I am trying to get universal links to work in our app Firefox iOS The Problem: I am not able to get universal links to work for our release app or beta app scheme locally or with a TestFlight build. I am able to get it working on our development scheme with a locally hosted app site association file. I also was able to get it working using our development scheme but setting the bundle id to the release app bundle id. I also built a demo app with the release app id and the release app development certificate. It succeeded there as well. Implementation Steps: Added associated domains entitlement to the production and beta schemes for our main app target (No associated domains entitlements or capabilities added for any extensions) Confirmed that the bundle ids associated with these schemes have the associated domains capability Added applinks:blog.mozilla.org to associated domains list Confirmed in code that user activities are being handled via SceneDelegate.swift Steps to Debug: I have gone through and validated every step in the provided Universal Link Debugging. All were successful: Associated Domains Development -> Diagnostics: Opens Installed App Validate AASA host and applinks match curl -v https://blog.mozilla.org/.well-known/apple-app-site-association returns the expected json file swcutil dl correctly downloads the AASA blob swcutil verify succeeds I have inspected the IPA of our beta build and confirmed the App ID and the associated domains is an entitlement. I have looked at the console logs filtering by swcd. I am not seeing any errors and I see the download for the AASA file kick off: Beginning data task AASA-4BABF039-3C69-4E36-AA4E-ECCDF3D14878 { domain: bl….mo….org, bytes: 0, route: cdn } There is only one error that appears in the console but our app is not enterprise-managed so I assume this is normal. Error getting enterprise-managed associated domains data. If this device is not enterprise-managed, this is normal: Error Domain=SWCErrorDomain Code=1701 "Failed to get associated domain data from ManagedConfiguration framework." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Failed to get associated domain data from ManagedConfiguration framework., Line=298, Function=<private>} I have run Sysdiagnos and identified for our App ID: Site/Fmwk Approval: approved I am at a loss as to what is preventing universal links from working even though all validation steps pass.

Hi everyone, I’m currently developing an app using Apple’s RoomPlan framework, and so far, everything is working great! However, I’d like to extend the functionality to include scanning smaller objects, such as light switches or power outlets, in addition to the walls and larger furniture that RoomPlan already supports. From what I understand, based on the documentation, RoomPlan doesn’t natively support the detection or measurement of smaller objects like these. Is that correct? If that’s the case, does anyone have suggestions or ideas on how this could be achieved? Perhaps by integrating another framework or technology alongside RoomPlan? I’d appreciate any insights or advice from those who have worked on similar use cases. Thanks in advance!

I'm a complete newbie to Swift and app development, but I'm playing around with an idea that uses the ScreenTime API. Some of the articles (and AI) mention that you need to request access through Apple to use this, but based on my research it seems like this is a bit outdated. Can anyone provide a clear answer here + any resources you've used to navigate this? The documentation is pretty sparse. Thank you in advance!

Creating my first IOS appIntents. I created two simple appIntents. One to create a random number and the other to store it (actually it just prints it). Yet, when I run a shortcut that connects the two, the one that stores it is not receiving the entity. It receives nil instead of the entity created in the first step.

We updated the apple-app-site-association file two weeks ago and we are only seeing the new content from Apple's CDN serving certain regions such as Texas and Canada. Regions such as Colorado intermittently sees the old content and California has been receiving the old content all the time. Is this a known issue? If yes, when can we expect this to be fixed and where to check the status? If not, can someone in charge of CDN please look into this? Let me know if there is a better place to report this issue and get the support ASAP though. Thank you in advance and happy new year!

