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Hello, In this press release from last month: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/ It indicates the following: "For sign language interpretation app developers, a new API supports users in adding a human interpreter to an ongoing FaceTime video call." I have looked over the WWDC26 sessions but have not been able to find any information on this new API. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you!

I have had apps on the App Store since 23 April 2014 - over 12 years. While Apple quite rightly trumpets their simplicity of use for their products, their operating systems and their software they have, in my experience, always been majorly deficient in the area that they now call App Store Connect. I think a very large part of the problem is that the people who use the system are afraid to bite the hand that feeds so they just put up with it. Well, it’s time to take a stand. I don’t see any point in getting in to the specifics of my issue here because the original issue is no longer the issue. The issue now is “what do Apple do about it”. I spoke to a human at Apple a couple of weeks ago and he was going to move heaven and earth to solve my issue and he was a nice guy. I got an email from him that I could reply to and he was taking ownership of my case. Then I got this; Dear Francis, Thank you for contacting Developer Support. My name is Bjoern, and I am one of the senior Advisor here in Developer Support. I have taken over your case from my colleague Sebastian as he is currently out of the office.  As I can see, you have issue with your screenshots and the solution provided by Sebastian has not fixed the issue for Australia and Singapore. I am sorry to hear the issue is still ongoing for you. It will be my pleasure to look further into it for you.  To better assist you, we need more information. Please provide the following: … So I replied;
 Dear Bjoerm The issue is no longer with the screenshots. I managed to get a screenshot done by consulting Google and following the instructions of someone on a forum so as to conflict with what Apple’s documentation said. I did provide you with an update about that. The remaining issue is still that... What you have asked me to do below doesn’t seem to relate to my issues at all. It has nothing to do with Safari not working on my Mac as expected. It has nothing to do with logging in to Appstore Connect. Would you please clarify what information you want from me that relates to my issue? And he said; Thank you for your email and your information. From your text message it was not clear where the issue was located. My apologies for guessing the wrong direction.  I have reviewed your app “pdf Paginate Pro” and ... More info can be found in our App Store Connect Help Guide... I hope that the provided information has helped you further.  My ‘text message’ was an email. I up loaded both of his emails to a bot and the bot said, “That came from a BOT”. - Apple Intelligence? So I submitted again and included this under Review Information “I am repeatedly submitting my app binary and IAP together but Apple keeps returning the IAP saying the binary was not submitted. Please advise exactly what steps I need to take in the current App Store Connect to correctly link them.” - All I wanted was for them to tell me what they wanted me to do and I would do it. - Then it got rejected again with no detail as to why or how to solve it. I replied to By now I have customers all over the world complaining to me that they can’t restore their Previous Purchase. I keep telling them that it should only take a couple of days for approval. I have been telling them that for a month now while not selling one app. What I should do is direct them to Apple to make their complaints and maybe then someone would start to take it seriously. They are my customers but they are Apple’s customers as well.
 So, today I got rejected again and managed to get another human callback. A very nice lady who wanted to help so I started to explain the problem but when she interrupted and said “Well, for instance, I am a human and I only have limited ability to remember so much, which is why I kind of intercepted at this point. So, I mean, not being funny, but I mean, I find it very hard to remember every little detail that you have said in the last 6 minutes. It's literally impossible for the human brain. Well, mine anyway. Maybe there is something wrong with mine. But I will find it very hard if I allow you to tell me multiple problems in the space of 10, 15 minutes. My brain is certainly not going to be able to to uncode all of that.” (Taken from the iPhone transcript of my recording of the call). I do want to stress that I don’t blame her at all but as one of the few humans that it is possible to talk to she clearly had not been trained to ‘deal with issues’ only to pass them on to an online link for me to tell another BOT. The latest addition to one of the customer email chains this evening; Has the fix been approved yet? When it does, do I need to re-download the app or should the existing installation work? XXX On Jun 8, 2026, at 12:56 PM, XXXXX. XXXX XXX @alumni.nd.edu > wrote: Thank you. I’m using mac and am on 6.2.1. I will await the fix. XXX On Jun 8, 2026, at 12:51 PM, Francis Wildman <pdfpaginate.com> wrote: Hi David All I can do at the moment is apologise. An update that I did a few weeks ago had a bug in it and I have been desperately trying to resolve it ever since. I passed a new update to Apple for approval yesterday that should solve the problem... Apple’s time estimate for approvals at the moment is 2 days and it was put in yesterday so I would hope everything should be working, assuming I get the approval, within the next day or so at the most. I hate when people say ’thank you for your patience’ even when it was forced upon you so maybe ’thank you for your tolarance’. I can assure you that I am doing all that I can. Regards Francis On 8 Jun 2026, at 17:28, XXXXX. XXXX XXX @alumni.nd.edu > wrote: I’ve tried everything and my purchase will not restore. I’m using the latest version. Please advise. What am I supposed to tell these people? It’s not much of an app I know but the people who bought my app, many of them years ago, rely on it and mostly love it. I simply can’t believe that anyone very senior at Apple can even know how bad App Store Connect is, I could provide a list and Google and YouTube and so many forums are overrun with complaints. Turns out that you can’t complain if you are a developer. You can appeal but you can only appeal the rejection you cannot appeal the lack of information, support and assistance. Hey APPLE the AI isn’t that good yet. Mind you the help, support and simplicity of use wasn’t much better even before AI. I have removed the contact details of my customer above and resisted the temptation of pasting in lots of such emails here. So far I have resisted replying to all of the complaining customers and asking them to talk to Apple, but that would not be kind to my customers. You should be able to find my email address if you want to offload to me by email, please feel free but I can’t promise to reply, I have a big problem to try to sort out at the moment. Good luck to you all, particularly if you need help from Apple.

