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When I try to enroll Apple Developer Program for a company, getting an error. "We are unable to process your request. An unknown error occurred." Please, help me. What am i doing wrong?

I paid the $99 annual Apple Developer Program fee and submitted my first iOS app with the understanding that App Review would normally take approximately one or two days. It has now been six days, and the submission is still sitting in “Waiting for Review.” There has been no review, no request for additional information, no explanation, and no indication that anyone has looked at it. I understand that review times can vary, especially for a first submission, but six days without even entering review seems excessive. Developers are required to pay Apple before they can distribute an app, yet there appears to be no meaningful service-time commitment or communication when a submission remains untouched. Is this currently normal for first-time app submissions? At what point is a developer supposed to conclude that the submission is stuck rather than merely delayed? At this point, I am also wondering whether I should request a refund of the $99 membership fee, since the primary service I paid to access has not been provided within anything resembling the expected timeframe.

I have an iPhone 14 running iOS 16.1 and my series 5 watch running watchOS 9.1. I was able to turn on Developer Mode on the phone by going to Settings--> Privacy & Security --> Developer Mode. On the watch however (I'm doing this directly on the watch and not on the watch app on the phone) once I'm in Privacy & Security, there is no option to select Developer Mode. How do I get my watch in Developer Mode in order to get a successful build in xCode?

I operate a website that offers Sign In with Apple as an authentication option for users. When I originally set this up a couple years ago, I'd created an App ID using my personal Developer account, along with the appropriate Services ID and Key. I'm now in the process of creating an iOS app offering users similar functionality. But for this, I have a new, business Developer account, where I've created an App ID and all the same ids allowing Sign In with Apple. It feels like the first appropriate thing to do—before starting my iOS sign-in—is to get my existing website users migrated from my personal developer team to my new business developer team. I found that process very well documented by technote TN3159, which describes this as a six-step process in terms of Team A handing a project to Team B. Team A obtains access token(s) Team A generates transfer identifiers Team A initiates app transfer to Team B Team B obtains access token(s) Team B exchanges transfer identifiers Team B confirms successful user migration ✓ I'm successfully able to complete steps 1 and 2. ✘ Step 3 doesn't seem possible, as it looks like that applies to a team transferring a published app to another team. But I figured maybe that didn't matter in my case, as my website uses a Services ID, not an App ID. ✓ I'm successfully able to complete step 4. ✘ But step 5—the important part, where I get the transfer ID—fails with an invalid_request error. I suspect this is because step 3 really was important. But I can't find a way to transfer an app that isn't really an app, just a website using the Sign In with Apple service. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated.

How can I find out if my device is connected to another device and if their is an administrator that is controlling some of my actions and being able to see me and everything I do on my phone.

I'm seeing a behavior difference in CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo between macOS 26 Tahoe and macOS 27 Golden Gate beta regarding the Screen Recording / System Audio Recording privacy permission, and I'd like to confirm whether this is intentional or a beta regression. Environment macOS 26 Tahoe (26.x) — tested behavior below macOS 27 Golden Gate beta 4 (26A5388g) — tested behavior below Expected behavior (matches Tahoe) When my app does NOT have permission under System Settings > Privacy & Security > Screen & System Audio Recording: CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo still returns window list entries for other running apps. However, kCGWindowOwnerName for windows owned by processes other than my own app is nil. When permission IS granted, kCGWindowOwnerName is populated correctly for all windows. Actual behavior on Golden Gate Even without Screen Recording permission granted (verified in System Settings, and via CGPreflightScreenCaptureAccess() returning false), kCGWindowOwnerName is populated for windows owned by other running apps — i.e., the same as if permission had been granted. Repro swift let options: CGWindowListOption = [.optionOnScreenOnly, .excludeDesktopElements] let windowList = CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo(options, kCGNullWindowID) as? [[String: AnyObject]] for window in windowList ?? [] { let owner = window[kCGWindowOwnerName as String] as? String print(owner ?? "nil") } On Tahoe without permission: prints nil for other apps' windows. On Golden Gate beta 4 without permission: prints the actual owner name for other apps' windows. Question Is this a known/intentional change in Golden Gate, or a beta regression in the TCC enforcement path for this API? Since Apple has been steadily tightening screen-capture-adjacent APIs (Sonoma/Sequoia/Tahoe) and recommending migration to ScreenCaptureKit, should we treat any reliance on kCGWindowOwnerName's permission-gated nil behavior as unsupported going forward, and use a different API to check whether the process has Screen Recording access? Any guidance from DTS would be appreciated. Happy to file a Feedback Assistant report with a sample project if useful — let me know the FB number format expected.

