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Hello, I submitted my app for review on February 5 at 1:53 PM, and it is still currently showing as “Waiting for Review.” I understand that App Store reviews can take time; however, I’ve noticed that my recent submissions have been taking around 10–12 days before the review process begins. I wanted to check if there might be any specific issue or reason for this delay. Historically, my apps have only had minor review feedback (for example, small metadata or description adjustments), and no major compliance issues. For initial reviews of new versions, the waiting time seems significantly longer than expected. I would appreciate any information or guidance you can provide regarding this. Thank you for your support. Best regards, Raj

Hello. My developer membership is expired. I cannot renew because the renewal option/button does not appears in any device. A banner tells me: "Any apps you had on the App Store are no longer available for download and you can no longer access membership benefits. If you’d like to renew your membership to reinstate your apps and membership benefits, open the Apple Developer app on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Sign in to your account, tap/click Renew, and follow the prompts.If you agreed to the Paid Applications Agreement, you’ll need to agree to it again after renewal in the Agreements, Tax and Banking section of App Store Connect." However, there's no "Renew" to tap or click anywhere in the app nor in the web. Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

Hi everyone, I’m exploring ideas around on-device analysis of user typing behavior on iPhone, and I’d love input from others who’ve worked in this area or thought about similar problems. Conceptually, I’m interested in things like: High-level sentiment or tone inferred from what a user types over time using ML-models Identifying a user’s most important or frequent topics over a recent window (e.g., “last week”) Aggregated insights rather than raw text (privacy-preserving summaries: e.g., your typo-rate by hour to infer highly efficient time slots or "take-a-break" warning typing errors increase) I understand the significant privacy restrictions around keyboard input on iOS, especially for third-party keyboards and system text fields. I’m not trying to bypass those constraints—rather, I’m curious about what’s realistically possible within Apple’s frameworks and policies. (For instance, Grammarly as a correction tool includes some information about tone) Questions I’m thinking through: Are there any recommended approaches for on-device text analysis that don’t rely on capturing raw keystrokes? Has anyone used NLP / Core ML / Natural Language successfully for similar summarization or sentiment tasks, scoped only to user-explicit input? For custom keyboards, what kinds of derived or transient signals (if any) are acceptable to process and summarize locally? Any design patterns that balance usefulness with Apple’s privacy expectations? If you’ve built something adjacent—journaling, writing analytics, well-being apps, etc.—I’d appreciate hearing what worked, what didn’t, and what Apple reviewers were comfortable with. Thanks in advance for any ideas or references 🙏

I have an iOS app build that is being tested. The user has provided feedback and screenshots that I can see in Connect. But I cannot download the zip file of the screenshot and feedback information. There are 3 screenshots. Each time I try it just times out. I have tried on a couple of different computers with the same result. Can you help please? Thanks

I’m trying to use MCP servers with Xcode 26.3 Coding Intelligence (Codex agent). With a project-scoped config file at /.codex/config.toml, MCP servers are not reliably loaded. /.codex/config.toml Example: [mcp_servers.Notion] url = "https://mcp.notion.com/mcp" enabled = true [mcp_servers.XcodeBuildMCP] command = "/bin/zsh" args = ["-lc", "/opt/homebrew/bin/npx -y xcodebuildmcp@beta mcp"] enabled = true tool_timeout_sec = 10000 Expected: Xcode consistently loads MCP servers defined in /.codex/config.toml across restarts. Actual: Xcode often only exposes xcode-tools. In some sessions MCP servers appear, but after restarting Xcode they may disappear. The global file at ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/CodingAssistant/codex/config.toml also seems managed/rewritten by Xcode and isn’t reliable for custom MCP servers. Questions Is /.codex/config.toml the official/supported way to configure MCP servers for Codex in Xcode right now? Are there any requirements for Xcode to load it (e.g. workspace must be Trusted, open .xcworkspace vs .xcodeproj, full restart/force quit, etc.)? Is there any logging/diagnostics to understand why the MCP server is not starting or not being picked up?