Subject: Inquiry Regarding Architectural Overhead and Buffer Access in the Push to Talk Framework for Real-Time Core ML Blind Source Separation Dear Apple Engineering Team, We are currently developing an Apple-native communication platform that utilizes the Push to Talk framework alongside Core ML to handle real-time, on-device audio processing. We are working to resolve the issue of single-channel, co-channel interference (overlapping voice streams) directly on the edge. Our current challenge lies in the pipeline latency and background lifecycle constraints when intercepting incoming audio buffers. To cleanly separate overlapping voices before they hit the audio output mixer, we need to process the raw PCM data immediately upon arrival. Could you please provide guidance on the following architectural questions: Low-Latency Buffer Interception: What is the recommended design pattern within the PTChannelManagerDelegate flow to pass raw incoming audio buffers directly to a Core ML model running on the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) before the system routes them to AVAudioEngine for playback? Background Thread Management: Given the strict background execution boundaries enforced by the Push to Talk framework, how can we best optimize thread scheduling to ensure our speech separation model completes its execution without triggering an OS background processing timeout or process termination? Dynamic UI Manifestation: Once a combined audio stream is separated into two clean, distinct voice vectors on-device, what is the best approach for registering multiple PTParticipant states simultaneously so that the native system UI (like the Dynamic Island) accurately reflects both speakers? Thank you for your time, insights, and continued support of developer innovation within the iOS and iPadOS ecosystems. Best regards, Ken Zakreski Founder, Marine Link Pro

I often struggle to see my own log data with the heavy stream of CloudKit updates. Is there an easy way to filter that our or turn it on/off?

Hi there, we deploy upwards of 12-15 hardware accessories containing BLE at a time, in a single system instal. Can AccessorySetupKit be used to streamline the pairing process for all of these accessories at once, so that the user isn't required to step through the process of pairing with each individual accessory?

I’m building a macOS app that displays a large grid of image thumbnails similar to Photos. What is the recommended way to determine whether a file is locally available/downloaded without making a blocking call to the filesystem for every thumbnail? Thanks!

Hello, does anyone have experience using Apple Vision Pro in countries where it has not yet been officially released? I work for a company in Austria, and we are interested in developing internal XR applications for Vision Pro. Since the device is not officially available in Austria, we are considering purchasing it in Germany. My main question is whether it is possible to develop and test Vision Pro apps using an Austrian Apple ID / developer account, or if there are any regional restrictions we should be aware of (e.g., related to App Store access, provisioning, or device functionality). Apple Support was unfortunately unable to provide a definitive answer and recommended asking here. Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Don Appelonie

I’d like the ability to detect a users security role. This makes sense for detecting the roles assigned to named users for enabling workflows within an app. For example, user generated content and “moderators”. Instead of building an unlisted app, I’d prefer to just check permissions against the user. As a workaround, one could create record types with the same “security role” as the moderator actions, but to attempt to fetch a dummy record seems fragile and inefficient. FB9638492 (CloudKit: API to detect provided security role on current user)

Why voice processing enabled on AVAudioInputNode makes output audio noticable lower than without it and how to overcome it using voice processing enabled

My queries are failing in an unusual way. I can query 4 out of 5 Record Types. The 5th fails from the app (CKQueryOperation) and, surprisingly, also from the CloudKit Dashboard. It returns only 100-300 records when it should return over 4000. Tapping "Query Records" returns an additional 100-300 records. Apple Developer Technical Support has suggested that the issue involves the index of the container and wrote that only the CloudKit Team can fix it. So my question is - How do I get the CloudKit Team to fix it????

