Hello, I want to use universal links in my application, for which I need to get the TeamID and BundleId, for apple-app-site-association file. Can you please tell me, do I have to buy an Apple Developer Account at the time of development to do this, or can I get it all for free at the time of development?

I created a form field using: On Safari and Chrome desktop, it behaves as expected. Safari shows the current date in grey by default, and Chrome displays a format hint like dd.mm.yyyy, which is perfectly fine. On iOS, however, the field appears completely blank. I understand that the placeholder attribute is not part of the iOS date input behavior, which is technically fine. Still, it would be helpful if developers had the option to define a default display value. In the past, browsers prefilled date inputs, but many developers objected because they needed the field to be empty by default. I have searched extensively and tried several AI tools, and everywhere it says that this cannot be changed. Am I missing something, or is there any way to display a placeholder, the current date, or some kind of visual hint in iOS Safari? Right now, the empty field creates poor UX because users may overlook it. Since the field is required, this can easily lead to validation errors and additional friction. As a workaround, I used a CSS hack with input[type="date"]::before and a content attribute. I also added JavaScript to toggle a pseudo-placeholder value specifically for iOS. Is there a cleaner solution that avoids this workaround? Thanks in advance for your guidance.

My phone's charging port is fried. It only charges wirelessly. Fixing it costs the same as the phone. I currently am having a lot of issues enrolling for apple developer program as well, so I can't use test flight right now. I want to enable developer mode on my phone, but it's never been connected to xcode before, so the option is not available. How do I enable developer mode without being able to connect it to a pc? I have a mac, and both my mac and iphone are on the same apple id. thank you

We are facing an issue with App Store review and would appreciate some guidance. Our application is designed strictly for iPhone devices only. The app includes a SIM binding mechanism that requires sending an SMS from the registered mobile number for device verification. This functionality depends on the physical SIM capabilities available only on iPhone devices. However, during the review process, Apple is testing the app on an iPad device. Since iPads generally do not support sending SMS from a physical SIM (especially Wi-Fi models), the SIM binding process fails, which is resulting in app rejection. We have: Configured the app deployment target for iPhone only. Set the device family to iPhone in Xcode. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I have an app that records video (and also provides a custom remote interface) so it needs to remain awake and in the foreground. It sets; UIApplication.shared.isIdleTimerDisabled = true I've also tried catching willEnterForegroundNotification to ensure it resets it if the app is backgrounded and resumes; .onReceive( NotificationCenter.default.publisher( for: UIApplication.willEnterForegroundNotification) ) { _ in UIApplication.shared.isIdleTimerDisabled = true } However, it seems that on some devices it will still go to sleep. This seems to be the case when Adaptive Power Mode is on (or rather, I've not managed to reproduce it when Adaptive Power Mode is off) even when battery percentage is well over 20% (I sort of expected Low Power Mode to trigger this) Am I missing something obvious? there must be a way to make sure media capture apps stay awake (I'm surprised AVFoundation doesn't do it anyway!) If it is related to Adaptive Power Mode, is there any way to detect that programatically to at least provide a warning to the user that having it on will affect operation of the app?

Our app supports UIScene. As a result, launchOptions in application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) is always nil. However, the documentation mentions that UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey.location should be present when the app is launched due to a location event. Given that our app is scene-based: How can we reliably determine whether the app was launched due to a location update, geofence, or significant location change? Is there a recommended pattern or API to detect this scenario in a Scene-based app lifecycle? This information is critical for us to correctly initialize location-related logic on launch. Relevant documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation/cllocationmanager/startmonitoringsignificantlocationchanges()

