@siracusa@caseyliss@marcoarment are you aware of this may 1 ITMS-91053 missing API declaration requirement Apple has? We have to declare why we are using a category of APIs but they didn’t tell us which specific apis so it a a haystack hunt of finding symbols in frameworks with no obvious reason why the linker linked them, as well as updating SDKs to get signed, manifested versions, along with whatever side effects of a SDK bump.
@siracusa Apple has marked some APIs as used for fingerprinting and wants developers to supply reason codes for each category. They include user defaults, file time stamps, and boot time APIs. But they don’t tell us which apis were found in which binaries, leaving developers up to guessing. Apps will need these declarations by may 1 or be rejected.
@siracusa Ah, I wasn’t sure if the angle was that they want the info (fine) but they give zero clues about how to satisfy the requirements. I have some symbols showing up in frameworks via nm that I simply cannot figure out where they are being imported from. Apple could have made this a one hour task by supplying specific APIs in specific frameworks, but they tossed it over the wall and said “good luck!” It falls into line with other bad practices by dev relations (ok I am old)
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