Notary Request Stuck In Pending

Literally in the exact same boat. First time apple developer. Submitted a roughly 30mb file and it's almost at 24 hours.

Hoping you get a response here from a mod. I'll be posting in a second as well.

Update - 2 days later still In Progress.

You can expect that most uploads will be notarised quickly. Occasionally, some uploads are held for in-depth analysis and may take longer to complete. As you notarise your apps, the system will learn how to recognise them, and you should see fewer delays.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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I've been waiting for three days already

wild. And Apple gives the same auto response no matter what to these posts. Very disappointing. I'm almost at the 3 day mark now. If either or yours finishes please update.

Apple - give a real response and fix it.

Same here: FB20429576 The notarization review is in progress since 10 hours. I uploaded a dmg.

There are limits to what I can say about this aspect of the notarisation process. The response I posted above is the official answer.

Speaking personally, my experience based on helping folks out here on the forums is that:

• The majority of people reporting “held for in-depth analysis” delays are new developers. Hence the “the system will learn” text in the official response.
• This “in-depth analysis” usually completes within a few days.

If you’ve been waiting for long that a week, I’d be happy to investigate further. In that case, please post:

• The request UUID.
• The request creation date

You can get these using the history subcommand:

% xcrun notarytool history …CREDENTIALS… 
Successfully received submission history.
  history
    …
    --------------------------------------------------
    createdDate: 2025-03-03T22:15:40.837Z
    id: b53042b6-4cbb-4cef-ade4-dae034a69947
    name: TestError65.dmg
    status: Accepted
    --------------------------------------------------
    …

If it’s been less than a week, I recommend that you simply wait.

ps If you’d like more context to this, read Q&A with the Mac notary service team.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Thank you for the reply. I appreciate the more indepth answer and the timeframe. I must have missed some files in mine as I just received "invalid" on all my files after 3.5 days of waiting.

after 3.5 days of waiting.

Blergh. Lemme know if you see such a long delay in your subsequent notarisation requests. Normally I see follow-up requests go through quickly, but that’s after a successful notarisation. I’m curious to see if your unsuccessful notarisation still allowed the system to ‘learn’.

I must have missed some files in mine as I just received "invalid" on all my files

OK. If you’re unable to resolve this, I’d be happy to take a look. My only ask is that you start a new thread with the details, so we can leave this thread focused on the “in-depth analysis” issue.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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So while the first one took 3.5days, the two additional jobs that I submitted during that time all finished at the same time.

So it was clearly doing some sort of batch processing.

I messed up internal signing so had to restart.

New submission took roughly 6 hours. I also submitted a tiny test file which also took the same 6 hours. So again - supports the batch processing theory.

Anyways, new build for Intel only took 15 minutes or less. I walked away so the times are definitely improving for me.

Just posting the update for others looking into this.

I know this is about a year later, but for me, I just started submitting new requests. I still have the first one "in progress" from days ago, but the new ones started switching to Accepted in about 1-6 hours. I kept having to redo the same thing with some different code and it started speeding up to about an hour, even though it was the same day I started hitting Apple with the new requests

Point is, try sending it off again - it may get approved for the other attempts. For some reason I think the first one always gets in some longer hold, but the others seem to work right

Lastly, if you want a cool readout of what the statuses are, run this:
xcrun notarytool history --apple-id "$APPLE_ID" --password "$APPLE_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD" --team-id 36FB9B28JR --output-format json | python3 -c 'import json,sys; [print(h["createdDate"], h["status"], h["id"]) for h in reversed(json.load(sys.stdin)["history"])]'