I have an App that has working audio for most devices except for iOS18 + Air pods pro connected. Eventually I realized that this is due to the Audio Spatialization which is enabled by default. I found a information property list key called AVGameBypassSystemSpatialAudio which can be enabled to true AVGameBypassSystemSpatialAudio and now the audio works for 90% of the game. However my game has a .MP4 which when it is played will be paused when the air pods are connected and after force skipping the video the Spatialization is now enabled and the app no longer has audio. I checked through the logs and found this part mediaplaybackd <<<< FigFilePlayer >>>> itemfig_establishedStereoAudioSpatializationPreferenceForAsset: <0x53451c000|I/OWH.01>: Stereo Spatialization allowed by default due to asset containing video After this line I can see the Spatialization being enabled. Does anyone know how to disable this auto setting of stereo Spatialization by default?

Trying to test applications on AVP as opposed to simulator. AVP can connect to MacBook via Mac virtual display so connection exists, but in X code under Windows devices the AVP does not show up same holds true on the AVP itself under remote devices. The MacBook Pro does not appear. I am signed in under the same account on the same Wi-Fi network. I have tried all basic troubleshooting. It is not clear to me that I am logged in as a developer, which could be the issue, but I am using OS 26, which does not appear to have the developer option under privacy and security where it used to reside in previous versions of the OS.

Hi, My name is Hani Nemati, and I work at Microsoft, where we support several macOS applications such as Microsoft Edge and Teams. I’m also the primary contributor to Microsoft Performance Tools for Apple (https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-Performance-Tools-Apple), an open-source project aimed at improving trace analysis across platforms. We are exploring ways to enhance our performance tracing capabilities on macOS and are particularly interested in the ability to attach PMU (Performance Monitoring Unit) counters to context switch events during trace collection. For reference, this capability is supported on Linux via LTTng using the add-context option (https://lttng.org/man/1/lttng-add-context/v2.13), and on Windows through Windows Performance Recorder (WPR), which allows PMU counters to be added at the start and end of context switches, enabling delta computation. Would it be possible to introduce similar support in Instruments for macOS? I’d appreciate any guidance or suggestions you might have on this request. Thank you, Hani Nemati Email: hanemati@microsoft

Developing a standalone app for the Apple Watch. Unless I turn off Bluetooth on the paired iPhone, the Apple Watch’s Wi-Fi deactivates every ~30 seconds, which causes the connection to Xcode to drop. How is this supposed to work? I can see my app’s logs in Xcode, but I can’t view any other system logs from the Apple Watch. I tried using the Console app, with the iPhone connected via USB, trusted, etc, but I don't see any system logs. How can I access full system logs? Thanks!

Ok, I have a bit of special problem. I want to use the "Swift Upcoming Feature Flags" in my packages. The problem is that we have quite a lot of Packages in a quite deep tree: at the root of the Package directory there are four dirs: AppA/ AppB/ Shared/ Temporary/ also the packages ExternalLibs and BuildPlugins. Temporary contains Packages that need rework and the other three subdirs each contain the subdirs: Features/ Utilities/ Services/ All in all there are over 100 packages. Now I would like to use definitions like https://github.com/treastrain/swift-upcomingfeatureflags-cheatsheet to use in the Package.swift files. And as you might guess, I do not want to copy those into each and every Package.swift file. It seems like SPM is only finding includes by itself if they are in the exact same directory as the Package.swift file 🙄 That's not at all helpful… Has anyone found a way to do useful includes into Package.swift files? Any help appreciated. Thank You Roddi

I am trying ManagedAppDistribution framework for enterprise bundle id Managed App Installation UI is not visible where as for company account bundle ID Managed App Installation UI option is visible. is it something wrong with my enterprise account? Kindly provide details

