Hi, We have our devices listed in Apple Business Manager but they are not enrolled in MDM. Some of the devices are locked in Activation Lock screen as employees logged in with their personal account . Since devices are company owned and already available in ABM is there any way to remove activation lock easily without providing proof of purchase to apple? In order to prevent devices getting into activation lock in future the only way is to Enroll the device in a MDM? Are there anyways to bypass activation lock if we are not using MDM

My organization currently has an Enterprise account that we've been using for awhile. We now have an app that needs to be released to the public App Store, so need a regular Developer Account. This account should be tied to our organization, not to a specific person (just like our enterprise account). Is there a way to add the developer account to our existing enterprise account? Or does it need to be a new account? And if it's a new account, how do we get it tied to the same organization and manager (we have a person authorized to manage this stuff, but he's already the account holder on our enterprise account).

We are considering developing our own MDM server for internal app distribution. Is it necessary to enroll in the Apple Enterprise Developer Program to develop MDM server? Currently, our company is only enrolled in the Apple Developer Program and Business Manager. Additionally, since we have fewer than 100 employees, it is difficult for us to join the Enterprise Program. In this case, is it not possible for us to set up an MDM server?

Hello there: On November 2023, I submitted enrollment ID 3BR28NV28U. I am responsible on behalf of my employer, Strathcona Resources, to submit this Apple Developer enrollment to advance in a custom app that we must implement to our iPads in our field sites. As you can probably tell, I have not received any advancement with this request, and seven months have passed, without any update or any notification regarding this enrollment. I would appreciate it if you can please channel this request to the appropriate party, in order to provide a status update, escalation, and completion as appropriate. Seven months without an update is a major delay, and we are behind schedule for the custom app that we need to implement in our organization. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Best regards, **** Godoy Strathcona Resources

In App Store Connect, is an organization's Legal Entity name separate from the App Store display name? My organization currently has the same name for both App Store display name and Legal Entity name. It contains an apostrophe, which is desired on the App Store for brand consistency. However, an apostrophe is no longer permitted in the Legal Entity name (it was entered in before that restriction came into effect). If I remove the apostrophe from the Legal Entity name to satisfy compliance warnings, will that update the App Store display name as well? I ask here because I'm supposing that if I remove the apostrophe and it does update the display name, the input validation won't let me enter it back. Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

Hi Folks, We have a few local network sources for example a (NAS) with a hostname "NAS.local" and some printers where i want to do IPPS printing with "printerX.local" For transport security i want to use SSL, but i don't want to have the frequent management so i want certificates to be valid as long as possible. After trying, i found out that on iOS client devices self-signed certificates does not work at all (cannot be trusted) without a CA. To solve this, i created an own CA (10 year valid), tried and signed a lot of certificates for testing and found out that iOS can trust signed certificates with a maximum validity of 800 days! I found an Apple Link that is describing the maximum validity of 398 days except for certificates from a own CA's. Can someone refer me to the documentation that is explaining the 800 days limit?

Our app is pushed to supervised iPhones through our MDM. We have a watchOS companion app that we install to paired Apple Watches as well. Our watches are NOT enrolled in the MDM using the new watchOS 10 MDM features, and are just paired normally to the supervised phones. Historically (the past 2 years), the watchOS companion app has been installed automatically after our iOS app has been pushed by our MDM (through VPP) and the Watch has been paired. NEW IN iOS 17.4/watchOS 10.4, the watchOS companion app is NOT installed automatically and when we press “Install” in the Watch app on the iPhone, we see a spinner for about 1 second and then a silent failure, with the button reverting back to “Install”. This is occurring with other apps purchased through VPP. We purchased the CityMapper app through VPP, assigned it to a supervised iPhone, and attempted to install CityMapper's watchOS companion app and got the same failed result. This is NOT occurring on a clean & reset supervised iPhone and its paired watch running iOS 17.3.1 / watchOS 10.3. On a personal unsupervised device running iOS 17.4/watchOS 10.4 with a copy of our app purchased through the App Store, installing the watchOS companion app is not an issue. I filed radar FB13687404 but in 10 years of developing for iOS, I have never ever ever heard of Apple responding to one of those. Posting here in the hope that other users/developers can share their issues or solutions.

