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Hello, We are a Russian developer attempting to enable the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement for our app. According to Apple’s documentation, this entitlement is required to provide external purchase links in Russia. However, the official request page consistently returns a 500 Internal Server Error: https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/storekit-external-entitlement-ru Steps we tried: Different browsers (Safari, Chrome, Edge) Different networks and VPNs Multiple developer accounts The error persists in all cases. We have already opened a support case (Case #102864703080), but Developer Support advised us to post here for technical guidance. Questions: Is there an alternative way to submit the entitlement request while the page is unavailable? Can Apple confirm whether this is a known issue and if a fix is in progress? Are manual submissions via the general Contact Us form accepted for this entitlement? Screenshots of the error are attached. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

We have a user from Asia whose subscription failed to be detected by our app. On 26.4. They also tried revoking the yearly subscription and activating a monthly. Payment ok and the device reported that the subscription is active. Our code relies on Transaction.currentEntitlements in StoreKit, which seems to be broken, at least for this user. None of these worked: Installing iOS 26.4.1 Reinstalling our app Logging out and in from iCloud. Hard device reset Full iOS reinstall. User finally gave up and got a refund. I am reporting here in case other apps experienced similar problems. This discussion mentions that a regression in 26.4 might have contributed to the issue which is supposed to be fixed in 26.4.1. ( https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/820562?answerId=883682022#883682022 ) The issue may have persisted or left the entitlements corrupt for this particular user. Hoping that the issue is resolved so we do not have more problems in the future.

Hello, I’m a developer of an iOS app that provides paid educational courses (video-based content). Our recent app update was rejected under guideline 3.1.1 because the app includes paid digital content that is not using Apple’s In-App Purchase system. We fully understand and respect this guideline. However, we are facing a significant limitation: We are based in Iraq, and currently we do not have access to supported financial infrastructure that allows us to: Use Apple In-App Purchase (due to lack of supported banking setup) Use common payment providers like Stripe or similar services At the moment, our app relies on external payments completed outside the app, and users log in to access purchased content. Due to the rejection, our release and marketing plans are currently blocked, and we are looking for a compliant solution.

The file ~/.CFUserTextEncoding contained a string which I can't understand. It's recreated when a user log in. I had found that the result of CoreFoundation.CFStringGetSystemEncoding() is affected by the content of this file. What is this file used for?

app id is 6759403692 i have been waiting to be approved my app for two months. I mailed and called several times but no response. please someone help me.

Hello everyone, I am looking for some advice or shared experiences regarding a prolonged App Review Board appeal process. I submitted my app earlier this month. On March 3rd, it was rejected under guideline 4.3(b) Spam. On the exact same day (March 3rd), I submitted a detailed appeal to the App Review Board. In my appeal, I provided clear documentation and explanations to prove that the app is not a generic template. I specifically highlighted our proprietary algorithm that calculates a unique total daily energy percentage for users, which distinctly separates it from standard, saturated apps in the market. The issue: It has now been 23 days since I submitted the appeal, and I have not received any response from the Board. My main concern is the lack of visibility. Since appeals to the Board do not appear in the Resolution Center UI, I have no way of knowing if my ticket is actually actively open, in a queue, or if it has been lost due to a system glitch. I recently tried reaching out to general support to verify the ticket's status, but I only received an automated generic response stating that if I have already appealed, I should just wait. My questions for the community: Has anyone else experienced wait times exceeding 3 weeks for a 4.3(b) appeal recently? Is there any workaround to simply verify that an internal appeal ticket is genuinely open and hasn't fallen through the cracks? Any insights or advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Since April 6 I’m waiting for review. No updates. They usually say that takes 24-48hrs to be reviewed. I'm at 10 days already. And I get no response on my emails and ticket.

Hi, I’ve been successfully using notarization with notarytool for over a month (20+ submissions, all accepted within minutes). On April 4th around 07:30 (UTC), my last submissions were accepted without any issue: createdDate: 2026-04-04T07:29:08.877Z id: 38d6e6e0-1183-4fe8-ae4a-3036e1f0f025 name: MacOptimizers.dmg status: Accepted -------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-04-04T07:26:36.357Z id: 2abf8289-6e00-4b16-9991-fbda7e66a179 name: macopt_notary_payload.UdtfA3 status: Accepted -------------------------------------------- Later that same day (around 16:30 UTC), after minor bug fixes and UI changes, I submitted a new build. Since then, all notarization requests remain stuck in “In Progress” for more than 48 hours: -------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-04-05T07:13:03.369Z id: b4872e7a-e2b5-485e-9223-09f3ed94958f name: macopt_notary_payload.mZls1y status: In Progress -------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-04-04T20:07:35.937Z id: 375408f2-3c0a-455e-88a1-9cd08ce7dc35 name: macopt_notary_payload.CvrZNt status: In Progress -------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-04-04T17:09:47.481Z id: dad888b3-6aff-4c54-9608-da1f86e44db7 name: macopt_notary_payload.IH0RDr status: In Progress -------------------------------------------- createdDate: 2026-04-04T16:28:03.086Z id: 9e129b21-e682-48ce-baa7-8d2d77051bac name: macopt_notary_payload.GsrSa6 status: In Progress No errors are returned, and notarytool log is not yet available. Is this expected behavior (e.g. extended review), or could there be an issue affecting notarization for my team? Thanks for your help.

