I never had an issue with Face ID prior to the 18 update. A few days after the update, it stopped working. I tried resetting it, which resulted in the phone not registering a face at all and a pop up saying “Face ID is unavailable.” I then updated to Beta 18.1, which fixed it (so I thought). It’s been 2 days since I did that update, and now my Face ID is down again and won’t allow me to set an alternate appearance or reset it completely. It doesn’t work to open my phone or on any apps I have configured to use Face ID for log in. My front camera doesn’t have any damage, and I’ve tried restarting the phone a bunch of times, but nothing works. Any ideas or fixes?

Hello developers, I'm reaching out to see if anyone else has encountered and resolved the following error in Xcode 15 on macOS Sonoma: Sandbox: mkdir deny(1) file-write-create /Users/olawaleabosede/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/My750hrstracker-erjbkgyqqlopoegusonsambuhznx/Build/Intermediates.noindex/Pods.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/React-rncore.build/DerivedSources/generated This error is preventing me from building my app due to restrictions on directory creation in DerivedData. I've tried the following solutions without success: Disabled ENABLE_USER_SCRIPT_SANDBOXING in Build Settings. Cleared and reset permissions on the Derived Data folder using chmod -R 777. Set a custom Derived Data location outside the default ~/Library/Developer folder. Reinstalled dependencies and cleared CocoaPods cache by running pod deintegrate and pod install. Granted Xcode full disk access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy. Despite these efforts, the issue persists. I've read that this may be related to stricter sandbox policies introduced in Sonoma and Xcode 15, but I’m wondering if there are any additional workarounds that have worked for others. If anyone has experienced and resolved this issue—or has any new insights on managing this with external dependencies like React Native and CocoaPods—I’d greatly appreciate your advice. Thank you in advance for any help or guidance you can provide! Best regards,

I joined the waitlist for the early access as soon as I updated to the 18.2 beta, I’ve now installed the 18.2 beta 2 but still have no access. I can see the app when I swipe down the from the early access requested but it still closes the app straight away. Anyone else still having trouble getting access?

Since I installed a beta update recently I have had issues with my phone downloading the contacts to my Suzuki Swift. Today I noticed that the Suzuki Connect App would not open up stating that my 2 month old iPhone 16 had been jailbroken whatever that might mean. i have only ever installed apps from the App Store and updates notified by Apple so why is just this one App telling me my phone has been Jailbroken? I contacted Suzuki and they have no idea what the problem might be so I’m hoping someone in the community might be able to help me get everything fixed or be able to tell me more about my issue.

Hello! i developed an app for the Swift Student Challenge and submitted it, can I publish it to the app store before it is judged.

Hello, One of our apps has been rejected under Guideline 4.3 for spam. Our studio has been on the App Store for 10+ years and this particular app has been available for over two years without previous issue. We have submitted a couple responses to the original rejection outlining why we think our app is unique and not spam and unfortunately we have been rejected. I have also submitted an appeal and requested a phone call. This is compounded by a live issue happening in our app right now that requires a build to unblock. I added that to our review notes for submission but was rejected. We believe we have been flagged as spam in error and would like to release builds to our active players ASAP to get them unblocked and provide further value to them. Beyond submitting an appeal and requesting a call is there anything else I can do?

