I am developing a macOS app that requires the ability to create new files in the same directory as a user-selected file, but I am encountering permission issues due to the App Sandbox restrictions. While the user can select a file (e.g., a.jpg) using a standard open panel, I cannot create an adjacent file (e.g., a.jxl) in the same folder because the sandbox only grants access to the selected file, not to other files in the directory. I understand that full disk access might be an option, but it requires user intervention and isn't suitable for this case. Is there any way to extend access to other files in the directory (including those not selected by the user) while remaining within the App Sandbox environment?

When executing timing benchmarks on macOs we see a much more variable sleep time relative to Linux on arm64 or Linux on x86_64 . If we have a timing loop firing every 16ms, we frequently see timings of 20+ms. We have turned off timer coalescing using sudo /usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.timer.coalescing_enabled=0 But we are still seeing lots of spikes in expected period as compared to Linux. Is there anything we can further do to stabilize the timing of our macOs host and improve timer performance? Are there any settings we can alter (similar to the one above) to get more accurate timing performance? Example: These are sleeps that are used with standard C++ functions like std::this_thread::sleep_until() This is measured by having a loop printing the current system time and sleeping as above for (int i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) { printf("%llu\n", current_time_ns()); std::this_thread::sleep_until(std::chrono::steady_clock::now() + std::chrono::milliseconds(16)) } The same code was compiled for arm64 macOS arm64 Linux x86_x64 Linux And was found to be far more variable in the macOS arm64 case.

hello, we're currently working on a way to adapt the behavior of our app when the device is running with a low free memory remaining, or a bad network. For the network, we though about implementing a speedtest, but the issue with this solution is that we want to test regularly the quality of the network, so if the device is running with a poor/bad network, the speedtest with stuck the app. I was looking for other way to check the displayed informations in the status bar: private func getWiFiRSSI() -> Int? { let app = UIApplication.shared var rssi: Int? let exception = tryBlock { guard let statusBar = app.value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView else { return } if let statusBarMorden = NSClassFromString("UIStatusBar_Modern"), statusBar .isKind(of: statusBarMorden) { return } guard let foregroundView = statusBar.value(forKey: "foregroundView") as? UIView else { return } for view in foregroundView.subviews { if let statusBarDataNetworkItemView = NSClassFromString("UIStatusBarDataNetworkItemView"), view .isKind(of: statusBarDataNetworkItemView) { if let val = view.value(forKey: "wifiStrengthRaw") as? Int { rssi = val break } } } } if let exception = exception { print("getWiFiRSSI exception: \(exception)") } return rssi } I've checked the AppStore Guidelines but I'm not sure that this kind of code will not be subject to rejection by the Review team. Anyone having trying to submit with a similar approach? Did you already managed to monitor network regularly, without using a speedtest? Thanks for the help!

Hi, all. We have a camera with only one WiFi module. It supports AP and STA modes coexisting, but the WiFi of AP and STA can only be in the same channel at the same time, that is, 2.4G or 5G. In the initial state, the App is connected to the camera through 5G WiFi, and the camera is in AP mode. When entering the network configuration mode, the camera will start the STA mode, and the AP and STA modes coexist. When the user selects 2.4G WiFi, the AP mode will switch from 5G to 2.4G. Android's WiFi and socket are not disconnected, iOS's socket will be disconnected 100%, and WiFi may be disconnected. What is the reason for this? Is there any way to solve it?

We have Mac OS VM which has two network interfaces and both are active. In our application we need “State:/Network/Global/IPv6” to do some task but on this machine it seems to be missing, however if we disable one of the interface then the same setting seems to be available and our code works fine. Please find the attached screenshots of working & non-working details:

I can build the SimpleFirewall application (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/filtering_network_traffic ) using xcode: After I run the application, seems can't block any traffic. I find there is some logs from network extension process: networkd_settings_read_from_file Sandbox is preventing this process from reading networkd settings file at "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkd.plist", please add an exception. Any step I am missing ?

