Linking Bundle IDs

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Created Oct ’17

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I have separate apps that have the same UI/UX but are different 'under the hood' and each app is distributed to different countries. Under Review Guideline 4.3, Apple are requesting that the apps be consolidated into a single app. My concern with this is that when the container app is released, the users of the existing apps will not be aware of the new update (or any updates after that) because the Bundle IDs will be different.

Is there any way to somehow link the Bundle IDs (even if temporarily) so that users of the existings app will be notified that an update is available when the consolidated app is first released?

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KMT OP

Oct ’17

>Apple are requesting that the apps be consolidated into a single app

What did Apple say, exactly? If the existing apps are being removed from the store, you don't have them to reference, so 'updates' in the traditional sense have no role. You're not only losing those apps in that case, you're losing the existing user base.

And no, there is no way to link bundle IDs (I think you're actually asking how to now link legacy users to a new bundleID). The removed IDs (if that's what occurs) may end up not being usable for anything, other than perhaps keeping one going, if review lets you do that with a combo app, but that doesn't help the other users, so...

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