Editing and Updating App Information
After your app has gone through the review process, its status changes to “Ready for Sale” and the app is available for sale on the App Store. After it is for sale, and in some cases before it is ready for sale, you can make changes to your app by:
Editing app-level information, such as rights and pricing, Game Center and iAd Network settings, and in-app purchases
Editing version-level information, such as app metadata and ratings
If your version is ready for sale, creating a new version of your app in order to submit a binary update
Editing Version Details
When you edit your version’s details, you are editing that version’s associated metadata, ratings, large icon, screenshots, and localizations.
Follow these guidelines when editing the version details:
Your metadata is not a vehicle for communication to your customers. Do not use this space to speak directly to your customers. It is meant to describe your app’s features and (if there are updates) your release notes.
Do not edit information while you have multiple browser tabs of iTunes Connect open, because your app information might be applied to an app other than the one you intended.
Log in to iTunes Connect.
On the iTunes Connect homepage, click Manage Your Applications.
Locate the app you want to edit, and click the large icon or app name.
Click View Details for the version of your app.
In the Version Details page that appears, an Edit button appears next to the Version Information, Metadata and Uploads, and EULA sections. Use it to edit the respective section’s information.
After you have made the changes you want, click Save. Click Cancel to exit without saving.
Editing Version Information
Click the Edit button next to Version Information to edit basic version details.
Below is a list of the fields in the Version Details section, along with their editable state (locked or unlocked). For a complete description of a field, see Table 7-3 and Table 7-8. If you attempt to save changes without entering information for the required fields, you see an error and are prompted to add information to the respective fields before you can save.
Field | Editable |
|---|---|
Version Number (required) | Locked |
Copyright (required) | Unlocked |
Primary Category (required)/ Secondary Category | Locked |
Subcategory (required) | Locked |
Rating (required) | Locked |
Large App Icon (iOS only) (required) | Locked |
Routing App Coverage File (optional) | Unlocked |
Editing Metadata and Uploads
Click the Edit button next to Metadata and Uploads to edit metadata and screenshots for your version.
Below is a list of the fields in the Metadata and Upload section, along with their editable state (locked or unlocked). Unlocked properties are always editable. Locked properties are only editable when your app is in an editable state. Refer to Table 9-1 for the app statuses which enable editing. For a complete description of a field, see Table 7-7, Table 7-6, and Table 7-8.
Field | Editable |
|---|---|
App Name | Locked |
Description (required) | Unlocked |
What’s New in this Version | Unlocked |
Keywords (required) | Locked |
Support URL (required) | Unlocked |
Marketing URL | Unlocked |
Privacy Policy URL | Unlocked |
Large Icon (required) | Locked |
iPhone and iPod touch Screenshots (required) | Locked |
iPhone 5 and iPod touch (5th generation) Screenshots (required if app runs on 4-inch Retina display) | Locked |
iPad Screenshots (required if app runs on iPad) | Locked |
OS X App Screenshots (required for OS X) | Locked |
Enter any new information in the appropriate field. For example, when the app is in an editable state, you can click the close button (x) to delete a screenshot, click Choose File to upload a new large app icon (for iOS apps only), or replace screenshots. If you are editing uploads for a Mac app, remember that you can upload or replace screenshots only.
After you have made the changes you want, click Save. Click Cancel to exit without saving.
Editing the App Review Information
Click the Edit button next to App Review Information to provide contact, review notes, and demo account information for the App Review team. Refer to Table 7-7 for a description of each field. You can always edit the app review information.
Editing the EULA
Click the Edit button next to EULA to edit your End User License Agreement for your version if you would like to provide your own EULA.
The Edit Eula dialog allows you to edit the text of your EULA and what countries the EULA applies to.
After you have made the changes you want, click Save. Click Cancel to exit without saving.
Editing Localizations
The App Localization section lists all the languages you provided during the initial upload to the App Store. Your default language is also displayed. A list of localizable fields follows. For a complete description of a field, see Table 7-7 and Table 7-6.
App Name
Description
Keywords
Support URL
Marketing URL
Privacy Policy URL
What’s New in This Version?
iPhone and iPod touch screenshots
iPad screenshots
OS X screenshots
From the Choose Another Language drop-down menu, choose the language you want to edit, and then click Edit.
The metadata for that localization is displayed.
To save changes, click Save before adding or removing languages.
To add another language, choose a new language (using the Choose Another Language drop-down menu) and click Add This Localization. You can also refer to “Adding a New Localization.”
To delete a language, click Delete. You can also refer to “Deleting Your Localizations.”
When you click Save, the information for the subsequent localization is saved. After you’re finished editing, the updated metadata is posted to the corresponding territory’s App Store.
Editing App Information
When you edit your app’s information, you edit information that is associated with all versions of your app, not information tied to a specific version. App-level information that you can edit includes territory rights, your app’s available date, its pricing, and its scheduling price tier changes in advance in the rights and pricing section. For iOS apps only, you can also edit your app’s eligibility for participation in iAd Network (in the Set Up iAd Network section).
