I’m encountering an issue where my app does not show the Contacts permission prompt in the production environment. This has been observed on iPhone 16 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Pro Max devices, while other iPhone models appear to behave correctly. The behavior is consistent across Xcode builds, TestFlight, and the App Store version when using the production bundle identifier. Instead of returning .notDetermined, the app receives the device’s previous Contacts authorization status, so the system permission prompt is never shown. Expected behavior On first launch after install, the app should prompt the user for Contacts access. Actual behavior (Production build) The app does not prompt for Contacts permission and instead appears to reuse the previous permission state: If the user previously had no access → after uninstall/reinstall, still no access (no prompt shown) If the user previously had limited access → after reinstall, access becomes empty (0 contacts), still no prompt If the user previously had full access → after reinstall, still has full access without being prompted Additional observations This issue only occurs in Production Staging and Dev builds (TestFlight + Xcode) behave correctly and prompt for permission If I set my Dev build to use the same bundle identifier as Production, the issue reproduces (no permission prompt) Current workaround The only way for users to change Contacts access is via the Settings app. The permission prompt is never shown in-app. Has anyone encountered this behavior before, or is there something specific to production builds (or bundle identifiers) that could cause the system to skip the permission prompt?

Hi Apple Developer Community, Quick question — is there currently a way to disable the “Save Password” prompt in iOS while keeping AutoFill enabled? From what I can see, the only available setting under Settings → Passwords → Password Options controls AutoFill as a whole, with no option to turn off just the save prompt. I’m using a third-party password manager and would prefer to keep AutoFill but avoid the repeated prompts to save credentials. Has anyone found a workaround for this, or is this simply not configurable at the moment? Thanks!

we can get token but when send to verity from apple. it reture Error : {"responseCode":"400","responseMessage":"Missing or incorrectly formatted device token payload"}

We are currently experiencing an unexpected issue with the DeviceCheck query_two_bits endpoint. According to the official documentation (Accessing and Modifying Per-Device Data), the last_update_time field should represent the month and year when the bits were last modified. The Issue: For several specific device tokens, our server is receiving a last_update_time value that is set in the future. Current Date: April 2026 Returned last_update_time: 2026-12 (December 2026) Here is a response: { "body": "{\"bit0\":false,\"bit1\":true,\"last_update_time\":\"2026-12\"}", "headers": { "Server": ["Apple"], "Date": ["Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:05:23 GMT"], "Content-Type": ["application/json; charset=UTF-8"], "Transfer-Encoding": ["chunked"], "Connection": ["keep-alive"], "X-Apple-Request-UUID": ["53e16c38-d9f7-4d58-a354-ce07a4eaa35b"], "X-Responding-Instance": ["af-bit-store-56b5b6b478-k8hnh"], "Strict-Transport-Security": ["max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains"], "X-Frame-Options": ["SAMEORIGIN"], "X-Content-Type-Options": ["nosniff"], "X-XSS-Protection": ["1; mode=block"] }, "statusCode": "OK", "statusCodeValue": 200 } Technical Details: Endpoint: https://api.development.devicecheck.apple.com/v1/query_two_bits (also occurring in Production) Response Body Example: JSON { "bit0": true, "bit1": false, "last_update_time": "2026-12" } Observations: This occurs even when our server has not sent an update_two_bits request for that specific device in the current month. Questions: Is there a known issue with the timestamp synchronization or regional database propagation for DeviceCheck? Does the last_update_time field ever represent an expiration date or any value other than the "last modified" month? Best regards,

I'm a bit confused about if using App Attest is possible in enterprise builds. It shows up under identifiers in the apple dev portal and I can add it to my provisioning file and entitlements file. But if I go to keys I cannot create a key for it. This page implies it can be used for enterprise builds: After distributing your app through TestFlight, the App Store, or the Apple Developer Enterprise Program, your app ignores the entitlement you set and uses the production environment.

