It was mentioned in the Swift Student Challenge that outstanding winners will have the opportunity to visit Apple Park in the United States. However, as a challenger from China who is not currently in the U.S., this means that if I receive the outstanding award, I will need to apply for a visa to travel to Apple Park. Since I am under 18, my guardian would also need to apply for a visa. Therefore, I would like to know if Apple provides visa assistance for outstanding winners and their guardians from China, or if we are responsible for applying for the visas on our own.

Dear Apple Support Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to report an issue I have encountered with Wi-Fi connectivity on my iPhone 16 series running iOS 18.0. The problem occurs as follows: When attempting to connect my iPhone 16 series (iOS 18.0) to a Wi-Fi network, the connection always fails. After this failed attempt, any other iPhone (not from the 16 series) running iOS 18.0 also fails to connect to the same Wi-Fi network. However, if I restart the Wi-Fi router, the non-iPhone 16 series devices can successfully connect to the Wi-Fi network. To further investigate, I used Wireshark to monitor the network traffic. I observed that the iPhone sends a DHCP Discover message, but the Wi-Fi router does not respond with a DHCP Offer message. Based on these observations, it appears that the issue is triggered by the iPhone 16 series running iOS 18.0, which causes the Wi-Fi router to malfunction and prevents other devices from connecting. Additionally, I have tried all the steps listed on the following site, but the issue persists: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111786 Could you please investigate this issue and provide guidance on how to resolve it? If this is a known bug, is there a planned update to address it? Thank you for your assistance. I look forward to your prompt response. Best regards, WJohn

Hello everyone, I’m currently developing a Playground App for the Swift Student Challenge, and its core functionality relies heavily on Shortcuts Automation, App Shortcuts, and interactions with the Focus Mode status (e.g., reading Focus Status or execute Focus Filter). Before finalizing my submission, I’d like to clarify whether these features will function as expected during the review process. Specifically: Shortcuts Automation: My app uses custom shortcuts to trigger actions within the Playground. Will reviewers be able to test these shortcuts seamlessly, or do I need to provide explicit instructions for enabling/setting them up? App Shortcuts: The app integrates system-level App Shortcuts (via App Intents). Are these supported in the test environment, and will reviewers see them during testing? Focus Status Interaction: The app dynamically responds to changes in the device’s Focus Mode (e.g., adjusting UI and function based on FocusStatus). Does the evaluation environment allow access to Focus Status data, and are there restrictions on simulating Focus Mode changes? I want to ensure these features are testable and don’t lead to unexpected issues during review. Any insights or advice from past participants, mentors, or Apple experts would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance for your guidance!

I was developing my app on Xcode and I saw in requirements it says “your submission must be an app playground (.swiftpm) I reckon I can develop in Xcode and then copy those files in playgrounds app, make some changes, for it to work. also I made my project in landscape mode in Xcode, in playgrounds can I lock display orientation through package.swift file or I should continue making me app in landscape mode and ask players to change their viewing orientation via a popup?

Extremely disappointed and super frustrated with this update. Please fix the issue where videos that are being recorded are corrupt! I’m a content creator and this is ruining my videos that I can’t record nor recover. There’s a whole Reddit thread on this happening to people. Don’t know why the photos app was touched to begin with.

Hello, I have a 2024 Chevrolet Silverado LTZ with the Bose system. Ever since I updated to ios 18.1 on my iPhone 11 Pro Max Carplay no longer works. The truck will connect no problem to the phone but the Carplay will not start. I have tried restarting the phone and every other trick. The option for apple car play has totally disappeared from the bluetooth menu (when opening the "i" menu). Please help or release an update to help. Thank you.

i am connected to mobile data and wifi simultaneously at once and i want my app to send all network api calls in flutter at a certain network interface (WIFI in my case) and establish a tcp connection on a local network with a hardware device, i am able to resolve my IP Address on phone and send it to hardware i want to connect to but when hardware tries to connect on that ip , its not working , on the other hand if i just use WIFI it works fine, but it breaks the moment i have both mobile data and wifi turned on together.

