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Hi there,
we're developing a Bluetooth LE device and are using the AccessorySetupKit to connect the device to our iOS application. We are a registered member of the Bluetooth SIG and are advertising our company id over BLE. Setting up the device works on most iPhones we've tested with, but not all. Here's an example of some of the devices we've tested:
iPhone 12 mini: Not working, tried both iOS 18.1.1 and 18.1.1
iPhone 13 mini: Working, iOS 18.1.1
iPhone 15: Not working, iOS 18.1.1
iPhone 15: Works now, didn't work a few weeks ago
iPhone 15 Pro: Works
iPhone 16 Pro: Works
Looking through the logs of the iPhone 12 mini while scanning I see some things that might be related in the logs (I've removed potentially identifying data). It seems to me that it's detecting the device, but not showing it in the UI:
error 11:43:54.792877+0100 bluetoothd canSessionScanForMFGRData <our company ID> <private> there:1
default 11:43:54.795685+0100 deviceaccessd ### appBundleHasASKEnabled <our app bundle> supports Bluetooth
default 11:43:54.795730+0100 deviceaccessd ### _reportDiscoveredBTDevice DADevice: ID <removed ID>, name '<ASPickerDisplayItem.name>', btID <removed ID>, flags AccessorySetup, type Hi-Fi Speaker <CBPeripheral: 0x4b8164540, identifier = <removed ID>, name = (null), mtu = 23, state = disconnected> has no bluetooth name
We get no callbacks while the picker UI is displayed. Opening the picker on another device at the same time immediately shows our accessory.
This seems like a bug in the AccessorySetupKit too me, but I'm not sure. Could we be doing something wrong?
I have an app that I configured correctly. Checked the WeatherKit for the App ID, and added the WeatherKit to the Entitlements, and verified the Bundle ID was correct. I am getting the following error:
Failed to generate jwt token for: com.apple.weatherkit.authservice with error: Error Domain=WeatherDaemon.WDSJWTAuthenticatorServiceListener.Errors Code=2 "(null)"
Encountered an error when fetching weather data subset; location=<+38.97170000,-95.23530000> +/- 0.00m (speed -1.00 mps / course -1.00) @ 3/1/25, 8:34:24 AM Central Standard Time, error=WeatherDaemon.WDSJWTAuthenticatorServiceListener.Errors 2 Error Domain=WeatherDaemon.WDSJWTAuthenticatorServiceListener.Errors Code=2 "(null)"
I then made a super simple app that has a hard coded CLLocation and makes the single API call to get the weather and that fails with the same error. This error is still happening after 12 - 48 hours after creating the AppID. I have dumped the contents of the Provisioning Profile for both apps and the Entitlement section looks correct for both. I am not sure what is configured incorrectly, or what steps I should take next.
I am using NSPersistentCloudKitContainer and I decided to add a property to an entity. I accidentally ran try! container.initializeCloudKitSchema(options: []) while using the production container in Xcode (com.apple.developer.icloud-container-environment) which throw a couple of errors and created some FAKE_ records in my production container.
So I changed to my development container and ran the try! container.initializeCloudKitSchema(options: []) and now it succeeded.
After that I cleaned up the FAKE_ records scattered in production container but in Xcode when I'm running I now get these logs in the console (and I can't seem to get rid of them):
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _importFinishedWithResult:importer:](1398): <PFCloudKitImporter: 0x300cc72c0>: Import failed with error:
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate recoverFromError:](2310): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - Attempting recovery from error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _recoverFromError:withZoneIDs:forStore:inMonitor:](2620): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - Failed to recover from error: NSCocoaErrorDomain:4864
Recovery encountered the following error: (null):0
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate resetAfterError:andKeepContainer:](610): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - resetting internal state after error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
error: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _requestAbortedNotInitialized:](2198): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x302695770> - Never successfully initialized and cannot execute request '<NSCloudKitMirroringExportRequest: 0x303a52d00> 548CB420-E378-42E5-9607-D23E7A2A364D' due to error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4864 "*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)" UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=*** -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _initForReadingFromData:error:throwLegacyExceptions:]: incomprehensible archive (0x53, 0x6f, 0x6d, 0x65, 0x20, 0x73, 0x61, 0x6d)}
Hello everyone,
I’m currently developing an app that uses the Family Controls API, specifically the Screen Time API. However, my current entitlement is limited to development mode, which prevents me from publishing my app on TestFlight.
