Since its introduction, the App Store has supported a way for users to report problems with their apps and purchases, and to request refunds. This feature is currently available for users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, and will expand to other regions over time. If we suspect that a developer has engaged in purposeful manipulation, fraud or abuse, we will notify them and take action.
Consequences may include removal of apps and may impact their Apple Developer Program membership, as described in App Store Review Guideline 5. We are deeply committed to protecting users from problematic apps so that the App Store continues to provide an incredible opportunity for all developers. Starting in October , regulatory requirements in India will apply to the processing of recurring transactions. The Reserve Bank of India has issued a directive that will affect purchases in India initiated via credit cards and debit cards for auto-renewable subscriptions.
This directive requires banks, financial institutions, and gateways to obtain user approval by conducting transaction notifications, e-mandates, and Additional Factors of Authentication AFA before the transaction can be completed. For more information and updates, see the Reserve Bank of India website. If you offer auto-renewable subscriptions in your app, you can do the following to help prevent or resolve declined transactions on the App Store:.
Promote paying with Apple ID. Users who pay with their Apple ID balance will not be impacted by these requirements at this time. Provide a billing grace period. When an issue occurs, you can provide in-app messaging that lets the user know about it and mention available payment methods, such as Apple ID balance, so they can fix the issue and retain access.
Learn about enabling Billing Grace Period for auto-renewable subscriptions. The new iPad mini introduces a new screen resolution and aspect ratio with an edge-to-edge 8. Test and submit your updated app in App Store Connect today. StoreKit 2. StoreKit 2 introduces powerful new Swift-based APIs that make supporting in-app purchases and subscriptions easier than ever.
Support users and resolve in-app purchase issues more quickly with new App Store Server API now available in production. App Store server notifications. Coming soon. Get real-time updates on your in-app purchases, so you can create customized experiences for your users.
You can now take advantage of new notification types that cover more user events, including subscription expirations, offer redemptions, refunds, and more. Learn about StoreKit 2.
Learn about App Store server notifications. Users can choose to share verifiable health records stored in the Health app with approved third-party apps requesting this information, like airlines, event venues, and other businesses that facilitate in-person interactions.
And in an upcoming software update, they can also choose to add verifiable COVID vaccination records as a vaccination card in Apple Wallet to present to businesses, venues, and more.
Organizations that issue SMART Health Cards will soon be able to use a new button to let users know that they can securely download and store their vaccination information in the Health app and quickly add and present it from Wallet.
Artwork and usage guidelines will be available soon. Learn about verifiable health records. Xcode 13 is compatible with macOS Big Sur Learn about Xcode It provides confidentiality and integrity of data in transit between clients and servers exchanging information. As part of ongoing efforts to modernize platforms, and to improve security and reliability, TLS 1.
If your app continues to use legacy TLS 1. We recommend supporting TLS 1. Make sure your web servers support the later versions and remove the following deprecated Security. You can now easily create custom marketing assets — such as banners and images — to promote your apps on social media and more. Simply select your app, choose a template, customize your design, and add preset messages in multiple languages. Your assets will be available instantly in all the right sizes, making sharing easier than ever.
You can also continue to use these App Store marketing tools to create short links or embeddable code that lead to your App Store product page and display your app icon, a QR code, or an App Store badge.
View marketing tools. Use SwiftUI to enhance your apps with new features, such as improved list views, better search experiences, and support for control focus areas. Deliver even more powerful and personal apps for Apple Watch with the new capabilities of watchOS 8. With the Always-On Retina Display, your apps are always available at a quick glance.
Gather HealthKit data and connect to Bluetooth peripherals in the background, delivering up-to-date information to your complications. AssistiveTouch makes your apps more accessible than ever.
A redesigned playback UI provides users with convenient access to relevant controls and information while always focusing on the content. And the App Attest API helps validate the integrity of your app before your server provides access to sensitive data.
Enrollment is now open for the News Partner Program, designed for subscription news publications that provide their content to Apple News in Apple News Format. The program is available to Apple Developer Program members globally. Account Holders, Admins, and Finance roles can now provide a valid address in the Agreements, Tax, and Banking section. Please provide this information by October 22, , in order to avoid a potential interruption of your payments.
SharePlay will also be disabled for use in their initial releases this fall. SharePlay will be enabled for use again in future developer beta releases and will launch to the public in software updates later this fall. We appreciate how many teams have been hard at work building SharePlay experiences and to ensure there is no interruption in your development, we have provided a SharePlay Development Profile which will enable successful creation and reception of GroupSessions via the Group Activities API.
If your team plans to submit an update to your app for the initial release of these platforms, please remove the GroupActivities entitlement. We will provide guidance when SharePlay is re-enabled in a future developer beta, at which point we encourage you to include the GroupActivities entitlement in your code. Download the SharePlay Development Profile. In the next few days, prices of apps and in-app purchases excluding auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store will decrease in:.
Prices will increase in Georgia and Tajikistan. The increases also consider the following tax changes, and Exhibit B of the Paid Applications Agreement has been updated to indicate that Apple collects and remits applicable taxes in these locations. In addition, your proceeds on the App Store in Italy will be increased to reflect a change to the Digital Services Tax effective rate.
Starting August 4, , 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.
If your app caches the certificate or hardcodes the certificate URL, it will require an update. Please note, this root certificate issuer has been updated from Symantec Corporation to DigiCert, Inc. Make sure to check that the new root certificate issuer is on your list of trusted CAs. Applications are open now for the next cohort for Black founders and developers, which runs online from October 26 to November 4, Applications close on August 17, Learn more about Entrepreneur Camp.