I am writing a SwiftUI-based app and have the following requirements: Use a file browser (such as UIDocumentPickerViewController) to find an arbitrary file (not one that the application knows how to open) which is external to the app bundle but local to the device the app is running on - either in local storage or on an iCloud drive. Save this location. At a later time, open this file. The file should open in an app that knows how to open it or in a browser. Do all of the above in a way that works with multiple devices (synced via CloudKit/SwiftData). For example, select a file on my iCloud drive on my Mac, then save it (using CloudKit/SwiftData) and open it on an iPad that has an app that can open it. I am addressing requirement #1 using UIDocumentPickerViewController wrapped with a UIViewControllerRepresentable. It returns a security-scoped URL. (Note: this worries me because of requirement #4). I use the Bookmark API to implement requirement #2. For requirement #3, I load the bookmark data, convert it back to a security-scoped URL and either Link("Open", destination: url) or @Environment(\.openURL) private var openURL if url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() { defer { url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() } openURL(url) { accepted in // do something here } } Both of these implementations fail. The Link call responds with "invalid input parameters" (Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain, Code=-50), the openURL() call just returns false. So, my questions are: Since it appears the Link and openURL work for internet URLs, but not for security-scoped file URLs, how to I cause a document to be opened (using an application which knows how to open it or a browser). Since UIDocumentPickerViewController is returning a security-scoped URL, how can I make this work on a different device than the one on which the user selected the document? (Assuming, of course, that we are talking about a document that is on an iCloud drive that both devices have access to).

Hello, I am developing a mobile application focused on helping users centralize and analyze their expenses. The app's key feature is to track transactions made through Apple Pay, providing users with a consolidated view of their spending across all linked bank cards or accounts. I have a few specific questions regarding the feasibility of this integration: Does Apple provide any official APIs or tools to access Apple Pay transaction data for third-party applications? Are there restrictions or guidelines for apps that aim to use Apple Pay to support expense tracking? What would be the best way to initiate a partnership or obtain further support from Apple for such a project? Your insights or direction on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and guidance! Best regards, Amine

Hi, I'm attempting to use StoreKit 2 and SwiftUI to add a tip jar to my iOS app. I've successfully added consumable IAPs for each of my tip sizes, and used ProductView to show these on my tip jar screen. However, I am at a loss on how to do the following things: How and when do I finish the consumable IAP transaction? I see the finish() function in the documentation, but I am not sure how I can call it given that ProductView is handling the purchase for me (I have no access to a Transaction object). How can I track the amount of consumable IAPs the user has purchased across all their devices? I want to show the user the amount of money they have tipped in total. I have added SKIncludeConsumableInAppPurchaseHistory to my Info.plist and set it to YES as suggested here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/687199 This is my first time using StoreKit 2 (until now, I was using StoreKit 1), so I would really appreciate any advice and guidance you can provide. Thanks!

Hello, we re developing a loyalty platform for end users and as such emit Apple wallet store cards. Problem we're facing is that the HTTP POST /v1/devices/:deviceLibraryIdentifier/registrations/:passTypeIdentifier/:serialNumber in some cases doesn't come through and we have no idea why. This only happens to a small percentage of customers, others work just fine. Does anyone have an idea why this might happen? I believe our setup is correct when 90% of customers work and we receive these HTTP requests to our server.

Posting here for wider visibility... All over the internet, apple discussions, etc. Seems that this is affecting thousands of people but apparently not millions...othewise we'd have a fix by now. This started showing up in iOS 18 beta and then continued into 18.0, 18.1, and now 18.2 Symptoms are unable to retrieve emails from IMAP mail server. Some have mentioned Dovecot IMAP server. This author happens to have Dovecot IMAP and yes, once iOS 18.0, 18.x was installed, email sync no longer works.

Currently, we use UIDocumentPickerViewController to read the user's connected sdcard. However, this requires the user to select manually, and the event cannot be monitored. But recently I found that ImageCaptureCore's ICDeviceBrowserDelegate can monitor the plug-in and unplug events in the didAddDevice callback, but cannot obtain the path of the storage card. I wonder if there is a way to combine the advantages of both, so that with the user's consent, the card reader events can be monitored and the content can be read directly without the user manually selecting the folder