I’ve developed an authorization plug-in with a mechanism that runs an SFAuthorizationPluginView subclass and I’m facing a couple issues: - Glitch after successful login After setting kAuthorizationResultAllow in the context the user is successfully logged in and brought to the desktop but the login controls remain onscreen for a few seconds after login is complete, resulting in them being visible at the same time as the dock, menu bar and desktop.
 I’ve also tried what’s mentioned here https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/780212 but without any luck. It’s also worth mentioning that the deinit() in my SFAuthorizationPluginView subclass never gets called when the plugin it’s loaded at the login stage but it does get called the plugin is used to re-authenticate the user after they locked their screen. - update() doesn't trigger the plugin to call view(for:) I’m trying to update the UI elements out of my control (like buttons and user avatar images) in order to have them placed at the proper position on the screen after a resize of my inner NSView. To do that I call update() but it appears that does not trigger the plugin to call view(for:) and update system UI elements placement. Is this the expected behavior? - setButton not working as expected 
I’m trying to disable the login button by calling the setButton(_:enabled:) passing a SFButtonTypeLogin as inButtonType, as suggested here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/777432. When the method is called at the login screen it has no effect on the button (the one with the forward-arrow icon) but when it’s called by the plugin loaded at the ‘unlock screen’ stage it successfully disable the ‘OK’ button. - Certificate issue When trying to run a network request from the plugin loaded in the ‘unlock screen’ scenario, I always get this type of error: The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be <<server_url>> which could put your confidential information at risk Everything works as expected when the plugin is loaded either at login screen or for authorizing an operation that requires admin privileges while the user is logged in.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for clarification on best practices for storing API keys in an iOS app — for example, keys used with RevenueCat, PostHog, AWS Rekognition, barcode scanners, and similar third-party services. I understand that hard-coding API keys directly in the app’s source code is a bad idea, since they can be extracted from the binary. However, using a .plist file doesn’t seem secure either, as it’s still bundled with the app and can be inspected. I’m wondering: What are Apple’s recommended approaches for managing these kinds of keys? Does Xcode Cloud offer a built-in or best-practice method for securely injecting environment variables or secrets at build time? Would using an external service like AWS Secrets Manager or another server-side solution make sense for this use case? Any insights or examples of how others are handling this securely within Apple’s ecosystem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for considering my questions! — Paul

Hi Apple Developer Support, I’m building a macOS app that acts as a default browser. I can confirm that I can set it correctly through System Settings → Default Web Browser. The app implements ASWebAuthenticationSessionWebBrowserSessionHandling to intercept Single Sign-On (SSO) flows. To handle requests, it presents SSO pages in a WKWebView embedded in a window that this app creates and owns - this works perfectly for the initial login flow. However, after I close my WebView window and then launch Safari or Chrome, any subsequent SSO requests open in the newly-launched browser instead of my custom browser, even though it remains selected as the default in System Settings. I’d appreciate any insight on why the system “hands off” to Safari/Chrome in this scenario, and how I can keep my app consistently intercepting all ASWebAuthenticationSession requests. Here are the steps that break down the issue: Launch & confirm that the custom default browser app is the default browser in System Settings → Default Web Browser. Trigger SSO (e.g., try to log in to Slack). App’s WKWebView appears, and the SSO UI works end-to-end. Close the WebView window (I have windowShouldClose callback where I cancel the pending session). Manually launch Safari or Chrome. Trigger SSO again. Observed behaviour: the login URL opens in Safari/Chrome. I am using macOS 15.3.2

Hello everyone. Hope this one finds you well) I have an issue with integrating a FIDO2 server with ASAuthorizationController. I have managed to register a user with passkey successfully, however when authenticating, the request for authentication response fails. The server can't validate signature field. I can see 2 possible causes for the issue: ASAuthorizationPlatformPublicKeyCredentialAssertion.rawAuthenticatorData contains invalid algorithm information (the server tries ES256, which ultimately fails with false response), or I have messed up Base64URL encoding for the signature property (which is unlikely, since all other fields also require Base64URL, and the server consumes them with no issues). So the question is, what encryption algorithm does ASAuthorizationController use? Maybe someone has other ideas regarding where to look into? Please help. Thanks)

Hi, In our app we are using DeviceCheck (App Attest) in a production environment iOS. The service works correctly for most users, but a user reported failure in a flow that use device check service. This failure is not intermittently, it is constant. We are unable to reproduce this failure and we are believing that this failure occurred by new version ios 26.3 because for others users using early versions the service is normally. Environment iOS 26.3 Real device App Attest capability enabled Correct App ID, Team ID and App Attest entitlement Production environment Characteristics: appears constantly affects only unique user -Don't resolves after time or reinstall not reproducible on our test devices NSError contains no additional diagnostic info (Error Domain=com.apple.devicecheck.error Code=3 "(null)") We saw about this error code 3 in this post 812308, but it's not our case because the ios version in this case is not iOS 17.0 or earlier. Please, help us any guidance for solution. Thank you

