I am building a language learning app for a Unlisted Primary Language. Any suggestions or heads ups? My plan is to select english and go with it.
Its unfortunate that I have to list a language learning app incorrectly and a tag for that language probably does not exist across the apple system.
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We have an iOS App built in .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI).
This is a web view App.
We wish to integrate APP Clips into this App.
But we are unable to do it, due to less available resources online on such implementation.
We do not wish to share code between .NET MAUI App and App clips.
We understand it is not possible to add APP Clips without a parent swift/Xcode app.
As an alternative solution we were thinking to Create a new APP in APP Store Connect using XCode/swift and integrate app clips to it.
This parent app when downloaded by users will only redirect users to our MAIN .NET MAUI app to app store connect.
We need to know if such apps will be approved by APPSTORE Connect?
Please guide us on this.
Also please do let us know if you have any other solution to integrate App clips to a .NET MAUI App
After updating to the iOS 26 Beta version, the screenshot option within the AssistiveTouch menu has stopped working. Tapping on the "Screenshot" icon does not perform any action.
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Accessibility & Inclusion
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I have just purchased an Apple developer Account from Bangladesh and it sent codes perfectly for the first 2-3 times for logging in, but after that no matter what I do it doesn't send verification code and I am stuck, I now cannot log in and this is extremely extremely frustrating
Amogst the two languages my app would have lets say 10% and 90%.
I am launching an app for a unlisted Primary Language. I consider whatever is inside the app as the primary and that wont be English. The secondary language
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to build a QR-Code Scanner and Generator App for IOS.
Whenever I try to implement the camera the app crashes with this comment:
This app has crashed because it attempted to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description. The app's Info.plist must contain an NSCameraUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data.
I tried to reduce the app to the minimum of nothing but camera with the same result.
Any ideas?
Tank you and
best Regards
Horst Schippers
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I use AttributedString to create a string containing a link. And I set the AttributedString to UILabel. How should I set up the Accessibility feature to make sure that
I can keyboard focus on the substring with link and use keyboard operation to open the link
I can VoiceOver the whole string and VoiceOver the substring with link to open the link
Thanks a lot.
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Accessibility & Inclusion
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I'm reposting here my FB17602742, submitted yesterday:
The strong wording of this message comes from years of Apple ignoring the needs of users who can't tolerate UI animations and convulsions.
At this point, it's clear that Apple is either intentionally harming users like me or simply doesn't care about meeting even the most basic accessibility standards on macOS.
Yes, many UI animations and convulsions can, fortunately, be disabled - but not through straightforward UI controls. Instead, users are forced to look for obscure Terminal commands found scattered across the Internet.
The "Reduce motion" checkbox in System Settings is simply a fake control that doesn't do anything - instead of actually disabling all UI animations and convulsions.
What's worse, two of the most offensive UI animations cannot be disabled at all. Apple has consistently dismissed requests to let users disable the following UI animations:
Scroll bar rollover highlight effect (introduced on macOS 10.7.3). Every time the cursor passes over a scroll bar, it gets highlighted. This draws the user's attention to random scroll bars for no reason - just because the cursor happened to pass over them. It results in HUNDREDS of unnecessary, annoying events of distraction daily!
Expand/collapse animation of NSOutlineView (e.g., when opening/closing folders in the list view in the Finder, or any other app using outline views). This animation is extremely distracting, irritating, and time-wasting.
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is approaching.
Dear Apple,
Please adhere to the most basic accessibility standards. Stop the needless suffering of countless users like me. Let us disable the two aforementioned UI convulsions.
Thank you for your attention to the issue.
I have a UITextField in my application for entering a state. If I tap on it, a UIPickerView pops up and let's the user select a state (but they can still type too).
The issue relates to Full Keyboard Access. If we select the UITextField using an external keyboard, the UIPickerView appears, but in order to get to it the user has to tab through the whole view controller to get to the UIPickerView at the end.
What would be nice is to a) move focus directly to the UIPickerView (have it highlighted in blue and scrollable right away with keyboard) or b) make the UIPickerView the next view that's accessible when tabbing over or using the arrow keys.
I've tried using:
UIAccessibility notifications (both .screenChanged and .layoutChanged, with and without a delay). This ended up only announcing the view, but didn't help with full keyboard access.
