Hi, I want to offer an auto-renewable subscription (e.g., $1/month) that grants users (10 document analyses per month), with the count resetting at the start of each billing cycle.
-Unused analyses will not roll over to the next month-
Additionally, any analyses generated while the subscription is active will remain accessible to the user permanently, even if they cancel the subscription.
The paywall, app description, and metadata will clearly state that the subscription grants (10 document analyses per month with no rollover)
We want this to be implemented as an auto-renewable subscription model, not as a consumable service or a token/credit system (which we want to avoid).
Is this model acceptable under Apple’s guidelines, or would it be considered a token/credit system? Any insights or alternative suggestions would be appreciated.. Thanks
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Hi,
In my application I am donating AppIntent instances that I have to the system using the donate() API. I recently came across this article that talks about deleting donations but it does not mention how to handle AppIntent instances.
I am wondering when working with dynamic AppIntents (with different properties that can change in the future), should I be worried about "outdated" donated AppIntent instances? And if yes how can I delete previously donated AppIntent instances.
Hi all,
I've been trying to test the suspension -> resume behaviour of our app, on iPad (iPadOS 18.3.1), however I'm unable to reliably get the application into a suspended state.
Things I've read that do not work reliably:
Backgrounding the application and waiting ~1 minute
Backgrounding the application and opening a bunch of other applications
Sometimes it will work consistently, then other times I can be waiting for 30 minutes or more and it still won't suspend.
If it matters - I'm launching the app via xcode & it's also a capacitor app with a web sockets connection.
Is there any way to reliably suspend an app?
Thanks
I'm calling .startUpdatingLocation() from the background to detect user's location but the updates stop shortly after they start.
The issue seem to also be discussed here:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/726945
I wonder if any solution has been found?
This is a critical feature for our app.
I have:
kCLLocationAccuracyBestForNavigation
allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates = true
pausesLocationUpdatesAutomatically = false
Location Updates in background modes
distanceFilter not set or kCLDistanceFilterNone
When I use https://api.push.apple.com/3/device/e0ae826f3905b010e37c4a07e873481b8446c9dc2788511b2995992884468068
Return error message: {"reason":"BadDeviceToken"}
When I use https://api.development.push.apple.com/3/device/e0ae826f3905b010e37c4a07e873481b8446c9dc2788511b2995992884468068
Return error message:{"reason":"TopicDisallowed"}
why?
public static func fetch(in context: NSManagedObjectContext, configurationBlock: (NSFetchRequest) -> () = { _ in }) -> [Self] {
let request = NSFetchRequest(entityName: Self.entityName)
configurationBlock(request)
return try! context.fetch(request)
}
context.fetch(request), 'fetch' function has error. Thread 24: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode=0x0)
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
iCloud & Data
Tags:
Xcode Sanitizers and Runtime Issues
Core Data
when I implementation the UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
var status = ""
if (UIApplication.shared.applicationState == .active) {
status = "active"
} else if (UIApplication.shared.applicationState == .background) {
status = "background"
} else if (UIApplication.shared.applicationState == .inactive) {
status = "inactive"
}
completionHandler()
}
I find that UIApplication.shared.applicationState == .background this case can not execute when application is in background。
why applicationState is inactive not background?
We are in the process of implementing promotional offers for auto-renewable subscriptions in our app using StoreKit 2.
For testing, we use a sandbox user alongside a new user on our platform. I can successfully purchase an Introductory Offer through the app. Once the user is eligible for a Promotional Offer (based on a previous purchase), we retrieve the Promotional Offer identifier and signature from our backend and display the offer.
After initiating the purchase and having the user enter their Sandbox password, the transaction is added to the Payment Queue. However, it fails with the following error:
Purchase failed error: invalidOfferSignature
Additionally, the error returned is:
"Purchase did not return a transaction: Error Domain=ASDServerErrorDomain Code=3903 "Unable to Purchase" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Unable to Purchase, client-environment-type=Sandbox, AMSServerErrorCode=3903, storefront-country-code=IND}"
We are using StoreKit 2 APIs for this process.
