Dear Apple Developer Support,
I hope this message finds you well. I am a game developer looking to integrate Game Center into our game. Before proceeding, I would like to understand the analytical capabilities available post-integration. Specifically, I am interested in tracking detailed metrics such as:
The number of new player downloads driven by Game Center features (e.g., friend challenges, leaderboards, or achievements).
Data on user engagement and conversions originating from Game Center interactions.
I have explored App Store Connect’s App Analytics but would appreciate clarification on whether Game Center-specific data (e.g., referrals from challenges or social features) is available to measure growth and optimize our strategies.
If such data is accessible, could you guide me on how to view it? If not, are there alternative methods or plans to incorporate this in the future?
Thank you for your time and assistance. I look forward to your response.
Best regards,
Bella
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Hello,
MacOS 26 Betas are limiting games (noticeably, games that use java) to the native display of the MacBook Pro (120hz). Even connecting an external display this is not changing. I have submitted a bug report, but I have not had any responses to it yet. I am looking to see if anyone may have an answer or fix to this issue.
Thanks!
Topic:
Graphics & Games
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General
Looks like is something to do with the code and that is why my images are distorted. please help me get to the right person to help me get this issue resolved
Topic:
Graphics & Games
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General
Hello,
I found an issue with the Games app on macOS 26 (Tahoe) when viewing achievements:
In App Store Connect, each achievement has different values set for the pre-earned description and the post-earned description.
When testing with GameKit directly (GKAchievementDescription), both values are returned correctly.
However, in the macOS Games app, the post-earned description is shown even before the achievement is earned.
This seems to be a display issue specific to the Games app on macOS.
Could you confirm if this is a known bug in the Games app, or if there is a reason why pre-earned descriptions are not being shown?
Thank you.
When previewing the recording of gameplay the buttons to exit or save are unclickable behind the top bar clock and Wi-Fi/5G status bar. Which means that you have to quit the game in order to continue.
Tested on multiple devices.
Does anyone have a solution to this? At the moment we have disabled it altogether for iOS 26 users.
Hi everyone,
I faced an issue that on IOS 26 removeAnnotation method doesn't remove annotation. This code worked on previous versions (IOS 18, 17) but suddenly stopped working on IOS 26.
Has anyone faced this issue?
guard let document = await pdfView.document else { return }
for pageIndex in 0..<document.pageCount {
guard let page = document.page(at: pageIndex) else { continue }
let annotations = page.annotations
for annotation in annotations {
page.removeAnnotation(annotation)
}
}
Hello, I am trying to capture screen recording ( output.mp4 ) using ScreenCaptureKit and also the mouse positions during the recording ( mouse.json ). The recording and the mouse positions ( tracked based on mouse movements events only ) needs to be perfectly synced in order to add effects in post editing.
I started off by using the await stream?.startCapture() and after that starting my mouse tracking function :-
try await captureEngine.startCapture(configuration: config, filter: filter, recordingOutput: recordingOutput)
let captureStartTime = Date()
mouseTracker?.startTracking(with: captureStartTime)
But every time I tested, there is a clear inconsistency in sync between the recorded video and the recorded mouse positions.
The only thing I want is to know when exactly does the recording "actually" started so that I can start the mouse capture at that same time, and thus I tried using the Delegates, but being able to set them up perfectly.
import Foundation
import AVFAudio
import ScreenCaptureKit
import OSLog
import Combine
class CaptureEngine: NSObject, @unchecked Sendable {
private let logger = Logger()
private(set) var stream: SCStream?
private var streamOutput: CaptureEngineStreamOutput?
private var recordingOutput: SCRecordingOutput?
private let videoSampleBufferQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.francestudio.phia.VideoSampleBufferQueue")
private let audioSampleBufferQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.francestudio.phia.AudioSampleBufferQueue")
private let micSampleBufferQueue = DispatchQueue(label: "com.francestudio.phia.MicSampleBufferQueue")
func startCapture(configuration: SCStreamConfiguration, filter: SCContentFilter, recordingOutput: SCRecordingOutput) async throws {
// Create the stream output delegate.
