Hi Team, I am using NSDateFormatter to print date and time in my logger class. // Get current date and time NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; dateFormatter.dateFormat = @"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"; NSString *dateTimeString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]]; I am using the NSDateFormatter as shown in the above snippet, but I am seeing random crashes with the below stack trace. This crash is random and can't be reproduced consistently. 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x7ff8051a021d objc_msgSend + 29 1 CoreFoundation 0x7ff8056609ef __CFDateFormatterSetSymbolsArray + 59 2 CoreFoundation 0x7ff80564db87 __ApplyUDateFormatSymbol + 324 3 CoreFoundation 0x7ff80564c854 __ResetUDateFormat + 3064 4 CoreFoundation 0x7ff80564bc30 __CreateCFDateFormatter + 320 5 Foundation 0x7ff8064c2ae3 -[NSDateFormatter _regenerateFormatter] + 323 6 Foundation 0x7ff8064c2858 -[NSDateFormatter stringForObjectValue:] + 297 Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000018 Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000018 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 11 Segmentation fault: 11 Terminating Process: exc handler [5372] Can someone please suggest if there is something wrong in the way NSDateFormatter being used? I checked the documentation and found nothing that can be causing this issue. Thanks and Regards

I am developing an iPhone app related to finance and currently I am using isCaptured value to prevent screen recording by checking the isCaptured value and if it is true then I blur the video recording. It was working fine while using UIScreen.main.isCaptured till iOS 17 . But for iOS 18 it became deprecated and it is not working any more. Below is the obj-c code block. - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: (NSDictionary *)launchOptions { if (@available(iOS 11.0, *)) { BOOL isCaptured = [[UIScreen mainScreen] isCaptured]; if(isCaptured){ // Do the action for hiding the screen recording } } else{ // Fallback on earlier versions } return YES; } The replacement sceneCaptureState is working only for a scene-based app which uses UISceneDelegate lifecycle but it's not working for the old structure so now i have that problem, my iPhone app is very big and does not support scenes at all since we are following UIAppDelegate life cycle for years, what shall I do to prevent screen recording from iOS 18 onwards ? Note: My iPhone app does not support any scene configuration Please help me in this. Regards, Carol

We have an app that captures images and videos and we share them to a server. Now at initial state the app works fine, but as we start using the app, the memory grows and my app crashes finally. Kindly help in identifying how to rectify and remove the resident memory and dirty memory.

When I trying to set share record I get: NSOperationQueue * quwuw = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init]; [quwuw setMaxConcurrentOperationCount:1]; [self createOrFetchZone:^(CKRecordZone *rzone, NSError *error) { CKRecordID *recordID = [[CKRecordID alloc] initWithRecordName:recordId zoneID:custZone.zoneID]; [[self privateCloudDatabase] fetchRecordWithID:recordID completionHandler:^(CKRecord *record, NSError *error) { if (error) { dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ prephandler(nil, nil,error); }); return; } CKShare * share = [[CKShare alloc] initWithRootRecord:record]; share[CKShareTitleKey] = @"Some title"; [share setPublicPermission:CKShareParticipantPermissionReadWrite]; CKModifyRecordsOperation * op = [[CKModifyRecordsOperation alloc] initWithRecordsToSave:@[share, record] recordIDsToDelete:nil]; [op setModifyRecordsCompletionBlock:^(NSArray<CKRecord *> * _Nullable savedRecords, NSArray<CKRecordID *> * _Nullable deletedRecordIDs, NSError * _Nullable operationError) { if (operationError == nil) { dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ prephandler(share, [CKContainer defaultContainer],operationError); }); } else { dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ prephandler(share, [CKContainer defaultContainer],operationError); }); } }]; [op setDatabase:[self privateCloudDatabase]]; [quwuw addOperation:op]; }]; }]; I get error: Invalid Arguments" (12/2006); server message = "Chaining supported for hierarchical sharing only" Any advices for this?

hi all, i wrote my tool app using ObjC++, find some problems while messing with "locale". here's the problems: I invoke a C++ function, std::string ws2s(const std::wstring& ws) { if (ws.empty()) return ""; NSLog(@"%s %s", setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL), std::locale().name().c_str()); ... output is "C C", and i try to set locale to "zh_CN.UTF8", but it's still "C". another is an Objc Class Method + (NSString*)getNSStrFromWCharStr:(const wchar_t*)wcstr { if (wcstr == NULL) return nil; char *curLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL); ... this time, curLocale is the same as system default ——"zh_CN.UTF8" I try to set locale in main function, first one succeed, second made process crash. setlocale(LC_ALL, "zh_CN.UTF-8"); std::locale::global(std::locale("zh_CN.UTF8")); crash info:libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type std::runtime_error: collate_byname::collate_byname failed to construct for zh_CN.UTF8 after all this, it's OK to handle CN character with C and objc, but it's not OK with C++. and I'm confused, I don't know much about 'locale'. I thought it was a per-process setting, now it seems to be a per-language setting... OS version: macOS 14.4, system default locale is "zh_CN.UTF8".

