Hello, I made myself an app to track my expenses.
The most important event is when I make a purchase via apple wallet.
What happens is sometimes the values from Merchant and Amount are;
Merchant = " "
Amount = 0.0
Has anyone experienced this, is there something I can do about it ? I was thinking that sometimes maybe speed connection and service is something that might make an impact
Does anyone here know something about the topic ?
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hi, when i test an in app purchase with my sandbox acount i get:
"ask permission. a request to buy ** will be sent to your parent or gardian
(environment: sandbox)"
When i made the sandbox account, i didnt see any option to set my age. What am i missing here, I dont seem to be able to fully test in app purchases since my sandbox accounts always defualt to this family sharing thing?
Thanks
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Hi everyone!
I'd like to create an application for system monitoring using the Endpoint Security framework. I already have a working prototype and now I am trying to expand its capabilities to capture more event types.
Started looking at filesystem-related events as one of the most important ones for my use case. These seem to be supported fairly well by the framework (ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_OPEN/CLOSE/CREATE/WRITE etc.) However, the "READ FILE" event seems to be absent… Am I missing something here, or Endpoint Security framework does not provide this kind of information? If it doesn't, what is the reason behind this? Capturing this type of events seems quite relevant for security-related software.
Thanks & Best regards,
Roman
If a user selects custom structured workout in the apple watch Workout app and records a run with intervals, how can my third party app pull in that data?
I can obviously get the workout and health stuff like heart rate, but I cannot find how to save the intervals and the relevant data.
The workout events are not seemingly helpful - segments are not obviously related to this.
Is it possible? Is it only possible to have the third party app create a customworkout with metadata and then our third party app parses the interval distance/time based on our own structure?
I think this stuff should be able to be accessed.
Could you tell me about the specifications of the winback offer?
If a user is eligible for the winback offer, will the winback offer sheet be displayed every time the app is launched?
Or will the OS adjust the display frequency in some way?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Hi,
I have created an application for NFC tag scanning and read the tag data. For that,
i enabled the capability: NearField Communication Tag reading.
Then I added 2 tag formats in the entitlement
then i added info.plist:
NFCReaderUsageDescription
We need to use NFC
com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.felica.systemcodes
8005
8008
0003
fe00
90b7
927a
12FC
86a7
com.apple.developer.nfc.readersession.iso7816.select-identifiers
D2760000850100
D2760000850101
but even though when i run the app and tap the nfc card im getting some error:
NFCTag didBecomeActive
2025-08-29 19:08:12.272278+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag didDetectTags
2025-08-29 19:08:12.282869+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113520] [CoreNFC] -[NFCTagReaderSession _connectTag:error:]:730 Error Domain=NFCError Code=2 "Missing required entitlement" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing required entitlement}
2025-08-29 19:08:12.284044+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag restarting polling
2025-08-29 19:08:12.372116+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag didDetectTags
2025-08-29 19:08:12.381535+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113378] [CoreNFC] -[NFCTagReaderSession _connectTag:error:]:730 Error Domain=NFCError Code=2 "Missing required entitlement" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing required entitlement}
2025-08-29 19:08:12.382246+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag restarting polling
2025-08-29 19:08:12.470667+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag didDetectTags
2025-08-29 19:08:12.479336+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113378] [CoreNFC] -[NFCTagReaderSession _connectTag:error:]:730 Error Domain=NFCError Code=2 "Missing required entitlement" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Missing required entitlement}
2025-08-29 19:08:12.480101+0530 SAFRAN_NFC[894:113090] NFCTag restarting polling
Could you please help me wha tis the issue and give solution for that?
See crash details here:- https://pastebin.com/i9u5PE4X
There's a comprehensive thread here, folks!
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255651156?sortBy=oldest_first
Thanks for any thoughts.
Hello!
I'm working on a mobile app that communicates with a peripheral via Bluetooth with security level 2 in a customised way, as there are also other communication protocols used.
We use a bluetooth service with a specific UUID that has a write characteristic for sending data to the device and a notify characteristic for receiving data from the device.
After connecting for the first time, a pairing prompt appears after successful connection and subscribing to notifications.
When all is set, that is notifications are enabled, a handshake is performed and a communication session is established. There can be only one session for a bluetooth connection.
So I have two questions:
Regarding the pairing, is there any way that I can know the result of the pairing, so that I could start the handshake after it is accepted? What could be the best approach here? Asking because I noticed some instability on first connection (peripheral ignoring handshake).
