Hello Everyone, This is regarding recent upgrade issue on my iPhone. I am still struggling to get access to my iCloud storage data for iMessages, Notes with password, Health related stats, etc. I would like to explain chronology of the entire event. There was a recent IOS 17.4.1 update came on April 07th, 2024. I clicked on the update but nothing happened then suddenly my phone passcode wasn’t working. I restarted my phone then the phone was not even accepting my face id. I went to the Apple store. Apple support team have requested me to reset (erase entire data) iPhone which I had already done on next day. I had no others options actually. My phone passcode was not working in reality due to iso update because I haven’t changed my passcode since more than a year. It is also not due to iPhone screen issue which apple team was saying to me initially. Unfortunately, my Apple ID credentials wasn’t working after phone reset so I had to put my Apple ID on recovery mode which took almost 15days to recover even though process is automated as per apple support team which they can’t reduce it. I understand that they are doing for privacy reason but who wants such privacy when even owner can’t access his own account for 15days. I offered them to verify my personal details such as email ID, phone number, passport number and any other details which they can use to expedite the process but they didn’t help on this. At end of the recovery (after 15days), they used same details i.e. my email ID and SMS on my registered number to verify. I don’t understand their logic but if they can take 2-3 business working days for same process then it makes sense to wait rather than 15days. After I regained access to my apple id, I have restored everything using my iCloud storage. I observed that few applications such as contacts, WhatsApp, etc. are restored properly but some of the applications such as iMessage, Notes (specifically locked notes), health data were not restored. iMessage are not synchronizing with iCloud storage when I tried to do it manually too in setting >> apple id>> iCloud >> show all >> messages in iCloud >> sync now. Nothing happens after clicking on it. Locked notes are still showing an error message “Can’t view Note. ‘This note can’t be viewed because encryption key wasn’t found in iCloud keychain. Resetting your end-to-end encrypted data can cause this’”. I have never used custom password to lock note instead I was using Face ID earlier to lock or unlock some of notes. All these things are happening because it is asking for old iPhone passcode to connect with iCloud storage while resetting my iPhone. I am trying to enter all the previous passcodes. a. When I entered correct passcode, then there is no error but still applications are not synchronizing with iCloud storage. b. When I enter incorrect passcodes (multiple passcodes but one at a time) then it gives an error “Verification failed”. It means it is detecting correct passcode as per above point. There is some issue with passcode synchronization with iCloud storage. I have opened a case with apple support team but meanwhile If any one of you had faced similar problem, then kindly suggest ways to me so I will regain access to some important personal information which are present in my iCloud storage. I would like to inform everyone that don’t rely completely on single brand or product. Take multiple backups may be on personal laptops, SSDs, etc. I learnt a lesson that even apple products, software & services are not reliable so think before buying costly products just for sake of brand name.

