Can't Post On This Forum

Question

LaraLor-Van OP

Created Feb ’24

Replies 16

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Trying to post a question about packages on this forum, I keep cueing the message:

'This post contains sensitive language. Please revise it in order to continue.'

There is nothing in my query that is remotely ‘sensitive’.

I don’t know what to do next.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Regards,

Lar

Answered by DTS Engineer in 869136022

Sorry for the delay responding. I’m running out of workdays for 2025, so I can’t address everything upthread. Instead, I want to post some general guidelines.

If DevForums blocks you from posting reasonable content with the message “This post contains sensitive language”, I’d appreciate you filing a bug about that. For instructions on how to do that, see the end of this post.

After that, you’ll need a workaround. Here’s how to use a binary search to find the problematic text:

As part of the bug reporting process, you saved a copy of your post to a text file. Make a copy of that file.
Open it in your text editor of choice.
Select half of the file and delete it.
Copy the remaining text and try to post that.
If it works, undo the delete, select the other half, delete that, and go back to step 4. Make sure to click the Edit button next to your post rather than posting a second reply.
If it fails, go back to step 3 and continue dividing.

Eventually you’ll get down to something super small and you can usually find a way to reword things to avoid the problem. For example, in this post I found that one of the numbers in the crash report was causing problems so I changed it to hex (0x0c00000d9de112c0) and that was fine.

Obviously this is less than ideal, hence my request for bug reports that contain real world examples of this problem.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

To file a bug about this:

Note I’m assuming you’re using a recent Safari on the Mac. All of this is possible with other browsers and other platforms, you’ll just have to figure out how to map these instructions to your environment.

Copy the text of your message and save it to a text file.
In Safari, bring up Web Inspector. For instructions on how to do that, see Inspecting Safari on macOS.
In Web Inspector, switch to the Network tab.
Back on the forums webpage, hold down option and choose View > Reload Page from Origin.
Now copy the text from the text file you created in step 1 and paste it into the message box.
Try to post that.
If it works, this was a transient error and you shouldn’t continue with this process [1].
If it fails with a “This post contains sensitive language” message, first take a screenshot of the failure.
Then flip back to Web Inspector and, still in the Network tab, click the Export button.
Save the HAR log somewhere convenient.
Now file a bug. In Feedback Assistant, when it asks where you want to start your feedback, select Developer Tools & Resources.
And in the problem area popup, select Developer Forums.
Make sure to attach:
- The text file from step 1.
- The screenshot from step 8.
- The HAR log from step 10.
Fill in the rest of your bug report and submit it. For general advice on the bug reporting process, see Bug Reporting: How and Why?.
Reply here with the bug number.

[1] Not that such problems aren’t bugworthy, but the process I’m describing here won’t yield actionable debugging information.

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Answer 1

Scott OP

Feb ’24

Take a look at this gosh-darn bleepin’ thread: link.

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Answer 2

endecotp OP

Feb ’24

P u t s p a c e s b e t w e e n e v e r y c h a r a c t e r .

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Answer 3

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Feb ’24

Once you work out what the problem is, I’d appreciate you posting an update here. I have regular conversations with Apple’s forums maintainers about these sorts of problems (like in the thread that Scott linked to).

Share and Enjoy
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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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Answer 4

LaraLor-Van OP

Feb ’24

Thanks for the tips.

I'll try to post my query again and revert.

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Answer 5

LaraLor-Van OP

Feb ’24

ForumPost.txt

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Answer 6

LaraLor-Van OP

Feb ’24

Unable to determine what was prompting my AI censorship, and tiring of this tedious version of Marco Polo, I posted my query as a txt file and jpg.

Has it slipped through?

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Answer 7

Forums Product Manager OP

Apple

Jun ’24

@LaraLor-Van try making that post once more - think we have sorted out why it kept getting stuck.