Hi, I'm trying to set up FIRDebugEnabled as launch arguments in app delegate based on user choice using ProcessInfo.processInfo.arguments. Which is working fine in iOS 17 and below devices and stoped working in iOS 18 Here is my sample, if condition { var arguments = ProcessInfo.processInfo.arguments arguments.append("-FIRDebugEnabled") ProcessInfo.processInfo.setValue(arguments, forKey: "arguments") }

The expected number of months for the below code should be -48 months. It used to work like this Until iOS17. Now when building with iOS 18 it gives -47 months. Changing the two dates with one day back works as expected import Foundation var calendar = Calendar(identifier: .gregorian) calendar.timeZone = .gmt let components1 = DateComponents( calendar: calendar, year: 2004, month: 2, day: 29 //28 in case of changing day to 28 it works as expected ) guard let date1 = components1.date else { exit(1) } let components2 = DateComponents( calendar: calendar, year: 2008, month: 2, day: 29 //28 in case of changing day to 28 it works as expected ) guard let date2 = components2.date else { exit(1) } print(date1) print(date2) let months = calendar.dateComponents([.month, .isLeapMonth], from: date2, to: date1) print(months)

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing crashes that consistently occur on iOS 18 devices, which seem to share a common root cause. I'm hoping for some guidance. Here are the details of the crashes as received from Xcode Organizer: Crash Trace 1: 0 CoreFoundation 0x0000000192c50e54 CF_IS_OBJC + 76 (CFRuntime.c:461) 1 CoreFoundation 0x0000000192c4dd3c CFRelease + 60 (CFRuntime.c:1202) 2 CoreFoundation 0x0000000192d015e0 _signalEventSync + 252 (CFStream.c:636) 3 CoreFoundation 0x0000000192d53050 ___signalEventQueue_block_invoke + 28 (CFStream.c:646) 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a93c370 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32 (init.c:1549) 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a93e0d0 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 (object.m:576) 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a9456d8 _dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 744 (queue.c:3934) 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a9461e0 _dispatch_lane_invoke + 380 (queue.c:4025) 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a951258 _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 288 (queue.c:7193) 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019a950aa4 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 540 (queue.c:6787) 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x000000021a00fc7c _pthread_wqthread + 288 (pthread.c:2696) 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x000000021a00c488 start_wqthread + 8 (:-1) Crash Trace 2: 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x0000000186f33c20 objc_msgSend + 32 1 CoreFoundation 0x0000000189cb14b8 _inputStreamCallbackFunc + 36 (CFObject.m:1952) 2 CoreFoundation 0x0000000189cb0aa8 _signalEventSync + 216 (CFStream.c:626) 3 CoreFoundation 0x0000000189d01e30 ___signalEventQueue_block_invoke + 28 (CFStream.c:646) 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x0000000191948370 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32 (init.c:1549) 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019194a0d0 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 (object.m:576) 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001919516d8 _dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 744 (queue.c:3934) 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001919521e0 _dispatch_lane_invoke + 380 (queue.c:4025) 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019195d258 _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 288 (queue.c:7193) 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019195caa4 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 540 (queue.c:6787) 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x000000021214bc7c _pthread_wqthread + 288 (pthread.c:2696) 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x0000000212148488 start_wqthread + 8 Crash Trace 3: 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00000001941d9ce8 objc_loadWeakRetained + 156 (NSObject.mm:525) 1 CoreFoundation 0x0000000196d0a0f4 _outputStreamCallbackFunc + 36 (CFObject.m:1960) 2 CoreFoundation 0x0000000196d09724 _signalEventSync + 216 (CFStream.c:626) 3 CoreFoundation 0x0000000196d07948 ___signalEventQueue_block_invoke + 28 (CFStream.c:646) 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019e9de248 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 32 (init.c:1549) 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019e9dffa8 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 (object.m:576) 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019e9e75cc _dispatch_lane_serial_drain + 768 (queue.c:3934) 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019e9e8124 _dispatch_lane_invoke + 380 (queue.c:4025) 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019e9f338c _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 288 (queue.c:7193) 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x000000019e9f2bd8 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 540 (queue.c:6787) 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000002220f3680 _pthread_wqthread + 288 (pthread.c:2696) 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000002220f1474 start_wqthread + 8 Notable Points: All crashes occur only on iOS 18 and newer versions. The crashes are independent of the Xcode version used to build the app (tested with both Xcode 15.4 and 16). All crash traces occur in CoreFoundation and seem to have nothing related to our app codebase. I've attempted to profile the app using Instruments to identify any zombie objects, but the crashes do not manifest on my own devices. I've referred to discussions, including this forum thread, but have not yet found a solution. Questions: Has anyone else encountered similar issues on iOS 18? Are there specific aspects of iOS 18 that might contribute to these CoreFoundation and libobjc-related crashes? Would appreciate any suggestions for further diagnostics or potential workarounds. Thank you for your help!

