I use the App Store Connect API to run many parallel requests to update different parts of a single app. I am randomly getting errors such as An unexpected error occurred on the server side. or The request timed out. Usually when these errors happen, I can simply run the unsuccessful requests one or two more times and then they succeed. Is there an explanation for this? Is this possibly caused by too many parallel requests? What is the maximum suggested number of parallel requests?

I have a data object that dynamically changes the UIImage assigned to one of its instance variables, but when showing this image in SwiftUI, it's always black and white. The following sample code shows the difference between the same image, but using first the native constructor Image(systemName:) and then Image(uiImage:). When using AppKit and Image(nsImage:) this issue doesn't happen. import SwiftUI import UIKit struct ContentView: View { @State var object = MyObject() var body: some View { Image(systemName: "exclamationmark.triangle.fill") .symbolRenderingMode(.palette) .foregroundStyle(.white, .yellow) Image(uiImage: object.image) } } class MyObject { var image = UIImage(systemName: "exclamationmark.triangle.fill")! .applyingSymbolConfiguration(.init(paletteColors: [.white, .systemYellow]))! } #Preview { ContentView() }

XCUIElement has two methods named typeKey(_:modifierFlags:): the first one takes a String as an argument, the second one a XCUIKeyboardKey, which has constants like .downArrow. Now, even if the documentation says that both methods are "Available in macOS and in iPadOS 15 and later", when compiling the UI tests for iOS, the following line app.typeKey(.downArrow, modifierFlags: []) produces a compiler error Type 'String' has no member 'downArrow' Am I missing something or is there a workaround?

I'm using the following code to launch a UI test that forces a specific app language and moves a slider. I noticed that when forcing right to left text direction (for Arabic or Hebrew), during the UI test the slider doesn't move. The app content: struct ContentView: View { @State private var slider = 0.0 var body: some View { Slider(value: $slider, in: 0.0...1.0) } } The UI test: final class problemUITests: XCTestCase { func testExample() throws { let app = XCUIApplication() let locale = Locale(identifier: "ar") app.launchArguments += ["-AppleLanguages", "(ar)", "-AppleLocale", "ar"] if locale.language.characterDirection == .rightToLeft { app.launchArguments += ["-NSForceRightToLeftWritingDirection", "YES", "-AppleTextDirection", "YES"] } app.launch() app.sliders.element.adjust(toNormalizedSliderPosition: 0.3) } } Am I missing something or is there a workaround?

The App Store Connect API documentation still doesn't list the new 6.9" iPhone display type: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/screenshotdisplaytype I already opened a similar topic about the new iPad Pro 13" screenshot type in May (4 months ago), but nobody replied and that screenshot type is still not listed in the specification. I also created a bug report in Feedback Assistant back then, without any reply. Why does it take so long to update the API specification?

I'm trying to display a right-aligned timecode in my game. I had expected that digits would all have the same width, but this doesn't seem to be the case in SpriteKit, even though it seems to be the case in AppKit. In SpriteKit, with the default font there is a noticeable difference in width between the digit 1 and the rest (1 is thinner), so whenever displaying a number with the least significant digit 1 all preceding digits shift slightly to the right. This happens even when setting a NSAttributedString with a font that has a fixedAdvance attribute. class GameScene: SKScene { override func didMove(to view: SKView) { let label = SKLabelNode(text: "") view.scene!.addChild(label) // label.horizontalAlignmentMode = .left label.horizontalAlignmentMode = .right var i = 11 Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 0.5, repeats: true) { _ in label.text = "\(i)" // let font = NSFont(descriptor: NSFontDescriptor(fontAttributes: [.name: "HelveticaNeue-UltraLight", .fixedAdvance: 20]), size: 30)! // let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle() // paragraphStyle.alignment = .right // label.attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: "\(i)", attributes: [.font: font, .foregroundColor: SKColor.labelColor, .paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle]) i += 5 } } } With AppKit, when using SpriteKit's default font HelveticaNeue-UltraLight, this issue doesn't exist, regardless whether I set the fixedAdvance font attribute. class ViewController: NSViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let font = NSFont(descriptor: NSFontDescriptor(fontAttributes: [.name: "HelveticaNeue-UltraLight"]), size: 30)! // let font = NSFont(descriptor: NSFontDescriptor(fontAttributes: [.name: "HelveticaNeue-Light", .fixedAdvance: 20]), size: 30)! let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle() paragraphStyle.alignment = .right let textField = NSTextField(labelWithString: "") textField.font = font textField.alignment = .right // textField.alignment = .left textField.frame = CGRect(x: 100, y: 100, width: 100, height: 100) view.addSubview(textField) var i = 11 Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 0.5, repeats: true) { _ in textField.stringValue = "\(i)" // textField.attributedStringValue = NSAttributedString(string: "\(i)", attributes: [.font: font, .paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle]) i += 5 } } } Is there a solution to this problem? I filed FB15553700.