I’m extremely disappointed with the Apple Developer Program experience. Our organization account (JD SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED) expired on October 26, 2024, and to this day, there is no visible option to renew — not in the Apple Developer app (iOS/Mac), not on the developer website. We've followed every instruction Apple provides, and nothing works. To make things worse, I’m based in India, but Apple’s support is clearly U.S.-centered and unresponsive. I contacted support and got a canned response asking me to wait 24 hours. Why does a global company like Apple not provide time zone–relevant or regional developer support? This isn’t a minor inconvenience—it’s a major business disruption. Our apps are unavailable, and we can’t push updates. And yet we’re met with silence and confusion when we try to give Apple more money to renew our account. Apple enforces the strictest guidelines on developers, yet offers no proper channel to resolve something as basic as account renewal. It’s absurd. We’re now being forced to consider alternative app stores and distribution platforms—not because we want to leave, but because Apple is making it impossible to stay. Apple, please fix this. Developers outside the U.S. deserve better. JD SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED

I create a help book for my macOS app and it works locally. However, when I try to upload the app to App Store Connect I get a strange error: Image: Text: Bad CFBundleExecutable. Cannot find executable file that matches the value of CFBundleExecutable in the nested bundle DottieHelp [com.gingerbeardman.Dottie.pkg/Payload/Dottie.app/Contents/Resources/DottieHelp.help] property list file. (ID: 48052567-91cc-43ca-8d7c-0f14bd60e6da) This is curious, because there is no executable in the help file. If I delete CFBundleExecutable from the help target in Xcode, it keeps coming back. Why? But if I do an Archive build, then go deep into the bundle and manually remove entry for CFBundleExecutable then the build uploads fine. Any ideas how I can prevent Xcode from adding CFBundleExecutable key to the info.plist of a help file? macOS 14.7.6 (23H626) Xcode 16.2 (16C5032a)

find bug in Dynamic Island shows calling even after the call Was disconnected

I have an iPhone 11 phone. I installed Beta 2. I installed Beta 1. In both beta, my battery comes as 1%. And I can use the phone. As a solution, I have to go back to version 18.5. Is this problem solved in the new beta?

I am missing device support for IOS 18.5 in xcode. I tried installing xcode 16.4, xcode 16.4 beta and xcode 26 beta 2 but none of them generated folder for 18.5. Is this happening only for me or everyone. Please provide me 18.5 folder if anyone has it. I would appreciate a lot.

Filed FB17873536 for this, posting here for reach. I cannot create a provisioning profile to run my Mac Catalyst app on a macOS 26 VM for my project with automatically manage signing (Xcode Managed Profile) enabled. I keep getting an error that “There is a problem with the request entity A device with number '' already exists on this team.” Disabling the device in Certificates, Identifiers, & Profiles does not work; I get the prompt to register the device on the next build but it results in the same error. “Download Manual Profiles” does not work, either. Additionally, in developer beta 2 (macOS build 25A5295e, Xcode build 17A5241o), I now get a second error message that Provisioning profile "Mac Catalyst Team Provisioning Profile: doesn't include the currently selected device "Virtual Machine" (identifier ). Clearing out the existing files in ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/Provisioning Profiles/ didn’t work either. Steps to reproduce: Create and set up a macOS 26 VM in the latest version of UTM for Mac Install Xcode 26 in the VM and sign into your Apple ID in Xcode preferences Open a Mac Catalyst app’s Xcode project and attempt to build it An alert comes up that the device is not registered in the developer account. Click the Register button to register it The process fails with the error mentioned above and it’s impossible to build for Mac Catalyst after this point. (Sign to Run Locally is not an option for me because I use entitlements that remove that option) I would appreciate any advice on how to get this working. Hopefully I will not have to create an entirely new macOS 26 VM. Thank you!

I’m in crisis mode and desperately need advice. Launching in 10 days and just hit a major roadblock. Background: Set up developer account under a business name only because we needed the D-U-N-S number when starting development Have a working app with Family Controls already configured on the main identifier Yesterday my developer discovered we need Family Controls on 3 additional identifiers for launch a week ago (terrible timing) I submitted a business name change request thinking it was good housekeeping The Crisis: Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles portal is completely locked during business name change processing Can’t add Family Controls to the 3 identifiers we need for launch Business name change typically takes 2-4 weeks Launch is in 10 days What I’ve Done: Contacted Apple Developer Support explaining the urgency Case ID: 102633553000 for the name change request Desperate Questions: Has ANYONE successfully cancelled a business name change mid-process for urgent app needs? Any emergency escalation paths at Apple for launch-blocking issues? Would creating a new developer account be faster? (Though that seems nuclear) Any other workarounds I’m not thinking of? The business name change was purely administrative - nothing structural changes. But these identifier updates are absolutely critical for launch functionality and we didn’t realize they were needed until trying to launch into testflight. This is our first time so learning a lot the hard way 🫠. Thanks in advance for any help!

