Overview

Dear Apple Support, We are experiencing an issue where iPhone-only apps (marked as "Designed for iPhone" in the App Store) are not appearing at all in the App Store on newer iPads running iPadOS 26.2 (A16 chip model), including in managed distributions via Apple Business Manager. The app in question is X App, and it works fine on older iPads with previous iPadOS versions. Is there a policy change or stricter enforcement starting from iPadOS 18 or later that prevents iPhone-only apps from being searchable, visible, or assignable on iPad devices (especially supervised/managed ones)? If yes, does the developer need to update the app to Universal or add explicit iPad compatibility in App Store Connect for it to become available again? We would appreciate any official reference or confirmation on this behavior. Thank you for your assistance.

My Enrolment Program has been pending for nine days now. I submitted the requested documents and received the following message: "Thank you for providing the documents we requested. We will review them and follow up with you within two business days." It's been 5 days now, and I still haven't received a response. I've emailed support three times and haven't received a response either. I haven't received any information that anything is wrong or that I need to send anything else. Zero contact. What's going on? I have to admit, I haven't felt treated as poorly by any company as I am now by Apple.

Dear Apple Developer team, dear Apple Developer community, I’m posting this publicly because I honestly don’t know how else to get a response. Timeline: December 3rd: I applied for the Apple Developer Program and received the confirmation email: “Your program enrollment has been received.” After that: complete silence for weeks – no status updates, no emails, nothing. End of December: Only after I opened a support ticket myself did I receive a response asking me to upload additional documents. January 12th: I uploaded all requested documents in full. Since then: silence again. Last Monday, I sent a follow-up email → no reply. Today (January 26th), I opened a new ticket, referencing the existing case number. Honestly, I have to ask: Where is the professionalism in this process? For comparison: The Google Play Developer account verification (including identity and company checks) took around 24 hours. Apple is one of the most valuable technology companies in the world. Why does a basic developer enrollment take over two months, without transparent communication or even a simple status update? At this point, I would really appreciate: a clear status update, or at least a realistic timeline for when this process will be completed Right now, this experience feels neither professional nor developer-friendly. Thank you for reading, and I sincerely hope for a timely response.

Hello! I recently submitted a request for the Family Controls (Distribution) for my app, and I’d be super happy if i could have some information about how long this process usually takes so i can plan accordingly. It would help immensly since we want to ship the app as soon as possible. I submitted the request around a week ago. Is there anything I can do on my end to help the process move more smoothly? Thanks in advance!

When the guy was talking about structural identity, starting at about 8:53, he mentioned how the swiftui needs to guarantee that the two views can't swap places, and it does this by looking at the views type structure. It guarantees that the true view will always be an A, and the false view will always be a B. Not sure exactly what he means because views can't "swap places" like dogs. Why isn't just knowing that some View is shown in true, and another is shown in false, enough for its identity? e.g. The identity could be "The view on true" vs "The view on false", same as his example with "The dog on the left" vs "The dog on the right"

I'm sending local push notifications and want to show specific content based on the id of any notification the user opens. I'm able to do this with no issues when the app is already running in the background using the code below. final class AppDelegate: NSObject, UIApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate { let container = AppContainer() func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]? = nil) -> Bool { let center = UNUserNotificationCenter.current() center.delegate = self return true } func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: () -> Void) { container.notifications.handleResponse(response) completionHandler() } } However, the delegate never fires if the app was terminated before the user taps the notification. I'm looking for a way to fix this without switching my app lifecycle to UIKit. This is a SwiftUI lifecycle app using UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor. @main struct MyApp: App { @UIApplicationDelegateAdaptor(AppDelegate.self) var appDelegate var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { ContentView() } } } I’m aware notification responses may be delivered via launchOptions on cold start, but I’m unsure how to bridge that cleanly into a SwiftUI lifecycle app without reverting to UIKit.

tried all sorts of things and lots of recommendations from "ChatGPT" (boo... yeah sure it is going to take all of our jobs by just guessing at wrong answers... we can do that ourselves, haha) which yielded no answer. we are trying to change the app name but it keeps showing the old name in Test Flight. app shows proper name when installed on device from test flight. yes we are changing the "cf bundle display name" ... i did try deleting test flight and re-installing it, and also deleting app and re-installing it from test flight. still shows old name in test flight. this is a branding issue, the client wants to see the new name. how to fix this?