Platform and Version iOS Development environment: Xcode 16.0 beta 5 (16A5221g), macOS 14.6.1 (23G93) Run-time configuration: iOS 18.0 beta 5 (22A5326g) Description of Problem Starting with iOS 18 SDK, test bundles containing a +load method that accesses UIScreen.mainScreen result in deadlock during test bundle injection. Also filed as FB14703057 I'm looking for clarity on whether this behavior is considered a bug in iOS or whether we will need to change the implementation of our app. Steps to Reproduce Create a new iOS app project using Objective-C and including unit tests Add the following code snippet to any .m file in the test target: @interface Foo: NSObject @end @implementation Foo + (void)load { UIScreen * const mainScreen = UIScreen.mainScreen; NSLog(@"%@", mainScreen); } @end Run the tests Expected Behavior As with iOS 17 & Xcode 15, the tests run to completion. Actual Behavior With iOS 18 & Xcode 16, deadlock during test bundle injection. stack_trace.txt

I want to implement a stack that works quite like a circular buffer. void** pp = malloc(sizeof(id) * 100); pp[index] = someObject; // later on somewhere: MyObject* myObj = (MyObject*)pp[index]; Is this correct? Does this approach work with ARC?

I have apps that send requests for route between 2 locations and search, filter then display facilities near the route. The apps first send a request for the route on a background thread, then based on route, search for facilities near certain locations on or near the route. There maybe multiple searches on the same route, each on a different location. Suitable results then are displayed on the map. Apps also do live updates. However, since I have switched to using NSURLSession to search for the route on a background thread, not all suitable results/pin are displayed. Certain pins only show up upon the next didUpdateToLocation call. So my question is, what is the best practice to sync the results on the UI? Why do only some of the results show up on the UI, and others don't.

We're developing a new version of the app written entirely in SwiftUI, while the previous version was written in Objective-C. However, my company needs to ensure that the app can run on iOS 12. Is there any way to make SwiftUI compatible with iOS 12?

I think I found a bug in the Objective-C++ compiler, linker, or runtime. Here’s the scenario: We have a macOS app written in Swift. To control hardware from a 3rd party manufacturer, we use a couple SDKs provided by the manufacturer. The SDKs use dynamically loaded libraries and the interface is defined in C++ headers. To bridge between our Swift code and the C++ APIs we have a private Cocoapod that wraps the 3rd party interface with Objective-C++ classes. The two SDKs each provide an interface for discovering attached devices using a callback class that the programmer provides. By accident we named both callback implementations DiscoveryCallback, but this was not a compiler error because neither class was publicly declared, and each was defined in the .mm file where it was used. However, the problem we’re seeing is this: We want to discover Videohub devices, so we register a new instance of DiscoveryCallback (defined in the same .mm file as this code) with the Videohub SDK. A Videohub device is connected and the SDK calls a method on our callback. Surprise! The callback we registered in step 1 was actually the one intended for Decklink devices, defined in a completely different .mm file. This violates all sorts of assumptions and our app quickly crashes. The funny thing is, the two implementations of DiscoveryCallback have completely different method names. The Videohub SDK is supposed to be calling NewVideohubDevice, yet somehow it successfully calls DeckLinkDeviceArrived on an instance of a class it shouldn’t even know about. So the compiler has checked that our intended DiscoveryCallback matches the protocol that the SDK expects, but at runtime the compiled code instantiates a completely different implementation of DiscoveryCallback and somehow doesn’t immediately fail; we still call a method on it that doesn’t even share a name with the intended target. I imagine at this point the method names are long forgotten and are just pointers in a table. I don’t know if this is a bug in the compiler, the Objective-C++ runtime, or if this is just “working as designed” undefined behavior that I should have avoided by not giving two private classes the same name. I know it’s possible to use a private API simply by redeclaring it in my own code, and this seems related to that, but I feel like the compiler or linker should have warned me that I had two implementations of the same class, or if that is not an error, then the runtime should have instantiated the class that was privately defined in the same source file where it was used. Obviously I can’t share our entire project; I’d like to provide some sample code that replicates the issue, but I don’t have time to do that right now. I’m posting this to see if other developers have had a similar experience.