Hello, as a company, we had an Apple Developer Enterprise account for many years. Last year, Apple denied us an extension on the grounds that we had less than 100 employees. They advised us to open a new Standard Developer account because it is not possible to transfer an account from Enterprise to Standard. I created a new standard account that I want to convert to a business one (so that the name of the company is visible, not a specific person). I contacted support to request a change and was denied because "our company already has a developer account", which is the origininal Enterprise one we can no longer use. Furthermore, the communication with the support is miserable. They keep telling me they don't know why would we want a new Business account when we already have an account. I wrote them, they didn't allow us to extend it and they advised us to start a completely new one and at that moment they stopped communicating completely. I have repeated this several time, the result is always the same. Can anyone advise me what to do next, who to contact?

As enterprise endpoint security/data loss prevention application, we need to detect data which is being transferred out of the enterprise context from their MacOS filesystem through applications like Cloud Sync or Email. Depending on the file content, type and size, we require some time for scanning the content being sent. This can range from milli seconds to few minutes for very large contents. But the Endpoint Security message has to be responded within the provided message deadline else application will be killed. This deadline is reducing with every macos release and its now only 15 seconds on macos sonoma which is blocking our use case of completing the scan before responding. We may scan it before but it imposes challenges of the data being modified before actual sent. So, we have to scan it on the fly and cant rely solely on the previous scans. Is there any way an Enterprise can customize this deadline value depending on the ES message and scanning application may be through MDM setting?

Why is the registration field always pushed down a bit? // // LoginView.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import SwiftUI struct LoginView: View { @State var email = "" @State var password = "" var body: some View { NavigationView { VStack { //Header HeaderView() //Login Form Form{ TextField("E-Mail Adresse", text: $email) .textFieldStyle(DefaultTextFieldStyle()) SecureField("Passwort", text: $password) .textFieldStyle(DefaultTextFieldStyle()) CreateAccountButton( title: "Anmelden", background: .blue) { //Attempt log in } .padding() } //Create ACC VStack { Text ("Neu hier?") //Show registartion NavigationLink ("Erstelle einen Account", destination: RegisterView()) } .padding(.bottom, 0) } } } } struct LoginView_Previews: PreviewProvider{ static var previews: some View { LoginView() } ```// // HeaderView.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import SwiftUI struct HeaderView: View { var body: some View { VStack { HStack { Text("Anmeldung") .font(.title) .fontWeight(.bold) Spacer() HStack { Image (systemName: "questionmark") Image (systemName: "gear") } .font(.title) } .padding() }```

