For my app Find Any File, of which both releases and TestFlight betas were released many times, the TestFlight page tells me that several users have submitted crash reports. And I'm sure the same is true for the MAS releases: (Yes, this shows quite recent ones, but I've seen similar supposed crash report submits in this list before.) However, the actual "Crashes" listing on the appstoreconnect sites hasn't show any new crash reports for many months now: (This is the entirety of crash reports I can get listed, even when removing all filters.) Something appears to be stuck, on Apple's end. The same issue is with Xcode's Organanizer window, for "Crashes": It also used to list only the same very old reports and nothing since May 2024. And just now, when I retried this in Xcode, I'm shown a weird error message I never saw before: Error Downloading Crashes List An error occurred… Access Restricted with adam id: 1207815783 And yes, I'm logged in just fine, under Prefs / Accounts. How am I going to get this investigated? I had already sent an email about this to the Review team, who didn't react to it at all. DTS is only for Code level support, which this isn't. Any help?

I have several ObjC based apps in the App Store and used to validate the receipt file inside the app in my code, and then reject it with exit(173) if it's invalid, which did trigger macOS to update the receipt if possible. This isn't working any more in recent macOS versions, where the user is instead just told that the app is damaged, and they need to re-install it manually. Which sucks. So I wanted to update my code. I read about SKReceiptRefreshRequest, which is supposed to re-download and install the receipt file, if I understand it correctly. I implemented the code but now have trouble verifying that it works as intended, and does this in a user friendly way. I found in my tests that macOS now caches the receipt in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.appstoreagent/fsCachedData and then hardlinks the file into the app. BTW: Sadly, this also requires that the app is located on the startup volume or the system will refuse to install the receipt, which wasn't a requirement in past times. Now, if the receipt is already present in the cache folder, then my code works - the receipt gets re-linked. But what if the cached receipt isn't there, yet? Such as that the user had copied the app from another Mac over to a freshly installed Mac? In the past, when the user then launched the app on the new Mac, he'd be prompted to login to the MAS and if that worked, the receipt would get installed and the app launched. Basically, the question is: What if the receipt validation fails in my app and I request a new receipt, but the user has not yet logged into MAS (e.g. new computer)? To simulate this, I logging out of the MAS and TestFlight, deleting all copies of the app and then run the app that I had copied from another Mac where it was authorized with a valid receipt for that device. If I do this with the old version that uses exit(173), I get these two messages in macOS 15.2: The second one is especially terrible because it shows the translocated path, which the average user surely get quite confused, and then maybe even search in vain for the app in there and get frustrated. But that's out of my hands. Sigh. Now, that was proving that the old method with exit(173) isn't working any more and needs to be changed in my apps. Since I'm still developing (testing) this new behavior, the app is therefore not in the MAS yet - the only way for me to test this is to use TestFlight. However, running a Testflight app copied from another Mac leads to this error: That is not helpful in simulating what would happen if this app was released in the MAS. This won't let me find out what happens if my app is run on a Mac where the receipt fails and I ask it to load it via SKReceiptRefreshRequest and if the user is NOT yet logged into the MAS account for this purchased app of his/hers. That leaves only one option: Release the app with untested code and hope for the best. Contrary to this new behavior, the old method did let me test this easily because I would just use the special App Store tester account with the MAS app, i.e. the built MAS app would, when I launched it locally, request for a login and I'd provide my tester's account. But this isn't available any more, apparently. What a mess.

I need to detect the triggering of an auto-mount operation when accessing the path to a formerly unknown mount point at the file system (BSD, POSIX, NSURL) level, and how to wait for it to finish the operation. Network shares can have sub-volumes on them Consider a Windows server. Let's say there's a SMB sharepoint at C:\Shared. It has some folders, one of which is at C:\Shared\More. Furthermore, there's another partition (volume) on the PC, which is mounted at C:\Shared\More\OtherVol. If you mount the initial share on a Mac with a recent macOS, macOS initially only sees a single mount point at /Volumes/Shared, which can be checked with the "mount" command. Now, if you use Finder to dive into the Shared/More folder, Finder will trigger an auto-mount action on the containing OtherVol folder, and after that, the "mount" command will list two mount points from this server, the second being at /Volumes/Shared/More/OtherVol. (This was a bit surprising to me - I'd have thought that Windows or SMB would hide the fact that the share has sub-volumes, and simply show them as directories - and that's what it did in older macOS versions indeed, e.g. in High Sierra. But in Sequoia, these sub-volumes on the Windows side are mirrored on the Mac side, and they behave accordingly) Browse the volume, including its sub-volumes Now, I have a program that tries to dive into all the folders of this Shared volume, even if it was just freshly mounted and there's no mountpoint at /Volumes/Shared/More/OtherVol known yet (i.e. the user didn't use Finder to explore it). This means, that if my program, e.g. using a simple recursive directory scan, reaches /Volumes/Shared/More/OtherVol, the item will not appear as a volume but as an empty folder. E.g, if I get the NSURLIsVolumeKey value, it'll be false. Only once I try to enter the empty dir, listing its contents, which will return no items, an auto-mount action will get triggered, which will add the mountpoint at the path. So, in order to browse the actual contents of the OtherVol directory, I'd have to detect this auto-mount operation somehow, wait for it to finish mounting, and then re-enter the same directory so that I now see the mounted content. How do I do that? I.e. how do I tell that a dir is actually a auto-mount point and how do I wait for it to get auto-mounted before I continue to browse its contents? Note that newer macOS versions do not use fstab any more, so that's of no help here. Can the DA API help? Do I need to use the old Disk Arbitration functions for this, somehow? I have used the DA framework in the part to prevent auto-mounting, so I imagine I could hook into that handler, and if I get a callback for a mount operation, I could then queue the newly mounted volume for scanning. The problem, however, is that my scanning code may, having only seen an empty directory at the not-yet-mounted mountpoint, already decided that there's nothing there and finished its operation. I'd need some reliable method that lets my recursive scanning code know whether an auto-mount has been triggered and it therefore needs to wait for the DA callback. So, is there some signal that will let me know IMMEDIATELY after entering the empty mountpoint directory that an auto-mount op is on the way? Because I suspect that the DA callbacks come with a delay, and therefore would come too late if I used that as the notifier that I have to wait.

