I have been building a visionOS app that converts anaglyphs and SBS to 3D experiences, and my current approach has been hamstrung by my dependency on a shader graph which separates imagery into right and left eye. It works very well, but ultimately is just a material. The way I have implemented this so far is with VNC to show a 3d Blender window and browser experiences. Ideally, I'd be able to have interactivity in both that didn't depend on an attached computer. Is there any way to accomplish that?

If a developer is eligible for Private Cloud Compute and then crosses the threshold, what happens to PCC calls? Is there a paid program for PCC that you fall back on or does a developer need to already have built into their app another model ready in the wings to take over once that threshold is reached?

Here are a variety questions around compatibility, some related to iOS 27 changes, some related to iOS / watchOS: Sometimes my AppShortcutProvider do not update properly. Do you a suggested series of actions to clean them up on the device after making changes? I have a lot of trouble getting watch apps to recognize shortcuts that I supply to them, and trigger phrases that work on the phone fail on the watch even when it hears all the words correctly. Do you have any suggestions for supporting watchOS? There are a number of .result() variants for AppIntents, and some are only compatible with iOS 26 / 27. Do you have any recommendations for how to offer support for iOS 18 devices too without completely sacrificing the new features especially in iOS 27? AppEntity(schema:) for iOS 27 greatly expanded its usefulness, but they are not backward-compatible. Is there a way to gate the usage of AppEntity(schema:) for just iOS 27 or gracefully degrade? How does the new Siri interact with AppShortcutProvider? Are they unnecessary as long as I have Intent Entities and Intents? Do they interfere?

Am I correct to understand that visionOS 27 brings the Vision API to the headset? What are the privacy restrictions on its use?

I have a Siri/widget-oriented app that would benefit from some sort of watchOS presence and I am trying to figure out the best approach. Can you help me understand the current options available? Initially I thought there was a kind of watchOS app that depended on an iPhone for nearly everything, but I am not clear if that approach has been deprecated. My app uses CloudKit for storage and is intended to be friendly to multiple devices, so theoretically the watch could stand on its own but in terms of staying closely in sync with the phone I am not clear that is the best approach. Further, it would seem to me better for Siri requests on the watch to directly update the phone if that were possible. My app heavily uses AppIntents, currently within the iPhone target. I am unclear if using an AppIntent extension would be a good path. I have found limited information about these extensions. I did an experiment with AppIntents in a watchOS app and had a lot of trouble getting the watch to recognize my shortcut phrases (or even to show the shortcuts in the watch Shortcuts app). With all of this in mind, can you offer me some recommendations about architecting a watch-friendly AppIntents approach.

I enabled Developer Mode on my watch but seemed to experience significant battery drain, so I tried to disable it (filed a feedback for the drain). But even after turning off dev mode on the watch and unpairing the watch from Xcode devices, I get prompted about trusting my computer. Is that expected behavior? I don’t remember it before turning on dev mode.

I often struggle to see my own log data with the heavy stream of CloudKit updates. Is there an easy way to filter that our or turn it on/off?

Are there good ways to guide an app to pause iCloud syncing if the app is busy with an intensive activity? Also, is there a way to suggest that it check iCloud for updates?

I am trying to understand the 2 million download limit for access to PCC. It says that Analytics provides information about first time downloads, but the linked documentation explicitly says that Total Downloads in Analytics (which does not seem to exist anymore) includes first time downloads and redownloads. Can you clarify where this data currently exists? While I do not have any apps approaching 2 million right now, my app with the most downloads is entirely free and has been on the App Store since 2012. The app was intended as a Lite version for users to try out and decide whether they wanted the paid version. In modern apps, In-App Purchases accomplish something similar; as I move forward with new apps, I would like to avoid a situation where people increase my first time download count but don't end up using the app. It seems like any freemium model would be detrimental to staying eligible for PCC. Do you have any recommendations?

My tvOS app includes the purchase of subscriptions, and I am updating the code with Storekit 2.0. I have seen other apps that present the "Confirm with Apple Device" UI upon selection of a product, but for me I only ever see an alert confirming the purchase. I have tested this using Xcode storekit data and a sandbox account. I have also attempted using Storekit views and passing the UIWindowScene to the purchase(confirmIn: ) parameter, but neither made any difference. Is there some limitation that prevents that UI from showing in debug builds?