I was wondering if anybody knows if it's possible for an app to use a QR code to join a Wi-Fi network - the same functionality as the iOS 11 Camera app?I have some code reading a QR Code that looks something like - "WIFI:S:name-of-network;T:WPA;P:password;;"This QR code works perfectly in the native camera app - asking the user if they'd like to join the Wi-Fi network and successfully joining if they do.When I scan the QR code in my own code, I get the following error: canOpenURL: failed for URL: "WIFI:S:name-of-network;T:WPA;P:password;;" - error: "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -10814.)"In my app, I've got URL Schemes for "prefs" and have added "wifi" in LSApplicationQueriesSchemes.Am I doing something wrong, or is this simply not possible?If it's not possible, is there anyway to use the iOS native camera functionality within an app?

On macOS 15, if a program installed in /Applications is allowed to connect to a PostgreSQL server on another machine on the local network, a program launched in debug mode from Xcode is not allowed to connect to the local network, and no prompt appears. Although it is possible to turn off registered programs in Local Network Privacy in Beta 2, permissions for programs launched from Xcode cannot be obtained at all. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

I'm trying to detect the state of Local Network privacy on macOS Sequoia via NWBrowser, as recommended in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3179-understanding-local-network-privacy Regardless of the state of Local Network privacy - undetermined, allowed or denied, NWBrowser receives an update indicating that its in the ready state. Scanning does not seem to trigger the Local Network privacy alert for me - I have to use the other recommended method to trigger the prompt. Enabling or disabling Local Network privacy does not seem to send any updates for NWBrowser. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/666431 seems related, and implies that they did receive further updates to NWBrowser. Filed as FB16077972

I've implemented a custom VPN for macOS (system extension, Packet Tunnel Provider, Developer ID). My tunneling logic uses BSD sockets. My VPN is configured with on-demand and should always connect when there's traffic: targetManager?.isOnDemandEnabled = true targetManager?.onDemandRules = [NEOnDemandRuleConnect()] I have encountered some issues when the device enters sleep (or waking up from sleep). I've tried two scenarios. Scenario 1: protocolConfiguration?.disconnectOnSleep = true With this flag set, the OS will disconnect the VPN just before entering to sleep. However, there were cases when the OS disconnected the VPN but immediately restarted it - probably because of how I defined the on-demand rules. This resulted in the VPN disconnection, then trying to reconnect, and then the Mac entered sleep. When the Mac woke up, the VPN didn't work well. Is there a way to avoid waking up, just before the Mac enters sleep? Scenario 2: protocolConfiguration?.disconnectOnSleep = false Disconnect on sleep is unset, and I've implemented the sleep/wake functions at the provider. With this configuration, the OS won't disconnect the VPN, so even in sleep, the extension should stay 'alive,' so it won't have the problem from (1). But in this case, I had other problems: On sleep, I'm disconnecting the tunnel. But sometimes, on wake(), all my network calls fail. Are the interfaces still down? How can I detect this case from the system extension? Is it possible that the OS would call sleep and then quickly call wake? Is it possible that after sleep, the OS would call the startTunnelWithOptions() function? Is it possible to restart the extension from a clean state right from the wake() function?

my Date type data is "2024-12-28 15:00:00 +0000" and when I use Date formatter to format date with timezone TimeZone(identifier: "Asia/Seoul"), date formatter return wrong year like below (lldb) po print(date); let formatter = DateFormatter(); formatter.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "Asia/Seoul"); formatter.dateFormat = "YYYY-MM-dd"; formatter.string(from: date) 2024-12-28 15:00:00 +0000 "2025-12-29" (lldb) po print(date); let formatter = DateFormatter(); formatter.timeZone = .gmt; formatter.dateFormat = "YYYY-MM-dd"; formatter.string(from: date) 2024-12-28 15:00:00 +0000 "2024-12-28"

I’m working on a solution to archive iMessages by using an API or similar mechanism. Here’s the desired workflow: The user provides their phone number to initiate the archiving process. They receive a text message with a URL link. Clicking on the link authorizes the archiving of their iMessages. Once authorized, their text messages are archived. So far, I’ve researched third-party services and APIs but haven’t found any that offer this capability directly for iMessages. Questions: Are there any APIs or frameworks (Apple or third-party) that support accessing and archiving iMessages programmatically?

