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I'm hoping someone from Apple engineering can help, as support tickets and callbacks have not resolved this issue. The problem: My app "Brutal Time - Typographic Clock" does not appear in App Store search results at all — not even when searching for its exact name "Brutal Time." This has been ongoing for over six weeks. Additionally, the app does not appear in Apple Search Ads when I try to set up a campaign — suggesting this is a backend indexing issue, not a ranking issue. Timeline: Dec 17, 2025: App launched, initially searchable Dec 31, 2025: Transitioned to freemium model, became invisible in search. Jan 5, 2026: Fixed the issue, submitted update (v2.02), approved same day Jan 14, 2026: Submitted metadata update (v2.03) to improve discoverability, approved same day Feb 8, 2026: Tried removing from sale and re-adding to force re-index — no effect Feb 10, 2026: Still not appearing in any search results What I've tried: Submitted multiple support tickets (most recent: Case #102797235758) Each ticket generates an automated reply stating Apple will respond within 2 business days — they never have Requested and received callbacks multiple times, was told it would be escalated to US engineering team. But no follow-up, no resolution, no explanation Removed from sale and re-added to attempt to force re-indexing — didn't work App shows "Ready for Distribution" in App Store Connect Direct link works fine: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brutal-time-typographic-clock/id6756289461 Response from Apple Support: "The behavior you observed is expected. App Store charts and search results change regularly and we don't guarantee app placement." This response misses the point entirely. I'm not asking about rankings — I'm asking why the app is completely invisible in search, including for its own branded name. This is not an isolated issue. Other developers have reported the same problem with the same non-response from Apple: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/803937 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/73981 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/74110 Has anyone found a resolution? Is there any way to trigger a proper re-index, or escalate to someone who can actually investigate?

I've paid the amount and the amounts deducted from my account , and its been 5 days , but still my developer account is not verified , how to deal with this .

Currently i am trying really hard to create experience like the Apple fitness app. So the main view is a single day and the user can swipe between days. The week would be displayed in the toolbar and provide a shortcut to scroll to the right day. I had many attempts at solving this and it can work. You can create such an interface with SwiftUI. However, changing the data on every scroll makes limiting view updates hard and additionally the updates are not related to my code directly. Instruments show me long updates, but they belong to SwiftUI and all the advice i found does not apply or help. struct ContentView: View { @State var journey = JourneyPrototype(selection: 0) @State var position: Int? = 0 var body: some View { ScrollView(.horizontal) { LazyHStack(spacing: 0) { ForEach(journey.collection, id: \.self) { index in Listing(index: index) .id(index) } } .scrollTargetLayout() } .scrollTargetBehavior(.paging) .scrollPosition(id: $position) .onChange(of: position) { oldValue, newValue in journey.selection = newValue ?? 0 journey.update() } .onScrollPhaseChange { oldPhase, newPhase in if newPhase == .idle { journey.commit() } } } } struct Listing: View { var index: Int var body: some View { List { Section { Text("Title") .font(.largeTitle) .padding() } Section { Text("\(index)") .font(.largeTitle) .padding() } Section { Text("1 ") Text("2 ") Text("3 ") Text("4 ") Text("5 ") Text("6 ") } } .containerRelativeFrame(.horizontal) } } @Observable class JourneyPrototype { var selection: Int var collection: [Int] var nextUp: [Int]? init(selection: Int) { self.selection = selection self.collection = [selection] Task { self.collection = [-2,-1,0,1,2] } } func update() { self.nextUp = [ self.selection - 2, self.selection - 1, selection, self.selection + 1, self.selection + 2 ] } func commit() { self.collection = self.nextUp ?? self.collection self.nextUp = nil } } #Preview { ContentView() } There are some major Problem with this abstracted prototype ScrollView has no good trigger for the update, because if i update on change of the position, it will update much more than once. Thats why i had to split calculation and applying the diff The LazyHStack is not optimal, because there are only 5 View in the example, but using HStack breaks the scrollPosition Each scroll updates all List, despite changing only 2 numbers in the array. AI recommended to append and remove, which does nothing about the updates. In my actual Code i do this with Identifiable data and the Problem is the same. So the data itself is not the problem? Please consider, this is just the rough prototype to explain the problem, i am aware that an array of Ints is not ideal here, but the problem is the same in Instruments and much shorter to post. Why am i posting this? Scrolling through dynamic data is required for many apps, but there is no proper solution to this online. Github and Blogs are fine with showing a progress indicator and letting the user wait, some probably perform worse than this prototype. Other solutions require UIKit like using a UIPageViewController. But even using this i run in small hitches related to layout. Important consideration, my data for the scrollview is too big to be calculated upfront. 100 years of days that are calculated for my domain logic take too long, so i have no network request, but the need to only act on a smaller window of data. Instruments shows long update for one scroll action tested on a iPhone SE 2nd generation ListRepresentable has 7 updates and takes 17ms LazySubViewPlacements has 2 updates and takes 8ms Other long updates are too verbose to include I would be very grateful for any help.

