Problem description
Since macOS Sequoia, our users have experienced issues with multicast traffic in our macOS app. Regularly, the app starts but cannot receive multicast, or multicast eventually stops mid-execution. The app sometimes asks again for Local Network permission, while it was already allowed so. Several versions of our app on a single machine are sometimes (but not always) shown as different instances in the System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network list. And when several instances are shown in that list, disabling one disables all of them, but it does not actually forbids the app from receiving multicast traffic. All of those issues are experienced by an increasing number of users after they update their system from macOS 14 to macOS 15 or 26, and many of them have reported networking issues during production-critical moments.
We haven't been able to find the root cause of those issues, so we built a simple test app, called "FM Mac App Test", that can reproduce multicast issues. This app creates a GCDAsyncUdpSocket socket to receive multicast packets from a piece of hardware we also develop, and displays a simple UI showing if such packets are received. The app is entitled with "Custom Network Protocol", is built against x86_64 and arm64, and is archived (signed and notarized). We can share the source code if requested.
Out of the many issues our main app exhibits, the test app showcases some:
The app asks several times for Local Network permission, even after being allowed so previously. After allowing the app's Local Network and rebooting the machine, the System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network does not show the app, and the app asks again for Local Network access.
The app shows a different Local Network Usage Description than in the project's plist.
Several versions of the app appear as different instances in the Privacy list, and behave strangely. Toggling on or off one instance toggles the others. Only one version of the app seems affected by the setting, the other versions always seem to have access to Local Network even when the toggle is set to off.
We even did see messages from different app versions in different user accounts. This seems to contradicts Apple's documentation that states user accounts have independent Privacy settings.
Can you help us understand what we are missing (in terms of build settings, entitlements, proper archiving...) so our app conforms to what macOS expects for proper Local Network behavior?
Related material
Local Network Privacy breaks Application: this issue seemed related to ours, but the fix was to ensure different versions of the app have different UUIDs. We ensured that ourselves, to no improvement.
Local Network FAQ
Technote TN3179
Steps to Reproduce
Test App is developed on Xcode 15.4 (15F31d) on macOS 14.5 (23F79), and runs on macOS 26.0.1 (25A362). We can share the source code if requested.
On a clean install of macOS Tahoe (our test setup used macOS 26.0.1 on a Mac mini M2 8GB), we upload the app (version 5.1).
We run the app, make sure the selected NIC is the proper one, and open the multicast socket. The app asks us to allow Local Network, we allow it. The alert shows a different Local Network Usage Description than the one we set in our project's plist.
The app properly shows packets are received from the console on our LAN.
We check the list in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network, it includes our app properly allowed.
We then reboot the machine. After reboot, the same list does not show the app anymore.
We run the app, it asks again about Local Network access (still with incorrect Usage Description). We allow it again, but no console packet is received yet. Only after closing and reopening the socket are the console packets received.
After a 2nd reboot, the System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network list shows correctly the app. The app seems to now run fine.
We then upload an updated version of the same app (5.2), also built and notarized. The 2nd version is simulating when we send different versions of our main app to our users. The updated version has a different UUID than the 1st version.
The updated version also asks for Local Network access, this time with proper Usage Description.
A 3rd updated version of the app (5.3, also with unique UUID) behaves the same. The System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network list shows three instances of the app.
We toggle off one of the app, all of them toggle off. The 1st version of the app (5.1) does not have local network access anymore, but both 2nd and 3rd versions do, while their toggle button seems off.
We toggle on one of the app, all of them toggle on. All 3 versions have local network access.
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Unexpected behavior encountered when scanning NFC tags.
Imagine a link shortener web service where users can create lots of different URLs that are hosted on the same domain eg, https://short.com/unique-path
The service has optional App Clip capability -- users can select any of their links and have the service create an App Clip for the selected link(s).
Users can encode their URLs into NFC tags and have their customers scan NFC tags.
Let's take just two URLs for example:
https://short.com/foo
https://short.com/bar
The /foo link does have an App Clip associated with it while /bar does not have it. Each link has been encoded into appropriate NFC tag.
Expected behavior when scanning from an iPhone:
/foo -- shows an App Clip popup.
/bar -- shows a "Open in Safari" default notification.
What's actually happening
/foo -- opens App Clip poput with correct metadata (title, subtitle, image) which is totally expected behavior.
