👨‍💻 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

🎟 WWDC 2024 will be June 10th to 14th. Add the opening keynote to your calendar

📺 🛠 Apple has launched a YouTube channel for developers

youtube.com/@AppleDeveloper

Apple has released a new interactive tutorial on Swift and SwiftUI for the beginners. Here's what's inside:

👶 Basics about Xcode, View, and Structs

📏 Layout. Buttons, Lists, Text Fields

📦 Models. Examples on SwiftData

🥽 Spatial using visionOS as an example. The video shows exactly what you will do for Vision Pro

The official 📺 YouTube channel for developers has uploaded a welcome video

Сontent will be for developers, designers, and product managers

Сhanging the default strap to Developer Strap for the 🥽 Vision Pro

🤚 If you use User Defaults (and not only it), you have to add a Privacy Manifest in just two weeks. Here's a tutorial:

🐤 sparrowcode.io/en/tutorials/privacy-manifest

🔴 Until May 1st, you can submit without the Manifest. After that, it won't be accepted for review

📦 If the framework doesn't have a Manifest, the developer must fill it out in their own project

🧑‍💻 Swift Student Challenge participants on one page. If you know someone who participated, please add them here

Added modal controllers to my app 📏 Layouter. In the video .fullScreen and .pageSheet

You can configure how to display each guide. For example, for Safe Area only arrows, and for Layout Margins a fill

Starting today, upload apps to 👨‍💻 App Store Connect only with Xcode 15 and the latest SDKs: iOS 17, etc.

🤚 If an app is must have a Privacy Manifest but it doesn’t, the build will not be accepted for review. Until May 1st, there were warnings, but as of today, it's a requirement

How to add a manifest:
🐤 https://sparrowcode.io/en/tutorials/privacy-manifest

Current apps without a Manifest stay available in the store. The manifest is checked before submission for review

Apple is changing the terms of its Core Technology Fee (CTF), which applies to alternative app stores

1. If you don't earn money from your apps, the CTF is waived. This only applies to personal apps, businesses are not eligible. You must confirm your status annually

2. If an app becomes viral in the first three years, no CTF will be charged for over a million installations. The revenue must be less than €10 million

3. The CTF is adjusted based on income:
Up to €10 million: no CTF for three years
Between €10 million and €50 million: CTF up to €1 million per year for three years
Above €50 million: the full CTF is charged

🐤 Previously, Apple stated that their fees could be detrimental to students and viral apps. The new terms mitigate this

Apple has released many new design templates in its profile for 🎨 Figma

Not yet for 💎