I've noticed that when using the Test action in an Xcode Cloud workflow, the xcodebuild command includes COMPILER_INDEX_STORE_ENABLE=NO while performing build-for-testing. This disables the index store, which is required by tools like Periphery to analyze unused code. Without indexing, Periphery triggers a fresh build internally, resulting in a significant increase in CI build time. Is there any way to enable indexing (COMPILER_INDEX_STORE_ENABLE=YES) on Xcode Cloud? Or alternatively, is there a recommended workaround to generate and access the index store? Any help is appreciated.

I’m using Developer iOS app to watch WWDC session videos. i notice it doesn’t record a video as watched after I watched it and even manual marking it using Mark as Watch has no effect. I remember the issue started several years ago because some old WWDC videos were marked watches.

I have downloaded the new Xcode beta, signed in with my ChatGPT account yet there is still no model available for me to select. I have reinstalled Xcode, logged in and out of the ChatGPT integration a dozen times, pressed every single button, but nothing seems to make a model appear? Am I stupid or am I missing something?

Hi everyone, We’re testing the new iOS 26 capability, Performing Fast Account Creation with Passkeys, using the sample project provided here: Performing Fast Account Creation with Passkeys. When running the project on the iOS 26 simulator and tapping the "Sign Up" button, we encounter the following error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.AuthenticationServices.AuthorizationError error 1010.) From the header file, this error is described as: /// ASAuthorizationError.h /// This error signals that the device is not currently set up to create passkeys. ASAuthorizationErrorDeviceNotConfiguredForPasskeyCreation AS_API_AVAILABLE(ios(19.0), macos(16.0), visionos(3.0)) = 1010, We’ve tested this on both Xcode 26 Beta 1 and Beta 2, and the error persists on the simulator in both versions. However, when testing on a physical iOS 26 device, everything works as expected, just like in the WWDC demo. Could this issue be related to missing simulator settings? Or is it a potential bug in the simulator? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I was developing an app using a certain bundle ID, but then had to delete it (and I also removed the app ID Identifier) My question is, can I make a new app with the exact same bundle ID as I was using on the removed one? Since the old app never went into production I don't see why that would be a problem

Hi, I am using Xcode 16.4, and my test device is Iphone 16 pro max. Everything was working fine until today when I get an error that I cannot install the app on the device. The error I get is: Failed to verify code signature of /var/installd/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installd.staging/temp.cRjyg7/extracted/[myapp].app : 0xe8008015 (A valid provisioning profile for this executable was not found.) Please ensure sure that your app is signed by a valid provisioning profile. Creating a new project and installing it to the mobile works fine. Please can someone from Apple or the community respond? there are many posts with this error but none were solved. Troubleshooting attempts included: Resetting all certificates. delete the app from the device unpairing device codesigning via cli reloading older git code commit Nothing is working. thanks

Hello, I recently created a new Apple Developer account and I'm trying to purchase the Developer Program, but I'm running into a payment issue. Every time I attempt to make the payment, I receive the following error: "The payment you want to make with your card could not be approved." Here is what I have tried: I used multiple cards (Visa and MasterCard) from different Turkish banks. All cards are active, have sufficient balance, and are open to international payments. I confirmed with my banks that there are no issues on their side. Despite all of this, the payment still fails. Additionally, I noticed that my Developer account shows a "Pending" status in the dashboard. There is no further explanation about this status, and I am unsure whether any additional verification is required. I also contacted Apple Support via email, but I haven’t received a response yet. I would like to ask a few additional questions for clarification: After successfully purchasing the Developer Program, how long does it take for the account to become fully active? Once the account is activated, how long does app review and publishing usually take? Is this kind of delay and unclear messaging common with Apple? Or am I experiencing an exceptional case? Any insight or similar experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your support! Best regards, Harun Altaş Turkey