Trusted execution is a generic name for a Gatekeeper and other technologies that aim to protect users from malicious code. General: Forums topic: Code Signing Forums tag: Gatekeeper Developer > Signing Mac Software with Developer ID Apple Platform Security support document Safely open apps on your Mac support article Hardened Runtime document WWDC 2022 Session 10096 What’s new in privacy covers some important Gatekeeper changes in macOS 13 (starting at 04: 32), most notably app bundle protection WWDC 2023 Session 10053 What’s new in privacy covers an important change in macOS 14 (starting at 17:46), namely, app container protection WWDC 2024 Session 10123 What’s new in privacy covers an important change in macOS 15 (starting at 12:23), namely, app group container protection Updates to runtime protection in macOS Sequoia news post Testing a Notarised Product forums post Resolving Trusted Execution Problems forums post App Translocation Notes (aka Gatekeeper path randomisation) forums post Most trusted execution problems are caused by code signing or notarisation issues. See Code Signing Resources and Notarisation Resources. Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

XQuartz, used to run X11 apps on the Mac, does not work on Tahoe. Can you do something about this?

I have quite a few in-door local packages that I do not really develop outside of the context of Xcode projects - meaning that I add local references to these libraries (and other content) to my Xcode project - and I update the libraries directly in Xcode within the project. I very rarely open up the library package on its own and work on it just like that. The unfortunate thing is that Xcode seems to be silencing warnings from all the packages during the build phase, resulting in me not seeing warnings from those libraries. I then need to open them separately in Xcode and review whether they contain any warnings and fix them. Using treat warnings as errors is, of course, one solution, but it doesn't help in cases where it's impossible to avoid them (e.g. https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/86650) as there's no #pragma push; or in case of user-defined #warning which I often use to mark parts of code that need revisiting. I've gone through various settings, but I don't see anything relevant. Most of Google search is filled with attempts to silence the warnings instead of enabling them or wanting errors instead of warnings. Does anyone here know if it's possible for Xcode to display warnings from included packages and how to adjust such an option? Thanks!

Is there any information for developer about notification forwarding which is published in iOS 26.3? how to use it ?

I built an iOS app and debugged it using my iPhone 11. It works fine. My app uses Bluetooth because the physical data logger reads data via Bluetooth. I published it to the Apple store. After installing it on the iPhone 13 pro. The app works, but the device is not selected.

Hey everyone, I having this error when I try to enroll. "Your enrollment in the Apple Developer Program could not be completed at this time." I tried to contact Apple Support by phone and I received the information: "We can't identify/verify you, then I can't help" End of conversation... My account is maybe 10 years old, I pay monthly for Apple services, and they can't identify me? Someone could help me? I've been an Apple developer for 7 years, but I've always used a business account. What should I do? Thanks a lot!!!!

Need help with Apple Developer Program enrollment. What happened: Paid $99 on Jan 14 from Pakistan (HabibMetro bank) Money fully deducted from my account Apple says "payment problem" and gives me 7 days or enrollment cancels Bank needs 10 days to trace the payment The problem: -Apple will cancel before bank finishes tracing (7 days vs 10 days). -Apple Support suggested re-enrolling with their app using different payment method, but I'm worried about: Getting charged twice First payment not refunded Losing the $99 Questions: Anyone faced this? What did you do? Should I re-enroll or wait? How to avoid double payment? Order: D004702861 Case: 102802965662 Any advice appreciated

I've been developing an advanced gps tracking tool and had over 500 miles of data collected in the local storage of my test app. Recently, I used the XcodePreviews app to use my device to test UI updates as I was making them. To my surprise, doing this cleared all the data from my actual test app. Has this happened to anyone else before? Is there a way to recover my lost data? Why does this happen? I've verified that this is always clearing my app data. I tested by adding data to my actual test app then launching XcodePreviews - only to find that my app data has been cleared.