App: "Nappkin" Apple ID: 639242085 Hi, We are getting several "Missing API declaration" warnings (see below) when submitting our iOS app to the AppStore. Our app doesn't not use the mentioned api's but apparently one or more of the libraries we use do. We have included a privacy manifest that states this fact (included below). Why are we still getting these warnings/errors when we have included a privacy manifest? If each framework used must have a manifest can you tell me which frameworks are in error? We have no influence on the contents of the frameworks used in our apps. How can we comply if a framework we use does not have a required manifest and is unable or unwilling to include it? Our app is a point-of-sale app used by 100's of professionals. We have been in the AppStore for more than 10 years. Our app is fully dependend on several frameworks and not being able to update our app will mean we have to close our business. Thanks! Willem Bison = Privacy manifest ==== <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes</key> <array> <dict> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPIType</key> <string>NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryDiskSpace</string> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypeReasons</key> <array> <string>Our app does not use this api directly but (apparently) an included framework does</string> </array> </dict> <dict> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPIType</key> <string>NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategorySystemBootTime</string> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypeReasons</key> <array> <string>Our app does not use this api directly but (apparently) an included framework does</string> </array> </dict> <dict> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypeReasons</key> <array> <string>NSUserDefault is used to store and retrieve several user preferences</string> </array> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPIType</key> <string>NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryUserDefaults</string> </dict> <dict> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypeReasons</key> <array> <string>Our app does not use this api directly but (apparently) an included framework does</string> </array> <key>NSPrivacyAccessedAPIType</key> <string>NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryFileTimestamp</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </plist> = Warnings ==== Hello, We noticed one or more issues with a recent submission for App Store review for the following app: Nappkin Version 179.0 Build 33854 Although submission for App Store review was successful, you may want to correct the following issues in your next submission for App Store review. Once you've corrected the issues, upload a new binary to App Store Connect. ITMS-91053: Missing API declaration - Your app’s code in the “Nappkin” file references one or more APIs that require reasons, including the following API categories: NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryFileTimestamp. While no action is required at this time, starting May 1, 2024, when you upload a new app or app update, you must include a NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes array in your app’s privacy manifest to provide approved reasons for these APIs used by your app’s code. For more details about this policy, including a list of required reason APIs and approved reasons for usage, visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files/describing_use_of_required_reason_api. ITMS-91053: Missing API declaration - Your app’s code in the “Nappkin” file references one or more APIs that require reasons, including the following API categories: NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryDiskSpace. While no action is required at this time, starting May 1, 2024, when you upload a new app or app update, you must include a NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes array in your app’s privacy manifest to provide approved reasons for these APIs used by your app’s code. For more details about this policy, including a list of required reason APIs and approved reasons for usage, visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files/describing_use_of_required_reason_api. ITMS-91053: Missing API declaration - Your app’s code in the “Nappkin” file references one or more APIs that require reasons, including the following API categories: NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategorySystemBootTime. While no action is required at this time, starting May 1, 2024, when you upload a new app or app update, you must include a NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes array in your app’s privacy manifest to provide approved reasons for these APIs used by your app’s code. For more details about this policy, including a list of required reason APIs and approved reasons for usage, visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files/describing_use_of_required_reason_api. ITMS-91053: Missing API declaration - Your app’s code in the “Nappkin” file references one or more APIs that require reasons, including the following API categories: NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryUserDefaults. While no action is required at this time, starting May 1, 2024, when you upload a new app or app update, you must include a NSPrivacyAccessedAPITypes array in your app’s privacy manifest to provide approved reasons for these APIs used by your app’s code. For more details about this policy, including a list of required reason APIs and approved reasons for usage, visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/privacy_manifest_files/describing_use_of_required_reason_api. Apple Developer Relations ============

As title says...I'm fairly adept at navigating iphone features so it doesnt seem to be something simple. Clock has completely disappeared from my phone. Removed from control center, not found in apps, even searching doesn't pull up the app. I'm at a loss. My alarms and timers run through the native clock app, so I'd really like it fixed.

Are there certain scenarios where the in-app safari browser may block a redirect from occurring? I have two separate mobile applications named A and B. Application A redirects to application B after clicking on a specific menu option. Currently, i've been experiencing an issue on application B where the login page begins to hang after attempting to login with SSO. There are no network calls being reported referencing a redirect request, however, i can remove a specific query parameter and a redirection will occur, but ends up returning a 400 as that parameter is needed. I'd like to note, using direct login works for application B using the same query parameters and does not hang. SSO also works normally on Application A

When am not setting any resolution its taking default resolution as higher resolution and the stream is getting lag and only getting 4Fps why?

