I kept CoreLocation’s startUpdatingLocation running for a full day and used Performance trace - PowerProfiler to track the power usage during that time. The trace file was successfully generated on the iOS device, and I later transferred it to my MacBook.
However, when I tried to open the .atrc file, I received the following warning:
The document cannot be imported because of an error: File ‘/Users/jun/Downloads/PowerProfiler_25-06-16_181049_to_25-06-17_091037_001.atrc’ doesn’t contain any events.
Why is this happening? Is there a known issue with PowerProfiler in iOS 26, or am I missing something in the tracing setup?
Note: The .aar file and the extracted .atrc file are not attached here, as forum uploads do not support these formats.
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Hi :wave:
I am not sure that I use it right, I was not able to profile using these events:
I am on a M1 Pro machine using macOS 15.5.
I just wonder if these events are support on Apple Sillicon.
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Developer Tools & Services
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Instruments
Instruments: GPU Service reported error: Selected counter profile is not supported on target device`
I could use the Metal System Trace before the most recent update, but now whenever I try to profile using the Metal Counter instrument, I get the
[Warning] GPU Service reported error: Selected counter profile is not supported on target device. What is the issue here?
I’m seeing inconsistent call stacks and usage percentages in the Time Profiler between two Instruments builds:
• Xcode 16.0’s Instruments Version 16.0 (16A242d)
• Xcode 16.3’s Instruments Version 16.0 (16E140)
When I open an old .trace file recorded with the 16A242d profiler in the newer 16E140 Instruments, the call trees and percentage breakdowns no longer match. It looks like the latest Instruments now exposes or collapses different frames (e.g. system libraries, inline code) by default.
I rely on these call stacks as a baseline to track performance regressions and verify optimizations over time. Unfortunately, every Xcode/Instruments update changes what I see, making it impossible to compare profiles across versions.
My questions:
Is there a way in Instruments 16.0 (16E140) to restore the exact call-tree view and percentage calculations that 16A242d produced?
Failing that, is there a recommended workflow or tool for capturing CPU profiles in a way that remains stable and comparable, regardless of Xcode or Instruments version?
Any guidance on achieving consistent, version-independent performance measurements would be greatly appreciated!
It seems as though using any initializer of SubscriptionOfferView or StoreView will create a memory leak.
This can be simply reproduced by adding this to your SwiftUI view:
SubscriptionOfferView(groupID: "yourgroupID", visibleRelationship: .all, useAppIcon: true)
or
StoreView(ids: ["monthly", "yearly"])
Tested on iOS 26 beta 2
Dear Apple Developer Support team,
I would like to request an official confirmation regarding the handling of transaction status in the App Store Server API, specifically for the GET /inApps/v1/transactions/{transactionId} endpoint.
As per our current understanding from the official documentation (Get Transaction Info), the API’s behavior appears to be:
If a transaction is finalized and successfully processed by App Store, querying this API will return HTTP 200 OK along with transaction details.
If a transaction is still in a pending or deferred state (such as awaiting Ask to Buy approval or pending authorization), the API will not return a 200, and instead respond with HTTP 404 Not Found or an appropriate error.
Could you please confirm if this behavior is accurate and officially supported?
Specifically:
Does a 200 OK response guarantee that a transaction is finalized and successfully recorded on App Store servers?
In cases where a transaction is pending approval (e.g. Ask to Buy), is it correct that GET /transactions/{transactionId} would return 404 Not Found until the transaction is finalized?
We would greatly appreciate your confirmation to align our server-side logic for transaction validation accordingly.
Thank you very much for your support!
Kind regards,
cuongnx
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Wallet
StoreKit Test
StoreKit
Apple Pay
Hiya folks! I'm David and I work on rust-analyzer, which is a language server for Rust similar to sourcekit-lsp. I'm using the new Instruments profiling tooling functionality in Xcode 16.3 and Xcode 26 (Processor Trace and CPU Counters) to profile our trait solver/type checker. While I've been able to use the new CPU Counters instrument successfully (the CPU Bottleneck feature is incredible! Props to the team!), I've been unable to make use of the Processor Trace instrument.
Instruments gives me the error message "Processor Trace cannot profile this process without proper permissions". The diagnostic suggests adding the com.apple.security-get-task-allow entitlement to the code I'm trying to profile, or ensure that the build setting CODE_SIGN_INJECT_BASE_ENTITLEMENTS = YES is enabled in Xcode.
Unfortunately, I don't know how I can add that entitlement to a self-signed binary produced by Cargo and I'm not using Xcode for somewhat obvious reasons.
Here's some information about my setup:
Instruments Version 26.0 (17A5241e)
I'm on an 14" MacBook Pro with M4 Pro. It's running macOS Version 26.0 Beta (25A5295e).
I've enabled the "Processor Trace" feature in "Developer Tools" and even added the Instruments application to "Developer Tools".
As a last-ditch effort before posting this, I disabled SIP on my Mac. Didn't help.
To reproduce my issue:
Get Rust via https://rustup.rs/.
Clone rust-analyzer: git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer.git.
cd rust-analyzer
Run cargo test --package hir-ty --lib --profile=dev-rel -- tests::incremental::add_struct_invalidates_trait_solve --exact --show-output. By default, this command will output a bunch of build progress with the output containing something like Running unittests src/lib.rs (target/dev-rel/deps/hir_ty-f1dbf1b1d36575fe).
I take the absolute path of that hir_ty-$SOME-HASH string (in my case, it looks like /Users/dbarsky/Developer/rust-analyzer/target/dev-rel/deps/hir_ty-f1dbf1b1d36575fe) and add it to the "Launch" profile. To the arguments section, I add --exact tests::incremental::add_struct_invalidates_trait_solve.
I then try to record/profile via Instruments, but then I get the error message I shared above.
Below is output of codesign -dvvv:
❯ codesign -dvvv target/dev-rel/deps/hir_ty-f1dbf1b1d36575fe
Executable=/Users/dbarsky/Developer/rust-analyzer/target/dev-rel/deps/hir_ty-f1dbf1b1d36575fe
Identifier=hir_ty-f1dbf1b1d36575fe
Format=Mach-O thin (arm64)
CodeDirectory v=20400 size=140368 flags=0x20002(adhoc,linker-signed) hashes=4383+0 location=embedded
Hash type=sha256 size=32
CandidateCDHash sha256=99e96c8622c7e20518617c66a7d4144dc0daef28
CandidateCDHashFull sha256=99e96c8622c7e20518617c66a7d4144dc0daef28f22fac013c28a784571ce1df
Hash choices=sha256
CMSDigest=99e96c8622c7e20518617c66a7d4144dc0daef28f22fac013c28a784571ce1df
CMSDigestType=2
CDHash=99e96c8622c7e20518617c66a7d4144dc0daef28
Signature=adhoc
Info.plist=not bound
TeamIdentifier=not set
Sealed Resources=none
Internal requirements=none
Any tips would be welcome! Additionally—and perhaps somewhat naively—I think I'd expect the Processor Trace instrument to just work with an adhoc-signed binary, as lldb and friends largely do—I'm not sure that such a high barrier for CPU perf counters is warranted, especially on an adhoc-signed binary.