{"id":129933,"date":"2021-04-22T23:41:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=6qfoid1d"},"modified":"2021-04-22T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:41:53","slug":"online-group-event-in-app-purchase-requirement-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/22\/online-group-event-in-app-purchase-requirement-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Online group event in-app purchase requirement update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/online-group-event-in-app-purchase-requirement-update.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Last year, to support apps that adapted services from in-person to digital due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we temporarily deferred the requirement to offer paid online group event services (one-to-few and one-to-many realtime services) through in-app purchase in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/#3.1.1\">App&nbsp;Store Review Guideline 3.1.1<\/a>. As the world continues to recover from the pandemic, we\u2019d like to support the communities that are still providing digital services in place of in-person group events by extending the deadline further to December&nbsp;31,&nbsp;2021.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/#3.1.3\">guideline 3.1.3(d)<\/a> allows apps offering realtime person-to-person services between two individuals (for example, tutoring students, medical consultations, real estate tours, or fitness training) to use purchase methods other than in-app&nbsp;purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, to support apps that adapted services from in-person to digital due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we temporarily deferred the requirement to offer paid online group event services (one-to-few and one-to-many realtime services) through in-app purchase in accordance with App&nbsp;Store Review Guideline 3.1.1. As the world continues to recover from the pandemic, we\u2019d like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129933","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=129933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}