Hi , Greetings of the day! I would like to get help to avoid the Endpoint Security System Extension crash due to below reason: Termination Reason: Namespace ENDPOINTSECURITY, Code 2 EndpointSecurity client terminated because it failed to respond to a message before its deadline Couple of events we have subscribed and for AUTH related events we are receiving deadline of 14 seconds in Sonoma and to avoid above issue we have implemented a queue to provide verdict within the deadline to avoid the OS killing of our extension however sometime we observe that we are getting crash with below message: Termination Reason: Namespace ENDPOINTSECURITY, Code 2 EndpointSecurity client terminated because it failed to respond to a message before its deadline **Dispatch Thread Soft Limit Reached: 64** (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations) There is no GCD API to check whether queue is reached to soft limit so we need help here to know or check whether queue is reached to soft limit 64. if we can check above then we should avoid adding the new tasks in it until its free to accept the tasks. And for NOTIFY_CLOSE, we are getting big value in seconds as deadline however we are adding all the processing of NOTIFY_CLOSE with dispatch_async however still receiving the crash. Here is code for AUTH_OPEN : dispatch_queue_t gNotifyCloseQueue = dispatch_queue_create( "com.example.notify_close_queue", dispatch_queue_attr_make_with_qos_class(DISPATCH_QUEUE_CONCURRENT_WITH_AUTORELEASE_POOL, QOS_CLASS_UTILITY, 0)); dispatch_queue_t gAuthOpenQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.example.auth_open_queue",dispatch_queue_attr_make_with_qos_class(DISPATCH_QUEUE_CONCURRENT_WITH_AUTORELEASE_POOL,QOS_CLASS_USER_INTERACTIVE, 0)); BOOL AuthOpenEventHandler(es_message_t *pesMsg) { //Some Processing we are doing here like Calculate the deadline in seconds etc. and we are receiving 14 seconds in Sonoma // deadline - 14 seconds if ( deadlineInSeconds < 10 ) { dispatch_time_t triggerTime = dispatch_time(pesMsg->deadline, (int64_t)(-1 * NSEC_PER_SEC)); __block es_message_t *pesTempMsg; pesTempMsg = es_copy_message(pesMsg); dispatch_after(triggerTime, gAuthOpenQueue, ^{ if (pesTempMsg != NULL) { esRespondRes = es_respond_flags_result(pesClt,pesMsg,pesMsg->event.open.fflag,false); if(ES_RESPOND_RESULT_SUCCESS != esRespondRes) { es_free_message(pesTempMsg); return; } if (pesTempMsg != NULL) { es_free_message(pesTempMsg); } } return; }); } // Some Processing we are doing here to provide verdict and we are making sure that within 11 seconds we are setting the verdict // we are setting iRetFlag here based on verdict if (NULL != pesMsg) { esRespondRes = es_respond_flags_result(pesClt,pesMsg,iRetFlag,false); if(ES_RESPOND_RESULT_SUCCESS != esRespondRes) { es_free_message(pesMsg); return FALSE; } } return TRUE; } Here is the code for NOTIFY_CLOSE: BOOL NotifyEventHandler(es_message_t *pesMessage) { if (pesMessage->event_type == ES_EVENT_TYPE_NOTIFY_CLOSE && YES == pesMessage->event.close.modified) { __block es_message_t *pesTempMsg; pesTempMsg = es_copy_message(pesMessage); dispatch_async(gNotifyCloseQueue, ^{ // Performing Some processing on es_message_t if (pesTempMsg != NULL) { es_free_message(pesTempMsg); } }); if (pesMessage != NULL) { es_free_message(pesMessage); } } else { es_free_message(pesMessage); } return TRUE; } It would be helpful if someone help us to identify what could be wrong we are doing in above code and how to address/solve those problems (code snippet would be helpful) to avoid all possible crashes. ... Thanks & Regards, Mohamed Vasim

I have implemented the Large Title for UITableView correctly. The Navigation bar collapses when scrolling down the table view. However, when pulling to refresh, the Large Title moves down the screen instead of staying stationary. I suspect that this is the default behavior. Is there a way to keep the large title stationary when pulling downward to refresh the UITableView?

I am using a Swift PM module and adding it to a brand new project. This project is Objective-C based, but I would like to use the module within a .swift file as I am working to migrate part of my project to Swift. The .swift file is called from the Objective-C app delegate. When doing this method on a brand new project, it builds correctly. However, when I add the module to my production app (has been in development for 10 years) in the same way, I get the following error in my MyApp-Swift.h file: Cannot find interface declaration for 'MBNavigationViewController', superclass of 'CarPlayMapViewController'; did you mean 'UINavigationController'? I have even created a stripped down version of my app with minimal files and it still does not build. There must be some build setting or something else that allows the module to work in a brand new project (accessing the MyApp-Swift.h file that generates the Obj-C methods) but not in my older project?