Hi. I enter a password using the security command at the command line. It appears in the keychain access app, but not in the passwords app. I don't understand why. rickhedin@Ricks-MacBook-Pro zalando % security add-generic-password -U -s "birds" -a "cats" -w "dogs" rickhedin@Ricks-MacBook-Pro zalando % rickhedin@Ricks-MacBook-Pro zalando % security find-generic-password -s "birds" -wa "cats" dogs rickhedin@Ricks-MacBook-Pro zalando % I'm told the two apps are two views of the same data, so I guess some filter must be being applied?

Background We're building a macOS application that acts as a CryptoTokenKit software token. The architecture follows the documented pattern: a container app (a long-running agent process) manages token registration and identity updates via TKTokenDriverConfiguration, and a separate appex extension process handles the actual signing operations for client sessions. What we're doing At agent startup, the container app calls [TKTokenDriverConfiguration driverConfigurations] to obtain our token driver, then registers a token instance ID: NSDictionary<TKTokenDriverClassID, TKTokenDriverConfiguration *> *driverConfigurations = [TKTokenDriverConfiguration driverConfigurations]; TKTokenDriverConfiguration driver = / first value from driverConfigurations */; [driver addTokenConfigurationForTokenInstanceID:@"setoken"]; When the agent renews a certificate, it pushes updated TKTokenKeychainItem objects to ctkd by setting keychainItems on the TKTokenConfiguration: TKTokenConfiguration *tokenCfg = driver.tokenConfigurations[@"setoken"]; tokenCfg.keychainItems = updatedItems; This works correctly during normal operation. The failure When ctkd is restarted (e.g., killall ctkd, or the system restarts the daemon), all subsequent calls through the existing TKTokenDriverConfiguration reference silently fail. Specifically: [TKTokenDriverConfiguration driverConfigurations] returns the same stale object - it does not establish a new connection to the newly-started ctkd process. There is no error, no exception, and no indication the returned object is invalid. driver.tokenConfigurations[@"setoken"] still returns a non-nil value reflecting the pre-restart state - so any nil check intended to detect "token not registered with ctkd" does not fire. [driver addTokenConfigurationForTokenInstanceID:@"setoken"] appears to succeed (no error) but the token is not actually registered with the new ctkd instance. Setting tokenCfg.keychainItems = updatedItems appears to succeed but the new ctkd instance has no knowledge of the update. The only reliable recovery we've found is restarting the container app process itself, at which point [TKTokenDriverConfiguration driverConfigurations] returns a fresh object connected to the new ctkd instance. What we've investigated There is no public API on TKTokenDriverConfiguration to invalidate or refresh the internal XPC connection to ctkd TKTokenWatcher can observe token insertions/removals, but we found no documented way to use it to detect a ctkd process restart specifically The NSXPCConnection invalidation handler pattern is not accessible through the TKTokenDriverConfiguration abstraction Moving credential management into the appex extension. Since the appex extension is recreated when the ctkd process restarts, we are able to update keychainItems from the extension. However, this comes with it's own set of problems: the extension is ephemeral and using the keychain APIs directly from the extension is not well documented and does not appear to be a supported pattern. Questions Is there a supported API to detect that ctkd has restarted and that the existing TKTokenDriverConfiguration reference is no longer valid? Is there a supported way to obtain a fresh TKTokenDriverConfiguration without restarting the container app? Should the container app be re-architected to avoid holding long-lived TKTokenDriverConfiguration references?

I am developing a macOS system service (standalone binary running as a LaunchDaemon) that requires the ability to sign data using a private key which will be deployed via MDM. The Setup: Deployment: A .mobileconfig pushes a PKCS12 identity to the System Keychain. Security Requirement: For compliance and security reasons, we cannot set AllowAllAppsAccess to <true/>. The key must remain restricted. The Goal: I need to use the private key from the identity to be able to sign the data The Problem: The Certificate Payload does not support a TrustedApplications or AccessControl array to pre-authorize binary paths. As a result, when the process tries to use the private key for signing (SecKeyCreateSignature), it prompts the user to allow this operation which creates a disruption and is not desired. What i've tried so far: Manually adding my process to the key's ACL in keychain access obviously works and prevents any prompts but this is not an "automatable" solution. Using security tool in a script to attempt to modify the ACL in an automated way, but that also asks user for password and is not seamless. The Question: Is there a documented, MDM-compatible way to inject a specific binary path into the ACL of a private key? If not, is there a better way to achieve the end goal?