I'm trying to close the UIFontPickerViewController in a UI test by tapping the close button in the navigation bar. In a default iOS app, I embed the default storyboard view controller in a navigation view controller, then in code I open the font picker like this: class ViewController: UIViewController, UIFontPickerViewControllerDelegate { override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) { let picker = UIFontPickerViewController(configuration: .init()) picker.delegate = self self.present(picker, animated: true) } func fontPickerViewControllerDidPickFont(_ viewController: UIFontPickerViewController) { } } And the UI test looks like this: final class problemUITests: XCTestCase { @MainActor func testExample() throws { let app = XCUIApplication() app.launch() sleep(2) let button = app.navigationBars.element(boundBy: 1).buttons.element(boundBy: 0) print(button.debugDescription) XCTAssert(button.waitForExistence(timeout: 2)) button.tap() } } When running the UI test, the XCTAssert always fails and the button.tap() also fails with an error message Failed to tap "chiudi" Button: No matches found for Element at index 1 from input {( NavigationBar )} "chiudi" means "close" in Italian, my macOS system language. It sounds to me like I correctly get the close button, but the messages Xcode prints make no sense to me. It's particularly confusing given that the output of the print statement shows that the button is there, but somehow fails to be tapped: Attributes: Button, 0x104f44660, {{701.0, 320.0}, {43.0, 44.0}}, label: 'chiudi' Element subtree: →Button, 0x104f44660, {{701.0, 320.0}, {43.0, 44.0}}, label: 'chiudi' Image, 0x104f44780, {{709.0, 327.5}, {30.0, 30.0}}, identifier: 'UICloseButtonBackground' Path to element: →Application, 0x104f35940, pid: 29803, label: 'problem' ↳Window (Main), 0x104f376a0, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f42e10, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43100, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43220, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43340, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43460, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43580, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f436a0, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f437c0, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f438e0, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43a00, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43b20, {{0.0, 0.0}, {1032.0, 1376.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43c40, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 748.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43e80, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 748.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f43fa0, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 748.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f440c0, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 748.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f441e0, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 748.0}} ↳Other, 0x104f44300, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 748.0}} ↳NavigationBar, 0x104f44420, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 108.0}}, identifier: 'Scegli font' ↳Button, 0x104f44660, {{701.0, 320.0}, {43.0, 44.0}}, label: 'chiudi' Query chain: →Find: Target Application 'org.desairem.problem' Output: { Application, 0x104f781b0, pid: 29803, label: 'problem' } ↪︎Find: Descendants matching type NavigationBar Output: { NavigationBar, 0x10607c0d0, {{0.0, 24.0}, {1032.0, 50.0}}, identifier: 'UIFontPickerView' NavigationBar, 0x10607dab0, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 108.0}}, identifier: 'Scegli font' } ↪︎Find: Element at index 1 Output: { NavigationBar, 0x1064693a0, {{276.0, 314.0}, {480.0, 108.0}}, identifier: 'Scegli font' } ↪︎Find: Descendants matching type Button Output: { Button, 0x104f714a0, {{701.0, 320.0}, {43.0, 44.0}}, label: 'chiudi' Button, 0x104f71800, {{711.0, 378.0}, {17.0, 22.0}}, identifier: 'Dictate', label: 'Avvia dettatura' } ↪︎Find: Element at index 0 Output: { Button, 0x104f5d5e0, {{701.0, 320.0}, {43.0, 44.0}}, label: 'chiudi' }