Hi everyone, I’m testing the latest iOS 27 beta and I’ve noticed an issue with the new Siri. When I ask very simple questions that should be handled locally or through basic reasoning, Siri consistently responds with: “Uh oh, something went wrong.” For example, asking: “When is the next Friday the 13th?” results in the error message instead of an answer. I’ve reproduced this multiple times and it seems to happen with other straightforward informational queries as well. I’ve already tried restarting the device and checking my network connection, but the issue persists. Has anyone else experienced this behavior with the new Siri in the iOS 27 beta? If so, were you able to find a workaround or identify what’s causing it? Any help or confirmation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

After opening the app, the notification badge sometimes stays visible even after setting applicationIconBadgeNumber to zero. Has anyone seen this behavior on iOS 18, or is there a more reliable way to clear it?

Still don’t have access to my developer account. been waiting now two weeks for my personal to organisation account to be completed.

Hi, I’m developing a CarPlay navigation app using the CarPlay Maps/Navigation entitlement. The app works correctly as a full CarPlay navigation app: The main CarPlay scene connects. The app displays a map template. Free-drive / map-following mode works in the full CarPlay app. Turn-by-turn navigation works. The Dashboard navigation scene works during active route guidance. The issue is with the CarPlay Dashboard/home screen behavior. Other navigation apps such as Waze or ABRP can appear automatically in the CarPlay Dashboard navigation widget when CarPlay starts, even when no active route guidance is running. My app’s Dashboard navigation scene only appears once route guidance has started. When no route guidance is active, the CarPlay Dashboard does not show my app as the navigation widget provider. My questions are: Is there any additional public API, entitlement, plist key, or runtime state required for a navigation app to be selected by CarPlay as the Dashboard navigation provider at CarPlay startup? Is the Dashboard navigation widget expected to launch the last-used third-party navigation app automatically, even when there is no active navigation session? Does an app need to keep some kind of navigation session, navigation metadata, free-drive state, or passive navigation session active for CarPlay to treat it as eligible for the Dashboard widget? Are there differences in this behavior between development builds installed via Xcode and TestFlight/App Store builds? Is the Dashboard navigation scene supposed to be created only during active route guidance, or can CarPlay create it for a free-drive/map-following state with no route? The relevant behavior I’m seeing is: The app works as a full CarPlay navigation app. The Dashboard scene is declared in the app configuration. The app is signed with the CarPlay Maps entitlement. The Dashboard scene appears during route guidance. Without active route guidance, CarPlay Dashboard falls back to another navigation app instead of showing my app’s free-drive map. Any clarification on the expected lifecycle and eligibility rules for third-party navigation apps in the CarPlay Dashboard would be appreciated.

I am currently on Apple's Dev Beta V4 for iOS 27. The first version I installed was the Dev Beta V2, I am desperate to try out the new Siri AI Beta, but it's just not installing for me. I have the ability to "turn siri off" then "on again" and find I get the 2024 Apple Intelligence version fine. But if I choose to try out the new AI Beta, I'm left with "Adding support for Siri is in progress. Siri will be unavailable until the update is complete." It's been in that state for over 48 hours in Beta 4 and I'm left with the OLD OLD Siri globe from pre-Apple intelligence. Am I being too keen and just not leaving it long enough? Or is there a genuine issue at Apple's end, in regard to getting the new Siri to actually fully install?

If a user enables/disables Guided Access, they can modify the session settings to disable the top (sleep/wake) button. In Single App Mode (SAM), there is a payload option for disabling the sleep/wake button via Mobile Device Management (MDM). In Autonomous Single App Mode (ASAM), there doesn't appear to be any way to disable the top button. ASAM does not honor the Guided Access sessions settings, and there is no payload option in the MDM. This is a glaring issue especially when ASAM is marketed as the solution for apps in a medical setting where the app is trading hands from a medical professional to a patient. Our app is used during a lengthy procedure and does not function properly if the patient puts the iPad to sleep. We're stuck asking our medical professionals to put the iPad in Guided Access, but the user experience is clunky and would be much improved by implementing ASAM. Is there some little-known API for disabling the sleep/wake button during ASAM that I'm just missing?

Updating an App for the first time since 2011. Build, Analyze, Archive all successful. Automatically Manage Signing checked. Validation fails with 90286 - Invalid code signing entitlements, and 91130 - Invalid Provisioning Profile dozens of times after tweaks, clean builds, trying manual signing (thought I was done with that), etc. For 90286 it seems my Developer ID , e.g. 346JXXXXX (not Team ID, QZ99XXXXX) is the prefix for the bundle ID, com.company.app-name and that generates the error? For 91130 it's invalid "com.apple.application-identifier" which I assume is the same issue with a Developer ID instead of a Team ID. The original version of the app was QZ99XXXXX.com.company.app-name. I even changed the bundle identifier in Xcode to that, and got this: App Record Creation failed due to request containing an attribute already in use. The app name you entered is already being used for another app in your account. If you would like to use the name for this app you will need to submit an update to your other app to change the name, or remove it from App Store Connect. Yes, the original app name is being used for an app in my account. I was trying to update the app, checked all the boxes, added update text, but of course there was no build to upload. Would appreciate any help.

