Xcode constantly phones home

Xcode constantly phones home February 24 2025 Building StopTheMadness Pro in Xcode is usually very fast, because my project doesn't use any Swift. It's a combination of Objective-C, which compiles much more quickly than Swift, and JavaScript, which doesn't need to be compiled. However, sometimes the builds were very slow for some strange reason. Checking the Xcode build transcripts, I found that the delay was in the "Gather provisioning inputs" build phase. This one phase took 50.6 seconds when the entire build was 56.8 seconds! I tested with my internet disabled, and the slow builds did not occur. Obviously, though, it's impractical to disable my internet every time I want to build and run. After all, my project is a Safari extension! I do use Little Snitch, but I had previously allowed all connections from Xcode to apple.com , because that's required to upload builds to App Store Connect. When I scrutinized the individual Xcode connections with Little Snitch, I saw that developer ... Read full article.