I would love to use Background GPU Access to do some video processing in the background. However the documentation of BGContinuedProcessingTaskRequest.Resources.gpu clearly states: Not all devices support background GPU use. For more information, see Performing long-running tasks on iOS and iPadOS. Is there a list available of currently released devices that do (or don't) support GPU background usage? That would help to understand what part of our user base can use this feature. (And what hardware we need to test this on as developers.) For example it seems that it isn't supported on an iPad Pro M1 with the current iOS 26 beta. The simulators also seem to not support the background GPU resource. So would be great to understand what hardware is capable of using this feature!

We are investigating a Game Center authentication issue that appears to affect some devices consistently. Symptoms: Game Center authentication initiated from our app does not complete. The GKLocalPlayer authentication flow does not recover during the session. The issue is not limited to our app: on affected devices, the Game Center section in the iOS/iPadOS Settings app also fails to load. The Games app also fails to load. After a device restart, Game Center may work once, but then becomes unavailable again and further authentication attempts fail. We have reproduced this on iPadOS 26.5. In addition, our analytics show an unusually high percentage of unfinished Game Center authentication attempts on this OS version. We have also received individual reports from users on other devices/OS versions. Given that the Game Center Settings screen and the Games app are also affected, this appears to be a system-level Game Center availability problem rather than an issue isolated to our application. There is a description of a similar problem https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/787749 But it belongs to beta testing and is marked as fixed.

Hello guys I want to use Reality Kit 3 for none AR games. Coming from unreal (7y) I have a few technical questions if i may please: (all questions are assuming my game will handle 50-500 enemies on screen) How does RTK3 handle everything under the hood? its easy to create a struct that hold multiple floats as a data blocks for the system to handle (like hp, dmg, ect), but, what happen when i want generic ASSET data (materials, meshes) ? What if i want to construct a material and hand a cheap id to the processor (system) ? while make sure i packed it nicely to the cpu's cache line . There is not much in the documentation to explain the under the hood architecture of the system for me to make educated decision abut my code. i try to avoid reference bloat in my game, and make sure the system does not coupled new material or new mesh every time it want to perform a generic command on the entity (in 60 fps) For example, in unreal mass, as bloated and over complicated it is - its pretty clear to me what is construction phase, what is the recommended way to generate my data blocks (called fragments there) and how exactly to use them in the system so its all tightly packed At this moment my only assumption is to create a 3 layers custom system to make sure its all running properly: The builder of the pool - it will do the " let shinyMetal = SimpleMaterial(color: ... ect" and save it on some dictionary map the data block - just a simple struct that hold a thin reference to the pool that can be use as a component in the ECS the system - The RTK3 built is system real time . can use the struct as a component and even swap the id in real time is this safe consider how RTK3 build under the hood? or is this even slower ? i have very little to go by. if reality kit engineer can reply and help me here it would be awesome :) Thank you so much for reading guys ! was kinda long. cheers