Getting a couple of errors on the Signing & Capabilities section in Xcode when trying to provision my iPhone for on-device prototyping. "Communication with Apple failed Your team has no devices from which to generate a provisioning profile. Connect a device to use or manually add device IDs in Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles. https://developer.apple.com/account/" "No profiles for 'com.danieljbuckley.Throwaway' were found Xcode couldn't find any iOS App Development provisioning profiles matching 'com.danieljbuckley.Throwaway'." Any ideas on how to resolve this?

App ID: 6761302938 I've provided the DSA compliance, but it is stuck in the "In review" state. I tried to contact Apple Development Support but mail is never responded and three calls yesterday took over an hour each, without talking to anybody. Today, both mail and call support seems blocked "responseId": "8ec9XXXX056", "resultCode": 1200, "resultString": "You are not allowed to perform this operation. Please check with one of your Team Admins, or, if you need further assistance, please contact Apple Developer Program Support. https://developer.apple.com/support", "userString": "You are not allowed to perform this operation. Please check with one of your Team Admins, or, if you need further assistance, please contact Apple Developer Program Support. https://developer.apple.com/support", "creationTimestamp": "2026-04-14T09:29:12Z", "userLocale": "en_US", "requestUrl": "https://developer.apple.com/services-contact/solution/execute", "httpCode": 200 } Please please Apple development team: fix this issue, respond to emails and most important: approve the DSA compliance.

I made my purchase on 12 April 2026 It said within 24-48 hours but i haven't received any email aside from the payment receipts. I created ticket but no response from that been 48 hours. Cannot find any phone number to contact on. Any help?

I'm using Xcode 26.4 for Swift development on macOS 26.4.1. It seems that the documentation for the "Foundation" framework has disappeared, possibly after an Xcode update (not the latest one). "Foundation" does not appear in the left-side list in the developer documentation window, and searching for "URLSession", "UndoManager" finds no result. Autocomplete for these classes works. Quick help on URLSession shows just "inherits from" and "conforms to", but no description and no link to a help page. I've tried deleting files in ~/Library/Developer so that it rebuilds the index, and also fully removing and reinstalling Xcode and rebooting, but nothing seems to solve it. Is there any way to get the full documentation back in Xcode.

EASession(accessory:forProtocol:) always returns nil — MFI accessory iAP2 Platform: iOS 17+ | Hardware: Custom MFI-certified accessory (USB-C, iAP2) | Language: Swift Problem We have a custom MFI-certified accessory communicating over USB-C using ExternalAccessory. The app calls EASession(accessory:forProtocol:) after receiving EAAccessoryDidConnect but it always returns nil. We never get past session creation. What we have verified We captured a sysdiagnose on-device and analysed the accessoryd-packets log. The full iAP2 handshake completes successfully at the OS level: USB attach succeeds MFI auth certificate is present and Apple-issued Auth challenge and response complete successfully IdentificationInformation is accepted by iOS — protocol string and Team ID are correct EAAccessoryDidConnect fires as expected iOS sends StartExternalAccessoryProtocolSession — the OS-level session is established So the hardware, MFI auth, protocol string, and Team ID are all correct. Despite this, EASession(accessory:forProtocol:) returns nil in the app. We also confirmed: Protocol string in UISupportedExternalAccessoryProtocols in Info.plist matches the accessory exactly Protocol string in code matches Info.plist App entitlements are correctly configured EAAccessoryManager.shared().registerForLocalNotifications() is called before connection Current connection code @objc private func accessoryDidConnect(_ notification: Notification) { guard let accessory = notification.userInfo?[EAAccessoryKey] as? EAAccessory else { return } DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 1.0) { self.tryConnectToAccessory() } } private func tryConnectToAccessory() { DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 3.0) { for accessory in EAAccessoryManager.shared().connectedAccessories { let session = EASession(accessory: accessory, forProtocol: "") // session is always nil here } } } Questions The packet log shows a ~4 second gap between EAAccessoryDidConnect firing and iOS internally completing session readiness (StartExternalAccessoryProtocolSession). Is there a reliable way to know when iOS Is it actually ready to grant an EASession, rather than using a fixed delay? Is there a delegate callback or notification that fires when the accessory protocol session is ready to be opened, rather than relying on EAAccessoryDidConnect + an arbitrary delay? Are there any known conditions on iOS 17+ under which EASession returns nil even though the iAP2 handshake completed successfully at the OS level? Is retrying EASession after a nil result a supported pattern, or does a nil result mean the session will never succeed for that connection? Any guidance appreciated.

