SidecarRelay again

I clean installed Mojave. and SidecarRelay process still exists.

I open SidecarRelay with vi. and I found some interesting string.


remotesessions,listen,connect,testserver,proxysession,proxies,disconnect,status, message,inquirer,channel,service,timestamp,test,client,moniter,com.apple.sidecar-relay.server,remotedisplaysession,com.apple.camera,sidecarrelaytestssesion,testdevice,destinationdevice,sidecarrelaytestdevice,testrelay.swift,sidecarrelaywatchdog,setprimaryappleidchagehandler,setscreenlockedchangehandler,setscreenonchangehandler,primaryappleidishsa2,liveaudio,guest,sharehome,family,cloud,program:sidecarrelay project:sidecar-38.2,remotedisplaydiscovery,remotedisplayserver,remotedisplaydevice


and following plist was found.

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>BuildMachineOSBuild</key>

<string>17A405001</string>

<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>

<string>en</string>

<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>

<string>Continuity Services</string>

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>

<string>SidecarRelay</string>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.sidecar-relay</string>

<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>

<string>6.0</string>

<key>CFBundleName</key>

<string>SidecarRelay</string>

<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>

<string>APPL</string>

<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>

<string>1.0</string>

<key>CFBundleSupportedPlatforms</key>

<array>

<string>MacOSX</string>

</array>

<key>CFBundleVersion</key>

<string>38.2</string>

<key>DTCompiler</key>

<string>com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0</string>

<key>DTPlatformBuild</key>

<string>10P70r</string>

<key>DTPlatformName</key>

<string>macosx</string>

<key>DTPlatformVersion</key>

<string>10.14</string>

<key>DTSDKBuild</key>

<string>18F108</string>

<key>DTSDKName</key>

<string>macosx10.14internal</string>

<key>DTXcode</key>

<string>1020</string>

<key>DTXcodeBuild</key>

<string>10P70r</string>

<key>LSMinimumSystemVersion</key>

<string>10.14</string>

</dict>

</plist>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>com.apple.CompanionLink</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.RemoteDisplay</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.accounts.appleaccount.fullaccess</key>

<true/>

<key>com.apple.accounts.idms.fullaccess</key>

<true/>

</dict>

</plist>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<plist version="1.0">

<dict>

<key>cdhashes</key>

<array>

<data>

Aev+LpANSB2+OIQ2j+G7PMElR38=

</data>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>


Does apple test pre-release features outside of beta?

Posted on May 16, 2019 9:29 PM

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May 17, 2019 12:54 PM in response to jack-suzuki

Apple community thread

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250096205

Links described in

https://blog.timac.org/2018/0924-state-of-swift-ios12/

According to, the thing with the executable file newly added in iOS 12.0.


If you open SidecarRelay in the vi editor, you will see evidence that you are using it for testing.

testserver, test, sidecarrelaytestssesion, testdevice, sidecarrelaytestdevice, testrelay.swift


Plist has the following description.

com.apple.RemoteDisplay

com.apple.accounts.appleaccount.fullaccess

com.apple.accounts.idms.fullaccess


Even if you disable SidecarRelay, you can still use iTunes to back up your iOS device to iCloud, a local PC.

In other words, it's an unnecessary process.

And for RemoteDisplay, security and privacy of Apple ID

It is an affected process.


In light of Apple's security and privacy policy, it is considered a better process to disable by default.

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