🔔 If you use APNs, you need to update your certificates. For Sandbox today, for the release from February 24

👨‍💻 The new console's reviews page

🔨 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

🧑‍💻 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

📃 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

🗃 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

📊 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

🇰🇷💳 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

📊 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)

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 🤯

👔 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

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 💳

💳 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

⚠️ 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