I'm developing Androfest, a native Android app with a SwiftUI macOS companion. It provides user-authorized notification forwarding, automatic clipboard synchronization, file transfer, and phone-call controls, with experimental call-audio relay. I need a secure, direct connection between a nearby Android phone and a Mac without requiring both devices to join the same Wi-Fi network or using a cloud relay. Discovery, authenticated pairing, and a bidirectional IP data path are the requirements; application traffic uses certificate-pinned TLS. The Android side uses WifiAwareManager. My development devices are a Galaxy S24 FE running Android 16 / One UI 8 and an Apple silicon M4 Pro Mac running macOS 27.2. I read the DTS answer in “Do Mac computers support Wi-Fi Aware?” (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/827887), which explains that the presence of the framework for Mac Catalyst does not imply usable Wi-Fi Aware support on Mac. I am asking specifically about the provisioning information below and whether there is an approved path for this use case. In Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles → Register an App ID → Capabilities → Wi-Fi Aware, the information popover currently shows: Platform Support: iOS Provisioning Support: Development, Ad hoc, App Store Connect, Developer ID Entitlement Keys: com.apple.developer.wifi-aware This is confusing because Developer ID is listed while macOS is not listed under Platform Support. The native macOS SDK declarations I inspected mark the public Wi-Fi Aware APIs unavailable on macOS. Two previously generated Developer ID provisioning profiles for my test App ID had Platform = OSX, but neither contained com.apple.developer.wifi-aware. I also could not find a Wi-Fi Aware-specific approval request in the portal's Capability Requests list. Could Apple clarify the following? Does the Developer ID entry describe a usable configuration for native macOS or Mac Catalyst applications, or is it a portal metadata issue? Is there a supported API, managed entitlement, or approval process for Wi-Fi Aware discovery and IP data paths between a third-party macOS app and an Android device? If so, which target platform, capability, provisioning-profile type, and signing configuration are required? Can that configuration operate on a standard Mac with SIP enabled, default NVRAM/boot arguments, and normal code-signing enforcement? A distributable application needs to work under those conditions. If Wi-Fi Aware is not supported for this scenario, what supported transport would Apple recommend for router-independent Android–Mac communication? Where should I file an enhancement request, and should the portal's Developer ID entry be reported separately? I would appreciate guidance on the supported integration route and any missing provisioning or entitlement step. Thank you.

Hello, I'm currently developing a NAC agent and, based on my research so far, it seems macOS does not allow the use of a custom 802.1X supplicant. Is there any roadmap or indication that Apple may support third-party/custom 802.1X supplicants in future macOS releases? I'd appreciate any clarification or insight on this topic.