Hi, We recently released a version of our app where we use 'NWParameters.PrivacyContext'. On iOS 17.4 and iOS 17.4.1 the app crashes with a following crash: Distributor ID: com.apple.AppStore Hardware Model: iPhone12,1 Process: <app> Path: <path to app> Identifier: <bundle id> Version: <version> AppStoreTools: 15E204 AppVariant: 1:iPhone12,1:15 Code Type: ARM-64 (Native) Role: Foreground Parent Process: launchd [1] Coalition: <our bundle id> [4899] Date/Time: 2024-04-29 01:50:13.4113 +0300 Launch Time: 2024-04-29 01:13:47.6252 +0300 OS Version: iPhone OS 17.4.1 (21E236) Release Type: User Baseband Version: 5.00.00 Report Version: 104 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Subtype: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000054 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000054 VM Region Info: 0x54 is not in any region. Bytes before following region: 4334124972 REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL UNUSED SPACE AT START ---> __TEXT 102558000-1063e4000 [ 62.5M] r-x/r-x SM=COW <path to app> Termination Reason: SIGNAL 11 Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [24308] Triggered by Thread: 18 Kernel Triage: VM - (arg = 0x3) mach_vm_allocate_kernel failed within call to vm_map_enter VM - (arg = 0x3) mach_vm_allocate_kernel failed within call to vm_map_enter VM - (arg = 0x3) mach_vm_allocate_kernel failed within call to vm_map_enter VM - (arg = 0x3) mach_vm_allocate_kernel failed within call to vm_map_enter VM - (arg = 0x3) mach_vm_allocate_kernel failed within call to vm_map_enter Thread 18 name: Thread 18 Crashed: 0 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a573b7d8 dispatch_async + 192 (queue.c:940) 1 Network 0x000000019ddbdb38 nw_queue_context_async + 76 (queue.m:87) 2 Network 0x000000019e512748 invocation function for block in nw_socket_init_socket_event_source(nw_socket*, unsigned int) + 1488 (protocol_socket.cpp:4351) 3 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a5736dd4 _dispatch_client_callout + 20 (object.m:576) 4 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a573a2d8 _dispatch_continuation_pop + 600 (queue.c:321) 5 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a574e1c8 _dispatch_source_latch_and_call + 420 (source.c:596) 6 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a574cd8c _dispatch_source_invoke + 832 (source.c:961) 7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a5740284 _dispatch_workloop_invoke + 1756 (queue.c:4570) 8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a5749cb4 _dispatch_root_queue_drain_deferred_wlh + 288 (queue.c:6998) 9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001a5749528 _dispatch_workloop_worker_thread + 404 (queue.c:6592) 10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001f981cf20 _pthread_wqthread + 288 (pthread.c:2665) 11 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000001f981cfc0 start_wqthread + 8 (:-1) Thread 18 crashed with ARM Thread State (64-bit): x0: 0x0000000301a922e0 x1: 0x000000032471a720 x2: 0x0000000000000000 x3: 0x00000003015e2300 x4: 0x0000000000000003 x5: 0x00000000000022e0 x6: 0x0000000172462ef0 x7: 0x000000000000008b x8: 0x00000000000008ff x9: 0x0000000000000000 x10: 0x0000000000010000 x11: 0x0000000000000020 x12: 0x00000003016f3854 x13: 0x00000000001ff800 x14: 0x00000000000007fb x15: 0x0000000089800118 x16: 0x00000001a573511c x17: 0x000000019e514740 x18: 0x0000000000000000 x19: 0x0000000000000000 x20: 0x0000000308eae8c0 x21: 0x000000032471a730 x22: 0x000000032471b0e0 x23: 0x000000000000e023 x24: 0x0000000172463085 x25: 0x000000002b1d034c x26: 0x0000000000000800 x27: 0x0000000000000000 x28: 0x0000000000000000 fp: 0x000000032471a6b0 lr: 0xad5ba301a573b750 sp: 0x000000032471a690 pc: 0x00000001a573b7d8 cpsr: 0x80000000 esr: 0x92000006 (Data Abort) byte read Translation fault What could be the reason for it?

for me, I can not install ios 17.4 Sumilator

To all whom see this post, I am a loyalty user of iPhone over decade; however I start to use an Android phone 2 years ago due to the Android allow the Dual App at the same time. I just wonder this is a function which was created years on Android, and why there is no news about IOS will allow it for such a long time? Due to my needs of work and personal life, I have to use same app with 2 different accounts at the same time to catch up everything. Under this situation, an Android phone fills my needs perfectly. But I still wanna say the IOS is a great、amazing system and I really wanna get back to iPhone. But I have no idea why Apple doesn't make this change especially it seems not a big change. Will this function finally come into IOS soon or later?

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on implementing a vaccine tracker and reminder feature for an application. As part of this feature, I plan to collect basic information about babies from their parents, such as name, gender, and date of birth, in order to create personalized profile cards and assist in tracking vaccinations. My question is regarding the gender field: Is it acceptable to ask for only 'male' or 'female' as options, or should I include other gender options as well to ensure inclusivity? Additionally, considering that I'll be asking for gender and date of birth, I'm concerned about potential rejection of the app build by Apple. Can anyone provide insight into whether this could be an issue? Thank you for your help and guidance!

Hi folks, When trying to distribute my app with transporter, I'm stuck for 2 days on asset validation with the following error : "Asset validation failed (90704) Missing app icon. Include a large app icon as a 1024 by 1024 pixel PNG in the asset catalog of apps built for iOS, iPadOS, or watchOS. Without this icon, apps can't be submitted for review...." I tried many workarounds, switching to svg, then png, then svg again, create an asset group with many file sizes, go back to simpliest implementation... I'm using Visual studio 17.9.2 (rollback from more recent version due to incompatibility with XCode), a macbook air with sonoma 14.4 and Xcode 15.3. Has anyone had the same problem and found a solution ?