I can't find the problem.. - The simulator is stopping after opening the app... Database`property wrapper backing initializer of ContentViewViewModel.currentUserId: 0x104c12bd0 <+0>: sub sp, sp, #0x50 0x104c12bd4 <+4>: stp x29, x30, [sp, #0x40] 0x104c12bd8 <+8>: add x29, sp, #0x40 0x104c12bdc <+12>: str x8, [sp, #0x10] 0x104c12be0 <+16>: mov x8, x0 0x104c12be4 <+20>: str x8, [sp, #0x8] 0x104c12be8 <+24>: mov x0, x1 0x104c12bec <+28>: str x0, [sp, #0x18] 0x104c12bf0 <+32>: stur xzr, [x29, #-0x10] 0x104c12bf4 <+36>: stur xzr, [x29, #-0x8] -> 0x104c12bf8 <+40>: stur x8, [x29, #-0x10] 0x104c12bfc <+44>: mov x1, x0 0x104c12c00 <+48>: stur x1, [x29, #-0x8] 0x104c12c04 <+52>: bl 0x1053b9a88 ; symbol stub for: swift_bridgeObjectRetain 0x104c12c08 <+56>: ldr x9, [sp, #0x8] 0x104c12c0c <+60>: ldr x8, [sp, #0x10] 0x104c12c10 <+64>: ldr x1, [sp, #0x18] 0x104c12c14 <+68>: add x0, sp, #0x20 0x104c12c18 <+72>: str x9, [sp, #0x20] 0x104c12c1c <+76>: str x1, [sp, #0x28] 0x104c12c20 <+80>: adrp x1, 2556 0x104c12c24 <+84>: ldr x1, [x1, #0xa00] 0x104c12c28 <+88>: bl 0x104c12c40 ; Combine.Published.init(wrappedValue: Value) -> Combine.Published<Value> at <compiler-generated> 0x104c12c2c <+92>: ldr x0, [sp, #0x18] 0x104c12c30 <+96>: bl 0x1053b91a0 ; symbol stub for: swift_bridgeObjectRelease 0x104c12c34 <+100>: ldp x29, x30, [sp, #0x40] 0x104c12c38 <+104>: add sp, sp, #0x50 0x104c12c3c <+108>: ret // // ContentViewViewModel.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import Firebase import FirebaseAuth import Foundation class ContentViewViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var currentUserId: String = "" private var handler: AuthStateDidChangeListenerHandle? init () { self.handler = Auth.auth().addStateDidChangeListener{ [weak self] _, user in DispatchQueue.main.async { self?.currentUserId = user?.uid ?? "" } } } public var isSignedIn: Bool { return Auth.auth().currentUser != nil } } // // ContentView.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import Firebase import FirebaseAuth import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { @StateObject var viewModel = ContentViewViewModel() var body: some View { VStack { NavigationView { if viewModel.isSignedIn, !viewModel.currentUserId.isEmpty { //signed in HomeView() } else { LoginView() } } .padding() } } } struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider{ static var previews: some View { ContentView() } } // // HomeView.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import SwiftUI struct HomeView: View { var body: some View { Text("Welcome to your Account!") } } #Preview { HomeView() } // // LoginViewViewModel.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import FirebaseAuth import Foundation class LoginViewViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var email = "" @Published var password = "" @Published var errorMessage = "" init() {} func login() { guard validate() else { return } //Try log in Auth.auth().signIn(withEmail: email, password: password) } private func validate() -> Bool { errorMessage = "" guard !email.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces).isEmpty, !password.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespaces).isEmpty else { errorMessage = "Bitte füllen Sie alle Felder aus." return false } guard email.contains("@") && email.contains(".") else { errorMessage = "Bitte geben Sie eine gültige Email-Adresse ein." return false } return true } } // // LoginView.swift // Database // // Created by Maxi on 25.03.24. // import SwiftUI struct LoginView: View { @StateObject var viewModel = LoginViewViewModel() var body: some View { NavigationView { VStack { //Header HeaderView() if !viewModel.errorMessage.isEmpty{ Text(viewModel.errorMessage) .foregroundColor(Color.red) } Form{ TextField("E-Mail Adresse", text: $viewModel.email) .textFieldStyle(DefaultTextFieldStyle()) .autocapitalization(/*@START_MENU_TOKEN@*/.none/*@END_MENU_TOKEN@*/) SecureField("Passwort", text: $viewModel.password) .textFieldStyle(DefaultTextFieldStyle()) CreateAccountButton( title: "Anmelden", background: .blue) { viewModel.login() } } //Create ACC VStack { Text ("Neu hier?") //Show registartion NavigationLink ("Erstelle einen Account", destination: RegisterView()) } } } } } struct LoginView_Previews: PreviewProvider{ static var previews: some View { LoginView() } }

Good morning, community. I have an organization account. When creating the first application, it asked for the name of the organization again, in which I accidentally filled with the name of the application. Now, when trying to submit my app, I am told that I need to provide files showing that I'm the owner of that company, etc. But in reality, there's no company with that name, as it's only the name of the application. Is there a way to change this developer name back to my organization's name? I've seen this link, and they say there's no way to change it. What could I do in this scenario? I just enrolled; should I remove the account and enroll as an organization again? I need support, please. Thank you guys in advance.