Hey there Are there any recommendations or guidance for apps on alternatives to certificate pinning to secure their device network traffic? I want to move away from the overhead and risk associated with rotating certificates when using leaf pinning. However, I also don't want people to be able to perform a MITM attack easily using something like Charles Proxy with a self‑signed certificate added to the trust store. My understanding is that an app cannot distinguish between user‑trusted certificates and system‑trusted certificates in the trust store, so it cannot block traffic that uses user‑trusted certificates.

Hi, We have a application where we open the login page in the Web browser of that iPad once user enters the credentials with OAuth2.0 authentication Authcode appended to the registered redirect URL But lately the hash symbol is appended after the AuthCode in the redirect URL in iPad but not in Mac web browser.

第一步、访问官方网站在浏览器中输入腾龙公司官方认证的网址，确保访问的是真实有效的平台，避免因误入仿冒网站导致信息泄露或注册失败。 第二步、启动注册程序进入官网后，在页面右上角或显眼位置找到“注册”按钮并点击，系统将弹出注册窗口。 第三步、填写核心信息在注册窗口中需提供以下内容：用户名：作为登录游戏平台的唯一标识，需确保未被其他用户占用。密码设置：建议采用字母、数字及符号的复杂组合，避免使用生日、连续数字等弱口令，以提升账号安全性。手机号码：需为实名认证的号码，用于接收验证码或后续账号安全验证。 第四步、完成注册验证提交信息后，系统可能要求通过短信验证码、邮箱验证或绑定社交媒体账号等方式完成二次验证。验证通过后，页面将提示“注册成功”。

I’ve been struggling with a very frustrating issue using the new iOS 26 Swift Concurrency APIs for video processing. My pipeline reads frames using AVAssetReader, processes them via CIContext (Lanczos upscale), and then appends the result to an AVAssetWriter using the new PixelBufferReceiver. The Problem: The execution randomly stops at the ]await append(...)] call. The task suspends and never resumes. It is completely unpredictable: It might hang on the very first run, or it might work fine for 4-5 runs and then hang on the next one. It is independent of video duration: It happens with 5-second clips just as often as with long videos. No feedback from the system: There is no crash, no error thrown, and CPU usage drops to zero. The thread just stays in the suspended state indefinitely. If I manually cancel the operation and restart the VideoEngine, it usually starts working again for a few more attempts, which makes me suspect some internal resource exhaustion or a deadlock between the GPU context and the writer's input. The Code: Here is a simplified version of my processing loop: private func proccessVideoPipeline( readerOutputProvider: AVAssetReaderOutput.Provider<CMReadySampleBuffer<CMSampleBuffer.DynamicContent>>, pixelBufferReceiver: AVAssetWriterInput.PixelBufferReceiver, nominalFrameRate: Float, targetSize: CGSize ) async throws { while !Task.isCancelled, let payload = try await readerOutputProvider.next() { let sampleBufferInfo: (imageBuffer: CVPixelBuffer?, presentationTimeStamp: CMTime) = payload.withUnsafeSampleBuffer { sampleBuffer in return (sampleBuffer.imageBuffer, sampleBuffer.presentationTimeStamp) } guard let currentPixelBuffer = sampleBufferInfo.imageBuffer else { throw AsyncFrameProcessorError.missingImageBuffer } guard let pixelBufferPool = pixelBufferReceiver.pixelBufferPool else { throw NSError(domain: "PixelBufferPool", code: -1, userInfo: [NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: "No pixel buffer pool available"]) } let newPixelBuffer = try pixelBufferPool.makeMutablePixelBuffer() let newCVPixelBuffer = newPixelBuffer.withUnsafeBuffer({ $0 }) try upscale(currentPixelBuffer, outputPixelBuffer: newCVPixelBuffer, targetSize: targetSize ) let presentationTime = sampleBufferInfo.presentationTimeStamp try await pixelBufferReceiver.append(.init(unsafeBuffer: newCVPixelBuffer), with: presentationTime) } } Does anyone know how to fix it?

I can't find the full content of the SwiftUI inspector in the latest version of Xcode. I've opened the preview canvas but it still won't display.