I have view hierarchy like this: NavigationView { VStack { ScrollView { // some content } .background(NavigationLink(destination: MyView(), isActive: $isActive) { EmptyView() }) // snipped } } When the user follows the navigation link to MyView, by default NavigationBar and MyView is laid out like in a VStack. How can I make them like in a ZStack(alignment: .topLeading) ? i.e. I like MyView extends beneath the NavigationBar. Here is the MyView: GeometryReader { geo in HStack { // some content } .onAppear { hideNavigationbar = false } .onTapGesture(perform: { hideNavigationbar.toggle() }) .navigationBarHidden(hideNavigationbar) .navigationBarTitleDisplayMode(.inline) // snipped } The problem is, when hideNavigationbar toggles, MyView would shift up and down because its height would change. I want NavigationBar sits on top of MyView like in a ZStack so that when NavigationBar hides, MyView will not shift (only uncover its top portion). What is the proper way to achieve that? XCode: 15.3 using SwiftUI iOS: 15

How do GPS lat and lon get written to .MOV files on iPhones? Is it programmed to export the coordinates as soon as you press record, when you press end, some other time? If you are recording and walking or driving what location will the GPS affix to the file? I thank you all so much for your time and help. It appears that this is the file that the location gets written to? com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709

Hello: I'm having a startup APP crash problem. I have not yet analyzed the reason for this crash, because there is no use in re-uninstalling and restarting the phone.Can you help me to analyze this problem, thank you. Here are the crash logs: "vmRegionInfo" : "0xb5a01000 is not in any region. Bytes before following region: 1255124992\n REGION TYPE START - END [ VSIZE] PRT/MAX SHRMOD REGION DETAIL\n UNUSED SPACE AT START\n---> \n __TEXT 1006fc000-101d44000 [ 22.3M] r-x/r-x SM=COW /var/containers/Bundle/Application/9E639B44-4FE1-40BF-A6A1-2CA0F88F1340/aaaaaa.app/aaaaaa", "exception" : {"codes":"0x0000000000000001, 0x00000000b5a01000","rawCodes":[1,3047165952],"type":"EXC_BAD_ACCESS","signal":"SIGKILL","subtype":"KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000b5a01000"},

I am trying to build a Swift app for iOS which depends on an open-source API called BrainFlow. BrainFlow is written in C++. Due to App Store restrictions, the API must be built by hand into a framework so that it can be signed with my developer certificate. So that's what I did. I now have a signed framework that I can embed in my app and that Apple is OK with. BrainFlow depends on a third-party library called SimpleBLE, an open-source API for connecting to BLE devices. So I built that too into its own signed framework. So far so good. The problem comes when my app tries to connect to a BLE device via BrainFlow. BrainFlow is designed to explicitly load its third-party libs like plug-ins, and it is hardcoded to assume that all dylibs are located in the same directory. However, when I build the BrainFlow framework so that it embeds the SimpleBLE dylib in the same directory as the BrainFlow dylib, App Store Connect rejects my app due to a policy violation. One solution might be to query dyld and have it return the resolved location of the SimpleBLE dylib. For example if the dylib is referenced as @rpath/libsimpleble-c.dylib, then the query would return its full path after resolving @rpath. I do not know how to do that or even if it's possible. Another solution might be to embed the SimpleBLE dylib into the BrainFlow framework in such a way that it does not violate App Store policy. Again I am unable to figure out how to do that or even if it is possible. The relevant BrainFlow code can be found in the init_dll_loader() function of the following code: https://github.com/brainflow-dev/brainflow/blob/master/src/board_controller/ble_lib_board.cpp That function calls DLLLoader(), which can be found here: https://github.com/brainflow-dev/brainflow/blob/master/src/utils/inc/runtime_dll_loader.h Thanks in advance for your thoughtful suggestions and comments.

