{"id":108858,"date":"2020-02-05T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=02052020a"},"modified":"2020-02-05T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:30:00","slug":"updates-to-universal-purchase-and-app-store-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/updates-to-universal-purchase-and-app-store-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates to Universal Purchase and App Store Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in March 2020, you\u2019ll be able to distribute iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS versions of your app as a universal purchase, allowing customers to enjoy your app and in\u2011app purchases across platforms by purchasing only once. You can choose to create a new app for these platforms using a single app record in <span class=\"nowrap\">App Store Connect<\/span> or add platforms to your existing app record. Get started by building and testing your apps using a single bundle ID with Xcode 11.4 beta.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, categories will be unified across the <span class=\"nowrap\">App Store<\/span> and <span class=\"nowrap\">Mac App Store<\/span> to align with this change, and to help make your apps more discoverable. The following changes will be made.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>You\u2019ll be able to select the following categories for iOS apps: \u201cDeveloper Tools\u201d and \u201cGraphics &amp; Design\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ll be able to select the following categories for macOS apps: \u201cBooks\u201d, \u201cFood &amp; Drink\u201d, \u201cMagazines &amp; Newspapers\u201d, \u201cNavigation\u201d, and \u201cShopping\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201cPhotography\u201d and \u201cVideo\u201d categories on the <span class=\"nowrap\">Mac App Store<\/span> will be combined into \u201cPhoto &amp; Video\u201d. Mac apps and pending updates with the \u201cPhotography\u201d or \u201cVideo\u201d category selected in <span class=\"nowrap\">App Store Connect<\/span> will be moved automatically to the combined category.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cKids\u201d will no longer be a subcategory within \u201cGames\u201d on the <span class=\"nowrap\">Mac App Store.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a reminder, you can change the categories and subcategories associated with your app at any time with an app update.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/download\">Download Xcode <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">11.4 beta <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in March 2020, you\u2019ll be able to distribute iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS versions of your app as a universal purchase, allowing customers to enjoy your app and in\u2011app purchases across platforms by purchasing only once. You can choose to create a new app for these platforms using a single app record in App [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}