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I want to help contribute a feature in a virtual-machine app in macOS that supports PCIe device passthrough over thunderbolt. I have a question about the entitlements. Since I do not represent the GPU vendors, would I be allowed to get a driver signed that matches GPU vendor IDs? Is there such a thing as wildcard entitlement for PCIDriverKit? I don't want end-users to have to disable SIP to be able to use this. Any suggestions/leads? Thank you.

Hello guys, recently I integrated a third-party library into my code to handle blur effects (Glur). This library leverages Metal's compute capabilities and appears to automatically depend on the Metal toolchain during the build process. When using Xcode Cloud, the archive step consistently fails with a "CompileMetalFile Failed" error. However, when I manually archive the project in Xcode locally, everything works fine without any issues. I’ve confirmed that the macOS and Xcode versions specified in my Xcode Cloud workflow are correct. Reply if you know how to fix it or it will be fixed future, thanks. I'm using Xcode 26.2(17C52) and macOS(15.7.1 (24G231))

When I distribute my app, is it possible for it to be approved by apple when not complete, maybe with reduced levels. Once I add more levels, I release another update? Would apple approve my app with reduced levels, or would they say ot enough content.

Since Dec 18th, my Xcode Cloud builds (for multiple apps) have been failing with this error: Command line name "app-store" is deprecated. Use "app-store-connect" instead. I haven't made any changes to my system, signing, etc, and two separate apps started failing at the same time. No matter what I change on my Workflows (environment, new workflow from scratch, etc), nothing seems to fix it, which leads me to believe this is a bug with Xcode Cloud itself. I've logged FB21456291 already, but just wanted to post here to see if I'm missing something.

I want to publish my game next year in the Apple App Store but I want to choose the time period manually. Can I upload my game for app review without releasing it automatically afterwards? Where exactly can I choose in App Store Connect if my game is published automatically or manually after the app review process? Currently I only use TestFlight.

Hi everyone, I enrolled in the Apple Developer Program on the evening of December 26, 2025, and the membership fee has already been successfully charged to my bank account. However, my account is still showing a “Pending” status with the message “Subscribe your membership.” At this point, some time has passed and I haven’t received a confirmation email or any follow-up requesting additional information.

So, I was going to make a macOS application that accepts dropped apps. This used to work fine in older macOS versions such as High Sierra. It also works for apps like Script Editor. But I cannot get my own app, made with either Xcode or Script Editor, receive dropped apps any more. Mind you, Finder does accept dropping .app items onto my app, so the CFBundleDocumentTypes are fine. And, as I said, it works in High Sierra. The problem is that some part in AppKit or Core Services filters out apps from the list of dropped URLs before application:openURLs: is invoked. What's up with that, and how do I make this work again? I've tried copying all of Script Editor's Info.plist entries to no avail, so there's something more sinister going on here. Also filed under FB21456137

Hi! On iOS 26, Apple’s Mail app shows an effect where a list row gets rounded corners while you’re swiping (so the row visually “matches” the rounded swipe buttons). In my app I’m using SwiftUI List + .swipeActions. I also need a custom row tint (e.g. subtle red/gray highlight based on state). The problem is: If I apply my tint using .background / .clipShape, it moves with the row content during swipe and looks wrong. If I use .listRowBackground(...), I keep the tint, but I don’t get the same rounded-corners “morphing” effect as in Mail (or it looks inconsistent). Question: What’s the correct way in iOS 26 to keep a custom row tint and get the system-style rounded corners / liquid-glass effect while swiping?

Hello All, I've been finally able to finish my so called Quantumsort implementation, which is basically only slightly modified Radix Sort at the basis, but utilizes the somewhat newish Apple Metal SIMD commands heavily. Or rather rather renders the threadgroup shared memory void altogether with those SIMD sharing options available. The sorting itself works "well enough" for my needs here on these Github shared main.swift and sort.metal files already, and the question relates more on it that - can someone spot would it be possible to get rid of the "sorted_temp" array memory too and use one "sorted" list only at all times..? Here's the related repository and copilots I prefer you and you and you more for haha tho : https://guthib.com/roger-more-fi/quantumsort Cheers, make it to the perfection those good last ones of '25 'aights Apple soldiers!

