Hi! I've just opened Xcode and found that I can't build my app anymore. The error was about signing. Basically, there's no team in my account. Also, I've found that all my certificates have been revoked! I created my dev account a month ago and released only one macOS app. It's SecFolder (it's not self-promotion!!!). App not even in the App Store. I planned to self-distribute it. I'm in a little shock right now since I've just launched and had my first users. And of course, my app is now gone from their Macs, screaming "malware" popup in their faces now :( Since my app is all about paranoia security, this is basically a death sentence for my project... Could someone with experience in the Apple dev ecosystem help me understand what might have gone wrong? Why might Apple think that my app is malware or something? P.S. My app is about Advanced File Access Control for macOS. It gives user complete control over which applications can access specified by user files and folders

Hello. I am trying to give an update to my app but it again and again gets rejected due to the ATT Prompt. Before this late week I gave the update and it got live without any issue. Now I done some minor changes in the App. Apple Response. The app uses the AppTrackingTransparency framework, but we are unable to locate the App Tracking Transparency permission request when reviewed on iPadOS 18.2. Next Steps Explain where we can find the App Tracking Transparency permission request in the app. The request should appear before any data is collected that could be used to track the user. If App Tracking Transparency is implemented but the permission request is not appearing on devices running the latest operating system, review the available documentation and confirm App Tracking Transparency has been correctly implemented. If your app does not track users, update your app privacy information in App Store Connect to not declare tracking. You must have the Account Holder or Admin role to update app privacy information. My Response: Hello Apple Team Thank you for your feedback. We have tested the app on iPadOS 18.2, also on iPhone 18.1 and the App Tracking Transparency dialogue is appearing as expected on the main home screen when the user enters the app. To help demonstrate this, we’ve attached a video showing the ATT prompt in action. If there is still an issue with the dialogue or if it needs to be placed in a different position, we kindly request your guidance on what needs to be adjusted. Please let us know the details so we can address it promptly. Thank you for your support "I uploaded a video with images showcasing the ATT prompt but now again they rejected the update with the exact same reply. Which I am thinking it may be a bot reply. Now what to do how to solve it?

In one of our applications we use LAContext's evaluatePolicy:localizedReason:reply: to authenticate a user. This works pretty well with both username/password and Touch ID. Now we have a request to add support for smart cards and I wonder if this is possible using LAContext. Otherwise I would use Authentication Services, although that might be a bit overkill since we don't need to request any rights, we just want to see that the user has been successfully authenticated. Or is there a better way? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marc

I'm facing a bug about App Tracking Transparency permission, my app still shows this permission popup before, and that version was still working fine. I don't understand why today it doesn't show the permission popup anymore, is anyone else having the same problem?

Hi everyone, I’m developing a health-related mobile app and considering using EAS Update to deliver over-the-air (OTA) updates for JavaScript code and assets. Before implementing this, I want to ensure that this approach complies with Apple App Store policies, especially given the sensitivity of health-related apps. Here are my concerns: Does using EAS Update (OTA) align with Apple’s guidelines regarding app updates and dynamic behavior changes? Are there specific rules or restrictions for health apps using OTA updates that I should be cautious of? Could this approach be flagged as violating Apple’s policies on app integrity, especially those requiring updates to go through the App Store review process? I’d greatly appreciate any insights, advice, or references to Apple’s official documentation regarding OTA updates for apps distributed through the App Store. Thanks in advance for your help!

I am writing an app using Microsoft's MAUI platform. I am posting this here because that team wants me to make an xcode project to help determine an issue I am having. My MAUI app sends a broadcast packet on a UDP socket using address 255.255.255.255. This worked fine in iOS version 17.x. After upgrading my phone to iOS 18.x it stopped working. The error I get is "no route to host". The exact same code works fine on MacOS. It does not work on iPadOs 18. My question here is 3 fold: Did something specific change between iOS 17 and 18 that would cause a 'no route to host' error when sending a UDP broadcast packet? Can someone provide sample code to show me how to do this type of broadcast using Swift in Xcode for iOS? I read an article that said my app would need the com.apple.developer.networking.multicast entitlement in order to use boradcast functionality. This was introduced in iOS 14. Why did my app work fine in iOS 17 then? Is this what changed? Did this requirement use to be optional and is now required? I did get this entitlement from Apple and applied it to my provisioning profile and my app gave the same "no route to host" error. Why?