Has anyone encountered this issue when working with StoreKit 2, or found a solution to resolve it?
After copying and inserting instances I am getting strange duplicate values in arrays before saving.
My models:
@Model
class Car: Identifiable {
@Attribute(.unique)
var name: String
var carData: CarData
func copy() -> Car {
Car(
name: "temporaryNewName",
carData: carData
)
}
}
@Model
class CarData: Identifiable {
var id: UUID = UUID()
var featuresA: [Feature]
var featuresB: [Feature]
func copy() -> CarData {
CarData(
id: UUID(),
featuresA: featuresA,
featuresB: featuresB
)
}
}
@Model
class Feature: Identifiable {
@Attribute(.unique)
var id: Int
@Attribute(.unique)
var name: String
@Relationship(
deleteRule:.cascade,
inverse: \CarData.featuresA
)
private(set) var carDatasA: [CarData]?
@Relationship(
deleteRule:.cascade,
inverse: \CarData.featuresB
)
private(set) var carDatasB: [CarData]?
}
The Car instances are created and saved to SwiftData, after that in code:
var fetchDescriptor = FetchDescriptor<Car>(
predicate: #Predicate<Car> {
car in
car.name == name
}
)
let cars = try! modelContext.fetch(
fetchDescriptor
)
let car = cars.first!
print("car featuresA:", car.featuresA.map{$0.name}) //prints ["green"] - expected
let newCar = car.copy()
newCar.name = "Another car"
newcar.carData = car.carData.copy()
print("newCar featuresA:", newCar.featuresA.map{$0.name}) //prints ["green"] - expected
modelContext.insert(newCar)
print("newCar featuresA:", newCar.featuresA.map{$0.name}) //prints ["green", "green"] - UNEXPECTED!
/*some code planned here modifying newCar.featuresA, but they are wrong here causing issues,
for example finding first expected green value and removing it will still keep the unexpected duplicate
(unless iterating over all arrays to delete all unexpected duplicates - not optimal and sloooooow).*/
try! modelContext.save()
print("newCar featuresA:", newCar.featuresA.map{$0.name}) //prints ["green"] - self-auto-healed???
Tested on iOS 18.2 simulator and iOS 18.3.1 device. Minimum deployment target: iOS 17.4
The business logic is that new instances need to be created by copying and modifying previously created ones, but I would like to avoid saving before all instances are created, because saving after creating each instance separately takes too much time overall. (In real life scenario there are more than 10K objects with much more properties, updating just ~10 instances with saving takes around 1 minute on iPhone 16 Pro.)
Is this a bug, or how can I modify the code (without workarounds like deleting duplicate values) to not get duplicate values between insert() and save()?
I'm developing a visionOS app using Unity and CoreBluetooth to connect to BLE devices. However, after adding the required Bluetooth permissions in Info.plist, the app does not prompt the user for Bluetooth access, and scanning for peripherals does not work.
Hey there my application allows users to have video calls with each other using Agora. I have successfully set up incoming call functionality on Android but on iOS I am struggling to get the call ui to appear when the app is not running/in background/locked.
To my knowledge this is because there is much stricter security on iOS which is limiting me from calling this. When i initially set it up it worked at first when the app was in the background but I think I was failing to report the call to call kit in time and now it's not working.
I'm not sure if I need access to this entitlement:
com.apple.developer.pushkit.unrestricted-voip
Which i believe is only for the big boys or if I make sure I'm reporting the call to call kit fast enough that I won't encounter this issue and it will consistently work in the background.
Im using the low-level C xpc api <xpc/xpc.h> and i get this error when I run it: Underlying connection interrupted. I know this error stems from the call to xpc_session_send_message_with_reply_sync(session, message, &reply_err);. I have no previous experience with xpc or dispatch and I find the xpc docs very limited and I also found next to no code examples online. Can somebody take a look at my code and tell me what I did wrong and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.
