Notarization submissions stuck in "In Progress" for 7+ hours (new account, System Status green, all accepted)

Hi — I'm trying to notarize a Developer ID–signed macOS app (a small menu-bar .dmg, ~1.4 MB) and every submission has been stuck at status: In Progress for 7+ hours without ever reaching Accepted or Invalid. The Developer System Status page shows the Notary Service as green/operational.

This is a recently enrolled account (Individual) and these are its first notarization submissions, so I suspect a first-time-on-new-account hang, but wanted to get it looked at.

Team ID: C4GLRN98Q7

Submission IDs (all still In Progress):

a206d94b-c0e7-4901-a35e-daaf69c8ec65 — created 2026-06-25 19:02 UTC (oldest, ~7h+) 71d08fb3-0ae0-413a-8004-e3FB99721403 — 2026-06-25 19:32 UTC a6687302-d7b2-43be-8098-1442f0b1d4ab — 2026-06-25 19:45 UTC a8428002-0cd0-4d46-bc6d-8e95b9df409b — 2026-06-25 19:58 UTC cb8602bf-386e-4d98-9d1a-ad7e5308e629 — 2026-06-26 02:16 UTC (newest) What I'm doing:

Signing with codesign --options runtime --timestamp using a Developer ID Application cert, then submitting the .dmg with xcrun notarytool submit … --keychain-profile … --wait. codesign --verify --strict passes locally. xcrun notarytool info <id> returns valid submission metadata, just perpetually In Progress. The very first --wait died on a local network drop, but the submission had already uploaded 100% and kept processing server-side; I have not been spamming — the repeats above were a handful of retries before I realized they were all hanging. I've stopped submitting new ones. Could someone check why these submissions aren't completing? Happy to provide a notarytool log once any of them finishes. Thanks!

You can expect that most uploads will be notarised quickly. Occasionally, some uploads are held for additional analysis and may take longer to complete. As you notarise your apps, the system will learn how to recognise them, and you should see fewer delays.

For lots of additional info about notarisation, see Notarisation Resources. Specifically, it links to a Q&A with the notary service team that’s quite instructive.

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Notarization submissions stuck in "In Progress" for 7+ hours (new account, System Status green, all accepted)
 
 
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