Instructions for editing each piece of app information are detailed below.
Editing Rights and Pricing Information
Click the “Rights and Pricing” button to edit the available date, territory rights, pricing, and education discount eligibility and to schedule price tier changes for your app. On the “Rights and Pricing” page, you can also designate your app as a custom B2B app if it is the app’s first version and is in an editable state.
In the rights and pricing section, your previously chosen availability and price tiers have been prepopulated and display your price tier schedule.
All fields in the rights and pricing section are editable. For a complete description of a field, see Table 7-2.
You can also indicate a legal issue with your app, including previous versions, from the footer of the “Rights and Pricing” page. Indicate a legal issue with your app by selecting each version of your app that has a legal issue. You cannot select a version of your app that is ready for sale. If the version of your app that is ready for sale has a legal issue, you must submit an update for the app and indicate the legal issue during submission.
After you’re finished editing your rights and pricing, click Save.
Scheduling Price Tier Changes
If you have a Paid Applications contract in effect, iTunes Connect allows you to schedule price tier changes for your apps over time. Scheduling is useful for sales and other temporary pricing changes that have a definite beginning and end date, as well as permanent pricing changes that have no end. For example, you might offer a promotional price for a month and then return to the regular price.
To schedule price tier changes, you must have already submitted the app; the options for price scheduling appear only when you are editing an already submitted app. For each price tier, you can set an effective date (the date when the new tier will take effect on the App Store), and an end date (the date when the tier will no longer be in effect and will return to the previously set price tier).
You can set up as many price tier changes as you want in advance and your app will change prices on your effective dates, but no interval can begin more than a year in the future. Your price tier schedule will show at all times on the “Rights and Pricing” page for your app. There you can track when your price changes will occur.
Here is an example of a price tier schedule:
In the above example, the app is priced today at tier 1, and the price will drop to free at the beginning of the day on April 1, 2010. The price will then go back up to tier 1 at the beginning of the day on May 1, 2010, and will rise again to tier 2 at the beginning of the day on May 15, 2010. It remains at tier 2 forever unless you make further price tier scheduled changes.
By default, the start date for pricing is Existing (meaning the price currently in effect), and the end date is None (meaning the price will remain the same forever). To change the pricing, you can add intervals. The effective and end dates are:
Existing. When your effective price tier date shows Existing, this means that the tier is currently in effect. It is the already in existence therefore no set date is indicated for it be begin pricing at that tier.
None. When your end price tier date shows None, this means that your price tier will not end on a certain date but will remain in effect until you make a change.
Now. When you set your price tier effective date to be Now, this means that the date that your price change will take effect will be today.
Manage In-App Purchases
You can create new and edit current in-app purchases by clicking the Manage In-App Purchases button on the App Summary page. (You can also access the button on the iTunes Connect homepage.) For all of the details on how to set up in-app purchases, edit In-App Purchase information, and submit your in-app purchases to Apple, see “In-App Purchase.”
Updating Your App to a New Version
After your first version is approved and available on the App Store, you can add new versions of your app on the Manage Your Applications page (get there by clicking Add Version on your App Summary page). The new binary goes through the normal review process, and all version-level metadata you entered for that version goes live when your version goes live.
Updates keep the same Apple ID and bundle ID, which means they are associated with your first version and free to your customers.
Click Add Version.
Enter your version number and fill in the “What’s New in this Version” field (release notes) to tell your customers how this version of your app differs from the previous version.
Click Save Changes.
A new Version Details page shows you the information you just entered and displays your version status as Prepare For Upload. All of the information you entered for your previous version is carried over, but you can make changes to this information on this page because your app is in the editable state Prepare For Upload.
For more information on how to edit your version, review “Editing Version Details.”
Ready to Upload Binary Update
After you are ready to submit your binary for your version update, you go through steps similar to those that you completed went you submitted the first version of your binary.
On the Version Details page, click "Ready to Upload Binary.”
An Export Compliance page appears.
When asked whether encryption has been added, removed, or modified since your last binary upload, select Yes or No.
If you answer Yes, you are led to a second Export Compliance page, where you need to answer specific questions about your encryption. Depending on your answers here, you need to provide a copy of the commodity classification ruling (CCATS) file confirming classification of the app. See “Authorizing for Export and Indicating Legal Issues” for more detail.
If you answer No, click Continue. You are taken to the Version Release Control page to indicate your Version Release preference. See “Version Release Control” for more detail on how this works.
After you have chosen your Version Release Control preference, click Save Changes.
The Application Loader Instructional page appears, explaining how to use Application Loader to deliver your binary update.
Click Continue.
You are returned to the Version Details page, where you see that your status has changed to Waiting For Upload.
After your binary has been uploaded, your new version’s status is Waiting For Review and the current version’s status is Ready For Sale. Because the latest Ready for Sale version of any one app is displayed at any given time, it is possible to see a maximum of two versions displayed, your Current (Ready For Sale) version and your New (Waiting For Upload) Version.
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