Error when uploading PKG file for MacOS app

It looks like the App Store ingestion process is not paying attention to the platform that this code is targeting. I think that warrants a bug report. Please post your bug number, just for the record.

As to what you can do about that, let me start by clarifying your goals here. My impression is that your app is embedding an iOS SDK, so the code in this framework is never meant to run on the Mac. Is that right?

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Hi eskimo,

Thanks for replying to this. To answer your question: yes, these are mainly iOS frameworks used in iOS applications, bundled in a MacOS application PKG. But the xcframeworks also support Mac Catalyst in addition to iPhoneOS and iPhoneSimulator.

Hi eskimo,

Thanks for replying to this. To answer your question: yes, these are mainly iOS frameworks used in iOS applications, bundled in a MacOS application PKG. But the xcframeworks also support Mac Catalyst in addition to iPhoneOS and iPhoneSimulator.

@Ponraj, Are you and irinafromvancouver working on the same app? Or is this two separate instances of this issue?

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My general advice when submitting code to Apple — either to the Mac App Store or the notary service — is that you must make sure that Apple ‘sees’ all the code that could run on your target platform. So, for example, if you notarise a Mac app that includes iOS SDK bits then it’s fine to hide the iOS stuff from the notary service because it can’t run on the target platform.

In this case I think it’s reasonable to hide the XCFramework from the App Store ingestion process because that code can’t run on the Mac. If one of your users takes that code and builds it into an iOS app, they become responsible for submitting that app to the iOS App Store, and thus Apple gets to see the code at that stage.

The Mac Catalyst side of this presents an interesting edge case because that can run on the Mac. I’m not sure how to advise you on that front. I think you should file your bug and then talk to the App Store Connect support folks about what to do.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Hi eskimo!

Thanks for all your feedback. Yes, we are working on the same app.

I have opened a bug report as suggested: https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/feedback/8983679

Bug number: FB8983679

Thank you!
Irina