/bar (the one that doesn't have app clip associated with it) -- opens an App-Clip-like popup with the following error: CPSErrorDomainError 2 (see attachment below)
So for some reason when someone scans an NFC tag with a URL that is not an App Clip and never has been -- it always shows that error regardless whether the URL exists or does not exist. I've tried few different/random URLs (which don't have an App Clip associated with it) and all of them show the same error.
Additional details:
All links use the same domain and URL format: domain.com/path where path is a short string of random a-Z characters.
All App Clips are created at the same iOS app.
AASA is good: Cache and Debug -- both green.
This issue has happened to lots of users on lots of different iPhones and iOS'.
Since the issue's been happening to lots of different users on different iPhone(s)/iOS' no sysdiagnose is attached. Actually it works the same on every device/iOS we've tried.
Before submitting the issue, I've found few other developers reporting the same issue.
What's interesting though is none of the links I've went through comes with a definite answer and it seems like this issue just randomly comes and goes without any specific changes on the server and/or iOS app.
Dropping the links of similar issues below.
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/671433
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/665969
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/775316
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/764545
Background:
My app uses a third-party SDK for payments, and it uses Original StoreKit internally for IAP payments. Now I'm getting ready to migrate to StoreKit2, and during the transition, users may use either method to initiate payments, and there's no way to avoid the coexistence of StoreKit2 and Original StoreKit.
Problem:
When a user has an unfinished transaction, if the app is restarted, both StoreKit2 and Original StoreKit will receive a notification of the transaction:
Original StoreKit's '-paymentQueue:updatedTransactions:' method
StoreKit2's 'Transaction.updated' method
resulting in duplicate calls to the shipping API.
My current treatment is to only add '-paymentQueue:updatedTransactions:' to listen for unfinished transactions. Even if the user is using StoreKit2 to initiate the payment, if the transaction is not Finished, it will be fetched via this method after restarting the app to process this transaction.
Is this approach feasible and are there any best practices for this scenario?
To summarize:
Is it feasible to fetch unfinished StoreKit2 transactions via Original StoreKit methods when StoreKit2 coexists with Original StoreKit? Is there a recommended way
I haven’t been able to get this to work at any level! I’m running into multiple issues, any light shed on any of these would be nice:
I can’t implement a bloom filter that produces the same output as can be found in the SimpleURLFilter sample project, after following the textual description of it that’s available in the documentation. No clue what my implementation is doing wrong, and because of the nature of hashing, there is no way to know. Specifically:
The web is full of implementations of FNV-1a and MurmurHash3, and they all produce different hashes for the same input. Can we get the proper hashes for some sample strings, so we know which is the “correct” one?
Similarly, different implementations use different encodings for the strings to hash. Which should we use here?
The formulas for numberOfBits and numberOfHashes give Doubles and assign them to Ints. It seems we should do this conversing by rounding them, is this correct?
Can we get a sample correct value for the combined hash, so we can verify our implementations against it?
Or ignoring all of the above, can we have the actual code instead of a textual description of it? 😓
I managed to get Settings to register my first attempt at this extension in beta 1. Now, in beta 2, any other project (including the sample code) will redirect to Settings, show the Allow/Deny message box, I tap Allow, and then nothing happens. This must be a bug, right?
Whenever I try to enable the only extension that Settings accepted (by setting its isEnabled to true), its status goes to .stopped and the error is, of course, .unknown. How do I debug this?
While the extension is .stopped, ALL URL LOADS are blocked on the device. Is this to be expected? (shouldFailClosed is set to false)
Is there any way to manually reload the bloom filter? My app ships blocklist updates with background push, so it would be wasteful to fetch the filter at a fixed interval. If so, can we opt out of the periodic fetch altogether?
I initially believed the API to be near useless because I didn’t know of its “fuzzy matching” capabilities, which I’ve discovered by accident in a forum post. It’d be nice if those were documented somewhere!
Thanks!!
I’m encountering a persistent issue with my Network Extension (specifically NEFilterDataProvider) and would really appreciate any insights.
The extension generally works as expected, but after some time — especially after sleep/wake cycles or network changes — a global network outage occurs. During this state, no network traffic works: pings fail, browsers can’t load pages, etc. As soon as I stop the extension (by disabling it in System Preferences), the network immediately recovers. If I re-enable it, the outage returns instantly.
