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› It is reasonable to assume Xcode AI integration means AI being able to change the build target... “Why can Xcode Intelligence see source files but not .xcodeproj/project.pbxproj for direct edit?” “Is this a known limitation/bug in Xcode 26.3 RC Project Context or MCP Xcode Tools?” “Any required entitlement/setting beyond Intelligence > Xcode Tools for build-setting edits?”

I’ve seen, mainly in discussions with AIs, that ARFaceTrackingConfiguration uses the same technology as Face ID and therefore should work in complete darkness. However, I haven’t been able to achieve this. Does anyone know if this is actually true? I'm using an iPhone 16 to test, and the Face ID works well in darkness.

Hello, I am developing a custom player SDK based on AVPlayer. While testing LL-HLS streams, I intermittently encounter the following error: Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12880 Since I cannot find documentation for this specific code, could you please clarify its meaning? Specifically, I would like to know if this is a critical error that disrupts playback, or if it is just a warning that can be safely ignored. Any insights would be appreciated. Thank you.

Hello Apple Developers and users I am writing this message reguarding some help on some performance codes/settings I can use for my Macbook since I recently downloaded the MacOs Tahoe 26.2 and its been very glitchy and laggy with gaming and just using my mac normally I have tried using a FPS unlocker and downloading Metal 4 the FPS unlocker hasent worked at all I am still stuck on the normal 60 FPS and need some advice/help. Thank you. Kind regards Zachary

I had a VoiceOver user point out an issue with my app that I’ve definitely known about but have never been able to fix. I thought that I had filed feedback for it but it looks like I didn’t. Before I do I’m hoping someone has some insight. With Swift Charts when I tap part of a chart it summarizes the three hours and then you can swipe vertically to hear it read out details of each hour. For example, the Y-Axis is the amount of precipitation for the hour and the X-Axis is the hours of the day. The units aren't being read in the summary but they are for individual hours when you vertical swipe. The summary says something such as "varies between 0.012 and 0.082". In the AXChartDescriptor I’ve tried everything I can think of, including adding a label to the Y axis in the DataPoint but nothing seems to work in getting that summary to include units. With a vertical swipe it seems to just be using my accessibility label and value (like I would expect).

I received my approval for FairPlay Streaming (FPS) and was getting things organized and then my computer crashed. So... Yes, I lost the 32 digit Account Security Key (ASk) that I was warned not to lose repeatedly... I understand that I can't query apple for the existing ASk. I don't see where I can delete the existing cert to request another one. So I assume I'll need to start from scratch either with another FPS approval process. Can someone please direct me on next steps for this boneheaded situation. Thank you

Since one of the last updates of XCode, there are two very annoying bugs in the simulator that just don't get fixed. What's going on Apple? You kill my productivity. There is a red bar reading "rdar" and some numeric string at the top. You can get rid of it by going to Settings -> Developers -> Zoom -> Larger Text (then change it back). Took a while to find that. I have a German laptop with a QWERTZ keyboard layout. Now when I type, it somehow sends keys from an US keyboard to the simulator. Since I don't have the labels, I don't know what the hell I'm typing. Very frustrating. Please fix this.

Is the MacOs tahoe 26.2 Finder's Column "column width" not adjustable in column mode?

Hi, Got my first submission rejected due to Design - Minimum Functionality and would like to ask for some guidance on what to do. To give some context of my app. My app is quite simple but solves a common issue in my home town. During the winter month, every street will have a certain time when parking is forbidden. This results in everyone having to move their car several times a week to avoid getting tickets. Every time you move, you need to note and remember when to move it again, etc. A parking ticket for forgetting is around 140 USD. My app aims to solve this by letting the user press a button which makes the app use the current GPS location to fetch the parking relevant parking restriction and create a notification the day before, reminding the user to move their car. Simple UI and nothing fancy. I've also created onboarding that gives relevant information the first time a user open their app. I'm a bit on the fence on what I should do to pass. In my opinion, the functionality is more than a website because it uses GPS, creates notifications, loading spinner when parking restrictions are being fetched, has onboarding, etc. I think an issue that might cause the reviewer to dismiss it is that it currently only work in my specific town - it uses certain APIs to fetch the parking restrictions. So, should I try to create more functionality (not sure what) or do I need to clearly argue my case and demo my apps functionality via recordings? Thanks in advance for any help and guidance :)

Hello, With the recent update to Guideline 1.2 stating apps used primarily for “anonymous chat” may be removed, could App Review clarify what “anonymous” means in this context? In our app, users interact using a chosen username and avatar. We don’t display legal names publicly, but each user has a persistent, verified account and all UGC is tied to that account so we can enforce bans. We also provide filtering, reporting, and blocking. Question: Do applications that provide chat functionality with pseudonymous users — meaning users do not display their real names — have the right to exist under this guideline, provided that accounts are persistent and enforceable? If anyone has recently passed review with a similar pseudonymous chat model, I’d appreciate any guidance on how you framed 1.2 compliance.

