i just want to ask a quick question after a long search i haven't found an answer regarding this topic.
in fact is there a way for a developer to disable reviews and rating after or before the app is released to the App Store , just for a very short time ?
this solution exists in Google Play, but I found some information in the internet I think it's not possible for App Store.
What do you think guys ?
No this is not possible on iOS/the App Store. You can only choose to reset the rating with a new version - that's it.
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My goal is to simply search the Apple App Store to know if a certain app name is already taken but without owning an iPhone/iPad or having an Apple developer account. Would that be possible, maybe there's a website that replicates the current state of the apple app store?
To answer my question, I've found this website: https://theappstore.org/
In the end though, the only way to know with 100% certainty that an app name is not already taken is to have an Apple developer account. This is because developers are allowed to reserve app names and even if the app name isn't currently on the app store, it doesn't mean its not already reserved by another developer.
Why are you looking for third party websites ?
Apple finally made it possible :
https://www.apple.com/app-store/
Use the magnifying glass in the top right to search the apps
Has anyone figured out how to vote Helpful or unhelpful for the reviews in the Apple App Store on your mobile phone. How do you get a review to the top of the reviews ?
Apparently there is a way to accomplish this. I had to google a bit i found that, by using 3D Touch, you can press and hold over a review on the AppStore and a menu pops up. You can select Helpful, not Helpful or report a concern. This is a great feature available on iOS 10 and above.
There is no option to vote a review for mark helpful or not .
you can install application and you can post your review and rating on the Apple App Store only.
I have developed iphone app with working In App Purchase. Now I want to release new version of the app with new price for in App Purchase. But, Whenever I tapped on iTunesConnect -> Manage Your Applications-> My App -> Manage In App Purchase, I found this ------"java.lang.IllegalStateException: Seventeen".
Can anybody tell me, how to tackle with this issue?
The solution is that there's no solution for that. It is a bug on Apple's side. This iTunesConnect site stinks in all possible ways. I recommend you to fill a feature request asking Apple to provide a software application we can use to manage our apps and in-apps that are already created. Do it at http://bugreport.apple.com. I already did that and the bigger the number of people asking for it, more likely Apple will create that.
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Direct “rate in iTunes” link in my app?
It's possible to let the user rate or write a review from within my app ?, or my only option is to prompt a message asking my user to rate the app ?
In-app purchases can be rated ?
Someone told me that when an app was erased, it was possible to ask the user to ask rate the app, but that feature was removed in IOS4. It's this true ?, the SDK provides me any support to do this kind of stuff ?
thanks !
Lot of apps use Appirater (written by Arash Payan) for Rating. It is extremely customizable and free. You can do lot of customizations by changing settings. eg. Prompt user to rate only if he has had your app for 7 days and has used it at least 5 times.
I have blogged about the same here as well: http://iostipsntricks.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/how-to-get-people-to-rate-your-ios-app/
The best you can do is a direct link to the review page in iTunes. So you ask them to rate the app and supply a button that takes them directly to the reviews page. See this previous StackOverflow answer.
Rate on delete used to be built into the operating system and forced upon everyone. It's now been removed. Many of us consider this to be a good thing, since the implicit question was "what do you think of this app, given that you don't want to keep it?".
EDIT: iOS 6 came out after this answer was first posted; Apple has added SKStoreProductViewController which allows you to show the iTunes page for any product directly inside your app. So you can remove the step that jumps out to an external display.
You can prompt the user to rate your app or leave a review, and if they agree (press the OK button or whatever), then you can open a URL that points to your App on the App Store. On an iOS device, iTunes links should open the correct part of the App Store, and the user can rate / review from there.
To get a URL that links to your app, you can copy it from the iTunes Connect interface in the Manage Your Applications section.
All the rating features are aspects of iTunes/AppStore applications, or in the case of the rate-app-on-delete-app part of iOS itself. There is nothing you can do to get the same functionality in your application... Other than perhaps use a rating system totally outside of the iTunes system.
Is there a way to confirm (programmatically) that the application was purchased from AppStore?
Or, maybe, there is a way to get a list of devices IDs from AppStore that purchased my app?
The reason is the willing to determine if the application was legally purchased or not...
I know that there is a way to know that the in-app purchase took place.
Maybe I can check for a paid app purchase too?
The solution may be inside the iPhone app or some check in server side.
The application that I develop is about to get a content from the web server.
Usually (by browsing my client's site) this content is not free and he wants to be sure that users that get the content by using an iPhone app (that I develop) did pay for the app.
Check out these related questions:
Iphone App store - Verifying paid customer
How to programmatically determine if DRM was removed from iPhone application?
Determining if an iPhone is Jail broken Programmatically
My previous Stack Overflow question may help you out: Reducing piracy of iPhone applications
No, but see this related question for information on how to potentially detect that your app has been tampered with in order to allow it to run as a bootleg.
The in-app-purchase-style verification has struck me as a good way to do this, but Apple doesn't currently support it. It might be worth a bug report.
I don't know of anyway of "confirming that the application was purchased from the appStore". I don't think there's any bit that's flipped or "thing" you can check to see.
Sorry.
But if you do learn of such a thing, let me know.