I'm getting reports that my application is creating hidden files with names starting with .f and having 9 or 10 numbers after that. For example: .f678501541 .f1858565508 AFAIK I don't create any files with names like that! So how to determine a) if I am creating those files and b) exactly where in my code this is happening? Unless of course someone knows what creates files like this... Thanks, David

@Apple Developer Support Hello, It has now been more than 72 hours since my Apple Developer Program purchase. The payment was completed and the invoice was issued. Order Number: W1302770460 I have not received any response to my previous support requests, and my membership is still not active. Please escalate this case and complete the manual activation of my membership as soon as possible. Thank you.

Several lessons in Keep Going with Apps cannot be completed even when the code is correct. This blocks progression and greys out the Next button permanently.

I have opened a case with the apple developer support a month ago and they have not replied, since then I sent multiple other emails and opened more cases requesting them to get a status update about my case. So far I am being ignored, no reply or anything it is very frustrating, what can I do to get someone to help me with the apple developer team?

I know this post isn't going to give a lot of details, but what I experienced tonight was so completely weird that I wanted to get it posted here in case others run into it: FIRST: All was well until I made a trivial change to a large Objective-C++ module. I suddenly got the idea to look at that line in the code review pane, to see if that area of code had ever had recent modifications. But, the entire module showed up as modified -- one giant change bar, with nothing on the right side of the code review pane, no matter what commit I selected. Then I noticed that the two lines of code which had all of 4 characters edited were no longer showing any change bars. Yet, the file showed up as "modified". Still, the exact line changes were not showing in the source code navigator, even though other files showed their changes. Note I'm connected to our remote repo on github. I did some command line git checks of the local repo, and the changes were there (as yet unstaged). So -- I figured, I'm gonna ask the Apple Coding Assistant what's up. And it gave some fantastic advice, especially on how to confirm the changes really were in the repo ready to stage and commit and push. Which I did. But despite following a couple hours of wonderful suggestions, I could never get the change bars back -- for this one specific file! (yes, the file was in the repo, and in the project -- everything seemed OK with the file itself -- nothing had changed in the project, which compiled and ran perfectly with my changes). SECOND -- suddenly, the AI assistant seemed to crash Xcode. When I went to re-run Xcode, it just crashed exactly the same. The crash log indicated "Xcode is crashing inside the IDEIntelligenceChat plugin while it’s trying to “apply changes” to a Source Editor buffer". Ultimately, I needed to restart Xcode holding down the SHIFT key. I could open other projects, but not the one I had been working on. So I turned OFF apple Intelligence (thanks, ChatGPT). That allowed me to launch. It sounds like some sort of corrupt Apple Intelligence chat logs and/or caches, which ChatGPT has given me extensive suggestions for deleting. I don't have the energy to attack that tonight -- I did an additional Time Machine backup and hope to take a closer look tomorrow. Ideally -- I'd rather NOT lose all my on-going coding assistant chats for this project -- I had some ongoing suggestions I was working on. But more concerning is the weirdness with changebars affecting this one 7,000 line .mm file. It doesn't seem like there's anything that should affect those change bars for ONE FILE that is in the repo and where changes can be seen from a git diff command line operation. If it's a bug -- I can live with it. But it's worrisome. Other than that, Xcode 26.2 has been running great! Unlike 26.1, which insisted on re-compiling all 600 files in my project every time I ran/debugged, 26.2 just does the 2-6 modified files -- a perfect incremental compile. I've saved HOURS of wasted unnecessary compilation since 26.2 was released.

Hi, Some time ago I created an Apple Developer business account on behalf of my (now former) business partner. The company is no longer active, and I've been away from app development for a few years. I'd now like to start fresh with a new business account, but first I need to step away from this existing one. From the documentation, I understand that first I have to transfer the Account Holder role, and I've already spoken with the other person - he's willing to accept the role. According to the docs: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/access/transfer-the-account-holder-role/ the option should appear under "Update your information", but in my case there is no option called "Transfer Account Holder role". Has anyone encountered this before? Are there prerequisites or account conditions that need to be met for the transfer option to appear? Thanks in advance for any guidance.