My app (App ID: 6757516331) has been stuck in "Waiting for Review" since February 3rd. It has been over a week, and I have not received any updates yet. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Not accepted yet (all are still processing, none are rejected) 387af103-42d3-4d95-ae22-0289f90a8559 — In Progress 2d836594-9fb2-41a5-990c-7ea4e0870af0 — In Progress e61ba9e3-5ff1-4856-8e9d-39c08445ff63 — In Progress 1defdeec-50b4-45c5-b32d-53ca6e4538bb — In Progress 34e60b80-20c3-4ea7-93a7-2bb9e7c6f05c — In Progress 09222b71-eae1-4c5c-aca4-368f697b2a39 — In Progress eb5327e8-161e-4185-9920-3facf60b7b4b — In Progress 784fc210-d0bf-4924-b0a6-eb8bbac0f2c8 — In Progress 74bc8f31-b1b0-4bed-9142-0c03100a062a — In Progress 4739620c-894a-4283-a43b-df57b29a1771 — In Progress have created new certificate as well same result. waiting for apple support to give any answers.

Parents often spend lots of time to search for kids' events and government programs. Even after they found ideal ones, they need lots of copy and paste to check Google Map in order to align with their time and location. My app is designed to solve this pain point. It will handle those time consuming web search and time & location matching. For good user experience, the UI is simple, it recommends nearest kids programs that aligns with parents' time. It also has a Map to show suggestions visually and provides map navigation. Parents are all very busy, the UI has to be simple and easy to use. This app can save parents 60% of time to find kids' programs. The v1.0.0 of this app got approved. It works well on Android phones all the time, but the map navigation didn't work on iOS. I later realized have to add LSApplicationQueriesSchemes to enable map navigation on iOS app. So I fixed this and tested the new build on iOS phones, the new build 1.0.1 works well. But Apple reviews rejects 1.0.1 because of "Minimum Functionality". So now I'm in an awkward situation, 1) the app works well on Android 2) the approved iOS build can't open map navigation on iOS 3) the fixed iOS build got rejected because of "Minimum Functionality".... Really frustrating. Even if I add new features to meet "Minimum Functionality", for parents, they need simple UI because of their busy schedules, adding new features may create more complex UX. Is that possible to have Apple approve 1.0.1 build first, at least make sure the app works without error for iOS users first, this app can already save parents lots of time. Then give me more time to add new features? Otherwise, what's the minimum I can add to get the new build approved first? Thank you!

Hello Apple Developer Support Team, I am looking for guidance regarding a prolonged Apple Developer Program enrollment issue and would appreciate any advice from the community or Apple Developer Support team. I created an Individual Apple Developer account on 10 January 2026 and completed the payment successfully on 11 January 2026. Since then, the enrollment status has remained pending, and I am still unable to access App Store Connect, create certificates, or manage identifiers. Here is what I have already completed from my side:
• Verified my Apple ID with Two-Factor Authentication enabled
• Submitted all required information and provided proper documents during enrollment
• Checked for any pending agreements or additional actions in the developer portal
• Opened an official support case via Apple Developer Contact Support
• Followed up multiple times on the same case Unfortunately, it has now been more than one month, and there has been no response or update from the Apple Developer Support team, while the account remains in pending status. I kindly request guidance from the community and, if possible, visibility from Apple Developer Support regarding the following:
• Is there any direct escalation process for enrollment issues?
• Are there alternative ways to contact Apple when a support case remains unanswered?
• Could there be any additional verification steps that are not visible in the portal? Any professional advice or shared experience would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I'm building an app which runs around the Foundation model framework. My expected output is generated when testing on a real device or in preview in Xcode but it throws Foundation Model error when I try running it on the simulator. I'm using a Macbook M1 air and have apple intelligence turned on and my simulator run destination is also an iPad Pro M5 (26.0). Any solution for this as this is my submission for the SSC so I need to make it work on the simulator iPad. Thank you👾

