I have a developer account for person, not a company. And I have my name written near every app that I published. Now I want to changed it to fancy name without changing my developer account and without registration of company.
Any help will be appreciated.
I've changed approved answer because we are forced to start all law procedures to get legit papers for our company name and show it to Apple. Seems to be that this is the only way. :(
I'm sorry to tell you, but as far as I know, the only way to have your real name changed into a "fancy" name is that you have a company with that name, which means that you've to go trough a hell of a mail exchange between you and apple, and you'll also have to provide some documentation that proves your company as existing.
Answer founded in the iOS Developer Support Center FAQ:
You have to send an email.
How can I update or change my iOS Developer Program account information?
Please contact us for assistance with:
Address changes
Contact information updates
Company/Organization name updates or changes
Look for more info here: https://developer.apple.com/support/ios/account-management.html
You may need to either incorporate, or legally change your name, as Apple will likely ask to see the legal paperwork that your new fancy name is the legally recognized one for you or your corporation.
Related
I want to publish a maintenance update to a VSCode extension that I once published.
I published the extension while I was at university X, and now I am at university Y. Stupidly, I had used my university X email address for creating the Azure DevOps account for publishing the extension, and this email address does no longer exist, so I lost access to the Azure DevOps account. I still have access to the Github account of the source repository of the extension, so I can "prove" that I am the author.
I believe that as the author of an extension with a few hundred users it is well in the interest of Microsoft to support me with this. The problem is that since I am not a business customer of Microsoft, I see no way to contact them at all. Does someone have a support email address, perhaps?
If preferred, you can also contact me directly via https://chat.stackoverflow.com/users/10190810/david.
Before following any technical advice, you should first identify if there is any copyright/patent issue you neglected. "I published the extension while I was at university X" might be an indicator of such issues if you were employed in anyway and the actual work contracts might force you to grant copyright to the university. Be warned that some contracts don't even allow you to publish such on your own, so there might be bigger problems (the typical your code is not yours situation).
Once you iron out the non-technical part, it might be a good thing to end that old extension publisher account completely and start all over with a new publisher account.
I'v just uploaded my application to app store. Searched for this for a while, but couldn't find an answer.
In app store it shows like "Application name" BY realname. Is there any way to change that? I know that changing seller name is not very easy, but i have seen individual developers without showing real name in after BY. So how can i change that?
Individual developers can get a DBA to do business as something besides their real name. You'll need to get in contact with Apple by email and they'll request that you fax them copies of your DBA to verify that yo have the right to use it, and they'll switch the name at their discretion. They may have an issue with you switching from a personal-type account (your real name) to a business-type account (the DBA), so it might be worth emailing them ahead of time to see if they'll allow you to do it without creating a new developer account.
You are an Individual Developer. Therefore your full name is shown. If you want to change it, join Apple Developer Program as Company Developer.
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
This question does not appear to be about programming within the scope defined in the help center.
Closed 5 years ago.
Improve this question
I am thinking about registering into iPhone Developer Program, with an enquiry about the name to register. I can only register as 'standard individual', but I do not want my real name showing in the AppStore in the future, which seems absurd, with your personal name public when you are not a public figure.
But I do not have a company as well.
So I wonder whether we can register with real name as 'standard individual', but using a "screen name" in AppStore? Does Apple allow this? (I know if this is allowed loosely, there will be a lot of confusion in the AppStore as all sorts of strange names will show up, but I really expect there is a way out, like controlled "Screen names"?)
New findings:
A friend just told me that "umbrella organisations" such as a department of university can register with a team, with a team "agent", several "admin"s and "member"s. It has "Company/Organization ID" in the iOS Developer Program, and the "Account Type" is "Company/Organization". Obviously it is not a "registered company/organisation" or independent trading entity (I guess only the university itself, not its many departments, is an independent trading entity?)
If a department can register as a "company/organisation", does it mean there is some kind of middle-ground between an officially registered company and personal name?
