Category: Apple Developer News

As a reminder, Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run on macOS Catalina. To make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS Catalina who continue to use older versions of software, we’ve adjusted the notarization prerequisites until January 2020.

You can now notarize Mac software that:

• Doesn’t have the Hardened Runtime capability enabled.
• Has components not signed with your Developer ID.
• Doesn’t include a secure timestamp with your code-signing signature.
• Was built with an older SDK.
• Includes the com.apple.security.get-task-allow entitlement with the value set to any variation of true.

Make sure to submit all versions of your software. While Xcode 10 or later is still required to submit, you don’t need to rebuild or re-sign your software before submission.

Learn more about Developer ID

Dark Mode introduces a dramatic new look for iPhone and iPad that is seamlessly integrated throughout the system and simple to turn on from Control Center or Siri. With a dark appearance for all user interface elements, your app’s content becomes the focus.

When a user has Dark Mode turned on, all apps built with the iOS 13 SDK will run in Dark Mode. Learn how to optimize for Dark Mode, then test your apps on a device running the latest beta version of iOS 13 or iPadOS. If you need more time to make your apps look fantastic in Dark Mode, or if Dark Mode is not suited for your app, you can learn how to opt-out.

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You can now see sales data by the hour for your apps and in-app purchases. Data is generally available within two hours for a rolling period of the last 24 hours.

1. From the App Store Connect homepage, click Sales and Trends.
2. On the left side, click Units, Proceeds, Sales, or Pre-Orders.
3. In the upper-right corner, click the date picker and select Last 24 Hours.
4. Filter by Content to see data for a specific app or in-app purchase, or by Territory to see where your app performed highest by the hour.

Learn more about Sales and Trends

In an effort to open up additional opportunities for developers, we’ve worked with the government of the Republic of Korea on making more apps available on the App Store in the Republic of Korea. And to ensure that our global age rating system continues to help make the App Store safe for kids, apps that feature Frequent/Intense Simulated Gambling will be rated 17+ in all countries and regions starting August 20, 2019.

If your app meets at least one of the criteria below, you’ll be able to offer it on the App Store in the Republic of Korea to users 19 years of age or older. You’ll need to enter a Rating Classification Number from the Game Rating and Administration Committee in App Store Connect, and can do so starting August 20. Apps with a number entered at this time will be published later this week. If you don’t have a Rating Classification Number, you can apply for one now.

• Apps in the Casino subcategory with age rating 17+
• Apps in the Games or Entertainment categories with Frequent/Intense selected for at least one of the following content descriptions:
• Simulated Gambling
• Sexual Content or Nudity
• Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or Reference
• Realistic Violence

To enter your Rating Classification Number:

1. Sign in to App Store Connect.
2. Go to My Apps and select your app from the list.
3. In the App Information section under Availability in the Republic of Korea, enter your Rating Classification Number.
4. Submit your app for review.

When taxes or foreign exchange rates change, we sometimes need to update prices on the App Store. Following recent clarifications from tax authorities in Egypt and changes in foreign exchange rates, prices on the App Store in Egypt (excluding auto-renewable subscriptions) will decrease starting today. Your proceeds from sales in Egypt will be adjusted to account for the price changes and will no longer reflect any Value Added Tax.

You can change the price of your app and in-app purchases (including auto-renewable subscriptions) at any time in App Store Connect.

Once this change goes into effect, the Pricing and Availability section of My Apps will be updated. You can also download the updated price tier charts now.

July 10, 2019

Take advantage of transcripts to quickly discover and share information presented in WWDC19 videos. You can search by keyword, see all instances where the keyword is mentioned in the video, go straight to the time it was mentioned, and even share a link to that specific time.

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June 14, 2019

Links generated for apps on the App Store now begin with apps.apple.com. Existing links that begin with itunes.apple.com will continue to work in their current form and will automatically redirect to the apps.apple.com domain.

Two new dashboards now help you visualize your subscriptions lifetime performance.

The Subscription State dashboard shows a graph of your daily subscriptions broken down by their current state (e.g., subscriptions at the standard price, introductory offers, and promotional offers).

The Subscription Event dashboard shows a graph of subscription events for a 30 day period, with similar event types grouped together. For example, crossgrade, upgrade, and downgrade events are grouped together as Renewals.

Learn more about Sales and Trends

Starting with iOS 13, the App Store will be available in Hebrew in Israel and Arabic in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Submit your localized metadata today to help users with Hebrew or Arabic as their primary language setting find your apps more easily.

For details on localizing your app metadata, visit App Store Connect Help.

June 6, 2019

With the new Deletions metric, you can find out how many times your app was deleted on devices running iOS 12.3 or later by users who agree to share their data with you. This data includes deletions of the app from the Home Screen and deletions of the app through Manage Storage. Data from resetting or erasing a device’s content and settings is not included.

Learn more about App Analytics