I’ve also noticed that once this happens, the extension stops receiving callbacks like handleNewFlow(), and reinstalling the app or restarting the extension doesn’t help. The only thing that resolves the issue is rebooting the system. After reboot, the extension works fine again — until the problem reoccurs later.
I asked AI about this behavior, and it suggested the possibility that the kernel might have marked the extension as untrusted, causing the system to intentionally block all network traffic as a safety mechanism.
Has anyone experienced similar behavior with NEFilterDataProvider? Could there be a way to detect or prevent this state without rebooting? Is there any logging or diagnostic data I should collect when it happens again?
Any guidance or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I’d like to confirm the expected behavior of StoreKit 2 in the Sandbox environment regarding unfinished consumable transactions across devices.
Scenario:
Device A and Device B are signed in with the same Sandbox Apple ID
A consumable in-app purchase is completed on Device A
The transaction may be verified or unverified, but transaction.finish() is not called
The app is then launched on Device B and listens for Transaction.updates
Question:
In this scenario, is it expected that Device B will or will not receive a callback for this unfinished consumable transaction?
Or is it by design that unfinished consumable transactions are not guaranteed to be delivered across devices, regardless of verification state?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
StoreKit
https://developer.apple.com/feedback-assistant/profiles-and-logs/
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Hi,
I’m building an iOS self accountability app using FamilyControls and DeviceActivity. I can show the user’s real Screen Time correctly inside a DeviceActivityReport extension on a real device, but I want to use that same daily total inside the main app for today’s log and leaderboard.
What I’m stuck on is getting that value back into the app. I tried App Groups, shared UserDefaults, a shared file in the app group container, and CFPreferences, but the report still only works as a display and the main app never receives the total.
Is there any Apple supported way to use the daily Screen Time total from a DeviceActivityReport extension inside the containing app, or is this intentionally display only?
Thanks.
I am writing a DriverKit driver for the first that uses the USBSerialDriverKit. The driver its purpose is to expose the device as serial interface (/dev/cu.tetra-pei0 or something like this). My problem: I don't see any logs from that driver in the console and I tried like 40 different approaches and checked everything. The last message I see is that the driver get successfully added to the system it is in the list of active and enabled system driver extensions but when I plug the device in none of my logs appear and it doesn't show up in ioreg. So without my driver the target device looks like this:
+-o TETRA PEI interface@02120000 <class IOUSBHostDevice, id 0x10000297d, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (13 ms), retain 30>
| {
| "sessionID" = 268696051410
| "USBSpeed" = 3
| "UsbLinkSpeed" = 480000000
| "idProduct" = 36886
| "iManufacturer" = 1
| "bDeviceClass" = 0
| "IOPowerManagement" = {"PowerOverrideOn"=Yes,"DevicePowerState"=2,"CurrentPowerState"=2,"CapabilityFlags"=32768,"MaxPowerState"=2,"DriverPowerState"=0}
| "bcdDevice" = 9238
| "bMaxPacketSize0" = 64
| "iProduct" = 2
| "iSerialNumber" = 0
| "bNumConfigurations" = 1
| "UsbDeviceSignature" = <ad0c16901624000000ff0000>
| "USB Product Name" = "TETRA PEI interface"
| "locationID" = 34734080
| "bDeviceSubClass" = 0
| "bcdUSB" = 512
| "USB Address" = 6
| "kUSBCurrentConfiguration" = 1
| "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"9dc7b780-9ec0-11d4-a54f-000a27052861"="IOUSBHostFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBLib.bundle"}
| "UsbPowerSinkAllocation" = 500
| "bDeviceProtocol" = 0
| "USBPortType" = 0
| "IOServiceDEXTEntitlements" = (("com.apple.developer.driverkit.transport.usb"))
| "USB Vendor Name" = "Motorola Solutions, Inc."
| "Device Speed" = 2
| "idVendor" = 3245
| "kUSBProductString" = "TETRA PEI interface"
| "kUSBAddress" = 6
| "kUSBVendorString" = "Motorola Solutions, Inc."