Hi Team, Hope everyone is doing well. As we are working on Healthcare applications and we are close to launch our apps on Appstore for Public release. But we are not able to share a production test detail (userid and Password) due to security reasons .Is there any alternative way so apple can approve our apps without providing userid and password. Thanks, Vivek Nahar

In the Apple Business Connect - When adding Attributes to the Place Card>Save>Address is wiped This continuously happens when it clears data fields that were previously saved. https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/25583267?key=adc1e136af1ba0b7cfa453dcd613f4b4

The profiles command shows them, but the Store file/directory is blocked off from access (which, I suppose, kinda makes sense). (We are in the process of getting customers to upgrade the profile, and if I can see whether our profile has an entry, then I can behave differently.)

Hello Everyone, We have an App which we have been developed only for our internal employees and the app would only work when device is connected with our intranet. This App would be distributed via our MDM on devices of the authorized users. We tried uploading the app on app store but was rejected as they could not validate the App. we tried providing them the vpn connectivity as well, but Apple team refused to connect using vpn. Now we have learned that we can take the Apple Developer Enterprise Program. now we want to clarify following: a. While in some forums it states that Apps under Apple Developer Enterprise Program does not need to go through the App review process. Is this correct? b. Can we use our existing MDM for distributing the App to authorized users? c. If (a) and (b) are yes, What steps are needed to ensure that we can distribute the app without any issues? A quick help on this would be very helpful

I'm owner of small company and registered developer account for this company before. Some years passed and I do not remember Apple ID I used for this. Any solution? P.S. I sent message to support 3 days ago and still did not get any reply

Hello Community Members, I hope this message finds you all well. I am reaching out to share my recent experience and seek advice from fellow members who may have encountered similar challenges. Our company, with a longstanding presence and a track record of successful enterprise services, recently applied for the Apple Developer Enterprise Program. Unfortunately, our application was rejected, and we find ourselves facing significant setbacks in our internal project processing. The unexpected rejection has led to substantial losses, causing delays in our project timelines and hindering our ability to move forward efficiently. While we have been an active and contributing member of the business community for quite some time, the rejection from Apple has caught us off guard. We have considered reaching out to Apple for more insights into the specific reasons behind the rejection, but we wanted to reach out to this valuable community first. Has anyone else, despite having a reputable history, faced challenges in getting approval for the Apple Developer Enterprise Program? If you've encountered similar situations or have successfully navigated through similar challenges, we would greatly appreciate hearing about your experiences and any advice you can offer. The forum has been an invaluable resource for us in the past, and we believe that shared experiences can help us find a solution or at least provide some clarity on the next steps we should take.

Hello all! We have applied for a DUNS number through the Apple website. However, we were not approved for a DUNS number due to insufficient information provided: my number seems to be incorrect and/or email address is not directly related to my business. My questions are how long until I have to reapply as the website suggests I already applied and can take up to 5 business days to get a response, and my other question is who can I respond to if the email stating my DUNS was denied but can not respond?

I'd like to build an enterprise "white label" iOS app - that is, apply different branding to identical templates. Guidelines 4.2.6 and 4.3 seem to prohibit this as spam. However, I found these apps which clearly share the same template: ADM Farmview Valero Cornnow Scoular View Purefield Ingredients Graincraft Grower Connect Townsend Grain ...etc There are dozens more. To see them all search: site:apps.apple.com "developed by the industry-leading Bushel platform". They have identical screenshots, description text, even version number. How can I do this, without being rejected for spam?