I'm trying to confirm the correct URL for Apple Attest development. There seems to be a fraud metric risk section that uses this: https://data-development.appattest.apple.com/v1/attestationData However the key verification seems to use this: https://data-development.appattest.apple.com/v1/attestation Currently I'm attempting to verify the key, so the second one seems likely. However I keep receiving a 404 despite vigorous validation of all fields included in the JSON as well as headers. Can anyone confirm please, which URL I should be sending my AppleAttestationRequest to?

Title: Sporadical - Permissions Not Cleared After App Uninstallation on iOS18 I install and launch my private MAUI App I ask for example Bluetooth permissions (can be any other permission) I tap Allow button on native settings (or Don't Allow) I unistall app from real phone (we can wait for a while) I install and launch My Private MAUI App I ask for example Bluetooth permissions &lt;- here is an issue. Bluetooth is already granted, so I cannot ask for it again. Occurrence: This issue occurs inconsistently: On iOS 18.5: approximately 5 out of 10 times On iOS 17: approximately 1 out of 50 times Tested using my automated system using Appium latest. After each scenario I unistall app using: "mobile: removeApp" with bundleId

After registe Passkey with webauthn library, i create a passkeyRegistration with follow, let passkeyRegistration = ASPasskeyRegistrationCredential(relyingParty: serviceIdentifier, clientDataHash: clientDataHashSign, credentialID: credentialId, attestationObject: attestationObject) and then completeRegistrationRequest like that, extensionContext.completeRegistrationRequest(using: passkeyRegistration) But a bad outcome occurred from user agent. NotAllowedError:The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context. And the return data rawID & credentialPublicKey is empty,

Hey everyone, I'm hitting a really frustrating issue with App Attest. My app was working perfectly with DCAppAttestService on October 12th, but starting October 13th it started failing with DCError Code 2 "Failed to fetch App UUID" at DCAppAttestController.m:153. The weird part is I didn't change any code - same implementation, same device, same everything. I've tried switching between development and production entitlement modes, re-registered my device in the Developer Portal, created fresh provisioning profiles with App Attest capability, and verified that my App ID has App Attest enabled. DCAppAttestService.isSupported returns true, so the device supports it. Has anyone else run into this? This is blocking my production launch and I'm not sure if it's something on my end or an Apple infrastructure issue.

Hello, Thanks for the new video on Memory Integrity Enforcement! Is the presented app's sample code available (so that we can play with it and find & fix the bug on our own, using Soft Mode)? Thanks in advance!

I recently turned on the enhanced security options for my macOS app in Xcode 26.0.1 by adding the Enhanced Security capability in the Signing and Capabilities tab. Then, Xcode adds the following key-value sets (with some other key-values) to my app's entitlements file. <key>com.apple.security.hardened-process.enhanced-security-version</key> <integer>1</integer> <key>com.apple.security.hardened-process.platform-restrictions</key> <integer>2</integer> These values appear following the documentation about the enhanced security feature (Enabling enhanced security for your app) and the app works without any issues. However, when I submitted a new version to the Mac App Store, my submission was rejected, and I received the following message from the App Review team via the App Store Connect. Guideline 2.4.5(i) - Performance Your app incorrectly implements sandboxing, or it contains one or more entitlements with invalid values. Please review the included entitlements and sandboxing documentation and resolve this issue before resubmitting a new binary. Entitlement "com.apple.security.hardened-process.enhanced-security-version" value must be boolean and true. Entitlement "com.apple.security.hardened-process.platform-restrictions" value must be boolean and true. When I changed those values directly in the entitlements file based on this message, the app appears to still work. However, these settings are against the description in the documentation I mentioned above and against the settings Xcode inserted after changing the GUI setting view. So, my question is, which settings are actually correct to enable the Enhanced Security and the Additional Runtime Platform Restrictions?