After disconnecting using Core Bluetooth, the system maintains the connection for some time before actually disconnecting. When opening the app shortly after killing the previous instance, it gets connected very quickly as it reuses the existing connection. The problem is, however, that the device wouldn't accept the new handshake and it is pretty much impossible to reuse previous session. In our use case we need a new BLE connection for each session. Is there any way I could forcibly disconnect from the device or enforce a new connection (not a reused one)? What might be the best approach here?
The way I handle it now is by using retrieveConnectedPeripherals and if the device is found to be connected, I use scanning. If the device is advertising then we know it's not connected. Other than that we could also poll retrieveConnectedPeripherals and wait. But obviously it is not optimal, as the user has to wait longer than ususal.
Other than that retrievePeripherals is used for getting the peripheral, if the app once found it during scanning.
I saw this post describing similar issue, is it the only solution to implement API for disconnecting on the peripheral side?
Hi!
I have set up an APNS API that sends push notifications to update my Apple Wallet pass. I am using the APN library and a .p8 key for APNS push notifications. I keep getting 200 responses and "sent successfully" logs, but Apple Wallet is not receiving the notification.
Which configuration or payload should I check to make it work?
Thanks
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/708877
XPC is the preferred inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism on Apple platforms. XPC has three APIs:
The high-level NSXPCConnection API, for Objective-C and Swift
The low-level Swift API, introduced with macOS 14
The low-level C API, which, while callable from all languages, works best with C-based languages
General:
Forums subtopic: App & System Services > Processes & Concurrency
Forums tag: XPC
Creating XPC services documentation
NSXPCConnection class documentation
Low-level API documentation
XPC has extensive man pages — For the low-level API, start with the xpc man page; this is the original source for the XPC C API documentation and still contains titbits that you can’t find elsewhere. Also read the xpcservice.plist man page, which documents the property list format used by XPC services.
Daemons and Services Programming Guide archived documentation
WWDC 2012 Session 241 Cocoa Interprocess Communication with XPC — This is no longer available from the Apple Developer website )-:
Technote 2083 Daemons and Agents — It hasn’t been updated in… well… decades, but it’s still remarkably relevant.
TN3113 Testing and Debugging XPC Code With an Anonymous Listener
XPC and App-to-App Communication forums post
Validating Signature Of XPC Process forums post
This forums post summarises the options for bidirectional communication
This forums post explains the meaning of privileged flag
Related tags include:
Inter-process communication, for other IPC mechanisms
Service Management, for installing and uninstalling Service Management login items, launchd agents, and launchd daemons
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I am looking into the new CarPlay support for systemSmall widgets introduced in iOS 26 (Apple documentation).
I am trying to figure out if there is a way to programmatically detect whether the widget is currently being displayed on the iPhone/iPad home/lock screen or in CarPlay.
So far, I haven’t found any information in the documentation or APIs that indicate how to distinguish between these environments. Is there an API, environment value, or best practice for handling this scenario?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Greetings,
I would like to understand this URLCache behavior for two different requests to the same end point but with a different header value. Here is a code with comment explaining the behavior.
// Create a request to for a url.
let url = URL(string: "https://<my url>?f=json")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
// Set custom header with a value.
request.setValue("myvalue", forHTTPHeaderField: "CustomField")
// Send request to get the response.
let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
print("data: \(String(describing: String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)))")
print("response: \(response)")
// Create second request to the same url but with different value of custom header field.
var request2 = URLRequest(url: url)
request2.setValue("newvalue", forHTTPHeaderField: "CustomField")
// Check the URL cache for second request and it returns the response
// of the first request even though the second request has different header value.
let cachedResponse = URLCache.shared.cachedResponse(for: request2)
print("cachedResponse: \(cachedResponse?.response)")
Is this a bug in URLCache that request headers are not matched while returning the response?
Is this an expected behavior? If yes, why?