iOS mTLS Client Certificate Authentication Fails in TestFlight with Error -25303 Problem I'm building an iOS app that uses mTLS (client certificates received from server at runtime). Storing SecCertificate to keychain fails with error -25303 in both development and TestFlight builds, preventing SecIdentity creation needed for URLSession authentication. Environment: iOS 18.2, iPad Pro, TestFlight internal testing, keychain-access-groups properly configured Diagnostic Results Testing keychain operations shows an interesting pattern: ✅ Generic Password - Works: let addQuery: [CFString: Any] = [ kSecClass: kSecClassGenericPassword, kSecAttrAccount: "test", kSecValueData: "password".data(using: .utf8)! ] SecItemAdd(addQuery as CFDictionary, nil) // Returns: 0 (success) ✅ SecKey - Works: let addKeyQuery: [CFString: Any] = [ kSecClass: kSecClassKey, kSecValueRef: privateKey, kSecAttrApplicationTag: tag ] SecItemAdd(addKeyQuery as CFDictionary, nil) // Returns: 0 (success) ❌ SecCertificate - Fails: let addCertQuery: [CFString: Any] = [ kSecClass: kSecClassCertificate, kSecValueRef: certificate, // Created from server-provided PEM kSecAttrApplicationTag: tag ] SecItemAdd(addCertQuery as CFDictionary, nil) // Returns: -25303 Code Context Attempting to create SecIdentity for mTLS: private func createIdentity(fromCert certPEM: String, key keyPEM: String) throws -> SecIdentity { // 1. Parse PEM to DER and create SecCertificate - succeeds guard let certData = extractPEMData(from: certPEM, type: "CERTIFICATE"), let certificate = SecCertificateCreateWithData(nil, certData as CFData) else { throw CertificateError.invalidCertificate } // 2. Parse PEM key and create SecKey - succeeds guard let keyData = extractPEMData(from: keyPEM, type: "PRIVATE KEY"), let privateKey = SecKeyCreateWithData(keyData as CFData, attrs as CFDictionary, &error) else { throw CertificateError.invalidKey } // 3. Add key to keychain - SUCCEEDS (errSecSuccess) let tempTag = UUID().uuidString.data(using: .utf8)! SecItemAdd([ kSecClass: kSecClassKey, kSecValueRef: privateKey, kSecAttrApplicationTag: tempTag ] as CFDictionary, nil) // ✅ Works // 4. Add certificate to keychain - FAILS (-25303) let status = SecItemAdd([ kSecClass: kSecClassCertificate, kSecValueRef: certificate, kSecAttrApplicationTag: tempTag ] as CFDictionary, nil) // ❌ Fails with -25303 guard status == errSecSuccess else { throw CertificateError.keychainError(status) } // 5. Would query for SecIdentity (never reached) // ... } Network Behavior When mTLS fails, console shows: Connection: asked for TLS Client Certificates Connection: received response for client certificates (-1 elements) Connection: providing TLS Client Identity (-1 elements) Task received response, status 403 The -1 elements indicates no certificates were provided. Entitlements <key>keychain-access-groups</key> <array> <string>$(AppIdentifierPrefix)com.ellin.tshios</string> </array> Keychain Sharing capability is enabled. What I've Tried Both kSecValueRef and kSecValueData approaches - same error Various kSecAttrAccessible values - same error Different keychain access groups - same error TestFlight build (vs dev build) - same error PKCS#12 creation - requires complex ASN.1/DER encoding, no iOS API Questions Is error -25303 expected when adding SecCertificate in development/TestFlight builds? Will App Store distribution resolve this? Or is there a fundamental limitation? Why does SecKey succeed but SecCertificate fails with identical entitlements? Is there an alternative to create SecIdentity without keychain access? Constraints Certificates come from server at runtime (cannot bundle) Need SecIdentity for URLSession client certificate authentication Server provides PEM format certificates Tested on: Simulator (dev), iPad Pro (dev), iPad Pro (TestFlight) - all fail Any insights appreciated - specifically whether this is a provisioning profile limitation that App Store distribution would resolve.

I am developing an iOS App for a Bluetooth peripheral using SwiftUI with Swift 5 or 6. I have a few past attempts that got so far (connected to a peripheral), and some downloaded examples that connect to peripherals. Lately (last month or so), my current attempt never gets BleManager to start, and every attempt ends at my View that says 'please enable Bluetooth'. The Xcode console is totally blank with no print outputs. Coding Assistant suggested the init() in my @main structure could contain print("App initializing"), but even that never prints. Coding Assistant suggests: "• Open your project's Info.plist in Xcode. • Make sure UIApplicationSceneManifest is present and configured for SwiftUI, not referencing any storyboard. • Ensure UIMainStoryboardFile is not present (or blank)." but there is no info.plist because it is no longer required. Downloaded sample code runs and connects to peripherals, so Bluetooth is working on my iPhone and the Bluetooth device is accessible. My older attempts used to work, but now have the same problem. All attempts have "Enable Bluetooth to connect to Device" in the Privacy - Bluetooth Info.plist setting. Something is fundamentally wrong with many different code attempts. I have searched all the various settings for mention of SwiftUI or Storyboard, but not found them in working or failing projects. The downloaded code which works has minimum deployment iOS 14.0 and Swift Compiler Language Version Swift 5. My latest code attempt has minimum deployment iOS 16 and Swift 5. All code is target device iPhone (I am testing on iPhone 16e running iOS 26.2.1) and developing with Xcode 26.2 on MacBook Air M1 running the latest Tahoe. I do a Clean Build Folder before every test, and have tried re-starting both Mac and iPhone. How can my coding fail so spectacularly?