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Answer 8

elatjet OP

Mar ’25

The issue happens to me as well. Trying to post a question related to live activities and hit 'This post contains sensitive language. Please revise it in order to continue.' validation error

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Answer 9

zulfishah OP

May ’25

I'm also having this problem! Just posting some SwiftUI code with some code sample.

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Answer 10

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

May ’25

So my advice above stands: If you have a problem like this, please post the details. I have regular conversations with our forums platform folks about this issue, and I appreciate feedback about specific problems.

Oh, and if you’re unable to work out what the problem is, please upload the text of your proposed post to a file sharing site and then post a link here. See tip 14 in Quinn’s Top Ten DevForums Tips for advice on how to post links.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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Answer 11

ianbale OP

3w

Same problem for me...

This is what I was trying to post:

From what I understand from the Wallet Developer Guide, generic wallet passes with a square barcode have a single row of combined secondary and auxiliary fields. Whereas those with a rectangular barcode get two rows.

This is the same as store cards.

However, I can successfully create generic cases with square barcodes with two rows. (I tried the same with store cards, but we are definitely limited to 1 row).

It appears to me that the documentation may be incorrect...?

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Answer 12

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

3w

This is what I was trying to post:

I was hoping to get a file containing the text of your post. That way I can be sure that your content arrived intact [1]. So, lemme repeat my earlier advice:

[If you continue to have problems] please upload the text of your proposed post to a file sharing site and then post a link here. See tip 14 in Quinn’s Top Ten DevForums Tips for advice on how to post links.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

[1] When forums ingests text it does its own parsing of it. That’s true even for text attachments, which is why we sometimes see crash reports munged (r. 136655649).

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Answer 13

darkpaw OP

3w

This post is deemed to be sensitive, and the reason is the first two words, because they sound rude when they're put next to each other:

// Use the singular of cues in place of A:
for A in cues {
  // Do a thing
}

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Answer 14

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

3w

the reason is the first two words

Apparently one can’t post the word cu‍e at all. That’s pretty silly. Lemme try and get that fixed.

Share and Enjoy
—
Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

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Answer 15

elfrick OP

2w

What you see above is the exact text I was posting:

-------- start ---------

From what I understand from the Wallet Developer Guide, generic wallet passes with a square barcode have a single row of combined secondary and auxiliary fields. Whereas those with a rectangular barcode get two rows. This is the same as store cards. However, I can successfully create generic cases with square barcodes with two rows. (I tried the same with store cards, but we are definitely limited to 1 row). It appears to me that the documentation may be incorrect...?

-------- end --------

Here's a new one I've just tried which is also rejected with the same error:

-------- start ---------

Has anyone noticed that the colour used for the logo text on wallet passes is affected by the background colour that you choose?

Usually, as the documentation states, the foreground colour is used as the colour for this field. Although there is an exception, all event ticket passes with a background image use the label colour instead.

However, for all the other passes, if you choose a dark background colour it also uses the label colour instead of the foreground colour...

I've confirmed this on iPhone 16 and iPhone SE (2nd gen).

Try these for size:

#383838 label #383839 label #383939 foreground #103939 label #104040 foreground #1010FF foreground #004044 foreground #004043 label #014043 label #004143 foreground

-------- end --------

However simply posting "test" gives the same result...

I literally cannot post anything at all, but I seem to be able to put anything in a comment to an existing post.

As a [related] aside. The POST button on any forum topic page :

https://developer.apple.com/forums/topics/app-and-system-services/app-and-system-services-wallet

Goes to a URL like this: https://developer.apple.com/forums/post/question?community=1383020

Which results in a 404...

The POST button on the forum homepage and within any post goes here:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/post/question

which does work.

Can you help?

The latest post I failed to make is pretty important to me... I'm about to launch a WYSIWYG wallet pass editor and having found this odd issue I realise that I have no way to accurately predict which colour is going to be used for a pass logo text. I'm really in need of an answer about what is going on.

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