A few days ago my iPhone game has been approved for sale. When searching its name in the search bar of the App Store, it showed my App. Now when I try to search my game, it doesn't show any result. The direct link still works, however.
Any suggestion?
Check which country's App Store you are viewing currently. Probably it's not the same as the country your app is live now.
The issue fixed by itself with time. I don't know why, but my application is appeared back in the search results of the App Store.
I suspect it was because of an internal trouble that Apple was having with the App Store servers at that time, maybe it erroneously removed my app record from the search database, and now they managed to restore it.
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I've looked for an answer in the Apple Docs, and here and other sites, and cannot find anything. So I'm hoping to find someone who knows or has experience with it.
My app is using GameKit to store some Achievements (no scores or leaderboard). When I delete the app from the simulator, it is NOT prompting me if I want to delete the GameCenter data as well, like production apps usually do. Is this normal? Do I need to do anything specific to create this prompt? Or will it simply appear in the production version and is not available for some reason in the Sandbox?
I'm getting ready to submit an App that relies on the user being at specific locations to watch a video. (Kind of a mashup of geocaching and youtube.) Needless to say none of these videos are anyway near Apples headquarters. So how will the App store review people be able to properly review the App? Do I have to provide test data in their vicinity or can I instruct them to fake their geolocation to a location that works?
I guess the best way is to just submit it once, wait ~7 days and see what they have to say,
but since they have special toolchains to test apps, it shouldn't be a problem.
Just make sure to mention it in the review notes.
I've submitted an update to an app once that requires an user and password to login, and gave them a test user. When I checked the server logs, they never logged in once - but the app was still approved.
The iOS Simulator can 'fake' its location :) Though I doubt what they DO review in their process, because once they accepted one of my Apps' update which crashed upon launch...
Recently had to deal with this myself... submitted a location specific app without any extra review notes, and the app got rejected. In the rejection notice I was given the instruction to create a video of the app in action and then provide a link in the review notes.
So I used another iPhone to take the video, put some basic explanation text in the video using iMovie, uploaded to YouTube, put the link in the reviewers notes, re-submitted the app and then 5 or so days later it was approved.
As I understand, they review team does NOT test the usability nor stability of your app during app reviewing. All you need to do, is to provide an testing account, and some sample data, screenshots to them helping understand how your app works. If the app does not show any data because of a reasonable circumstance, it's not the problem of your app quality nor user usage, but data coverage. So you won't have problem with it.
Finally, thanks to most of you, I got my first app approved by Apple. The problem is that I'm only able to find it on the app store if I click on the link provided on iTunesConnect.
If I try to search with any of the keywords I inserted in the metadata I don't find my app.
One more thing the link is like this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gearup/id441500177?mt=8&ls=1
does the "/us/" mean that it is only on the american app store. I didn't select any specific country (they are all selected).
thanks
You can remove the /US/ from the link. You're just seeing that error because the US store is not your default.
The link works for me and shows your app on itunes.com before launching the iTunes application
Your searches may not work until your app has been propagated to all the various stores. Sometimes that can take a while.
Immediately after going live and having been accepted, there will always be a small amount of time while the app propagates across the Apple servers.
Your link works as koregan stated, and yes the /us/ is the country code. For example, if you replace it with fr then you see the web page in French - if you localized the app then you will see the app information with the text you would have supplied; else you will see it in English.
The app status is Ready for Sale and there is a working direct link to it in iTunes. However the search either with keywords or by the app name from the iTunes top left corner does not bring any result. It is listed in website when I manually browse to category.
The search however bring result on iPhone device App Store app. Just curious why my app is not found through the website search.
It may take a while until the app shows up in the search. How long ago did you receive the "Ready for Sale" notification?
Mostly the app is visible in the iTunes App Store (on the PC, NOT on the iPhone) before on the iPhone. If it takes longer than 24 hours, I would consider contacting Apple but before you have an answer from them your app will probably be Live so... Just be patient, it can take some hours... But again, check iTunes on your Mac/PC if you can find your app there, in my case it was always like that, first iTunes then App Store..
Good luck with your app!
Not specifically a programming question, but might be something a bunch of programmers run into.
I wrote a really trivial application for the iPhone and submitted it for approvals. After a few back and forth (e.g. denied, then resubmit) of fixing various UI guidelines issues, I got an email today stating that:
Your application is now Ready for
Sale. If your contracts are not in
effect at this time, your application
will not be live on the App Store. You
may track the progress of your
contracts in the Contracts, Tax, and
Banking Module in iTunes Connect.
Now the application is free, so I am not sure why they are sending an email saying that the application is ready for sale. The contacts are in place as well:
(source: angryhacker.com)
But the real problem is that I click on the link they provided...it opens iTunes, then says:
(source: angryhacker.com)
I went into iTunes Connect to Manage Your Applications link. The status is green, Ready for Sale. I checked all the countries where the application is supposed to be available -- and all countries are checked. Plus, I cannot find it in the iTunes Application Store either.
What am I missing? Is there an interval between when the app is approved and when it should appear in the iTunes store?
Yes there is an interval while it is released. Wait about 6 hours and try again.
Once your application has been approved it does indeed take up to a few hours before it has propagated and shows up. The same applies when you pull your application from the App Store or changing your application description or screenshots.
Basicly everything you do in iTunes Connect regarding your app, takes some time to propagate through the servers. I don't think I ever had to wait longer than 6 hours though, more like 3 hours on average.