Throughout the years I've done a few integrations at my company with an iOS Application and an identity provider. I've implemented samples with UIWebView, WKWebview, Certificate based authentication through custom URLSession implementations and lastly through ASWebAuthentication. Also I gave the SSO Extension a try, but got stuck at some point (also Apple Forum didn't give me some solution -> https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/117747) I'm having troubles digging through the Apple resources to find the best approach for big enterprises. We make use of a MDM solution, so I was hoping to find means to 'exploit it' and don't implement any custom authenticationframework anymore. Also, granting SSO between Apps and websites is what my ideal goal would be. Could you point me to some resources that can help me or give me some guidance on which of the frameworks/SDKs to use?

Moved to WWDC26 iCloud & CloudKit Q&A: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/830698

I have been waiting for both of these going on 24 hours with nothing happening

We are deploying Platform SSO using the Secure Enclave authentication method. However, users are still being prompted for their username and password during registration. This undermines our goal of going passwordless and is causing deployment friction with customers. Once the Secure Enclave method is deployed and initialized, is there a way to suppress or skip this password dialog so users only authenticate via hardware/biometrics?

Hello, I created an app using the latest version of Xcode (16.2), and I'm having a problem testing this app on my iPhones. I created this app just like all the others I've made for my clients, including one on (03/24/25), but when I went to upload another App to App Store Connect on (03/26/25) I couldn't test it on my phone. Points to consider: The app runs perfectly on the Emulator. All my terms and agreements with Apple are up to date. I tried to download the apps through Testflight on 2 different devices, iPhone 7 Plus (iOS 15.8.1) and iPhone 15 Pro Max (iOS 18.3.2), and I was unsuccessful in neither attempt. I can send my app to the internal testers, but when I click download, the following message appears: Could not install [APP NAME]. The requested App is not available or doesn't exist. I imagine this problem is with Apple itself, I have already contacted support, but I need to resolve this urgently for my customers. Has anyone experienced this and resolved it?

Future of Behavioral Authentication on Apple PlatformsWith the rapid advancement of on-device AI and Apple Intelligence, does Apple see a future where user identity can be continuously verified through behavioral patterns and contextual signals rather than relying solely on discrete authentication events such as Face ID, Touch ID, or passcodes? If so, what privacy and security challenges would need to be solved before such an approach could become practical on Apple platforms?

Is there any way to get notified in macOS when the iCloud Drive becomes online/offline so that I can update the UI in my app to reflect that state? Thanks!

Hello, I'm facing an unusual App Store Search issue and would appreciate guidance from Apple staff or developers who have experienced something similar. App Details App Name: Logistos – Logistics Platform Apple ID: 6759841195 Category: Business Availability: Available in all supported storefronts, including India Publicly available for: More than 2 months Latest version: Released and live for more than 5 days Issue The app is accessible through its direct App Store URL and is indexed by Google Search. However, it does not appear in App Store Search results. I have tested the following search terms on multiple devices and storefronts: Logistos Logistos – Logistics Platform Logistos Logistics Platform 6759841195 (Apple ID) In all cases, the app does not appear in the search results. Additional Information The app name contains "Logistos". The subtitle is "Logistics & Shipment Tracking". The keywords include "logistos". Metadata changes have already been released and enough time has passed for propagation. App Store Analytics shows the app is receiving impressions, product page views, and downloads. Direct App Store links work normally. I have already opened a support case with Apple Developer Support. Case ID: 102908696756 Has anyone encountered a similar App Store Search indexing issue? Could this indicate that the app requires manual reindexing by Apple? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

do you see a future where devices continuously verify a user’s identity through behavioral signals rather than discrete login events?

Hello Albert! I am experiencing some strange bugs around DeviceActivityEvents (part of the DeviceActivity framework) on iOS 26 / iOS 26.1 / iOS 26.2 beta: When creating a DeviceActivityEvent we can assign a threshold and applicationTokens. The idea is, that after the user has spent said threshold on said apps, eventDidReachThreshold() is called. The property includesPastActivity is set to false. On iOS 26 however, it happens (quite reliably after updating to a new beta seed) quite often that eventDidReachThreshold() is called immediately (after a couple of seconds) instead of waiting for the threshold to be met. Is anyone else seeing similar issues on iOS 26 / iOS 26.1 / iOS 26.2 beta? Only workaround I have found is to ask users to revoke and re-grant Screen Time permissions. This only holds for about two weeks though or at most until the next iOS 26 beta update is installed, so it is not a permanent solution unfortunately. Feedback (incl. sysdiagnoses and sample project) is filed under: FB18061981 FB18927456 One of our users has filed their own feedback request as well: FB20817853 Thanks a lot for any help on this!