Hello! I am playing around with the PHPickerViewController and so far I was able to get the selected images by loading them into UIImage instances but I don't know how to get the selected video. Below is the relevant implementation of the method: func picker(_ picker: PHPickerViewController, didFinishPicking results: [PHPickerResult]): let provider = result.itemProvider guard provider.hasItemConformingToTypeIdentifier(AVFileType.mov.rawValue) else { return } 						provider.loadItem(forTypeIdentifier: AVFileType.mov.rawValue, options: nil) { (fileURL, error) in 								if let error = error { 										print(error) 										return 								} 								guard let videoURL = fileURL as? URL else { return } 								DispatchQueue.main.async { 										let fm = FileManager.default 										let destination = fm.temporaryDirectory.appendingPathComponent("video123.mov") 										try! fm.copyItem(at: videoURL, to: destination) 										let playerVC = AVPlayerViewController() 										playerVC.player = AVPlayer(url: destination) 										self.present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil) 								} 						} I get crash trying to copy the item. It says the source file does not exists but the path looks real to me. "The file “3C2BCCBC-4474-491B-90C2-93DF848AADF5.mov” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." I tried it without copying first and just passing the URL to AVPlayer but nothing would play. I am testing this on a simulator. Thanks for help!

Hello, I am building contact form that allows to attach screenshots and screen recordings. The PhotosPicker part is relatively straightforward but I am not sure how to properly import the selected items. The binding is of type [PhotosPickerItem] which requires (at least for my current implementation) to first know if the item is image or video. I have this not so pretty code to detect if the item is video: let isVideo = item.supportedContentTypes.first(where: { $0.conforms(to: .video) }) != nil || item.supportedContentTypes.contains(.mpeg4Movie) Which for screen recordings seems to work only because I ask about .mpeg4Movie and then I have this struct: struct ScreenRecording: Transferable { let url: URL static var transferRepresentation: some TransferRepresentation { FileRepresentation(contentType: .mpeg4Movie) { video in SentTransferredFile(video.url) } importing: { received in let copy = URL.temporaryDirectory.appending(path: "\(UUID().uuidString).mp4") try FileManager.default.copyItem(at: received.file, to: copy) return Self.init(url: copy) } } } Notice here I have just the .mpeg4Movie content type, I couldn't get it to work with more generic ones like movie and I am afraid this implementation could soon break if the screen recordings change video format/codec. And finally my logic to load the item: if isVideo { if let movie = try? await item.loadTransferable(type: ScreenRecording.self) { viewModel.addVideoAttachment(movie) } } else { if let data = try? await item.loadTransferable(type: Data.self) { if let uiImage = UIImage(data: data) { viewModel.addScreenshotAttachment(uiImage) } } } I would like to make this more "future proof" and less error prone - particularly the screen recordings part. I don't even need the UIImage since I am saving the attachments as files, I just need to know if the attachment is screenshot or video and get its URL. Thanks!

Hello, I initially started the discussion over at Swift Forums - https://forums.swift.org/t/issue-with-connect-proxy-some-connections-dont-work-probably-sockets/45575 because I am using SwiftNIO but it appears that it makes more sense here. I have an app with NetworkExtension of the packet tunnel provider type. So I am using the NEPacketTunnelProvider. As part of the extension, I have SwiftNIO server with connect proxy which is used to route the traffic. This works great in almost all cases, but apps like Signal or WhatsApp don't work. They don't display any kind of "no connection" indicator but the messages aren't send or received. Over at Swift Forums I got an answer from Quinn “The Eskimo!” that I think points to the actual problem: My experience is that a lot of these ‘chat’ apps explicitly bind their connections to the WWAN interface, which means they don’t use the default route and thus aren’t seen by the packet tunnel provider. My packet tunnel provider is configured to use the default routes for IP4 and IP6. So my concern is how to configure it, that it works also for the chat apps? There are couple of apps from the App Store that I tried which use this same approach and while they are active, Signal works fine. Yes, I know this solution is not ideal and not the main intended usecase for packet tunnel, but it is the only option available on iOS.. Thanks for help! Happy to clarify further.

