Download shared App Group Container from XCode

Question

Is it possible to download a shared app group container with XCode similar to how the sandboxed container is downloaded for a particular app? I haven't been able to find any definitive Apple documentation on this.

Anarchism

Answer 1

Afaik this is not possible with official software. There is also no third party tool I know of to do this.

There are some workarounds that may be helpful to:

• You can access the shared app group folder when testing with the iOS Simulator. SimPholders can open the folder directly, so you wont have to search around for it.
• You could copy the contents of your shared app folder to your app’s default folder. This way you can download the contents using Xcode’s Organizer.

Cw

Answer 2

If you have source code of the debugging the app, you can follow this answer and copy the file to from AppGroup to sandbox container and then download.

Ottar

Answer 3

It's not available when downloading the container. If you can build it as a Mac App it's pretty easy to get using terminal. /Library/Group Containers/<Your Group>.

Spectrohelioscope