On App Store Connect, when a new TestFlight build is uploaded, it's no longer possible to add a group to the build. (FB14892147) I've seen this error message for 2+ hours. Other developers are reporting this issue: https://x.com/manuel_kehl/status/1826678066392793188 Apple's developer system status page doesn't report an outage: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/ Thank you for investigating this issue.

In Xcode 16.0 beta 3 (16A5202i) I'm trying to add a framework to a target. I'm clicking the '+' button under Target > General > Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content: When I do this, the dialog that appears doesn't list any frameworks: I feel like I'm doing something wrong or missing something obvious. This issue is easy to reproduce by creating a new project in Xcode. I tried reverting using Xcode 15 to add the framework that way, but Xcode 15 is unable to load the project file that Xcode 16 wrote. Incidentally, Add Other > Add Package Dependency has no effect when selected: Assuming this is a bug I should submit feedback about, is there another method I can use in the meantime to add a framework to my target so I can continue working? This is blocking development. Thank you for any help you provide.

I recently added pushWindow to my app, and I discovered that in visionOS 26.2 RC (23N301), pushWindow followed by dismissWindow no longer works as expected. Specifically, if the user moves the pushed window, then when the pushed window is later dismissed, the parent window's position isn't aligned with the pushed window's new position. Its original position is restored instead. Curiously, the bug only happens when an app is launched from the visionOS home view, and not when an app is launched from Xcode. It also doesn't happen in the visionOS 26.2 simulator. Another interesting detail is that while the parent window is hidden, if the user long-presses the Digital Crown and then dismisses the pushed window, the parent window's position seems to be immune from the Digital Crown scene reorientation. It's restored to its original real world position. Demo video: https://youtu.be/zR3t2ON3Wz0 I've submitted feedback as FB21287011 with a sample app and detailed repro steps. Has anyone else encountered this issue already and figured out a workaround? It would be nice if I could get pushWindow to work correctly in my app. Thanks everybody! 😀

We're using RealityKit to create a science education AR app for iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS. In the WWDC25 session video "Bring your SceneKit project to RealityKit" https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/288 at 8:15, it's explained that when using RealityKit, RealityView should be used in all cases, whereas in the past, SceneKit required SCNView, SceneView, or ARSCNView, depending on an app's requirements. Because the initial development of our app on iOS predates iOS 18's RealityView, our app currently uses ARView to render RealityKit AR content on iOS and iPadOS. Is it recommended that we migrate to RealityView, or can we safely continue using our existing ARView implementation? We'd prefer to avoid unnecessary development cost. If migrating from ARView to RealityView is recommended, what specific benefits should we expect from this transition? Thank you.

Will visionOS support SceneKit?

I am creating an AR app that uses ARKit and SceneKit. Will visionOS support SceneKit AR applications, or will I have to rewrite my app using RealityKit? Thanks for answering my question. : - )

Hey everybody! Does anyone know if there's a UIKit API that's equivalent to SwiftUI's View/offset(z:)? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/view/offset(z:) I'd like to translate a UIView forward in space a little bit on visionOS. ❤️

In RealityKit in visionOS 1.0 I'm perplexed that PhysicallyBasedMaterial and CustomMaterial have faceCulling properties but ShaderGraphMaterial does not. Is there some way to achieve front face culling in a shader graph without creating a separate mesh with reversed triangle vertex indices?

