My customer needs an app for this year but the name he choose dis already in use. I advice him to change completely the name for this year but he wants to be sure to have the desire name next year.
So what if I upload the next year app with the desired name now and than, when it will be approved, I deselect all territories in iTunes Connect (my app will be removed from all App Store territories worldwide). The App will remain "inactive" until next year, and the name can't be use from others, right?
How to be sure that the name does not already exist when I create the app? If I create a new app and digit "Facebook" as a name it returns no error.. I think it iTunes connect needs the SKU to check the availability..
How do know that the name will be available next year?
Concerning reserving the name:
As soon as you create a new app in iTunesConnect and have a valid developer account (which you have, otherwise you couldn't create the app) the app's name is reserved for you. You don't have to do any further request or something, the creation is enough.
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I am about to put my app on the app store. I want to customize the name that it shows.
I don't want it to show my name. How do I change the name displayed?
If you're talking about the app name, it will display whatever you put in iTunes Connect. It doesn't use anything in code or the bundle to determine the name.
If you're talking about the seller name (since you say 'my name'), that's determined based on how you registered your developer account and is difficult (though not impossible) to change. If you want to change that, you need to contact Apple developer relations.
I need to use the validate functionality in xcode. I need to check if i have not done anything illegal while programming.
I know that i have to login to my iTunes connect account and add a new app. (I did this step)
Next i have to fill in the Language preferred, App name, SKU number and bundle ID
1.) what should i enter for SKU number ?
2.) I only want to submit the app for validation (and not submit the app to appstore). So what is the process i should follow after entering the above details (note:I only need to validate and not submit)
3.) What should i select in Bundle ID dropdown. is it the appname -* or the appname - com.me.app ?
if i select appname - * it will prompt the Bundle ID Suffix what should i add there /
4.) I have given a false application name to its App Name column (since i am not going to submit this to app store), So will i be able to add an App again giving the same Bundle Id and SKU number ?
1) The SKU is a unique number that you come up with that will help you to identify the app. It can be anything that you desire, for example 001 or 0001.
2) Follow the remaining steps in iTunes Connect, until you get to "Ready to upload binary". (and then hit that button) Feel free to use placeholder (ie, temporary) screenshots and files for the app icon. Just ensure they're of the correct resolution to keep Apple happy for now.
Once the app has changed to the "waiting for upload" state, then when you build an archive of the app in Xcode and then go to validate, then login with your info, and it will validate your app binary file.
3) You need to pick the appname - com.me.app option.
4) You can add more apps again, but the app name, SKU and bundle ID will be different if it is a different app. If you want to reuse the app name that you've made, purely to test the validation of the app, then be sure to setup your app in Xcode using the same provisioning profiles, bundle ID and app name again.
Hope this helps!
I have been developing and testing an iPhone app under a family members Apple Developer account. He paid for the account and it's registered under his business.
When it comes time to publish, will it appear in the App store (and for that matter anywhere else where the author name is published), under his name or his company name?
Can this be changed? Is it possible to publish an app on a developer account but under a different author name?
Yes, it will appear in the App Store under his name (if registered as an individual) or his company name (if he's registered as a company).
Can this be changed? Is it possible to publish an app on a developer
account but under a different author name?
No, and no. The name the developer account is registered to is the name that appears in the App Store for any apps published by that developer account.
If the person named on an individual iOS developer enrollment incorporates an app business and obtains a DUNS number for that corporation, Apple may allow changing the developer account to a company enrollment using that corporation's legal name. This would then allow publishing apps in the App Store under that corporation's name, instead of under the original individual's name.
It will appear under the account used to submit the app. It's possible to develop it under one account and submit it under another, but that's the only way to change the displayed author name.
Note that if you did a partial submission with one account, you won't be able to easily reuse the app name: you'll have to wait for it to expire on the first account, wait some unknown amount of time for it to become available again, and then register it under the second account before anyone else does.
If you've not locked down the name with the first account, though, there's nothing to it.
Is there a way to check if a name is available in the AppStore with an HTTP request? Without manually creating the App in iTunes Connect?
