I have the same issue using Xcode 26.2. No issues with Xcode 26.3. FB22265099

From my testing, when using nil in the output settings, we can indeed get frames that are out-of-order from a presentation PoV. (For the same video with non-nil output settings, I did not get out-of-order frames.) Using nil output settings, we also do not get any image data (at least with the movie I tested), so it’s not very useful anyways… I’d very much like to get more info if possible. Might even open a DTS if I do not get feedback after a while…

Hi! Thanks so much for this detailed answer. I took forever to reply as my company got bought in the mean time, but your answer definitely helped me very much. Here’s the feedback ID for the filePath API you asked to request: FB20238046.

AFAIK the only way to get the environment in which the app is running is by parsing the embedded provisioning profile inside the app and retrieve the value for aps-environment, but its format is proprietary and subject to change. It is my understanding that the proper way to do is to try and send the notification on the production environment by default and fallback on the development environment if that fails. I have yet to find a confirmation for this but if we take a successful notification service like firebase that does not ask for an environment value, I don’t see how else they’d do it.

I did reproduce the issue in iOS 16.0 (simulator); the bug looks fixed in iOS 16.1 as the bug could not be reproduced in a simulator w/ this version and above. It’s probably related to the shaders having their y axis inverted on iOS 16.0 too…

I have a workaround, but it clearly is a bug on Apple’s end. I also filed a Feedback (FB13453227).