Hey everyone, I applied for the App Store Small Business Program on February 18th and I still haven't heard anything back, that's almost 20 days now. Is this normal? How long did it take for those of you who got approved? I'm starting to wonder if my application even went through correctly. Would really appreciate hearing your experiences — especially if you applied recently. Did anyone else wait this long? Thanks

Hello everyone, I’m reaching out from the music publishing side and would appreciate guidance from developers or anyone familiar with TestFlight governance. We’ve identified an app that has been distributed via TestFlight for an extended period (regular renewals, updates, and new TestFlight builds). The app’s core functionality involves publishing copyrighted musical works (sheet music), without authorization from the authors or rightsholders. We have attempted to contact the developer using the contact details available through the TestFlight listing and associated project information. To date, we have received no response, and the TestFlight distribution continues. From our perspective, the developer appears to rely on TestFlight to keep the app off the App Store, where standard copyright enforcement mechanisms would normally apply. My questions are: Does Apple consider long-term, continuously renewed TestFlight distribution to be a form of public distribution? Is there a mechanism within the Apple ecosystem to address repeated copyright infringement occurring specifically via TestFlight? From a developer-policy perspective, how does Apple Inc. typically handle cases where TestFlight is used to bypass compliance obligations rather than for genuine beta testing? I’m not looking for legal advice here — just insight into how Apple and the developer community view and handle this type of situation. Thanks in advance for any guidance or experience you can share.

Hey guys! I've recently noticed a number of PaaS'es and CPaaS'es offering bulk outgoing messaging using the iMessage the same way it's done with the SMS. I always thought that iMessage sort of only allowed businesses to send outgoings subject to user contacting their account first (to avoid being spammed). But then there's those I mentioned above. Have you faced anything like this? Did Apple make changes to the model so that businesses can now initiate conversations with users? If so, how does it work?

How to Check Apple Development, iCloud ,Apple ID or Apple Account got some criminal act with Old Business Partners System and Fake reality shows to Stole my system Identity and Money. Can hear the sounds from up area in the air! and the accents and contenxt very bad behavior act! i tried to stop them on 2022, I know who they are, they **** up the reality bank , hospital ,apartment fire and lobby packages systems. and they got seriously damaged the other contries and humans body healthy system! and all my creations works.

Account Type: Apple Developer Organization Account (not individual). Bank Card: China Merchants Bank (CMB) Debit Card (non-credit card). Issue: After filling in all required bank details (e.g., branch information), the "Next" button remains grayed out, with no error message or prompt from the system.

I have a problem in the appstore upload process, they say that "Your app is still intended to be used by a specific business or organization, including partners, clients, or employees of Nusantara-Group." The application is indeed intended for clients in my company, so what is the solution?

for some of us, iMessage has been our number on texting and calling app we use to connect with people but there this feature the app lacks which is, the ability to put a custom image in the background of the chat page like we can do on other websites, I wish Apple could address this request of mine.

App crash happens. Not sure about the reason. Could you please help me with this? Attached the complete crash log in a file Incident Identifier: 845F6892-F0C9-4090-9690-802CB9CA51B0 Hardware Model: iPhone11,8 Process: Asset [3649] Path: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/2433DB3D-1B7C-41E3-917B-A92FFFED95EC/Asset.app/Asset Identifier: com.mt.AssetPlus.SWDC.IN Version: 1.3.84 (20240416) AppStoreTools: 15E204 AppVariant: 1:iPhone11,8:15 Beta: YES Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Foreground Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: com.mt.AssetPlus.SWDC.IN [420] Date/Time: 2024-05-14 08:29:23.7648 -0700 Launch Time: 2024-05-14 08:28:50.8616 -0700 OS Version: iPhone OS 15.6.1 (19G82) Release Type: User Baseband Version: 4.04.02 Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Triggered by Thread: 3 Kernel Triage: VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get VM - Compressor failed a blocking pager_get

i want create a app that categorize all sms in ios personal to professional in tab

I'm currently trying to develop an MDM (Mobile Device Management) solution and have encountered some issues: I've set up an MDM server, let's assume the URL is mdm.xxx.com. I've also registered with Apple Business Manager and assigned the MDM server. Using iOS's Configurator, I added an iPhone device to the Business Manager. After the initial addition, it prompts to erase the iPhone. After restarting, the iPhone interacts with the MDM server and completes registration. Now, here comes the question: When I was assigning the MDM server in step two, I didn't provide the MDM server's URL, I just uploaded a public key. After erasing the iPhone in step three, how does it know the URL of the MDM server?