Parents often spend lots of time to search for kids' events and government programs. Even after they found ideal ones, they need lots of copy and paste to check Google Map in order to align with their time and location. My app is designed to solve this pain point. It will handle those time consuming web search and time & location matching. For good user experience, the UI is simple, it recommends nearest kids programs that aligns with parents' time. It also has a Map to show suggestions visually and provides map navigation. Parents are all very busy, the UI has to be simple and easy to use. This app can save parents 60% of time to find kids' programs. The v1.0.0 of this app got approved. It works well on Android phones all the time, but the map navigation didn't work on iOS. I later realized have to add LSApplicationQueriesSchemes to enable map navigation on iOS app. So I fixed this and tested the new build on iOS phones, the new build 1.0.1 works well. But Apple reviews rejects 1.0.1 because of "Minimum Functionality". So now I'm in an awkward situation, 1) the app works well on Android 2) the approved iOS build can't open map navigation on iOS 3) the fixed iOS build got rejected because of "Minimum Functionality".... Really frustrating. Even if I add new features to meet "Minimum Functionality", for parents, they need simple UI because of their busy schedules, adding new features may create more complex UX. Is that possible to have Apple approve 1.0.1 build first, at least make sure the app works without error for iOS users first, this app can already save parents lots of time. Then give me more time to add new features? Otherwise, what's the minimum I can add to get the new build approved first? Thank you!

G'day. At my office the doors are locked with an NFC reader. We carry around a little NFC tag on our key chains which will read out a number and this then will open the door if the number matches a number in the database. I am tired of carrying around the tag, people keep loosing it, forgetting it and it would be nice to open the door using a Phone - which we tend to always have on us. So I used a credit card which is NFC enabled to readout the NFC information, added this number to the database and can now open doors using my credit card. This is pretty cool. If I forget my keys (most likely they will be on the desk but silly me left the desk without them), I may have my wallet with me. Then I tried Wallet.app on my iPhone and select the same credit card. However the door doesn't open. When looking in the door software I noticed that the tags will always transmit the same number. So does my credit card. However Wallet.app will read out 4 readings (or maybe just one very long one) and they are always different. So I can not make them match with the door database. Any ideas how to make this work? Can I give somehow wallet.app an NFC number which I can then add to my door database? Or how come the credit card and the very same one in wallet.app don't match? Thanks for your help! Would be neat if I could make this work out. This will make a lot of people happy at my office! Cheers!

On iOS 26.01 & 26.2, the system keyboard shows uneven horizontal padding: Leftmost key column touches the screen edge Right side has visible padding This behavior is reproducible: In existing apps In a brand-new demo app In both UIKit and SwiftUI Xcode: 26.0.1 & 26.2 iOS: 26.0.1 & 26.2 Simulator Devices tested: iPhone 15 / iPhone 15 Pro Keyboard types: .numberPad, .decimalPad Frameworks: UIKit, SwiftUI

At which point in the image processing pipeline does iOS apply the white balance gains which can be set via AVCaptureDevice.setWhiteBalanceModeLocked(with:completionHandler:)? Are those gains applied in the analog part of the camera pipeline, before the pixel voltage gets converted via the ADC to digital values? Or does the camera first convert the pixel voltages to digital values and then the gains are applied to the digital values? Is this consistent across devices or can the behavior vary from device to device?

I am unable to install my app via TestFlight.When I tap Install in TestFlight, I receive the following error message: “Could not install xxx. The requested app is not available or doesn’t exist.” The app is visible in TestFlight, but installation always fails. I would appreciate your help in identifying the cause.