We are reaching out to discuss an issue we have encountered with our app's activation process while running in the background. Currently, we are employing an iBeacon-based activation scheme, but we have noticed that after the app is activated, it is unable to receive UUID data from the scan-response while in the background. We are considering the possibility of embedding the UUID data into the advertisement so that the app can receive it once activated by the iBeacon. Additionally, we are preparing to use both Core Bluetooth’s “Performing Long-Term Actions in the Background” feature and the iBeacon scheme simultaneously for app activation. We would like to know if these two methods can coexist without any mutual interference. Currently, we are utilizing a method of updating the beacon advertisement after connection and disconnection to enhance the app's activation capability. However, in some scenarios where the signal is weak, the app does not detect the vehicle after being activated and will not be reactivated by the same beacon after going into sleep mode. Our current approach is to update the beacon advertisement every 10 seconds to improve this capability. We have outlined our proposed changes and would appreciate your confirmation on whether they could lead to better optimization: 1.Embedding the UUID from the scan-response into the advertisement. 2.Updating the iBeacon advertisement content every 10 seconds. 3. Simultaneously using Core Bluetooth's "Performing Long-Term Actions in the Background" feature along with the iBeacon scheme for app activation. Additionally, we would like to know if these changes could potentially cause any other issues. Thank you for your assistance, and I look forward to your insights on this matter.

Our product (rockhawk.ca) uses the Multipeer Connectivity framework for peer-to-peer communication between multiple iOS/iPadOS devices. My understanding is that MC framework communicates via three methods: 1) infrastructure wifi (i.e. multiple iOS/iPadOS devices are connected to the same wifi network), 2) peer-to-peer wifi, or 3) Bluetooth. In my experience, I don't believe I've seen MC use Bluetooth. With wifi turned off on the devices, and Bluetooth turned on, no connection is established. With wifi on and Bluetooth off, MC works and I presume either infrastructure wifi (if available) or peer-to-peer wifi are used. I'm trying to overcome two issues: Over time (since iOS 9.x), the radio transmit strength for MC over peer-to-peer wifi has decreased to the point that range is unacceptable for our use case. We need at least 150 feet range. We would like to extend this support to watchOS and the MC framework is not available. Regarding #1, I'd like to confirm that if infrastructure wifi is available, MC uses it. If infrastructure wifi is not available, MC uses peer-to-peer wifi. If this is true, then we can assure our customers that if infrastructure wifi is available at the venue, then with all devices connected to it, range will be adequate. If infrastructure wifi is not available at the venue, perhaps a mobile wifi router (battery operated) could be set up, devices connected to it, then range would be adequate. We are about to test this. Reasonable? Can we be assured that if infrastructure wifi is available, MC uses it? Regarding #2, given we are targeting minimum watchOS 7.0, would the available networking APIs and frameworks be adequate to implement our own equivalent of the MC framework so our app on iOS/iPadOS and watchOS devices could communicate? How much work? Where would I start? I'm new to implementing networking but experienced in using the MC framework. I'm assuming that I would write the networking code to use infrastructure wifi to achieve acceptable range. Many thanks! Tim