To make UI testing easier and faster, I usually create URL bookmarks during normal app usage in the Simulator so that they can be instantly resolved on app launch during UI tests. For example, one of my apps allows browsing selected folders and stores bookmarks so they can be quickly opened again on following app launches, and instead of selecting the test folder each time at the beginning of the UI test, I select it once during normal app usage so that it's available immediately during the UI test. This usually works fine, but every now and then the UI tests fail because the tested app isn't able to resolve the stored bookmark. I don't know why this happens, but usually opening and closing the app again in the Simulator and re-running the UI tests solves the issue. The problem now is that I've just tried to setup some new UI tests for Apple Vision Pro Simulator and I'm never able to resolve bookmarks. So I created a sample project that reproduces the issue, and curiously enough the bookmarks don't even resolve when using an iPad Simulator (which usually works fine with my regular UI tests). What am I doing wrong? This can be reproduced with a default iOS project, embedding the default storyboard view controller in a navigation view controller, and this code: import UIKit class ViewController: UIViewController, UIDocumentPickerDelegate { override func viewDidLoad() { navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(systemItem: .add, primaryAction: UIAction(handler: { _ in let picker = UIDocumentPickerViewController(forOpeningContentTypes: [.folder]) picker.delegate = self self.present(picker, animated: true) })) if let bookmark = UserDefaults.standard.data(forKey: "bookmark") { readBookmark(bookmark) } } func readBookmark(_ bookmark: Data) { do { let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 100, y: 100, width: 600, height: 100)) label.numberOfLines = 0 var stale = false let url = try URL(resolvingBookmarkData: bookmark, bookmarkDataIsStale: &stale) if !url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() { fatalError() } label.text = url.path view.addSubview(label) } catch { fatalError(error.localizedDescription) } } func documentPicker(_ controller: UIDocumentPickerViewController, didPickDocumentsAt urls: [URL]) { do { let url = urls[0] if !url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() { fatalError() } let bookmark = try url.bookmarkData() UserDefaults.standard.set(bookmark, forKey: "bookmark") readBookmark(bookmark) } catch { fatalError(error.localizedDescription) } } } And a default UI test, which always crashes because of the fatalError() in the catch clause of readBookmark(_:): final class problemUITests: XCTestCase { @MainActor func testExample() throws { let app = XCUIApplication() app.launch() } }

The Verify the behavior of your intent in Simulator or on-device documentation says that it's sufficient to build and run the app and open the Shortcuts app to test an app intent, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I always needed to at least move the debugged app to the Applications folder before the app intents showed up in Shortcuts, and even then, most of the times I also need to wait a lot or restart the Mac. When updating an existing app intent (for instance by changing its title), building the app, overwriting the existing one in the Applications folder and restarting Shortcuts is not sufficient to make the new title appear in Shortcuts. Is there an efficient way to test app intents in the Shortcuts app? I already created FB15638502 one month ago but got no response.

I would like to implement zoom functionality in my SceneKit game: when the user performs the pinch gesture on a point on the screen, the scene zooms in to make that point larger. Until now I simply changed SCNCamera.focalLength, but this simply zooms in to the center of what is currently visible on screen. Is it somehow possible to implement the zoom functionality described above by perhaps interactively rotating the camera at the same time towards the pinched point? Is there a formula for this? I would like to avoid suddenly rotating the camera to face the pinched point when the pinch gesture begins and then zoom in while the pinch is in progress.

