Hi everyone,
I’m experiencing a persistent issue when trying to download the iOS Simulator Runtime 26.1 on Xcode (version 26.1). The download always fails with the following error
Download failed due to a bad URL. (Catalog download for com.apple.MobileAsset.iOSSimulatorRuntime)
Domain: com.apple.MobileAssetError.Download
Code: 49
I’m located in Brazil, so I initially thought it might be region-related, but I’ve already tried several attempts to fix it, including:
Using VPNs for the US and Europe
Installing the Xcode 26.2 beta
Downgrading Xcode to earlier versions
Reinstalling the same version of Xcode
Restarting Xcode and my Mac
Switching networks
Clearing simulator support/device files
Unfortunately, nothing has resolved the issue.
Is anyone else facing this problem?
Does anyone know a workaround or a manual way to download/install the iOS 26.1 simulator runtime?
Thanks in advance!
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I have a project which contains local packages. One of the packages has an explicit dependency on package A, but the main project also has the same dependency. Both of them are pinned to the exact version at all times.
Should I manage "shared" dependencies at the project level for local packages? This seems counter intuitive at first, but this question is originating from me fighting with a "Build service could not create build operation: unable to load transferred PIF: The workspace contains multiple references with the same GUID" error in Xcode 16 (all versions). It happens when I switch branches. Closing and reopening Xcode does resolve the issue, but it's a real flow killer.
The guide below doesn't mention dependency graph best practice.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/organizing-your-code-with-local-packages
Thank in advance.
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I am writing to report an ongoing issue with the Apple Developer Program enrollment process specifically affecting developers in India, along with significant concerns about Apple's support responsiveness in this region.
Issue Summary:
I have been attempting to enroll in the paid Apple Developer Program ($99/year) using the Apple Developer app on my iPhone for the past 4 days. Every enrollment attempt results in the following errors:
"Unknown Error - Please try again"
"Invalid Request - Service mapping to the requested URL is not available"
My Setup (All Verified Correct):
Apple ID Region: India
Trusted Phone Number: +91 (India country code, matching my Apple ID region)
Two-Factor Authentication: Enabled (genuine 2FA, not two-step verification)
2FA Devices: iPhone, MacBook Pro devices, and trusted phone number all verified
Account Information: Legal name, address, date of birth, and email all updated and verified on account.apple.com
Device: iPhone 17 Pro running latest iOS
Troubleshooting Attempted:
I have completed every troubleshooting step suggested by the community and by Apple Support myself:
✅ Verified genuine Two-Factor Authentication is enabled
✅ Confirmed Apple ID region matches trusted phone number region (+91)
✅ Updated all personal information (legal name, address, email) on account.apple.com
✅ Force restarted iPhone multiple times
✅ Uninstalled and reinstalled Apple Developer app
✅ Signed out and signed back in with correct Apple ID
✅ Tested on both WiFi and cellular data
✅ Waited 48+ hours between attempts
None of these steps resolved the issue.
Support Response Issues:
This is where my frustration peaks. I have attempted to contact Apple Support multiple ways:
Phone Support: Shows "Phone support is currently unavailable" (though it was available last week)
Email Support: Submitted via developer.apple.com/support → No response for 4 days
Previous Contact: Had contacted support last week, but the troubleshooting steps provided did not resolve the issue
Current Status: No follow-up communication or resolution path from Apple
Known Issue in India - Why This Matters:
I have researched this extensively and found multiple threads in this forum (dating back months) with developers in India reporting identical errors during enrollment. To date, I have not found a single resolved thread with a working solution. This indicates:
This is a documented, recurring issue affecting Indian developers specifically
Apple appears to have backend infrastructure issues specific to India
Support has not provided a resolution path despite multiple reports
The Real Problem:
Apple's Developer Program enrollment system appears to have specific bugs or limitations that prevent developers in India from successfully enrolling, yet:
Support responsiveness is severely lacking
There is no documented workaround or known resolution
The support team seems unaware of or unprepared to handle this region-specific issue
My Request:
Acknowledgement from Apple that this is a known issue affecting India-based developers
A concrete resolution path (whether manual backend enablement, account review, or system fix)
Expected timeline for resolution:
Improved support responsiveness - Developers deserve answers, not silence
Additional Context:
I am ready to provide screen recordings of the exact error
I have all the necessary documentation (identity verification, address proof, etc.)
I am willing to complete any additional verification steps
I simply need clear communication and a path forward
I have been developing for iOS and want to contribute to the Apple ecosystem. However, this enrollment barrier is preventing me from doing so. Apple's support infrastructure for India needs improvement, and this issue needs attention.
If any Apple team member is monitoring this forum, please escalate this issue. Indian developers deserve better support and communication.
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Apple Developer Program
Tags:
Community Management
Developer Tools
Developer Program
I installed a custom font (Font awesome) into my app. I triple checked that I did everything right: the font files are included in the bundle (they appear in the "Copy Bundle Resources" build phase) and the names of the fonts appear in the Info.plist file under "Fonts provided by application".