Learn about some of our inspiring alumni. The App Store makes it easy for you to manage transactions in territories, and Apple administers tax on behalf of developers in 64 of those territories. Now App Store Connect provides the ability to assign tax categories to your apps and in-app purchases. These categories are based on your app's content for example, videos, books, or news publications and determine which tax regulations apply in each territory, allowing Apple to administer tax for you at specific rates.
If a category applies to your app, select it at the app level to apply it to the app and its associated in-app purchases. You can also manage each in-app purchase individually.
Your selections will be applied to future transactions and you can view the new Transaction Tax report the first full month after you configure your settings. If you choose not to make any changes, your apps and in-app purchases will be assigned the App Store software category at the same tax rate used today. Adjust these settings at any time as the characterization of your apps or in-app purchases evolve or as tax legislation changes.
Learn more about setting tax categories. Thank you to everyone who joined us for an amazing week. We hope you found value, connection, and fun. You can continue to:.
Take the survey. The Apple Design Awards honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. Learn about these winning apps and the talented developers behind them. View the award winners. The App Store Review Guideline changes and clarifications support new features in upcoming OS releases, better protect customers, and help your apps go through the review process as smoothly as possible.
Read more. The Program License Agreement, Schedules 1, 2, and 3, and Apple Developer Agreement have been updated to provide clarification, and to support updated policies and upcoming features. Xcode 13 adds powerful new team development features, perfect for working with Xcode Cloud as well as with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab collaboration features. Initiate, review, comment, and merge pull requests directly within Xcode.
And quickly compare any two versions of your code files. Xcode Cloud is a continuous integration and delivery service built into Xcode and designed expressly for Apple developers. It accelerates the development and delivery of high-quality apps by bringing together cloud-based tools that help you build apps, run automated tests in parallel, deliver apps to testers, and view and manage user feedback.
Sign up for the beta today. Learn more about Xcode Cloud. Programmatically experiment and automate model creation in Swift scripts or playgrounds. Build dynamic app features that leverage Create ML APIs to train models directly from user input or on-device behavior, providing personalized and adaptive experiences while preserving user privacy. You can also take advantage of new templates and training capabilities, APls for Vision and Natural languages, and more.
Learn more about machine learning. ARKit 5 introduces new features and improvements that make the AR experiences in your apps better than ever. Learn more about augmented reality. SharePlay gives people the ability to share experiences right inside FaceTime in an entirely new way. Use the Group Activities API to bring movies, TV, music, and more from your app into a space where people are already connecting with each other. Learn more about SharePlay. Enrich your app experience with audio recognition.
Now you can match music to the millions of songs in Shazam's vast catalog or make any prerecorded audio recognizable by building your own custom catalog using audio from video, podcasts, and more. Learn more about ShazamKit. Take advantage of the latest capabilities to improve the discovery of your app on the App Store, and deliver high-quality app and in-app purchase experiences.
SF Symbols 3 introduces over new symbols, enhanced color customization, new inspector with controls for rendering and color configuration, and improved support for custom symbols. Learn more about SF Symbols. Digital Lounge sign-ups are now open. Join Apple engineers and designers from Developer Tools, SwiftUI, Accessibility, and Machine Learning and participate in text-based discussions, ask questions about the latest technologies, get help with coding challenges, meet presenters, and more.
In addition to WWDC, a variety of other exciting developer events will take place throughout the week. Find even more opportunities for learning, networking, and fun. Learn more about Digital Lounges. View developer community events. Finalists were chosen across six categories and winners will be announced on June View the finalists. The Apple Developer Forums offer a trusted space to find answers, ask questions, and share thoughts on a variety of code-level topics with fellow developers and Apple engineers.
New features now make it even easier to keep track of activity, search for content, post replies, and more. Learn more about the forums. Visit the forums. Join us on June 7 at 10 a. Mark your calendar for the Keynote and State of the Union. Learn about sessions, one-on-one labs, activities, and much more. Find out more about WWDC Make an impact by signing up for the Donate Life America registry directly from the Health app. As we introduce and expand ways to share your health data, privacy continues to be at the core.
All of our health features are built to keep your data secure and protect your privacy. Your health data stays on your device and is encrypted — both in transit and at rest — when your device is locked with your passcode. And you are always in control. The Health app lets you keep all your health information securely in one place on your device.
When your phone is locked with a passcode, all your health and fitness data in the Health app — other than your Medical ID — is encrypted. Your health data stays up to date across all your devices automatically using iCloud, where it is encrypted while in transit and at rest. Apps that access HealthKit are required to have a privacy policy, so be sure to review these policies before providing apps with access to your health and fitness data.
You decide which information is in the Health app, which apps can access your data, and who you share your data with. Apple Watch and iPhone are ushering in a new era of health research. You can contribute to groundbreaking studies by sharing health data. The Health app.
With a healthy dose of updates. Caring is sharing. Share with the people closest to you. Knowledge is healthy. More about Knowledge is healthy. Make the most of your time with doctors. More about Make the most of your time with doctors. Works with systems doctors already use. A change in the way you see your health.
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New Walking Steadiness metric. If you can fix that, nothing like it. I would enjoy the app more. That is the case even if the watch is in Do not disturb mode. First it would not recognize my Apple Watch, so I had to jump through a bunch of hoops - logging out and into Apple ID and deleting and re-downloading the app a bajillion times.
No workouts. No nothing. I expect a lot more from Apple since it is all their stuff- the app, and all of the devices. The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:. The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:. Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More. With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
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