Category: Apple Developer News

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.

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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.

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June 3, 2019

The App Store Connect API now supports provisioning, including management of bundle IDs, capabilities, signing certificates, devices, and provisioning profiles. Previously issued App Store Connect API keys can now be used to access the provisioning APIs. Audit or revoke any existing keys that you do not want to have access to this functionality.

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Testers can now send feedback directly from your beta app simply by taking a screenshot and share detailed feedback with a crash report immediately after a crash occurs. TestFlight 2.3 and iOS 13 beta or later are required. You can view and manage tester feedback in App Store Connect.

Visit your app’s TestFlight page and click Crashes or Screenshots in the Feedback section in the left side navigation. You can filter your feedback view by build numbers, app versions, devices, iOS versions, or tester groups.

For details on how testers submit feedback, see Testing Apps with TestFlight.

For details on viewing and managing tester feedback, see View tester feedback.

June 3, 2019

SwiftUI is an innovative new way to build user interfaces across all Apple platforms, so you can create better apps with less code. With a declarative Swift syntax that’s easy to read and natural to write, SwiftUI works seamlessly with new Xcode design tools to keep your code and design perfectly in sync. Automatic support for Dynamic Type, Dark Mode, localization, and accessibility means your first line of SwiftUI code is already the most powerful UI code you’ve ever written.

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June 3, 2019

Now it’s incredibly simple to start building a native Mac app from your current iPad app. The beta version of Xcode 11 is all you need. Your Mac and iPad apps share the same project and source code, so any changes you make translate to both platforms. And your newly created Mac app runs natively, utilizing the same frameworks, resources, and even runtime environment as apps built just for Mac.

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June 3, 2019

Now users can sign in to your apps and websites with their Apple ID, and can even use Face ID or Touch ID. With privacy and security features, Sign In with Apple is a great way to help your users set up an account and get started right away.

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June 3, 2019

ARKit 3 delivers an incredible awareness of people with the ability to integrate human movement into your app, the new People Occlusion feature that lets AR content realistically pass behind and in front of people in the real world, and much more. It’s easy to prototype and produce AR experiences with Reality Composer — a powerful new app that lets you easily create AR experiences, and RealityKit — a new high-level augmented reality framework.

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Use the latest advances in Siri to provide an interactive voice experience with follow-up questions, additional shortcut customization, and audio content playback. Your apps can let Siri know when a user makes a reservation so Siri can remind them to check in, provide directions in Maps, add the event to Calendar, and more. And with the Shortcuts app built in to iOS 13, it’s even faster for users to find, use, and combine shortcuts.

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