Notarization held 3+ days on a new account — even a 10 KB control probe is now stuck

Hi — submissions from my account have been stuck "In Progress" for 3+ days, and as of today even a tiny control probe is being held, while an identical probe submitted two days earlier was accepted in under an hour. Notary service status is green. This is blocking our first signed beta release.

Team ID: 35L272URMA (individual account, enrolled 2026-10-16)

App submissions (all still In Progress):

  • fbed8a42-a43e-436f-bc99-49262ee4189d, 2026-10-16 04:55 UTC
  • 090bd775-a288-435a-a2c6-95253e36b4cf, 2026-10-16 05:22 UTC (current build)
  • 698e88b0-e111-41c0-8a5b-4da74aff6599, 2026-10-16 08:22 UTC
  • ec3bd245-9306-4b56-b799-3d84782fc833, 2026-10-17 05:43 UTC

App: "Octopus Beta" - Developer ID-signed, hardened-runtime, darwin-arm64 Electron app (131 MB zip, ~10k nested files, submitted as ditto zip, not DMG). Tooling: electron-builder 26.15.2 / notarytool (Xcode CLT) / macOS 26.

Control probes (same account, same credentials, same flow, ~10 KB signed test apps):

  • 5dda20a1-3f03-4757-90bb-52fce39427f3, hello.zip, 2026-10-16 09:54 UTC, Accepted in under 1 hour
  • 7889bf07-f4ba-4aa8-9b77-10b504ce9a18, hello2.zip, 2026-10-18 15:29 UTC, STILL In Progress 17+ hours later

The first probe passing quickly while an identical second probe now hangs suggests this is no longer just in-depth analysis of the large app. Either the whole account is now being held, or there is a service-side backlog window. Could you confirm which, and whether anything on our side is contributing? We have stopped resubmitting per the guidance in thread/814841. Happy to provide artifacts. Thank you!

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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