With macOS Tahoe, Launchpad has been replaced by an App Library–style mode within Spotlight. While the alleged intention is UX consistency across the Apple ecosystem, the result is both a catastrophic usability regression and a radical break in consistency with iOS and iPadOS. Predefined App Library categorization is functionally incoherent: On iOS and now macOS, Apple’s predefined App Library categories place apps with seemingly identical functionality into unrelated groups—for example, 3D scanning tools scattered across Education, Utilities, and Productivity. Instead of making apps easier to find, this effectively creates a labyrinth that users must traverse to locate apps whose names and icons they may not recall. However Apple defines its app categories, they are not only inconsistent but also hopelessly inadequate for the long tail of real-world applications and user workflows. Loss of user control: Launchpad enabled users to group and organize applications according to their workflows. This aligns with Apple’s own Human Interface Guidelines, which emphasize user control, discoverability, and predictable behavior. The new Spotlight interface removes that flexibility, locking users into predefined categories that both impede and mislead—and cannot be overridden. Consistency across platforms is broken: If the goal was to unify iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, this approach actually undermines consistency. On iOS and iPadOS, users can still rely on a customizable Home Screen—a Launchpad-like experience—as their primary way of launching apps. In Tahoe, that option has been removed. macOS now forces users to depend exclusively on Spotlight with App Library categories, while eliminating the very feature that was consistent across platforms. Catastrophic impact on my workflow: As an interdisciplinary artist working in 2D, 3D, and time-based media, as well as coding, I make extensive use of a constantly changing array of AI tools and experiment with many new apps and web services, which I often turn into Web Apps. I cannot possibly recall the names of every native and web app on my system. I need predictable access to groups of related tools. Tahoe’s new auto-categories split those apps apart arbitrarily, slowing me down and interrupting established workflows, forcing me to navigate the aforementioned labyrinth just to find what I need. Proposal: A constructive way forward High-level objective: Simply restore Launchpad—or restore the ability to customize app categories/folders and manually assign apps to them, overriding or augmenting the predefined categories. This ensures users can launch apps according to their workflow, without needing to remember exact names or icons. Possible solutions: Allow manual subfolders within Applications, represented hierarchically in Spotlight. Provide a fullscreen Launchpad-like organizer (with uninstall via long-click, etc.), either as a replacement or toggleable option. Retain Apple’s auto-categories for those who prefer them, but let users override or augment them with their own. In summary: Tahoe eliminates a working, consistent paradigm (Launchpad/Home Screen) and forces reliance on an App Library system that categorizes poorly and cannot be customized. This is both a step backwards in functionality and a break in cross-platform consistency. A constructive solution is to restore Launchpad—or at least restore the ability for users to organize apps in ways that fit their workflows.

Hi, About every 3 hours 15.2 will lock up/crash. If not present it eventually reboots itself, but if present I manually power-cycle. It happens about every 3 hours regardless of what I'm doing. The crash log is always the same too. Pasted below. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Full crash log: https://i.ibb.co/2jtJg5G/crashlog.jpg

Hello everyone, on August 31st, all the apps in my personal developer account were suddenly expired and deleted, I have not received any response from Apple. My apps are in compliance with Apple's policies. I then uploaded a new version and sent it to the review team, but I received the following error "There was an error processing your request. Please try again later." I have contacted Apple via Email and Phone but no one cares about my problem. Has anyone had the same situation as me, I am really worried.

I am using an ASO tool. After linking my Search Ads account campaign with my App Store Connect account, it gets my email and app specific password then makes API call to search ads. I couldn't find any documentation regarding this flow. Can someone lead me to the correct path where I can implement a similar flow? Thank you all

I mean it literally says that it takes up to 48 hours to process, but I still remain at a "PENDING" state. It's not my first time enrolling and from my past experiences it was pretty seamless before. But the most recent one is a disaster. What the heck? Has anyone faced a similar problem before?

Our remote access application uses ScreenCaptureKit for capturing the screen in the user context and CGDisplayStream API as a fallback when running in the context of the Login Window. Environment: macOS 15.0; macOS 15.1 beta; Xcode 16 The application is authorized by the user for System Screen recording. The GUI process runs under the root user over the Login Screen. The calling thread gets stuck on CGDisplayStreamCreateWithDispatchQueue() for exactly 30 seconds. The method returns NULL afterward. The same code worked fine on Sonoma

Hello developers! I built a basic trivia app for NCAA Wrestling - I do NOT own an iPad 13. I can't get passed the screenshot for approval Hoping for a person willing to help a newbie out - I'm struggling thanks! Adrian Stewart

After checking the forum, it's clear that Apple has a MAJOR ONGOING PROBLEM here. We are far from the only company experiencing this, and it has been a problem for years. Apple, please FIX THIS! What's the problem? We receive an email reminding us to renew our developer account. All of Apple's instructions to renew do not work (with no explanation), and yet we are threatened with removal of our apps if we do not renew in time. Firstly, it should be unnecessary for us to manually renew because we registered a valid credit card to auto-renew. It worked last year, and the same credit card continues to be valid. Secondly, when we try to manually renew, there is no "Renew" button appearing anywhere, contrary to Apple's instructions. It's not in the Developer app (Mac or iOS), and it does not appear in the Developer account website. We now have only 16 days left until Apple kicks our app out of the App Store. @APPLE: We are not alone. Lots of your customers have the same problem, as reported on this forum for multiple years. This problem threatens the livelihoods of many people. Please fix this! Thank you.

