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We have an iOS/iPadOS (mixed use of UIKit/SwiftUI) app on the App Store since a couple of years.
Over the last month or so, we are receiving many user reports complaining about app freezing and behaving very bad generally. The common denominator for all of these users (~10) is that they are using iPad Pro M4, 13 inch, and they are on at least iPadOS 26.2 - some have updated to 26.2.1, 26.3 etc but the problems remain. Some of the users say that they were using our app normally, until the release of 26.2, or perhaps 26.2.1, from when the problems seem to have started.
Some report the problems that go away when they "use another WiFi", or when they hold the device in portrait mode (it seems that many complaints seem to suggest that the problem is in when holding the device in landscape). Other say the app works fine if they start it without network enabled, and after enabling network, continue in the app.
While we currently do not have an iPad Pro M4 13 inch to test with, we haven't been able to reproduce the problem on any other device.
We haven't heard of any similar problems from users of other devices.
While we have no idea what is causing these problems, my feeling is that there might be a possibility that there is some kind of problem with iPad Pro M4 and the recent iPadOS versions.
Just reaching out to see if anyone else have seen anything similar.
https://developer.apple.com/feedback-assistant/profiles-and-logs/
There is no iOS profile in this link.
Several of my users are reporting on at lest recent and current versions of iOS the value from one characteristic can be swapped with another.
Originally I thought this was a library issue but it doesn't happen on Android and now a user with two iPhones using the exact same app and iOS 26.3 on both has the issue on one phone but not the other.
I've gone into more detail here which also includes a little data dumping to prove the values between characteristics can be mixed up.
https://github.com/dotintent/react-native-ble-plx/issues/1316
One user reported cycling Bluetooth on/off fixed the issue but the latest user says it does not.
For the peripheral the services can only change if the device enters firmware update mode (in which case the service UUID is different). Otherwise the characteristics on a service never change. This would make it a strange one to be caching related since the cache should always be correct.
'Guideline 2.1 - Performance - App Completeness' - "...could not be found in the submitted binary."
I have checked with internal and external testers and my devices and simulators, everyone sees the in app purchases but I just had my submitted rejected for the second time with the comment that these in-app none-consumable purchases cannot be found with the submitted binary.
I even attached a slow step by step screen recording for the review reply after the first rejection showing how to reach the purchasable packs by navigating through only 3 buttons:
"How to access the purchase flow:
Launch the app
Tap the bottom-center Settings button (icon: switch.2)
Tap “Customisation gallery”
Scroll to find any pack listed above
Tap the pack price chip
Tap “Buy pack – [price]” to start the StoreKit purchase flow"
I also attached a clear image along with detailed instruction (same as above) for the Review Information. and the second rejection was received today for the same reason.
I'm being guided to the localization 'Developer Action Needed'. I'm not sure what more can be done? I feel like my review replies aren't even looked at.
A macOS privileged helper tool that uses SubProcess crashes on intel Macs (running macOS 13 - 15: unable to test on macOS 26 on intel) with the error that libswiftCompatibilitySpan.dylib cannot be loaded when built with XCode 26.3. The same helper tool works as expected with XCode 26.2.
The helper is installed using SMAppService.
When I remove the dependency for SubProcess, the crash no longer occurs (but important functionality is also disabled).
Area
Health & Fitness → HealthKit → Health Records (FHIR Ingestion)
Summary
On devices running iOS 26.2, FHIR Clinical Records successfully connect and validate, but no data (Procedure, DiagnosticReport, Observation, etc.) is ingested into the Health app.
The same FHIR server and patient connection works correctly on iOS 18.1, where all data syncs and displays as expected.
On iOS 26.2:
FHIR validation passes in Health Records
“Last Download Date” updates
Patient data is visible in connection
No clinical data appears in Health app
No apps are listed under Privacy → Health
Device shows “No Data Found”
Crash logs show healthappd terminating during ingestion
This appears to be a regression in the HealthPlatform / HealthKit ingestion pipeline in iOS 26.