Im not a dev but trying to create something trying to create an app that includes an iMessage extension AND a sticker pack. My first attempt I tried to create a iMessage app but apparently I cant include a sticker pack. Ive tried to create a shell app with a sticker pack and iMessage extension but it's just not working. Can someone please let me know how I can do this. How can I get an iMessage extension app and a sticker pack installed at the same time from the same app. Ive tried everything, tried creating a seperate iOS app with sticker pack and iMessage extension and nothing. A lot of times a get an error like "CompileAssetCatalogVariant failed with a nonzero exit code"" If I remove the sticker pack builds successfully. thank you in advance

Hello! I'm trying to donate an Intent to iOS using IntentDonationManager, following the methods described in the documentaion. try await IntentDonationManager.shared.donate(intent: MyIntent()) // succeeded However, I'm not seeing any effect of this action anywhere in the system (iOS 17 and 16). I have debugged it on both the simulator and a physical device, and I have also enabled the "Display Recent Shortcuts" toggle in the developer settings, but I still don't see any relevant suggestions appearing. Similarly, the issue also occurs with the old SiriKit framework, where INInteraction.donate(completion:) doesn't seem to have any observable effect. I recall that in iOS 15, the simulator would immediately present the donated Shortcut action on the lock screen and Spotlight page. However, starting from iOS 16 and continuing to the current iOS 17 beta 1/2, I haven't been able to achieve the same behavior using the same code. Another similar report: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/723109 So is there any way to test or verify the results of this donation action?

I am getting recurring errors running code on macOS 15.1 on arm that is using a volume mounted from a machine running macOS 14.7.1 on x86. The code I am running copies files to the remote volume and deletes files and directories on the remote volume. The files and directories it deletes are typically files it previously had copied. The problem is that I get permission failures trying to delete certain directories. After this happens, if I try to list the directory using Terminal on the 15.1 system, I get a strange error: ls -lA TestVAppearances.app/Contents/runtime-arm/Contents total 0 ls: fts_read: Permission denied If I try to list the directory on the target (14.7.1) system, there is no error: TestVAppearances.app/Contents/runtime-arm/Contents: total 0

if #available(iOS 16.0, *) {       print("donated")       let intent = BasicIntent()       IntentDonationManager.shared.donate(intent: intent)    } Trying to test if donations work with the new App Intents framework. Donating the shortcut once a user taps a button. The shortcut is not appearing on the lock screen. Everything else is working as expected. The Shortcut is appearing in the Shortcuts App and is working via Siri. In developer settings I have Display Recent Shortcuts -> On Display Donations on Lock Screen -> On Allow Any domain -> On Allow Unverified sources -> On Running iOS 16.2, iPhone 11.