Making the UIPickerView a first responder when it appears.
Attempting to change the accessibilityElements order (but with so many views and views within views, this isn't really a viable option either).
Pressing tab + -> (tab and right arrow button) will quickly take the user to the end of the chain of accessibility elements, in other words, to the UIPickerView. But there has to be a cleaner way of just automatically setting the focus to the UIPickerView or making it the next element by pressing the arrow key.
The Text view seems to automatically prevent orphaned words on screen, but barring exceptional circumstances such as the font size being too large.
I couldn't find any documentation on this behaviour, how to configure, and would also be very interested in how it's implemented?
Thanks!
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I have some doubts about how VoiceOver handles focus when the screen updates.
When a new UIViewController is pushed onto a UINavigationController or presented modally, how does VoiceOver decide which element to focus on? Is there a way to control or customize this behavior?
In a UISplitViewController, when an item is selected in the primary view controller, the focus should shift to the relevant content in the secondary view controller. How can we ensure that VoiceOver correctly moves focus to the right element in the secondary panel?
I have an HTML select that has Spanish text in the options.
When VoiceOver reads the selected option (unopened), it switches to Spanish as expected.
However, when you open the select box and browse through the options, it uses the English voice to read the Spanish text.
I have tried adding lang on to the select tag and the option tag but neither helps
https://codepen.io/grahamfowles/pen/VYYRxMK
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As part of apple pay implementation we are trying to create a merchant session by trying to connect to apple endpoint https://apple-pay-gateway-cert.apple.com/paymentservices/startSession.
While trying to do so we are facing an error “An error occurred while sending the request. The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.” .
I call the validation url by passing to a C# .Net Framework 4.8 Web API. The API setups an HttpClient with the Merchant Identity Validation Certificate found in my apple account and calls the validation url passing in the required Json Validation Object. When I call PostAsync() I get an exception with the above error message
Code is working successfully on my local machine but facing this issue while deployed on Dev / Model environment for testing.
We have used Azure app service for deployment and TLS version 1.2 already present here.
We have used the Merchant Identity certificate that was issued and have also checked with networking and infrastructure team to make its not an issue from our side.
Does anyone have any other idea what could be causing this error.
Thank you,
Supriya
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I have subscribed to the developer program, but it’s already been a day and it still shows “is not enrolled in the Apple Developer Program.”
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I’m requesting access to the Family Controls API for an iOS app currently in development. I’ve submitted the request through the official form here:
https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/family-controls-distribution
However, after submitting, I receive no confirmation email or support ticket ID. The page only shows a “Thank you for requesting the API” message, and I’m left without a way to track or confirm the request.
This entitlement is essential for my app’s functionality, and I need to move forward with development and testing. Can someone from the Apple team please confirm receipt of the request and provide guidance on the next steps or estimated timelines?
Hi!
I'm working on an application where I'd like VoiceOver to give each element of a tab bar the "Tab" trait. I'm testing this using the Accessibility Inspector. Essentially, I'd like to replicate the behavior of how Safari identifies each of its tabs as a "Tab" (I've attached a photo below).
How exactly is this accomplished? I've tried using the .isTabBar trait to designate the child objects as "Tabs", but this doesn't seem to be working and I've struggled to find documentation about this. For additional context, these child items are Buttons, and I would like to have the .isButton trait essentially replaced by something like an .isTab trait. Not sure if this is actually possible or not, but curious how the Accessibility Inspector recognizes this in Safari.
I have screen in my app that can represented by following layout, I would like this screen to be possible to navigate with full keyboard access but there is unexpected behavior:
Path:
Tap "Tab" on keyboard -> whole scrollview is targeted and inside the first button1 is selected.
Arrow down -> selection changes to button3
Arrow up -> selection changes back to button1
So button2 is always skipped, there is no way to navigate to it by arrows left/right.
Using Tab+F and searching "button2", button2 is correctly selected, so it's selectable but for some reason not findable by going through elements.
Putting empty text in Text views cause buttons to be vertically aligned and then everything works correctly but it is not an option.
public struct BugReportView: View {
public var body: some View {
ScrollView {
VStack(spacing: .zero) {
Button("button1", action: { })
HStack {
Text("some text")
Text("some text2")
Button("button2", action: { })
}
Button("button3", action: { })
}
}
}
}
Hey everyone!
