I have a Apple Developer accounts for development purposes only and that is also used for testing builds via TestFlight. Is the Age Ratings Responses updates due by the end of January 2026 still required even to send builds to TestFlight?

SKStorefront.countryCode always returns "US" in TestFlight and sandbox, even when sandbox Apple ID is set to a different country. Is this expected behavior? Is SKStorefront guaranteed to return the correct storefront only for production App Store builds?

Hello, I purchased the Apple Developer Program a week ago and yet I haven't received any information on it. No activation of the account whatsoever. I've sent 3 emails to apple support, but still no replied. Is this normal? How long does it take? Will someone finally assist me Apple?

Hello, I'm no macOS 26.1 I'm running through the example shown in the WWDC video "Optimizing CPU Performance with Instruments." After right-clicking a test, clicking "Profile...", and trying to run a processor trace I get the error in the subject. I have processor trace enabled on the CPU via system settings. I confirmed this by disabling it and re-enabling it and noting the error that appears when this is disabled is different from the one I'm now getting. This did previously work but I haven't tried since macOS 26 is released. Is there something new I need to be doing to my Xcode project settings in order for this to be working?

Out of nowhere I got some red banner on top of my iPhone 13 mini / iOS 17.5. I cannot pin point the root cause of this. What I can say is that it only happens to Simulators of a certain type, e.g. iPhone 12 and 13 mini, but not iPhone 14 for example. I have installed Xcode 26.1.0 and 26.1.1, out of which 26.1.0 is selected: $ xcode-select -p /Applications/Xcode-26.1.0.app/Contents/Developer And following runtimes: $ xcrun simctl runtime list == Disk Images == -- iOS -- iOS 17.5 (21F79) - CF933623-A258-44F8-B248-C0F25C0C343B (Ready) iOS 26.1 (23B80) - D11C3CDC-EE3D-44CC-8B92-9B7D00B54B0B (Ready) Total Disk Images: 2 (14.6G) Installing the newer 26.1 23B86 runtime doesn't help either.

I posted about this about 5 years ago, and now at last it's close to being finished. The main problem that I now have is related to matching up DWARF debuginfo and global variables. This works fairly well on macOS 10.14. On 10.15 much less so, and I think that the reason is how the macho data is mmap'd. When Valgrind runs it does the job of the OS and loads the guest exe into memory. It'll then load and run dyld in Valgrind. I can get memory map debug traces. In one test with a problem I see 4 load segments. __DATA_CONST and __DATA both have prot 3 (RW) so we load them RW and not R then RW. Then I think that dyld munmaps and re mmaps the _DATA_CONST segment as RO. Valgrind works based on mmaps triggering reading debuginfo. I don't think that it handles munmap correctly. I need to debug that a lot more - I can see the changed mappings in the debug output but I don't see exactly what is happening with munmap and mmap (unless dyld is doing that on a section by basis). Does what I'm saying about the mappings make any sense?

im facing a problem where everything was working just fine the previous day then overnight I get a email saying I’m terminated for fraud when all my info is my correct information and is up to date I will say this I did have a name change, but that was like three years ago so I’m not sure what is going on or what the problem is . id really love some feedback or ideas on what I should do no

Hi! I would like to experiment with the Accessory Setup Kit, but I am not sure how I can add the required entitlement to my Apple Developer account. I added the following to the plist file: NSAccessorySetupKitSupports WiFi NSAccessorySetupWiFiSSIDPrefix test_ test And the following to the entitlements file: com.apple.developer.accessory-setup-kit But I am unable to build as my provisioning profile doesn't include "com.apple.developer.accessory-setup-kit entitlement". On the developer portal, I navigated to “Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles” > “Identifiers” > “”, but I don't see it under "Capabilities" or "App services", nor under requests. How do I configure my profile so that I am able to make use of this kit?

My app start up has became horrid. It takes 1 minute to open SQLlite database for my rust core. Impossible to work... I have Address Sanitizer, Thread Perf Checker and Thread Sanitizer disabled...

Hi everyone. I'm trying to use https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/get-transaction-info to retrieve order information. How can I get the refund status of an order through this API? Also, Apple's webhook notification for refunds includes fields like revocationReason and revocationType. Can these be retrieved through the API? I've noticed that some refund orders have these fields when retrieved using get-transaction-info api, but others don't. I don't know the reason for these differences. Could you please explain? Thank you very much.

Xcode 26.2 RC has been out for over 24 hours and it's still not possible to submit apps.

Hi, Problem When playing videos on the Developer app on the Mac, there is no full screen button for the video. So it is not possible to play the video in full screen. Note I am not referring to the app going into full screen, the issue is with there is no option to play the video in full screen. Environment OS: macOS 26.2 (25C56) Developer app: Version 10.8.3 (1083.3.1) Feedback FB21343934 Recording Question Are others also facing this issue? Is there a workaround? Suggestion This seems to be recurring problem that seems get broken with app / OS releases. Please write some UI tests to ensure the full screen button is present. Would really appreciate if this gets fixed.

Has anyone been able to use Google Gemini with Intelligence in Xcode? I got the Claude models working in there but as much as I try I can't see any Gemini models.

