"If your app includes any links outside the app, or offers any in-app or other purchasing opportunities, make sure these are behind a parental gate"
Super Awesome and Kidoz are proving with a parental gate on ad click and they also claim that all ads are manually approved (another criteria for ads in Kids apps).
So these two are the only ad networks we can use moving forward. Or we can use ad networks like Admob as well?
I dont intend not to be in Kids category - so leaving Kids category is not a choice.
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My client has already developed an ios app and they need an enterprise account to publish the app. What are the procedures to create enterprise account?
Hello folks,
I stumbled upon a weird CNContact serialization problem. I use the Contacts framework to update the AIM field, which is one of the instantMessageAddresses within a single Contact. Here is the simplified code I used:
func updateAIMFieldOn(contact: CNContact, aimValue: String) {
do {
guard let mutableContact = contact.mutableCopy() as? CNMutableContact else {
logger.error("[CM] Couldn't update contact with aim \(aimValue)")
return
}
var updatedAddresses = mutableContact.instantMessageAddresses
updatedAddresses.append(CNLabeledValue(label: "", value: CNInstantMessageAddress(username: aimValue, service: CNInstantMessageServiceAIM)))
mutableContact.instantMessageAddresses = updatedAddresses
let saveRequest = CNSaveRequest()
saveRequest.update(mutableContact)
try CNContactStore().execute(saveRequest)
logger.verbose("Contact's AIM updated successfully!")
} catch {
logger.error("Couldn't update contact")
}
}
And after serializing the contact to data, and then deserializing, the contact got two AIM fields with the same value:
X-AIM;type=pref:some:part:of_my_aim_value
IMPP;X-SERVICE-TYPE=AIM;type=pref:some:part:of_my_aim_value
Why does it work in this manner? Is it possible that ":" char causes that? Format of my aim username is {some:part:of_my_aim_value}. I didn't find any information in the docs.
Thanks!
Hi,
I run a midsize business. Apple recommends for company owned devices and for other reasons to use Apple Business managed Apple IDs for the employees. After that, you have to use a MDM System for e.g. deploying apps and licenses.
Testflight is an app that can be deployed too. But....Testflight can not more than to say "Hello" on a managed device. The use of Testflight and to test our developed apps is not possible with a managed ID.
Can anyone explain to me this thinking or what is recommended than. Setting up a private Apple ID for that purpose...which on the other hand, Apple do not want or does not recommend.
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Managed Settings
Hey everyone,
Is it possible and how to get Managed Apple ID (email) programmatically for user signed in to ipad through shared IPad feature ?
It would be good to have MDM independent solution, I mean API call to MDM service is not acceptable for us.
Maybe API call to ASM or ABM, or get that somehow on iOS device end... any advice ?
Thanks in advance,
Dima
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Microsoft are retiring the “Azure AD Graph API”.
We allow the use of Apple email apps in our M365 tenant via the “Apple Internet Accounts” Entra ID Enterprise Application, however this is using the “User.Read” permission from this retiring “Azure AD Graph API”.
My concern is that Apple email app’s will stop working in our tenant when Microsoft retire the “Azure AD Graph API” and this permission is removed, as this is an Apple managed Enterprise Application, we have no method of changing the permissions ourselves.
I have not been able to find any information on how the “Apple Internet Accounts” Entra ID Enterprise Application can be updated to use the required, newer “Microsoft Graph API” “User.Read” permission.
It is not possible for us to change the permissions on the “Apple Internet Accounts” Entra ID Enterprise Application in our tenant, my assumption is that Apple would need to deploy a newer version of Email app that uses the newer “Microsoft Graph API” “User.Read” permission, and we would then need to consent the use of this new permission in our tenant.
I would have thought Apple would have deploy this by now, but we have not seen any consent requests.
Does anyone have any information about how Apple are handling this Microsoft change and how we can pre-emptively update the “Apple Internet Accounts” Entra ID Enterprise Application to ensure that Apple email client continue to work in our tenant?
Many thanks.
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I just want to add a in-app purchase project to my app,
steps:
1.i create a product in App Store Connect ,the product id is "com.buy.once.me"
2.in Xcode,i create " SubscriptionStoreView(productIDs:["com.buy.once.me"])" in a view
3. the view show "subscription unavailable the subscription is unavailable in the current storefront"
I don't know what the problem is ,anyone help me,thanks
how to contact 酷
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How to apply for Apple one-on-one consultation。
How to contact Cook
On google it's showing with in 24 for developer enrollment now waiting for 4th day no update at all
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Hi I keep adding my development team member and he is not getting the invite email.
Path Users and Access -> add team member
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Business & Education
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Tags:
Accounts
Apple Business Manager
Managed Settings
Apple provides a function to create TTS voice as a file in TTS.
