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Hi, I'm implementing an auto renew subscription in my app. I tried to figure out how to validate and get notified about any changes in users subscription status, and I found so much ways to do it. What is the difference between those: a. /validateReceipt b. appstore API (for example inApps/v1/history/{originalTransactionId}) c. apple notifications service, with the webhook url in the appstore connect information. Do I need to use all of the above methods in order to make my auto renew subscriptions 100% hermetic?
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We have a paid app as of right now, but would like to change the business model to subscription-based. Will the change from paid app to subscription affect our current users? Surely they have bought the app "for life" and will not be required to start a subscription? We of course don't the backlash of unhappy users, who have already paid for the app. Would very much appreciate some input! /Evelina, BabyNaps app
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It has been some time since WWDC and first beta and couldn't find any information about iOS 15 new features to integrate office keys into Wallet. Is this feature live in iOS 15.0 or is it coming later this year? We are highly interested in this feature to offer access control features to our customers but it seems there are no information about Wallet improvements mentioned on WWDC 10092
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Hi, We have just signed up for the Apple developer program as a company, and we would like to develop an application for our clients. The current application is not on the App store, so there is no "transfer" to do, per say. The customer has his developer account as well, so we want them to add our company as a whole on their account so we can "do the work of publishing" for them. We will manage who has the rights to test, develop and publish apps for the client. In the past, each developer created their own developer account using their own email address. The clients then added the individual account in their developer program. There are 2 problems that we're trying to address: We have multiple developers working on the same project and we would like to release new versions with our company's credentials rather than the individual's account. Over time, some employees have left our company and we no longer have access to our clients' developer accounts to make updates without their intervention. How can our clients add our organization so we can manage the clients' applications. Thanks for all your help.
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Our app is currently rejected by the AppStore review by violating the guideline. "Guideline 3.2.2 - Business - Other Business Model Issues - Unacceptable The primary purpose of your app is to encourage users to watch ads or perform marketing-oriented tasks, which is not appropriate for the App Store. Next Steps We encourage you to review your app concept and incorporate different content and features that are in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.“ At first, our app requires users to play a game and get the reality gifts according to the score. But this concept is rejected so I want to confirm that "In-App Purchase Credit and use the credit to redeem reality gift" does not violate the guideline. Appreciate for any help.
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We're building an app for a client that is providing emergency services to employees of businesses that have insurance policies with our client (it's a value added service they're providing to their clients). The issue is, they only want the employees of their clients to be able to register on the app. At the moment, once the user downloads the app and enters their details our client gets a notification which allows them to approve or deny the user access to the app. (This is working fine on the Google Play Store). I'd like to know whether this model is support by the Apple App Store and if so which program should we enroll in? Our current thoughts are to have our client create a business manager account use the VPP to send vouchers to specific users, but we're not sure if there is a better way forward.
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We are developing an app which will be used by a select set of registered users that are accepted or denied by our customers using our web app. We are now seeing some obstacles in the review process where Apple is asking us to use Apple Business Manager. This would complicate our sign up and authentication process since not all users will be employees of the company but in some cases contractors. What is the best approach for distributing such an app to apple devices?
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I am just curious, if my clients still purchase through the old API, but do my validations on server side with Storekit 2, could the clients for an instance, start sending their receipt encrypted with JWS to my server so I can take advantage of this security addition plus the rest of the new server notifications, transaction history and all the new goodies. My reason for this case is that I cannot drop previous iOS version support thus gotta stick with Storekit 1 for some time.
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Hello, In wwdc 2021 keynote 7th june video on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TD96VTf0Xs) there was a mention of unlocking doors via apple wallet. For home, it uses home keys which is part of the homekit framework. This is simple to understand since there is enough documentation on adding support to our hardware. For office though we can't find any documentation. What are the requirements on the hardware/firmware side? I'm assuming we can't use homekit for offices since each organisation will have a few admins but 100+ employees. Admin cannot be bothered with adding so many appleids one by one as given in homekit tutorial. We are a smart access control company that manufacturers bluetooth and nfc based hardware for unlocking doors. These doors can be unlocked with iphone through our app over ble as of now. We would like to add functionality to simply tap the phone/watch to our hardware to unlock the door. As mentioned in the wwdc21, other brands like proxy, hid and salto seems to have already partnered up with apple and we would like to join that list
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In this session at 21:06, a new section for App Store Server Notification urls is shown with the new option to specify a Sandbox URL as well as a Production URL. Shortly after that point in the video it is mentioned that "these changes" are rolling out later this year. My question is whether "these changes" includes this new configuration option to specify a Sandbox URL. If so, can we get any more specific about when "later this year" is? If not, I'm not seeing those changes now, so when will they be rolled out?
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Hello all! We've recently launched an app and received a rejection on the basis of incentivizing referrals as described below: we noticed that your app incentivizes referrals in order to sign up new users. While rewarding the invitation sender with points or other digital content is acceptable, the person receiving the invitation should not receive any rewards for downloading or registering an account to use your app. Incentivizing downloads has a direct influence on the App Store user reviews or chart ranking. We quickly removed the incentive for the referral consumer (2000 points on signup), as that was the side that Apple was concerned about, however, I've seen a number of apps that give benefits to users who sign up with a referral code. Ones that come to mind include Robinhood (free stock), Cash App (earn $5), Lyft ($5 ride credit) etc. Anyone know why these referrals are able to exist but not ours? Are they doing it in a similar but slightly different way that is permissible? If so, would something like "Use this referral link and earn 2000 points when you do X" or something be allowed instead? Thanks for your time!
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