What are App Groups
They enable communication and data sharing between multiple installed apps created by the same developer.
An App Group allows multiple apps developed by the same team to access one or more shared containers. It also enables additional inter-process communication between those apps using Mach IPC, POSIX semaphores and shared memory, and UNIX domain sockets, among other IPC mechanisms.
How to add an App Group
Before you create an App Group, follow the steps in Add a capability to add the Apps Groups capability to your app’s target.
If you are using Provisioning profile - Xcode Managed Profile, you only need 1 group for all platform because the id will be unique, if not, you need to create 1 group for macOS and 1 group for the rest of the platforms.
Using Provisioning profile, managed by Xcode
- Tap the + on App Groups to add a new group
Give it a name such as group.YOUR_TEAM_ID.com.example, it follows this pattern:
| Value | Meaning |
|---|---|
| YOUR_TEAM_ID | Your team id |
| com.example | The bundle ID of the app. |
If you see it in red, tap the refresh button next to the +, if it doesn't go away, try creating the group from the UI, follow steps below.
The step above will create a group in your dev account, confirm it using the steps below.
Extra
Access an App Group’s shared container
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