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Hi App Review, An update to an app that's already live on the App Store has been in "Waiting for Review" for 10 days with no status change, and I wanted to check whether it's proceeding normally or whether anything is required from my side. Submission ID: b4e5d54c-de30-4003-9f3c-232e366d01c4 Version: 1.1.0 (build 7), an update to a live app (1.0.0 currently in production) Submitted: 16 June 2026, 22:10 Current status: Waiting for Review (has not moved to In Review) I've already checked the usual things my end: there's no message in Resolution Center, no "action required" banner on the app or version page, the build shows as valid and is correctly attached to the version, export compliance/encryption is answered, and Agreements, Tax, and Banking are all current. I also contacted Developer Support via the contact form on 23 June [add: case #102923511308 if you have one] but haven't had a reply yet. Could you confirm whether the review is proceeding normally, or let me know if there's anything I need to do? Happy to provide any further detail. Thanks.

Hi everyone, I’m working on a camera app as a learning project and have reached a point where I’m trying to better understand the intended architecture for Live Photo capture using AVCapturePhotoOutput. The app currently supports: Live Photos Depth data Location metadata Multiple lens presets on a virtual multi-camera device Everything is working well, but I’m now thinking about capture throughput and rapid shutter presses. Right now, my implementation is fairly conservative. I wait for a Live Photo capture to finish processing and importing before allowing another capture. This is reliable, but it doesn’t feel particularly camera-like when compared to Apple’s Camera app. One observation from field testing caught my attention: I took a Live Photo, immediately switched lenses, then took another Live Photo. When I viewed the first Live Photo later, the movie portion included the lens-switching actions that occurred after I pressed the shutter. That made me realize that I may be thinking about the capture lifecycle incorrectly. My questions are: When using AVCapturePhotoOutput with Live Photos enabled, what is the earliest point at which a capture can be considered “safely secured”? Is it expected that apps wait for PhotoKit import to complete before accepting another Live Photo capture request? If supporting rapid sequential shutter presses, is the recommended approach to queue capture requests and process them one at a time? Are there any best practices around lens changes or camera reconfiguration while a Live Photo is still being captured or processed? I’m not looking for details about the implementation of Apple’s Camera app. I’m mainly trying to understand the recommended approach when working with the public AVFoundation APIs. I’d appreciate any guidance, documentation references, or examples from developers who have worked through similar problems. Thanks!

still no sign of the new siri no app no nothing im on the ios 27 beta 2 and iphone 15 pro max what is this apple

Hi everyone, I’m having an issue where my TestFlight build cannot load auto-renewable subscription products from App Store Connect. The app is built with Flutter and uses StoreKit 2 through an in-app purchase implementation. The same subscription system works correctly on Google Play Billing and returns product details/prices there, but on iOS StoreKit returns no subscription products. I tested this on a real iPhone installed from TestFlight, not from Xcode debug and not using a local StoreKit configuration. The app requests four auto-renewable subscription product IDs. The IDs in code exactly match the product IDs in App Store Connect. The app diagnostics show: Platform: iOS StoreKit mode: StoreKit 2 Store available: true Requested IDs: 4 subscription product IDs Returned IDs: none Missing IDs: all requested product IDs Error source: app_store Error code: storekit_no_response Error message: StoreKit: Failed to get response from platform. Store note: The store accepted the query, but did not return details for these product IDs. Things I have already checked: Product IDs match exactly between Flutter code and App Store Connect Bundle ID matches the App Store Connect app record In-App Purchase capability is enabled Subscriptions are in one subscription group Subscription availability is set for all countries/regions The TestFlight build is installed on a real device Local StoreKit configuration was removed StoreKit reports store availability as true App Store Connect / In-App Purchase keys are configured for backend verification The same product-loading flow works on Google Play The current App Store Connect status for the subscriptions is: Subscriptions: Ready to Submit / Ready for Review Localizations: Prepare for Submission Also, the bank information is not submitted yet. My question is: can StoreKit in TestFlight return subscription product details while the first auto-renewable subscriptions are still only “Ready to Submit” and have not yet been submitted with an app version for review? Or will StoreKit return no products until: The first subscriptions are attached to an app version and submitted for review Subscription localizations are fully prepared/submitted Paid agreements, tax, and banking are fully completed Since StoreKit is available and accepts the product query, but returns zero products, I’m trying to understand whether this is expected App Store Connect behavior or if there is another configuration issue I should check. Thanks.

