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Update on iPadOS 18 apps distributed in the European Union - Latest News - Apple Developer
The App Review Guidelines have been revised to add iPadOS to Notarization.Starting September 16: Users in the EU can download iPadOS apps on the App Store and through alternative distribution. As mentioned in May, if you have entered into the Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU, iPadOS first annual installs will begin to accrue and the lower App Store commission rate will apply. Alternative browser engines can be used in iPadOS apps. Historical App Install Reports in App Store Connect that can be used with our fee calculator will include iPadOS. If you’ve entered into a previous version of the following agreements, be sure to sign the latest version, which supports iPadOS: Alternative Terms Addendum for Apps in the EU Web Browser Engine Entitlement Addendum for Apps in the EU Embedded Browser Engine Entitlement Addendum for Apps in the EU Learn more about the update on apps distributed in the EUTranslations of the guidelines will be available on the Apple Developer website within one month.
Pre-orders by region now available - Latest News - Apple Developer
Offering your app or game for pre-order is a great way to build awareness and excitement for your upcoming releases on the App Store. And now you can offer pre-orders on a regional basis. People can pre-order your app in a set of regions that you choose, even while it’s available for download in other regions at the same time. With this new flexibility, you can expand your app to new regions by offering it for pre-order and set different release dates for each region.Learn about pre-orders Learn how to manage your app’s availability
App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases - Latest News - Apple Developer
iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, tvOS 17, and watchOS 10 will soon be available to customers worldwide. Build your apps and games using the Xcode 15 Release Candidate and latest SDKs, test them using TestFlight, and submit them for review to the App Store. You can now start deploying seamlessly to TestFlight and the App Store from Xcode Cloud. With exciting new capabilities, as well as major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools, and services, you can deliver even more unique experiences on Apple platforms.
Apple Entrepreneur Camp applications now open - Latest News - Apple Developer
Apple Entrepreneur Camp supports underrepresented founders and developers, and encourages the pipeline and longevity of these entrepreneurs in technology. Building on the success of our alumni from cohorts for female*, Black, and Hispanic/Latinx founders, starting this fall, we’re expanding our reach to welcome professionals from Indigenous backgrounds who are looking to enhance and grow their existing app-driven businesses. Attendees benefit from one-on-one code-level guidance, receive insight, inspiration, and unprecedented access to Apple engineers and experts, and become part of the extended global network of Apple Entrepreneur Camp alumni.Applications are now open for founders and developers from these groups who have either an existing app on the App Store, a functional beta build in TestFlight, or the equivalent. Attendees will join us online starting in October 2023. We welcome eligible entrepreneurs with app-driven organizations to apply and we encourage you to share these details with those who may be interested.Apply by September 24, 2023.Learn more* Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right. We welcome all women to apply to this program.
Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement now available - Latest News - Apple Developer
The Apple Developer Program License Agreement have been revised to support updated policies and upcoming features, and to provide clarification. The revisions include: Definitions, Section 3.3.39: Specified requirements for use of the Journaling Suggestions API. Schedule 1 Section 6.3 and Schedules 2 and 3 Section 7.3: Added clarifying language that the content moderation process is subject to human and systematic review and action pursuant to notices of illegal and harmful content. Schedule 1 Exhibit D Section 3 and Schedules 2 and 3 Exhibit E Section 3: Added language about the Digital Services Act (DSA) redress options available to developers based in the European Union. View full terms and conditions
Helping customers resolve billing issues without leaving your app - Latest News - Apple Developer
As announced in April, your customers will soon be able to resolve payment issues without leaving your app, making it easier for them to stay subscribed to your content, services, and premium features.Starting August 14, 2023, if an auto-renewable subscription doesn’t renew because of a billing issue, a system-provided sheet will appear in your app with a prompt that lets customers update the payment method for their Apple ID. You can test this sheet in Sandbox, as well as delay or suppress it using messages and display in StoreKit. This feature is available in iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 or later, and no action is required to adopt it.Learn about the system-provided sheet Learn how to test billing issues in Sandbox
Meet with App Store experts - Latest News - Apple Developer
Join us for online sessions August 1 through 24 to learn about the latest App Store features and get your questions answered. Live presentations with Q&A are being held in multiple time zones and languages. Explore App Store pricing upgrades, including enhanced global pricing, tools to manage pricing by storefront, and additional price points. Find out how to measure user acquisition with App Analytics and grow your subscription business using App Store features. Discover how product page optimization lets you test different elements of your product page to find out which resonate with people most. Understand how custom product pages let you create additional product page versions to highlight specific features or content. Learn how to boost discovery and engagement with Game Center and how to configure in-app events. Learn more View schedule
Take your apps and games beyond the visionOS simulator - Latest News - Apple Developer
