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iOS 18 Video Playback Experience
It’s impossible to enjoy video playback with this update. 1) Starting with the play/pause location, not friendly with your hand; 2) How are we supposed to back and forth just a few frames? I was thinking there is a hidden button somewhere to enable the old playback, because that’s waaay absurd. 3) Video playback with buttons enable makes video playback smaller, that’s ridiculous
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Oct ’24
iPhone 15 Pro Max Overheating During Normal Use – Seeking Advice"
I'm experiencing a heating issue with my iPhone 15 Pro Max. The device heats up even during light usage, such as browsing, checking social media, or using simple apps. It becomes noticeably warm, even though I'm not running any demanding tasks like gaming or video editing. I’ve tried restarting the phone, closing background apps, and ensuring that iOS is fully updated, but the problem persists. Has anyone else encountered this issue with the iPhone 15 Pro Max? What could be causing my device to heat up during regular use? Are there specific settings or steps I can take to reduce the heating? Is it more likely to be a software-related issue or a hardware problem? Any suggestions or solutions would be appreciated! Has anyone else encountered this issue with the iPhone 15 Pro Max? What could be causing my device to heat up during regular use? Are there specific settings or steps I can take to reduce the heating? Is it more likely to be a software-related issue or a hardware problem? Any suggestions or solutions would be appreciated!
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Oct ’24
[tvOS] VoiceOver Skips Description Text When Info Panel Opens in AVPlayerViewController
When the native info panel (which displays the title, subtitle, description, and custom buttons) opens, the focus immediately shifts to the first button. As a result, VoiceOver skips the description, which is crucial for users relying on accessibility features. I haven’t found a way to detect when it opens. Knowing this would allow me to trigger custom VoiceOver announcements or adjust the focus order dynamically. Are any other people experiencing this issue, and how do we solve it?
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Oct ’24
Triggering keyboard/mouse events anytime iOS
I frequently use my iPad to develop remotely in VSCode or prototype designs in Figma. This is currently all done in the browser. Given that many of these experiences rely heavily on the keyboard I was hoping there would be a solution to make a keyboard persistent on the screen, or at least a few hot keys. Is it possible for me to develop an accessibility tool that could stay persistent on the screen? Perhaps something that would talk with assistive touch? Or is that in Apple’s no no square?
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Oct ’24
Does iPhone 15 Pro Use a Single Microphone or Multiple Microphones for Voice and Sound Recognition?
Hello, I have a question regarding the voice and sound recognition features on the iPhone 15 Pro. The iPhone 15 Pro is equipped with four microphones, and I understand that for features like Apple’s sound recognition and when invoking Siri, the microphone(s) must always be active. My question is whether the device uses a single microphone (mono channel) for these functions or if multiple microphones are activated simultaneously. I would appreciate clarification on how the microphones are utilized in sound and voice recognition features. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards.
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Oct ’24
Does iPhone 15 Pro Use a Single Microphone or Multiple Microphones for Voice and Sound Recognition?
Hello, I have a question regarding the voice and sound recognition features on the iPhone 15 Pro. The iPhone 15 Pro is equipped with four microphones, and I understand that for features like Apple’s sound recognition and when invoking Siri, the microphone(s) must always be active. My question is whether the device uses a single microphone (mono channel) for these functions or if multiple microphones are activated simultaneously. I would appreciate clarification on how the microphones are utilized in sound and voice recognition features. Thank you for your assistance. Best regards.
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Oct ’24
Crash when changing the accessibilityElements to custom UIAccessibilityElement
I got a UIControl, and I want to make it behavior like a custom UIAccessibilityElement. UIControl *control = [[UIControl alloc] init]; control.isAccessibilityElement = NO; CustomAccessibilityElement *elem = [[CustomAccessibilityElement alloc] initWithAccessibilityContainer:control]; elem.isAccessibilityElement = YES; // some custom setting here control.accessibilityElements = @[elem]; It worked well with an iPhone 13, iOS 15.5.1, but crashed with an iPhone SE, iOS 15.4.1 and the crash msg is : "-[UIAccessibilityElement _addAccessibilityElementsAndOrderedContainersWithOptions:toCollection:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x283b7c680" Can you tell me the reason ? Thanks a lot.
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Oct ’24
Servicios altamente regulados
Apple's testers tell me that "the app does not meet all requirements for apps that offer highly regulated services or handle sensitive user data," (however, the APP does not offer any type of regulated service), which is why which indicate that it must be published with a user of the Apple Developer program as an organization and not as an individual. How can I correct this problem?