(AVSpeechUtterance/AVSpeechSynthesizer)
Or, if the user records the video of TTS playback and uses that video
I wonder what the scope of use is if I use this TTS voice to make YouTube, TikTok, or commercial videos.
Is it impossible to use it commercially at all?
Can I use it commercially with the source indicated?
Can I use it commercially without a separate source indication?
Is there a difference in commercial use license between Siri voices and regular TTS voices?
short version question:
why some users after deleting and downloading back my in-house app, cannot start the new process for approving developer, but instead it tries to start and then crashes immediately?
long question version
I am maintaining an in-house distributed enterprise app.
due to update in iOS 18 update here users need to trust the developer via a new procedure that involves restarting device and inserting the phone code.
after thousands (more or less 30.000) of users with no issue at all, some of them has this problem, the old (expired)trust seems to be persistent and never updated.
Standard events
a user deletes the app via settings > general > VPN & device management or via classic persistent touch procedure
checks no other presence of the app is on the device via spotlight.
since it is the only app with "MyDeveloperName" on the phone, if users goe back to VPN & device management screen, no app or developer will be present.
user downloads new version of the app. If taps directly on the icon there is a system alert with says the developer must be trusted.
a this point in settings > general > VPN & device management you can find a line with developer name, tapping on it we find a screen where user finds a white button with BLUE message "authorize MyDeveloperName" and follows procedure.
My issue is that some users get following different behavior, and I do not understand why:
❌ tapping on downloaded app icon: no alert, but app tries to start then crashes.
❌ going in VPN & device management screen there is only RED write button "delete app"
in both paths, working and not working, the app results "verified" in VPN & device management screen (Apple says old authorizations are preserved.)
Recently, we have encountered some users who have been unable to open the enterprise signature application after upgrading to version 18.3.2, without an IPS file. Through system logs, we found that signature verification has occurred SecKeyVerifySignature failed: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "rsa_pub_crypt failed, ccerr=-7" UserInfo={numberOfErrorsDeep=0, NSDescription=rsa_pub_crypt failed, ccerr=-7} Waiting for the information, I will provide the obtained system logs below. The application package name that crashed is com. mobile. moonew
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We have an office application used internally within our enterprise. The Provisioning Profiles (PP) for the app were about to expire, so we updated the PP and released a new version. However, we've encountered an issue where some users did not update their phones in time. After the app expired, they found it unusable and downloaded the new version, but the newly downloaded app also crashes on launch. Restarting the phone does not resolve the issue, and this primarily occurs on iOS 18.3.2. What could be the cause of this problem, and how should we address it?
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Business & Education
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We have an office application used internally within our enterprise. The Provisioning Profiles (PP) for the app were about to expire, so we updated the PP and released a new version. However, we've encountered an issue where some users did not update their phones in time. After the app expired, they found it unusable and downloaded the new version, but the newly downloaded app also crashes on launch. Restarting the phone does not resolve the issue, and this primarily occurs on iOS 18.3.2. What could be the cause of this problem, and how should we address it?
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Business & Education
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General
Hi I am trying to develop Apple MDM solution as a vendor. I got the Vendor certificate from apple developer portal. When I was trying to generate the csr and upload to Portal (https://identity.apple.com/pushcert/) It says Invalid Certificate Signing Request. I had also tried to follow documentation (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicemanagement/setting-up-push-notifications-for-your-mdm-customers) but still the same error. Can anyone please guide how to generate the csr.
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Our organization is deploying passwordless authentication. Instead of using a password, employees must use the Microsoft Authenticator app to complete the login process.
Unfortunately, employees with passwordless authentication can't complete the login on the Wi-Fi Captive portal with SAML authentication. The reason is that when an employee switches to the Microsoft Authenticator app, the Apple CNA (Apple Network Captive Assistant) disappears. As a result, the authentication process breaks.
According to the https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=q78sq5rv source, iOS 14+ devices support the RFC-8908 standard. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a reliable source on how this feature works on iOS devices.
The question is: Is it possible to automatically forward Wi-Fi clients to the SAML authentication portal in the default browser app (for example, Safari) after connecting an employee to Wi-Fi?
Hi Team,
After agreeing the Paid In-app purchase agreements, i have been asked to fill the tax forms of US Certificate of foreign status of beneficial owner and US substitute form W-8BEN-E.
Being an Indian Ed-tech company, we would like to know how should we approach this. Any help or support page or video on this can make our life easier.
Thanks
Team ACEplus.
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Business & Education
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My company signed the application with enterprise certificate, the Provisioning Profile expired on March 20, 2025. Some iPhones didn't update the application before the expiration.
We have update the Provisioning Profile and repackaged application. However, these iPhones still can't use the application after reinstalling the new ipa. After opening the application, the screen is blank and then flashes back without any error prompt.
Restarting iPhone didn't help.