I tried to update to the currently released beta version of iPad OS26, but I can't seem to update due to lack of storage space on my iPad. Is there any other way to update besides freeing up space? Model: iPad 8 Storage: 18GB/32GB I would appreciate it if anyone has any information on how to free up storage space in order to update to iPad OS26.

Basically, I always charge my phone at night to my limit 85%, but when I installed the iOS 18.3 beta 3, my iPhone charged to 100% at night when I was having always limit to 85%, my phone was overheated too. Did that only happened to me? Because I even checked and it’s on 85% limit.

Over the past few months, I’ve been experiencing persistent, abnormal behavior on my iPhone. Here's a short timeline: March 2025: Most apps log me out every time I close them. April 2025: Stored passwords suddenly begin failing across apps and websites. May–June 2025: Password recovery emails from Gmail accounts no longer arrive — suggesting that Gmail itself may be compromised or blocked/intercepted. Given the escalation, I ran several diagnostics and extracted system-level logs. Below is a structured summary of findings that point toward potential remote access, network traffic rerouting, and possibly hidden use of Bluetooth or debugging interfaces. Device Information Model: iPhone17,1 (A17 chip) iOS Version: 18.5 (Build 22F76) Status: Stock, not jailbroken or running a developer build Region: Netherlands Carrier: KPN NL Language/Locale: Dutch (nl-NL) 1. Evidence of Remote Services and XPC Connectivity Source: remotectl_dumpstate.txt More than 50 remote lockdown and diagnostic services are listed as active. Notable entries: com.apple.mobile.lockdown.remote.trusted and .untrusted com.apple.mobile.file_relay.shim.remote com.apple.webinspector.shim.remote com.apple.pcapd.shim.remote com.apple.bluetooth.BTPacketLogger.shim.remote com.apple.mobile.insecure_notification_proxy.remote This volume of .shim.remote and diagnostic services appears highly irregular for a non-debug, non-jailbroken device. 2. Skywalk Network Flows and Unusual Routing Source: skywalk.txt Dozens of flowswitch entries across interfaces like: ipsec0-7, pdp_ip0-2, en0-2, awdl0 Apps such as Gmail, ChatGPT, Preferences, and com.apple.WebKit are marked as defunct, yet persist in flow tables. Two specific daemons — replicatord and siriactionsd — appear on nearly every interface, in both QUIC and TCP6 traffic. skywalkctl flow-route shows multiple external IP paths, with flows routed through ipsec7, owned by kernel_task.0 — indicate tunnelling? 3. System Anomalies and Resource Behavior Inaccessible System Network Tools Source: get-network-info.txt All scutil calls fail (/usr/sbin/scutil does not exist). This blocks access to: DNS configuration (scutil --dns) Proxy and VPN status (scutil --proxy, --nc list) Reachability checks (scutil -r www.apple.com) The absence of scutil is not expected right? Unusual Resource Usage Source: assetsd.diskwrites_resource-2025-06-25.json assetsd, working on behalf of cloudphotod, wrote over 1 GB of memory-backed files in under 1.5 hours. 4. Metadata Confirmation Source: Analytics-2025-06-27-020008.json Confirms: iPhone capacity: 256 GB DRAM: 7.5 GB Carrier: KPN NL Apps marked as highly active ("Games", "Creativity") in analytics also appear as defunct in skywalk, suggesting ghost background processes. Key Questions for the Developer Community Are >50 remote .shim.remote services typical on iOS 18.5 (release build)? Or does this suggest tampering, an MDM configuration, or debug provisioning? Could a misconfigured VPN or MDM profile enable persistent flow-switching across multiple interfaces (e.g., ipsec, pdp, awdl) and reroute app traffic such as Gmail? Is it possible for a test or developer certificate to silently side-load a background daemon, or trigger services like pcapd or file_relay, without showing in Profiles or Settings? Has anyone else seen the scutil binary missing or inaccessible on a stock iPhone? Could this be a sign of intentional lockdown or system modification? If anyone on iOS 18.5 / iPhone17,1 can share their remotectl_dumpstate output, I'd like to compare the service count and see if this behavior is reproducible. I’d appreciate any insight from those familiar with Apple’s system daemons, skywalk internals, or network service behavior. Happy to share sanitized logs or run additional diagnostics if needed. Thanks in advance. get-network-info.txt route-info.txt remotectl_dumpstate.txt [ assetsd.diskwrites_resource-2025-06-25-221428.json