Main code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <xpc/xpc.h>
#include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
// the context passed to mainf()
struct context {
char* text;
xpc_session_t sess;
};
// This is for later implementation and the name is also rudimentary
void mainf(void* c) {
//char * text = ((struct context*)c)->text;
xpc_session_t session = ((struct context*)c)->sess;
dispatch_queue_t messageq = dispatch_queue_create("y.ddd.main",
DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
xpc_object_t message = xpc_dictionary_create(NULL, NULL, 0);
xpc_dictionary_set_string(message, "test", "eeeee");
if (session == NULL) {
printf("Session is NULL\n");
exit(1);
}
__block xpc_rich_error_t reply_err = NULL;
__block xpc_object_t reply;
dispatch_sync(messageq, ^{
reply = xpc_session_send_message_with_reply_sync(session,
message,
&reply_err);
if (reply_err != NULL) printf("Reply Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(reply_err));
});
if (reply != NULL)
printf("Reply: %s\n", xpc_dictionary_get_string(reply, "test"));
else printf("Reply is NULL\n");
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
// Create seperate queue for mainf()
dispatch_queue_t mainq = dispatch_queue_create("y.ddd.main",
DISPATCH_QUEUE_CONCURRENT);
dispatch_queue_t xpcq = dispatch_queue_create("y.ddd.xpc",
NULL);
// Create the context being sent to mainf
struct context* c = malloc(sizeof(struct context));
c->text = malloc(sizeof("Hello"));
strcpy(c->text, "Hello");
xpc_rich_error_t sess_err = NULL;
xpc_session_t session = xpc_session_create_xpc_service("y.getFilec",
xpcq,
XPC_SESSION_CREATE_INACTIVE,
&sess_err);
if (sess_err != NULL) {
printf("Session Create Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(sess_err));
xpc_release(sess_err);
exit(1);
}
xpc_release(sess_err);
xpc_session_set_incoming_message_handler(session, ^(xpc_object_t message) {
printf("message recieved\n");
});
c->sess = session;
xpc_rich_error_t sess_ac_err = NULL;
xpc_session_activate(session, &sess_ac_err);
if (sess_err != NULL) {
printf("Session Activate Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(sess_ac_err));
xpc_release(sess_ac_err);
exit(1);
}
xpc_release(sess_ac_err);
xpc_retain(session);
dispatch_async_f(mainq, (void*)c, mainf);
xpc_release(session);
dispatch_main();
}
XPC Service code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <xpc/xpc.h>
#include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
int main(void) {
xpc_rich_error_t lis_err = NULL;
xpc_listener_t listener = xpc_listener_create("y.getFilec",
NULL,
XPC_LISTENER_CREATE_INACTIVE,
^(xpc_session_t sess){
printf("Incoming Session: %s\n", xpc_session_copy_description(sess));
xpc_session_set_incoming_message_handler(sess,
^(xpc_object_t mess) {
xpc_object_t repl = xpc_dictionary_create_empty();
xpc_dictionary_set_string(repl, "test", "test");
xpc_rich_error_t send_repl_err = xpc_session_send_message(sess, repl);
if (send_repl_err != NULL) printf("Send Reply Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(send_repl_err));
});
xpc_rich_error_t sess_ac_err = NULL;
xpc_session_activate(sess, &sess_ac_err);
if (sess_ac_err != NULL) printf("Session Activate: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(sess_ac_err));
},
&lis_err);
if (lis_err != NULL) {
printf("Listener Error: %s\n", xpc_rich_error_copy_description(lis_err));
xpc_release(lis_err);
}
xpc_rich_error_t lis_ac_err = NULL;
xpc_listener_activate(listener, &lis_ac_err);
if (lis_ac_err != NULL) {
printf("Listener Activate Error: %s\n", xpc_rich_error_copy_description(lis_ac_err));
xpc_release(lis_ac_err);
}
dispatch_main();
}
I've just released my first on app store. I have monthly renewing subscription on my app, there is no pay wall for few days.
When I look at my app store page after release it shows me app price upfront instead of users download the app. I know I have subscription, but I don't want it to be upfront before install
I know other store that have the same model and users get to download their app. What am I missing?
