I have my paid app in appstore now I am converting it to a free app with inapp purchase. and i want to give the data free for the user's who purchased my Version 1.0. At this point I am facing a problem. If the user buys my paid app and if he deletes the app after sometime before I release my update what should I do in this case I want to give the data for free for the user's who deleted the app also. I have two questions here
1) Will my app gets approved even If I don't give the data for free for the users who deleted the application and doesn't have any backup of my app ?
2) If it is possible to give the data for free for the user's who deleted the app please tell me the way how to do it?
You can not do anything if the user delete the app from device and install your latest in app purchase version. If your application is interacting with your server and storing information about the user who purchased the app, means it depend of your app functionality. If your app is social networking app any login/ registration is there inside your app and that registration of user you are storing on your server then you can allow free access of your app based on the registration mail id of that user.
Secondly, if you have any database sqllite inside your application then you can allow free access of your users based on that database.What you can do is on your latest release change the name of hat database and when your application start then you can check if previously database exist already if yes that means that is old user and you can allow that user free access of your content.Plese note that if user delete the app before installing your latest version then in that case we can not do anything and another a case is that
if user install his app on another iPad then in that case also we can not do anything. Now answer to your questions:- 1. yes your app gets approved by apple whether or not you are giving content free to old user apple did not care of that. 2. we can not do anything if user delete the app before installing your latest version of app until and unless your app has some interaction with your server.Let me know if you have any other questions
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I am trying to implement in app purchase for an iOS application
Did some googling and read this thread : Maintaining records of iOS in-app-purchases
It seems the way to go indicated is to use keychain
My in app purchase type is - Non-Consumables
Am wondering what is the best strategy for :
1
If a user has made an in-app purchase and resets the phone / deletes the app and then again downloads the app - do not want the user to pay up again
2
if the user does an in app purchase on an iPhone and then does an update on the iPad - he should get the in app purchase content without paying again
As far as possible do not want to store anything on my server if at all possible and am sure storing something locally on the device is useless for resets / multiple devices
Thanks!
akila
Apple keeps a record of what the user has purchased.
You also must implement a in app purchase restore button for the user in case of the two situations you mentioned above.
The inapp purchase restore button asks the App Store if the user has purchased before and sends you authorization if the have.
I recommend you use a library like RMStore on github to deal with in app purchases, the only big manual thing you need to do is obfuscate the in app purchase status as it stores it in the NSDefaults.
If a user has made an in-app purchase and resets the phone / deletes the app and then again downloads the app.... you want to restore the transactions by keeping an Restore button . Once you click on the restore button you want to connect with the storekit for restore the transactions. Their you can get the list of products that user has already purchased . Check the list of productids if your productid is match then unlock the content. All the best
In my current app which is on app store..
I have added feature of lite and full version.
The user who purchase lite version they can get full version by in app purchase.
PROBLEM
But my problem is that for all the current user of application should get full version without make any IAP payment.
can we do this ? Is it possible to do ?
Thanks for any help.
You can do that if the features of the App gets unlocked by any server dependent event. If your app unlock features by registering on server or getting any particular event from there, than it is possible.
If you have to change the code, then it can't be possible without pushing the update to the App Store.
When the IAP is cleared for sale, You are locked out from making any changes to the in-app purchase except for changes to pricing and availability.
So make the price to Tier 1(no free pricing for IAP) for limited time, notify the existing users via push notification/ your website..
or,
Make the full version available for FREE.
I am designing a paying app that will require users to create their own profile.
This app will of course be downloadable on each of the devices the user has.
This is the precise scenario I want to bypass :
the user downloads the App on an iPhone
he creates an account and start using the app that makes server
calls
he downloads the app on his iPad and with his login & password
retreives the data on the server, so far so good
Now, he lends his iPad to a friend (who didn't pay for the app).
The friend wants to use the App, and wants to create his own
account. Yet, I want to forbide this since he didn't pay for the
App.
So my problem is : I want to restrict the use of the app only to the user that paid for the App, not for his friend.
Of course, I cannot use the AppleID since there is no way to reach it from code.
I thought one moment that I could use iCloud like mentioned here but since the ( iOS unique user identifier )user can choose not to use iCloud, my problem is not solved ...
Is there an easy solution that I missed to solve that issue?
You friend will be using different apple id. You could use Restoring Transactions api of apple to get understand whether the user has purchased the app or not. This is possible for non-consumable in app purchase. Please do check the below link :
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/MakingaPurchase/MakingaPurchase.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008267-CH3-SW1
Suppose the following situation:
A user buys an app
this app is removed from the store temporarily, by changing the availability date to a year in the future. Note that the app was not deleted from the store, it is just hidden by a change on the availability date.
the user deletes the app
the user regrets deleting and wants to restore the app from icloud.
will the user be able to do that? and what about apps that were completely deleted from the store?
thanks.
The other answer is incorrect. Unless you indicate in iTunes Connect that the app was removed for legal reasons (Rights and Pricing section) the user will still be able to re-download the app from iCloud.
If the app is not displayed in the app store(developer hide or remove), user can not re-install it after deleting, until developer make it displayed in app store again.
if developer deleted the app completely from app store , that means the app is not displayed int the app store, user can not re-install it yet, but the developer can re-upload the app again using the same app-id.
Can or not can re-install app depends on whether the app is displayed in app store
Also depends on whether it is the same app-id
We have a company account for the iOS developer program.
One of our clients wants to put the app we developed for them up under their own company name, but they've only just sent off for enrollment and as such they want to put the app up under our name until they get their enrollment though.
Is it possible to "swap" the app to their account once theirs is set up?
Thanks
This issue has come up in the past. I know it used to be that you had to get Apple to do this manually, and it took a long time to boot. I imagine they'd like to improve their process for it, and I'd suggest contacting them to ask where they are at with it.
I wouldn't do it. Apple is really slow answering support question so you can easily loose like few months to transfer the app. But it is doable as stated here: Transferring ownership of an iPhone app on the app store
Just got this email from iTunesConnect!
Apps can now be transferred from one developer to another within
iTunes Connect, for example after an acquisition or when a
distribution deal expires. Transferring the ownership of an app does
not affect the app’s availability on the App Store. All ratings and
reviews will be transferred and your customers will continue to have
access to all available app updates.
To transfer an app, go to the app’s App Summary page in the Manage
Your Applications module on iTunes Connect and click Transfer App.
Make sure that:
Your account is active
You have accepted the most current version of your contracts
Your app has at least one approved version
Your app is in the Ready for Sale, Invalid Binary, Rejected, Developer Rejected, or Developer Removed from Sale state
Any associated In-App Purchases are in the Ready to Submit, Ready for Sale, Rejected, Developer Removed from Sale, or Approved
state
You know the Apple ID of the recipient’s Team Agent and their Team ID.
For more information on app transfer, see the video tutorial on iTunes
Connect. To find answers to common questions about app transfer, see
the FAQ on iTunes Connect.