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This is incorrect. None of the things you describe require a paid developer account.

You do if you want to use UDP multicast or want to enumerate MDNS services. That's what this article is about. If I understand correctly, they apparently don't even let you use multicast on your own phone for testing without requesting permission.

This. If you need restricted features, like I mentioned in my comment, Apple needs to approve it for your development team, before you can create provisioning profile for signing the app, to be able to run it on real devices.

However, I was partially wrong (it's been some time since I needed this), you can actually use them in the simulator without an approval.

List of special entitlements needing an approval: https://stackoverflow.com/a/65330176

Additionally, I know that CarPlay entitlements need an approval: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/carplay/requesting...

> want to enumerate MDNS services

Only if you want to create a wildcard listener. If you know the exact name of the service you want to listen out for, you do not need the entitlement.

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