| }
|
+-o AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice <class AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice, id 0x100002982, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 5>
| {
| "IOProbeScore" = 50000
| "CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice"
| "IOProviderClass" = "IOUSBHostDevice"
| "IOClass" = "AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice"
| "IOPersonalityPublisher" = "com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice"
| "bDeviceSubClass" = 0
| "CFBundleIdentifierKernel" = "com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice"
| "IOMatchedAtBoot" = Yes
| "IOMatchCategory" = "IODefaultMatchCategory"
| "IOPrimaryDriverTerminateOptions" = Yes
| "bDeviceClass" = 0
| }
|
+-o lghub_agent <class AppleUSBHostDeviceUserClient, id 0x100002983, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 7>
| {
| "IOUserClientCreator" = "pid 1438, lghub_agent"
| "IOUserClientDefaultLocking" = Yes
| }
|
+-o IOUSBHostInterface@0 <class IOUSBHostInterface, id 0x100002986, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (5 ms), retain 9>
| | {
| | "USBPortType" = 0
| | "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"2d9786c6-9ef3-11d4-ad51-000a27052861"="IOUSBHostFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBLib.bundle"}
| | "USB Vendor Name" = "Motorola Solutions, Inc."
| | "bcdDevice" = 9238
| | "USBSpeed" = 3
| | "idProduct" = 36886
| | "IOServiceDEXTEntitlements" = (("com.apple.developer.driverkit.transport.usb"))
| | "bInterfaceSubClass" = 0
| | "bConfigurationValue" = 1
| | "locationID" = 34734080
| | "USB Product Name" = "TETRA PEI interface"
| | "bInterfaceProtocol" = 0
| | "iInterface" = 0
| | "bAlternateSetting" = 0
| | "idVendor" = 3245
| | "bInterfaceNumber" = 0
| | "bInterfaceClass" = 255
| | "bNumEndpoints" = 2
| | }
| |
| +-o lghub_agent <class AppleUSBHostInterfaceUserClient, id 0x100002988, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 6>
| {
| "UsbUserClientBufferStatistics" = {"IOMemoryDescriptor"=0,"IOBufferMemoryDescriptor"=0,"IOSubMemoryDescriptor"=0}
| "IOUserClientCreator" = "pid 1438, lghub_agent"
| "UsbUserClientBufferAllocations" = {"Bytes"=0,"Descriptors"=0}
| "IOUserClientDefaultLocking" = Yes
| }
|
+-o IOUSBHostInterface@1 <class IOUSBHostInterface, id 0x100002987, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (5 ms), retain 9>
| {
| "USBPortType" = 0
| "IOCFPlugInTypes" = {"2d9786c6-9ef3-11d4-ad51-000a27052861"="IOUSBHostFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBLib.bundle"}
| "USB Vendor Name" = "Motorola Solutions, Inc."
| "bcdDevice" = 9238
| "USBSpeed" = 3
| "idProduct" = 36886
| "IOServiceDEXTEntitlements" = (("com.apple.developer.driverkit.transport.usb"))
| "bInterfaceSubClass" = 0
| "bConfigurationValue" = 1
| "locationID" = 34734080
| "USB Product Name" = "TETRA PEI interface"
| "bInterfaceProtocol" = 0
| "iInterface" = 0
| "bAlternateSetting" = 0
| "idVendor" = 3245
| "bInterfaceNumber" = 1
| "bInterfaceClass" = 255
| "bNumEndpoints" = 2
| }
|
+-o lghub_agent <class AppleUSBHostInterfaceUserClient, id 0x10000298a, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0, retain 6>
{
"UsbUserClientBufferStatistics" = {"IOMemoryDescriptor"=0,"IOBufferMemoryDescriptor"=0,"IOSubMemoryDescriptor"=0}
"IOUserClientCreator" = "pid 1438, lghub_agent"
"UsbUserClientBufferAllocations" = {"Bytes"=0,"Descriptors"=0}
"IOUserClientDefaultLocking" = Yes
}
more details in my comment.
Since macOS 26.4 Beta 1, virtual HID devices created via DriverKit can no longer intercept key events from the built-in MacBook keyboard. External keyboards still work. This is confirmed and tracked here:
https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/4402
One possible lead (from LLM-assisted analysis of Apple's open-source IOHIDFamily code and cross-referencing community reports): macOS 26.4 Beta may have introduced or modified a security policy referred to as com.apple.iohid.protectedDeviceAccess, which could block IOHIDDeviceOpen for the Apple Internal Keyboard connected via SPI transport (AppleHIDTransportHIDDevice). This appears related to a "GamePolicy" check in IOHIDDeviceClass.m that gates whether processes can open HID devices. This has not been independently verified and may or may not be the root cause.