I've been uploading my app (Find Any File) to the App Store since its very first day, around 2010. It always worked. But now, after I the last successful release at the beginning of January, I am not able to get my app into the Store any more. Xcode 16.2 reports that it successfully uploaded my app, without warnings. Yet, it never appears in Connect's TestFlight builds. I just keep seeing this for the new version (2.5.6): And, after a while (less an hour), that entire 2.5.6 section disappears again as if there had never been an upload for 2.5.6. I don't get any emails about the submission or about an issue with it, either. It's like my submissions are suddenly blocked by Apple. Now I cannot submit a new version any more. What's going on there? I anyone else having a similar issue?

I have a macOS app that contains multiple additional executables. One is a full app bundle, the others are single-file tools with an embedded plist. So far, I have used Xcode 13 to upload the app to the MAS. This had not (and still does not) report any warnings. But today, when i tried to upload (or Verify) with Xcode 16.2, I am getting this warning: I cannot make sense of this. Clearly, the placeholders are not properly filled out, but even if I remove any one of the items from the app, the verification keeps report the same warning. Only if I remove ALL of the embedded app and executables, the warning goes away. Now, the problem is that I can't see what I need to do. My Xcode signing setting are set to "Automatic", and it shows "Provisioning Profile: None required" for the main and all involved sub projects. And I never needed one (the app is not sandboxed and doesn't have to be - it's exempt), and the app was always accepted this way and runs on 10000s of Macs like this, with all executables doing their job as intended. So, what's this warning about and is that a false flag (e.g. should only be posted for sandboxed apps) or what?

My app (FindAnyFile) provides a Finder-like interface in which it also offers a QuickLook preview command, which invokes [[QLPreviewPanel sharedPreviewPanel] makeKeyAndOrderFront:nil]; Now, if it shows .abcdp files, it often, but not always, crashes. This has been happening for many macOS versions, at least since 10.15, up to 26.1. Also, it does not seem to matter which SDK/Xcode I build with, as I used several and all versions lead to the crash. The issue rather appears to be inside the QLplugin for the AB file (ABCardCollectionView etc.). I am able to trace this crash in Xcode. There are a LOT of errors and warnings coming up, and eventually the qlplugin throws an ObjC exception which in turn brings down my entire app (and here I thought that the XPC system was designed to expressly avoid such crashes). Possibly significant errors are: CNAccountCollectionUpdateWatcher 0x6000025cf800: Update event received, but store registration failed. This event will be handled, but the behavior is undefined. Error using remote object proxy when fetchAnonymousXPCEndpoint: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4097 "connection to service named com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesdaemon.callstatecontroller" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=connection to service named com.apple.telephonyutilities.callservicesdaemon.callstatecontroller} connection to service named com.apple.coreduetd.people … CNPropertyNotFetchedException: A property was not requested when contact was fetched. I've attached the (mostly) complete console output from such a debug run. I have also an open bug report regarding this kind of crash (back then I was not able to reproduce it myself): FB15553847 Also, when I "Quick Look" the same file in Finder, I get a "Preview not permitted" for the same items that crash in my app. If I copy the same items to the Desktop, then Finder can QL them and my app doesn't crash when viewing the item on the Desktop. So, the crash only happens with the items inside ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/…/Metadata/. Now, here is the weirdest part: You might think: So, if the Finder shows "Preview not permitted", then my app trying to view those items is the result of that condition (even if that's not supposed to crash). However: I have a clean 26.1 install (in an Apple ARM VM) where Finder also says "Preview not permitted" for these items in the user's Library/AB/Metadata folder, but my app can QL those items without crashing! Also, I have one user who uses 26.1 and gets the crash with files in the same location. So, the "Preview not permitted" is probably not the cause of this crash, though it's suspicious that a user gets this at all - why can't a user QL the abcdp files in the Metadata folder but when copied to the Desktop, QL works? You'd think that Finder has the necessary entitlements to access the AB, or doesn't it? Of course, my app has permission enabled under Privacy & Security / Contacts (if it's disabled, then the app can't show anything but will also not crash). And it has the "Address Book" entitlement. Would be nice if this could be looked into and eventually be fixed. Alternatively, I'd welcome any suggestions on how to prevent my app from crashing if the qlplugin throws. But if you look at the stack trace you'll see that there's no method of my own app involved where I could insert an exception catcher. I added code to my previewItemURL delegate method to make sure the NSURL item is readable, and it is, even Of course, apart from the issue with .abcdp files, the QL operation in my app works flawlessly, i.e. I have never received any other crash reports relating to any other QL plugins. QuickLook for AddressBook crash messages