Hi all, Our app has been in review since November 1st, and the process has been very slow. We often wait several days between responses, and we keep receiving questions we’ve already answered - even when we point this out in our replies. We’ve contacted Developer Support by email, but the only reply we received was that they’re sorry for the delay and will look into it. We’re unsure whether requesting a phone call might help or if it could pause or reset the review process, and since we’re hoping the next response will finally approve the app, we’ve hesitated to use that option. Has anyone experienced something similar, or does anyone know whether requesting a call has any impact on the current review status? Thanks for any guidance.

On iOS 26.4, I set a Screen Time passcode. However, when I go to Settings > Apps > [Our App] and turn off Screen Time Access for the app, the system asks for Face ID instead of the Screen Time passcode. As a result, Screen Time access can be disabled without entering the Screen Time passcode. Steps to Reproduce 1. Set a Screen Time passcode on iOS 26.4. 2. Open Settings > Apps > [Our App]. 3. Turn off Screen Time Access for the app. Expected Result The system should require the Screen Time passcode before allowing Screen Time access to be disabled. Actual Result The system asks for Face ID instead of the Screen Time passcode, and Screen Time access is disabled.

https://streamable.com/y16s4q When I leave the Spotify Web Player open on its homepage and remain completely idle (without any physical user interaction or clicks), the page somehow self-triggers an active audio stream. Instantly, Safari's standard "This tab is playing audio" speaker icon appears normally on the right side of the URL/Address bar. Simultaneously, the browser emits a 1–2 second burst of extremely accelerated, fast-forwarded, and chaotic audio (resembling a time-stretch or "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect) before going silent or stabilizing.

All TestFlight builds for my app expired at the same time, overnight, with no action on my side. New builds upload fine and show “Ready to Submit,” but: Internal testers (and I) cannot install: “The requested app is not available or doesn’t exist.” -Submitting for external review fails with 422: PARAMETER_ERROR.REQUIRED / filter[build]. Internal testing worked perfectly before and broke overnight. This appears to be a known recurring backend issue. All agreements, banking, tax, and export compliance are Active. DSA declaration is currently In Review. I’ve opened a support case (aprox. 5 days ago, only automated reply so far). Has anyone resolved this, or can a DTS engineer help escalate? Bundle ID available on request.

This is a StoreKit / ExternalPurchaseCustomLink clarification. Apple DTS asked me to post the follow-up question here. We are designing an SDK for apps that support EU external purchase. In EU storefronts, the app will use ExternalPurchaseCustomLink only: No App Store In-App Purchase will be offered to users. No Product.purchase() will be called. No SKPaymentQueue.add(_:) will be called. The actual purchase will happen only on our external website through the ExternalPurchaseCustomLink flow. Question: In this EU ExternalPurchaseCustomLink-only setup, is it acceptable and supported to call Product.products(for:) / SKProductsRequest only to fetch product display metadata from App Store Connect? The metadata would only be used to display the product list UI, for example: product title / display name localized price currency / priceLocale formatting information The returned Product / SKProduct would not be used to start an App Store purchase. Or should apps avoid Product.products(for:) / SKProductsRequest entirely in EU storefronts where only ExternalPurchaseCustomLink is offered, and use their own product catalog instead?

Many apps utilize ImmersiveSpace simply to render large-scale, custom geometry (such as curved screens, wide-canvas media players, or specialized data visualizations) that cannot be achieved within a standard volumetric window limitations. However, users often still want to multitask—check Messages, reference Safari, access YouTube, etc. Forcing the user to exit the immersive space just to see their other apps breaks their workflow and creates a disjointed user experience. Proposed Solution: I propose adding a property to ImmersionStyle (or a similar API configuration) such as allowSharedSpaceVisibility. When enabled, this would: Allow the ImmersiveSpace to render its custom RealityKit content as usual and prevent the system from automatically hiding the user's existing Shared Space windows. Do me a solid here VisionOS team and please consider this feedback request. 🙏 FB: FB22973973 FB: FB21630340