Hi everyone, I'm hoping to get some advice or visibility from Apple staff here, as my team is currently completely stuck. On April 10th, we enrolled in the Apple Developer Program. Our credit card was successfully charged $99, and we received the official Apple invoice receipt (Invoice #MC64187422). However, almost a week later, the membership status has not updated to active. The developer portal still prompts us to "Complete your purchase", and if we click it, it gives a warning about withdrawing the enrollment. We are on a very tight schedule to release a gamification app for our corporate clients by late April, and this enrollment delay is severely impacting our deployment timeline. I've already emailed Developer Support but haven't received a response in days. I also tried using the "Request a call" feature. However, because I am the technical lead handling the setup for the team and my name doesn't exactly match the account owner's name, the phone support agent was unable to assist me further due to security policies. Has anyone experienced this kind of "stuck" status after the payment has already been captured and invoiced? Is there a specific way to escalate this pending enrollment so we can meet our project deadline? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hello! We built a macOS .pkg using pkgbuild (contains a DMG + postinstall bash script). The pkg works locally on the build machine but fails on other devices manually / via MDM unless signed. We tried signing with a Developer ID Installer certificate, but: security find-identity -p codesigning -v → 0 valid identities security find-identity -v → shows the cert Private key is present in Keychain OpenSSL check shows: X509v3 Extended Key Usage: Critical (Expected one might be: Code Signing) We recreated CSR + cert multiple times (G2 Sub-CA), ensured Login keychain, unlocked keychain, etc., but same result. Question: Why is the Developer ID Installer cert missing Code Signing usage and not recognized for signing? Is there any account restriction or step we might be missing? Any recommendations on resolving this issue. Thanks!

Hey! I am new to the apple developer enrolment program and it seemed alright to me when I started to fill all of the spaces, but when it lead to the paying process I started to have an issue. The issue is that I fill the spaces to pay, but I never receive the email for actually the bill, so I do not pay and receive the enrol. How do I fix it?

I've been able to run this sample project with the PIRServer. But the urls are still not blocked. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/filtering-traffic-by-url https://github.com/apple/pir-service-example I got this on the log Received filter status change: <FilterStatus: 'running'>

Hi there, New to this forum. I have an iOS/iPadOS app already published in the App Store, and it works great as a Mac Catalyst app on my Mac. However when uploading to App Store Connect, I get the message: Failed Registering Bundle Identifier The app identifier "maccatalyst.nl.lai.prep-app" cannot be registered to your development team because it is not available. Change your bundle identifier to a unique string to try again. So the organizer adds the maccatalyst in front of the Bundle Identifier automatically, but for some reason I get the message it's not available. I've already added the macOS App as a platform on App Store Connect. The Bundle ID (nl.lai.prep-app) is obviously registered as the app is already available on iOS/iPadOS and I have enabled 'Mac Catalyst' in my App id Configuration on the developer portal. In Xcode macOS (Mac Catalyst) has been added as a destination. I contacted developer support, but they couldn't see anything wrong 🤷‍♂️ and suggested I would ask the developer community on the developer forum for advice, so here I am. Who has suggestions on what I should do?

I enrolled an Apple Developer Account since yesterday and it still pending. I wonder how long it takes to get approve from Apple? Please share your experience.And enroll message this :Purchase your membership.To continue your enrollment, complete your purchase now.Your purchase may take up to 48 hours to process. Help me Thank you

Hi everyone, I am hoping someone here has experienced this and can help, because we are in a really difficult position right now. We received a notice from App Review regarding Guideline 5.6.4 and have been working hard to prepare a full response with supporting evidence. The problem is that a draft response exists in App Store Connect that we cannot submit or delete. Every time we click either Submit or Delete Draft, we get the same error: "The resource cannot be found" That is it. No further explanation, no workaround, nothing. The draft is just stuck there and we cannot get past it. Because we could not submit through the normal channel, we uploaded a new build with our action plan included in the notes, hoping that would reach the review team. The build has been sitting there unreviewed. We have raised a support ticket with Apple Developer Support and have not received any response. The clock is ticking. App Review has given us a deadline to respond or face removal from the App Store. We have our response ready. We have our evidence ready. We just physically cannot submit it because of what appears to be a technical bug on Apple's side. Has anyone else hit this "resource cannot be found" error on a draft App Review response? Is there any other channel we can use to get this in front of the App Review team directly? We have tried everything we can think of. Any help would be massively appreciated. This is our livelihood and the deadline pressure combined with a broken system is genuinely distressing. Thank you