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Oct ’24
problem
Unable to find a team with the given Team ID 'TJXYR6479H' to which you belong. Please contact Apple Developer Program Support. https://developer.apple.com/support how can i fix it ?
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Oct ’24
Random Disconnection Issues with iStorage diskAshur on macOS
Hello everyone, I am experiencing random and untimely disconnection issues with my iStorage diskAshur external HDD/SSD while using macOS. I have already contacted Apple Support but unfortunately, they could not provide a solution and suggested I reach out to this forum for further assistance. Has anyone else faced similar issues with the diskAshur on macOS? If so, what steps did you take to resolve the problem? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Oct ’24
How to capture 48MP capture with Ultra wide lens using iPhone 16 pro max
I am working on capturing 48MP images using the iPhone 16 Pro Max with the Ultra-wide camera. I’ve updated the code to capture the maximum supported dimensions with the following snippet: if #available(iOS 16.0, *) { photoOutput.maxPhotoDimensions = device.activeFormat.supportedMaxPhotoDimensions.last! photoSettings.maxPhotoDimensions = .init(width: 5712, height: 4284) } However, I’m still not getting the expected results. My goal is to capture 48MP images, and I want to confirm if the Ultra-wide camera supports this resolution or if I’m missing any other configuration. Any guidance would be appreciated!
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Oct ’24
Bug in DeviceActivity
I am developing an app using DeviceActivity. let schedule = DeviceActivitySchedule( intervalStart: DateComponents(hour : 0, minute : 0, second: 1), intervalEnd: DateComponents(hour : 23, minute : 59, second: 59), repeats: true ) I found that on the second day, intervalDidStart(for: DeviceActivityName) gets called multiple times. I also tried let schedule = DeviceActivitySchedule( intervalStart: DateComponents(hour : 0, minute : 0, second: 1), intervalEnd: DateComponents(hour : 23, minute : 59, second: 59), repeats: false ) and started monitoring for the next day in the intervalDidEnd(for: DeviceActivityName) method. but , intervalDidStart(for: DeviceActivityName) still gets called multiple times. How should I resolve this issue?
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Oct ’24
Text Replacement preferences are not exportabe, is there a PLIST file or similar that stores these values?
macOS > Settings > Keyboard > Text Replacement is a macOS/iOS feature I use extensively but it is unavailable in quite a few macOS applications — including some Apple apps like Xcode. Other apps I want Text Replacement to work in but it doesn't are the Adobe CC suite, all my code text editors like VC Studio, Sublime Text, BBEdit, emacs etc and Firefox. Does anybody know what the file path is for the file that stores the Text Replacement key/string pair data? If i can access the .plist file or similar where the Text Replacement key/string pairs are stored I will be able to convert to JSON using REGEX and import to the Firefox plugin that will replicate Text Replacement functionality in Firefox for me. Ditto other code editor applications with their own particular text substitution functionality. Background Some of these apps have plugins or functional equivalents of Text Replacement but i need a way to do the import/export dance to keep them in sync with my Text Replacement text pairs. Sadly, even though we can select the Text Replacement table (in macOS but not in iOS versions), we can't copy that information. This seems to me a violation of good GUI design principles. Why allow selection of the entire table if we cannot copy it to the clipboard? Nor can we import or export the table of text tuples. The Text Replacement GUI has no buttons to do this (consider this post also a FR for that). Screen-capturing and running text recognition software over the PNG it is not an option given: a) all the UTF-16 unusual glyphs and combination glyphs i use; b) that I'd like to script this as a multi-directional syncing application I can run periodically. Typically macOS and app preferences are stored in plist files. I want to find such a file and convert it to JSON for importing into a Firefox plugin that replicates Text Replacement within Firefox. I tried modifying Text Replacements by adding a new item to the list and clicking "Done" and then filtering ~/Library for .plist files and sorting by "Date Modified" but nothing is showing up with these values in it.
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Oct ’24
When to use Numbered Lists in VoiceOver Accessibility
When would it be a good idea to utilize numbered lists with VoiceOver accessibility. As an example, for tab bars it will read about "2 of 5". In speaking with an Accessibility engineer at WWDC this year, the said that its good practice, but we ran out of time in the call to dig further deeper. When or how do you know when you should read out the item count "2 of 5". It makes sense to me in say a tab group or a chip group, but I don't see it being good in say potentially a UITableView with potentially a various number of sections of which each section itself can include multiple cells. I've had trouble finding additional guidance on this topic, if anyone can provide recommendations or their thoughts, that would be great.
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