Mac mini late 2012, Catalina 10.15.7, Xcode 12.4 When opening a device (ANY device) in Simulator, my internet usage goes up to maximum usage. Close the device and all goes back to normal. I am not running any app on the device, nor have I loaded any of my apps on the device - it's a 'clean', 'out of the box' standard device. I've gone through the whole Simulator menu structure to see whether I have missed some setting, but found nothing. This behaviour makes it near to impossible to test my app. Anything I can do to resolve this issue or do I wait for 12.5 to come out and hope it resolves itself?

Xcode 15.4 running on various IOS simulators and hardware devices from IOS 14.5 to 17.5. Part of my code presents a backup/restore page to the user which uses NSMetaDataQuery to update the GUI for files being uploaded or downloaded in iCloud. On every device I run the code everything works as expected EXCEPT one which is an iPhone 11 running IOS 17.5 (as of yesterday 17.5.1); there I get the following error once I start the query: [ERROR] couldn't fetch remote operation IDs: NSError: Cocoa 257 "The file couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." "Error returned from daemon: Error Domain=com.apple.accounts Code=7 "(null)"" Due to this error I am getting no query updates and thus unable to display whether the file needs to upload, download or is synchronised. I am not initiating any upload or download of the backup file since it is placed in the ubiquitous container and I leave the up/download of the file over to IOS; all I do with the query is monitor the status of the file and take appropriate action to show the user the percentage of up/downloaded file. As said before it is only the one device causing me headaches so I don't know whether it has anything to do with IOS 17.5 that Apple have made changes that I am unaware of. I have access to an iPhone and an iPad running some version of IOS 16 and it's performing flawlessly. I have no other IOS17+ device to test on. The code runs very well on any 17.5 simulator, but we all know there are always some differences running code on a Device vs Simulator. Running 'startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()' which has been suggested by some returns 'true' on the simulator and 'false' on a device, but even then all devices work except one; so that does not seem to be the solution. Changing the query predicate has not helped either. How do I drill down to find the culprit - I'm at my wits' end. My very simple query initializer, startup & observers: (Please note, the code shown here is what's left after commenting out everything else. This was done to show that the problem really DOES lie with the Query) query = NSMetadataQuery.init() query.operationQueue = .main query.searchScopes = [NSMetadataQueryUbiquitousDocumentsScope] query.predicate = NSPredicate(format: "%K LIKE %@", NSMetadataItemFSNameKey, fileUrl.lastPathComponent) query.operationQueue?.addOperation({ [weak self] in self?.query.start() self?.query.enableUpdates() }) } func addNotificationObservers() { NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( self, selector: #selector(queryDidStart(_:)), name: .NSMetadataQueryDidStartGathering, object: query) NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( self, selector: #selector(queryGathering(_:)), name: .NSMetadataQueryGatheringProgress, object: query) NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( self, selector: #selector(queryDidUpdate(_:)), name: .NSMetadataQueryDidUpdate, object: query) NotificationCenter.default.addObserver( self, selector: #selector(queryDidFinishGathering(_:)), name: .NSMetadataQueryDidFinishGathering, object: query) }