My app update has been in "Waiting for Review" since January 31. This is my second post here, as it appears the App Review team is monitoring these posts, and this is the only place where I’ve seen direct responses. I’ve submitted multiple support requests and called Apple Developer Support several times, but they can only leave messages for the App Review team, which remain unanswered (support case ID: 102819325365). I also requested an expedited review — with no response. This update is urgent for my app and my team. We are currently blocked and losing revenue each day. I would greatly appreciate any information on how much longer this might take, or whether it is worth continuing to wait.

I submitted my first ever app for review last Thursday, yet I have still had no updates from Apple regarding my review. Is this common for a first time submission or should I be slightly worried that i've been lost in the queue??

Hello Apple Team, Please, we need you to come back to the level of support and consistency we used to have. Right now, the review process and the assistance we’re receiving don’t reflect the standards we’ve known from Apple. Developers don’t deserve this style of support; long waits, unclear rejections, and no real answers. We rely on the App Store to run our businesses, and we simply need the professionalism, clarity, and responsiveness that Apple was always known for. Please help bring that quality back. We deserve better Thank you.

Usually, when you call fetchRecordZoneChanges with the previous change token, you get a list of the record ID’s that have been deleted since your last fetch. But if you get a changeTokenExpired error because it‘s been too long since you last fetched, you have to call fetch again without a token. For my specific application, I still need to know, though, if any records have been deleted since my last sync. How can I get that information if I no longer have a valid change token?

Hello, I want to use the Speech framework in my app. However, I found that if I want it to work offline, it must be downloaded separately on the device. Do I understand correctly that it is not allowed to use it in a Swift Student Challenge submission if English (as the speech language) must be downloaded by the tester on their device using the internet beforehand?

Hi, we are developing a screen time management app. The app locks the device after it was used for specified amount of time. After updating to iOS 26.2, we noticed a huge issue: the events started to fire (reach the threshold) in the DeviceActivityMonitorExtension prematurely, almost immediately after scheduling. The only solution we've found is to delete the app and reboot the device, but the effect is not lasting long and this does not always help. Before updating to iOS 26, events also used to sometimes fire prematurely, but rescheduling the event often helped. Now the rescheduling happens almost every second and the events keep reaching the threshold prematurely. Can you suggest any workarounds for this issue?

I’ve encountered an aspect of the Liquid Glass effect in SwiftUI that seems a bit odd: the Liquid Glass interaction appears to ignore regular hit-testing behavior. The following sample shows a button with hit testing disabled: @main struct LiquidGlassHitTestDemo: App { var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { Button("Liquid") { fatalError("Never called.") } .buttonStyle(.glassProminent) .allowsHitTesting(false) } } } As expected, the button’s action is never called. However, the interactive glass effect still responds to touch events: What’s even more surprising is that the UIKit equivalent behaves differently: final class ViewController: UIViewController { override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let button = UIButton( configuration: .prominentGlass(), primaryAction: UIAction( title: "Liquid", handler: { action in print("Never called.") } ) ) view.addSubview(button) button.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false NSLayoutConstraint.activate([ button.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerXAnchor), button.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor) ]) button.isUserInteractionEnabled = false } } In this case, the effect is not interactive at all. Similarly, if a UIViewController’s root view overrides hitTest(_:with:) to always return nil, the Liquid Glass effect does not react to touch events whatsoever. The only way I’ve found to “properly” disable the glass interactivity in SwiftUI is to use the .disabled(true) modifier. However, this also changes the button’s appearance, which is not always desirable. Is this expected behavior, or could this be a bug? Am I missing something about how Liquid Glass interaction is implemented in SwiftUI?

