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Are some backgrounded apps allowed to record phone calls but not others?
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?
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Dec ’24
TouchID on the Mac when FaceID is called on iOS when using iPhone Mirroring?
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?
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Dec ’24
Sign in with Apple: domains to whitelist
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.
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Dec ’24
Apple Login Not working.
I was referred to here, #102484182418 I'm trying to setup apple login on my community site but I'm having a hard time getting it to work. I keep getting "invalid_request​ Invalid client id or web redirect url." The last tech said she thanks its setup right but we could not get it to work. Here are my steps https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/connected-account-apple/ I just someone to look at my Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles and make sure I have them setup right.
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Dec ’24
How to get user's email? Login with apple id
Hi We use login using apple id feature in our website. However when it comes to apple id, it is possible for user to hide the original email and show a relay email. We have found that this relay email doesn't work Hence looking for a possible solution to acquire the real email from the user. Is there a possibility in doing that? any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards Hasintha
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Dec ’24
sending to Private Relay Email using amazon ses not working
Hello Developers, I have ran into a problem while sending mail to apple private relay email. We have built a mobile application where user can sign up through apple and they can sign up using hide-my-email feature. Which provides private relay address for us. Now we want to communicate with them using private relay mail address. The technology we are using to send emails are amazon SES, have done SPF, DMIK, DMARC and added domains in apple identity services for mail communication, passed an SPF check as well. But still mail is not getting delivered what am i doing wrong or apple doesn't support third party apps for sending emails to private relay? Is there any other way to achieve this please let me know Using the same body as attached in image is working fine for rest emails.
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Dec ’24
Repeated "Invalid Client" Error with Sign In with Apple
Hi everyone, I'm having a recurring issue with the "Sign in with Apple" integration in my web app, and I’m hoping someone here can help or share insights. Here’s the situation: I implemented "Sign in with Apple" following the official documentation, and it worked perfectly at first. After about two weeks, I started getting the "invalid_client" error when redirecting to the authentication page. I reviewed everything and discovered I hadn’t set up the email configuration properly in the Apple Developer Console. Once I fixed that, it worked fine again. Now, the same error ("invalid_client") has returned, and I’ve triple-checked every part of my configuration: The service ID, redirect URIs, and domain settings match exactly. The client_secret is generated correctly with all required fields (iss, iat, exp, aud, and sub) and signed with ES256. My server time is synchronized. Nothing has changed in my code or configuration since it last worked. This seems to be an issue on Apple’s end because everything was functioning perfectly before, and I’ve already resolved this once by updating settings in the Developer Console. Has anyone else faced this issue? Is there something I might be missing, or could this be a problem with Apple’s service? Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
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Dec ’24
Issues related to “Sign in with Apple” in App transfers
Our product uses the “Sign in with Apple” feature, and now we need to transfer it to Apple. After reading the documentation, I still have questions and would like to get answers. Q1:Transfer App: After the receiving team receives the App, is the unique identifier obtained by the client App program login the original one? Or is it newly generated? If it is newly generated, from what point in time will it be newly generated? Q2:Transfer App: Is there any validity period for the transfer identifier? About how long? What will happen after the transfer identifier is expired? Q3:When does the transfer identifier (transfer identifier) start to be generated, when the transfer request is initiated or when the transfer is completed, and when I get the transfer identifier, can I directly exchange it for the receiving team's unique identifier? Looking forward to a reply, thanks!
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Dec ’24
Sign in with Apple.
Hey, There are two apps, App A and App B. Both apps do not have Sign in with Apple configured currently, so there are no Sign in with Apple users to transfer. I want to configure this for both apps. App A is on developer team A. App B is on developer team B. They are not on the same developer accounts. It is my understanding that both accounts need to be on the same developer team/account to get the same unique identifiers (e.g. sub id and private relay email address) for privacy reasons. Desired Behavior: When a single user logs into either app A or app B with the newly exposed Sign in with Apple functionality, I need apple to return me the same unique identifiers (e.g. sub and email), so that I can uniquely identify the same user across app A and app B. How can I do this without ANY customer impact.
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Dec ’24
Migrating SiwA users after app transfer
We recently transferred our app from one developer account to a new one, internally. We're trying to transfer our sign in with apple users, but have hit a snag on the first step. I'm following the instructions here to "Obtain the user access token": https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple/transferring_your_apps_and_users_to_another_team This is my request as created in postman: curl --location 'https://appleid.apple.com/auth/token/' --form 'grant_type="client_credentials"' --form 'scope="user.migration"' --form 'client_id="com.XXXXX"' --form 'client_secret="XXXXX"' No matter what I try, I always receive invalid_client. I've uploaded example JWTs in FB15648650.
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Dec ’24
Screen Time API / Device Activity
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
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Dec ’24
Is there anyway to deny user copy file content
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?
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Dec ’24
Help w/ Access Itunes
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.
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Dec ’24
Change in the behaviour of SFAuthorizationPluginView in macOS 15
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!
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Dec ’24
Xcode SwiftUI Preview "app" wants to access data from other app
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?
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