Steps to Reproduce
Use an iPhone running iOS 26.2
Open Health app
Add Health Record from FHIR server
Authenticate successfully
Confirm FHIR validation screen shows all resources as “Passed”
Wait for sync to complete
Expected Result
Procedures, DiagnosticReports, Observations, etc. should appear in Health app
Data should be written to HealthKit
Apps should appear under Settings → Privacy & Security → Health
Actual Result
No data appears in Health app
No Procedures, DiagnosticReports, Observations, etc.
Apps section under Health permissions shows “None”
Device shows “No Data Found”
Last Download Date updates correctly
Validation Results (All Passed)
The following FHIR resources show “Passed” in Health validation:
AllergyIntolerance
Condition
DiagnosticReport
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Cardiology
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Pathology
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Radiology
DocumentReference-ClinicalNotes
Immunization
MedicationRequest
Observation-Labs
Observation-VitalSigns
Patient
Procedure
Server responses are correct and return expected data when tested via Postman.
Crash Log Details
Crash occurs in process:
healthappd
Frameworks involved:
HealthPlatform.framework
HealthKit
Combine
Exception:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS
SIGKILL
EXC_ARM_PAC_FAIL
Thread:
com.apple.HealthKit.HKHealthStoreImplementation.client
Stack trace includes:
objc_msgSend
HKSharedSummary
DictionaryStorage.deinit
swift_release_dealloc
objc_destructInstance
Publishers.MergeMany
Future.init
This indicates the ingestion pipeline crashes before data is written to HealthKit.
Comparison Across OS Versions
iOS Version
Result
iOS 18.1
Data syncs correctly
iOS 26.2
No data syncs, healthappd crash
Same:
Same FHIR server
Same patient
Same authentication
Same device model
Same iCloud settings
Additional Notes
OAuth flow succeeds
FHIR validation passes
Server responses are correct
Postman returns correct JSON
No TLS errors
No permission errors
Issue only occurs on iOS 26+
This appears to be a regression in the FHIR ingestion engine introduced after iOS 18.1.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Health & Fitness
Area
Health & Fitness → HealthKit → Health Records (FHIR Ingestion)
Summary
On devices running iOS 26.2, FHIR Clinical Records successfully connect and validate, but no data (Procedure, DiagnosticReport, Observation, etc.) is ingested into the Health app.
The same FHIR server and patient connection works correctly on iOS 18.1, where all data syncs and displays as expected.
On iOS 26.2:
FHIR validation passes in Health Records
“Last Download Date” updates
Patient data is visible in connection
No clinical data appears in Health app
No apps are listed under Privacy → Health
Device shows “No Data Found”
Crash logs show healthappd terminating during ingestion
This appears to be a regression in the HealthPlatform / HealthKit ingestion pipeline in iOS 26.
Steps to Reproduce
Use an iPhone running iOS 26.2
Open Health app
Add Health Record from FHIR server
Authenticate successfully
Confirm FHIR validation screen shows all resources as “Passed”
Wait for sync to complete
Expected Result
Procedures, DiagnosticReports, Observations, etc. should appear in Health app
Data should be written to HealthKit
Apps should appear under Settings → Privacy & Security → Health
Actual Result
No data appears in Health app
No Procedures, DiagnosticReports, Observations, etc.
Apps section under Health permissions shows “None”
Device shows “No Data Found”
Last Download Date updates correctly
Validation Results (All Passed)
The following FHIR resources show “Passed” in Health validation:
AllergyIntolerance
Condition
DiagnosticReport
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Cardiology
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Pathology
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Radiology
DocumentReference-ClinicalNotes
Immunization
MedicationRequest
Observation-Labs
Observation-VitalSigns
Patient
Procedure
Server responses are correct and return expected data when tested via Postman.