Background I have an established app in the App Store which has been using NSPersistentCloudkitContainer since iOS 13 without any issues. I've been running my app normally on an iOS device running the iOS 15 betas, mainly to see problems arise before my users see them. Ever since iOS 15 (beta 4) my app has failed to sync changes - no matter how small the change. An upload 'starts' but never completes. After a minute or so the app quits to the Home Screen and no useful information can be gleaned from crash reports. Until now I've had no idea what's going on. Possible Bug in the API? I've managed to replicate this behaviour on the simulator and on another device when building my app with Xcode 13 (beta 5) on iOS 15 (beta 5). It appears that NSPersistentCloudkitContainer has a memory leak and keeps ramping up the RAM consumption (and CPU at 100%) until the operating system kills the app. No code of mine is running. I'm not really an expert on these things and I tried to use Instruments to see if that would show me anything. It appears to be related to NSCloudkitMirroringDelegate getting 'stuck' somehow but I have no idea what to do with this information. My Core Data database is not tiny, but not massive by any means and NSPersistentCloudkitContainer has had no problems syncing to iCloud prior to iOS 15 (beta 4). If I restore my App Data (from an external backup file - 700MB with lots of many-many, many-one relationships, ckAssets, etc.) the data all gets added to Core Data without an issue at all. The console log (see below) then shows that a sync is created, scheduled & then started... but no data is uploaded. At this point the memory consumption starts and all I see is 'backgroundTask' warnings appear (only related to CloudKit) with no code of mine running. CoreData: CloudKit: CoreData+CloudKit: -[PFCloudKitExporter analyzeHistoryInStore:withManagedObjectContext:error:](501): <PFCloudKitExporter: 0x600000301450>: Exporting changes since (0): <NSPersistentHistoryToken - { "4B90A437-3D96-4AC9-A27A-E0F633CE5D9D" = 906; }> CoreData: CloudKit: CoreData+CloudKit: -[PFCloudKitExportContext processAnalyzedHistoryInStore:inManagedObjectContext:error:]_block_invoke_3(251): Finished processing analyzed history with 29501 metadata objects to create, 0 deleted rows without metadata. CoreData: CloudKit: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate _scheduleAutomatedExportWithLabel:activity:completionHandler:](2800): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x6000015515c0> - Beginning automated export - ExportActivity: <CKSchedulerActivity: 0x60000032c500; containerID=<CKContainerID: 0x600002ed3240; containerIdentifier=iCloud.com.nitramluap.Somnus, containerEnvironment="Sandbox">, identifier=com.apple.coredata.cloudkit.activity.export.4B90A437-3D96-4AC9-A27A-E0F633CE5D9D, priority=2, xpcActivityCriteriaOverrides={ Priority=Utility }> CoreData: CloudKit: CoreData+CloudKit: -[NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate executeMirroringRequest:error:](765): <NSCloudKitMirroringDelegate: 0x6000015515c0>: Asked to execute request: <NSCloudKitMirroringExportRequest: 0x600002ed2a30> CBE1852D-7793-46B6-8314-A681D2038B38 2021-08-13 08:41:01.518422+1000 Somnus[11058:671570] [BackgroundTask] Background Task 68 ("CoreData: CloudKit Export"), was created over 30 seconds ago. In applications running in the background, this creates a risk of termination. Remember to call UIApplication.endBackgroundTask(_:) for your task in a timely manner to avoid this. 2021-08-13 08:41:03.519455+1000 Somnus[11058:671570] [BackgroundTask] Background Task 154 ("CoreData: CloudKit Scheduling"), was created over 30 seconds ago. In applications running in the background, this creates a risk of termination. Remember to call UIApplication.endBackgroundTask(_:) for your task in a timely manner to avoid this. Just wondering if anyone else is having a similar issue? It never had a problem syncing an initial database restore prior to iOS 15 (beta 4) and the problems started right after installing iOS 15 (beta 4). I've submitted this to Apple Feedback and am awaiting a response (FB9412346). If this is unfixable I'm in real trouble (and my users are going to be livid). Thanks in advance!

A Mac Catalyst App Creates an AppKit Bundle Plugin in which @available does not work。 In AppKit Bundle Plugin, there is not watchOS and iOS version can not be higher than 28, but the log has been output. if (@available(watchOS 18.0, *)) { NSLog(@"bundle is available watchOS"); } if (@available(iOS 28.0, *)) { NSLog(@"bundle is available iOS"); } demo link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1s_5qmsL6Bh-df3A1PfD0OA Extracted code: 5ndj

