💳 You can now direct to your own website for purchases in the US store. Examples in the screenshot.

- Submit an application, they will check the payment information and the site
- Add the StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlement to your plist
- Apple's commission is 27%

You must report independently, and Apple may conduct an audit whenever they wish.

Update for ✍️ SF Symbols has been released through the system. Now you can specify localization for numbers, for example:

8.circle.fill will display the number 8 according to the current localization (Latin 8 / Arabic ٨ / Hindi ८)
8.circle.fill.ar will display the Arabic number 8 as ٨ in any localization

😺 I've already updated my SafeSFSymbols library for safe symbol using.

🌐 Apple Launches Alternative App Stores: In March, only in the 🇪🇺 EU

For store developers:
- Stores will be vetted. Accreditation and €1 million are required.
- Store owners pay €0.5 per year for each store installation.

EU developers can remain on the App Store or
switch to new terms:

- Publish on the App Store and alternative stores.
- If installations exceed 1 million, they pay €0.5 per year for the excess.
- Can use the App Store payment system with a 3% commission.
- Commission is 17%, and 10% for SBP. Confused about commissions? Here's a calculator.

🤯 Both store owners and app developers have to pay.

Developers can also do away with 🌐 WebKit. Now you can make browsers on your own engine.

Now, it's not mandatory to use Sign in with Apple, but instead, there must be a login option with following conditions:

1. It only requests the name and email.
2. The email can be hidden during registration.
3. It does not track the user's actions.

🐤 As of now, only Apple's login meets these conditions, so in practice, nothing has changed.

🔢 Swift Proposals that came to life in January:

SE-0413 Typed Throws
SE-0410 Atomic Operations in Swift
SE-0405 New String Initializer Validates Encoded Unicode
SE-0417 Custom Executor for Task
SE-0270 New RangeSet Type. Non-Sequential Operations on Collections

Fixes:
SE-0412 Fixing Data Races for Global and Static Variables
SE-0411 Eliminating an Isolation Flaw that Caused Data Races
SE-0327 Actor Lifecycle Specification

✅ Ready for Sale has been renamed to ✅ Ready for Distribution

Official 💻 sample project for visionOS on how to track points and place objects in space

Inside, they use 📺 ARKitSession. Keep in mind, it does not work on the simulator

👨‍💻 Easing Conditions for Developers from the EU

1. Developers can back to the original conditions once

2. It is no longer necessary to have a million dollars in the account. Enough app with 1 million installations in 🇪🇺 last year

👨‍💻 The App Store Review Guidelines are now simply called App Review Guidelines

🛑 According to the new guidelines, Apple can remove an app from the altstore if:

1. Mislead with title, pricing, etc.
2. Incorrect VPN: published under a personal account or selling traffic

🐤 That's it. 4.3 Design Spam is not a reason to take an app off the altstore

📅 There is an Apple Payout Calendar on the website. To add the calendar to your iPhone, visit the page – there will be a link

You only need to add the calendar once, new dates will appear automatically

👨‍💻 Starting today, you will receive a notification if you need to add a Privacy Manifest. For now, it's just a reminder.

🛑 From May 1st, such builds will be rejected. Instructions on how to add the manifest at the link