I don’t know what you felt was wrong with video scrubbing that you needed to **** it up this badly. I can’t scrub within the video, only within several seconds of the pause or worse it restarts the whole damn video. used to be an Easy and enjoyable process to harvest photos from a video and you’ve turned it into the most frustrating part of operating my phone. release me a patch to optionally enable the old scrubbing behavior.

after updating to beta 4 the whole phone is not working anymore nothing is working only making calls and the camera no apps no internet even if it's connected to wifi or 5G ANd to get back to the old version you will lose your backup And now im stuck my data that i can't restore it cuz it have been made on the last IOS beta I don't want to lose my date and i don't know what to do Please help

Hey everyone, First time posting on here. I updated my iPhone 15Pro to 18.4 this morning march 5th, and almost immediately my phone started bugging. Safari won’t load, neither will some of my apps that are heavily data based like Mail. I tried WiFi and data, no difference, I tried different WiFi connections and even a hotspot. Siri and chatGPT also won’t load BUT instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X, and threads are working perfectly fine. Most games won’t load either. I tried to use a VPN and it has allowed me to access everything that is down Including Siri. This is a temporary solution, hopefully there is a more permanent fix. Thank you all in advance.

Hi I upgraded to 18.2 and now my email doesnt show emails but it shows that they are downloading? Anyone have this issue too

Yes, there is a Keychain Access app available on Sequoia (in System/Library/CoreServices/Applications), but it is not the old one; secure notes can neither be created nor retrieved. All of my old secure notes appear to be lost. Yes, I can make new secure notes in the Notes app, but my old secure notes cannot be transferred because they no longer exist.

Hi - I've been using logic for a few years now. Three days ago I whilst opening it, a pop up said MIDICORE was not working and I haven't been able to fix it since. I read online that booting up in safe mode + opening audio MIDI set up would fix it, thing is audio MIDI set up wont load up. Anyone knows how I can fix it? I am on the verge of tears as I cannot seam to find any information online about audio MIDI set up not opening. And I cannot seam to fix the MIDI issue without it. Thanks!

Hello, I am building a workout app that has an option to add segments to differentiate different stages of the training session. Segments are added the following way: func saveSegment(eventType: HKWorkoutEventType, startDate: Date, endDate: Date, inSeg: Int) async throws { let dateInterval = DateInterval(start: startDate, end: endDate) let event = HKWorkoutEvent(type: eventType, dateInterval: dateInterval, metadata: metadata) try await builder?.addWorkoutEvents([event]) } Inside Health -> Workouts -> Show All Data, the segments appear, but in Fitness app there are no segments. The workout is .paddleSports. I thought that maybe the workout type was the problem, but when I start the sessions from the native workout app, segments are added and shown in the Fitness app: In other posts I saw suggested to add an event as .marker instead of .segment, but the result is the same, it does not appear. Is there something I am doing wrong? How can I show the segments into the Fitness app? Another question, I would like to add stroke rate and stroke count to my paddling session, is there a way to add it? Paddle Sports workout was recently introduced and it would be great to have the option to add those values. Thank you in advance. Inaki

Dear Community, We are in the process of developing a mobile banking application and have a key requirement related to NFC-based peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions. Our goal is to enable secure and seamless money transfers between two devices using NFC. Business Requirement: The application will provide a feature where users can initiate money transfers via NFC. The sender starts an NFC payment session from their device. Simultaneously, the receiver starts an NFC session to accept the payment. The sender's device should be able to detect the receiver’s NFC tag and process the transaction securely. We would like to confirm whether iOS supports such a use case. Your guidance on the feasibility of this feature, along with any technical or policy-related considerations, would be highly valuable. Looking forward to your response.

I have two machines (a Studio and a MacBook Pro) and I use Universal Control to share a mouse between them. It's far from perfect, but it works. When I upgraded the second machine to 15.1 yesterday (29/10/2024), Universal Control between the machines became completely unusuable (connection drops up within a second or so of occurring). Has anyone else experienced this? I did reach out to Apple Support. I got Apple but not Support.

i am having problems done everything 18.5 connects but when i connect ios 26 it pick phone up but does nothing never had this problem before on any other beta

How to set speed > 2.0 for HLS video with AVPlayer? I’m having an issue where the video has no sound when I change the speed to 2.1x or higher

After updating my SE 2nd gen a month ago, whenever I power my phone off screen time is running constantly in the background while it is powered down. I shut my phone off for three hours today and when I turned it back on there were three hours added to my time, but it was a gray bar indicating a specific app was not running, but the screen was on. I restarted my phone and turned location services off and neither helped. I would really appreciate a fix to this problem because my parents constantly check my screen time but I would still like to be able to power my phone off. Thanks!

I'm getting an error when trying to login to iCloud.com. This only happens on my Windows 11 pc and not on my iPhone. I get the 2FA code on my phone, but on my pc it displays only the error. I also have checked the system status page from apple and everything is green there, so i have no idea what is happening.