Begins January 20, 2025
The Apple Push Notification service (APNs) will be updated with a new server certificate in sandbox on January 20, 2025. Update your application’s Trust Store to include the new server certificate: SHA-2 Root : USERTrust RSA Certification Authority certificate.
Begins January 24, 2025
The SHA-1 intermediate certificate used for signing App Store receipts expires on January 24, 2025. If your app performs on-device receipt validation, make sure it supports the SHA-256 algorithm; alternatively, use the AppTransaction and Transaction APIs to verify App Store transactions.
For more details, view TN3138: Handling App Store receipt signing certificate change.
Begins February 17, 2025
Apps without trader status will be removed from the App Store in the European Union (EU) until trader status is provided and verified in order to comply with the Digital Services Act.
Begins February 18, 2025
macOS apps distributed on TestFlight and the App Store shouldn’t include the quarantine extended file attribute com.apple.quarantine. Starting February 18, you must remove this attribute from all files within macOS apps in order to upload to App Store Connect.
Begins February 24, 2025
The Apple Push Notification service (APNs) will be updated with a new server certificate in production on February 24, 2025. Update your application’s Trust Store to include the new server certificate: SHA-2 Root : USERTrust RSA Certification Authority certificate.
Since October 16, 2024
Your trader status is required to submit app updates for apps distributed on the App Store in the European Union (EU), in order to comply with the Digital Services Act.
Since July 15, 2024
Game Center management will no longer be supported by the XML feed as of July 15, 2024.
Support for in-app purchases, subscriptions, metadata, and app pricing ended on November 9, 2022.
You can manage this content via the App Store Connect REST API, which makes it easy to customize and automate your workflows.
Since May 1, 2024
You’ll need to include approved reasons for the listed APIs used by your app’s code (including from third-party SDKs) to upload a new or updated app to App Store Connect.
Since April 29, 2024
Apps uploaded to App Store Connect must be built with Xcode 15 for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, or watchOS 10 starting April 29, 2024.
Since November 1, 2023
If you notarize Mac software with the Apple notary service using the altool command-line utility or Xcode 13 or earlier, you’ll need to transition to the notarytool command-utility or upgrade to Xcode 14 or later. Starting November 1, 2023, the Apple notary service will no longer accept uploads from altool or Xcode 13 or earlier. Existing notarized software will continue to function properly.
Since August 16, 2023
New apps and app updates for iOS, iPadOS, or tvOS offering Game Center features need to include the Game Center entitlement in the entitlements plist and have Game Center features configured in App Store Connect before you can submit them to the App Store.
Learn about configuring Game Center in Xcode
Since August 16, 2023
Receipts in new apps and app updates submitted to the App Store, as well as all apps in sandbox, will be signed with the SHA‑256 intermediate certificate. If your app verifies App Store transactions using the AppTransaction and Transaction APIs, or the verifyReceipt web service endpoint, no action is required.
If your app validates App Store receipts on device, make sure your app will support the SHA-256 version of this certificate. New apps and app updates that don’t support the SHA-256 version of this certificate will no longer be accepted by the App Store starting August 16, 2023.
Since July 31, 2023
All tvOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 14.1 and tvOS 16.1 SDK or later.
Since May 9, 2023
Pricing for existing apps and one-time in-app purchases will be updated with enhanced global prices across App Store storefronts using your current price in the United States as the basis—unless you’ve made relevant updates after March 8, 2023. This update has been deferred to later this year for the App Store in Türkye.
Since April 25, 2023
iOS and iPadOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 14.1 and the iOS 16.1 SDK or later. And watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 14.1 and the watchOS 9.1 SDK or later.
Since March 1, 2023
Subscription reports version 1.2 will no longer be available as of March 1, 2023. If you automatically download subscription reports using the App Store Connect API or Reporter, please update your query parameter to version 1.3 if you haven’t already.
Since November 9, 2022
The XML feed will no longer support in-app purchases, subscriptions, metadata, or app pricing as of November 9, 2022. You can manage this content via the App Store Connect REST API, which makes it easy to customize and automate your workflows.
The XML feed will continue to support existing Game Center management functionality.
Since June 30, 2022
App Store Review Guideline 3.11 requires apps offering paid online group services to do so via in-app purchase. Given the recent resurgence of COVID and its continued impact on in-person services, we’ve extended the most recent deadline to June 30, 2022.
Since June 30, 2022
App Store Review Guideline 5.1.1 provides people with greater control over their personal data by stating that all apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app. Due to the complexity of implementing this requirement we’ve extended the deadline to June 30, 2022.
Since June 6, 2022
Starting with Xcode 14, the ability to build a single binary with both 32-bit and 64-bit code has been removed. Xcode 14 will only build 64-bit apps. iOS 10, which was released in 2016, was the last version of iOS to run 32-bit apps. As of iOS 11, all 32-bit apps installed on device will not launch.
Since April 25, 2022
iOS and iPadOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 13 and the iOS 15 SDK. And watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 13 and the watchOS 8 SDK.
Since October 22, 2021
Bank account holder’s address is required if you have bank account information in App Store Connect. Account Holders, Admins, and Finance roles can now provide a valid address in the Agreements, Tax, and Banking section.
Since September 30, 2021
TLS 1.0 and 1.1 has been deprecated on Apple platforms as of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS 12, watchOS 8, and tvOS 15, and support will be removed in future releases. If your app has enabled App Transport Security (ATS) on all connections, no changes are required. If your app continues to use legacy TLS 1.0 or 1.1, please make plans to transition to TLS 1.2 or later. We recommend supporting TLS 1.3, as it’s faster and more secure.
Since August 4, 2021
A new certificate for server-based Game Center verification will be available via the publicKeyUrl. The previous certificate will no longer be available after this date. As a reminder, make sure your app always retrieves and uses the current publicKeyUrl value so it automatically uses the new certificate.
Since April 26, 2021
Starting with iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, all apps must use the AppTrackingTransparency framework to request the user’s permission to track them or to access their device's advertising identifier. Unless you receive permission from the user to enable tracking, the device's advertising identifier value will be all zeros and you may not track them.
Since March 31, 2021
Push notifications must use the HTTP/2-based Apple Push Notification service (APNs) provider API. The API lets you take advantage of great features, such as authentication with a JSON Web Token, improved error messaging, and per-notification feedback. APNs will no longer support the legacy binary protocol after March 31, 2021.