Dear Appple Dev Team, we have developed an app to identify incoming phone calls via CallKit (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/callkit/cxcalldirectoryextensioncontext). This function works great. However, we are missing a similar function for SMS/iMessage sender identification. Is it possible to integrate this function into iOS. Thanks Markus

I've encountered an issue while reviewing logs from my device and hope someone here can shed some light on it. In the process of diagnosing an application behavior, I noticed that some entries in my logs are marked as , specifically next to bundle IDs, which makes it challenging to understand which app or process is involved. Here are the relevant log entries: Feb 21 17:40:53 vCw-2 suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[30399] <Notice>: SGDSuggestManager: realtimeSuggestionsForMailOrMessageWithHash: com.apple.MobileSMS : <private> Feb 21 17:40:53 vCw-2 suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[30399] <Notice>: SGDSuggestManager: realtimeSuggestionsForMailOrMessageWithHash: <private>: results: (null) Feb 21 17:40:53 vCw-2 suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[30399] <Notice>: SGDSuggestManager: realtimeSuggestionsForMailOrMessageWithHash: com.apple.MobileSMS : <private> Feb 21 17:40:53 vCw-2 suggestd(CoreSuggestionsInternals)[30399] <Notice>: SGDSuggestManager: starting dissection. The identification of this hidden bundle ID is essential for allowing the specific iMessage Business Chat feature to function as intended in our MDM-managed devices. Does anyone have insights into why the bundle ID might be hidden or how to uncover it? Are there tools or methods available that could help me identify this bundle ID for MDM whitelist configuration purposes? I appreciate any guidance or recommendations you can provide. Thank you for your time and assistance.

Hi, I've been trying to look in the documentation and REST API reference and I haven't found any mention about having a rate limit. Is there any rate limit on sending messages for Apple Messages for Business? Is there any rate limit on receiving webhooks for Apple Messages for Business? Thanks

Does Apple provide any APIs that we can use to send blue imessages or sms on their sms app? Barring Apple Messages for Business? Or are all such APIs private and only choice is to rely on services like Twilio, Telnyx, LoopMessage, SendBlue etc?

I am trying to build a project. The service it provides is that it allows businesses to create configurable messages to send to users over iMessages, and receive their response and businesses can also set what response to send to each type of user response, receive payments and so on. It basically removes the headache of coding an automated chat based service for businesses by giving them a configurable platform where they can create such a service using simple UI.I'm not sure which APIs (iMessages APIs, Messages for Business APIs, or 3rd Party APIs) I have to use for my case. Now I looked up how something like this is possible. One thing I found was apple message for businesses APIs, as per my understanding of it, businesses can communicate using MSPs. But what I don't get is, are the businesses creating their own automated chat experience and MSP is just something that provides IT support as a security? Something like [Ntiva] has me guessing that line of thinking, but the documentation says MSP is supposed to provide messaging APIs, I don't see that on Ntiva. So if the MSP is supposed to provide APIs, then would my project be an MSP? I also checked out apple's iMessages APIs to send iMesssages, but as per my understanding, it can only be used if an extension is created by the developer and then downloaded by the user to add the specific chat automation, that is obviously not how businesses do it. Then I also found these 3rd party APIs that can send blue iMessages, like [loop message], [send blue] or [Telnyx]. So is my understanding that my project architecture should be an application that takes configuration from businesses, generates the respective messsage and then use Telnyx APIs to send those messages, receive their responses, make a response to it and use Telnyx APIs again and so on, correct? If so, what is the whole deal with messages for business thing? Is using third party APIs like loop message or telnyx a way to bypass those MSPs and stuff, or are these 3rd party party APIs taking care of the whole message for business and MSP stuff on their end and just provide us with the end APIs? I would really love to understand how this works, thank you so much

We are following the step listed in the documentation below to redirect the authentication request to messages-auth://?status=success https://register.apple.com/resources/messages/msp-rest-api/type-interactive#url-scheme However on both iOS and macOS (latest versions) messages-auth:// is not a recognised endpoint to open the messages app again. For example messages:// is working to open the messages app.

Hi! In Apple Pay for iMessage, users can initiate an Apple Pay payment on iMessage. Once the user authorizes the payment, my endpoint receives the Apple Pay Token from Apple- this has the user's encrypted payment details. This is where i would need to integrate with a payment processor to accept the payment. Well, I am having trouble figuring out how to process this token payment. According to this link, Stripe and other authorized payment processors are supposed to fully handle this token on their own? From my understanding I would simply be forwarding the apple pay token to Stripe. Unfortunately, stripe isn't accepting the payment token as valid and i am not sure why as i couldn't find documentation from apple nor stripe on how to process this (If anyone can point me to them, please let me know). I tried using the Stripe python package and passing in the token as the 'source' for ".charge" but it doesn't work as stripe doesn't understand. Anyways, where am I going wrong here nothing else is working and I am not sure what I should do? Do i need to do something to de-encrypt the apple pay token, I am not even sure if I'd have the regulatory approval to do this. If anyone can point me to the correct Apple docs on integration instructions, I would appreciate it! P.S This is not for apple pay web or js integration.