I have an app that records a 32 x 32 rect under the cursor as the user moves it around and it sends it to Flutter. It suffers from major lag. Instead of getting 30 fps, I get about 7 fps. That is, there are significant lags between screen grabs. This on an Intel Mac mini x64 with 15.7.3 and one display. flutter: NATIVE: ExplodedView framesIn=2 timeSinceStart=1115.7ms gapSinceLastFrame=838.8ms flutter: NATIVE: ExplodedView framesIn=4 timeSinceStart=1382.6ms gapSinceLastFrame=149.9ms flutter: NATIVE: ExplodedView framesIn=5 timeSinceStart=1511.0ms gapSinceLastFrame=128.4ms flutter: NATIVE: ExplodedView framesIn=7 timeSinceStart=1698.3ms gapSinceLastFrame=102.9ms flutter: NATIVE: ExplodedView STOP polling totalTime=4482.6ms framesIn=28 framesSent=28 acks=28 Here's a testable excerpt: import ScreenCaptureKit import CoreMedia import CoreVideo import QuartzCore final class Test: NSObject, SCStreamOutput, SCStreamDelegate { private let q = DispatchQueue(label: "cap.q") private var stream: SCStream? private var lastFrameAt: CFTimeInterval = 0 private var frames = 0 func start() { SCShareableContent.getExcludingDesktopWindows(false, onScreenWindowsOnly: true) { content, err in guard err == nil, let display = content?.displays.first else { print("shareableContent error: \(String(describing: err))"); return } let filter = SCContentFilter(display: display, excludingWindows: []) let config = SCStreamConfiguration() config.showsCursor = false config.queueDepth = 1 config.minimumFrameInterval = CMTime(value: 1, timescale: 30) config.pixelFormat = kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA config.width = 32 config.height = 32 config.sourceRect = CGRect(x: 100, y: 100, width: 32, height: 32) let s = SCStream(filter: filter, configuration: config, delegate: self) try! s.addStreamOutput(self, type: .screen, sampleHandlerQueue: self.q) self.stream = s s.startCapture { startErr in print("startCapture err=\(String(describing: startErr))") } // Optional: move sourceRect at 30Hz (cursor-follow simulation) Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 1.0/30.0, repeats: true) { _ in let c2 = SCStreamConfiguration() c2.showsCursor = false c2.queueDepth = 1 c2.minimumFrameInterval = CMTime(value: 1, timescale: 30) c2.pixelFormat = kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA c2.width = 32 c2.height = 32 let t = CACurrentMediaTime() c2.sourceRect = CGRect(x: 100 + (sin(t) * 50), y: 100, width: 32, height: 32) s.updateConfiguration(c2) { _ in } } } } func stream(_ stream: SCStream, didOutputSampleBuffer sb: CMSampleBuffer, of type: SCStreamOutputType) { guard type == .screen else { return } let now = CACurrentMediaTime() let gapMs = (lastFrameAt == 0) ? 0 : (now - lastFrameAt) * 1000 lastFrameAt = now frames += 1 if frames <= 10 || frames % 60 == 0 { print("frames=\(frames) gapMs=\(String(format: "%.1f", gapMs))") } } }

I was planning to add the Facebook SDK in one of the releases, and I had everything prepared (including changing the privacy policy to state that my app tracks users for advertising). I changed the privacy policy in the App Store connect, thinking that this wouldn't take effect until I sent the app to review. However, after careful consideration, I decided not to move on with the Facebook SDK. My app does not currently track users for advertising. Even though I sent a new release (UI improvements only), I still can't change the privacy policy to remove that my app "tracks" the user. I read multiple posts with people facing similar issues. For my binary, I have: No PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file NSUserTrackingUsageDescription in Info.plist No tracking declarations in my app configuration I contacted support, and I was redirected here. My case number is 102778907920

