB to Bucket: notary-submissions-prod, Key: prod/AROARQF6ZA5L:dc619a13-da5b-42fe-9b2b-afcadf078bc0 [08:46:48.984Z] Debug [UPLOAD] Received new upload status: Uploading [08:46:56.648Z] Debug [UPLOAD] Received new upload status: Succeeded [08:46:56.649Z] Debug [UPLOAD] multipart upload etag: "364e1cccccc99b5d98f7cccccccccc18d58f-6" [08:46:56.650Z] Info [UPLOAD] Multipart upload process has completed successfully. [08:46:56.651Z] Info [UPLOAD] Attempting to shutdown local S3 upload service. [08:46:56.651Z] Info [UPLOAD] Successfully shutdown local S3 upload service. [08:46:56.652Z] Info [API] Beginning to wait for submission id: dc619a13-cccccccadf078bc0 [08:46:56.652Z] Info [API] Preparing GET request to URL: https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/v2/submissions/dc619a13-xxxx-afcadf078bc0?, Parameters: [:], Custom Headers: private<Dictionary<String, String>> [08:46:56.652Z] Debug [JWT] Using cached JWT value for key ID: F73xxxxx [08:46:56.653Z] Debug [AUTHENTICATION] Authenticating request with App Store Connect API credentials. Key ID: F737N55KF2, Issuer ID: e3b80xxxxxx-9ab9-db8ee8ece781 [08:46:56.653Z] Debug [TASKMANAGER] Starting Task Manager loop to wait for asynchronous HTTP calls. [08:46:57.130Z] Debug [API] Received response status code: 200, message: no error, URL: https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/v2/submissions/dc619a13-da5b-42xxxxxx-afcadf078bc0?, Correlation Key: NUGVFYUAWxxxxxxxHQJ3VRLQ [08:46:57.130Z] Debug [TASKMANAGER] Completed Task with ID 2 has received a parsable response. [08:46:57.130Z] Debug [TASKMANAGER] Ending Task Manager loop. [08:46:57.130Z] Info [API] Initial status: In Progress) [08:46:57.131Z] Info [API] Waiting 5 seconds before next poll... [08:47:02.136Z] Info [API] Preparing GET request to URL: https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/v2/submissions/dc619a13-da5b-xxxxxx078bc0?, Parameters: [:], Custom Headers: private<Dictionary<String, String>> [08:47:02.137Z] Debug [JWT] Using cached JWT value for key ID: F737N55KF2 [08:47:02.138Z] Debug [AUTHENTICATION] Authenticating request with App Store Connect API credentials. Key ID: F737N55KF2, Issuer ID: e3b8057xxxxxx597-9ab9-db8ee8ece781 [08:47:02.138Z] Debug [TASKMANAGER] Starting Task Manager loop to wait for asynchronous HTTP calls. [08:47:02.586Z] Debug [API] Received response status code: 200, message: no error, URL: https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/notary/v2/submissions/dc619a13-da5xxxxxxxdf078bc0?, Correlation Key: YD4I377GRGJxxxxx6M3PAJOA [08:47:02.586Z] Debug [TASKMANAGER] Completed Task with ID 3 has received a parsable response. [08:47:02.586Z] Debug [TASKMANAGER] Ending Task Manager loop. [08:47:02.587Z] Info [API] Received new status: In Progress [08:47:02.587Z] Info [API] Waiting 5 seconds before next poll... BlockQuote This is going on a loop If I try to get the the status of the submission, it shows as "In Progress" xcrun notarytool info dc619a-9b2b-afcadf078bc0 --key AuthKey_F73cccc.p8 --key-id ccccc --issuer ccccc-d19d-4597-9ab9-cccccc Successfully received submission info createdDate: 2026-03-12T08:46:48.761Z id: dc619a13-dccccccadf078bc0 name: xxxxxx.dmg status: In Progress code-block Could you please help us on this? OS: macOS 26.3 Xcode: 26.2 Regards Prema Kumar

I'm unable to notarize my macOS app — notarytool returns statusCode 7000 ("Team is not yet configured for notarization"). My Developer ID certificate is valid (expires 2031), code signing works fine. Timeline: March 4 — opened case 102832266798 via Developer Programs Support March 6 — Apple replied, but the email never arrived (not in spam either) March 9 — sent follow-up requesting the response be resent — no reply March 13 — opened new case 102840272497 via Program Enrollment form — waiting It's been 9 days with no resolution. DTS confirmed this is not a technical issue and referred me to Developer Programs Support. Team ID: 9NL8W3646T Bundle ID: com.traart.app How can I escalate this? Has anyone experienced a similar situation with a new account?

