Ratings for all apps and games on the App Store have been automatically updated to align with our new age rating system and will be reflected on Apple devices running a minimum of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26.

Provide responses to the updated age rating questions for each of your apps by January 31, 2026, to avoid an interruption when submitting your app updates in App Store Connect. You can view the age rating for each of your apps under the updated system and respond to the new questions in the App Information section of your app in App Store Connect.

• Learn more about age ratings values and definitions
• Learn how to set your app rating

Apps uploaded to App Store Connect must be built with Xcode 16 or later using an SDK for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS 18, visionOS 2, or watchOS 11.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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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

Learn about configuring Game Center in App Store Connect

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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.

All tvOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 14.1 and tvOS 16.1 SDK or later.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Learn more about the API

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Business section.

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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.

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