This has far-reaching consequences. Karabiner-Elements alone has over 21,000 GitHub stars and is used by hundreds of thousands of macOS users for keyboard customization, accessibility workflows, ergonomic setups, and multilingual input. This change completely breaks its core functionality on any MacBook.
Beyond Karabiner, this affects every developer building keyboard remapping, input customization, or accessibility tooling via DriverKit virtual HID devices — including commercial applications currently in development.
I'd argue that the power and flexibility of keyboard customization on macOS is a genuine competitive advantage for the platform. Developers and power users choose Macs partly because tools like this exist.
Restricting this capability would be detrimental to the ecosystem and to Apple's appeal among professional users.
I'd like to understand: is this an intentional security change or a regression? If intentional, is there a migration path?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Drivers
I have migrated my code to use SMAppService but am running into trouble deleting the old SMJobBless launchd registration using launchd remove. I am invoking this from a root shell when I detect the daemon and associated plist still exist, then also deleting those files.
The remove seems to work (i.e. no errors returned) but launchd list shows the service is registered, with a status code of 28
I am using the same label for SMAppService as previously and suspect this is the reason for the problem. However, I am reluctant to change the label as there will a lot of code changes to do this.
If I quit my application, disable the background job in System Settings and run sudo launchd remove in the Terminal then it is removed and my application runs as expected once the background job is re-enabled. Alternatively, a reboot seems to get things going.
Any suggestions on to how I could do this more effectively welcome.
Hi everyone,
I’m facing an issue with CloudKit sync getting stuck during initial device migration in my SwiftData-based app.
The app follows a local-first architecture using SwiftData + CloudKit sync, and works correctly for:
✔ Incremental sync
✔ Bi-directional updates
✔ Small datasets
However, when onboarding a new device with large historical data, sync becomes extremely slow or appears stuck. Even after two hours data is not fully synced. ~6900 Transactions
🚨 Problem
When installing the app on a new iPhone and enabling iCloud sync:
• Initial hydration starts
• A small amount of data syncs
• Then sync stalls indefinitely
Observed behaviour:
• iPhone → Mac sync works (new changes sync back)
• Mac → iPhone large historical migration gets stuck
• Reinstalling app / clearing container does not resolve issue
• Sync never completes full migration
This gives the impression that:
CloudKit is trickling data but not progressing after a certain threshold.
The architecture is:
• SwiftData local store
• Manual CloudKit sync layer
• Local-first persistence
• Background push/pull sync
So I understand:
✔ Conflict resolution is custom
✔ Initial import may not be optimized by default
But I expected CloudKit to eventually deliver all records.
Instead, the new device remains permanently in a “partial state”.
⸻
🔍 Observations
• No fatal CloudKit errors
• No rate-limit errors
• No quota issues
• iCloud is available
• Sync state remains “Ready”
• Hydration remains “mostlyReady”
Meaning:
CloudKit does not report failure — but data transfer halts.
⸻
🤔 Questions
Would appreciate guidance on:
Is CloudKit designed to support large initial dataset migration via manual sync layers?
Or is this a known limitation vs NSPersistentCloudKitContainer?
⸻
Does CloudKit internally throttle historical record fetches?
Could it silently stall without error when record volume is high?
⸻
Is there any recommended strategy for:
• Bulk initial migration
• Progressive hydration
• Forcing forward sync progress
⸻
Should initial migration be handled outside CloudKit (e.g. via file transfer / backup restore) before enabling sync?
⸻
🎯 Goal
I want to support:
• Large historical onboarding
• Multi-device sync
• User-visible progress
Without forcing migration to Core Data.
⸻
🙏 Any advice on:
• Best practices
• Debugging approach
• CloudKit behavior in such scenarios
would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
iCloud & Data
Tags:
Swift Packages
CloudKit
Swift
Cloud and Local Storage
Our team is in the process of updating our apps to comply with Texas's new state law.
In order to minimize user confusion and provide the most ideal flow to access the app as possible, we have a few questions we would like answered.
Summary of questions:
Is isEligibleForAgeFeatures intended to be accurate and accessible before the user has accepted the Age Range permissions prompt?
