SharePlay Developer Profile not working?

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Created Aug ’21

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I have been testing my new SharePlay app for many weeks now just fine. Now with the unpleasant surprise that SharePlay is disabled in iOS 15 beta 6 and won't make the 15.0 release, I still want to continue testing my app, but I can't get the SharePlay Developer Profile to re-enabled SharePlay.

I have iOS 15 beta 6 on both devices, the new SharePlay Developer Profile installed, and rebooted both devices, and isEligibleForGroupActivities is never true even when on a FaceTime call. So it appears that SharePlay is still disabled even with the profile installed on both devices.

Has anyone gotten the new SharePlay Developer Profile to work as intended?

Do we need a new Xcode version to get it working again? There hasn't been an Xcode 13 beta 6 released yet so that's the only thing I can think of that might be missing.

Answered by App Store Connect Engineer in 685420022

Thanks for reporting this issue. We’ve identified an issue in beta 6 versions of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 that prevents the SharePlay Development Profile from enabling SharePlay. We have corrected this issue and will soon be releasing a revised profile that is required for SharePlay development on the beta 7 versions of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and that is also compatible with macOS Monterey beta 6.

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App Store Connect Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’21

Hi there,

Can you please provide with us a sysdiagnose so we can look into this?

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Answer 2

App Store Connect Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’21

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Thanks for reporting this issue. We’ve identified an issue in beta 6 versions of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 that prevents the SharePlay Development Profile from enabling SharePlay. We have corrected this issue and will soon be releasing a revised profile that is required for SharePlay development on the beta 7 versions of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, tvOS 15, and that is also compatible with macOS Monterey beta 6.

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tvOS OP

Aug ’21

I'm trying with iOS beta 7 and the updated SharePlay Developer Profile and I'm getting the following error:

Error preparing group activity: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection to service named com.apple.group-activities.conversationmanagerhost was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 159 - Sandbox restriction." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection to service named com.apple.group-activities.conversationmanagerhost was invalidated: failed at lookup with error 159 - Sandbox restriction.}

The call to prepareForActivation() is returning .cancelled without any prompt on the device.

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Answer 4

tvOS OP

Aug ’21

OK, turns out the issue is that the SharePlay Developer Profile still requires the com.apple.developer.group-session entitlement.

The wording on https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=mxaeu6er made it sound like we should remove the entitlement, but perhaps that is only needed prior to submitting an iOS/tvOS 15 build to the App Store.

Added the entitlement back and now SharePlay is working in beta 7.

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App Store Connect Engineer OP

Apple

Aug ’21

Hi there, a new SharePlay development profile that is compatible with beta 7 versions of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and tvOS 15 has been released. Download it now from the Apple Developer Website.

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Answer 6

tvOS OP

Sep ’21

Is anyone able to use SharePlay in the RC builds? The SharePlay Developer Profile doesn't seem to be working anymore. I don't even see the SharePlay Developer Profile in developer.apple.com/download anymore.

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App Store Connect Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’21

Hi there,

SharePlay is disabled for use in the release candidates of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and tvOS 15. SharePlay will also be disabled for use in their initial public releases this fall. SharePlay will be reinstated in an upcoming developer beta release — please stay tuned for more details! A new development profile will be made available to allow for developing SharePlay support for your apps in the beta 7 release of macOS Monterey, coming soon.

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jordi OP

Oct ’21

The new profile hasn't been released yet right? Was hoping I would be able to test everything out starting today but so far no dice..

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cammy_tang OP

Nov ’21

Hi @greg, shareplay is re-enabled in macOS 12.1 just as you guess. But we still can't create an experience on our website by using safari. Because APIs of navigator.mediaSession on safari are still not enough. There is no navigator.mediaSession.coordinator api. See https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10189/. Do you guys have any progress?

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