We have an app that controls InDesign Desktop and InDesignServer via hundreds of AppleScripts. Some macOS security updates a while back dictated that we start communicating with other apps via ScriptingBridge. We couldn't afford to convert the hundreds of AppleScripts into direct ScriptingBridge nomenclature, so we opted to keep them as is and instead tell the external apps to: [app doScript:<the script text> language:InDesignScLgApplescriptLanguage withArguments:nil undoMode:InDesignESUMScriptRequest undoName:@"blah"] There are a handful of scripts that we did convert to direct ScriptingBridge. There are times (and under the right circumstances, it's repeatable) when a certain script will have run perfectly dozens of times, and then it will throw errOSAInternalTableOverflow. We create a new SBApplication for every job (which could be a single instance of Desktop or the multiple instances of Server). Why is this error happening seemingly randomly? Is there anything we can do to work around or prevent this?

Hi, I’m implementing a NetworkExtension content filter provider on iOS and I can’t get it to activate on device. I have an iOS app (App Store distribution) with a content filter provider extension (NEFilterDataProvider). The app builds, installs, and runs fine, and the extension is embedded correctly. Entitlements appear to be set for both the app and the extension, and the extension’s Info.plist is configured as expected. However, when I try to enable the filter via NEFilterManager (loadFromPreferences → set configuration → isEnabled = true → saveToPreferences), saveToPreferences fails with NEFilterErrorDomain code 1 and the message “Configuration invalid or read/write failed.” The extension never starts and startFilter() is never called. Main app bundle ID: uk.co.getnovi.student Extension bundle ID: uk.co.getnovi.student.NoviContentFilter Extension type: NEFilterDataProvider We are testing on an iPhone 15 running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100), the app is designed to run on iPhone. This app is intended for education use on student-owned personal iPhones installed from the App Store. The devices we are testing on are not supervised and not enrolled in MDM. We already use the Family Controls framework (ManagedSettings) for app restrictions and have the com.apple.developer.family-controls entitlement enabled for App Store distribution. I’ve read TN3134 and noticed content filter providers on iOS are described as “supervised devices only” in general, with additional notes around iOS 15.0 for “apps using Screen Time APIs” and iOS 16.0 for “per-app on managed devices,” plus a note that in the Screen Time case content filters are only supported on child devices. My question is whether this error is what you’d expect when attempting to enable a content filter provider on a non-supervised, non-managed device, or whether this should still work if the entitlement and configuration are correct. If non-supervised devices are not supported, is there any supported path for enabling NEFilter on iOS without supervision/MDM (for example via the Screen Time / Family Controls child authorization pathway), or will the system always refuse to enable the filter on standard devices? In summary: is NEFilterDataProvider supported on non-supervised devices for consumer App Store apps, or is this a platform restriction that cannot be worked around? Thanks, Matt

Hi, I’m implementing a NetworkExtension content filter provider on iOS and I can’t get it to activate on device. I have an iOS app (App Store distribution) with a content filter provider extension (NEFilterDataProvider). The app builds, installs, and runs fine, and the extension is embedded correctly. Entitlements appear to be set for both the app and the extension, and the extension’s Info.plist is configured as expected. However, when I try to enable the filter via NEFilterManager (loadFromPreferences → set configuration → isEnabled = true → saveToPreferences), saveToPreferences fails with NEFilterErrorDomain code 1 and the message “Configuration invalid or read/write failed.” The extension never starts and startFilter() is never called. Main app bundle ID: uk.co.getnovi.student Extension bundle ID: uk.co.getnovi.student.NoviContentFilter Extension type: NEFilterDataProvider We are testing on an iPhone 15 running iOS 18.6.2 (22G100). This app is intended for education use on student-owned personal iPhones installed from the App Store. The devices we are testing on are not supervised and not enrolled in MDM. We already use the Family Controls framework (ManagedSettings) for app restrictions and have the com.apple.developer.family-controls entitlement enabled for App Store distribution. I’ve read TN3134 and noticed content filter providers on iOS are described as “supervised devices only” in general, with additional notes around iOS 15.0 for “apps using Screen Time APIs” and iOS 16.0 for “per-app on managed devices,” plus a note that in the Screen Time case content filters are only supported on child devices. My question is whether this error is what you’d expect when attempting to enable a content filter provider on a non-supervised, non-managed device, or whether this should still work if the entitlement and configuration are correct. If non-supervised devices are not supported, is there any supported path for enabling NEFilter on iOS without supervision/MDM (for example via the Screen Time / Family Controls child authorization pathway), or will the system always refuse to enable the filter on standard devices? TLDR: is NEFilterDataProvider supported on non-supervised devices for consumer App Store apps, or is this a platform restriction that cannot be worked around? Thanks, Matt