I'm sorry I took so long to reply to this, but I gave up on this after not seeing a reply for over 2 weeks. I also filed a tech support ticket on Apr. 5, Case-ID: 12966885, that I never received a reply to. Anyway, I just filed FB17397663.

I'm experiencing this now on Mac Sonoma 14.7.2/Safari 18.2. I have not changed code for a while, but my problems started when a clean and build removed the extension from Safari settings a couple of weeks ago. After going through a long process to get it to appear there again, the same thing happened again. I restored a previous version of the project that was deployed in App Store a month ago and built and ran it, and it wouldn't show up in Safari settings either. A solution for years when there was inconsistency was to do a clean and then build - now that breaks everything. Anybody have any ideas?

In another post a while back, I found that if you hover the mouse over the spinning wheel in App Store while it is installing, you can see % installed...a great help to letting you know that the cpu being used by installd is making progress. It took almost 2 hrs to upgrade xcode 13.4.1 on a 2019 Macbook Pro with 32 gb.

Thanks for responding Eskimo, but it turns out that they must not have allowed the app to save VPN configs. Without answering my question, they put the app back into review and approved it...so I guess they did answer it. Anyway, thanks again for responding.

I should add that I have a pending question to App Review asking them if they allowed the app to save a VPN config since iOS asks for permission to do this when the app first does this after being installed. Denying this permission results in a "permission denied" error.