I'm trying to update my app to use TextKit 2. The one thing that I'm still not sure about is how I can get the selection frame. My app uses it to auto-scroll the text to keep the cursor at the same height when the text wraps onto a new line or a newline is manually inserted. Currently I'm using NSLayoutManager.layoutManager!.boundingRect(forGlyphRange:in:). The code below almost works. When editing the text or changing the selection, the current selection frame is printed out. My expectation is that the selection frame after a text or selection change should be equal to the selection frame before the next text change. I've noticed that this is not always true when the text has a NSParagraphStyle with spacing > 0. As long as I type at the end of the text, everything's fine, but if I insert some lines, then move the selection somewhere into the middle of the text and insert another newline, the frame printed after manually moving the selection is different than the frame before the newline is inserted. It seems that the offset between the two frames is exactly the same as the paragraph style's spacing. Instead when moving the selection with the arrow key the printed frames are correct. I've filed FB17104954. class ViewController: NSViewController, NSTextViewDelegate { private var textView: NSTextView! override func loadView() { let scrollView = NSScrollView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 400)) textView = NSTextView(frame: scrollView.frame) textView.autoresizingMask = [.width, .height] textView.delegate = self let paragraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle() paragraphStyle.lineSpacing = 40 textView.typingAttributes = [.foregroundColor: NSColor.labelColor, .paragraphStyle: paragraphStyle] scrollView.documentView = textView scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true view = scrollView } func textView(_ textView: NSTextView, shouldChangeTextIn affectedCharRange: NSRange, replacementString: String?) -> Bool { print("before", selectionFrame.maxY, selectionFrame) return true } func textDidChange(_ notification: Notification) { print("after ", selectionFrame.maxY, selectionFrame) } func textViewDidChangeSelection(_ notification: Notification) { print("select", selectionFrame.maxY, selectionFrame) } var selectionFrame: CGRect { guard let selection = textView.textLayoutManager!.textSelections.first?.textRanges.first else { return .null } var frame = CGRect.null textView.textLayoutManager!.ensureLayout(for: selection) textView.textLayoutManager!.enumerateTextSegments(in: selection, type: .selection, options: [.rangeNotRequired]) { _, rect, _, _ in frame = rect return false } return frame } }

I noticed that sometimes TextKit2 decides to crop some text instead of soft-wrapping it to the next line. This can be reproduced by running the code below, then resizing the window by dragging the right margin to the right until you see the text with green background (starting with “file0”) at the end of the first line. If you now slowly move the window margin back to the left, you’ll see that for some time that green “file0” text is cropped and so is the end of the text with red background, until at some point it is soft-wrapped on the second line. I just created FB18289242. Is there a workaround? class ViewController: NSViewController { override func loadView() { let textView = NSTextView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 400)) let string = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "file0\t143548282\t1970-01-01T00:00:00Z\t1\t1f40fc92da241694750979ee6cf582f2d5d7d28e18335de05abc54d0560e0f5302860c652bf08d560252aa5e74210546f369fbbbce8c12cfc7957b2652fe9a75", attributes: [.foregroundColor: NSColor.labelColor, .backgroundColor: NSColor.red.withAlphaComponent(0.2)]) string.append(NSAttributedString(string: "file0\t143548290\t1970-01-01T00:05:00Z\t 2\t0f6460d0ed7825fed6bda0f4d9c14942d88edc7ff236479212e69f081815e6f1742c272753b77cc6437f06ef93a46271c6ff9513c68945075212434080e60c82", attributes: [.foregroundColor: NSColor.labelColor, .backgroundColor: NSColor.green.withAlphaComponent(0.2)])) textView.textContentStorage!.textStorage!.setAttributedString(string) textView.autoresizingMask = [.width, .height] let scrollView = NSScrollView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 400, height: 400)) scrollView.documentView = textView scrollView.hasVerticalScroller = true scrollView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false view = scrollView } }

I successfully installed macOS Tahoe 26 in June on a separate external partition. Now I want to update to beta 5, but when the Mac restarts to install the update, it shows the progress indicator for a minute or two, then boots again into the main partition which has macOS 15.6. Am I required to install it from scratch?