I have already contacted Apple Developer Support for production access but wanted to reach out to the community as well and I was referenced to FamilyControls API documentation and I couldn't find anything related to my case. Has anyone successfully upgraded their entitlement from development-only to production? Any insights on the process, tips for communicating with Developer Support, or guidance on ensuring full compliance with the Family Controls guidelines would be extremely helpful.
Hello. I launched my new mobile app Drop Pin Location to promote your business or brand on the go, on January 12, 2023. How can i market and campaign to get more daily users?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
Tags:
Subscriptions
App Store Server Notifications
Marketing
I ran into a problem. When using Storekit1 to purchase an SKU, the user payment was successful, but StoreKit1 did return paymentCancelled to my App. I would like to know under what circumstances this problem may occur? How do I fix it? Thank you
PLATFORM AND VERSION: iOS
Development environment: Xcode 15.3, macOS 14.7.1 (23H222)
Run-time configuration: iOS 18.3.1
DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM:
Our app uses NEHotspotConfigurationManager with joinOnce set to false to connect to an IoT device's Wi-Fi hotspot. Later, we programmatically disconnect from this hotspot. We are wondering if, after this programmatic disconnection, there is a possibility that the iPhone will automatically reconnect to the hotspot (even when our app is not running). Does it matter if the hotspot's SSID is hidden or not? This concern arises because the iPhone is already familiar with the hotspot's network configuration. Our testing indicates that this does not happen, but we want to be certain. This is a behavior we do NOT want to occur.
We set joinOnce to false because we experience connectivity issues with the IoT device when joinOnce is true (there are several discussions in forums regarding issues with setting it to true).
Thank you.
Thanks.
The example database/server provided by Apple for Live Caller ID contains a hardcoded database with a tiny number of pre-defined numbers.
However, its not expected to be representational of an live real world usage server.
But the question is how can that be accomplished if its a requirement that the data be KPIR encrypted?
In real world scenarios, the factors that effect whether a number should be blocked or not are continually changing and evolving on a minute-by-minute basis and new information becomes available or existing information changes.
If the database supports tens of millions or hundreds of millions of constantly changing phone numbers, in order to meet the requirements of the Live Caller ID being KPIR encrypted, that would imply the database has to re-encrypt its database of millions endlessly for all time.
That seems unfeasable and impractical to implement.
Therefore how do the Apple designers of this feature envisage/suggest a real-world server supporting millions of changing data should meet the requirement to be KPIR encrypted?
Hello, I'm buiding a macos app where I bundled a command line tool (Python) with my app. I put the tool in ****.app/Contents/MacOS folder, but it seems like the tool can not execute/read/ access. I don't know if a sandbox app can access/create a folder inside ****.app/Contents folder???
If not where can I put the tool that can access from my macos app?
Any idea would be appreciated!
We have developed a DNS filter extension that works for most applications, but it does not receive all DNS queries.
In particular, if we have our extension installed and enabled, we see Safari browsing cause local DNS servers to be used instead of going through our extension.
What is the logic for how DNS servers vs. extensions are chosen to resolve DNS queries?
On my macOS 15.x device, frequently encountering the error:
Error Domain=com.apple.wifi.apple80211API.error Code=-528342014 "tmpErr"
when connecting to an EAP WiFi network using CWWiFiClient. Restarting the device temporarily resolves the issue, but it reoccurs after some time.
What could be causing this, and how can it be resolved programmatically?