Apple Vision Pro compatibility evaluationsWe can help you make sure your visionOS, iPadOS, and iOS apps behave as expected on Vision Pro. Align your app with the newly published compatibility checklist, then request to have your app evaluated directly on Vision Pro.Learn moreApple Vision Pro developer labsExperience your visionOS, iPadOS, and iOS apps running on Vision Pro. With support from Apple, you’ll be able to test and optimize your apps for the infinite spatial canvas. Labs are available in Cupertino, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.Learn moreApple Vision Pro developer kitHave a great idea for a visionOS app that requires building and testing on Vision Pro? Apply for a Vision Pro developer kit. With continuous, direct access to Vision Pro, you’ll be able to quickly build, test, and refine your app so it delivers amazing spatial experiences on visionOS.Learn more
WWDC23 resources and survey - Latest News - Apple Developer
Thank you to everyone who joined us for an amazing week. We hope you found value, connection, and fun. You can continue to: Watch sessions at any time. Check out session highlights. Read about newly announced technologies. Get sample code from sessions. We’d love to know what you thought of this year’s conference. If you’d like to tell us about your experience, please complete the WWDC23 survey.Take the survey
What’s new in privacy on the App Store - Latest News - Apple Developer
At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. That is why we’ve built a number of features to help users understand developers’ privacy and data collection and sharing practices, and put users in the driver’s seat when it comes to their data. App Tracking Transparency (ATT) empowers users to choose whether an app has permission to track their activity across other companies’ apps and websites for the purposes of advertising or sharing with data brokers. With Privacy Nutrition Labels and App Privacy Report, users can see what data an app collects and how it’s used.Many apps leverage third-party software development kits (SDKs), which can offer great functionality but may have implications on how the apps handle user data. To make it even easier for developers to create great apps while informing users and respecting their choices about how their data is used, we’re introducing two new features.First, to help developers understand how third-party SDKs use data, we’re introducing new privacy manifests — files that outline the privacy practices of the third-party code in an app, in a single standard format. When developers prepare to distribute their app, Xcode will combine the privacy manifests across all the third-party SDKs that a developer is using into a single, easy-to-use report. With one comprehensive report that summarizes all the third-party SDKs found in an app, it will be even easier for developers to create more accurate Privacy Nutrition Labels.Additionally, to offer additional privacy protection for users, apps referencing APIs that could potentially be used for fingerprinting — a practice that is prohibited on the App Store — will now be required to select an allowed reason for usage of the API and declare that usage in the privacy manifest. As part of this process, apps must accurately describe their usage of these APIs, and may only use the APIs for the reasons described in their privacy manifest.Second, we want to help developers improve the integrity of their software supply chain. When using third-party SDKs, it can be hard for developers to know the code that they downloaded was written by the developer that they expect. To address that, we’re introducing signatures for SDKs so that when a developer adopts a new version of a third-party SDK in their app, Xcode will validate that it was signed by the same developer. Developers and users alike will benefit from this feature.We’ll publish additional information later this year, including: A list of privacy-impacting SDKs (third-party SDKs that have particularly high impact on user privacy) A list of “required reason” APIs for which an allowed reason must be declared A developer feedback form to suggest new reasons for calling covered APIs Additional documentation on the benefits of and details about signatures, privacy manifests, and when they will be required
Updated agreements and guidelines now available - Latest News - Apple Developer
The App Store Review Guidelines, the Apple Developer Program License Agreement, and the Apple Developer Agreement have been updated to support updated policies and upcoming features, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and accept the updated terms as needed.
Introducing Apple Vision Pro and visionOS - Latest News - Apple Developer
Apple Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world, while allowing users to stay present and connected to others. Apple Vision Pro creates an infinite canvas for apps that scales beyond the boundaries of a traditional display and introduces a fully three-dimensional user interface controlled by the most natural and intuitive inputs possible — a user’s eyes, hands, and voice. Featuring visionOS, the world’s first spatial operating system, Apple Vision Pro lets users interact with digital content in a way that feels like it is physically present in their space. The breakthrough design of Apple Vision Pro features an ultra-high-resolution display system that packs 23 million pixels across two displays, and custom Apple silicon in a unique dual-chip design to ensure every experience feels like it’s taking place in front of the user’s eyes in real time.Discover the resources you can use to bring your spatial computing creations to life with a new, yet familiar, way to build apps that reimagine what it means to be connected, productive, and entertained.Learn more about visionOS
Find out what’s new for Apple developers - Latest News - Apple Developer
Discover the latest advancements on all Apple platforms. With an incredible new opportunity in spatial computing in visionOS, new features in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, and major enhancements across languages, frameworks, tools and services, you can create even more unique experiences for users worldwide.Learn what’s new
Sign up for WWDC23 labs and activities - Latest News - Apple Developer
Online labs and activities are a great way to connect with Apple engineers, designers, and experts all week long.One-on-one labsGet personalized guidance about development basics, complex concepts, and everything in between. Learn how to implement new Apple technologies, explore UI design principles, improve your App Store presence, and much more.ActivitiesThere are plenty of exciting activities happening daily on Slack. Ask engineering and design questions in Q&As. Join or follow real-time conversations while watching session videos together, and stay for a Q&A with the presenter. Get to know other developers and teams from Apple in community icebreakers. Test your trivia expertise starting on June 6. Labs and activities are open to all members of the Apple Developer Program and Apple Developer Enterprise Program, as well as 2023 Swift Student Challenge applicants.Register for labs Register for activities Learn about WWDC23
