I've been working on a project with App Intents and have hit a complete wall. The desire is to have an app that allows a person to place an order of something and have that order processed while in lock screen without any intervention. Is that workflow possible without having to unlock the screen? Under what circumstances can a task be handled without unlocking the device. Going over some of the documentation about older custom intents strongly implies that this was possible under certain circumstances.

I am in a weird twilight-zone of a git problem in xcode. I specify some files to be staged and it fails to do with no warning of any sort. So I cannot commit them or apply stashed changes to them. I can do it one.file.at.a.time. I have over 11k intermediate files that .gitignore won't ignore, nor stage nor commit to do anything so I could stop tracking them.

In prep for a push this evening did the usual clean and rebuild. But now I'm getting errors that it can't find files with .swiftdoc, swiftsourceinfo, and swiftmodule files. The few postings I can find about that said that reinstalling xcode fixed it, well , not i my case. Any ideas short of reconstructing the entire project from scratch?

I've been pouring over the code for Apple's visionOS demo: "Destination" trying to figure out something about its skybox. (not really a box, there, Apple). The skybox contains a 360deg panorama, but only one half shows with the other half fades out to nothing. I cannot find anywhere there is an alpha channel being set, a lighting or material effect causing that. But "alpha" doesn't show up and the only gradients are use to make controls standout a little more in its window. I need a full panorama that shows., no fading.

I have an iPhone VR app, but on the appstore page it says "Compatible with iPad". The full VR effect was only with the iPhone, but it's not showing that, nor is there any apparent way to set that in the metadata. So I am assuming that's automated. Any ideas how to fix it?

My startup screen (not using a formal splash screen) opens up and almost immediately jumps to the right about 50 pixels. Not sure if this is notch related but I suspect it is. Any ideas?

I recently released an update for one of my apps and am seeing precisely 0 updated downloads. I should be seeing thousands. I am getting sales, though.

This started a couple of months ago. Every new build I send from Xcode over to my iPad appears to leave data from the previous build, which seems like it's cached somewhere and never used after that. Considering I am losing about 500M per session I get the device "out of memory" error often. Deleting my app completely erases everything so I can recover. More of an annoyance than critical bug, except when running my iPad mini. I have a 16G mini and normally only have about 2G free. Naturally that gets eaten up about every 3 or 4 runs. When I clear out things I have to reset a bunch of preferences to my test set. Waste of time. It doesn't do this when I launch from the device, only when Xcode is doing it. This is with iOS14 and Xcode 12.2B2. But seems to go back to the final days of Xcode 11 on my mac. Anyone else see this?