Hello,
We are experiencing slow launch time indicators in our performance monitoring tools(Crashlytics/DataDog/Xcode), and trying to understand what is the best approach to reduce it.
Currently, cold launch takes ~900ms on iPhone 16 Pro , but
~2s on iPhone 11. Profiling app launch detected that most of the time
is spend on loading the libraries. Our app is massive, we use a
total of ~40 3rd parties libraries + 10 internal libraries. We enabled
the "mergeable libraries" XCode new feature however the app
launch is as written above.
We also postponed some of the work in didFinishLaunch, which help a bit...
But maybe we are trying to achieve the impossible?
Could it be that large apps just can't reach the golden 500ms goal?
Currently we are trying to create an "umbrella" library for
all the third parties in order to force them to become part of the
mergeable libraries. We would like to know if, are we on the right
track?
I cannot access my corporate invoice. I don't know why I couldn't reach it. How and where can I reach it?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Health & Fitness
Hi,
Need input on making ICEcard app paid version , requirements. The app is presently live for India and shortly will be for global. This app is for primary health information which is critical in case anyone faces emergency. Will it have any regulatory concerns ?
https://apps.apple.com/in/app/ice-card-app/id6736453602
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Health & Fitness
I have an iPhone app which relies heavily on TCP/IP communication in the local network. Therefore, the application starts a server socket and accepts incoming connections. This worked flawlessly for a long time and we had no problems with this.
Problem
In the last days however, we observed that for some iPhones with the server role other devices cannot connect to the server of our app. The server does not accept incoming connections on the devices IP address and the client times out.
Environment
Both iPhones (the server and the client) are in the same network with 192.168.1.0 address range and 255.255.255.0 subnet mask. The server has the IP 192.168.1.11 and the client has 192.168.1.22. This is a normal home WiFi network with no special firewall rules. Both devices have mobile data disabled and the "access local network" permission is granted. The server socket is bound to all interfaces (0.0.0.0).
More technical symptoms
When the server iPhone is in this faulty state, it seems like it somehow has two ip addresses:
192.168.2.123 and 192.168.1.11
The WiFi preferences show the (correct) .1.11 ip address. The Apps however see the (wrong) .2.123 ip address. I cannot explain where the other ip address comes from and why the device thinks it has this ip address.
I've collected interface diagnosis information on a faulty iPhone and it listed the following interfaces and IPs:
en0 -> 192.168.2.123
lo0 -> 127.0.0.1
pdp_ip0 (cellular) -> 192.0.0.2
pdp_ip1 to pdp_ip6 (cellular) -> -/-
ipsec0 to ipsec6 (vpn) -> -/-
llw0 (vpn) -> -/-
awdl0 -> -/-
anpi0 -> -/-
ap1 -> -/-
XHC0 -> -/-
en1 and en2 (wired) -> -/-
utun0 to utun2 (vpn) -> -/-
The correct ip of the device is not listed anywhere in this list.
A reboot helped to temporarily fix this problem. One user reported the same issue again a few hours later after a reboot. Switching off WiFi and reconnecting does not solve the problem.
This issue occurred on several iPhones with the following specs:
iOS Version 18.1.1, 18.3.1
iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro
The problem must be on the server side as the client can successfully connect to any other device in the same network.
Question(s)
Where does this second IP come from and why does the server not accept connections to either ip even though it is bound to 0.0.0.0?
Are there any iOS system settings which could lead to this problem? (privacy setting, vpn, ...)
What could be done to permanently fix this issue?
SIM toolkit DISPLAY message is not displayed.
Use case:
SIP MESSAGE SMS Deliver (SC to MS) - 200 OK
SIP MESSAGE RP-ERROR (MS->NW):111:Protocol error, unspecified
Concatenated messages (2pcs) are resent over NAS and Deliver reports received from UE.
User is not notified of SIM toolkit message.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Notifications
Hello, we encountered a 403 error while accessing AASA.