As other US states and/or other countries adopt a similar law going forward, will this instance variable cover those locations?
Will the runtime crashes on isEligibleForAgeFeatures and other symbols in the DeclaredAgeRange framework be addressed in a future RC or in the official release?
Details and Investigations:
With regards to isEligibleForAgeFeatures, our team has noticed that this value is always false before the age range prompt has been accepted. This has been tested on the XCode RC 26.2 (17C48).
Assuming the request needs to be accepted first,
isEligibleForAgeFeatures does not get updated immediately when the user chooses to share their age range (updated to true, when our sandbox test account is a Texas resident). Only upon subsequent relaunches of the app does this return a value that reflects the sandbox user's location. Is isEligibleForAgeFeatures intended to be accurate and accessible before the user has accepted the Age Range permissions prompt?
This leads to our follow-up question to clarify whether isEligibleForAgeFeatures explicitly correlates to a user in an affected legal jurisdiction–if future US states and/or other countries adopt a similar law going forward, will this instance variable cover those locations?
Can we also get confirmation about whether the runtime crash on isEligibleForAgeFeatures and other symbols in the DeclaredAgeRange framework will be addressed in a future RC or in the official release?
Thank you.
The documentation for isEligibleForAgeFeatures states:
Use this property to determine whether a person using your app is in an applicable region that requires additional age-related obligations for when you distribute apps on the App Store.
But what does "region" mean?
Is this going to return true if the user has downloaded the app from the US App Store? Or will it go further and geolocate the user and identify them as being within a particular relevant state within the US?
Does our app need to check the location or can we fully reply on this API to decide whether we wanna comply for the law of places that requires age range information? Looks like it's only covering Texas now..? would it add other places by apple..? And also this API is really hard to test a user in other places, Iike I don't know a user in Brazil gonna return true for false now, but the law in Brazil also requires the age information.
'Guideline 2.1 - Performance - App Completeness' - "...could not be found in the submitted binary."
I have checked with internal and external testers and my devices and simulators, everyone sees the in app purchases but I just had my submitted rejected for the second time with the comment that these in-app none-consumable purchases cannot be found with the submitted binary.
I even attached a slow step by step screen recording for the review reply after the first rejection showing how to reach the purchasable packs by navigating through only 3 buttons:
"How to access the purchase flow:
Launch the app
Tap the bottom-center Settings button (icon: switch.2)
Tap “Customisation gallery”
Scroll to find any pack listed above
Tap the pack price chip
Tap “Buy pack – [price]” to start the StoreKit purchase flow"
I also attached a clear image along with detailed instruction (same as above) for the Review Information. and the second rejection was received today for the same reason.
I'm being guided to the localization 'Developer Action Needed'. I'm not sure what more can be done? I feel like my review replies aren't even looked at.
As a part of the video editing app I’m working on, I want to efficiently copy a folder of resources on the same (local) filesystem.
Because iOS is on APFS, cloning (CoW) is an option.
I read the documentation for clonefile(2) which states that cloning a folder works but is strongly discouraged.
I did a small sample project which demonstrates that using clonefile on a folder works correctly and is 10× faster than using FileManager’s copyItem method.
My questions:
The main one I’m interested in: Why is using clonefile for a folder strongly discouraged?
Is FileManager using cloning behind the scenes? Or more exactly how guaranteed are we it will use it? (I know it does, I tried manually cping the resources and it was thousands of times slower.)
If an iPhone receives an incoming call with some partial sip content (for example it contains a name but not an image, or vice versa) and if there is an app enabled for Live Caller ID Lookup, and the result of that lookup supplies data not in the sip (i.e. the lookup returns an image, but not a name, or vice versa). Then could the OS combine data from both sources, or is whatever is returned from the LCIDL what gets displayed in the call screen. I suppose that is the case but just want to enquire to make sure.
Thank you
Hi everyone
I would like to achieve having unidirectional relationships in my SwiftData project (which I believe is possible: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/updates/swiftdata?changes=_9) but I'm afraid I'm struggling to overcome the errors I'm experiencing.