I was trying to log the flow description using control filter and data filter. But when I am trying to log the proc ID in control filter, it is always 0, but in data filter, it logs some value. Same goes with the eproc ID. I want to use the flow description data in some other target so I will be sending the data using sockets and I cannot share data from data filter due to its restrictions and control filter isn't providing the proc ID. What should I do?

Hi, I have a problem with my OpenVPN connection on my app with iOS 14.4. I perform my VPN configuration from an oven file, with a NETunnelProviderManager protocol, but when I perform the startVPNTunnel, it starts connecting and immediately disconnects. The error I see in the logs is the following: NESMVPNSession[Primary Tunnel:OpenVPN Client: -----(null)]: status changed to disconnected, last stop reason Plugin was disabled This happens to me when running my app on a physical iPad. Regards import NetworkExtension import OpenVPNAdapter class VPNConnection {          var connectionStatus = "Disconnected"              var myProviderManager: NETunnelProviderManager?          func manageConnectionChanges( manager:NETunnelProviderManager ) - String {         NSLog("Waiting for changes");         var status = "Disconnected"                  NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(forName: NSNotification.Name.NEVPNStatusDidChange, object: manager.connection, queue: OperationQueue.main, using: { notification in                          let baseText = "VPN Status is "                          switch manager.connection.status {             case .connected:                 status = "Connected"             case .connecting:                 status = "Connecting"             case .disconnected:                 status = "Disconnected"             case .disconnecting:                 status = "Disconnecting"             case .invalid:                 status = "Invalid"             case .reasserting:                 status = "Reasserting"             default:                 status = "Connected"             }                          self.connectionStatus = status                          NSLog(baseText+status)                      });         return status     }          func createProtocolConfiguration() - NETunnelProviderProtocol {         guard             let configurationFileURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "app-vpn", withExtension: "ovpn"),             let configurationFileContent = try? Data(contentsOf: configurationFileURL)         else {             fatalError()         }                  let tunnelProtocol = NETunnelProviderProtocol()         tunnelProtocol.serverAddress = ""         tunnelProtocol.providerBundleIdentifier = "com.app.ios"                  tunnelProtocol.providerConfiguration = ["ovpn": String(data: configurationFileContent, encoding: .utf8)! as Any]         tunnelProtocol.disconnectOnSleep = false                  return tunnelProtocol     }          func startConnection(completion:@escaping () - Void){         self.myProviderManager?.loadFromPreferences(completionHandler: { (error) in             guard error == nil else {                 // Handle an occurred error                 return             }                          do {                 try self.myProviderManager?.connection.startVPNTunnel()                 print("Tunnel started")             } catch {                 fatalError()             }         })     }          func loadProviderManager(completion:@escaping () - Void) {                           NETunnelProviderManager.loadAllFromPreferences { (managers, error) in             guard error == nil else {                 fatalError()                 return             }                          self.myProviderManager = managers?.first ?? NETunnelProviderManager()             self.manageConnectionChanges(manager: self.myProviderManager!)                          self.myProviderManager?.loadFromPreferences(completionHandler: { (error) in                 guard error == nil else {                     fatalError()                     return                 }                                  let tunnelProtocol = self.createProtocolConfiguration()                                  self.myProviderManager?.protocolConfiguration = tunnelProtocol                 self.myProviderManager?.localizedDescription = "OpenVPN Client Ubic"                                  self.myProviderManager?.isEnabled = true                                  self.myProviderManager?.isOnDemandEnabled = false                                  self.myProviderManager?.saveToPreferences(completionHandler: { (error) in                     if error != nil  {                         // Handle an occurred error                         fatalError()                     }                     self.startConnection {                         print("VPN loaded")                     }                 })             })         }     } }

After setting up all permissions, family members not showing up on the device list