Following the update to iOS 17.4.1, our team has observed a recurring issue across all iPhone browsers within our Virtual Try On web application. Specifically, when users switch between products, there's a disruption in camera permissions (changes to not allowed), resulting in a black screen appearing in the canvas where the live camera stream typically displays. We have noted that several users have reported experiencing the same issue. We kindly request your assistance in addressing this matter. Could you please provide guidance on any potential fixes or workarounds for this issue? Additionally, we would appreciate an estimated timeline for when a resolution might be expected. Thank you for your attention to this matter. We look forward to your prompt response and assistance in resolving this issue.

Hello Geeks, After testing our iOS app using MobSF, the report highlighted that the binary has Runpath Search Path (@rpath) set. In certain cases an attacker can abuse this feature to run arbitrary executable for code execution and privilege escalation.

 The Runpath Search Path directs the dynamic linker to search for dynamic libraries (dylibs) in a specified order of paths, similar to how Unix searches for binaries in $PATH. However, this setup introduces a vulnerability wherein an attacker could place a malicious dylib in one of the initial paths, thereby hijacking the legitimate library sought by the linker.

 Despite attempting to manually strip the binary following instructions from https://inesmartins.github.io/mobsf-ipa-binary-analysis-step-by-step/index.html, the same warnings persist in the report. We urgently seek assistance in resolving this issue and eagerly await your response.

I've found a strange leak, that looks like a bug. When we open two sheets, or fullscreenCovers and the last one has a TextField, then after closing both, @StateObject property is not released. If you delete TextField, there will be no memory leak. It works well and memory is releasing on iOS 16 built with Xcode 15 (simulators) Memory is leaking and not releasing on iOS 17 built with Xcode 15 (simulators, device 17.4.1) import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @State var isFirstOpen: Bool = false var body: some View { Button("Open first") { isFirstOpen = true } .sheet(isPresented: $isFirstOpen) { FirstView() } } } struct FirstView: View { @StateObject var viewModel = LeakedViewModel() var body: some View { ZStack { Button("Open second") { viewModel.isSecondOpen = true } } .sheet(isPresented: $viewModel.isSecondOpen) { SecondView(onClose: { viewModel.isSecondOpen = false }) } } } final class LeakedViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var isSecondOpen: Bool = false init() { print("LeakedViewModel init") } deinit { print("LeakedViewModel deinit") } } struct SecondView: View { @State private var text: String = "" private let onClose: () -> Void init(onClose: @escaping () -> Void) { self.onClose = onClose } var body: some View { Button("Close second"){ onClose() } TextField("text: $text", text: $text) // Comment TextField and the leak will disappear, viewModel deinit called } } @main struct LeaksApp: App { var body: some Scene { WindowGroup { ContentView() } } } May be related to https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/738840

I'm encountering a problem on some Iphone models with photo gallery authorization. On some devices, the authorization only displays "add photos" and "None". However, for many devices, most of them have "Full access", "Limited access" and "None" authorizations, which means that you can't access the gallery. Example of device affected by the bug: Iphone 11 IOS 17.3. I tested on an emulator with the same version, but it works with all 3 authorizations. In Info.plist , I have the following information: NSCameraUsageDescription The application wants to have access to your camera to help you add photos to your worksites. NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription The application wants access to your photos to help you add photos to your building sites. NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription The application wants access to your photos to help you add photos to your worksites.

Hi I Download my app from test flight, when i click submit button to a backend call. App expects to get back with the response from the backend, to take to next pages. But the app seems to be stuck waiting for the backend response. No error messages seen. i am sure the backend call is blocked from the test flight version. Same code works well from emulator and the physical device from local and from Google PlayStore. Only the test flight is the problem. I am sure i messed up some settings , My Info.plist has as in below, can anyone please help. NSAppTransportSecurity NSPinnedNetworkSecurityItems MyBundleName NSIncludesSubdomains NSAllowsArbitraryLoads NSPinnedCAIdentities SPKI-SHA256-BASE64 THEKEY

Hello Everyone, I am having a problem here with my app. I developed a timer that play a sound .mp3 and the sound play every time that the timer start and finish. Everything works very well in the simulator but not on the devices after I distribute the build and install using the testflight. I saw the build content and the file is inside. However, I have no idea what I am doing wrong (if it is some option that i forgot to check or some problem in my code). Please, somebody can help me? Here is the func with the path. (I inserted the sound on the root) in the same place that we can find the Contentview. func playFinishSound() { guard let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "finish_sound", withExtension: "mp3") else { return } do { player = try AVAudioPlayer(contentsOf: url) player?.play() } catch { print("Error playing finish sound") } } } Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate. Antonio