I'm really struggling to get a reliable connection to my Apple TV4 from Xcode. Using these steps: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208088 When it works, it's beautiful. But when I make a couple of changes to the code and redeploy the Apple TV goes black (was formally running our app), and Xcode tells me to connect the Apple TV. Occasionally I get a message saying "This device has been ignored in the devices panel", which isn't as helpful as it sounds. Checking the Devices and Simulators menu, I can see it's disconnected. I have tried the following: Restarting the Apple TV Restarting Xcode Unpairing the Mac from the Apple TV Confirmed all devices are on the exact same wifi (e.g. not a 2.4g one) When I run through the steps to connect again it just fails quietly in the Devices and Simulators, stays in the "Discovered" section, and only asks me to "pair". It has no problem interacting with the Apple TV to prompt it for a 6 digit code. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hey Everyone, I'm trying to understand the thresholds required before the Metric section of Organizer starts populating? We have one app with several thousand workouts logged on it everyday, and have never seen any of these populate. We get crash reports without issue, but nothing in Metrics. Clicking "Learn More" I can confirm: 'Step 1' is done, and we are supported (WatchOS 7, and iOS 14). We are distributed on the App Store Users agree to share data. As far as I can tell there is nothing we need to do here, it's part of the iPhone onboarding that asks if you are cool with sharing data. We see other analytics data for people who opt-in, so I'm assuming they opt-in for these metrics too. We are signed in, confirmed by being able to download Crash Reports. Finally I see this line: "To provide accurate results, Metrics organizer reports require significant usage of your app, and each metric has different usage thresholds." If you don't mind sharing, could you help give me an idea as to whether or not I should expect to see data here? Thanks in advance.

So we checked the: "Supports running without ios app installation", and it updated our app on the app store. Now we are seeing a lot of instances where our users have one version of the Watch app, and another of the iOS companion app. We have also been collecting a myriad of random crashes, and we can't help but wonder if it's due to these apps being out of sync. We'd like to roll back and test this theory by making the watch app and the iPhone apps dependent on each other again. However, after opting on Apple Connect to "Remove from sale", and then "Remove app", we cannot push a new version with the change. I get the following error:ERROR ITMS-90768: "Invalid Bundle. The watch app '[app]' watch extension must have 'WKWatchOnly' or 'WKRunsIndependentlyOfCompanionApp' Info.plist keys set to 'true', since a version of this app that supports standalone watchOS devices is currently available on the App Store"Does anyone know a way we can get back to having these apps dependent? Thanks.

We have come across several users recently who are presented with "Continue with Password" after the Apple Sign-In Email Option view, on the Apple Watch. In our testing we have only ever seen the button show "Continue", and I'm unsure how users get into this state. The problem is that we are not handling this correctly, and when the user adds their Passcode, on the iPhone, they are presented with a view on the watch that states "Sign Up Not Completed". This view is not in our codebase, so it seems to be some case in Apple Sign-In we are not supporting correctly.What we know so far is that it's certainly happening on Watch OS 6.1.3. It's happening to users new to our app, and existing users how have logged out and back in again. We have had a steady increase in support requests over the past two weeks, receiving several in the last 24 hours. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

When going to Settings/[your apple id]/Password & Security/Apps using Apple ID, the apps listed here normally have an app icon, and the name of the app displayed. Bird is a good example of this. You see the icon, then "Bird - Be Free, Enjoy the Ride".However, independent watch apps don't appear to get the same treatment. They have the default icon, and the Bundle ID is shown. We initially thought this will be resolved when we launched on the App Store, however that's not been the case. We also see that in apps made by other companies, they show the default icon and a string like: "XC com [BUNDLE ID] watchkitapp". Meditopia is a good example of this. As is Orange Zones. Does anyone know a way to address this correctly? It's a pretty poor user experience for a user when they go looking for a specific App and have to wade through Bundle IDs which don't necessarily reflect the User facing name of the app. Thanks,

Hey Apple Developers,I'm working on a new fitness app for the Apple Watch, and I want to take advantage of the "Always On' state for Series 5 watches.I see that Apple Workouts does this well. When then screen moves into this low power state, and a workout is active, it does at least the following:Disables all animationsRemoves milliseconds from timeHas less frequent UI updates in generalReverts to a "default" view if it goes into that state, on another viewI'd like to take advantage of this in our app too, designing a lower power mode, with less frequent updates, so users can get glanceable information without having to move their wrist.However, in all other apps, mainly workout apps, all that happens is that there is a blurred screenshot taken, and time is overlaid. To get update you have to still turn your wrist, and even then depending on the app it can take a few seconds before the display is refreshed with current data.If anyone has any advice here, or pointers on how I could access this functionality in Swift on Watch OS6, I'd be very grateful.Thanks in advance,Campbell