Crash Log Details
Crash occurs in process:
healthappd
Frameworks involved:
HealthPlatform.framework
HealthKit
Combine
Exception:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS
SIGKILL
EXC_ARM_PAC_FAIL
Thread:
com.apple.HealthKit.HKHealthStoreImplementation.client
Stack trace includes:
objc_msgSend
HKSharedSummary
DictionaryStorage.deinit
swift_release_dealloc
objc_destructInstance
Publishers.MergeMany
Future.init
This indicates the ingestion pipeline crashes before data is written to HealthKit.
Comparison Across OS Versions
iOS Version
Result
iOS 18.1
Data syncs correctly
iOS 26.2
No data syncs, healthappd crash
Same:
Same FHIR server
Same patient
Same authentication
Same device model
Same iCloud settings
Additional Notes
OAuth flow succeeds
FHIR validation passes
Server responses are correct
Postman returns correct JSON
No TLS errors
No permission errors
Issue only occurs on iOS 26+
This appears to be a regression in the FHIR ingestion engine introduced after iOS 18.1.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Health & Fitness
I'm using NEPacketTunnelProvider to intercept DNS queries, forward them upstream,
and inject the responses back via writePacketObjects().
This works correctly for responses under ~500 bytes. For larger responses (~893
bytes, e.g. DNS CERT records), writePacketObjects() returns without error but
mDNSResponder never receives the packet — it retries 3–4 times and then times out.
What I have verified:
IP and UDP checksums are correct
UDP length and IP total length fields are correct
Maximum packet size (MTU) set to 1500 in NEIPv4Settings/NEIPv6Settings
Approaches tried:
Injecting the full 921-byte packet — writePacketObjects() succeeds but the
packet never reaches mDNSResponder
IP-level fragmentation — fragments appear to be silently dropped
Setting the TC (truncation) bit — mDNSResponder does not retry over TCP
Truncating the response to ≤512 bytes — the packet arrives but the data is
incomplete
Questions:
Is there a supported way to deliver a DNS response larger than 512 bytes
through NEPacketTunnelFlow?
Does NEPacketTunnelProvider impose an undocumented packet size limit below
the configured MTU?
Does mDNSResponder silently discard responses larger than 512 bytes when the
original query had no EDNS0 OPT record? Is there a way to signal that larger
responses are supported?
Are IP-level fragments reliably delivered through writePacketObjects()?
Tested on iOS 26.3, physical device.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Networking
We have a VPN app that uses NEPacketTunnelProvider with includeAllNetworks = true. We've encountered an issue where push notifications are not delivered over Wi-Fi while the tunnel is active in a pre-MFA quarantine state (tunnel is up but traffic is blocked on server side), regardless of whether excludeAPNS is set to true or false.
Observed behavior
Wi-Fi excludeAPNS = true - Notifications not delivered
Wi-Fi excludeAPNS = false - Notifications not delivered
Cellular excludeAPNS = true - Notifications delivered
Cellular excludeAPNS = false - Notifications not delivered
On cellular, the behavior matches our expectations: setting excludeAPNS = true allows APNS traffic to bypass the tunnel and notifications arrive; setting it to false routes APNS through the tunnel and notifications are blocked (as expected for a non-forwarding tunnel). On Wi-Fi, notifications fail to deliver in both cases.
Our question
Is this expected behavior when includeAllNetworks is enabled on Wi-Fi, or is this a known issue / bug with APNS delivery? Is there something else in the Wi-Fi networking path that includeAllNetworks affects beyond routing, which could prevent APNS from functioning even when the traffic is excluded from the tunnel?
Sample Project
Below is the minimal code that reproduces this issue. The project has two targets: a main app and a Network Extension. The tunnel provider captures all IPv4 and IPv6 traffic via default routes but does not forward packets — simulating a pre-MFA quarantine state. The main app configures the tunnel with includeAllNetworks = true and provides a UI toggle for excludeAPNS.