Hi everyone, On macOS 26.4 beta (with Xcode 26.4 beta), I’m seeing the following console messages in a brand new SwiftData + CloudKit template project (no custom logic added, fresh CloudKit container): updateTaskRequest called for a pre-running task com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.activity.export.F9EE783D-7521-4EC2-B42C-9FD1F29BA5C4 updateTaskRequest called for an already running/updated task com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.activity.export.F9EE783D-7521-4EC2-B42C-9FD1F29BA5C4 Error updating background task request: Error Domain=BGSystemTaskSchedulerErrorDomain Code=8 "(null)" These messages appear: When CloudKit is enabled Occasionally on app launch Often when bringing the app back to the foreground (Cmd-Tab away and back) Even with zero additional SwiftData logic They do not appear when CloudKit is disabled. This behavior is reproducible on a completely new project with a fresh CloudKit container. Questions: What exactly do these messages indicate? Is BGSystemTaskScheduler Code=8 expected in this context? Are these safe to ignore? Is this a known change in logging behavior in macOS 26.4 beta? Additionally, in a larger project I’ve observed SwiftData crashes and initially suspected these logs might be related. However, since the issue reproduces in a fresh template project, I’m unsure whether this is simply verbose beta logging or something more serious. Any clarification would be appreciated. Filed as FB21993521.

I'm developing a visionOS panorama viewer app where I need to implement an auto-hiding floating menu in immersive space. The menu should: Show for 3 seconds when entering immersive mode Auto-hide after 3 seconds, Reappear when user taps anywhere (using SpatialTapGesture). Buttons should respond to gaze + pinch interaction The Problem: When I add .windowStyle(.plain) to achieve transparent window background for the auto-hide effect, all buttons in the menu become completely unresponsive to gaze + pinch interaction. The buttons only respond to direct finger touch (poking). Without .windowStyle(.plain): Buttons work correctly with gaze + pinch, but I cannot achieve transparent window background for hiding. With .windowStyle(.plain): Window can be transparent, but buttons lose gaze + pinch interaction. Code: App.swift: @main struct MyApp: App { @StateObject private var model = AppModel() var body: some Scene { WindowGroup(id: "MainWindow") { ContentView() .environmentObject(model) } .defaultSize(width: 900, height: 700) .windowResizability(.contentSize) .windowStyle(.plain) // <-- This causes the interaction issue ImmersiveSpace(id: "ImmersiveSpace") { ImmersiveView() .environmentObject(model) } } } ContentView.swift (simplified): struct ContentView: View { @EnvironmentObject var model: AppModel @State private var isMenuVisible: Bool = true var body: some View { VStack { if model.isImmersiveViewActive { if isMenuVisible { // This menu's buttons don't respond to gaze+pinch immersiveControlMenu } } else { mainMenuButtons } } .glassBackgroundEffect() } private var immersiveControlMenu: some View { HStack { Button("Exit") { exitImmersiveSpace() } .buttonStyle(.bordered) // Also tried .plain, same issue } .padding() .glassBackgroundEffect() } } ImmersiveView.swift: struct ImmersiveView: View { @EnvironmentObject var model: AppModel var body: some View { RealityView { content in // Panorama sphere let sphere = ModelEntity(mesh: .generateSphere(radius: 1000), materials: [material]) content.add(sphere) // Tap detector for menu toggle let tapDetector = Entity() tapDetector.components.set(CollisionComponent(shapes: [.generateSphere(radius: 900)])) tapDetector.components.set(InputTargetComponent()) content.add(tapDetector) } .gesture( SpatialTapGesture() .targetedToAnyEntity() .onEnded { _ in model.shouldShowMenu = true } ) } } Environment: Xcode 26.2 visionOS 26.3 Vision Pro device Questions: Is .windowStyle(.plain) expected to affect button interaction behavior? What is the recommended approach to achieve a transparent/hidden window in immersive mode while maintaining button interactivity? Is there an alternative to .windowStyle(.plain) for hiding window chrome in visionOS? Thank you for any guidance!