Posting here per DTS guidance (no reduced sample project available). Creating a CKQuerySubscription on the PUBLIC database in the Production environment always fails, on a production-signed TestFlight build. It works in the Development environment; only Production rejects it. Error: CKError 12 (invalidArguments); underlying "BadSyntax" (2006); server message = "attempting to create a subscription in a production container". The subscription: let sub = CKQuerySubscription( recordType: "PublicSolution", predicate: NSPredicate(format: "%K == %@", "challengeAuthorID", myUserRecordName), subscriptionID: "MyChallengeSolved-", options: [.firesOnRecordCreation]) let info = CKSubscription.NotificationInfo() info.shouldSendContentAvailable = true sub.notificationInfo = info try await container.publicCloudDatabase.save(sub) Verified (all good): TestFlight build is distribution-signed: aps-environment = production (confirmed with codesign on the archive). APNs registration succeeds on device (valid token). CKContainer.accountStatus = .available; userRecordID resolves. Reads of PublicSolution succeed in Production. challengeAuthorID on PublicSolution is QUERYABLE in the deployed Production schema (verified in CloudKit Console). Dev and Production schemas are identical; deployed to Production multiple times (Console reports "no changes"). Removing notificationInfo.desiredKeys made no difference. Push Notifications capability present; entitlement aps-environment = production. Question: What makes Production reject this public-DB CKQuerySubscription create, and what container-side configuration allows it? Same code succeeds in Development. Container: iCloud.JCM.Contraptor

Hi, I designed and created 2 apps to help protect 2 dying languages. One is Sonny Goes to School for the Osage Nation in US and the other is Maskosis Goes To School for Samson Cree Nation in Alberta Canada. The concept is similar and the animations are similar. We use the same characters that we drawn for the first project (Maskosis) and reuse them for the 2nd project (Sonny). We now need to update the apps so they can be used on newer devices. However the app review team kept rejected the updates saying we are spaming the app store. They advice us to "submit a unique app with distinct content and functionality." To recreate all the animations would be very very expensive. I do not know how to proceed, does anyone have any ideas? I attached part of their reply below. No matter how I explain myself, they just kept replying back saying I am spam... "Guideline 4.3(a) - Design - Spam Issue Description We noticed the app shares a similar binary, metadata, and/or concept as apps submitted to the App Store by other developers, with only minor differences. Submitting similar or repackaged apps is a form of spam that creates clutter and makes it difficult for users to discover new apps. Next Steps Since we do not accept spam apps on the App Store, we encourage you to review the app concept and submit a unique app with distinct content and functionality. "

Apple requested additional verification documents, and I have already submitted my Certificate of Incorporation (CIN), passport, and GST registration certificate showing my name and association with the company. Has anyone experienced a similar situation? How long did Apple take to complete the review after submitting additional documents? Is there anything else I should do, or should I simply wait for Apple to complete the verification?

I use Xcode Cloud with my Github repo to automatically trigger workloads any time I create a new PR or make changes to the PR. This has been working for a few years now but this week it stopped working from one day to the next with no explanation. If I trigger the workflow manually via Builds > Start Build > my PR build workflow, and selecting my Pull Request from the list. This means that Xcode Cloud has access to my Github account, it's not an auth issue or anything like that. The only thing that doesnt work is the auto detection of when a PR is created or updated.

When connecting my iphone (14pro with iOS 17.2.1) with a paired apple watch (series 9 with OS 10.3), it is not showing up on the devices/simulators list in xcode 15.1. Beyond unpairing/repairing the watch, restarting either iphone or watch, connecting/disconnecting the iphone from the computer or deleting xcode and re-installing xcode, any other suggestions? Under the WatchApp field it shows "no eligible device connected", however, under the console the Apple Watch does appear. I have tried just about everything and can't get the watch to appear in Xcode. I am running all this on a MacBook Pro with Sonoma. Thanks for any assistance!

My iOS app's first submission (ThymeBlock, Apple ID 6779269775) was rejected under 2.3.2 solely over the OPTIONAL promotional images on my two auto-renewable subscriptions. The required fix, deleting the images, was impossible: both subscription records were locked in "Waiting for Review" and the image field disabled. My reply in the submission thread went unanswered for 48+ hours, so I cancelled the submission (standard advice). The cancel completed, no submission exists anymore, and both subscriptions REMAIN locked in "Waiting for Review", held by nothing. I cannot edit them and cannot delete the flagged images, so resubmitting the app version cannot satisfy the rejection: the change App Review required is impossible to make. Developer Program Support has so far responded with unrelated information, and on a call suggested the subscriptions are in review due to "pending charges from July 18", which seems impossible since the app has never been released and has zero customers. This matches threads 705460 and 717024 (same lock; resolved only by Apple server-side). Case number: 20000117635283. Could App Review or App Store Connect staff release my two subscription records to an editable state, or remove the two promotional image as the rejection requested?

Hi. This is my first time submitting for app review. my app been stuck in “waiting for review” status for over 7 days. Any idea? Any help is appreciated.