First off, this is really a question for Apple or your lawyers or accountants, not SO. But that said:
The basic reason your real name shows up in the iTunes store for an individual account is that when you're selling on the app store, you are a legal entity (sole proprietor), and unless you have some sort of company structure, the sale of the app is an exchange between the customer and you. This has tax and legal implications which are different than if you were a company. Apple's goal is not to out your "personal name", but to be clear about the entity relationship.
Forming an company (in the US, an LLC is easy, inexpensive, and works well for this) is the quickest way of creating a new entity to sell against. You may be able to file some sort of simpler "doing-business-as" papers to operate a sole proprietorship by another name, but that's dependent on local laws, and would offer none of the (scant but real) legal protection an LLC could offer you in the case of, say, a lawsuit.
(Even as an individual, you can provide a "company" name, which is what shows up in places besides the copyright and seller field. But I assume you already know this.)
My recommendation is this: if you're just testing the waters, or doing hobby projects, selling under your own name is fine-- it doesn't influence people's purchasing decisions. If you're making a go of it as a real business, filing for an LLC is a simple and smart step anyways.
When I became an iPhone Developer, I had the very same question as you did. I contacted Apple and was told that I had to either:
1) Use my real name; or
2) Use the name a LLC that I owned.
IIRC this is not allowed as your name will be required for payment and tax purposes.
The only way to not show up under your real name is to have a company. If you look in the app store, you will see apps developed by individuals have the person's name attached to it.
Of course, last time I looked at this it was a few years ago, so it may have changed since.
Its quite annoying sometimes when you have no authentic sources to confirm if particular tasks can be done using iPhone Available (Public) APIs. Whats the preferred way of finding it out?.
Shall we go through iPhone documented APIs,
Ask senior developers ( which i dont prefer, you should not depend on others too much and theres no surety about their opinions ).
Mail Apple ( by the way they offer only 2 technical calls/yr :) ,
Any other ideas?
what do u people suggest?
Thanks Guys!
The public APIs are documented on developer.apple.com in the iOS Reference Library.
However, the only absolutely authentic source on whether their use is acceptable is to submit an app and have it reviewed. Apple just added a review board if you with to appeal a review ruling, so that may be the new last word (unless you get the executive staff's attention (e.g. SJ)).
If you wish more facts before submitting an app, there are a few sites which show which types of apps are being accepted and rejected, and if so, for what given reason. However past acceptance of a type of app is not a precedent or guarantee for any future policy.
If you wish to try interpreting their rules and guidelines yourself, they are available as part of the Developer iOS Standard Agreement.
The Developer support people who answer technical question usually cannot answer review or approval questions, except to point you at the proper API documentation. (The reason may be that these are often legal, corporate policy or marketing questions, not technical questions.)
You can look at official review process from Apple here:
https://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
Step 1 : Check the API.
Step 2 : If can't find an way in the API (may be you are looking at wrong API), use Google to find out whether it can be done or not.
Step 3 : If you can't be sure using Google, then ask SO.
IMO, Asking Apple is never an option.
I want to know if there is a possibility to add a team member in iPhone Developer Portal that will have permissions (see / modify / update) ONLY to one application.
The reason - there is a big company (that has many applications in the App Store) that uploaded one of my applications and I have hard time to send an update to the application (can't access the guy that is responsible for all the iPhone applications).
I want to ask them to add me as a team member, but they might agree only if I won't be able to see/touch any other application except the one that I have developed...
Thank you.
I don't believe this is possible; there are no per-app permissions.
The available "roles" are explained here:
http://developer.apple.com/programs/roles/index.php
It seems a bit odd if they trust you to write an application that they've published under their corporate identity, but don't trust that you'll only change what you're meant to. Either way is seems the only solution to your problem is likely to be a non-technical one; you need to find a way to get to that guy, whether it's appealing to his better nature, or finding a path to someone more senior who can lean on him.