Hello! I'm having an issue with my universal links. Apple AASA CDN couldn't get the AASA file.
I'm trying to reproduce the issue, but I get the file correctly.
curl -A "AASA-Bot/1.0.0" https://hoff.ru/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
But, unfortunately,
https://app-site-association.cdn-apple.com/a/v1/hoff.ru
Returns 404 Not Found.
And the Error Header contains error, that there is and HTML < symbol, which is the sign of 403 error responsed by NGINX.
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Apple-Failure-Details: {"cause":"invalid character '\u003c' looking for beginning of value"}
< Apple-Failure-Reason: SWCERR00401 Bad JSON content
< Apple-From: https://hoff.ru/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
< Apple-Try-Direct: false
Can you tell me what's the problem?
I don't see any requests from 17.0.0.0/8 subnet which is now open for our site.
Can you please investigate my problem?
Hello Everyone,
I somehow missed to renew the APNS Certificate,
I am new to Apple Ecosystem, I can not see the expired or any Certificates under
Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
Can anyone help me with this!
I've been reading this question: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/701945 and watching the videos on background tasks
But can't arrive to a concrete solution.
Q1: Are there any tips (or sample app) on how to handle a launch in background in a streamlined way? How to have a shared code that is ran for both 'launch in background' & 'launch in foreground'?
Specifically the case I'm talking about is:
You set up some observance of some OS callback at a Foo screen of your app. Example app should request and then send push-to-start live activity tokens to server. Or setup location tracking.
App is then suspended and then later terminated but is eligible for relaunch
App is then launched in background because it has requested a push-to-start live activity token or an update for location tracking.
User DOES NOT go back to screen Foo.
So at this point app is no longer tracking / listening to updates for token update or location changes.
How should I architecture my code for this? I'm trying to see if there's a an approach where I can avoid having multiple places in code where I do the same thing. Currently what I'm doing is as such:
Q2: Is it then correct to say that anytime you've launched your app, whether it's in foreground or background then you must immediately match 'all observations done by the previous app launch'?
Like store items in UserDefaults and upon launch retrieve them and do:
handleGeneralAppLaunchFlow()
// ALSO
if defaults.contains("didLastLaunchSetupLiveActivtiyTokenObservance") {
for await ptsToken in Activity<EmojiRangers> .pushToStartTokenUpdates {
...
}
}
if defaults.contains("didLastLaunchSetupLocationTracking") {
locationManager = CLLocationManager()
locationManager?.delegate = itsDelegate
locationManager?.allowsBackgroundLocationUpdates = true
locationManager?.showsBackgroundLocationIndicator = true
locationManager?.startUpdatingLocation()
}
// Other checks for prior observance setup
Q3: Actually I think even if app is launched in foreground then because you may not end up at screen Foo again, then you must setup things regardless of app state and just based on prior observations set. Right?
Q4: And then later if the user ever made it again to screen Foo, then we just skip the re-do of the observance, or maybe to just keep things simple, we'd just redo without over-engineering things?
I tried to mark my questions with Q1- Q4.
I am calling InvokeCommand on a MTRBaseDevice I received from HomeKit. The device receiving the command is using Matter 1.3 and is expecting a Boolean State Configuration new to that version of the spec. That may be the reason why I get the following error:
MTRInteractionErrorDomain Code=133 "The cluster command is malformed, has missing fields, or fields with invalid values.Command not carried out."
I am sending the following as the commandField parameter:
["type": "UnsignedInteger", "value": 1]
When I look into those values more deeply, the value is specified as an NSNumber holding an Int16 value of 1. I created the NSNumber using a Uint8(1). The docs suggest this should result in an NSNumber treated as an unsigned char, but the debugger reports it as a Int16. I tried changing the type in the command field to "SignedInteger" and this had no effect on the error I receive. So I suppose the problem could also be that my parameters always get a signed value when an unsigned value is expected.
Is this something I can correct using the current APIs, or do I need to wait for Matter 1.3 support?
Hello Everyone,
I have noticed an inconsistency in the KEXT status between the System Information Extensions section and the output of the kextstat command.