Development environment
Xcode 26.0 Beta 6
iOS 26 Simulator
macOS 15.6.1
To verify TLS 1.3 session resumption behavior in URLSession, I configured URLSessionConfiguration as follows and sent an HTTP GET request:
let config = URLSessionConfiguration.ephemeral
config.tlsMinimumSupportedProtocolVersion = .TLSv13
config.tlsMaximumSupportedProtocolVersion = .TLSv13
config.httpMaximumConnectionsPerHost = 1
config.httpAdditionalHeaders = ["Connection": "close"]
config.enablesEarlyData = true
let session = URLSession(configuration: config, delegate: nil, delegateQueue: nil)
let url = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.assumesHTTP3Capable = true
request.httpMethod = "GET"
let task = session.dataTask(with: request) { data, response, error in
if let error = error {
print("Error during URLSession data task: \(error)")
return
}
if let data = data, let responseString = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
print("Received data via URLSession: \(responseString)")
} else {
print("No data received or data is not UTF-8 encoded")
}
}
task.resume()
However, after capturing the packets, I found that the ClientHello packet did not include the early_data extension.
It seems that enablesEarlyData on URLSessionConfiguration is not being applied.
How can I make this work properly?
Hello everyone,
I’m developing an app that connects to Bluetooth Low Energy devices. While the stability of my connection is generally good, I’m looking to improve it. I noticed that the app from VanMoof, a company that makes ebikes, has an really strong connection. It even manages to connect to devices even when the app is forcefully closed. Could you please advise me on how I can improve the stability of my Bluetooth Low Energy connection and ensure that it continues to work even when the app is forcefully closed?
Thanks in advance for your help!
LiveActivity using colorScheme to adapt to dark mode in iOS 26 system does not work
The system keeps returning. mark, unable to switch
I've added a Notification Service Extension as a target to my React Native iOS app following Apple's official documentation. After completing all the setup steps as outlined in the documentation, the notification titles remain unchanged - notifications are arriving without any modifications, suggesting the extension isn't functioning properly.Testing Details:
Sending notifications via Apple Push Notification Console
Tested on iPhone 16 Pro Max (physical device)
Tested on iPhone 15 Pro simulator
Both show the same issue - no title modifications
The extension appears to not be executing at all. Has anyone encountered similar issues with Notification Service Extensions in React Native projects, or can suggest troubleshooting steps to verify the extension is properly configured and running?
Hi support,
Since June 26th 2025 we are experiencing an issue with the ApplePay SSL server certificate installed on our servers in Production environment.
We are facing an exception error during the initializing of a payment session while calling the url:
https://apple-pay-gateway.apple.com/paymentservices/startSession
The exception is Untrusted Server Certificate Chain:
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertificateException: Untrusted Server Certificate Chain
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1915)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:306)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:300)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1577)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:213)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:1010)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:946)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1034)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1343)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1370)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1354)
It seems that the issue occurs randomly: we are experiencing this exception on most of our payment transactions, but there are some cases of users that have correctly paid on our site using this method and in those cases this error did not appear.
We installed the new certificate on our servers on July 3rd 2025 and renewed on Aug 7th 2025.
The new certificate validity is:
Not Before: Aug 6 18:43:52 2025 GMT
Not After : Nov 4 18:08:57 2025 GMT
I must specify that this issue is blocking the correct placement of AppleyPay orders of our customers.
Can you please help us find the problem and a possible solution?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Apple Pay
I've added a Notification Service Extension as a target to my React Native iOS app following Apple's official documentation. After completing all the setup steps as outlined in the documentation, the notification titles remain unchanged - notifications are arriving without any modifications, suggesting the extension isn't functioning properly.Testing Details:
Sending notifications via Apple Push Notification Console
Tested on iPhone 16 Pro Max (physical device)
Tested on iPhone 15 Pro simulator
Both show the same issue - no title modifications
The extension appears to not be executing at all.
Has anyone encountered similar issues with Notification Service Extensions in React Native projects, or can suggest troubleshooting steps to verify the extension is properly configured and running?
We have Wallet and Watch application on iPhone.
Both of them can add card and then waiting for activation.
However, When the same card is added to Wallet and Watch respectively, waiting for the app-to-app mode to be activated.
Client doesn't aware the source application.
Because deeplink is exactly the same.
Any adivse how does the client have to choose which card to activate?
Can I Present AlarmKit's Alarm UI in Expanded Dynamic Island that I implement with SwiftUI when its fired? not System AlarmUI, but my the view that I implemented.
I've implemented Dynamic Island properly, and tried various scenarios but I can't find out the way to present AlarmKit UI in Expanded Dynamic Island when it is fired.
I don't know why, but, sometimes, it is presented in Expanded Dynamic Island UI which is I Implemented. But when I try lots of times, It is presented in System AlarmKit UI not my SwiftUI View.
Can you please tell me how can I present my SwiftUI Expanded Dynamic Island when it is fired?
Sincerely
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Widgets & Live Activities