All of my notarization submissions have been stuck at "In Progress" for over a week. I have 6 submissions spanning from March 4 to March 10, 2026, and none of them have completed or returned any errors. Affected submissions: 685708f6 — MeetingRecorder-1.5.0.dmg (submitted Mar 10) — In Progress 6ade1490 — MeetingRecorder-1.5.0.dmg (submitted Mar 10) — In Progress 99d39bd0 — MeetingRecorder-1.4.12.dmg (submitted Mar 6) — In Progress e65f95e1 — MeetingRecorder-1.4.9.dmg (submitted Mar 6) — In Progress eb51b220 — MeetingRecorder-1.4.9.dmg (submitted Mar 5) — In Progress 9cc33cfd — MeetingRecorder-1.4.9.dmg (submitted Mar 4) — In Progress Running notarytool log returns "Submission log is not yet available." Team ID: HXVLV4P425 The app is a macOS menu bar application for meeting recording and transcription. It is signed with a valid Developer ID certificate and has been built with hardened runtime enabled. I've tried resubmitting multiple times across different builds (1.4.9, 1.4.12, 1.5.0), but all submissions remain stuck. Could someone from the notarization team please investigate? Thank you.

We've got an in-house Swift macOS desktop app with a FileProvider extension, which has been working fine on various machines up through Sonoma (and still does). We've just installed it on a Sequoia machine, and on it the FileProvider extension has lost the ability to access the shared app group. It can neither log to the Group Containers folder under ~/Library, nor access the pipe to the main app. The group name is formatted as group.XXXXXXXXXX.com.orgname.appname in both targets. I'm not sure why it combines the iOS and macOS conventions, with both the group prefix and the teamIdentifier one -- it was first built some time before the point in 2025 when macOS supported iOS-style groups -- but again, it's been working. For the record, The provisioning profile for EMPFileProvider has the App Groups capability enabled, and the App Groups capability is present in both build targets in Xcode. The existing group identifier is registered on the website; I've also manually registered the team-ID-less group name, so I can migrate. The question is, is this actually the right approach? Will such a change break the app on pre-Sequoia machines? And if I proceed, what do I need to do to complete the migration? The app was built back in Xcode 12.5; will I need to update the entire build environment to take advantage of Xcode 16.3's explicit support for iOS-style group names, or can I get away with it since I've manually registered the new group?

Hello, We are experiencing repeated notarization delays for our macOS app distributed outside the Mac App Store. Current submission ID: 45d7cac0-bd8a-4d48-b886-1cad7649adf4 Previous affected submission ID: ff61de1e-15f5-4bbe-8b34-a91a6f73b978 Issue description: xcrun notarytool submit succeeds and returns a submission ID. xcrun notarytool info keeps returning In Progress for a very long time. In the current case, the submission has remained In Progress for more than 45 minutes. This issue has happened repeatedly across multiple submissions. What we have already checked: We are not using a local proxy for notarization requests. We separated submit and polling in our build script to verify the exact stage. We retried multiple times. We reduced package contents to rule out newly introduced app content. Could someone from Apple please help check whether these submission IDs are stuck in the notarization pipeline, or advise what additional diagnostics we should provide? Thank you.

I have an app for iOS already on the AppStore and I'm trying to add a macOS version of it. The AppID prefix for this app is different than my Team ID. This mismatch was always fine for submitting my iOS app. However for some reason, the macOS version gets rejected when I upload it. It tells me the AppID prefix must match my Team ID. I do not control my TeamID and I do not control my AppID prefix, they are both given to me by Apple. Yet the error message tells me they must match. How do I get past this? Here is the error message: Validation failed Invalid code signing entitlements. Your application bundle's signature contains code signing entitlements that aren't supported on macOS. Specifically, the "APPID_PREFIX.MY_BUNDLE_ID" value for the com.apple.application-identifier key in "MY_PACKAGE" isn't supported. This value should be a string that starts with your Team ID, followed by a dot ('"), followed by the bundle ID. (ID: 930b77ae-099f-4798-a14a-2803f2a9be9e) Thanks in advance for any pointer.

Notarization submissions stuck “In Progress” for 5+ days (SwiftUI macOS menu bar app) Hello, I’m experiencing an issue where all notarization submissions remain “In Progress” for several days. Environment macOS native app written in Swift / SwiftUI Menu bar application Built with Xcode Developer ID Application signing Hardened Runtime enabled App Sandbox disabled Uses SMAppService for “Start at Login” Artifact structure ClaudeUsageTracker.zip └ ClaudeUsageTracker.app (no nested directory) Verification codesign --verify --deep --strict --verbose=2 ClaudeUsageTracker.app This succeeds without errors. Notarization submissions 2026-03-06 — In Progress ID=215814fc-57c5-4f99-88fe-ed2db4d3e3d9 2026-03-06 — In Progress ID=70948178-191c-4840-a9c7-52c321b725e5 2026-03-09 — In Progress ID=14a88b79-df4d-4d83-9bfe-fa6eafc9bf76 All submissions remain In Progress for 5+ days, and notarytool log is not available yet. Command used xcrun notarytool submit ClaudeUsageTracker.zip \ --keychain-profile "notarytool-profile" The app is a small utility and the archive is only a few MB. Is there a known issue with the notarization queue or with accounts getting stuck in a processing state? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks. Repository: https://github.com/grad13/Claude-Usage-Tracker