Hi, We are seeing watchdog-terminated app hangs reported by users on iOS 26. The hang occurs during cold launch when we set the Game Center authenticate handler. Our usage is straightforward — we follow the official guide: to set the handler once in the boot flow. localPlayer.authenticateHandler = ^(UIViewController *viewController, NSError *error){//handler code} The app never reaches our handler code. Instead, it is killed by the watchdog before the handler is invoked. Root Cause: We believe the root cause is GKDaemonProxy localPlayerAgeCategory makes a synchronous XPC call ( xpc_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync ) to the Game Center daemon ( com.apple.gamed ). The daemon does not respond, blocking the main thread indefinitely until the watchdog terminates the app. Also we haven't seen this before iOS 26. Reproduction Conditions: Unfortunately we don't have a consistent way to reproduce it. It happens intermittently. And I can't share the iOS build due to company requirements. I have pasted the stack trace below (all users report the similar stack tracks). Stack trace (representative, reported consistently across affected users): App Hang: The app was terminated while unresponsive 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib +0xcd0 _mach_msg2_trap 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib +0x4308 _mach_msg2_internal 2 libsystem_kernel.dylib +0x4228 _mach_msg_overwrite 3 libsystem_kernel.dylib +0x4074 _mach_msg 4 libdispatch.dylib +0x1c980 __dispatch_mach_send_and_wait_for_reply 5 libdispatch.dylib +0x1cd20 _dispatch_mach_send_with_result_and_wait_for_reply 6 libxpc.dylib +0x11ed8 _xpc_connection_send_message_with_reply_sync 7 Foundation +0x41710 ___NSXPCCONNECTION_IS_WAITING_FOR_A_SYNCHRONOUS_REPLY__ 8 Foundation +0x29068 -[NSXPCConnection _sendInvocation:orArguments:count:methodSignature:selector:withProxy:] 9 Foundation +0x69b7c -[NSXPCConnection _sendSelector:withProxy:arg1:] 10 Foundation +0x699e8 __NSXPCDistantObjectSimpleMessageSend1 11 GameCenterFoundation +0x986fc ___39-[GKDaemonProxy localPlayerAgeCategory]_block_invoke.109 12 GameCenterFoundation +0x1397d0 0x22cbde7d0 (0x22cbde794 + 60) 13 GameCenterFoundation +0x139610 0x22cbde610 (0x22cbde508 + 264) 14 GameCenterFoundation +0x139770 0x22cbde770 (0x22cbde6ec + 132) 15 GameCenterFoundation +0x98420 -[GKDaemonProxy localPlayerAgeCategory] 16 GameCenterFoundation +0x2ceb4 -[GKClientPreferencesSupport localPlayerAgeCategory] 17 GameCenterFoundation +0x93ba4 -[GKPreferences(AgeCategoryRestrictions) localPlayerAgeCategory] 18 GameCenterFoundation +0x93c34 -[GKPreferences(AgeCategoryRestrictions) getRestrictionLimitForLocalPlayer:] 19 GameCenterFoundation +0x93cd0 -[GKPreferences(AgeCategoryRestrictions) clampBoolRestriction:tableEntry:] 20 GameCenterFoundation +0x93d40 -[GKPreferences(AgeCategoryRestrictions) isBoolValueRestricted:tableEntry:] 21 GameCenterFoundation +0x9f7b8 -[GKPreferences(Restrictions) isBoolKeyRestricted:category:] 22 GameCenterUICore +0x2d04 -[GKLocalPlayerAuthenticator _authenticateUsingAuthUI:authenticationResults:usernameEditable:authUIDismissHandler:completionHandler:] 23 GameCenterUICore +0xd638 ___106-[GKLocalPlayer(AuthenticationPrivate) startAuthenticationForExistingPrimaryPlayerUponReturnToForeground:]_block_invoke 24 libsystem_trace.dylib +0xdb40 _os_activity_apply_f 25 GameCenterFoundation +0x181f4 -[GKActivity execute:] 26 GameCenterFoundation +0x18138 +[GKActivity named:execute:] 27 GameCenterUICore +0xd528 -[GKLocalPlayer(AuthenticationPrivate) startAuthenticationForExistingPrimaryPlayerUponReturnToForeground:] 28 libsystem_trace.dylib +0xdb40 _os_activity_apply_f 29 GameCenterFoundation +0x181f4 -[GKActivity execute:] 30 GameCenterFoundation +0x18138 +[GKActivity named:execute:] 31 GameCenterFoundation +0x4f124 ___40-[GKLocalPlayer setAuthenticateHandler:]_block_invoke 32 libdispatch.dylib +0x1b1e0 __dispatch_client_callout 33 libdispatch.dylib +0x45ac __dispatch_once_callout 34 GameCenterFoundation +0x4f070 -[GKLocalPlayer setAuthenticateHandler:] Additional Notes: This issue was not observed prior to iOS 26. We have no reports of this on iOS 17 or iOS 18. We are unable to share a build due to company policy. We cannot reproduce this consistently — it occurs intermittently in production. All affected users report the same stack trace pattern.

I have enabled Game Center in App Store Connect, as well as the entitlements in Xcode for both my parent (stub) target and extension target. I call the Game Center authentication function which returns a "Signed in as: [my username]" banner during testing. However, when it is tapped on by the user, it opens the Game Center view where "Now Playing _" shows a blank title and app icon. I have a full size app icon that App Store Connect and even GameKit recognizes (https://games.apple.com/us/game/6757935828) but not when I actually run my iMessage app. When I call the authentication function, it completes (hence the banner), but then says later on Game Center does not recognize my app and that my achievements cannot be reported to Game Center. Is Game Center fully disabled for iMessage apps? Or is there a solution I am missing? My goal is to have achievement banners show up for winning iMessage games and certain gameplay combos.