My phone is being controlled remotely and has been hacked. I have a lot of code but I don’t know how to read it.

I keep getting these CAPTCHA messages with an I IP address and a site link and there are many files on my phone which I don’t understand As I try to navigate sites, I get a CAPTCHA message of different types. With IP addresses and URLs. IP address: 2a04:4e41:62::9ce7:d3c7 Time: 2024-08-23T06:27:11Z URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=com.apple.os.update-E308CACB9FB73322E7681CC9DAFA19CF788DA2672BFBE91158D3C85061851851%40%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s1+on+%2F+(apfs%2C+sealed%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+read-only%2C+journaled%2C+noatime)+devfs+on+%2Fdev+(devfs%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s6+on+%2Fprivate%2Fpreboot+(apfs%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s3+on+%2Fprivate%2Fxarts+(apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s2+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar+(apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+protect)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s4+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2Fwireless%2Fbaseband_data+(apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s7+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2FMobileSoftwareUpdate+(apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s5+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2Fhardware+(apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s8+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2Fmobile+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+protect)&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari q=com.apple.os.update-E308CACB9FB73322E7681CC9DAFA19CF788DA2672BFBE91158D3C85061851851%40%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s1+on+%2F+(apfs%2C+sealed%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+read-only%2C+journaled%2C+noatime)+devfs+on+%2Fdev+(devfs%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s 6+on+%2Fprivate%2Fpreboot+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s3+on+%2Fprivate%2Fxarts+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s2+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+protect)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s4+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2Fwireless%2Fbaseband_data+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s7+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2FMobileSoftwareUpdate+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s5+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2Fhardware+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s8+on+%2Fprivate%2Fvar%2Fmobile+ (apfs%2C+local%2C+nodev%2C+nosuid%2C+journaled%2C+noatime%2C+protect)&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari https://www.google.com/search?q=com.apple.os.update-E308CACB9FB73322E7681CC9DAFA19CF788DA2672BFBE91158D3C85061851851%40%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s1+on+%2F+ apfs%2C+sealed%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+read-only%2C+journaled%2C+noatime)+devfs+on+%2Fdev+(devfs%2C+local%2C+nosuid%2C+nobrowse)+%2Fdev%2Fdisk1s6+on+%2Fprivate%2Fpreboot

I’m experiencing an issue on macOS Tahoe (Developer Beta, July 2025) related to the new “Allow in Menu Bar” section in System Settings. After uninstalling the application Backdrop (developer: Cindori), the entry com.cindori.Backdrop.Wallpaper still appears in the list of apps allowed to show in the menu bar, even though: — The app and all its associated files have been fully deleted. — The LaunchAgents files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchAgents have been removed. — Preferences have been deleted via defaults delete com.cindori.Backdrop and defaults delete com.cindori.Backdrop.Wallpaper. — The system has been restarted. It seems the “Allow in Menu Bar” section keeps phantom references to apps or agents even after complete cleanup. Could you please confirm if this is expected behavior (perhaps for future reactivation) or a bug? Is there any official method or recommended command to permanently remove such residual entries from this list? Thank you very much for your help and clarifications.