For example, I have the following models:
@Model
final class Quota {
@Attribute(.unique) var id: UUID
var allowance: Int
@Relationship(inverse: nil) var fish: Fish
init(id: UUID = UUID(), fish: Fish, allowance: Int) {
self.id = id
self.fish = fish
self.allowance = allowance
}
}
@Model
final class Fish {
@Attribute(.unique) var id: Int
var name: String
init(id: Int, name: String) {
self.id = id,
self.name = name
}
}
However, when I attempt to save a quota as so:
let quota: Quota = .init(fish: Fish(id: 2, name: "Salmon"), allowance: 50)
modelContext?.insert(quota)
try save()
I keep getting the following error:
SwiftData.DefaultStore save failed with error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=1570 "%{PROPERTY}@ is a required value." UserInfo={NSValidationErrorObject=<NSManagedObject: 0x600002217390> (entity: Fish; id: 0x83319d001151328d <x-coredata://C76A2A64-146E-432F-A565-319B5A2F23F5/Fish/p12>; data: { id = nil; }), NSLocalizedDescription=%{PROPERTY}@ is a required value., NSValidationErrorKey=id, NSValidationErrorValue=null} %{PROPERTY}@ is a required value.
However, if I set up Quota and Fish with an inverse relationship then the data saves as expected, so I'm a little confused. Is there anyone out there who can provide some guidance as to why I'm seeing this error when I try to save a record in SwiftData with no inverse relationship?
I do fully understand about unidirectional vs bidirectional relationships but I have a scenario where I need the relationship to be unidirectional. Also, as a side note, the Fish record already exists in my database, but if I delete it and try to save the record I still see this error.
Thank you so much in advance for any help.
Area
Health & Fitness → HealthKit → Health Records (FHIR Ingestion)
Summary
On devices running iOS 26.2, FHIR Clinical Records successfully connect and validate, but no data (Procedure, DiagnosticReport, Observation, etc.) is ingested into the Health app.
The same FHIR server and patient connection works correctly on iOS 18.1, where all data syncs and displays as expected.
On iOS 26.2:
FHIR validation passes in Health Records
“Last Download Date” updates
Patient data is visible in connection
No clinical data appears in Health app
No apps are listed under Privacy → Health
Device shows “No Data Found”
Crash logs show healthappd terminating during ingestion
This appears to be a regression in the HealthPlatform / HealthKit ingestion pipeline in iOS 26.
Steps to Reproduce
Use an iPhone running iOS 26.2
Open Health app
Add Health Record from FHIR server
Authenticate successfully
Confirm FHIR validation screen shows all resources as “Passed”
Wait for sync to complete
Expected Result
Procedures, DiagnosticReports, Observations, etc. should appear in Health app
Data should be written to HealthKit
Apps should appear under Settings → Privacy & Security → Health
Actual Result
No data appears in Health app
No Procedures, DiagnosticReports, Observations, etc.
Apps section under Health permissions shows “None”
Device shows “No Data Found”
Last Download Date updates correctly
Validation Results (All Passed)
The following FHIR resources show “Passed” in Health validation:
AllergyIntolerance
Condition
DiagnosticReport
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Cardiology
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Pathology
DiagnosticReport-ClinicalNotes-Radiology
DocumentReference-ClinicalNotes
Immunization
MedicationRequest
Observation-Labs
Observation-VitalSigns
Patient
Procedure
Server responses are correct and return expected data when tested via Postman.
Crash Log Details
Crash occurs in process:
healthappd
Frameworks involved:
HealthPlatform.framework
HealthKit
Combine
Exception:
EXC_BAD_ACCESS
SIGKILL
EXC_ARM_PAC_FAIL
Thread:
com.apple.HealthKit.HKHealthStoreImplementation.client
Stack trace includes:
objc_msgSend
HKSharedSummary
DictionaryStorage.deinit
swift_release_dealloc
objc_destructInstance
Publishers.MergeMany
Future.init
This indicates the ingestion pipeline crashes before data is written to HealthKit.
Comparison Across OS Versions
iOS Version
Result
iOS 18.1
Data syncs correctly
iOS 26.2
No data syncs, healthappd crash
Same:
Same FHIR server
Same patient
Same authentication
Same device model
Same iCloud settings
Additional Notes
OAuth flow succeeds
FHIR validation passes
Server responses are correct
Postman returns correct JSON
No TLS errors
No permission errors
Issue only occurs on iOS 26+
This appears to be a regression in the FHIR ingestion engine introduced after iOS 18.1.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Health & Fitness