crash stack: Crashed: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x90c thread_chkstk_darwin + 60 1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x90c ___chkstk_darwin + 60 2 CoreAutoLayout 0x14c4 -[NSISEngine _flushPendingRemovals] + 56 3 CoreAutoLayout 0x2de08 -[NSISEngine _coreReplaceMarker:withMarkerPlusDelta:].cold.1 + 64 4 CoreAutoLayout 0x15d78 -[NSISEngine _coreReplaceMarker:withMarkerPlusDelta:] + 204 5 CoreAutoLayout 0x2ce38 -[NSISEngine constraintDidChangeSuchThatMarker:shouldBeReplacedByMarkerPlusDelta:] + 108 6 CoreAutoLayout 0x15f1c -[NSISEngine tryToChangeConstraintSuchThatMarker:isReplacedByMarkerPlusDelta:undoHandler:] + 100 7 CoreAutoLayout 0x2fdbc -[NSLayoutConstraint _tryToChangeContainerGeometryWithUndoHandler:] + 252 8 CoreAutoLayout 0x3020c -[NSLayoutConstraint _setSymbolicConstant:constant:symbolicConstantMultiplier:] + 452 9 CoreAutoLayout 0x30378 -[NSLayoutConstraint setConstant:] + 84 10 UIKitCore 0x51c3c __74-[UIView(UIConstraintBasedLayout) _autoresizingConstraints_frameDidChange]_block_invoke + 140 11 UIKitCore 0x1841174 -[UIView(AdditionalLayoutSupport) _withUnsatisfiableConstraintsLoggingSuspendedIfEngineDelegateExists:] + 112 12 UIKitCore 0x51b28 -[UIView(UIConstraintBasedLayout) _autoresizingConstraints_frameDidChange] + 452 13 UIKitCore 0x2c894 -[UIView _constraints_frameDidChange] + 100 14 UIKitCore 0x18fac08 -[UIView(Geometry) setFrame:] + 576 15 UIKitCore 0x96712c -[UITabBar setFrame:] + 128 16 UIKitCore 0x1666f4 -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 360 17 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 18 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 19 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 20 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 21 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 22 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 23 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 24 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 25 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 26 UIKitCore 0x16671c -[_UITabBarControllerVisualStyle updateTabBarLayout] + 400 27 UIKitCore 0x16642c -[UITabBarController _prepareTabBar] + 128 28 UIKitCore 0x166a10 -[UITabBarController _layoutContainerView] + 376 29 UIKitCore 0x1677a8 -[UITabBarController __viewWillLayoutSubviews] + 28 30 UIKitCore 0x147078 -[UILayoutContainerView layoutSubviews] + 176 31 UIKit 0xb14a0 -[UILayoutContainerViewAccessibility layoutSubviews] + 60 for a more detail crash stack, can see attach file: crash.txt crash probabilistic happed after app enter background, and our app support landscape, when crash appear, the system method: /* This method is called when the view controller's view's size is changed by its parent (i.e. for the root view controller when its window rotates or is resized). If you override this method, you should either call super to propagate the change to children or manually forward the change to children. */ - (void)viewWillTransitionToSize:(CGSize)size withTransitionCoordinator:(id <UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator>)coordinator API_AVAILABLE(ios(8.0)); is called; but for a normal not crash case, when enter background and rotate device, the viewWillTransitionToSize method is not called until app enter foreground; Are there any suggestions that can help solve this problem, thank you.

Is there any information for developer about notification forwarding which is published in iOS 26.3? how to use it ?

I encountered a bug with drag-and-drop sorting in ios 26. I created a UITableView for dragging and dropping to adjust the order of the list. However, when I set the height of the cells to a custom height, some cells were not displayed during the dragging process. The tools I use are the official version of Xcode16.1 and the ios 26 emulator And I can also reproduce the same problem on the real device. class ViewController: UIViewController { private let tableView: UITableView = { let tableView = UITableView.init(frame: .zero, style: .grouped) tableView.backgroundColor = .clear tableView.estimatedSectionHeaderHeight = 50 tableView.isEditing = true tableView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = false tableView.allowsSelectionDuringEditing = true return tableView }() var content: [Int] = [] override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() tableView.register(FTWatchGroupPageCell.self, forCellReuseIdentifier: "FTWatchGroupPageCell") tableView.delegate = self tableView.dataSource = self view.addSubview(tableView) for i in 1...100 { content.append(i) } tableView.reloadData() } override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() { super.viewDidLayoutSubviews() var frame = view.bounds frame.origin.y = 200 frame.size.height = frame.size.height - 200 tableView.frame = frame } } extension ViewController: UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource { func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int { return content.count } func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell { let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "FTWatchGroupPageCell", for: indexPath) as! FTWatchGroupPageCell cell.label.text = "\(content[indexPath.row])" cell.label.sizeToFit() return cell } func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat { return 52.66 } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForHeaderInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat { return 0.01 } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForFooterInSection section: Int) -> CGFloat { return 0.01 } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canEditRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool { return true } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, editingStyleForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell.EditingStyle { return .none } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, shouldIndentWhileEditingRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool { return false } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, canMoveRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> Bool { return true } public func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, moveRowAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath, to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath) { let item = content.remove(at: sourceIndexPath.row) content.insert(item, at: destinationIndexPath.row) tableView.reloadData() } } class FTWatchGroupPageCell: UITableViewCell { private let contentBackView = UIView() let label = UILabel() override init(style: UITableViewCell.CellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) { super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier) contentView.isHidden = true addSubview(contentBackView) contentBackView.backgroundColor = .red contentBackView.addSubview(label) label.textColor = .black label.font = .systemFont(ofSize: 14) contentBackView.frame = .init(x: 0, y: 0, width: 200, height: 30) } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented") } override func layoutSubviews() { super.layoutSubviews() guard let reorderControlClass = NSClassFromString("UITableViewCellReorderControl"), let reorderControl = subviews.first(where: { $0.isKind(of: reorderControlClass) }) else { return } reorderControl.alpha = 0.02 reorderControl.subviews.forEach({ subView in if let imageView = subView as? UIImageView { imageView.image = UIImage() imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit imageView.frame.size = CGSize(width: 20, height: 20) } }) } }

