With iOS 18, TipKit got explicit support for syncing tip state via iCloud. However, before that, TipKit already did iCloud syncing implicitly, as far as I know. How does the new explicit syncing relate to the previous mechanism? Do we have to enable iCloud syncing manually now to retain the functionality in iOS 18? Is there a way to sync with the state that was already stored by TipKit in iCloud on iOS 17?

I can render text from TextKit2 into a PDF everything is fine. But in this case the font is embedded into the PDF. I need the Pdf to contains only the paths / glyphs and not font. I can't find a solution yet. I don't want to create an image or using UIViews etc. It would be nice to get the bezier path of the text I have done this with TextKit1 but the glyphs are gone with TextKit2 Can anyone help me ? Thanks :)

Hello, We represent an AI-powered content monetization platform. Recently, we encountered challenges during the approval process for our app on the Apple platform. Specifically, our efforts to disable screenshot and screen recording features within the app were unsuccessful. Consequently, sensitive content uploaded by content creators on our platform has been vulnerable to unauthorized distribution by users, negatively impacting our business model. We've observed that platforms like WhatsApp have successfully implemented features to prevent screenshots in view-once messages, prompting us to seek guidance on potential solutions or best practices to safeguard content creators' copyrights by disabling screenshot and screen recording capabilities on users' devices. We appreciate any insights or recommendations you can provide to address this issue effectively. Thank you for your attention to this matter. We eagerly await your response.

I want my app to be able to work upside down on an iphone so the mic can point up when it's set on a stand. But it seems that there's no longer support for this on home-button-less iPhones. Am I missing something?

In control VPN icon, it’s always on ( showing on) even if I’m not active the VPN. please find attachment

Since httpRequest body is ignored on WKWebView, I am trying to display a php page by fetching the data first, and displaying it. func fetchData() { URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) {(data, response, error) in guard let data, let url = request.url else { return } // pass the result to WKWebView }.resume() } import Foundation import SwiftUI import WebKit struct CustomWebView: UIViewRepresentable { var url: URL var data: Data func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIView { return CustomUIWebView(url: url, data: data) } } class CustomUIWebView: UIView { let webView: WKWebView init(url: URL,data:Data) { let webConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration() webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webConfiguration) super.init(frame: .zero) webView.load(data, mimeType: "text/html", characterEncodingName: "utf-8", baseURL: url) addSubview(webView) } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") } override func layoutSubviews() { super.layoutSubviews() webView.frame = bounds } The data contains the page that display several images, but it doesn't display any of the images in WKWebView. Test and other components (such as checkmark button) have no problem, only images do. Also, I confirmed it works fine on Safari. So what is the issue here? What am I doing wrong?

for some of us, iMessage has been our number on texting and calling app we use to connect with people but there this feature the app lacks which is, the ability to put a custom image in the background of the chat page like we can do on other websites, I wish Apple could address this request of mine.

I'm a hobbiest just starting to develop an app for MacOS only, so Swift, SwiftUI, Cocoa, UIKit are all very new - I do have a background in C/C++ and various assembly languages but GUI based apps are new and feeling like a challenge. So far, I understand SwiftUI to be the latest framework and thus, in time, it's expected to superceed Cocoa and UIKit. The app I intend to develop will be a remote console for a piece of equipment connected via a serial interface. My intention is to recreate the front panel of the equipment as best I can in the app so it retains the same look and 'feel' as the equipment itself. To accomplish this it will be necessary to place buttons, labels and other textual info in fixed locations within a window. If the window is resized I don't want to reflow its content. With my minimal experience of xcode this seems straightforward using cocoa but I'm stuggling to achieve anything comparable with SwiftUI. I'm keen to avoid spending lots of time learing one framework only to find-out it's not appropriate for the type of app I wish to develop. Guidance on framework selection would be much appreciated. Thanks, Andrew

Hello guys, Is there any API developers can use to get advantage of the new windows resize and placement feature for macOS Sequoia? And of course I'm not talking about resizing the windows from your own app, but the windows from other apps. Thank you.

How to unhide an app after utilizing the new require face ID and disappear function?