In iOS 27, willTransition(to:with:), registerForTraitChanges(), and other mechanisms to monitor size classes do not change when an iPhone interface is resized. Only viewWillTransition(to:with:) is invoked with a new size. And this only happens on the iPhone: the iPad continues to work as it has in the past. It appears that this is intended behavior. That is not to say that it's intuitive behavior. Many experienced developers are encountering the "horizontal size is always compact" behavior and immediately thinking "this must be a beta bug": https://fatbobman.com/en/posts/from-size-class-to-available-space/ But it's not. I get that the new size class behavior is expressing static device semantics and is no longer a dynamic size indicator. The problem is that the tools we have been using to build layouts for the past decade use size classes as dynamic sizing indicators. Storyboards can contain variations that specify whether a constraint is used for regular or compact widths/ heights. Developers have used this ability to automatically adjust layouts as the size classes change. In one case, I use this capability to adjust a top-over-bottom layout in a portrait configuration to a side-by-side in a landscape configuration: switching centering, leading/trailing, and aspect ratios to fit the available size. I suspect that many developers who have taken the time to create a unique layout for an iPad are doing something similar. (Ironically, the folks who treated an iPad as a big iPhone are the ones least affected by this change.) When iPadOS got the ability to resize interfaces (as UIScene windows), I made sure that the automatic size class contraints worked correctly and made adjustments as necessary. That work now has to be discarded and switched over to something more universal. If this is truly the intended behavior going forward, time needs to be invested in updating the tooling behind automatic constraint variations: There should be warnings when the storyboard is compiled. I have dozens of automatic contraints embedded in the storyboard: and they're hard to find (each subview has its own contraints, so it's a manual traversal of a huge tree). There should be runtime warnings that your code that inspects size classes won't be executed. This was the biggest "what the hell is going on?" when trying to resize the interface the first time. At a higher level, Apple engineers have described what is happening. They have not explained why the iPhone is behaving differently than an iPad. And that's the root of this whole situation being unintuitive. We've got no clue. And developers without a clue are unlikely to adopt a new technology. It's essential that Apple explains this change in more detail. Yes, you're going to have to obfuscate it and make us read between the lines, but it's got to be done. (Everyone understands the changes regarding mainScreen wink wink, for example.) A reply in this thread would be a good place to start this explanation.

I've hit a dead end with normal Apple support channels. I wrote up a radar for it (FB23333685). I used curl -v https://developer.apple.com/forums/ on my Mac via my phone's hotspot (working) and via Spectrum (not working) (some irrelevant stuff elided to shrink post): Working: % curl -v https://developer.apple.com/forums/ * Host developer.apple.com:443 was resolved. * IPv6: 2620:149:a06:f000::134, 2620:149:a06:f000::139 * IPv4: 17.253.31.140, 17.253.31.139 * Trying [2620:149:a06:f000::134]:443... * Connected to developer.apple.com (2620:149:a06:f000::134) port 443 <elided> > GET /forums/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: developer.apple.com > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 > Accept: */* > * Request completely sent off < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: Apple < Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:22:30 GMT < Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 < Vary: Accept-Encoding < Set-Cookie: oid-dev-forums=; Path=/; Domain=.apple.com; Expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; Max-Age=0; Secure; HttpOnly < Expires: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:22:29 GMT < X-Frame-Options: DENY < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains < Service-Worker-Allowed: / < User-Type: anonymous < Cache-Control: private,no-cache,no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0 < Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:22:29 GMT < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff < Content-Security-Policy: <elided> < Vary: Accept-Encoding < X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block < Vary: Origin < Vary: Access-Control-Request-Method < Vary: Access-Control-Request-Headers < Content-Language: en-US < X-Request-ID: 41b2b91a2a2c5e8be35787ec7b349db8 < Edge-Control: !no-store,max-age=3600 < X-Request-ID: 41b2b91a2a2c5e8be35787ec7b349db8 < Set-Cookie: myacinfo=; Path=/; Domain=.apple.com; Expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; Max-Age=0; Secure; HttpOnly < Set-Cookie: asc_user=; Path=/; Domain=.apple.com; Expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; Max-Age=0; Secure < Set-Cookie: XID=<redacted>; Path=/; Domain=.apple.com; Expires=Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:22:29 GMT; Max-Age=2592000; Secure; HttpOnly < Set-Cookie: df_shld_btm_prd=<redacted>; Expires=Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:22:30 GMT; Max-Age=43200; Domain=apple.com; Path=/; SameSite=Lax; Secure < Age: 2 < Via: https/1.1 ussea4-edge-mx-005.ts.apple.com (acdn/302.16436), https/1.1 ussea4-edge-fx-007.ts.apple.com (acdn/302.16436) < X-Cache: miss, miss < CDNUUID: 42f00814-9cfb-4675-a0fa-4f3aa5ba89da-2134634100 < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Connection: keep-alive < <!DOCTYPE html> … Failing: % curl -v https://developer.apple.com/forums/ * Host developer.apple.com:443 was resolved. * IPv6: (none) * IPv4: 17.253.83.137, 17.253.83.132 * Trying 17.253.83.137:443... * Connected to developer.apple.com (17.253.83.137) port 443 <redacted> * SSL certificate verify ok. * using HTTP/1.x > GET /forums/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: developer.apple.com > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 > Accept: */* > * Request completely sent off < HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden < Server: Apple < Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:16:25 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 146 < Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0 < Age: 0 < Via: https/1.1 uslax1-edge-mx-005.ts.apple.com (acdn/302.16436), https/1.1 uslax1-edge-fx-015.ts.apple.com (acdn/302.16436) < X-Cache: miss, miss < CDNUUID: 4da2a4a9-3bd4-4135-b895-6b58b6d7f53b-1614544808 < Connection: keep-alive < <html> <head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head> <body> <center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center> <hr><center>Apple</center> </body> </html> * Connection #0 to host developer.apple.com left intact The Spectrum response never reached the forums app at all — it was rejected at the edge node itself (uslax1-edge-mx-005 / uslax1-edge-fx-015, both LA-area). The working request happened to land on a Seattle-area edge (ussea4) via anycast routing. So this isn't an app-level or account-level block — it's a deny rule sitting on (or upstream of) the LA edge PoP for my specific IP. Thing is, I don’t know how to get help on this issue.

