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Objective-C

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Average annotated difficulty: 3.9/5 across 24,012 issues.
6% of 24,012 time estimates are one day or less.

About Objective-C

Apple's original application language (1980s): C plus Smalltalk-style message passing. Today it lives mostly in older macOS and iOS code.

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macOS下查找brew::ncurse失败 Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

xmake-io/xmake#7786 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2026
The function key icon is missing [bug] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix#2054 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
macOS: every obs-websocket GetStats leaks ~200 autoreleased objects (os_get_free_space has no autorelease pool on the websocket thread) — ~2 MB/min at one poll per second Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13918 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
When intuition lies: lessons from a CSV parser Three Parts Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

SwiftOldDriver/iOS-Weekly#5439 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
In-House Over-the-Air Localizations in a Modular iOS App Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

SwiftOldDriver/iOS-Weekly#5438 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
[iOS][Apple Maps] setZIndex: assigns the raw parameter to layer.zPosition, so the callout-open +999 boost never applies Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

react-native-maps/react-native-maps#6003 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
find-outgoing-call disconnects non-FaceTime outgoing calls Open

clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

openclaw/openclaw-facetime#28 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026
set-muted accepts non-bool muted and can crash FaceTime or unmute Open

clawsweeper:needs-security-review clawsweeper:no-new-fix-pr clawsweeper:source-repro impact:crash-loop impact:security issue-rating: 🦞 diamond lobster P2

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

openclaw/openclaw-facetime#27 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 17, 2026
macOS: GetInputPropertiesListPropertyItems on screen_capture's display_uuid crashes OBS (strlen(NULL) on the placeholder list entry) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

obsproject/obs-studio#13905 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
android_kotlin_hiddenui fires as Critical/ERROR on any View.GONE/INVISIBLE, not just sensitive views — massive false-positive rate Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

MobSF/mobsfscan#123 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
ObjC selector with $ panics ("take$foo" is not a valid Ident) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

rust-lang/rust-bindgen#3483 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
[Bug]: PhonePermissionStrategy.checkServiceStatus calls completionHandler twice, causing crashes Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

Baseflow/flutter-permission-handler#1565 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
[sdk-56][task-manager] Backport #47594 — `_maybeExecuteCallback` still invoke-then-clear through 56.0.27 Open

contributor: external needs review

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

expo/expo#50070 · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[Feature]: Add Python and Objective-C source-file support to knowledge bases Open

data feature p3 rag windows

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

CherryHQ/cherry-studio#20377 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 11, 2026
[Request] Add Snapling — From Screenshot to Knowledge Base — Every Capture, Retained. Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 72/100

serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps#1354 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Crashlytics: NSInvalidArgumentException `-[NSNull lastPathComponent]` in `-[FIRCLSSymbolResolver updateStackFrame:]` (FIRCLSSymbolResolver.m:171) Open

api: crashlytics type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#16622 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
iOS: promo condition not_purchased_feature: pro ignores cross-platform Pro (Android checks it) Open

map-data

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

osmandapp/OsmAnd#25840 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Functions: callable stream fails on the server's `: ping` heartbeat Open

api: functions needs-attention

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 83/100

firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#16605 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Make notification permission failure message more actionable Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

julienXX/terminal-notifier#330 · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Incorrect nullability annotations in FlutterCodecs.h Open

c: API break engine P2 team-engine triaged-engine

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

flutter/flutter#192122 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Add InvoiceFlowAI — open-source invoice organizer Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps#1320 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Add AI Novel Writer — open-source long-form writing workspace Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps#1319 · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Error "NSInvalidArgumentException" (but it works 👍) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

simonwhitaker/shortcuts-repair-tool#1 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
iOS crash when using surface: BottomSheetSurfaceComponentView does not initialize _props Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

software-mansion-labs/react-native-bottom-sheet#77 · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Structure view rebuilds the collation popup menu in every cell display pass Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace#2608 · Opened Aug 30, 2026
[iOS] Session Replay fails to build with Xcode 27: Unknown type name 'RCTPromiseResolveBlock' in generated -Swift.h header Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

DataDog/dd-sdk-reactnative#1382 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
app.exit() crashes on macOS due to std::exit() racing with [NSApp terminate:] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

neutralinojs/neutralinojs#1824 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
iOS Fabric: fontFamily (PostScript name) + explicit fontWeight resolves to the heaviest face — elvis-operator typo in RCTFontUtils.mm Open

Needs: Author Feedback Needs: Repro

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 85/100

react/react-native#58176 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2026
[iOS] TUIGradientView 与系统私有框架 TextInputUI.framework 类名冲突，导致英文键盘卡死闪退 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Tencent-RTC/TUICallKit#496 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
swept.js counts the same bullet as both a hit and a miss Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 86/100

m1ga/ti.game#19 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
test: Fix flaky visionOS parallel capture test Open

CI flaky-test Type: Tests

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

getsentry/sentry-cocoa#8879 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[iOS][a11y] Status bar tap (scroll-to-top) is intercepted by FlutterSemanticsScrollView when accessibility is enabled, because scrollsToTop is left at its default Open

a: accessibility f: scrolling P2 team-ios triaged-ios

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

flutter/flutter#191565 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
iOS: selectable Text edit menu flickers on long-press release (handleLongPress ignores gesture.state) Open

Needs: Author Feedback Needs: Repro Stale

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

react/react-native#58079 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2026
[iOS] SIGABRT in MLRNLogModule when MapLibre network errorLog passes nil message Open

Triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

maplibre/maplibre-react-native#1624 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
SIGABRT crash: AVAudioEngine startAndReturnError: throws NSException, not caught in AudioEngine startEngine Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

software-mansion/react-native-audio-api#1238 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
iOS Fabric: prepareForRecycle does not reset contentInset, leaking the keyboard-derived inset into the next recycled ScrollView Open

Needs: Author Feedback Needs: Repro

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

react/react-native#57988 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
出现翻译错误，以及中文语意错误 [bug] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix#1973 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Crashlytics aborts in FIRCLSSymbolResolver when a binary image record has a non-numeric base Open

api: crashlytics

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#16519 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Add DSH Studio — local-first developer workspace Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps#1278 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
[Bug]: Startup tray popup holds an X11 grab during blocking I/O, freezing all desktop input Open

os: :penguin: Linux

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

nextcloud/desktop#10610 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2026
macOS: the window frame event reports the frame size where everything else expects the content size Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 84/100

vercel-labs/native#355 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[iOS] Fabric: SIGABRT on tab press when tab key contains non-ASCII characters (kCFStringEncodingUTF8 passed to -cStringUsingEncoding:) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

callstack/react-native-bottom-tabs#560 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Maps SDK: Support new major version 11.0.0 Open

triage me type: bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

googlemaps/google-maps-ios-utils#574 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2026
SwiftUI legend truncates multiline accessibility descriptions Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

cashapp/AccessibilitySnapshot#354 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
iOS: cloudSync: false is treated as true — items written to iCloud keychain when the caller explicitly opted out Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

oblador/react-native-keychain#800 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 13, 2026
hs.task stream callback pushes onto the wrong lua_State and takes the app down Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

Hammerspoon/hammerspoon#3883 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
[iOS] Deprecated `-[UIApplication statusBarOrientation]` usage in Screen.mm and crash for iOS 27 and Xcode 27. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

cocos/cocos-engine#19206 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Revoke request uses GET instead of POST Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

google/GoogleSignIn-iOS#621 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Add test coverage for the userinfo profile-fetch fallback Open

enhancement triage

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

google/GoogleSignIn-iOS#620 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
App is missing a dark appearance icon [enhancement] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix#1958 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 1, 2026

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