I am writing SwiftData app, using a group container. When editing a SwiftUI file, every couple of seconds a dialog - that the app wants to access data from other apps - pops up. It is impossible to edit a view file while Canvas preview is open. If preview is resumed the dialog has to be confirmed twice. Each time the app is started from Xcode, the dialog has to be confirmed again. Any idea, how to stop these boring dialogs?

Hi, I've recently tested my custom AuthorizationPlugin on macOS 15 (Sequoia) and I'm seeing a significant change in rendering (or precisely not rendering) the control returned by my SFAuthorizationPluginView's subclass' viewForType method comparing to macOS 14. (I developed and tested my solution on macOS 14 earlier this year). I use SFAuthorizationPluginView to present a NSView (Custom view) which contains a NSSecureTextField and a NSImageView. I show my custom plugin after the user successfully entered username and password (or only the password if the List of Users is configured in System Settings) into the builtin fields provided by loginwindow:login, so injecting my plugin:mechanism pair into the system.login.console after loginwindow:success. (I need to run my mechanism after builtin:authenticate,privileged since my plugin relies on the authentication result coming from my custom PAM module). This setup now however doesn't seem to be working: after entering the (username and) password, the circular spinner appears and my NSView never gets rendered. I've found a workaround to place my plugin:mechanism pair after loginwindow:done, so in the end of the whole authorization chain. I tried to run the good old NameAndPassword bundle, injecting it into the place of the loginwindow:login. Controls are being rendered correctly, but if I place it even right after loginwindow:login it doesn't get rendered as my custom plugin. Is anybody aware if there's anything has intentionally been changed in macOS 15? Or may it be a bug? I guess the original intention of the SFAuthorizationPluginView class was to overwrite/redefine the UI instead of the builtin username + password field, so if I look at it that way it's expected that the view it contains only gets rendered if we use it instead of loginwindow:login. On the other hand this hasn't been the case until now. Thanks for any help!

Hi All, I have a finder sync extension that passes data back to my main app. It currently writes to a plist file in my group container folder. Since updating to macOS 15, I have been getting this pop-up every time I trigger this writing to the plist after the finder sync extension loads. This is how I write to the plist from my finder sync extension: let appGroupDefaults = UserDefaults(suiteName: "group.team_id.Finder-Sync-Extension-Test-Project") let items = FIFinderSyncController.default().selectedItemURLs() DispatchQueue.main.async { let url = items?.first?.absoluteString var file = items?.first?.lastPathComponent if let defaults = appGroupDefaults{ defaults.set(url, forKey: "targetURL") defaults.synchronize() } self.showWindow(with: NSExtensionContext()) } This is how I read the plist from my main app: if let defaults = UserDefaults(suiteName: "group.team_id.Finder-Sync-Extension-Test-Project") { defaults.synchronize() if let clickedUrl = defaults.string(forKey: "targetURL") { window = NSWindow(contentRect: NSScreen.main?.frame ?? .zero, styleMask: [.miniaturizable, .closable, .resizable, .titled], backing: .buffered, defer: false) window?.title = "My App" window?.makeKeyAndOrderFront(nil) textField.stringValue = clickedUrl window?.contentView?.addSubview(textField) } } It is fine if this popup happens once and the user's choice gets remembered. I just don't want it to happen every time. Any help on if this is the correct way to pass data between the finder sync extension and the main app or on how to get macOS to remember the choice of the user would be great. Thanks, James

I’ve come to discover over the course of three weeks of trying to gain access to my original iTunes account that because of the old security protocols I cannot get access to my music. Apple has said there is no way to access that data without being able to send a reset to the old deleted email attached to that data. That said Cox deleted all of my emails when they migrated over to yahoo so I cannot send an email to reset password to gain access and Apple does not have a protocol in place even though it’s very clear. The current account is linked to the old account. Any of your developers out there have an idea on how I can get past this because the birthdate and the username are not matching up to what they should be. Appreciate your brain muscle guys. It’s a lifetime of music.

