It was mentioned in the Swift Student Challenge that outstanding winners will have the opportunity to visit Apple Park in the United States. However, as a challenger from China who is not currently in the U.S., this means that if I receive the outstanding award, I will need to apply for a visa to travel to Apple Park. Since I am under 18, my guardian would also need to apply for a visa. Therefore, I would like to know if Apple provides visa assistance for outstanding winners and their guardians from China, or if we are responsible for applying for the visas on our own.

I have a problem with the wall plane detection using visionOS/ARKit: I am using ARKitSession's PlaneDetectionProvider detection.wall in the space of visionOS. I recorded the position and rotation information of the first detected plane, but found that the rotation value will be facing when the user starts the space. There is a deviation in different directions. That is to say, even if the plane is located on the same wall, the rotation quaternion will be different. I hope that no matter from which direction the user enters the scan, the real direction of the wall can be correctly obtained so that the virtual content can be accurately aligned with the wall. I have tried to use anchor.originFromAnchorTransform or Transform.rotation directly, but the rotation value is still affected by the user's initial orientation. In addition, I would like to know whether the user's initial orientation will affect the location information. If so, please provide a solution. Thank you!

Hey I’m working on a macOS app that wants to detect the MacBook lid / hinge angle (i.e. how far the screen is open) by directly reading the internal sensor via HID / IOKit (a private / undocumented API). I came across this project: LidAngleSensor — GitHub: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor?tab=readme-ov-file Before investing too much effort, I’d like to ask the community: Has anyone succeeded in getting such an app accepted on the Mac App Store when it includes sensor-level, private API access like this? What were the reviewer feedback or rejection reasons (if any)? Are there documented cases (positive or negative) where Apple approved or rejected apps for accessing non-public hardware sensors? What’s the risk of getting banned or permanently rejected for integrating this kind of functionality? If you have direct experience (whether it passed or failed), I’d love to hear your stories, strategies, or pointers. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I recently built an app and I’m planning to publish it on the App Store. Since the Swift Student Challenge (SSC) is coming up, I’m also considering submitting the same project by converting it into a Swift Playground (with some content trimmed to meet the rules). I believe both I and the project are eligible. My question: if I publish the app on the App Store first and then submit it to SSC, could that violate the rules or lead to rejection? I also have a concern: because I’m a minor, Apple requires the App Store developer name to be my mother’s. However, the app was entirely developed by me. my mother and anyone else did not participate(My mother can't even use a computer.). I’m worried this might create confusion and make judges think I copied someone else’s work, which I did not. Would you recommend publishing on the App Store now, waiting until after SSC, or taking a different approach? Thank you.

Hello! Because the compilers used by different versions of Xcode 26 may be different, and I find that my app may not be able to ensure that all versions of Xcode 26 are successfully compiled. For example, my app can run on Xcode26.3 but will report an error at 26.4 (I have fixed it now). So I want to confirm which version of Xcode the jury uses to run my app, whether it is a known version or the latest version in the future. Thanks!

How to upload apps using transporter？

What statements have been added to SwiftUI in visionOS development compared with the original SwiftUI?

The default framework of visionOS is SwiftUI, but it can also be combined with UIKit in SwiftUI, and Apple has also released video documents and other content for this purpose. But what I want to know is that SwiftUI is much simpler than UIKit, but why does Apple recommend developers to combine with UIKit in SwiftUI? I also want to know what are the advantages of SwiftUI and UIKit in visionOS? I hope you can reply to my two questions. Thank you!

If I learn all in https://developer.apple.com/visionos/planning/, can I master all the knowledge in visionOS development?

What are the compatible frameworks with visionOS?

In visionOS, in ImmersiveSpace, how to let users drag a specific view?

Just now, I accidentally deleted Xcode15.1 Beta3. Now I want to download it again, but I found that Xcode 15.1 Release Candidate replaced Xcode15.1 Beta3 in https://developer.apple.com/download/applications/, but there is no visionOS SDK in Xcode 15.1 Release Candidate, so I really need to download Xcode15.1 Beta3 now. Who has any way for me to download it again?

I have a USDZ model called 'GooseNModel' in the visionOS App project. I'm sure that this model contains an animation, so I wrote the following code to display the model with animation: import SwiftUI import RealityKit RealityView{ content in if let GooseNModel = try? await Entity(named: "GooseNModel"), let animation = GooseNModel.availableAnimations.first { GooseNModel.playAnimation(animation) content.add(GooseNModel) } } But when I ran it, I found that it did not contain animation as I imagined, but a static model. How to solve it?

I used Model3D to display a model: Model3D(named: "Model", bundle: realityKitContentBundle) { phase in switch phase { case .empty: ProgressView() case .failure(let error): Text("Error \(error.localizedDescription)") case .success(let model): model.resizable() } } However, when I ran, I found that the width and length were not stretched, but when I looked at the depth from the side, they were seriously stretched. What should I do? Note: For some reason, I can't use the Frame modifier. Image: width and length error depth

Is Persona open to developers? If it is open, in which document does it describe the information about Persona?