Hey all, I recently updated to Xcode 26.2 and I'm having the hardest time trying to download the corresponding iOS simulator. I installed Xcode from developer downloads and the app did not come loaded with an iOS simulator. When trying to download from Components in Settings, I only get the following message: Download failed due to a bad URL. (Catalog download for com.apple.MobileAsset.iOSSimulatorRuntime) Domain: com.apple.MobileAssetError.Download Code: 49 User Info: { checkConfiguration = 1; } I also tried downloading via Terminal but also get a download failed message. I am on the latest macOS and have over 600 GB of disk space available. In previous versions, I was able to download the iOS simulator directly from Developer Downloads, but anything after 26 is not there. Any suggestions?

Instruments is crashing when the swiftui instrument is stopped (the session is finished) and the transfer begins from device to device: Crashed Thread: 11 Dispatch queue: com.apple.swiftuitracingsupport.reading Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 4 Illegal instruction: 4 Terminating Process: exc handler [1633] I've tried removing derived data, reinstalling xcode, updating xcode (I originally thought this might be the issue -- I needed to update to 26.2 from the 26 RC -- the update didn't fix crash or change the crash report), and restarting both devices. I'm running Instruments/Xcode 26.2 on a MacBook Pro 15" (2018) running Mac OS 15.7.2 (24G325) with an iPhone 16 Pro Max running 26.2. Hoping someone else might have seen this or could help me troubleshoot. I find the swiftui instrument be helpful and like to use it :) I can post a complete crash report as well.

Gitlab runner on M4 Mac Mini 2024, XCode 26.2, supported platforms: iOS, native UIKit swift project. Cocoapods. Trying to run tests via fastlane: run_tests(workspace: 'Project.xcworkspace', destination: "platform=macOS,id=#{deviceId}", scheme: "Release", clean: true) And having an error: $ xcodebuild -showBuildSettings -workspace Project.xcworkspace -scheme Release -destination platform\=macOS,id\=01234567-0123456789B9001C 2>&1 [12:23:53]: Could not read the "SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS" build setting, assuming that the project supports iOS only. [12:23:54]: Found simulator "iPhone 16 Pro (18.5)" The tests runs just fine in xcode on "My Mac (Designed for iPad)" device on the very same machine. Compared the output of xcodebuild -showdestinations in terminal: $ xcodebuild -showdestinations -workspace Project.xcworkspace -scheme Release Available destinations for the "Release" scheme: { platform:macOS, arch:arm64, variant:Designed for [iPad,iPhone], id:01234567-0123456789B9001C, name:My Mac } { platform:iOS, id:dvtdevice-DVTiPhonePlaceholder-iphoneos:placeholder, name:Any iOS Device } { platform:iOS Simulator, id:dvtdevice-DVTiOSDeviceSimulatorPlaceholder-iphonesimulator:placeholder, name:Any iOS Simulator Device } { platform:iOS Simulator, arch:arm64, id:A7E98A79-B29B-4E9A-8103-ECBA55ABC0C6, OS:26.2, name:iPhone 17 Pro } But when I launch this command in gitlab runner, I get this: Available destinations for the "Release" scheme: { platform:iOS, id:dvtdevice-DVTiPhonePlaceholder-iphoneos:placeholder, name:Any iOS Device } { platform:iOS Simulator, id:dvtdevice-DVTiOSDeviceSimulatorPlaceholder-iphonesimulator:placeholder, name:Any iOS Simulator Device } { platform:iOS Simulator, arch:arm64, id:A7E98A79-B29B-4E9A-8103-ECBA55ABC0C6, OS:26.2, name:iPhone 17 Pro } I suspect gitlab runner to ruin some ENV variable, probably. So I googled the most common issues on the internet and tried everything I found: LANG: "en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL: "en_US.UTF-8" unset CFProcessPath And none is worked. I also compared the printenv output in terminal and gitlab runner, didn't found anything suspicious. Ran out of ideas. How can I troubleshoot this?

This is a screenshot from the Swift Task track in Xcode. I made these tasks with public actor ResourceManager { func foo() { for observer in observers { Task(name: "ResourceManager notify observers") { await notification(observer) } } } } I am confused why each of the task is showing as a separate task in the task lifetime summary. Is there a way to queue the trace in Instruments into the fact that these are indeed the same task?

Am developing an application that creates custom VPN. I have enabled Sandbox properties. VPN will be granted based upon the device posture. Posture includes reading the disk encryption value, secureboot and Firewall values. Application just tries to fetch the values to provides its posture. Since the application is sandboxed, it is getting denied to read the above mentioned values. How to achieve this with Sandboxed enabled?

Hi all, I'm new to TestFlight and Apple Store Connect. I have pushed a build and it says "waiting for review". Do I have to do anything to put it into review? I'm trying to get this build out to external testers.

I have been trying to get into my account for several days now and I have tried everything. First of you cannot get support because you need to be logged in so had to make another account to be able to post this. And even then the support is not working. Send an email a while ago and tried the call option and I have gotten no response from both. I was supposed to launch my app last week and I have just not be able to log into my account. I keep getting the 'Too many verification codes have been sent. Enter the last code you received or try again later.' I didn't even do that, I just tried to log in and had that there. I have waited days and it's still there. I have tried changing the number for which I waited a day and now it's told me to wait another 6 days. This has caused so many problem and the lack of support is unbelievable. Can anyone please help me get into my account or advise on what I can do ASAP. Thanks, Usama