PacketTunnelProvider.swift (Network Extension target):
import NetworkExtension
class PacketTunnelProvider: NEPacketTunnelProvider {
override func startTunnel(options: [String : NSObject]?, completionHandler: @escaping (Error?) -> Void) {
let settings = NEPacketTunnelNetworkSettings(tunnelRemoteAddress: "127.0.0.1")
let ipv4 = NEIPv4Settings(addresses: ["198.51.100.1"], subnetMasks: ["255.255.255.0"])
ipv4.includedRoutes = [NEIPv4Route.default()]
settings.ipv4Settings = ipv4
let ipv6 = NEIPv6Settings(addresses: ["fd00::1"], networkPrefixLengths: [64])
ipv6.includedRoutes = [NEIPv6Route.default()]
settings.ipv6Settings = ipv6
let dns = NEDNSSettings(servers: ["198.51.100.1"])
settings.dnsSettings = dns
settings.mtu = 1400
setTunnelNetworkSettings(settings) { error in
if let error = error {
completionHandler(error)
return
}
self.readPackets()
completionHandler(nil)
}
}
private func readPackets() {
packetFlow.readPackets { [weak self] packets, protocols in
self?.readPackets()
}
}
override func stopTunnel(with reason: NEProviderStopReason, completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
completionHandler()
}
override func handleAppMessage(_ messageData: Data, completionHandler: ((Data?) -> Void)?) {
if let handler = completionHandler {
handler(messageData)
}
}
override func sleep(completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
completionHandler()
}
override func wake() {
}
}
ContentView.swift (Main app target) — trimmed to essentials:
import SwiftUI
import NetworkExtension
struct ContentView: View {
@State private var excludeAPNs = false
@State private var manager: NETunnelProviderManager?
var body: some View {
VStack {
Toggle("Exclude APNs", isOn: $excludeAPNs)
.onChange(of: excludeAPNs) { Task { await saveAndReload() } }
Button("Connect") { Task { await toggleVPN() } }
}
.padding()
.task { await loadManager() }
}
private func loadManager() async {
let managers = try? await NETunnelProviderManager.loadAllFromPreferences()
if let existing = managers?.first {
manager = existing
} else {
let m = NETunnelProviderManager()
let proto = NETunnelProviderProtocol()
proto.providerBundleIdentifier = "<your-extension-bundle-id>"
proto.serverAddress = "127.0.0.1"
proto.includeAllNetworks = true
proto.excludeAPNs = excludeAPNs
m.protocolConfiguration = proto
m.localizedDescription = "TestVPN"
m.isEnabled = true
try? await m.saveToPreferences()
try? await m.loadFromPreferences()
manager = m
}
if let proto = manager?.protocolConfiguration as? NETunnelProviderProtocol {
excludeAPNs = proto.excludeAPNs
}
}
private func saveAndReload() async {
guard let manager else { return }
if let proto = manager.protocolConfiguration as? NETunnelProviderProtocol {
proto.includeAllNetworks = true
proto.excludeAPNs = excludeAPNs
}
manager.isEnabled = true
try? await manager.saveToPreferences()
try? await manager.loadFromPreferences()
}
private func toggleVPN() async {
guard let manager else { return }
if manager.connection.status == .connected {
manager.connection.stopVPNTunnel()
} else {
await saveAndReload()
try? manager.connection.startVPNTunnel()
}
}
}
Steps to reproduce
Build and run the sample project with above code on a physical iOS device. Connect to a Wi-Fi network.
Set excludeAPNS = true using the toggle and tap Connect.
Send a push notification to the device to a test app with remote notification capability (e.g., via a test push service or the push notification console).
Observe that the notification is not delivered.
Disconnect. Switch to cellular. Reconnect with the same settings.
Send the same push notification — observe that it is delivered.
Environment
iOS 26.2
Xcode 26.2
Physical device (iPhone 15 Pro)
Is it somehow possible to get the transport layer (UDP and TCP) payload amounts for TLS or QUIC connections established via the Network framework? (From within the app itself that establishes the connections.)
I am currently using the ntstat.h kernel socket calls, but I hope there is a simpler solution.
With ntstat, I have not yet been able to observe a specific connection. I have to search for the connection I am looking in all (userspace) connections.
I'm working on an app that syncs with Apple Health events. Every time an event occurs, the app should send a notification.