Hey all — I’ve been building out my first set of Game Center Achievements for a game I’m working on, and I’ve run into something odd with the image quality. The specs say to upload icons at 512x512 or 1024x1024@2x. I’ve been uploading 1024x1024 PNGs (without explicitly naming them “@2x” since there’s only one upload slot), assuming that Game Center would just handle the scaling automatically — kind of like how a lot of things are getting more streamlined across platforms lately. But in testing, the icons are showing up a bit blurry, especially in the Game Center interface. It’s not horrible, but it’s definitely softer than I expected — more like low-res than Retina. All my test devices (outside the Simulator) are running iOS 26, so I’m also wondering if this might be a beta-related display bug? Has anyone else run into this? Curious if I’m missing a best practice here, or if I really do need to ensure I’m uploading it with the @2x suffix, or maybe something else entirely? Thanks!

Hi, I am trying to use a timestamp counter heap, but it always seems to report timestamp zero. Consider this example program: #include <Metal/Metal.h> #include <assert.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { auto device = MTLCreateSystemDefaultDevice(); assert(device); auto descriptor = [MTL4CounterHeapDescriptor new]; [descriptor setType:MTL4CounterHeapTypeTimestamp]; [descriptor setCount:1]; auto heap = [device newCounterHeapWithDescriptor:descriptor error:nullptr]; assert(heap); [heap invalidateCounterRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1)]; auto command_buffer = [device newCommandBuffer]; assert(command_buffer); auto allocator = [device newCommandAllocator]; assert(allocator); [command_buffer beginCommandBufferWithAllocator:allocator]; auto encoder = [command_buffer computeCommandEncoder]; assert(encoder); [encoder writeTimestampWithGranularity:MTL4TimestampGranularityPrecise intoHeap:heap atIndex:0]; [encoder endEncoding]; [command_buffer endCommandBuffer]; auto queue = [device newMTL4CommandQueue]; assert(queue); auto event = [device newSharedEvent]; assert(event); [queue commit:&command_buffer count:1]; [queue signalEvent:event value:1]; [event waitUntilSignaledValue:1 timeoutMS:UINT64_MAX]; auto data = [heap resolveCounterRange:NSMakeRange(0, 1)]; printf("size %lu: %llu\n", data.length, *(uint64_t*)data.bytes); return 0; } Trying to compile and run: % clang++ -g -O0 -o test test.mm -framework Metal -framework Foundation && MTL_DEBUG_LAYER=1 ./test 2026-06-23 14:44:48.006 test[26472:1588857] Metal API Validation Enabled size 8: 0 I would have expected to receive size 8: [some random non-zero number] that number being a GPU timestamp of when the command was executed, but I always get zero. Does anybody have an idea of what I am doing wrong?

I recently published my first game on the App Store. It uses SceneKit with a SpriteKit overlay. All crashes Xcode downloaded for it so far are related to some SpriteKit/SceneKit internals. The most common crash is caused by SKCShapeNode::_NEW_copyRenderPathData. What could cause such a crash? crash.crash While developing this game (and the BoardGameKit framework that appears in the crash log) over the years I experienced many crashes presumably caused by the SpriteKit overlay (I opened a post SceneKit app randomly crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS in jet_context::set_fragment_texture about such a crash in September 2024), and other people on the internet also mention that they experience crashes when using SpriteKit as a SceneKit overlay. Should I use a separate SKView and lay it on top of SCNView rather than setting SCNView.overlaySKScene? That seemed to solve the crashes for a guy on stackoverflow, but is it also encouraged by Apple? I know SceneKit is deprecated, but according to Apple critical bugs would still be fixed. Could this be considered a critical bug?

I have a very basic usdz file from this repo I call loadTextures() after loading the usdz via MDLAsset. Inspecting the MDLTexture object I can tell it is assigning a colorspace of linear rgb instead of srgb although the image file in the usdz is srgb. This causes the textures to ultimately render as over saturated. In the code I later convert the MDLTexture to MTLTexture via MTKTextureLoader but if I set the srgb option it seems to ignore it. This significantly impacts the usefulness of Model I/O if it can't load a simple usdz texture correctly. Am I missing something? Thanks!