Hello, I watched the EventKit session from WWDC 23 (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10052/) that details the new permission changes. The ability to have just write access to the calendar is great, however my app also offers the user to view the already created event and to possibly edit it further via EKEventEditViewController. The event in question is release date of a videogame, so there might be needs for edit and based on saved event identifier, I am able to show different icon to let the user know that event exists. When the user taps on the icon, I use the eventStore.event(withIdentifier:. So I guess I will need the new "full access" with new prompt API to keep my functionality? Is there any possibility that this will change and apps would be able to query event they created? Thanks

Hello, we have been using the SwiftUI Label with the Family Controls tokens (ApplicationToken, ActivityCategoryToken - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/label/init(_:)-39rkz) And noticed that sometimes (quite rarely) the loading of the labels would take so long that it would freeze the entire app. Unfortunately as this only happened to our users (few times during user interviews) we aren't able to reproduce it on our devices and profile it. My guess is that this "mapping" of tokens to images happens entirely on the UI thread because it is supposed to be fast but sometimes there is huge delay and everything freezes. It would be great if the labels were somehow "prepared" on the background and the Label view would perhaps show some sort of loading and then get updated with the image of the app or category. This freezing was happening even when our app showed at most six labels on the screen. We tried some workarounds, namely to render the Label components in a backround and then use it as an image but instead of app icons we got yellow squares with red cross - probably due to privacy reasons. Anyone run into this issue? Any solutions?

Hello, is this just me or does it seem lately that apps spend quite long time in "In Review" state? One of my work app has been "In Review" since April 20th, which is already 9 days. I have recently submitted minor update for my hobby app and it has been "In Review" for over 24 hours - while in the past it took just a couple of hours or even less to be approved. I understand that "Waiting for Review" can take time if there is long queue of apps but "In Review" this long? Surely the reviewer is not testing my app for 24 hours straight? Did they forget? Are they waiting for someone else to take a look? It just seems quite strange.

Hello, we have been using the new Screen Time APIs for a long time. While the API is simple to work with, we have persistent issues with the FamilyActivityPicker component. I have filled many feedbacks but have yet to notice any changes/fixes in the point releases. One issue we see frequently is that expanding categories does not work. Instead, the picker shows just a single row, and you need to scroll up or down to “refresh” it and make it expand correctly. Another problem is that some apps are “hidden” in the “Other” category, and our users have trouble discovering them. I have been part of a few user interviews we did recently, and basically, every user had some issue with the FamilyActivityPicker. For one user, it just disappeared, and they needed to re-open the app screen, which contains the picker, to fix it. Sometimes the picker shows apps that have already been uninstalled from the device. The system picker from Screen Time works much better. For one, websites have dedicated category, which makes it much easier to navigate. I have seen instances where you would open the “Productivity” category and see like 50 websites - making it super hard to find apps. The system picker also allows users to manually enter a website that FamilyActivityPicker does not provide. Also, the system picker offers a search bar which is not possible with FamilyActivityPicker. Some users get frustrated with finding the specific apps in the picker if they have many apps installed. Since FamilyActivityPicker is critical to user experience in our app, we would appreciate it if the FamilyActivityPicker would be on par with the Screen Time built-in picker. Thanks 🙏

I am unable to make any progress regarding DeviceActivityReport. The session from WWDC 2022 covers it very briefly. What I (hopefully correctly) understood is that we need to create an extension of type Activity report and inside it implement the body which is DeviceActivityReportScene that will display the charts and what not. And then in the app, we need to use DeviceActivityReport with SwiftUI to show the report which will be run in sandbox from the extension. But I cannot get anything to show up on the screen. Even when my extension view is just a static text to verify something gets displayed. I am trying to create the device activity report without any filter which should give me all activity data per the docs. This is shown in the Xcode console for the view that uses DeviceActivityReport. 2022-06-17 18:08:47.219785+0200 DeviceActivityTest[9613:954204] [default] LaunchServices: store (null) or url (null) was nil: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=66, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} 2022-06-17 18:08:47.219862+0200 DeviceActivityTest[9613:954204] [default] Attempt to map database failed: permission was denied. This attempt will not be retried. 2022-06-17 18:08:47.219911+0200 DeviceActivityTest[9613:954204] [db] Failed to initialize client context with error Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-54 "process may not map database" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=process may not map database, _LSLine=66, _LSFunction=_LSServer_GetServerStoreForConnectionWithCompletionHandler} 2022-06-17 18:08:47.290070+0200 DeviceActivityTest[9613:954204] [default] Remote viewcontroller request failed: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service with pid 9615 named com.apple.DeviceActivityUI.DeviceActivityReportService.viewservice was interrupted, but the message was sent over an additional proxy and therefore this proxy has become invalid." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service with pid 9615 named com.apple.DeviceActivityUI.DeviceActivityReportService.viewservice was interrupted, but the message was sent over an additional proxy and therefore this proxy has become invalid.}

Hello, does anyone have any info/insight when we will be able to test app version that contains the Family Controls entitlement to TestFlight? iOS 16 is getting really close.. When we try to upload the build, Xcode shows the entitlements error and the Apple Developer portal shows that Family Controls is still available only for Development profile. Thanks!