In Interface builder, I select a Label, set the font to "Custom", then I click the Family list to select the font I want.
Once or twice, I was actually able to see the Font Awesome fonts in this list and select one. However, they no longer appear there when I create new labels in new views. I do not understand why. I've been limping along by copying a label from one of the views where it worked and pasting it into the new view, but this is tiresome.
I know the fonts are installed correctly because I can see them when I run the app.
Why are the fonts not showing up on the font list in interface builder?
I can't install Simulator 18.2
I reinstalled sometimes Xcode y always return this erro
Download failed.
Domain: DVTDownloadableErrorDomain
Code: 41
User Info: {
DVTErrorCreationDateKey = "2025-02-15 15:41:39 +0000";
}
Download failed.
Domain: DVTDownloadableErrorDomain
Code: 41
Failed fetching catalog for assetType (com.apple.MobileAsset.appleTVOSSimulatorRuntime), serverParameters ({
RequestedBuild = 22K5148a;
})
Domain: DVTDownloadsUtilitiesErrorDomain
Code: -1
Download failed due to a bad URL. (Catalog download for com.apple.MobileAsset.appleTVOSSimulatorRuntime)
Domain: com.apple.MobileAssetError.Download
Code: 49
User Info: {
checkConfiguration = 1;
}
System Information
macOS Version 15.2 (Build 24C101)
Xcode 16.2 (23504) (Build 16C5023f)
Timestamp: 2025-02-15T09:41:39-06:00
Xcode is throwing an error when attempting to report test coverage after running unit tests.
Showing All Messages
Failed to merge raw profiles in directory /{my project dir}/DerivedData/{my project name}/Build/ProfileData/A98EC493-3AB4-4B1C-B7FC-BC5D77B23EE3 to destination /{my project dir}/DerivedData/{my project name}/Build/ProfileData/A98EC493-3AB4-4B1C-B7FC-BC5D77B23EE3/Coverage.profdata: Aggregation tool '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/llvm-profdata' failed with exit code 1: warning: /{my project dir}/DerivedData/{my project name}/Build/ProfileData/A98EC493-3AB4-4B1C-B7FC-BC5D77B23EE3/997F01E3-3735-4897-AE00-31EBB0A9E8D3-57885.profraw: invalid instrumentation profile data (file header is corrupt)
error: no profile can be merged
Anyone else seeing this issue?
It is gone from where I used to find it on Apple’s web site. Is it deprecated or no longer available?
Simply opening Simulator app (26.0) causes high CPU usage on macOS Tahoe (26.1).
ReportCrash process usage is very high throughout and causes the system to heat up pretty soon.
Looking into Console app for the logs found MercuryPosterExtension process is keep on crashing. (Check under Crash Reports)
simctl Diagnose
https://download.developer.apple.com/OS_X/OS_X_Logs/simctl_Diagnose_Logging_Instructions.pdf
Share the Simulator Diagnose report while reporting, Thanks.
I have raised a ticket/feedback with Apple. I request all of you to raise one too so this gets fixed soon.
Apple Feedback Assistant - FB20985249
Using Xcode to build and deploy the app to my watch, this is what I get:
“Waiting to reconnect to Apple Watch. Previous preparation error: Transport error." And then “Connecting to Apple Watch. Xcode will continue when the operation completes.”
And these messages continue to switch between each other.
Sometimes the watch to connect and the application starts, but more often a scenario occurs with endless reconnection.
I'm using: MacOS 14.4.1 (MacBook Pro 2019; 1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5), Xcode 15.3, Watch OS 10.2 (Apple Watch SE 1), iOS 17.1.1 (iPhone 15 Pro).
Methods I tried:
Connecting Macbook, iPhone and Watch to the same WIfi network;
Disabling Watch (and IPhone) from the "Devices and Simulators" menu and setting up Watch (and IPhone) from the beginning.
Any help?
When the Icon Composer file is imported into the project folder, and after building, there is a warning that says:
Failed to parse icontool JSON output.
Parts of the warnings show this:
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
\211PNG
^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
\211PNG
^
Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
\211PNG
^
/* com.apple.actool.notices */
warning: Failed to parse icontool JSON output.
Underlying Errors:
Description: The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.
Failure Reason: The data is not in the correct format.
Debug Description: Garbage at end around line 6, column 0.
/* com.apple.actool.compilation-results */
I have created the icon with png files in each layer group in icon composer.
However the project is able to compile, and running shows the correct icon.
What is the issue with this?
Hello,
We are experiencing a persistent issue where macOS builds in Xcode Cloud consistently hang at the Archive stage.
The build itself completes successfully, but no artifacts appear, and it seems the build gets stuck during artifact upload. These builds remain in this state for several days (currently 3 days and counting) not failing, but never finishing.
We opened a support ticket (102756662562), but we have not received any response yet.
We rely on Xcode Cloud for our entire CI/CD pipeline, and at the moment our workflow is completely blocked because of this issue.
Has anyone encountered something similar or found a workaround?
Thank you.