UPDATE 2015-01-05, per SarahR:
If you already have an app created, you can use its SKU for the app you want to check, and you'll get an error on submission that that SKU has already been used. If you don't remember the SKU you used for an existing app, you can go to the app details page, choose "MORE", then "about this app". If you don't already have an app created, it is plausible that you could create a dummy app with a name nobody would ever want to use, and then use its SKU to bounce the names you really want to test (though again, be wary of terms of service on that).
ORIGINAL:
The trick to checking the availability of a name while brainstorming is to not fill in the other required fields. Each field is checked individually. You do have to use iTunes Connect — "Manage Your Applications" -> "Add New App" (don't fill in a SKU Number or bundle id); if the name has been reserved, it will give you the following errors:
You must select a Bundle ID.
The App Name you entered has already been used.
provide a SKU.
The second one is the winner, while the other two errors make sure you don't accidentally reserve the name before you're ready.
If you need to automate this process (which is probably against their terms of service), you can use any standard scraper. Mechanize is probably the most robust out of the box, but I think that's another question....
I use Google to check if an app name (or something similar to it) already exists.
Use this as your search query:
site:itunes.apple.com inurl:app clash of clans
(replace 'clash of clans' with the suggested app name of course)
Kaolin Fire's suggestion doesnt work on the latest version of itunesconnect. A work around is to start the creation of a new app and where you fill in all the details and the name of the app you want to know the availability for but using a sku of any of your previous apps.
If the name is available you will only get an error that the sku is already in use. Else you will get 2 errors sku and name both are in use.
Open iTunes Connect
Click 'New App'
Fill out language and bundle id (can be anything)
Enter desired name & SKU of a previous app you have built
Click 'Create'
The name field will return red if the name has been taken.
2020 Update
*For apple developer have another application
Choose any application your own
Click "+New Version"
Click "App Information" (Then you can edit application name)
Input your application name that name want to check available then click "Save"
If you can save without error, You can use this name. (You can change to another name if you want to make this name available again then click "Save")
If this name not available you get error same this
App Annie and Google only give you games that are published to the App store. The only way to do it is go through the entire app creation process, including Bundle ID. This process is horrible as my iTunes Connect is littered with reserved app names that I do not intend to do anything with and will not become available to others until they expire 90 days after registration.
You could try app annie
It requires a free registration. I tried and tested it and does a decent job for iOS,MAC,GooglePlay app name searches.
You can check the availability of an app name and even reserve that name here. Here is a page with more details about checking/reserving app names.
We are getting ready to upload our app. At this point, itunes connect information has been entered. The problem is, we decided to change the name of our app from
ourAppMobile -> ourApp
The concern is that in iTunesConnect the Bundle ID is listed as:
com.ourcompany.ourAppMobile
But, we have changed our app name to ourApp.
What to do? Can the Bundle ID be changed in iTunes Connect. If so, how? If not, what to do?
Thanks.
> Identifiers
>
> SKUICC_MOBILEAPPLE Bundle ID
> com.ourcompany.ourAppMobile Apple ID
> 395529813 Type iOS App
As you suspect there is no possibility to change the Bundle ID or better say App ID Suffix. Your only solution to make a new Bundle ID and upload the app with this ID.
This Bundle ID is which make your app unique on the AppStore and follows it thorough all its lifespan and based on this iTunes recognize it from upgrade to upgrade.
The Bundle Display Name is totally different, and you can change as you like in line with Apple guidance. The APP ID prefix could be the same for various apps but it's again not the Bundle ID you are asking for.
Actually I don't really understand why do you bother with the internal name of the app as this will be unseen for the users. It's just a string nothing else, nobody use it or read it. The APP ID suffix could be anything even different from the Apple recommendation of com.companyname etc., and the only limitation that it has to be different from another APP ID, this is why it's unique and you couldn't change it any more.
In your Info.plist for project add/modify value for CFBundleDisplayName (aka 'Bundle Display Name') to the desired app name. Then rebuild.
If your app name contains a space then you will need to take an extra step in the midst of validation process. Check this out.
From another forum....
"You can either go ahead with the original bundle Id (these are always your choice as long as they are unique or wildcard for your account) or abandon that effort and start over with a new ID and upload using it. However, you will have to change the app name too..."
In my case, I did not want to change the app name in iTunes Connect or so I'm keeping the bundle id I originally entered as suggested.