Hello, I have added new non-consumable in-app to my existing app. Initially I messed up and sent it to review by itself (since in-apps and regular submissions seem to be handled by different teams). It got rejected and the review notes said that the review couldn't be done, because they couldn't test it in the app. Makes sense. So I submitted new build to app review and then submitted the in-app again. Same rejection reason. The build got approved, the in-app got rejected. After my newest build was approved. I added note in the review notes that the in-app is available in approved build. But after almost 48 hours "In Review" I got another rejection: We have returned your in-app purchase products to you as the required binary was not submitted. When you are ready to submit the binary, please resubmit the in-app purchase products with the binary. I have no idea how to submit "in-app purchase products with the binary". When preparing new version for review, there isn't any option to add the in-app as a single submission. Please help :/

Hello, I submitted new app update almost a week ago for review, it got rejected one time (I had to add links to privacy policy) and then the version was approved. But my newly added subscription has some "Developer Action Needed" / "Rejected" issue - probably with the localization. I wasn't able to discover the root cause for the rejection so I updated the info to make it clear in my view and resubmitted. However I did not get any confirmation email or something like that and my subscription is "Waiting for Review" for days now, which means I am not able to proceed with the launch of new version. Is there anything I can do? I looked into requesting the expedited review - but I dont see any option to specify I need review of subscription. If I have App Store product page in multiple languages - must the subscription localizations match?

Hello, I am using simple AVCaptureDevice setup to scan QR code from LCD screen, usually the distance is 5 to 15 centimeters. This has been working fine for a long time, with correct focus and everything. Today I noticed that my iPhone 14 Pro cannot focus on these smaller distances while my developer iPhone SE 2020 can easily detect the QR code in basically all cases. I have been using this code to create the capture device: AVCaptureDevice.default(for: .video) And then some settings: if videoCaptureDevice.isAutoFocusRangeRestrictionSupported { videoCaptureDevice.autoFocusRangeRestriction = .near } if videoCaptureDevice.isFocusModeSupported(.continuousAutoFocus) { videoCaptureDevice.focusMode = .continuousAutoFocus } As I said, this worked great prior to noticing the issue on iPhone 14 Pro. After some searching I found recommendations to use another device type like: builtInDualWideCamera and other available types. I tried all of them and they either behave like the default (meaning I cannot scan the code unless I move the phone way out) or they always seem to use the 0.5 Ultra-Wide camera which looks weird and the scanning experience is not ideal. What is the best approach to have QR scanning with these new phones?

Hello, our app uses the frameworks FamilyControls, ManagedSettings and DeviceActivity. It runs smoothly in like 99% cases but we have some support requests that mention the app being incredibly slow - like seconds to register button presses. These reported incidents deal with calls to these APIs mentioned above. One of the frequent complaint is that code that manipulates with ManagedSettingsStore is slow and the whole app becomes unresponsive. Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce this on my devices so cannot run it through the Instruments. Anyone has experience with this? PS: These reports are frequently from new and fast devices - like iPhone 13 & iPhone 14 so that should not be the case.

Hello, I am working on an app that scans documents and recognizes the text with help of Vision framework. This works great. I would also like to "recognize" or detect individual images which are part of the document. Does Vision has any support for this or should I be looking into training my own ML model? Below is an example document - I would like to extract the text (already done) and also the image of the building.

Hello, I am trying to play around with the Live Text API according to this docs - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/visionkit/enabling_live_text_interactions_with_images?changes=latest_minor But it always fails with [api] -[CIImage initWithCVPixelBuffer:options:] failed because the buffer is nil. I am running this on a UIImage instance that I got from VNDocumentCameraViewController. This is my current implementation that I run after the scanned image is displayed: private func setupLiveText() { guard let image = imageView.image else { return } let interaction = ImageAnalysisInteraction() imageView.addInteraction(interaction) Task { let configuration = ImageAnalyzer.Configuration([.text]) let analyzer = ImageAnalyzer() do { let analysis = try await analyzer.analyze(image, configuration: configuration) DispatchQueue.main.async { interaction.analysis = analysis } } catch { print(error.localizedDescription) } } } It does not fail, it returns non-nil analysis object, but setting it to the interaction does nothing. I am testing this on iPhone SE 2020 which has the A13 chip. This feature requires A12 and up.