I'm developing a passkey manager using ASCredentialProviderViewController. I've set a custom AAGUID in the attestation object during registration: let aaguid = Data([ 0xec, 0x78, 0xfa, 0xe8, 0xb2, 0xe0, 0x56, 0x97, 0x8e, 0x94, 0x7c, 0x77, 0x28, 0xc3, 0x95, 0x00 ]) However, when I test on webauthn.io, the relying party receives: AAGUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Provider Name: "iCloud Keychain" It appears that macOS overwrites the AAGUID to all zeros for third-party Credential Provider Extensions. This makes it impossible for relying parties to distinguish between different passkey providers, which is one of the key purposes of AAGUID in the WebAuthn specification. Is this expected behavior? Is there a way for third-party Credential Provider Extensions to use their own registered AAGUID? Environment: macOS 26.2 Xcode 26.2

Hi all, I spent the last few months developing an MLX/Ollama local AI Benchmarking suite for Apple Silicon, written in pure Swift and signed with an Apple Developer Certificate, open source, GPL, and free. I would love some feedback to continue development. It is the only benchmarking suite I know of that supports live power metrics and MLX natively, as well as quick exports for benchmark results, and an arena mode, Model A vs B with history. I really want this project to succeed, and have widespread use, so getting 75 stars on the github repo makes it eligible for Homebrew/Cask distribution. Github Repo

Trying to enroll in Apple Developer Program to notarize my Mac app. Getting blocked repeatedly with "Your enrollment in the Apple Developer Program could not be completed at this time." Verified: ✅ 2FA enabled ✅ Valid payment method ✅ All details match government ID ✅ No VPN, tried multiple browsers ✅ Waited weeks between attempts Solo dev just trying to do things properly and pay the $99/year. Anyone found a way past this? Seeing similar threads but no clear solutions.

I am working on an internal app for our company that links ABM, Intune, and an AT&T-provided CSV of IMEIs, and I am fairly new to this and using AI (sorry) to help me. I can search for our devices using either the serial # and/or IMEI. If the device has been released, I can still find it using the SN, but not with the IMEI. If a result is returned on a released device's SN, the IMEI is present. I have a list of IMEIs from our AT&T account and want to cross-reference those IMEIs to get the SN. Is there a way to include the Released Devices in the search?

Hello Apple Support Team, We are seeing a production crash on iOS 26 devices that appears to originate from Apple system frameworks rather than application code. Crash Summary Crash signature: _xzm_xzone_malloc_freelist_outlined Crashed thread: com.apple.network.connections Frameworks involved: CFNetwork, Security, libdispatch, libsystem_malloc Affected OS: iOS 26.x App built with: Xcode 16 Devices: Multiple models (not device-specific) Reproducibility: Intermittent, higher frequency during app launch / background networking Observed Stack Trace (top frames) _xzm_xzone_malloc_freelist_outlined dispatch_data_create_alloc xpc_data_deserialize SecTrustEvaluateIfNecessary CFNetwork HTTPProtocol / HTTP3Connection com.apple.network.connections App Context The app uses URLSession for networking. Multiple third-party SDKs are integrated (Firebase Analytics, Dynatrace, Appsflyer, and similar analytics/monitoring SDKs). These SDKs perform concurrent background network requests, especially during app launch and foreground transitions. No unsafe memory operations (manual malloc/free, unsafe pointers, or custom networking stacks) are used in the app code. Key Observations The crash is predominantly observed on iOS 26 and not on earlier iOS versions. Stack traces do not include application symbols. Disabling or delaying analytics SDK initialization significantly reduces the crash rate. Reducing concurrent network requests and limiting HTTP/3 usage also mitigates the issue. This suggests a potential regression in CFNetwork / Network.framework / HTTP/3 handling combined with the new memory allocator (xzone) on iOS 26. Impact Random app termination during background networking. Occurs without a clear deterministic repro path, making it difficult to fully mitigate at the app level. Request Could you please help investigate whether this is a known iOS 26 issue related to: HTTP/3 / QUIC networking XPC deserialization Memory allocation in the new xzone allocator High-concurrency network requests We would appreciate guidance on: Recommended mitigations Whether this issue is already tracked internally Any best practices for apps integrating multiple analytics SDKs on iOS 26 Crash logs and additional diagnostics can be provided if needed. Thank you for your support. Best regards, Dhananjay

I am a private gym owner in Evanston, Il. We are working with a new CRM, ClubReady, that is helping us develop an app, and I cannot get past this enrollment screen. I need support in order to enroll and pay for the development of this app ASAP. https://developer.apple.com/programs/enroll/ Ali Asadi, GM of Gym 1801 773-474-1867

Problem: CoreML produces NaN on GPU (works fine on CPU) when running transformer attention with fused QKV projection on macOS 26.2. Root cause: The common::fuse_transpose_matmul optimization pass triggers a Metal kernel bug when sliced tensors feed into matmul(transpose_y=True). Workaround: pipeline = ct.PassPipeline.DEFAULT pipeline.remove_passes(['common::fuse_transpose_matmul']) mlmodel = ct.convert(model, ..., pass_pipeline=pipeline) Minimal repro: https://github.com/imperatormk/coreml-birefnet/blob/main/apple_bug_repro.py Affected: Any ViT/Swin/transformer with fused QKV attention (BiRefNet, etc.) Has anyone else hit this? Filed FB report too.

