iOS simulator way slower to launch after updating to Xcode Version 16.2 (16C5032a). macOS 15.3.1 (24D70) MacBook Air M1, 8GB

home button cannot be pressed. attempting to enable developer mode says "press home to continue" the usual accessibility switch "assistive touch" that is shown on iOS is not available on this screen so dev mode cannot be enabled this is an accessibility issue

When I try submitting any of a bunch of apps for review for TestFlight, I get this error message. What am I meant to do?

Why does App Store Connect mess up the order of uploaded screenshots?

If you have a iPhone with a home button, but the home button is broken, and you factory reset the device, the assistive touch accessibility feature will be disabled, and it's quite complicated to turn it back on, because when first powered on after a reset or after choosing "start over" in the setup process, the screen will only give one option, and one option only: "press home button to start". And if home button is broken, you are STUCK. Completely. There is no Siri, no voice control, no voiceover. Nothing! The only workaround we found was that, after restarting the device again after resetting, it would immediately show the languages list, and after choosing a language it showed the countries, and after choosing a country it FINALLY showed the "quick start" page, where on the top right it has the accessibility shortcut button, from where I was able to enable assistivetouch. BUT: if at any point I chose to start the setup over, I would have to wait for the device to restart, show the "press home to start" screen AGAIN, restart it AGAIN myself, so that it would show the languages, then countries, then the accessibility shortcut again. Why not preserve accessibility settings across "start setup over"? And why not show accessibility shortcut on the FIRST page shown to the user, whether when iOS decides to show the Hello screen where the only option is to press home (which is no good if button is broken or if user needs accessibility options), AND whether it shows languages list? Just show that shortcut right away, everywhere, and preserve accessibility settings across "start over" option of setup. Thanks.

It would be great if the App Review team enforced ALL rules to ALL apps ALL the time, instead of SOME rules to SOME apps SOME of the time. cough big apps get to do whatever they want cough

The whole experience of creating sandbox accounts is broken. First of all, Safari asks if I want to save the chosen password by replacing the current App Store Connect, which makes no sense, as it's not my actual Apple ID. Secondly, attempting to add such an account, sends an email to that account that reads "You have changed your Apple ID email, click here to verify". What!? I don't want to change my Apple ID email. What makes anyone think that? And anyhow, when clicking on that weirdly worded link, it takes me to appleid website, and no matter what password I put (either the one I put in the textbox when creating the tester account, or my real password), it just says "unable to verify". Come on Apple, what is this..? Also: I never heard back from you, regarding the Small Developers Program, or whatever it's called, which would let me pay you 15% for every purchase, instead of 30%.

Hi. I would like to have ads in my apps. I don't know (nor care really) where they are served from. Apple, Google, someone else... As long as: Apple approves of them I can let users get rid of them with an in-app-purchase They are clean for children of any age. Please advise how to go about this. I have no idea where to begin. I strongly hope there is a first-party solution for this, without having to use Google stuff in my apps and such. Thank you.

I'm looking to build a super simple app: an iOS 15 Safari extension, that replaces "word" with "another word" on any website. (I think what I want is called a "content blocker", but I am not sure) I created the (all-new) default project for iOS/macOS Safari extensions, and I am having trouble figuring out where in the project I should plop my JavaScript, which I want to be executed on webpages. Any help is appreciated. https://github.com/DaniSpringer/ohmygd Thanks, Dani @eskimo 👋☺️

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Apple, You shutdown my account for no reason. I am waiting your call. Until otherwise proven, you clearly don’t care about developers. Small, independent developers specifically.