The problem occurs when the app is backgrounded or force-closed; it can no longer send local notifications, and because these events can occur at any time, scheduled notifications can't be used.
I'm just wondering if anyone's found a creative way around this. I know we can't override system behaviour, I'm just thinking of other alternative solutions for the matter.
Hi everyone,
I’m facing an issue with CloudKit sync getting stuck during initial device migration in my SwiftData-based app.
The app follows a local-first architecture using SwiftData + CloudKit sync, and works correctly for:
✔ Incremental sync
✔ Bi-directional updates
✔ Small datasets
However, when onboarding a new device with large historical data, sync becomes extremely slow or appears stuck. Even after two hours data is not fully synced. ~6900 Transactions
🚨 Problem
When installing the app on a new iPhone and enabling iCloud sync:
• Initial hydration starts
• A small amount of data syncs
• Then sync stalls indefinitely
Observed behaviour:
• iPhone → Mac sync works (new changes sync back)
• Mac → iPhone large historical migration gets stuck
• Reinstalling app / clearing container does not resolve issue
• Sync never completes full migration
This gives the impression that:
CloudKit is trickling data but not progressing after a certain threshold.
The architecture is:
• SwiftData local store
• Manual CloudKit sync layer
• Local-first persistence
• Background push/pull sync
So I understand:
✔ Conflict resolution is custom
✔ Initial import may not be optimized by default
But I expected CloudKit to eventually deliver all records.
Instead, the new device remains permanently in a “partial state”.
⸻
🔍 Observations
• No fatal CloudKit errors
• No rate-limit errors
• No quota issues
• iCloud is available
• Sync state remains “Ready”
• Hydration remains “mostlyReady”
Meaning:
CloudKit does not report failure — but data transfer halts.
⸻
🤔 Questions
Would appreciate guidance on:
Is CloudKit designed to support large initial dataset migration via manual sync layers?
Or is this a known limitation vs NSPersistentCloudKitContainer?
⸻
Does CloudKit internally throttle historical record fetches?
Could it silently stall without error when record volume is high?
⸻
Is there any recommended strategy for:
• Bulk initial migration
• Progressive hydration
• Forcing forward sync progress
⸻
Should initial migration be handled outside CloudKit (e.g. via file transfer / backup restore) before enabling sync?
⸻
🎯 Goal
I want to support:
• Large historical onboarding
• Multi-device sync
• User-visible progress
Without forcing migration to Core Data.
⸻
🙏 Any advice on:
• Best practices
• Debugging approach
• CloudKit behavior in such scenarios
would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Swift Packages
CloudKit
Swift
Cloud and Local Storage
Hello Apple team,
We would like to access the user's available purchases from the keyboard extension.
Making purchases directly from the keyboard is a great benefit, but we assume it is intentionally disabled to prevent abuse or fraudulent purchase attempts.
What we care about the most is determining if the user has an item that contains a discount or a free trial to personalize messaging when we suggest the user go to the app and make a purchase.
We hope you'd consider revising your policy around StoreKit usage.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Tags:
Subscriptions
Extensions
StoreKit
In-App Purchase
I've understood that SwiftData is not abled to share the whole content of a cloudkit database.
So I'm trying to rewrite everything. Does someone knows id Sharing is coming on SwiftData at WWDC 26?
Anyway, can someone can point me an example a a configured coredata stack that share all its content with other icloud users (with sharing pane and accept invitation code).
At this step, on the owner side, I see some data in the default zone of my private container but nothing is visible on the shared zone. Maybe I don't understand where and when I should check shared data in cloudkit console. Need Help also here.
