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👨💻 Apple will be checking apps for the holidays. But with delays - I waited 3 days for the last review
No change for automatic review - they approve on the day of submission
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📱 TestFlight got a dark icon. This is a reference example for complex cases
🔨 If you have a clearly separated background and icon, you don't need to bother with this - the dark icon will be automatically added
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👨💻 Developer Enterprise Program will be terminated for all. Current accounts-certificates will be revoked
ADEP-accounts have already received emails. Apple said “you're not the reason”
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Statistics of what Apple uses
The UIKit killer currently occupies only 6% of Apple binaries (and in reality even less)
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The UIKit killer currently occupies only 6% of Apple binaries (and in reality even less)🔑 For example, the new Passwords app was written in SwiftUI
🧮 And the calculator was also rewritten in SwiftUI. I didn't notice it in the interface, but now I understand why it appeared on the iPad
When I was young, I figured out how the calculator was written in UIKit — classes, hierarchy. It turns out that this is already archived information
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🔔 If you use APNs, you need to update your certificates. For Sandbox today, for the release from February 24
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🔨 swift-build has been released on GitHub. This thing builds your Swift projects and packages
This does not mean that we are waiting for alternative IDEs - AppCode worked before. The community will fix/add bugs and that will be the end of the changes for us
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🧑💻 If you participate in the Swift Student Challenge, Apple is already accepting your projects for review
If you doing as a developer, you cannot participate
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Reply📱 TestFlight got a dark icon. This is a reference example for complex cases
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They also did a dark icon for the Connect, for the reference
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📃 Select trader/non-trader by February 17. Otherwise the app will be deleted in Europe
Which status to choose, see in the cards: https://t.me/sparrowcode_en/247
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🗃 I rarely use expedited review, but I needed it today. A lot has changed there:
1. You no longer need to specify a reason. Just select the app and you're good to go
2. If it's rejected, the new build will automatically go through expedited review
3. 🕐 "In Review" status appears 10 minutes after submission. It's likely automated. The process was quick—20 minutes from submission to store
👨💻 Bookmark this direct link for expedited review:
https://developer.apple.com/contact/app-store/?topic=expedite
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📊 Search in the App Store is changing. Tags will be added to keywords. Now it will search not by letter matches, but by meaning
So far only for some apps in the US. Within a year for all
What will happen to search positions - we'll see
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🇰🇷💳 South Korea has implemented a verification system for subscriptions
- The user starts a trial
- The trial ends
🆕 Apple requests additional confirmation (via email and push)
- Charge / cancellation
Confirmation is only required when converting from trials and offers (when the price changes). If the user subscribes at the regular price, no confirmation is needed
The system was added due to local laws. It remains unchanged for other countries
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WWDC 2025 will take place from June 9th to 13th
The keynote: Add to calendar
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📊 Apple is actively rolling out the new search
On 18.4, the welcome screen already shows it as a working feature + active movements in search results over the last month
🐤 Observations: keywords separated by commas work better than direct hits (when the key consists of 2-3 words without commas)
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How does the difference between the 🥇 and 🥈 position in search
Below the 5th position, there is no traffic. It doesn't matter what place you're in there
But check out the difference between first and second. On the left when it was in 2nd place, on the right — in 1st place
If you're not in the top, there's no organic traffic 🤯
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Apple was forced to approve payments on the web without commission
- only in 🇺🇸
- you can embed it now
- you can send a link to pay in push notifications
Now Apple is being pressured to roll out the system to the whole world, but their official position is to appeal
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👔 Apple updated the guides - now you can definitely integrate web-payments in the US
📖 The most popular is Stripe. They have already published documentation for purchases in the apps
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At a random moment in my ASA account I start see Fox News companies
For the first time in my life, there is a daily limit of $30k 💳
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This banner only in Europe. There is no banner in the US
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💳 StoreKit now allows you to reset a spent trial
Previously, if a user completed the trial, all subscriptions in the group were already without a trial
📖 Now developers can reset the flag, documentation
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Previously, if a user completed the trial, all subscriptions in the group were already without a trial
📖 Now developers can reset the flag, documentation
⚠️ In case you didn't know, trial availability needs to be checked. If you statically enter "Free for 7 days", and the user has already spent the trial, it will be embarrassing
Apphud, RC and Adapti have ready-made methods for this:
Apphud.checkEligibilitiesForIntroductoryOffers()
🐤 I do everything at the start of the application - I load products, check the availability of intro/promo offers. And then on the paywall I show how it should be
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