I've created a minimal iOS RealityKit/ARKit app with only this view controller: import UIKit import RealityKit import ARKit class ViewController: UIViewController { var arView: ARView! override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() arView = ARView(frame: view.bounds, cameraMode: .nonAR, automaticallyConfigureSession: true) arView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth, .flexibleHeight] view.addSubview(arView) } } When I run this app in the iOS 18.1 simulator using Xcode 16.1 beta 2 (16B5014f), RealityKit logs the warnings included below to the console. I see similar warnings on the device, running iOS 18.0. Should I be concerned about any of these warnings? Please let me know if I should submit feedback reporting this issue. Thank you. Could not locate file 'default-binaryarchive.metallib' in bundle. Registering library (/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/iOS_22B5045f/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS 18.1.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreRE.framework/default.metallib) that already exists in shader manager. Library will be overwritten. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/suFeatheringCreateMergedOcclusionMask.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arKitPassthrough.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arSegmentationComposite.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute0.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute1.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute2.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute3.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute4.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute5.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute6.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute7.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute8.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute9.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute10.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute11.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. Could not resolve material name 'engine:BuiltinRenderGraphResources/AR/arInPlacePostProcessCombinedPermute12.rematerial' in bundle at '/Users/drew/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/6BCC578D-5046-49E6-B149-390576C7241D/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/75E15C63-F1D2-487F-A057-EBA2D45582C3/ARViewFailApp.app'. Loading via asset path. ... Compiler failed to build request makeRenderPipelineState failed [reading from a rendertarget is not supported]. Pipeline for technique meshShadowCasterProgrammableBlending failed compilation!

For a UIKit app based on scenes (UIScene), is it safe to reference UserDefaults in code that is executed from UIApplicationDelegate/application(_: didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) ? I've read that in iOS 15, there were undocumented scenarios involving app prewarming that would cause UserDefaults reads to fail within a window of time after device reboots, as described at https://christianselig.com/2024/10/beware-userdefaults/ The failure mode is that an app would be released, and months later, a small fraction of users would report failures consistent with UserDefaults reads unexpectedly returning nil, causing a loss of data. The user experience is bad, and debugging this behavior is then challenging because of how rarely it occurs. Apple's https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_environment/responding_to_the_launch_of_your_app/about_the_app_launch_sequence#3894431 seems to suggest that prewarming only executes an app "up until, but not including when main() calls UIApplicationMain(_:_:_:_:), but https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71025205/ios-15-prewarming-causing-appwilllaunch-method-when-prewarm-is-done documents that UIApplicationDelegate/application(_: didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) has in fact been observed executing during app prewarming in scene-based apps. So, my question: In an app based on scenes, if I'd like to reference UserDefaults within UIApplicationDelegate/application(_: didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:), when is it safe to do this? I'm guessing the answer is one of these: Never. Only in apps that don't support scenes. Only in iOS 16 or later. Only in IOS 17 or later. Is it guaranteed safe to reference UserDefaults in UIWindowSceneDelegate/scene(_:willConnectTo:options:) or later? Is there documentation from Apple regarding this issue? Thank you.

Liquid Glass was introduced as a universal design language for all platforms, but isn't supported by visionOS 26 beta. For a small team creating a visionOS app targeted for release in fall 2026, should we focus our design work on Liquid Glass, or for the existing visionOS design language?

I've installed Xcode 26.0 beta (17A5241e), and if I select my project from the Welcome to Xcode dialog, Xcode crashes. I've attempted this 10 times with the same result each time. What should I do? Thank you.

Every time I launch Xcode 26.0 (17A324), I see this window: Consequently, each time I launch Xcode, I must manually close the Downloads window, and it will always reappear the next time I launch Xcode. My question: How can I make the Downloads window with this message go away permanently, so I don't have to manually dismiss it? I tried deleting Device Support for Vision Pro (M5) and iPad Pro (M5) from Settings > Components, but unfortunately this is what I see: Thank you for any guidance you can provide.

My visionOS app has a RealityView with an attachment containing SwiftUI controls, and occasionally the controls in the attachment don't respond to user interaction. Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? Are RealityView attachments only intended to be output only? Using visionOS 1.0 beta 3 (Xcode 15 beta 8), I've reproduced this problem with a small standalone Xcode project. I submitted the issue as FB13143132 with lovingly hand-crafted artisan repro steps. The Xcode project is also available at https://github.com/drewolbrich/AttachmentControls Thank you for investigating this issue. Screenshot my use case:

The WWDC24 video "Build a spatial drawing app with RealityKit" https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/10104 at 12:04 includes a slide showing a Reality Composer Pro shader graph that features wonderful inline documentation comment boxes: Are shader graph inline comments a new feature that Reality Composer Pro supports? This would be extraordinarily useful, as complex shader graphs can be challenging to decipher. If so, how are inline shader graph comments created in Reality Composer Pro?