Lately I am getting this error. GenerativeModelsAvailability.Parameters: Initialized with invalid language code: en-GB. Expected to receive two-letter ISO 639 code. e.g. 'zh' or 'en'. Falling back to: en Does anyone know what this is and how it can be resolved. The error does not crash the app

It appears that starting with macOS Sequoia, Quick Look Preview extension no longer loads MapKit maps correctly anymore. Map tiles do not appear, leaving users with a beige background. Users report that polylines do render correctly, but annotations appears black. This was previously working fine in prior macOS versions including Sonoma. STEPS TO REPRODUCE Create a macOS app project, with an associated document. Ensure project has a Quick Look preview extension, with necessary basic setups. Ensure that the extension mentioned in (2) must have a MKMapView. Any other cosmetic changes, etc, does not need to be implemented to observe the base issue. Do note that it has been reported that in addition to the map tiles not loading, annotations don't render correctly as well.

Hi there, I have an SwiftUI app that opens a user selected audio file (wave). For each audio file an additional file exists containing events that were extracted from the audio file. This additional file has the same filename and uses the extension bcCalls. I load the audio file using FileImporter view modifier and within access the audio file with a security scoped bookmark. That works well. After loading the audio I create a CallsSidecar NSFilePresenter with the url of the audio file. I make the presenter known to the NSFileCoordinator and upon this add it to the FileCoordinator. This fails with NSFileSandboxingRequestRelatedItemExtension: Failed to issue extension for; Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=3 "No such process" My Info.plist contains an entry for the document with NSIsRelatedItemType set to YES I am using this kind of FilePresenter code in various live apps developed some years ago. Now when starting from scratch on a fresh macOS26 system with most current Xcode I do not manage to get it running. Any ideas welcome! Here is the code: struct ContentView: View { @State private var sonaImg: CGImage? @State private var calls: Array<CallMeasurements> = Array() @State private var soundContainer: BatSoundContainer? @State private var importPresented: Bool = false var body: some View { VStack { Image(systemName: "globe") .imageScale(.large) .foregroundStyle(.tint) Text("Hello, world!") if self.sonaImg != nil { Image(self.sonaImg!, scale: 1.0, orientation: .left, label: Text("Sonagram")) } if !(self.calls.isEmpty) { List(calls) {aCall in Text("\(aCall.callNumber)") } } Button("Load sound file") { importPresented.toggle() } } .fileImporter(isPresented: $importPresented, allowedContentTypes: [.audio, UTType(filenameExtension: "raw")!], onCompletion: { result in switch result { case .success(let url): let gotAccess = url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() if !gotAccess { return } if let soundContainer = try? BatSoundContainer(with: url) { self.soundContainer = soundContainer self.sonaImg = soundContainer.overviewSonagram(expectedWidth: 800) let callsSidecar = CallsSidecar(withSoundURL: url) let data = callsSidecar.readData() print(data) } url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() case .failure(let error): // handle error print(error) } }) .padding() } } The file presenter according to the WWDC 19 example: class CallsSidecar: NSObject, NSFilePresenter { lazy var presentedItemOperationQueue = OperationQueue.main var primaryPresentedItemURL: URL? var presentedItemURL: URL? init(withSoundURL audioURL: URL) { primaryPresentedItemURL = audioURL presentedItemURL = audioURL.deletingPathExtension().appendingPathExtension("bcCalls") } func readData() -> Data? { var data: Data? var error: NSError? NSFileCoordinator.addFilePresenter(self) let coordinator = NSFileCoordinator.init(filePresenter: self) NSFileCoordinator.addFilePresenter(self) coordinator.coordinate(readingItemAt: presentedItemURL!, options: [], error: &error) { url in data = try! Data.init(contentsOf: url) } return data } } And from Info.plist <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key> <array> <string>bcCalls</string> </array> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key> <string>bcCalls document</string> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>None</string> <key>LSHandlerRank</key> <string>Alternate</string> <key>LSItemContentTypes</key> <array> <string>com.apple.property-list</string> </array> <key>LSTypeIsPackage</key> <false/> <key>NSIsRelatedItemType</key> <true/> </dict> <dict> <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key> <array> <string>wav</string> <string>wave</string> </array> <key>CFBundleTypeName</key> <string>Windows wave</string> <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key> <string>Editor</string> <key>LSHandlerRank</key> <string>Alternate</string> <key>LSItemContentTypes</key> <array> <string>com.microsoft.waveform-audio</string> </array> <key>LSTypeIsPackage</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>NSDocumentClass</key> <string></string> </dict> </array> Note that BatSoundContainer is a custom class for loading audio of various undocumented formats as well as wave, Flac etc. and this is working well displaying a sonogram of the audio. Thx, Volker

