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November 20, 2019
In celebration of Computer Science Education Week and Hour of Code, join us at an Apple Store near you to learn the basics of coding and apps, December 1 to 15. Sign up for engaging Code with Apple sessions to code augmented reality art, robots, and more on iPad. And if you’d like to lead your own Swift coding activity, you can download the new Hour of Code with Swift Playgrounds Facilitator Guide.
Starting today, the WWDC app is now the Apple Developer app and delivers in-depth information from Apple experts all year round. Stay up to date with the latest developer news, informative videos, WWDC content, and more. Developers in the U.S. can also use the app to conveniently enroll in the Apple Developer Program on iPhone or iPad, with enrollment in additional countries and regions becoming available over time. And since membership is provided as an auto-renewable subscription, keeping your account active is easy.
November 18, 2019
We believe that powerful marketing will help bring continued success for your apps. Use App Store badges, Apple product images, and these identity guidelines to effectively promote your app’s availability on the App Store in all marketing communications.
Marketing Resources and Identity Guidelines
Apple is committed to making sure that the App Store is a safe place for kids around the world to browse and download apps. Due to regulations in Brazil, the Brazil-specific age ratings that are automatically generated from the age ratings set in App Store Connect have been adjusted as listed below. The local age rating is shown as a badge displayed alongside Apple’s rating on the App Store in Brazil.
Apps with Infrequent/Mild selected for the following content descriptions displays a local rating of 12+:
Apps with Infrequent/Mild selected for the following content descriptions displays a local rating of 14+:
Apps with Frequent/Intense selected for the following content descriptions displays a local rating of 18+:
If you send push notifications with the legacy binary protocol, we recommend updating to the HTTP/2-based APNs provider API as soon as possible. You’ll be able to take advantage of great modern features, such as authentication with a JSON Web Token, improved error messaging, and per-notification feedback.
The Apple Push Notification service (APNs) will no longer support the legacy binary protocol as of November 2020.
Today marks the completion of Apple Entrepreneur Camp’s first year with its fourth cohort of 2019. So far, Apple Entrepreneur Camp has helped 100 participants from 13 different countries work on the next generation of cutting-edge apps with a hands-on technology lab and one-on-one code-level guidance from Apple engineers, as well as mentorship, inspiration, and insights from top Apple leaders. The next cohort is planned for January 28 to February 5, 2020, and applications are accepted until November 15.
We will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. PT for up to 8 hours. App Store Connect on the web, the App Store Connect app, the App Store Connect API, and the Developer ID notary service will be unavailable during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and recommend that you make critical deliveries or changes on another day. Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles will remain available.
For real-time status information for developer tools and services, you can check the System Status page.
October 15, 2019
The new Transporter app for macOS makes it easy to upload your binary to App Store Connect. To get started, download Transporter from the
Mac App Store, and simply drag and drop your binaries into the upload window. With Transporter you can:
The Transporter app is available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
macOS Catalina will soon be available to hundreds of millions of users around the world. With macOS Catalina, your Mac apps can take advantage of Sign in with Apple, Sidecar, and the latest advances in Core ML 3, and Metal. And with Mac Catalyst, you can bring your iPad apps to Mac. Build your apps using Xcode 11, test them on a Mac computer running the macOS Catalina GM seed, and submit them for review.
To further protect users on macOS Catalina, we’re working with developers to make sure all software, whether distributed on the App Store or outside of it, is signed or notarized by Apple. This will give users more confidence that the software they download and run, no matter where they get it from, has been checked for known security issues.
In June, we announced that all Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run by default on macOS Catalina. Make sure to test all versions of your software on the macOS Catalina GM seed and submit it to Apple to be notarized.