> curl -i 'https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/finture.id'
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 10
Connection: keep-alive
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:17:02 GMT
Expires: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 03:17:12 GMT
Age: 1122
Apple-Failure-Details: {"status":"403 Forbidden"}
Apple-Failure-Reason: SWCERR00101 Bad HTTP Response: 403 Forbidden
Apple-From: https://finture.id/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
Apple-Try-Direct: false
Via: https/1.1 jptyo12-3p-pst-007.ts.apple.com (acdn/14454.1), http/1.1 jptyo12-3p-pac-027.ts.apple.com (acdn/14454.1), https/1.1 jptyo12-3p-pfe-014.ts.apple.com (acdn/14454.1)
X-Cache: MISS KS-CLOUD
CDNUUID: 51e5b30b-1f3c-4778-bb6f-cff5447ad763-1988011596
x-link-via: ntct03:443;xianymp018:443;gzct61:443;xg36:443;
x-b2f-cs-cache: no-cache
X-Cache-Status: MISS from KS-CLOUD-XG-FOREIGN-36-07
X-Cache-Status: MISS from KS-CLOUD-GZ-CT-61-05
X-Cache-Status: MISS from KS-CLOUD-XIANY-MP-018-25
X-Cache-Status: MISS from KS-CLOUD-NT-CT-03-03
X-KSC-Request-ID: f1f2bf47e4b7e7b93596bbe7d60b1583
CDN-Server: KSFTF
X-Cdn-Request-ID: f1f2bf47e4b7e7b93596bbe7d60b1583
Not Found
But we can access https://finture.id/.well-known/apple-app-site-association.
How should we solve this, thank you.
Hello,
Relatively new to AppleScripts in current gen (I've used it back in 2010s) and would like some help if someone can point me in the right direction.
Is AppleScript the best/only way to interact with Notes application? (I'm on Sequioa)
1.1 I've tried to use LLM to generate a Swift app, but it still calls out to AppleScripts, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
1.2 If I'm going down a rabbit hole, I'd like to stop since I want to finish this quick task and move on and or fall deeply in love with AppleScripts... whichever comes first.
Is There a better way to write notes? Script Editor is still a minimal IDE, I'd love to find something that will do some auto completion/suggestions because the documentation in the Script Editor is still a tad weak. (I'm used to interpreted languages like bash, ruby, etc...) where if I don't understand something I just dig into the code instead of turse documentation that just exposes public end points and does not tell you much more :(
My problem: I'd like to set up a cron that periodically checks my notes, and cleans up the shared notes. Basically it's a shared set of notes that have checklist on it and cleans up. (weekly chores etc...) I want to read the notes, find out which ones have been marked checked. Reset the ones that are done, leave unfinished ones alone and reset the old ones.
This is how far I've gotten:
let appleScript = """```
tell application "Notes"
set targetNote to note "\Test" of default account
return body of targetNote
end tell
That works like a charm, Kind of dumb because I rather use and ID of the note not the name :(
It returns the following
<div><b><span style=\\"font-size: 24px\\">Test</span></b></div>
<div><br></div>
<ul>
<li> Not Done</li>
<li>Done</li>
<li>Not Done yet</li>
</ul>
<div><br></div>
<div>Single line</div>
Which is a good start!
Issues:
There is no way to tell which Item is marked "Checked" and which one is not :(
Any helps is greatly appreciated!
When a user first downloads my application they are prompted to sign into their apple account via a pop up.
I have not had this pop up previously, I believe the change occurred after iOS18.
I have functions that do a few things:
Retrieves userRecordID
Retrieves a userprofile(via userrecordid) from cloudkit.
I'm looking to integrate call / text / facetime history into my app while maintaining the necessary security for the end user. I only need date stamp and contact link or name of the person communicated with, no access to content of messages etc.
How would this be accomplished?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
General
Tags:
Developer Tools
Security
Accessibility
Contacts