In my app I use AVAssetReaderTrackOutput to extract PCM audio from a user-provided video or audio file and display it as a waveform. Recently a user reported that the waveform is not in sync with his video, and after receiving the video I noticed that the waveform is in fact double as long as the video duration, i.e. it shows the audio in slow-motion, so to speak. Until now I was using CMFormatDescription.audioStreamBasicDescription.mSampleRate which for this particular user video returns 22'050. But in this case it seems that this value is wrong... because the audio file has two audio channels with different sample rates, as returned by CMFormatDescription.audioFormatList.map({ $0.mASBD.mSampleRate }) The first channel has a sample rate of 44'100, the second one 22'050. If I use the first sample rate, the waveform is perfectly in sync with the video. The problem is given by the fact that the ratio between the audio data length and the sample rate multiplied by the audio duration is 8, double the ratio for the first audio file (4). In the code below this ratio is given by Double(length) / (sampleRate * asset.duration.seconds) When commenting out the line with the sampleRate variable definition in the code below and uncommenting the following line, the ratios for both audio files are 4, which is the expected result. I would expect audioStreamBasicDescription to return the correct sample rate, i.e. the one used by AVAssetReaderTrackOutput, which (I think) somehow merges the stereo tracks. The documentation is sparse, and in particular it’s not documented whether the lower or higher sample rate is used; in this case, it seems like the higher one is used, but audioStreamBasicDescription for some reason returns the lower one. Does anybody know why this is the case or how I should extract the sample rate of the produced PCM audio data? Should I always take the higher one? I created FB19620455. let openPanel = NSOpenPanel() openPanel.allowedContentTypes = [.audiovisualContent] openPanel.runModal() let url = openPanel.urls[0] let asset = AVURLAsset(url: url) let assetTrack = asset.tracks(withMediaType: .audio)[0] let assetReader = try! AVAssetReader(asset: asset) let readerOutput = AVAssetReaderTrackOutput(track: assetTrack, outputSettings: [AVFormatIDKey: Int(kAudioFormatLinearPCM), AVLinearPCMBitDepthKey: 16, AVLinearPCMIsBigEndianKey: false, AVLinearPCMIsFloatKey: false, AVLinearPCMIsNonInterleaved: false]) readerOutput.alwaysCopiesSampleData = false assetReader.add(readerOutput) let formatDescriptions = assetTrack.formatDescriptions as! [CMFormatDescription] let sampleRate = formatDescriptions[0].audioStreamBasicDescription!.mSampleRate //let sampleRate = formatDescriptions[0].audioFormatList.map({ $0.mASBD.mSampleRate }).max()! print(formatDescriptions[0].audioStreamBasicDescription!.mSampleRate) print(formatDescriptions[0].audioFormatList.map({ $0.mASBD.mSampleRate })) if !assetReader.startReading() { preconditionFailure() } var length = 0 while assetReader.status == .reading { guard let sampleBuffer = readerOutput.copyNextSampleBuffer(), let blockBuffer = sampleBuffer.dataBuffer else { break } length += blockBuffer.dataLength } print(Double(length) / (sampleRate * asset.duration.seconds))

In the past I was always able to install every major macOS version on an external drive so that I can test my apps. But now I'm unable to install macOS Tahoe 26 on an external drive. Actually, as far as I'm aware, there are not even official links to macOS 26 installers, but only instructions on how to update to macOS 26 from an existing macOS installation. So I thought I'd install macOS 15 on a separate drive and then update to macOS 26, but whenever I run the macOS 15 installer, tell it to install on the external drive, and reboot after the setup process completes, my MacBook just boots into my main macOS partition as if nothing happened. 3 months ago I somehow managed to install macOS Tahoe beta 1 on an external drive, I don't remember how (but I don't think it was anything crazy); booting into that beta 1 partition and trying to update doesn't work either, as my MacBook again boots into my main macOS partition. I already asked help about the update problem one month ago here, but nobody replied. Could someone at Apple please provide instructions on how one is supposed to install macOS 26 on an external drive (if possible before it becomes available to the public)? Are we supposed to buy a separate Mac for every macOS version that we want to test our apps on?