I've created a new app on App Store Connect. Setup everything like all the forms, the build, users, internal testing group, and then sent the invitation emails for testing. Now users can see the app in the TestFlight but when they try to install it, they get the error below. Could not install [APP]. The requested app is not available or doesn't exist. I've sent an email to Apple support couple of days ago but still no response. Saw some comments on the internet that you need to send your app for review and once it's approved you can use TestFlight. So I sent the app for review with a long description about how I'm not able to use TestFlight but still on wait. Tried to create a public TestFlight link but I get this error: "Beta contract is missing for the app." but there's actually no contract anywhere. What do I do? This is completely unacceptable. Why is the TestFlight not working? Why are the error messages not helpful?

Hello everyone Hoping for some insights with an issue we're having with our app store review process. Note that this is not a new app, and we've had many successful reviews in the past. We submitted the app for review just over a week ago. We received a timely review about 24 hours later, citing an issue with Apple Pay. We make use of PassKit, but the reviewer could not find where we use Apple Pay in our app. I replied within a few hours with screenshots and videos, as it is quite easy to find where we use Apple Pay. Since then, we haven't received any feedback at all. I tried resubmitting a new build after 4 day,s and that is also sitting unreviewed for a while now. We've got features and bug fixes that were supposed to go out in this release, but we are now blocked on them. Is there anything we can do?

Hi From https://developer.apple.com/metal/jax/ I checked all active workflows on https://github.com/jax-ml/jax and any open issues with tags Metal and seems in DEC 2025 the Jax maintainers have closed all issues citing No active development on Jax-metal and the project seems dead. We need to know how can we leverage Apple silicon for accelerated projects using popular academia library and tools . Is the JAX project still going to be supported or Apple has plans to bring something of tis own that might be platform agnostic . Thanks

Hi, Somebody knows how to decode / decrypt emvData on Apple Pay e-commerce when paymentDataType=EMV? Thanks. Reference: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/passkit/payment-token-format-reference#Detailed-payment-data-keys-EMV

Hello, why is Safari blocking my domains? https://fitgel.ru https://fittoma.ru https://ohota.pro There are no errors in them, other browsers respond normally.

Since last year, our company has been signing in new users to Apple Store Connect using our private email domain. However, since last week, when we try to sign in with this same domain, we receive the following error: "Your primary email address cannot end in @mydomain.com.br. Choose a different email address."

I have an iOS app that generates and renders a custom HTML document inside a UIWebView. After updating a device to iOS 26, the same HTML is rendered with noticeably smaller fonts compared to previous iOS versions. No code or HTML changes were made. Context HTML is generated dynamically and rendered in a UIWebView The HTML is embedded inside a custom XML wrapper The issue happens only on iOS 26 Earlier iOS versions render the font size correctly

when I share the App Store link for my app FlexPath on say iMessages; the screenshot generated with the shared link is that of the Apple Watch’s screenshot and not the iPhone’s screenshots i have reloaded the images with new builds to fix the issue. Checked my localization settings. but I can’t fix it! please help.

Is there a way to create a grocery list in swift programmatically? With color and icon? I mean the new Reminders.app v7.0 features. I don't find code or guide in the dev documentation.

Hi everyone, With the rapid growth of digital banking, payments, and AI-driven financial services, building secure and scalable FinTech apps on iOS has become more complex than ever. From handling sensitive user data to ensuring compliance and seamless performance, iOS developers face multiple technical challenges. Key areas that usually require deep expertise include: Apple Pay and Wallet integrations Secure authentication (Face ID / Touch ID / biometrics) Real-time transaction processing Core ML for financial predictions SwiftUI dashboards for financial analytics Data encryption and regulatory compliance https://www.nimbleappgenie.com At Nimble AppGenie, we’ve worked extensively as a FinTech app development expert, helping startups and enterprises design and build iOS financial applications that are secure, scalable, and user-centric. Our experience shows that the most successful fintech apps are those that balance strong security architecture with intuitive UX and performance optimization. I’m interested to hear from the community: What are the biggest challenges you’ve faced while building fintech apps on iOS? Are there any recent iOS updates or Apple frameworks that significantly improved your fintech workflows? How are you handling compliance and security in production apps? Looking forward to learning from everyone’s experiences and best practices.