I am developing a screen time limit app to help people spend less time in distracting apps.
It works this way: people choose unhealthy apps for them and opposite productivity apps. In the app you can exchange time spent on healthy habits to scroll or use other distracting apps.
This idea was loved by social media, and the app already has 100k followers on social media without even being launched yet.
So I am waiting just for one feature permission from Apple, and they have not given me any answer since I applied 3 weeks ago.
There are a lot of similar apps on the market, and this feature exists in other screen time limit apps.
Why is app blocking permission needed?
Time Exchange Functionality:
Users independently select which apps are productive and which are distracting for them.
The system blocks the "negative" apps until the user accumulates enough time in the "positive" ones. This encourages healthy device usage.
Full User Control:
All apps to be blocked are manually selected by the user in the settings.
The extension does not impose any restrictions without explicit permission.
Transparency and Security:
Blocking happens locally, with no data collected about app usage.
We adhere to Apple’s privacy policy.
Compliance with App Store Guidelines:
We understand that app blocking is a sensitive feature, but in our case it:
Is used for the benefit of the user (digital detox, productivity improvement).
Does not interfere with system processes or other developers’ apps.
Does not misuse access to APIs.
My question to the forum is:
Did you have similar problems, and how did you resolve them?
Are there any ways to speed up the process or contact someone from the approval team directly?
Should I give up and release it on Android?
I am very disappointed and frustrated. Hope to get some useful tips.
Thank you very much!
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Please refer to Feedback report: FB19701007
The Personal Voice file created in English changes to either Spanish or Chinese and no longer works properly. This has been happening since Beta 1 of iOS/iPadOS 26.
I have been unable to pinpoint what causes this to occur. Possibly downloading foreign voices to a device or using different voices via AVSpeechSynthesizer.
I run an app in Xcode on my device that prints to the console info about the installed voices. Initially after creation here is the output:
Voice Identifier: com.apple.speech.personalvoice.16173F8D-DFB0-4024-98CC-69D965FD96A4
Language: en-US
Then I hear a Spanish accent and find this:
Voice Identifier: com.apple.speech.personalvoice.16173F8D-DFB0-4024-98CC-69D965FD96A4
Language: es-MX
Currently it isn't working and here is the output:
Voice Identifier: com.apple.speech.personalvoice.16173F8D-DFB0-4024-98CC-69D965FD96A4
Language: zh-CN
Note that the voice file on all three above is the same. No matter what the user does, the created voice file should never be able to change languages. On my test devices I reset them all by erasing all content and settings and creating a new English Personal Voice and the issue persists.
A side issue is the toggle share across devices doesn't remain off if turned off. I tried to not share to see if that could be the cause, but the toggle turns on automatically. It won’t remain off.
I’m developing an ARKit application where I aim to attach procedurally generated audio to detected planes in the environment. While using a static audio file with SCNAudioSource and SCNAudioPlayer works as expected, integrating procedural audio via AVAudioSourceNode does not produce any sound, nor does it generate any error messages: Stack Overflow Post
Working Implementation with Static Audio File:
let audioPlayer = SCNAudioPlayer(source: audioSource)
node.addAudioPlayer(audioPlayer)
Attempted Implementation with Procedural Audio:
// Audio generation code
}
let audioPlayer = SCNAudioPlayer(avAudioNode: audioNode)
node.addAudioPlayer(audioPlayer)
In this setup, the AVAudioSourceNode successfully generates audio when connected directly to an AVAudioEngine. However, when used with SCNAudioPlayer and attached to an SCNNode, it fails to produce sound. What doesn’t work is creating some procedural audio with an AVAudioNode, as documented here:
Apple docs
Additionally, I explored the WWDC18 AR game project, SwiftShot, which utilizes SCNAudioPlayer(avAudioNode:). After updating it for the latest Xcode, the graphics function correctly, but the audio does not play. I also noted that the Apple documentation mentions an audioPlayerWithAVAudioNode: method, stating:
Using this initializer is typically not necessary. Instead, call the audioPlayerWithAVAudioNode: method, which returns a cached audio player object if one for the specified AVAudioNode object has already been created and is available for use.
However, this method does not appear to be available in Swift. Any insights or guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.