I came across a useful repo on GitHub: https://github.com/GianniCarlo/DirectoryWatcher/blob/master/Sources/DirectoryWatcher/DirectoryWatcher.swift self.queue = DispatchQueue.global() self.source = DispatchSource.makeFileSystemObjectSource(fileDescriptor: descriptor, eventMask: .write, queue: self.queue) self.source?.setEventHandler { [weak self] in self?.directoryDidChange() } self.source?.setCancelHandler() { close(descriptor) } self.source?.resume() How do I translate this to OC version? I have an app that was written in OC and I plan to incorporate this directory watcher into the project.

I have opened a WKWebView with "https://www.google.com", for example. After that, I put my app in the background. When I try to open a new URL request in the same web view with a new link, like "https://www.youtube.com", by redirecting the app, it doesn't work. I've put a listener function to detect the new URL and called "webView.load(newURLRequest)". However, the web view never loads the new URL request. I have tried to solve this issue by adding a delay through DispatchQueue. Adding a delay sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. I also tried using NavigationDelegate, but it still didn't help. Below is my code: override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.refreshData), name: NSNotification.Name("refreshweb"), object: nil) } @objc func refreshData() { let url = URL (string: "https://www.youtube.com") let requestObj = URLRequest(url: url!) webview.load(requestObj) }

I recently discovered that CryptokenKit (TKSmartCard.transmit) throws an ObjC exception, and thus crashes a Swift app using TKSmartCard (absent an ObjC wrapper to handle the Objc exception explicitly). That was surprising, as there was no documentation indicating that TKSmartCard needs to be wrapped in ObjC instead being used directly from Swift. (See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cryptotokenkit/tksmartcard/1390161-transmit) - the exception is a NSInternalInconsistencyException, which is thrown when certain codepaths are executed in a certain sequence (which indeed, leaves a TKSmartCard in an inconsistent state). Is there a list of Frameworks that throw ObjC exceptions (and therefore need special handling by Swift when invoking methods/functions)?

I have an Electron app on macOS Sonoma (arm64 arch). It has a native addon (app.node) using node-addon-api. Recently it crashed, with the stack trace (given below). What is the AXSerializeCFType function inside the AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue function, and why did it crash there? AXUIElementRef systemWideElement = AXUIElementCreateSystemWide(); AXUIElementRef focusedApp = NULL; AXError error = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(systemWideElement, kAXFocusedApplicationAttribute, (CFTypeRef *)&focusedApp); The crash appears to be occurring in the last line of the code, where I am retrieving the focused app AXUIElementRef using AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue. I have already attempted to manually set systemWideElement to NULL, but AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue is not crashing; it is just returning an error kAXErrorIllegalArgument. OS Version: macOS 14.5 (23F79) Report Version: 104 Crashed Thread: 344454 Application Specific Information: Fatal Error: EXC_BAD_ACCESS / KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS / 0x102674000 Thread 344454 Crashed: 0 HIServices 0x18cb5d970 AXSerializeCFType 1 HIServices 0x18cb7ca24 serializeWrapper 2 HIServices 0x18cb7cd40 _AXXMIGCopyAttributeValue 3 HIServices 0x18cb74884 _AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue 4 HIServices 0x18cb74a04 AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue 5 HIServices 0x18cb747fc _AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue 6 HIServices 0x18cb74a04 AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue 7 app.node 0x1027a56f4 getFocusedApplication

Dear Apple Support Team, I am currently developing a control in my app that uses UIDatePicker for time input. To ensure that the time display format is consistently in 24-hour notation regardless of the region, I have set the locale of UIDatePicker to ‘systemLocale’. However, while this worked as expected up to iPadOS15, displaying the time in 24-hour format, it has switched to a 12-hour format from iPadOS16 onwards. I am wondering if there have been any changes in the behavior of UIDatePicker’s locale between the updates from iPadOS15 to iPadOS16? Additionally, I would like to know if there are any workarounds to this issue that do not involve modifying the program. In other words, is there a way to revert back to the 24-hour format without changing the code? Any information you could provide on this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance.

I want to implement AppIntent in my Objective-C framework, because we need to design a fast pass to certain function. However, I create a struct inherited from AppIntent, and create a projectName-Bridging-Header.h in my framework just like I did in my project. It seems like framework don't work, I can't find it in shortcuts

As has been posted a number of times, the large title navigation bar only collapses on scrolling for the UIView listed first in an .xib or storyboard file. In my case, I have an enclosing view containing 2 Views, a TableView and a CollectionView in an .XIB file. This is connected to a UIKit class. Tapping a button switches between the two views. If the TableView is the first view listed, the navigationbar collapses with scrolling but with the CollectionView listed second, the large title navigation bar doesn't collapse with scrolling. Alternatively, if the CollectionView is the first view listed, the navigation bar collapses with scrolling but with the TableView listed second, the large title navigation bar doesn't collapse with scrolling. I have not been able to figure out a way to enable the collapsable large title navigation bar to work in such a scenario as mine for both views within a container view. Is there a way to do this? I have tested this capability through iOS 17.