Using the simplified sign-in with tvOS and a third party password manager, I receive a complete ASPasswordCredential, and I can easily log into my app. When I do the same thing but with Apple's password manager as the source, I receive an ASPasswordCredential that includes the email address, but the password is an empty string. I have tried deleting the credentials from Apple Passwords and regenerating them with a new login to the app's website. I have tried restarting my iPhone. Is this the expected behavior? How should I be getting a password from Apple's Password app with an ASAuthorizationPasswordRequest?

I have downloaded the ShinyTV example to test simplified sign-in on tvOS since it is not working in my own app, and I am having the same issue there. After assigning my team to the sample app, the bundle ID updates with my team id. I copy the bundle ID into a file entitled "apple-app-site-association" with this format: { "webcredentials": { "apps": [ "{MyTeamID}.com.example.apple-samplecode.ShinyTV{MyTeamID}" ] } } I upload the file to my personal site, ensuring that the content type is application/json. I adjust the Associated Domain entitlement to: webcredentials:*.{personal-site.com}?mode=developer using the alternate mode to force it to load from my site, not the CDN. When I run the build on tvOS, and click the Sign In button, it fails with these errors: Failed to start session: Error Domain=com.apple.CompanionServices.CPSErrorDomain Code=205 "Failed to prepare authorization requests" UserInfo={NSMultipleUnderlyingErrorsKey=( "Error Domain=com.apple.CompanionServices.CPSErrorDomain Code=205 \"Missing associated web credentials domains\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing associated web credentials domains}" ), NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to prepare authorization requests} Session failed: Error Domain=com.apple.CompanionServices.CPSErrorDomain Code=205 "Failed to prepare authorization requests" UserInfo={NSMultipleUnderlyingErrorsKey=( "Error Domain=com.apple.CompanionServices.CPSErrorDomain Code=205 \"Missing associated web credentials domains\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing associated web credentials domains}" ), NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to prepare authorization requests} ASAuthorizationController credential request failed with error: Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServices.AuthorizationError Code=1004 "(null)" UserInfo={NSMultipleUnderlyingErrorsKey=( "Error Domain=com.apple.CompanionServices.CPSErrorDomain Code=205 \"(null)\"" )} Failed with error: Error Domain=com.apple.AuthenticationServices.AuthorizationError Code=1004 "Failed to prepare authorization requests" UserInfo={NSMultipleUnderlyingErrorsKey=( "Error Domain=com.apple.CompanionServices.CPSErrorDomain Code=205 \"Missing associated web credentials domains\" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing associated web credentials domains}" ), NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to prepare authorization requests} What am I missing here?

I have been trying to add improved tvOS login using an Associated Domain and web credentials. In some places, I am seeing that the format is <TEAM_ID>.<BUNDLE_ID>, and in other places I am seeing <APP_ID>.<BUNDLE_ID>. I am having trouble getting both to work, but in order to properly troubleshoot, I want to make sure that I am using the correct identifier. Can someone give me a definitive answer? The documentation says app id, but I have seen Apple engineers in this forum say team id, and many other posts around the internet also saying team id.

I have a RealityView displaying a Reality Composer Pro scene in window. Things are generally working fine, but the content seems to be appearing in front of and blocking the VisionOS window, rather than being contained inside it. Do I need to switch to a volumetric view for this to work? My scene simply contains a flat display which renders 3D content (it has a material that sends different imagery to each eye).

When using a trackpad (or screen-shared Mac) with the Vision Pro, moving your attention to a new window or app immediately refocuses the mouse cursor, which in many circumstances is really useful. But in circumstances where there is a viewer-only window, that window jumping gets in the way. Imagine a 3d object editor of some sort, with a live viewer in a second window, maybe a browser. Manipulating the 3d object with the mouse in the editor gets continually interrupted when looking at the live viewer because the cursor jumps to the viewer window. Is there anyway to reject that focus?