For the past couple of years, Apple has been using custom sliders in Music, Podcasts, and on the Lock Screen for scrubbing music and controlling volume. But those sliders are not available to 3rd party devs. We can recreate them theoretically for scrubbing audio. But not for volume, where in UIKit we are supposed to use MPVolumeView. Anyone from Apple? Are there any plans to make the slider styles used in Apple's audio apps available to the rest of us? FB12261162

I recently upgraded to Xcode version 15.4, but after the upgrade, my app stopped working. I resolved all the dependency issues and managed to run it locally. However, when I archive and distribute the app, it shows a blank white screen upon launching it on the phone. Any troubleshooting suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, I am looking at the ContactAccessButton and contactAccessPicker functionality that's new in iOS18. I had a couple of questions about this: is this available through UIKit as well as SwiftUI, or is it a SwiftUI-only feature? is it going to be available on the Mac as well as iOS? Thanks.

Is there currently an option to make generated asset symbols public? If not, would it be possible to set the generated asset symbol so they are public. It's quite common to have an apps design system implemented in a separate framework. Currently the generate assets symbols is useless for this as they can't be access in the framework consumer. It would be great to add it to this new dropdown in Xcode 16 or along side it. (113704993 in the release notes) So the options would be Internal, Public and Off. This should affect the symbols, the extensions and the framework support. (There's a post on the swift forums about this as well here: https://forums.swift.org/t/generate-images-and-colors-inside-a-swift-package/65674)

I am a VoIP app developer currently working on the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode. To ensure the video always appears correctly oriented, I need to obtain rotation information when the device rotates. When the app is in the foreground, I can use [UIDevice currentDevice].orientation to retrieve this value and adjust the video accordingly. However, in PiP mode, my app moves to the background, and this API does not function as expected. Similarly, interfaceOrientation of UIWindowScene and [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation do not work in the background. Is there a way to obtain the orientation information of the system status bar when my app enters the background in PiP mode? Thank you in advance.

I have an app that currently supports as low as iOS 16. I'd like to add some app intents to it that allow customization using the WidgetConfigurationIntent API that's only available on iOS 17 and later. Is there a way to build an intent (or other kind of app extension) that requires a higher OS version than my main app's deployment target, and only surface it for those OS versions?

Hi, I am trying out the new UITabBar stuff in iOS18, and I don't think it'll be a good fit for my app. Is there a way to revert to the old iPad UITabBar look and placement that we've been using before? I don't want to make such a big change like this just yet, but I would need to make other changes to the app as well and I don't want to use the new UITabBar just yet. Is there a way to achieve this?

When using PencilKit and the default PKCanvasView, we get a pop-up menu with options like 'Select All | Insert Space' when we long tap on the canvas. What is the proper way to remove this menu completely? Thank you for your help.

I'm using a LPMetadataProvider to get metadata for URLs. If I do this if itemProvider.hasItemConformingToTypeIdentifier(UTType.image.identifier) { let item = try? await itemProvider.loadItem(forTypeIdentifier: UTType.image.identifier) // continue with code to convert data to UIImage... } That seems to fail quite often, even on larger sites like Amazon where users will expect to see an icon. I've noticed it's because sometimes the type is dyn.agq80w5pbq7ww88brrfv085u I'm assuming this is because something about the website response or the image data does not let the system determine if it is actually an image. If I just do this let type: String = "dyn.agq80w5pbq7ww88brrfv085u" if itemProvider.hasItemConformingToTypeIdentifier(type) { let item = try? await itemProvider.loadItem(forTypeIdentifier: type) // continue with code to convert data to UIImage... } Then I get the icon, so it is there and it is an image. The problem is, does this dynamic type cover everything? Should I even be doing that? Does anyone know precisely what causes this and are there recommendations on better ways to handle it? I know LPLinkView appears to do something to load these 'non-image' icons so I am assuming there are way. My assumption is that it would be safe to look at the results of itemProvider.registeredTypeIdentifiers() and if it has something use that as the type rather than coming up with a hardcoded list of types to check for.

The guide on how to make a QC composition a standalone app assumes I use an earlier version of Xcode (and retired). And Xcode, of course, has changed a lot since the past decade and the guides basically can't be used anymore.