Hi, I was testing the new iOS 18 behavior where NSPersistentCloudKitContainer wipes the local Core Data store if the user logs out of iCloud, for privacy purposes. I ran the tests both with a Core Data + CloudKit app, and a simple one using SwiftData with CloudKit enabled. Results were identical in either case. In my testing, most of the time, the feature worked as expected. When I disabled iCloud for my app, the data was wiped (consistent with say the Notes app, except if you disable iCloud it warns you that it'll remove those notes). When I re-enabled iCloud, the data appeared. (all done through the Settings app) However, in scenarios when NSPersistentCloudKitContainer cannot immediately sync -- say due to rate throttling -- and one disables iCloud in Settings, this wipes the local data store and ultimately results in data loss. This occurs even if the changes to the managed objects are saved (to the local store) -- it's simply they aren't synced in time. It can be a little hard to reproduce the issue, especially since when you exit to the home screen from the app, it generally triggers a sync. To avoid this, I swiped up to the screen where you can choose which apps to close, and immediately closed mine. Then, you can disable iCloud, and run the app again (with a debugger is helpful). I once saw a message with something along the lines of export failed (for my record that wasn't synced), and unfortunately it was deleted (and never synced). Perhaps before NSPersistentCloudKitContainer wipes the local store it ought to force sync with the cloud first?

On iOS 26.2 (23C55), DeviceActivityMonitor.eventDidReachThreshold fires intermittently for a daily schedule (00:00–23:59) even when iOS Screen Time shows 0 minutes for the selected apps that day. This causes premature shielding via ManagedSettings. Environment: iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 26.2 (23C55). Event selection: 2 apps. Threshold: 30 minutes. Multiple TestFlight users report the same behavior across various app selections and thresholds. Intermittent (~50% of days); sometimes multiple days in a row. Not observed in testing prior to iOS 26.2. Evidence: sysdiagnose + Screen Time screenshots (with 0 screen time on selected apps) + unified logs show UsageTrackingAgent notifying the extension that “unproductive from activity daily reached its threshold,” followed immediately by ManagedSettings shield being applied (extension reacting to the callback). Filed Feedback Assistant: FB21450954. Questions: Are others seeing this on 26.2? Does it correlate with restarting monitoring at interval boundaries or includesPastActivity settings?

I am creating an Augmented Reality iOS (Not VisionOS) app using scenes created in Reality Composer Pro. I'd like my code to send a notification to a RCP scene that plays a timeline. The RCP interface has the option to set up a behaviour for this purpose: This Forum thread https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/756978 suggests the code I need for sending a notification is: name: NSNotification.Name("RealityKit.NotificationTrigger"), object: nil, userInfo: [ "RealityKit.NotificationTrigger.Scene": scene, "RealityKit.NotificationTrigger.Identifier": "HideCharacter" ] ) but the 'scene' var needs to point to the relevant RCP scene, which is loaded within a UIViewRepresentable ARView (because even in iOS26 it seems RealityKit/RealityViews aren't quite ready for AR use) and I can't work out how to correctly access it. Examples in the link above are for working with RealityKit and VisionOS only. Code for loading the scene is as follows. How can I get the notification code above to be situated in a separate SwiftUI View and send the notification to the RCP scene? typealias UIViewType = ARView func makeUIView(context: Context) -> ARView { // Create an ARView let arView = ARView(frame: .zero) // Configure it let arConfiguration = ARWorldTrackingConfiguration() arConfiguration.planeDetection = [.horizontal] arView.session.run(arConfiguration) // Load in Reality Composer Pro scene let scene = try! Entity.load(named:"myScene)", in: realityKitContentBundle) // Create a horizontal plane anchor let anchor = AnchorEntity(.plane(.horizontal, classification: .any, minimumBounds: SIMD2<Float>(0.2, 0.2))) // Append the scene to the anchor anchor.children.append(scene) // Append the anchor to the ARView arView.scene.anchors.append(anchor) return arView } func updateUIView(_ uiView: ARView, context: Context) { } }