I work on some proprietary codebases and can only use private AI services with them (currently MiniMax M2.1 and GLM 4.7). It all works great with both Claude Code and OpenCode agents, and I'd like to leverage the new agentic capabilities that are now in Xcode 26.3.
I'm not seeing any option to connect to OpenCode, and both the Anthropic and OpenAI providers require an enterprise account (which I don't have access to).
Are there any options that I'm missing here?
Hi everyone,
I recently updated to Xcode 26.0 and noticed that the “Extract Subview” refactoring option seems to be missing.
Now, in Xcode 26, the only options I see under Editor -> Refactor -> are:
Extract to Selection File
Extract to Method
Extract to Variable
Extract All Occurrences
But there’s no Extract Subview as there was before.
Was Extract Subview intentionally removed in Xcode 26? Or is it hidden behind a new menu location or renamed?
After updating my Xcode to the latest, I am unable to download an installed app container from the Xcode Devices screen. This currently works with older versions of Xcode with the same app on the same iPad. This worked with older versions of Xcode on the same MacBook as well (including the Xcode 26 beta before updating to the official release yesterday)
The specified file could not be transferred.
Domain: com.apple.dt.CoreDeviceError
Code: 7000
User Info: {
DVTErrorCreationDateKey = "2025-09-18 20:31:01 +0000";
NSURL = "file:///Users/thomsk2/Desktop/com.test.polarisdev%202025-09-18%2015:30.53.744.xcappdata/AppData/Library/Caches/";
}
The specified file could not be transferred.
Domain: com.apple.dt.CoreDeviceError
Code: 7000
User Info: {
NSURL = "file:///Users/thomsk2/Desktop/com.test.polarisdev%202025-09-18%2015:30.53.744.xcappdata/AppData/Library/Caches/";
}
Failed to perform I/O operations.
Domain: com.apple.dt.remoteservices.error
Code: 11001
Failure Reason: Cannot open destination file /Users/thomsk2/Desktop/com.test.polarisdev 2025-09-18 15:30.53.744.xcappdata/AppData/Library/Caches/com.apple.dyld/standaloneapp.ios.dyld4: Permission denied
System Information
macOS Version 15.6.1 (Build 24G90)
Xcode 26.0 (24228) (Build 17A324)
Timestamp: 2025-09-18T15:31:01-05:00
Hi there,
I successfully created an AppIntent for our app, and when I had it in the same target as our main app it showed up fine in the shortcuts app.
Then I realized that many of the new System Control widgets introduced in iOS 18 (e.g. lockscreen, control center) live in the widget extension target, but they also need to reference that same AppIntent. So to fix this, I thought I'd migrate out the code into it's own SPM package that both the WidgetExtension and the Main App processes can reference. However, after doing that and rebuilding, the intent no longer shows up in the Shortcuts app. Furthermore, my AppShortcutsProvider class now has this error when trying to define the list of appShortcuts:
App Intent <name> should be in the same target as AppShortcutsProvider
Is this intended, and if so, how do we reference the same AppIntent across multiple targets?
Ever since updating to Xcode 16.3, auto-completing variable names in lldb does not work.
Is this a known bug? Is there a workaround to get it do auto-complete again?
When running a SwiftUI Multiplatform app in Xcode Cloud I'm getting the following error:
CIWatcher encountered an error in CIWatcherTests failed with:
Failed to install or launch the test runner. (Underlying Error: Could not launch “CIWatcherTests”. Runningboard has returned error 5. Please check the system logs for the underlying cause of the error. (Underlying Error: The operation couldn’t be completed. Launch failed. (Underlying Error: Launchd job spawn failed)))
This runs fine on iOS and all those tests pass.
The SwiftUI app on Mac is a menu bar app so I'm not sure if this could be the issue as it's not launching for some reason on the Xcode Cloud system? Maybe I need to add some run option to make this work?
When run locally both iOS and macOS pass all the tests successfully
I want to use a ci_script to change the CI_BUILD_NUMBER to a new value.
But in XCODE CLOUD there seems to be no programmatic way to change it?
Will RC be allowed to upload to App Store Connect?
I have tried a couple of times with 17A321 and I keep getting unsupported SDK or Xcode version.
Submitted feedback FB20178551
Since a few days, I'm trying to fetch our private SPM repo hosted on Azure via Xcode but without success. Actually they now accept only ssh key RSA-SHA2-256 or RSA-SHA2-512.
So I created a new SSH key, but it seems the problem persists when I try to fetch spm repo or git clone via xcode:
"You’re using ssh-rsa that is about to be deprecated and your request has been blocked intentionally. Any SSH session using SSH-RSA is subject to brown out (failure during random time periods). Please use rsa-sha2-256 or rsa-sha2-512 instead. For more details see aka.ms/ado-ssh-rsa-deprecation. remote: ERROR_SSH_UNSUPPORTED_CIPHER (7) (-20)"
Even so I'm choosing the good new ssh key, it seems Xcode is sending wrong information about the new generated ssh key.
Anyone is experiencing the same here?