I was using Times New Roman and trying to use superscript numbers, but found out that Times New Roman only has superscript numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, ¹ (like so) and since I'm writing out transcriptions of pinyin, I also need superscript 4, 5, 6, 7. When I do that, the font changes to Lucida Grande automatically. I would like to change the default unicode font/alt font from Lucida Grande to EB Garamond (downloaded from Google) since it more closely resembles Times New Roman and unfortunately, I need to keep the font as close to Times New Roman as possible. Is there a way to change the default the computer chooses to when Times New Roman/alt font fails unicode? Alternatively, is there a font that looks exactly like Times New Roman that has the superscript numbers 0-9? 2022 laptop, M2, Tahoe 26.6.1 Move post at will if need be.

The link to download “MaterialX definitions” is broken on the main page of ShaderGraph documentation in the Interoperability section. See here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ShaderGraph#Interoperability Link in the page is https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/realitykit/files/MaterialX-definitions.zip but leads nowhere now. Since Reality Composer Pro 3 has been released, it would be good to have these definitions available to download again and to know if it’s still MaterialX 1.38 being used in the updated RCP & RealityKit. Opened a ticket about this: FB23258836

The CGSetDisplayTransferByTable() is not working on the latest round of Mac hardware, namely the MacBook Neo (external display), MacBook M5 Pro (both built-in and external display) and possibly the M5 Max. All tested apps (BetterDisplay, MonitorControl, f.lux, Lunar) exhibit the very issue both in macOS Tahoe 26.3 and macOS Tahoe 26.4 RC. Tested on multiple Macs and installations on the MacBook Neo and MacBook M5 Pro. This issue breaks several display related macOS apps. Way to reproduce the issue using an affected app: Install the app BetterDisplay (https://betterdisplay.pro) Launch the app, open the app menu, choose Image Adjustments and try to adjust colors. Adjustments take no effect Way to reproduce the issue programmatically: Attempt to use the affected macOS API feature: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coregraphics/cgsetdisplaytransferbytable(::::_:) Here are the FB numbers: FB22273730 (Filed this one as a developer on an unaffected MBP M3 Max) FB22273782 (Filed from an affected MBP M5 Pro running 26.4 RC, with debug info attached)

When I enter webp image to the assets catalog I get warrning: /Users/..../Assets.xcassets The image set "Card-Back" references a file "Card-Back.webp", but that file does not have a valid extension. It works, I see all my images perfect. How can I fix the 200+ warrnings?

Xcode hangs when I call PhotogrammetrySession(input: [PhotogrammetrySample]) with objectMask set and traps on some devices, see the attached screenshot, it gets to the function and hangs. Even the folder reconstruction also doesn't complete as it can't find alignment and displays the CoreOC.PhotogrammetrySession.Error 6 and I understand to mean alignment failed. In this case it failed while object masking was ON, so RealityKit could not find enough consistent feature tracks inside the masked pixels across the image set. What can be done or do you guys expose any functions that can be used to aid, or handle these internally, can't find any internally. The ObjectMasks are actually segmentation masks from an ML algorithm . To replicate try calling PhotogrammetrySession(input: [PhotogrammetrySample]) with contentsOf as captured on your documentation, even with like 30 image set or is there something I'm missing. I will appreciate a timely response and willing to provide more clarity and informations, thank you so much for your understanding

Hi everyone, I’ve spent the last 2 months pulling off a wild solo experiment: building a complete mobile puzzle game from scratch using Unreal Engine, where over 100k lines of code (C++ & pipelines) and thousands of 3D/UI assets were entirely generated by various AI models. Before anyone rolls their eyes—no, AI didn't replace the game designer here. AI provided the brute-force production muscle, but I gave it its soul. Every single bit of core design—the underlying math models, difficulty pacing, and counter-mechanics for the dynamic gimmick bosses—was designed and balanced by me. The game itself is a tactical, gimmick-boss driven match-3. I got tired of the usual candy-coated reskins and wanted to make something with rigid logic, irregular board topologies, and tight move economies for people who actually like strategic puzzle-solving. I’m currently running a closed beta via TestFlight on iOS to stress-test the build, and I'd love to get some brutal feedback from fellow devs. (Just a heads up: save progress won't carry over to final release). You can grab the build directly here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VnUWvHFC I’m specifically looking for insights on: Performance & Thermals: How does the UE rendering pipeline handle on your device during heavy chain reactions? Aesthetic Cohesion: Does an all-AI asset pipeline manage to feel like a unified universe, or do you feel that "AI uncanny valley"? Balance: Do the non-Euclidean layouts and boss disruption mechanics feel strategic or just plain frustrating? I'll be hanging out in the comments. Drop any questions you have about prompt-engineering a 100k-line codebase, solo pipeline management, or UE integration. Thanks for testing!

