I have a mature app - more than ten years on App Store - that reads a file containing user data, using NSFilemanager during UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. In the last few months, I've had several users who claim their data just disappears. I've made no changes to any code that touches the data, so I was perplexed. This seems a likely culprit. Anyone else experiencing lost data from a file that is read during didFinishLaunchingWithOptions? I imagine that if the prewarm trick calls didFinish..., and the file system is not available, then my code assumes it's a first run and creates an empty user data file. Yikes. Any idea of how to get this fixed?

Maybe related to "prewarm" mentioned here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/667959

Giving a bump. I'm still unable to get currentPlaybackTime from a track playing in MPMusicPlayerController while it's playing. Once it's paused, the correct time will be returned, but if started playing again, the time continues to be reported as the time of the previous pause. Here's the code I use in an iOS app running on a Mac M1. Anyone have any advice or is anyone else having the same trouble?         NSLog(@"current playtime is %f", [MPMusicPlayerController systemMusicPlayer].currentPlaybackTime);

I'm still getting user reports of missing data and feel pretty certain this is the issue - though I still can't reproduce reliably. Some longtime users are having their data completely disappear with no new usage patterns, which causes them to get pretty upset with me - the only other entity they imagine could be at fault. Can anyone relay reliable guidance on whether or not this is a bug or a feature? I'm at a standstill with several agitated users.

Yikes. I'm really disappointed in not only this particular issue - I too have an existing app with existing users who are now mad at ME for something that Apple has changed without notice or intent - but in general with Apple's support to small developers. Have others noticed a significant uptick in problems and downtick in response/help from Apple? I want to be compassionate regarding possible workplace challenges for those at Apple who support developers, but right now, I'm left with a sinking feeling that we've been abandoned.

I added this code to my existing one second timer code and it works pretty well. As you mentioned, if running on an M1 Mac, pausing in the Music app will be overridden by this, but it functions as expected in iOS. if ((previousPlaybackTime == musicPlayer.currentPlaybackTime) &&             ([musicPlayer playbackState] == MPMusicPlaybackStatePlaying))         {             NSLog(@">>>update time is same as one second ago and state is playing so try calling play to trigger update");             musicPlayer.play;         }

I've found the MPMusicPlayerControllerNowPlayingItemDidChange notification unreliable in iOS more often than not. My code keeps track of the playing item, watches for end of play, reloads the queue with the next track and plays it. All manual, all the time. I'm using the same code in the Mac M1 app version, so I don't experience the same problem with this issue. Wish I had better news or a better overall experienced to report. Sorry.

BTW - if MPMusicPlayer is loaded with an array of Apple Music track StoreIDs with setQueueWithStoreIDs, play seems to progress as expected. Since I have several users with oldish iTunes libraries, I can't use setQueueWithStoreIDs.

I'm having this issue as well. I've observed a TestFlight install to a Series 3 watch will crash, while a TestFlight install of same app from same iPhone to a Series SE installs as expected.

For anyone watching this thread, I'm interested in trying the nostr protocol for a better solution. No matter what I tried, I wasn't able to get the GameKit implementation to be consistent for more than 8 peers. At times, up to 32 would be great, but other times more than 8 would cause dropped connections or wildly delayed packets. I couldn't identify any correlated items like peer broadband quality or location (or how much caffeine they'd had that morning   ) Success seemed totally random.  Which has led to my curiosity to try the nostr protocol but I don't see any iOS examples using nostr for peer to peer messaging.  Can anyone offer a link or advice?

Here's how I'm doing it. So far so good. -(void) MeTalkTPretty { if (@available(iOS 17.0, *)) { [AVSpeechSynthesizer requestPersonalVoiceAuthorizationWithCompletionHandler:^(AVSpeechSynthesisPersonalVoiceAuthorizationStatus status) { NSLog(@"AVSpeechSynthesis requestPersonalVoiceWCH returned %lu", (unsigned long)status); if (status == AVSpeechSynthesisPersonalVoiceAuthorizationStatusAuthorized) { NSLog(@"Yippee! I can use personal voice"); // set this in case none of the voices are personal voice voiceToUse = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithLanguage:AVSpeechSynthesisVoice.currentLanguageCode]; for (AVSpeechSynthesisVoice *thisVoice in [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice speechVoices]) { if (thisVoice.voiceTraits == AVSpeechSynthesisVoiceTraitIsPersonalVoice) { voiceToUse = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithIdentifier:thisVoice.identifier]; NSLog(@"WINNER is personal voice %@ ", voiceToUse); } } } else { NSLog(@"darn, I can't use personal voice even though on iOS17"); voiceToUse = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithLanguage:AVSpeechSynthesisVoice.currentLanguageCode]; } }]; } else { NSLog(@"Darn, I can't use personal voice because this device isn't running ios17"); voiceToUse = [AVSpeechSynthesisVoice voiceWithLanguage:AVSpeechSynthesisVoice.currentLanguageCode]; } }

I still can't find any documentation on this, but have figured out it's caused by adding an AVPlayerViewController to an AirPlay screen. if ([[UIScreen screens] count] > 1){ externalScreen = [[UIScreen screens] objectAtIndex:1]; externalWindow = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[externalScreen bounds]]; externalWindow.screen = externalScreen; externalView = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:[externalScreen bounds]]; movieAVPlayer = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init]; [externalView addSubview:movieAVPlayer.view]; [externalView bringSubviewToFront:movieAVPlayer.view]; [externalWindow addSubview:externalView]; } I've tried changing all of these before adding it to the view, but I always get the above crash when adding. movieAVPlayer.showsPlaybackControls = YES; movieAVPlayer.player.allowsExternalPlayback = YES; movieAVPlayer.player.usesExternalPlaybackWhileExternalScreenIsActive = YES; Anyone have any ideas of what else to try?