See below by configuration stack:
// Core Data container
public lazy var container: NSPersistentContainer = {
switch delegate.usage() {
case .preview : return previewContainer()
case .local : return localContainer()
case .cloudKit : return cloudKitContainer()
}
}()
private func cloudKitContainer() -> NSPersistentContainer {
let modelURL = delegate.modelURL()
let modelName = modelURL.deletingPathExtension().lastPathComponent
guard let model = NSManagedObjectModel(contentsOf: modelURL) else {
fatalError("Could not load Core Data model from \(modelURL)")
}
let container = NSPersistentCloudKitContainer(
name: modelName,
managedObjectModel: model
)
let groupIdentifier = AppManager.shared.groupIdentifier
guard let appGroupURL = FileManager.default.containerURL (
forSecurityApplicationGroupIdentifier: groupIdentifier
) else {
fatalError("App Group not found: \(groupIdentifier)")
}
// MARK: - Private Store Configuration
let privateStoreURL = appGroupURL.appendingPathComponent("\(modelName).sqlite")
let privateStoreDescription = NSPersistentStoreDescription(url: privateStoreURL)
// Persistent history tracking (MANDATORY)
privateStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey)
privateStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey)
// CloudKit options for private database
// Core Data automatically uses the default zone: com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.zone
let privateCloudKitOptions = NSPersistentCloudKitContainerOptions(containerIdentifier: delegate.cloudKitIdentifier())
privateCloudKitOptions.databaseScope = .private
privateStoreDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions = privateCloudKitOptions
// MARK: - Shared Store Configuration
guard let sharedStoreDescription = privateStoreDescription.copy() as? NSPersistentStoreDescription else {
fatalError("Create shareDesc error")
}
// The shared store receives zones that others share with us via CloudKit's shared database
sharedStoreDescription.url = appGroupURL.appendingPathComponent("\(modelName)-shared.sqlite")
// Persistent history tracking (MANDATORY)
sharedStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentHistoryTrackingKey)
sharedStoreDescription.setOption(true as NSNumber, forKey: NSPersistentStoreRemoteChangeNotificationPostOptionKey)
// CloudKit options for shared database
// This syncs data from CloudKit shared zones when we accept share invitations
let sharedCloudKitOptions = NSPersistentCloudKitContainerOptions(containerIdentifier: delegate.cloudKitIdentifier())
sharedCloudKitOptions.databaseScope = .shared
sharedStoreDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions = sharedCloudKitOptions
// Configure both stores
// Private store: com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.zone in private database
// Shared store: Receives shared zones we're invited to
container.persistentStoreDescriptions = [privateStoreDescription, sharedStoreDescription]
container.loadPersistentStores { storeDescription, error in
if let error = error as NSError? {
fatalError("DB init error:\(error.localizedDescription)")
} else if let cloudKitContiainerOptions = storeDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions {
switch cloudKitContiainerOptions.databaseScope {
case .private:
self._privatePersistentStore = container.persistentStoreCoordinator.persistentStore(for: privateStoreDescription.url!)
case .shared:
self._sharedPersistentStore = container.persistentStoreCoordinator.persistentStore(for: sharedStoreDescription.url!)
default:
break
}
}
let scope = storeDescription.cloudKitContainerOptions?.databaseScope == .shared ? "shared" : "private"
print("✅ \(scope) store loaded at: \(storeDescription.url?.path ?? "unknown")")
}
// Auto-merge
container.viewContext.automaticallyMergesChangesFromParent = true
container.viewContext.mergePolicy = NSMergeByPropertyObjectTrumpMergePolicy
do {
try container.viewContext.setQueryGenerationFrom(.current)
} catch {
fatalError("Fail to pin viewContext to the current generation:\(error)")
}
return container
}
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
iCloud & Data
Tags:
CloudKit
Core Data
CloudKit Console
SwiftData
Since updating to macOS 26.4 developerbeta 2 I've been getting full loss of dns resolution. I am not running a VPN or any network extensions that I am aware of.
I'm not sure how to report this in the feedback utility as I cannot find an appropriate category for it. Happy to file it if someone can give an appropriate suggestion - the closest I could see was Wi-Fi but that wanted Wi-Fi logs for the issue, which I do not believe to be needed as this is not a Wi-Fi connectivity issue.