Hey when I search for app that is hide. it shows the information in the app like a phone number I try everything I talk to two agents I’m not the only one who has this problem can you guy please fix up Siri suggested thank you

I'm developing a file access control system. In order to protect the file content copied out, I'm finding a way to deny user copy file content to other files. I know there are data transmission between the copied application and pboard service by XPC. But I don't know how to interrupt the data transmission. Or I can do something to stop the copied data send to the Clipboard. So is there any way to prevent the contents of a file being copied?

When using Apple's Journal app through iPhone Mirroring, the user is allowed to authenticate via TouchID on the Mac instead of requiring you to unlock your phone, authenticate and then re-lock it to access it again in iPhone Mirroring. Any other app that's using a call to authenticate via FaceID can't do this under iPhone Mirroring. Is there a new API call for this, or is it still a private API for Apple only?

Hello I am wondering how and if it even is possible to grab the amount of times a user has opened a specific app. Of course these apps will be selected for tracking by the user through the FamilyControls API, but is it possible to then list those selected apps and their amount of openings? I know Screen Time API is very strict with giving developers control of this information outside of just displaying a view so I don't know if this is possible. I saw that DeviceActivityData.ApplicationActivity has a value called "numberOfPickups" but I'm not sure how to access that value and display it in my app. Thank you

I get an error when i restore my Mac M1 Pro 2021 with Apple configurator i don't know what i'm missing I tried the Offline firmware too but it does not work [Edited by Moderator]

I am developing a authorization plugin for mac. i am using SFAuthorizationPluginView as i need a webView(WKWebKit) which will perform webAuthn. But the webview is not rendering the requested webpage( i have stable internet connectio). Is it an expected behaviour for a webview in an authorization plugin?

It’s been established that generally speaking background apps cannot record audio while the foreground app is already reading audio data from the microphone, but are there exceptions? For instance, is there an exception for certain Apple apps? If so, and there’s a special exception that most programmers don’t know about but some Apple’s engineers do and perhaps some hackers do as well, wouldn’t the mechanism that allows that eventually be exploited?

Hello! I need to implement requestTrackingAuthorization into my app but I'm not exactly sure how, the engine I use handles all of the Xcode stuff for me so I'm not very experienced in that sector nor do I have an Xcode project for this app, any help?

The token is legitimate, however I keep getting bad requests (400). The payload may not be accurate. No document with the appropriate payload structure is visible to me. Receipt.bin was tried, but the file content could not be verified. Referring this URL: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/assessing-fraud-risk Here is my server side Java code: private static String sendAttestationWithPayload(String jwt, String keyId, String attestationData, String clientData) throws Exception { // Create JSON payload JSONObject payload = new JSONObject(); payload.put("keyId", keyId); payload.put("attestationData", attestationData); payload.put("clientData", clientData); HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient(); HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder() .uri(URI.create(APPLE_ATTESTATION_URL)) .header("Authorization", "Bearer " + jwt) .header("Content-Type", "application/json") .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(payload.toString())) .build(); HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString()); handleResponse(response); return response.body(); }

We are developing a captive portal for a community Wi-Fi service that will be deployed to thousands of locations around the world. The service is a paid service that sells Wi-Fi connectivity by data volume rather than time. We want to enable our customers to Sign in with Apple without giving them full internet access until they have made a purchase. This requires us to whitelist domains and URLs to make this work. Where can I find a complete list of domains that are required for Sign in with Apple to function correctly? It’s not possible for us to whitelist *.apple.com because that results in significant (free) background network traffic during the sign in process. So far we have whitelisted: account.apple.com appleid.apple.com appleid.apple-cdn.com idmsa.apple.com gsa.apple.com mzstatic.com Our customers are still having issues with Sign in with Apple while interacting with our captive portal in the iOS pseudo browser. How can we debug this because we cannot use the Safari developer tools with the pseudo browser. Are there any logs when doing this on a Mac that we can check in the Console? If we kick the user out to Safari then they are able to complete the Sign in with Apple process, but that is not the user experience we want.