We are seeing an issue where sending data using the asynchronous method HKWorkoutSession.sendToRemoteWorkoutSession(data: Data) will never return in some cases (no success nor failure). This issue is happening for roughly 5% of Workouts started and will stay broken for the whole workout. The other 95% of the workouts, the connection works flawlessly. This happens on both watchOS 10 and 11, and with phones running iOS 17 or 18. The issue is quite random and not reproducible. Our app has thousands of workouts a day that use the workout session workout data send, with constant messages being send every few seconds. In some of those 5% cases the "sendToRemoteWorkoutSession" will throw way later, like 30+ minutes later, if the watch app is awake long enough to capture a log of a failure. Our code uses the same flow as in the sample project: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/workouts_and_activity_rings/building_a_multidevice_workout_app Here is some sample code, which is pretty simple. Setup code: let workoutSession = try HKWorkoutSession(healthStore: healthStore, configuration: configuration) workoutSession.delegate = self activeWorkoutSession?.startMirroringToCompanionDevice { success, error in print("Mirroring started on companion device: \(success), error: \(error)") } workoutSession?.prepare() then later we send data using the workout session: do { print("Will send data") try await workoutSession.sendToRemoteWorkoutSession(data: data) print("Successfully sent data") // This nor the error may be called after waiting extensive amounts of time } catch { print("Failed to send data, error: \(error)") // This nor the success may be called after waiting extensive amounts of time } So far, the only fix is to restart the phone and watch at the same time, which is not a great user experience. Is anyone else seeing this issue? or know how to fix this issue?

I was able to confirm with a customer of mine that calling copyfile with a source file that is a symbolic link on a NTFS partition always causes the error NSPOSIXErrorDomain 12 Cannot allocate memory They use NTFS drivers from Paragon. They tried copying a symbolic link from NTFS to both APFS and NTFS with the same result. Is this an issue with macOS, or with the NTFS driver? Copying regular files on the other hand always works. Copying manually from the Finder also seems to always work, both with regular files and symbolic links, so I'm wondering how the Finder does it. Here is the sample app that they used to reproduce the issue. The first open panel allows to select the source directory and the second one the destination directory. The variable filename holds the name of the symbolic link to be copied from the source to the destination. Apparently it's not possible to select a symbolic link directly in NSOpenPanel, as it always resolves to the linked file. @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate { func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ notification: Notification) { let openPanel = NSOpenPanel() openPanel.canChooseDirectories = true openPanel.canChooseFiles = false openPanel.runModal() let filename = "Modules" let source = openPanel.urls[0].appendingPathComponent(filename) openPanel.runModal() let destination = openPanel.urls[0].appendingPathComponent(filename) do { let state = copyfile_state_alloc() defer { copyfile_state_free(state) } var bsize = UInt32(16_777_216) if copyfile_state_set(state, UInt32(COPYFILE_STATE_BSIZE), &amp;bsize) != 0 { throw NSError(domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: Int(errno)) } if copyfile_state_set(state, UInt32(COPYFILE_STATE_STATUS_CB), unsafeBitCast(copyfileCallback, to: UnsafeRawPointer.self)) != 0 || copyfile_state_set(state, UInt32(COPYFILE_STATE_STATUS_CTX), unsafeBitCast(self, to: UnsafeRawPointer.self)) != 0 || copyfile(source.path, destination.path, state, copyfile_flags_t(COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW)) != 0 { throw NSError(domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: Int(errno)) } } catch { let error = error as NSError let alert = NSAlert() alert.messageText = "\(error.localizedDescription)\n\(error.domain) \(error.code)" alert.runModal() } } private let copyfileCallback: copyfile_callback_t = { what, stage, state, src, dst, ctx in if what == COPYFILE_COPY_DATA { if stage == COPYFILE_ERR { return COPYFILE_QUIT } var size: off_t = 0 copyfile_state_get(state, UInt32(COPYFILE_STATE_COPIED), &amp;size) } return COPYFILE_CONTINUE } }

Hi All, I have setup RevenueCat integration with Apple for in-App purchase, signed all Business Agreements. x-checked all the keys and deleted and created subscription 100 times along with products in RevenueCat but only null is returned to my app by RevenueCat. I read and discussed with RevenueCat, as per them Apple returns null to them and they revert back null to users. Can someone please help me, I am struggling and out of wits. Don't know what to do. Any help, will be highly appreciated.