In System Information, the extension appears as loaded:
ACS6x:
Version: 3.8.3
Last Modified: 2025/3/10, 8:03 PM
Bundle ID: com.Accusys.driver.Acxxx
Loaded: Yes
Get Info String: ACS6x 3.8.4 Copyright (c) 2004-2020 Accusys, Ltd.
Architectures: arm64e
64-Bit (Intel): No
Location: /Library/Extensions/ACS6x.kext/
Kext Version: 3.8.3
Load Address: 0
Loadable: Yes
Dependencies: Satisfied
Signed by: Developer ID Application: Accusys, Inc (K3TDMD9Y6B)
Issuer: Developer ID Certification Authority
Signing time: 2025-03-10 12:03:20 +0000
Identifier: com.Accusys.driver.Acxxx
TeamID: K3TDMD9Y6B
However, when I check using kextstat, it does not appear as loaded:
$ kextstat | grep ACS6x
Executing: /usr/bin/kmutil showloaded
No variant specified, falling back to release
I use a script to do these jobs
echo " Change to build/Release"
echo " CodeSign ACS6x.kext"
echo " Compress to zip file"
echo " Notary & Staple"
echo " Unload the old Acxxx Driver"
echo " Copy ACS6x.kext driver to /Library/Extensions/"
echo " Change ACS6x.kext driver owner"
echo " Loaded ACS6x.kext driver"
sudo kextload ACS6x.kext
echo " Rebiuld system cache"
sudo kextcache -system-prelinked-kernel
sudo kextcache -system-caches
sudo kextcache -i /
echo " Reboot"
sudo reboot
But it seems that the KEXT is not always loaded successfully.
What did I forget to do?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Charles
In my App I want to create a new directory structure in a user selected base directory. In the entitlements com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write = true is defined. I call URL.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource( ) and get a true value back. When calling FileManager.createDirectory( at: directoryURL, withIntermediateDirectories: true, attributes: nil ) an error is thrown that write access is missing. User has write permissions in that directory.
When the user selects a directory I store a bookmark via an @AppStorage variable. After write attempt URL.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() is called.
I have also implemented a SharedExtension (especially for the Photo app). When user calls the SharedExtension of my app and the app just uses the bookmark stored with @AppStorage and follows the same process as described above no difficulties appear and directories are created as expected.
Changing back to the main app, using again the untouched bookmark and execute the exactly same code as in the first attempt everything works fine and as expected.
The phenomenon appears on real devices but not on simulator.
Any ideas how to solve the issue of having no write access in first attempt?
Hello,
Since updating to iOS 18.3.1, the rear camera on my iPhone 13 Pro Max has not been functioning properly. The Camera app displays a black screen and becomes unresponsive.
I analyzed the crash logs and found that the issue is related to the cameracaptured process, which handles image and video capture on iOS. Here are the key details from the crash log:
📌 Memory Error: "Address size fault"
📌 Impacted Thread: com.apple.coremedia.capturesession.workerQueue
The "Address size fault" error suggests a memory access issue, likely causing the cameracaptured process to crash. This could be due to a bug in the video capture thread management introduced in the update.
What do you think?