let streamOutput = CaptureEngineStreamOutput()
self.streamOutput = streamOutput
do {
stream = SCStream(filter: filter, configuration: configuration, delegate: streamOutput)
try stream?.addStreamOutput(streamOutput, type: .screen, sampleHandlerQueue: videoSampleBufferQueue)
try stream?.addStreamOutput(streamOutput, type: .audio, sampleHandlerQueue: audioSampleBufferQueue)
try stream?.addStreamOutput(streamOutput, type: .microphone, sampleHandlerQueue: micSampleBufferQueue)
self.recordingOutput = recordingOutput
recordingOutput.delegate = self
try stream?.addRecordingOutput(recordingOutput)
try await stream?.startCapture()
} catch {
logger.error("Failed to start capture: \(error.localizedDescription)")
throw error
}
}
func stopCapture() async throws {
do {
try await stream?.stopCapture()
} catch {
logger.error("Failed to stop capture: \(error.localizedDescription)")
throw error
}
}
func update(configuration: SCStreamConfiguration, filter: SCContentFilter) async {
do {
try await stream?.updateConfiguration(configuration)
try await stream?.updateContentFilter(filter)
} catch {
logger.error("Failed to update the stream session: \(String(describing: error))")
}
}
func stopRecordingOutputForStream(_ recordingOutput: SCRecordingOutput) throws {
try self.stream?.removeRecordingOutput(recordingOutput)
}
}
// MARK: - SCRecordingOutputDelegate
extension CaptureEngine: SCRecordingOutputDelegate {
func recordingOutputDidStartRecording(_ recordingOutput: SCRecordingOutput) {
let startTime = Date()
logger.info("Recording output did start recording \(startTime)")
}
func recordingOutputDidFinishRecording(_ recordingOutput: SCRecordingOutput) {
logger.info("Recording output did finish recording")
}
func recordingOutput(_ recordingOutput: SCRecordingOutput, didFailWithError error: any Error) {
logger.error("Recording output failed with error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
}
}
private class CaptureEngineStreamOutput: NSObject, SCStreamOutput, SCStreamDelegate {
private let logger = Logger()
override init() {
super.init()
}
func stream(_ stream: SCStream, didOutputSampleBuffer sampleBuffer: CMSampleBuffer, of outputType: SCStreamOutputType) {
guard sampleBuffer.isValid else { return }
switch outputType {
case .screen:
break
case .audio:
break
case .microphone:
break
@unknown default:
logger.error("Encountered unknown stream output type:")
}
}
func stream(_ stream: SCStream, didStopWithError error: Error) {
logger.error("Stream stopped with error: \(error.localizedDescription)")
}
}
I am getting error
Value of type 'SCRecordingOutput' has no member 'delegate'
Even though I am targeting macOs 15+ ( macOs 26 actually ) and macOs only.
What is the best way to achieving the desired result? Is there any other / better way to do it?
https://developer.apple.com/forums/profile/mozheralqahtani
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Graphics & Games
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General
Just found out this key available for visionOS
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/entitlements/com.apple.developer.low-latency-streaming
It seems to keep video streaming from being interrupted by AWDL, our community needs it badly for self-hosted game streaming (PC to iPhone / iPad).
Related apps: Moonlight / VoidLink / SteamLink.
Can we expect this on iOS/iPadOS 26, or even iOS/iPadOS 18 ?
Topic:
Graphics & Games
SubTopic:
General
How can I paste a string to the findNavigator of a TextEditor ?