I have a personal iOS project that I also compile for macOS with Catalyst. When built with Xcode 26.x, everything is linked correctly. When built with Xcode 27 betas, the following runtime error occurs: Termination Reason: Namespace DYLD, Code 4, Symbol missing Symbol not found: _UIFontTextStyleCallout Referenced from: <046ED276-F81A-31B4-82FF-6DC82E9041BC> /Applications/Photo Library.app/Contents/MacOS/Photo Library Expected in: <298B64F6-9BC0-3BFB-BE72-EBDC2BE0FF19> /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit Any assistance? Thanks

It's been over 2 weeks and I still don't have the option to download the Mac or iOS 27 betas. All I see is the option for the current public betas for Tahoe and iOS 26. I am a registered developer and thought I would get access to the betas. I've submitted 2 tickets through the feedback assistant and both were closed with the comment "investigation complete - working as designed". I don't know where else to go. Is it true that not every developer gets access to beta software or that developer betas are released in phases? I've never read that anywhere nor heard that once released that beta software isn't available to all developers in the Apple dev program (not the public beta program). Can anyone shed light on this? is this true? Are betas released in phases to developers? At this rate as a developer I will have to wait until the public beta. Help!

I recognize that Apple has put out documentation on how to do things with the new Age APIs, but I have no idea what my apps are supposed to do to be in compliance with this law. Most of the law sounds like it applies to App Store developers like Apple, more than it pertains to individual app devs. If the age rating of an app changes, wouldn't we just put it in App Store Connect and have Apple disable those apps on the devices of the underage kids?

In my UIKit apps, collection view cells that have a context menu gain an Ask Siri item in iOS 27 without me doing anything. In my SwiftUI app I have a LazyVGrid containing a ForEach of CellView which is a Button that has a contextMenu, yet there’s no Ask Siri button in the context menu. What determines whether or not it will be added? What do I need to do to allow the system to add it?

Bluetooth does not show device options, whereas wifi shows the wifi options in control center.

My iPhone 14 Pro (running iOS 27 beta 1) is not booting after discharge of battery (due to not being used for about 10 days). How to restart and update to beta 2 or use it otherwise? I have kept it connected to wall outlet charger for the past 2 hours, and have tried Forced restart (press and quickly release the Volume Up button, press and quickly release the Volume Down button, then press and hold the Side (Power) button until the screen goes black and the Apple logo appears). But nothing works, and the iPhone remains dead.

When I tried to use Xcode to compile an app for my iPhone, it also compiled a macOS version, but they don't work. I tried to delete them from the Applications folder, but they're not there. According to the Xcode logs, I found that they're located in /private/var/folders/ and there are some deprecated projects. How should I delete them?

As of May 8th, 2026, after I upgraded to "codex-cli 0.129.0" via Xcode, I can no longer sign into my ChatGPT account in Xcode Intelligence Settings. The Log In window is always successful, but the settings never update to show the login being successful. It's a constant loop. Perhaps a hand-shake fail. Versions: Tahoe 26.3.1, Xcode 26.4.1, codex-cli 0.129.0.