name":"cameracaptured","timestamp":"2025-03-12 10:37:31.00 +0100","app_version":"1.0","slice_uuid":"cc45251e-92fc-329d-a3e9-d1c8c019e59e","build_version":"587.82.13","platform":2,"share_with_app_devs":0,"is_first_party":1,"bug_type":"309","os_version":"iPhone OS 18.3.2 (22D82)","roots_installed":0,"incident_id":"E97F5B3A-345F-42A6-97E8-28D175C8C5A9","name":"cameracaptured"}
{
"uptime" : 820,
"procRole" : "Unspecified",
"version" : 2,
"userID" : 501,
"deployVersion" : 210,
"modelCode" : "iPhone14,3",
"coalitionID" : 75,
"osVersion" : {
"isEmbedded" : true,
"train" : "iPhone OS 18.3.2",
"releaseType" : "User",
"build" : "22D82"
},
"captureTime" : "2025-03-12 10:37:30.1093 +0100",
"codeSigningMonitor" : 2,
"incident" : "E97F5B3A-345F-42A6-97E8-28D175C8C5A9",
"pid" : 68,
"translated" : false,
"cpuType" : "ARM-64",
"roots_installed" : 0,
"bug_type" : "309",
"procLaunch" : "2025-03-12 10:04:03.7137 +0100",
"procStartAbsTime" : 225890551,
"procExitAbsTime" : 19918403953,
"procName" : "cameracaptured",
"procPath" : "/usr/libexec/cameracaptured",
"bundleInfo" : {"CFBundleVersion":"587.82.13","CFBundleShortVersionString":"1.0"},
"parentProc" : "launchd",
"parentPid" : 1,
"coalitionName" : "com.apple.cameracaptured",
"crashReporterKey" : "137125638e43c62173057ae3dc983089b1f083cf",
"appleIntelligenceStatus" : {"state":"unavailable","reasons":["siriAssetIsNotReady","selectedLanguageIneligible","selectedLanguageDoesNotMatchSelectedSiriLanguage","notOptedIn","deviceNotCapable","selectedSiriLanguageIneligible","countryLocationIneligible","unableToFetchAvailability","assetIsNotReady"]},
"wasUnlockedSinceBoot" : 1,
"isLocked" : 0,
"throttleTimeout" : 5,
"codeSigningID" : "com.apple.cameracaptured",
"codeSigningTeamID" : "",
"codeSigningFlags" : 570434305,
"codeSigningValidationCategory" : 1,
"codeSigningTrustLevel" : 7,
"instructionByteStream" : {"beforePC":"BgCA0hUnFpTgAxOqIaSGUiFLu3KJJBaU4AMTqqfYDZTozSGQAFEC+Q==","atPC":"IAAg1KiDW/jJkB+QKd1B+SkBQPk/AQjrAQEAVP17Uqn0T1Gp9ldQqQ=="},
"bootSessionUUID" : "33672FC1-99EC-48FC-8BCD-2B96DF170CC3",
"basebandVersion" : "4.20.03",
"exception" : {"codes":"0x0000000000000001, 0x00000001a93909f0","rawCodes":[1,7134054896],"type":"EXC_BREAKPOINT","signal":"SIGTRAP"},
"termination" : {"flags":0,"code":5,"namespace":"SIGNAL","indicator":"Trace/BPT trap: 5","byProc":"exc handler","byPid":68},
"os_fault" : {"process":"cameracaptured"},
"faultingThread" : 4,
"threads" : [{"id":1699,"threadState":{"x":[{"value":268451845},{"value":21592279046},{"value":8589934592},{"value":28600187224064},{"value":0},{"value":28600187224064},{"value":2},{"value":4294967295},{"value":18446744073709550527},{"value":2},{"value":0},{"value":0},{"value":0},{"value":6659},{"value":0},{"value":0},{"value":18446744073709551569},{"value":6677212688,"symbolLocation":56,"symbol":"clock_gettime"},{"value":0},{"value":4294967295},{"value":2},{"value":28600187224064},{"value":0},{"value":28600187224064},{"value":6126594600},{"value":8589934592},{"value":21592279046},{"value":21592279046},{"value":4412409862}],"flavor":"ARM_THREAD_STATE64","lr":{"value":7911718552},"cpsr":{"value":4096},"fp":{"value":6126594448},"sp":{"value":6126594368},"esr":{"value":1442840704,"description":" Address size fault"},"pc":{"value":7911704456},pc":{"value":7911704456},"far":{"value":0}},"queue":"com.apple.main-thread","frames":[{"imageOffset":6024,"symbol":"mach_msg2_trap","symbolLocation":8,"imageIndex":10},{"imageOffset":20120,"symbol":"mach_msg2_internal","symbolLocation":80,"imageIndex":10},{"imageOffset":19888,"symbol":"mach_msg_overwrite","symbolLocation":424,"imageIndex":10},{"imageOffset":19452,"symbol":"mach_msg","symbolL
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Hardware