Running
dig example.com +short
nslookup example.com
ping example.com
Gives the following output
104.18.27.120
104.18.26.120
Server: 10.0.1.1
Address: 10.0.1.1#53 \
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: example.com
Address: 104.18.26.120
Name: example.com
Address: 104.18.27.120 \
ping: cannot resolve example.com: Unknown host
This shows it's not an issue with my local network and that core networking is working, but something in the mDNSResponder/dns stack of macOS is failing. This causes all apps/browsers that do not implement their own DNS lookups to fail (Chrome still works).
Sometimes the issue clears after running the following commands (for a period), sometimes it does not. A restart always resolves the issue temporarily.
sudo killall -9 mDNSResponder
sudo killall -9 mDNSResponderHelper
sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
sudo ifconfig en0 down
sudo ifconfig en0 up
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Networking
I have migrated my code to use SMAppService but am running into trouble deleting the old SMJobBless launchd registration using launchd remove. I am invoking this from a root shell when I detect the daemon and associated plist still exist, then also deleting those files.
The remove seems to work (i.e. no errors returned) but launchd list shows the service is registered, with a status code of 28
I am using the same label for SMAppService as previously and suspect this is the reason for the problem. However, I am reluctant to change the label as there will a lot of code changes to do this.
If I quit my application, disable the background job in System Settings and run sudo launchd remove in the Terminal then it is removed and my application runs as expected once the background job is re-enabled. Alternatively, a reboot seems to get things going.
Any suggestions on to how I could do this more effectively welcome.
I'm trying to understand the terminology around forward vs backward references in CloudKit.
Say I have two record types:
User
LeaderboardScore (a score belongs to a user)
The score record stores a user reference:
score["user"] = CKRecord.Reference(
recordID: userRecordID,
action: .deleteSelf
)
So:
LeaderboardScore → User
The user record does not store any references to scores
From a data-model perspective:
Is this considered a forward reference (child → parent)?
Or a back reference, since the score is "pointing back" to its owner?
My use case is having leaderboard in my app and so i have created a user table to store all the users and a score table for saving the scores of each user of the app.
Hi!
My users have reported (and I have observed) a blank Live Activity where only a black capsule is shown in the dynamic island. When tapping that capsule, the app opens, but inside the capsule, nothing is shown. The Live Activity is created through the AlarmKit API like this:
let identifier = UUID()
Task {
do {
_ = try await AlarmManager.shared.schedule(
id: identifier,
configuration: .init(
countdownDuration: countdownDuration,
attributes: attributes,
stopIntent: CancelTimerIntent(),
secondaryIntent: RestartTimerIntent(),
sound: Settings.shared.systemAlarmToneEnabled ? .default : .named(Settings.shared.alarmTone[.loop].filename)
)
)
Log.debug("Alarm scheduled successfully: \(identifier.uuidString)")
} catch {
Log.error("Error scheduling alarm with id \(identifier.uuidString), error: \(error)")
}
}
I've read some other forum posts where developers reported the same issue:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/807335
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/812006
I assume, it has something to do with state management. However, in my case, this only happens very rarely. I use the app on a daily basis and the issue with the blank live activity only occurs like once a month, so I cannot reproduce it.
I also have some logic to resume an existing alarm or snooze:
do {
for alarm in try AlarmManager.shared.alarms {
switch alarm.state {
case .paused:
try AlarmManager.shared.resume(id: alarm.id)
case .alerting:
try AlarmManager.shared.countdown(id: alarm.id)
default:
break
}
}
} catch {
Log.error("Error resuming alarm: \(error)")
}
Is there any way I can debug this issue properly?
I have checked the Device Logs and the Console in Xcode and didn't find any hints. Only one log made me a little suspicious, but I read that this might happen occasionally and may be ignored:
Couldn't read values in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x10ae0d080> (Domain: group.myappgroupidentifier User: kCFPreferencesAnyUser, ByHost: Yes, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): Using kCFPreferencesAnyUser with a container is only allowed for System Containers, detaching from cfprefsd
Any ideas on how I could proceed to find the cause of this empty (apparently crashed) Live Activity?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Widgets & Live Activities