Code new worlds - Latest News - Apple Developer
WWDC23 is almost here. We’ll be kicking off with the Apple Keynote on June 5 at 10:00 a.m. PT. Watch online at apple.com or in the Apple Developer app. You can even use SharePlay to watch with friends.Activities are now open for sign-up for eligible developers. Designed to connect you with the developer community and Apple experts, they’ll feature Q&As, Meet the Presenters, and community icebreakers in online group chats.Learn moreSign up
Get ready to help customers resolve billing issues without leaving your app - Latest News - Apple Developer
Soon it will be easier than ever for your customers to resolve payment issues, so they can stay subscribed to your content, services, and premium features. Starting this summer, if an auto-renewable subscription doesn’t renew due to a billing issue, a system-provided sheet appears in your app with a prompt that lets customers update their payment method for their Apple ID. No action is required to adopt this feature. Starting today, you can get familiar with the sheet in Sandbox. You can also test delaying or suppressing it using messages and display in StoreKit. This feature will require a minimum of iOS 16.4 or iPadOS 16.4.All of this adds to existing powerful App Store features that help you retain subscribers. For example, if a subscription is in the billing retry state, Apple uses machine learning to optimize payment retries for the best possible recovery rate. And when you enable Billing Grace Period, customers can continue accessing their subscriptions while Apple attempts to collect payment.Learn about the system-provided sheet Learn how to test billing issues in Sandbox
WWDC23 is coming June 5 - Latest News - Apple Developer
Mark your calendars June 5 through 9 for an exhilarating week of technology and community. Be among the first to learn the latest about Apple platforms, technologies, and tools. You’ll also have the opportunity to engage with Apple experts and other developers. All online and at no cost.In addition, Apple will host a special all‑day event for developers and students on June 5 at Apple Park. Watch the keynote and State of the Union videos together, meet some of the teams at Apple, celebrate great apps at the Apple Design Awards ceremony, and enjoy activities into the evening.Talented students can showcase their creativity for the opportunity to receive an award in the Swift Student Challenge.Learn more
Swift Student Challenge applications now open - Latest News - Apple Developer
We’re excited to continue our long-standing support of students around the world who love to code. Show us your passion for coding by submitting an incredible app playground on the topic of your choice using Swift Playgrounds or Xcode. Winners will receive an award, recognition, and more.Learn about the Challenge
Get ready with the latest beta releases - Latest News - Apple Developer
The beta versions of iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, macOS 13.4, tvOS 16.5, and watchOS 9.5 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they work as expected on these releases. And to take advantage of the advancements in the latest SDKs, make sure to build and test with Xcode 14.3.To check if a known issue from a previous beta release has been resolved or if there’s a workaround, review the latest release notes. Please let us know if you encounter an issue or have other feedback. We value your feedback, as it helps us address issues, refine features, and update documentation.View downloads and release notes Learn about testing a beta OS Learn about sending feedback
App Store submission requirement starts April 25 - Latest News - Apple Developer
Starting April 25, 2023, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 14.1 or later. The latest version of Xcode 14, which includes the latest SDKs for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and watchOS 9, is available for free on the Mac App Store.When building your app, we highly recommend taking advantage of the latest advances in iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and watchOS 9.iOS 16 enhances iPhone with all-new personalization features, deeper intelligence, and more seamless ways to communicate and share. Take advantage of Live Activities to help people stay on top of what’s happening live in your app, right from the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro. Use App Intents to help users quickly accomplish tasks related to your app by voice or tap. And get the most out of the latest enhancements in MapKit, ARKit, Core ML, and more.iPadOS 16 introduces new productivity features that let you deliver compelling collaboration experiences and build more capable, intuitive apps and powerful pro workflows on iPad. You can bring desktop-class features, such as an editor-style navigation bar, enhanced text editing menu, and external display support, to your iPad app. Metal 3 introduces powerful features that help your games and pro apps tap into the full potential of Apple silicon on the latest generations of iPad Pro and iPad Air.watchOS 9 provides new and powerful communication features for watchOS apps. You can deliver timely information with rich complications on more Apple Watch faces, enable sharing of your app content, let users make VoIP calls directly from Apple Watch, and more. And with a simplified watchOS app structure, managing your projects is simpler than ever.
Meet with App Store experts - Latest News - Apple Developer
Join us for online sessions February 28 to April 13 to learn about the latest App Store features and get your questions answered. Find out how to measure user acquisition with App Analytics and grow your subscription business using App Store features. Explore how product page optimization lets you test different elements of your product page to find out which resonate with people most and how custom product pages let you create additional product page versions to highlight specific features or content. Learn how to boost discovery and engagement with Game Center and how to configure in‑app events. Apple Developer Program members can register for sessions today.Learn more View schedule