Hi everyone, I’ve spent the last 2 months pulling off a wild solo experiment: building a complete mobile puzzle game from scratch using Unreal Engine, where over 100k lines of code (C++ & pipelines) and thousands of 3D/UI assets were entirely generated by various AI models. Before anyone rolls their eyes—no, AI didn't replace the game designer here. AI provided the brute-force production muscle, but I gave it its soul. Every single bit of core design—the underlying math models, difficulty pacing, and counter-mechanics for the dynamic gimmick bosses—was designed and balanced by me. The game itself is a tactical, gimmick-boss driven match-3. I got tired of the usual candy-coated reskins and wanted to make something with rigid logic, irregular board topologies, and tight move economies for people who actually like strategic puzzle-solving. I’m currently running a closed beta via TestFlight on iOS to stress-test the build, and I'd love to get some brutal feedback from fellow devs. (Just a heads up: save progress won't carry over to final release). You can grab the build directly here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/VnUWvHFC I’m specifically looking for insights on: Performance & Thermals: How does the UE rendering pipeline handle on your device during heavy chain reactions? Aesthetic Cohesion: Does an all-AI asset pipeline manage to feel like a unified universe, or do you feel that "AI uncanny valley"? Balance: Do the non-Euclidean layouts and boss disruption mechanics feel strategic or just plain frustrating? I'll be hanging out in the comments. Drop any questions you have about prompt-engineering a 100k-line codebase, solo pipeline management, or UE integration. Thanks for testing!

My game supports both GameCenter, setting up a custom host and local games against bots. To log in to GameCenter and be able to handle invitations from other players, I set GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler after the app finished loading. But it seems that whenever I’m disconnected from the internet for more than 24 hours, setting GKLocalPlayer.local.authenticateHandler causes the whole window to be obfuscated by an alert telling me that I have no internet connection. When this happens, if I connect to the internet and disconnect again, the alert is not shown anymore. This is a huge problem because the alert prevents a user from using any other feature of the app unrelated to GameCenter, since there's no way to dismiss it. Is this really intended behaviour or how is a user supposed to continue using the app that supports GameCenter and does not rely on it, while being disconnected from the internet? I created FB22951946.

I'm making an apple watch game and it's running so smooth and nice while developing but I ran into a showstopping problem that I wouldn't even have noticed until i deleted the app and reinstalled... Every first-run on a freshly installed copy of the game has major frame hitches as it loads assets. Every run after that has ZERO hitches and runs like butter. Even if i install a new version on top of the old one (which is why i never noticed this problem in my almost finished game) it runs smooth. Framerate issues come back if I delete and reinstall. I think it's compiling shaders or caching geometry but I haven't been able to trick it into doing the hard work during non-critical moments in the game. I've tried preloading assets in the main menu, loading at the start of the level, loading and rendering in a tiny part of the screen, rendering behind dialog boxes... it seems no matter what i can only get rid of the frame hitches after the game has been played through once... and I'm going to lose all customers on that first terrible impression even though the game is actually really good and fun when it's running properly... Any suggestions how i can prewarm/precompile the assets to avoid framerate hitches and freezes during gameplay? I thought I was so close to release but I feel this is un-shippable! I can send a link to my test flight build to anyone that wants to see the problem first hand. Also please note that I am artist-forward with a technical lean, but certainly not a real programmer, unfortunately. Jiovanie

The WWDC videos like the new "Boost your graphics performance with the M5 and A19 GPUs" contain extremely valuable information and tips on how to discover, diagnose and remedy performance issues. They seem to serve as quick reminders and distilled summaries of more comprehensive documentation that I assume can be found somewhere. Where do we find the underlying comprehensive documentation that explains Apple Silicon GPU architecture? How can I learn to understand the basis of the data presented by the Xcode Metal Debugger? Any hints at external literature and resources are welcome.

The WWDC videos like the new "Boost your graphics performance with the M5 and A19 GPUs" contain extremely valuable information and tips on how to discover, diagnose and remedy performance issues. They seem to serve as quick reminders and distilled summaries of more comprehensive documentation that I assume can be found somewhere. Where do we find the underlying comprehensive documentation that explains Apple Silicon GPU architecture? How can I learn to understand the basis of the data presented by the Xcode Metal Debugger? Any hints at external literature and resources are welcome.