due to a Licence Conflict with the Name of one of my Applications I had to remove it from the App Store.
If I rerelease it under a different name, is there a way I could reduce the price for people who previously bought the old App?
I'm going to add a lot of new features , still it is going to be the same program.
Did any one experience somthing like this before?
Hi unfortunately this is not possible if you are creating a new app to migrate users from an existing app free of charge.
If the old app is still on iTunes, you can just change the name there and in your plist file and continue to use the same bundle identifier, Your old users will receive the new application as a free update, however it sounds like your application has been removed
One option would be to make the app available for free for a period and before any marketing campaign took place, then inform the users of the old application that the new application is available free of charge if they update now, once it is felt you have enough of your old users on the application you could raise the pricing tier of the new application
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We have live applications on the app store. They're released, active and with a lot of users.
Now, there's talk about renaming one of our apps.
I've never done that personally. