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Unclear working of Local Network Privacy feature on macOS Sequoia
Starting with macOS Sequoia Beta, a new "Local Network Privacy” feature was introduced, which had previously been present in iOS. Unfortunately, there is little information about this topic on the Apple developer website, especially for the macOS platform. I conducted some experiments to understand the new feature, but was confused by the results. Firstly, I noticed that the type of application accessing the local network in macOS matters - bundled or command-line (CLI) applications. The TCC subsystem does not restrict access to the local network for CLI applications at all, regardless of how they are launched - as a launchd daemon with root privileges, or through a terminal with standard user privileges. At the same time, access to the local network for bundled applications is controlled by the TCC subsystem at most cases. Upon the first request, the system will display an alert to the user explaining the purpose of using the local network. Then, communication with local network devices will be allowed or restricted based on whether consent has been granted or revoked. Secondly, it's worth noting that if the bundled application supports CLI mode (launched through the terminal without a GUI), it will be able to access the local network in that mode regardless of the “Local Network Access” consent state if it has been granted at least once. However, if the same application is in GUI mode, its access to the local network will be limited by the current consent. Is this behaviour correct and likely to remain the same in future releases of macOS Sequoia? Or is there something described here that is incorrect and will be fixed in the upcoming betas? Also, I have posted FB14581221 on this topic with the results of my experiments.
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Jul ’24
Using special character as password for keychain via security
I am trying to set up a KeyChain password using the security in my macOS terminal, and it happens that the special characters are encoded and not set to the keychain as it is rather encoded.. When I run this security add-generic-password -a comp -s example -w 'ã!¼àÁu' -T "" There will be no error but when the password is called back it is encoded with the something like below c3a321c2bcc3a0c38175 Does anybody know how i can achieve using this kind of characters without security encoding it as it currently does?
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Oct ’24
help with "App is Requesting to Bypass System Private Window Picker" alert
I have a macOS app in production, supporting all macOS versions since 10.15 (Catalina) thru Sequoia. One aspect of the app's functionality is to screen capture the entire screen, including all windows. Starting with Sequoia, my users are receiving a scary system alert saying: "SomeApp" is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio. This will allow SomeApp to record your screen and system audio, including personal or sensitive information that may be visible or audible. I have several questions and concerns about this alert. First of all, as a developer, this is frustrating, as I am using documented, long-standing system APIs, and made no change to my code to cause this warning. Second, nothing in my app records audio in any fashion, and yet the user is made to think I am trying to furtively bypass security controls to record audio, which is absolutely false. The alert seems to be due to the screen capture feature, which is one of the main features of the app, which the user explicitly requests and grants permission for. But to get to the point of the question: is there any definitive documentation anywhere describing exactly which API's trigger this alert? I can't find first-party information from Apple, so I'm kind of guessing in the dark. Searching the internet for all the info I can find (mostly from blog posts of developers and beta-testers), it seemed like the culprit in my code was probably a call to CGWindowListCreateImage, so I spent some time forking the code paths in my app (since I still support back to 10.15) to use the more modern ScreenCaptureKit APIs on systems that support it. But the alert is still appearing, despite not calling into that API at all. Is there a way of calling the modern ScreenCaptureKit APIs that also triggers this alert? As an example, I'm using a snippet like this to get the shareable displays I need do { try await SCShareableContent.excludingDesktopWindows( false, onScreenWindowsOnly: false ) return true } catch { return false } is it possible that this code is triggering the alert because I'm not excluding desktop windows and asking for all windows? to sum up, I (and I'm guessing others) could really use some definitive guidelines on exactly which APIs trigger this alert, so that we can migrate and avoid them if possible. can anyone provide any guidance on this? Thanks in advance!
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Sep ’24
Biometrics error LAError NotInteractive(-1004)
We have been using the LAContext's evaluation policy for the past couple of years without any major issues. However, since last week (September 26), we have seen a spike in error events, indicating: json Copy code { "NSDebugDescription": "Caller is not running foreground.", "NSLocalizedDescription": "User interaction required." } We haven't made any code changes in the last couple of months. Is there any update regarding local authentication from Apple's side?
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Sep ’24
Migration of users after an app has been transferred to a new organization
Our company was re-formed under a new name. Rather than rename the organization on the App Store, we were advised by support to create a new organization and then transfer the app to that organization, which we have done. Our app implements Apple Authentication. We did not not migrate the users of the app (as instructed here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple/transferring_your_apps_and_users_to_another_team) Is it possible to now migrate the users, after the app has been transferred? Our attempt to get an authorization token with scope "user.migration" results in HTTP error 400 with body: "invalid_client".
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Jun ’24
Sign In With Apple on IPhone
Hello there, I have been facing an issue with apple sign in on react native app. I have been able to get the authorization and all codes in frontend part. The issue is on backend that is in php. We are firstly validating our identity token phone generated, and then we are creating a client secret and then trying to fetch the user info the issue relies in the api call of getAppleUser($authorizationCode, $clientId, $clientSecret);: function below where we are recieving error like: {"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"client_id mismatch. The code was not issued to com.marchup.prod.AppSSO."} public function appleAuth($identityToken,$authorizationCode) { if (!$identityToken || !$authorizationCode) { return $this->returnError(400,'Missing identity token or authorization code'); } try { // Validate identity token $decodedToken = $this->validateAppleToken($identityToken); // Generate client secret $teamId = isset(Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['teamId'])?Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['teamId']:''; $clientId = isset(Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['clientId'])?Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['clientId']:''; $keyId = isset(Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['keyId'])?Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['keyId']:''; $privateKey = isset(Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['privateKey'])?Yii::$app->params['apple-auth']['privateKey']:''; $clientSecret = $this->generateClientSecret($teamId, $clientId, $keyId, $privateKey); // Get user info from Apple $appleUser = $this->getAppleUser($authorizationCode, $clientId, $clientSecret); // Verify the authorization code is valid if (!isset($appleUser['id_token'])) { throw new \Exception('Invalid authorization code'); } // Extract user info from the identity token $userId = $decodedToken->sub; $email = $decodedToken->email ?? ''; // login or signup code need to know about object definition to add login and signup logic return $this->returnSuccess('Request successful',200,[ 'userId' => $userId, 'email' => $email ]); } catch (\Exception $e) { // Handle errors Yii::error('Error on apple login '.$e->getMessage()); return $this->returnError(500,'Server Error'); } } **This function is where i am creating a clientSecret as per apples guidelines: ** function createClientSecret($teamId, $clientId, $keyId, $privateKey) { // $key = file_get_contents($privateKeyPath); $key=$privateKey; $headers = [ 'kid' => $keyId, 'alg' => 'ES256' ]; $claims = [ 'iss' => $teamId, 'iat' => time(), 'exp' => time() + 86400 * 180, 'aud' => 'https://appleid.apple.com', 'sub' => $clientId ]; return JWT::encode($claims, $key, 'ES256', $headers['kid']); } **This is the validate Apple Token that is not giving me error: ** function validateAppleToken($identityToken) { $client = new Client(); $response = $client->get('https://appleid.apple.com/auth/keys'); $keys = json_decode($response->getBody(), true)['keys']; $header = JWT::urlsafeB64Decode(explode('.', $identityToken)[0]); $headerData = json_decode($header, true); $kid = $headerData['kid']; $publicKey = null; foreach ($keys as $key) { if ($key['kid'] === $kid) { $publicKey = JWK::parseKey($key); break; } } if (!$publicKey) { throw new \Exception('Public key not found'); } try { $decoded = JWT::decode($identityToken, $publicKey, ['RS256']); return $decoded; } catch (\Exception $e) { throw new \Exception('Token validation failed: ' . $e->getMessage()); } } The response i got was : { aud: "com.abc" auth_time: 1718017883 c_hash: "HSNFJSBdut5vk84QyK0xHA" exp: 1718104283 iat: 1718017883 iss: "https://appleid.apple.com" nonce:"2878cd1ac1fa121f75250f453edaac47365f5144f2e605e8b526a29cb62c83da" nonce_supported: true sub: "001703.2a52ec72cb874a93986522fa35742bd4.1219" } After that we are mainly getting error as {"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"client_id mismatch. The code was not issued to com.marchup.prod.AppSSO."} in this function: function getAppleUser($authorizationCode, $clientId, $clientSecret) { try { $client = new Client(); $response = $client->post('https://appleid.apple.com/auth/token', [ 'form_params' => [ 'client_id' => $clientId, 'client_secret' => $clientSecret, 'code' => $authorizationCode, 'grant_type' => 'authorization_code' ] ]); if ($response->getStatusCode() !== 200) { throw new \Exception('Failed to get user information from Apple. Status code: ' . $response->getStatusCode()); } $data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true); // Check if the response contains the expected data if (!isset($data['access_token']) || !isset($data['id_token'])) { throw new \Exception('Invalid response from Apple. Missing access token or ID token.'); } // Return the decoded data return $data; } catch (\Exception $e) { // Log any other unexpected errors Yii::error('Unexpected error: ' . $e->getMessage()); // Re-throw the exception to propagate it further throw $e; } } Assumptions: bundleId = com.marchup serviceId i created as client_id= com.marchup.prod.AppSSO team ID= as usual keyId= is the id i created in apple developer consonsole. And the private key is the key inside the private key file. Can anyone please answer. What is mismatched here
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Jun ’24
Sign in with apple using firebase and angular gives me "Invalid web redirect url" error
Hi @everyone, I have set up the proper app id, serviced ID along with return URL, domains and subdomains(Example domains and subdomains: asdfjkl.firebaseapp.com and return URL: https://asdfjkl.firebaseapp.com/__/auth/handler) in developer.apple.com. And I have created the key as well and added key ID and private key, services ID in firebase apple sign in console as well. But I'm getting Error as "Invalid web redirect url". I haven't provided the App ID, services ID, firebase project ID, Key secret here as they're confidential. Please let me know if any further details are needed.
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Jun ’24
Sign in with Apple: No e-mail address provided on visionOS when access had been removed
On iOS, Sign in with Apple will provide an e-mail address if the user is logging in for the first time. On all subsequent logins, the e-mail address will be missing. However, this can be reset by removing the app from your Apple ID. If you then try to login again, the e-mail dialog will popup again, and the app will receive this e-mail. On visionOS, however, the latter does not happen. Even if I have removed the app from my Apple ID, the e-mail dialog won't show up again. The only way to resolve this is to reset the visionOS simulator (haven't tried it on a real device).
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Apr ’24
Configuring Sign in with Apple for web and mobile apps
Summary: Need help with Certificates, Identifiers and Profiles settings to allow two apps to use Sign in with Apple. Background: We have a web application (React, static JavaScript) that allows users to sign in with Apple, Google or Microsoft via OAuth/OIDC. We are developing a mobile application using React Native and Expo. Both the web application and the mobile application use the same backend (Django). For the mobile application, we added Google and Microsoft sign in via the same web-based OAuth/OIDC flow. For Sign in with Apple, we are using the expo-apple-authentication package to get the required native sign in experience. We have two active app identifiers: org.terraso.terraso; web app; primary Apple ID org.terraso.test.Terraso-LandPKS; mobile apple; Group with an existing primary App ID (selected (1), the web app) We have one services identifier: org.terraso.app; primary ID is web app (app identifier 1) above; URLs have been configured We have one app group: group.org.terraso (seems unused) On our backend app, we have code: https://github.com/techmatters/terraso-backend/blob/abc655e83eaca849e2bc24389946cc4f0bcd9d48/terraso_backend/apps/auth/providers.py#L84 and APPLE_CLIENT_ID is set to org.terraso.app (which matches the services identifier above In my local development environment, I have tried a few different combinations of IDs attempting to get this to work using the iOS simulator: (i) backend client id: org.terraso.app mobile app bundle Id: org.terraso.test.Terraso-LandPKS result: error: jwt.exceptions.InvalidAudienceError: Audience doesn't match (ii) backend: org.terraso.app mobile app: org.terraso.app result: clicking "Sign In" in Apple ID dialog is a no-op (no errors from client or server) (iii) backend: org.terraso.test.Terraso-LandPKS mobile app: org.terraso.test.Terraso-LandPKS result: works (but I can't use that in production, because the client ID is wrong) How can I configure Sign in with Apple to allow both the web app, the mobile app (and possible additional mobile apps) to work with the same backend? Do I need to us app groups? When do you use app groups vs "group with an existing primary apple id"?
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Apr ’24
IOS publish app Issue
Hello, The issues we previously identified still need your attention. If you have any questions, we are here to help. Reply to this message in App Store Connect and let us know. Review Environment Submission ID: 00fc9b08-3da8-4b89-8810-740174730062 Review date: April 21, 2024 Version reviewed: 1.0 Guideline 3.2.1 - Business - Other Business Model Issues - Acceptable Your app provides financial services but does not meet all the requirements for apps providing these services. Specifically: The app must be published under a seller and company name that is associated with the organization or company providing the services. In this case, your app must be published under a seller name and company name that reflects the Askmefund name. The account that submits the app must be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program as an organization, and not as an individual. These requirements give App Store users confidence that apps offering financial services are qualified to provide these services and will responsibly manage their data. Please provide ownership documentation or modify the vendor seller name. Please Help me.
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Apr ’24
Apple Sign In "Sign-Up not completed"
Hi We getting error in Apple Sign In "Sign-Up not completed", Apple sign in working fine for old Apps and old Bundle ids, But it's not working in new Apps and new Bundle ids We checked with other Apple Developer team accounts Apple Sign In is working on the same source code. But my Team account is getting an error. We enabled signing capabilities and added Sign in with Apple and we added Provisioning profile certificate also , but I am still getting the same error.
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Apr ’24
Apple signin web app
I'm setting up 'Sign in with Apple ID,' and the signup process is running smoothly. Users are redirected to the Apple login page, where they grant permission to share their email and name, followed by a callback. However, a problem occurs with users who are already registered. Ideally, for these users, the process should simply verify their credentials without asking for additional permissions, since the app is already authorized to access their email and name. But, they are being asked again for these permissions after logging in, suggesting they are creating the account in the app again. How can I indicate in the authorization request that a user has already been authorized so that the permissions screen doesn't reappear? Other providers handle this by adding the parameter 'prompt=none' to the request.
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Apr ’24
Apple SignIn: Invalid Grant
Hi, We did all the configuration as requested in documentation for Apple SignIn, Sign In from app is happening properly but when we are trying to verify token with Backend. We are getting below Error from Service { "error": "invalid_grant", "error_description": "The code has expired or has been revoked." } Are we missing anything?
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May ’24
Sign in with Apple Revocation goes through but ineffective? Radar time?
Good day folks, We have a workflow setup where a new Sign in with Apple user registers (first SIWA login where user can pick name and show/hide email), and the server-side code obtains a refresh token from SIWA REST API. That refresh token is stored internally against the user's profile in the DB for future use. Whenever user account is deleted from server-side, we use that refresh token to revoke Sign in with Apple (so that the user would need to go through registration flow rather than sign in- where they have an option to specify name and show/hide email). That has been working beautifully until we have added an AppClip to the app. The code which obtains the refresh token "respects" the correct bundle ID for the main app / app clip, and everything seems to work. Both of Apple's APIs return OK codes. In fact, we even get the email from Apple when token is revoked which reads "APP_NAME has revoked your Sign in with Apple account. Next time you use Sign in with Apple to sign in to your onUgo Access account, you will have to share your name and email again". Problem is- it doesn't. SIWA still offers to "sign in" as if account is still linked, and the app still shows up as "App using Sign in with Apple" in iPhone settings. What's even more mysterious is that you can't delete/revoke/"Stop using Apple ID" on that SIWA link with the app from iPhone settings too! It seems to work, but the app never goes away from the list, as if it fails silently. Could anyone please help shed some light on this?
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May ’24