I have recently been having trouble with my iOS 18.2 beta update. It has been 2 weeks since I have updated to iOS 18.2 beta and joined the Genmoji and image playground waitlist. I am wondering how much longer I have to wait till my request is approved.

Hi Everyone, I want to transfer my iPhone data from iOS 26 to iOS 18 version and I'm unable to do it. Can you help me to do it so I can keep my data. Is there any possibility to do this or any kind of trick? Thank You!

I am developing the electronic part of product, it includes a Find-My features. I saw some forum that testing Find-My feature needs a CSR and testing token. Can anyone teach me how to apply CSR and testing token step by step? Thank you very much. Best regards Sam Ng

Hi, I am building an app that depends on multiple iOS devices connecting to a designated "coordinator" iOS device. I am using MPC, and it works great when the devices are connected to the same WiFi AP, with virtually 100% connection success. My definition of success is a near instant detection of available devices, >95% connection success rate, and a stable ongoing connection with no unexpected disconnects. The issue arises when the devices are not connected to the same WiFi network (or connected to no network with WiFi and bluetooth still on). Devices detect each other immediately, but when initiating a connection, both devices initiate a handshake, but the connection is not successful. In the few times where the connection succeeds, the connection quality is high, stable, and doesn't drop. Is this a known limitation of the framework? Could I be doing something wrong in my implementation?

The latest iPhone model is unable to retrieve the Wi-Fi information it has connected to. The phone's operating system is iOS 26.1, and location permission has also been granted. "Access Wi-Fi Information" is also configured in the same way The following is the code I used to obtain Wi-Fi information: func getCurrentWiFiInfo() -> String? { guard let interfaces = CNCopySupportedInterfaces() as? [String] else { return nil } for interface in interfaces { guard let info = CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo(interface as CFString) as? [String: Any] else { continue } if let ssid = info[kCNNetworkInfoKeySSID as String] as? String, !ssid.isEmpty { return ssid } } return nil }

I’m a registered iOS developer, and I’ve been facing an issue with installing iOS developer updates for the past couple of years. I can download the updates, but they get stuck at 99.9% complete and don’t finish. I’ve tried following the instructions to force restart the phone, but it stays on the Apple logo screen until it dies. I’m able to update official iOS updates, but not the beta ones. To update, I have to put the phone in DFU mode and install the update that way. This is frustrating and causes issues with making timely updates to my app and diagnosing new issues during testing. I’d like to request that Apple look into this issue and find a solution. For reference, I’ve installed a barebones installation with no new apps, and this problem persists. I would like to have a resolution that allows me to update normally without having to DFU the phone every time.

We are planning to develop an app that connects to a UVC camera to capture and display video via AVFoundation. Could you please advise on which iPhone models support UVC cameras?