Topic:
Graphics & Games
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General
I think I really have tried everything and I did all according to official documentation to support game mode on iOS or iPadOS but it doesn't matter what I do it just doesn't get triggered. Funny enough it works during development when I install it via Xcode but as soon as it is live on the store and when I install it from there game mode doesn't get triggered anymore. What I have atm
I have added (even though it is deprecated)
<key>GCSupportsGameMode</key>
<true/>
I have set the (but it seems only supported for macOS)
<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
<string>public.app-category.games</string>
I have added
<key>LSSupportsGameMode</key>
<true/>
It just doesn't work. Is there anything else what needs to be done? Should the flag LSSupportsGameMode not be enough normally?
The reason why this is so annoying is that my app is a real time streaming app and I want to profit from minimised background activities for smoother gameplay and more consistent frame rates like mentioned in the documentation.
I searched the Metal Shading Language Specification Version 3.0 document, however I cannot see any function for inverting a matrix. Is there really no function in Metal for inverting a matrix?
I often need to this in linear equations and have so far resorted to writing the necessary function each time, most of the time just copy-and-pasting code.
inverse exists in SIMD and GLSL, so why not in Metal? It seems so unexpected that this function does not exist that I am almost certain I have just overlooked something obvious. I even tried 1 / M, to no avail.
Hi,
The metal-cpp distribution appears to only contain headers for Foundation and Quartzcore. The LearnMetalCPP download [1] provides a ZIP with an metal-cpp-extensions directory containing AppKit.hpp and MetalKit.hpp headers. First question: Are these headers distributed anywhere else more publicly? Without these headers only the renderer can be fully written in C++ as far as I can tell, i.e. no complete C++ NSApplication. Second question: Will these headers, if needed, be maintained (e.g. updated and/or extended) by Apple along side metal-cpp?
[1] https://developer.apple.com/metal/cpp/
Thank you and regards.
There is a Android Dynamic Performance Framework,
https://developer.android.com/games/optimize/adpf which allows you to monitor device's thermal state and send performance hints to the OS, describing current workload.
This helps to consume resources effectively, while having target performance. As I can see from tracing and profiling, hints help OS scheduler to switch tasks between cores more effectively - this helps to reach performance stability between multiple runs.
I wonder, is there anything similar for iOS platform?
I facing to many lags in pubgmobile when i m playing its not running properly
I have used the Mac M1 and M4.
Developing OpenGL projects on machines running macOS 15.2 and 13.6.
Call the OpenGL library functions of Mac.
glTexImage2D
If you use GL_LUMINANCE, GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA, GL_ALPHA these three textures, you will get an error gl 500.
It makes me unable to draw normally on Mac.
What's the reason for this? Don't they support it?
Hey there,
I tried to install GPTK again, since I had to reinstall the OS for irrelevant reasons. But every time I try to install the tool kit, it gives me theError: apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit 1.1 did not build error. Before that error occired, I had the Openssl error, which I fixed with the rbenv version of openssl. Is there any way to fix this error? Down bellow you'll find the full error message it gave me. The specs for my Mac are (if they are helpful in any way): M1 Pro MBP 14" with 16GB Ram and 512GB SSD.
Thanks!
``Error: apple/apple/game-porting-toolkit 1.1 did not build
Logs:
/Users/myuser/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/00.options.out
/Users/myuser/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/01.configure
/Users/myuser/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/01.configure.cc
/Users/myuser/Library/Logs/Homebrew/game-porting-toolkit/wine64-build
If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core):
https://github.com/apple/homebrew-apple/issues```
How to create a beautiful fire animation using Swift?
Which API is better to use?
Hi, I am trying to detect if all the screen are in fullscreen mode.
The current approach is to get all windows' information from CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo and then compare the frame and coordinate with the frame of NSScreen.screens.
However, there is a problem, the y position of the window seems to be relative to the screen. As it is not absolute position, I cannot compare it with the coordinate of the screen.
Does anyone know if there are other information that I can use? Or is there a way to retrieve the absolute position or screen ID from the GCWIndow object?
Dear Apple, there is still no support for WebGPU via WebView. Do you have a roadmap on when you plan to support it? That would be very helpful to release our new game.
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Graphics & Games
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General