I am trying to Build server for testing on Linux(Alma linux 9 VM) NAME="AlmaLinux" VERSION="9.7 (Moss Jungle Cat)" ID="almalinux" ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora" VERSION_ID="9.7" PLATFORM_ID="platform:el9" PRETTY_NAME="AlmaLinux 9.7 (Moss Jungle Cat)" ANSI_COLOR="0;34" [azuki@AlmaDevVM ~]$ uname -m x86_64 I have tried the following steps: Before starting, ensured that Swift 6 installed. Referred https://www.swift.org/install/ for instructions. Build the library In Terminal, uses the following commands to compile the Swift library: cd Development/Key_Server_Module/Swift swift build -Xbuild-tools-swiftc -DTEST_CREDENTIALS After building the library, ran test cases to ensure the library behaves as expected. ALL unit tests are passing with the development credentials. • Since I was using an x86_64 machine: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./Sources/prebuilt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ Run all tests: swift test -Xbuild-tools-swiftc -DTEST_CREDENTIALS --disable-swift-testing Build the server Build the server: Apache Before starting, ensured the following: a. Installed Apache HTTPD and the dev tools. Using the following command for installation: yum install httpd httpd-devel redhat-rpm-config b. After this, integrated it into the Apache server environment with swift library that was built above. Used the following command to build the server using apxs: • Since I was using an x86_64 machine: apxs -i -a -c -Wl,-L${PWD}/.build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/debug/ -Wl,-lswift_fpssdk -Wl,-L${PWD}/Sources/prebuilt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -lfpscrypto -Wl,-R${PWD}/.build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/debug server_setup/mod_fps.c c. Next, copied the dependent libraries to the Apache modules folder using these commands: • If using an x86_64 machine: cp Sources/prebuilt/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libfpscrypto.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libfpscrypto.so cp .build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/debug/libswift_fpssdk.so /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libswift_fpssdk.so d. Configuring Apache HTTPD Configured Apache HTTPD by adding the module and handler to your Apache HTTPD configuration (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf). Note that the apxs command may automatically add the LoadModule line in the previous step. Listen 8080 LoadFile /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libfpscrypto.so LoadFile /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/libswift_fpssdk.so LoadModule fps_module /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_fps.so <Location "/fps"> SetHandler fps_handler Copy the credentials to the Apache modules folder. cp -r ../credentials /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/ export FPS_CERT_PATH= /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/credentials/test_certificates.json e. Run your server You can run the Apache HTTPD server with the configured module by using the following command: httpd -D FOREGROUND No issues see till step. Get SDK version [azuki@AlmaDevVM Key_Server_Module]$ curl localhost:8080/fps/v 26.0.0 But when i try to generate license [azuki@AlmaDevVM Key_Server_Module]$ curl -d ../Test_Inputs/iOS/spc_ios_hd_lease_2048.json localhost:8080/fps {"fairplay-streaming-response":{"create-ckc":[{"id":1,"status":-42601}]}} Can you please suggest what i might be missing here?

I put a test.mp3 (30 sec) file into the App Bundle. I scheduled an AlarmKit alarm with the file name test.mp3. The custom sound plays ✅ I copied the file from the App Bundle to Library/Sounds/test2.mp3. I scheduled an AlarmKit alarm with the file name test2.mp3. Instead of playing the custom sound, it falls back to the default sound ❌ According to the documentation, sounds placed in Library/Sounds should be playable: I filed report FB19779004 on August 20, but haven’t received any response yet. This functionality is critical for our use case, so could you please let me know whether this is expected to be fixed soon, or if I’m misunderstanding the intended behavior?

We made a purchase to join the Apple Developer Program, but we have been waiting for 5 days and have not received any response such as an approval or rejection. Are you experiencing the same issue as well?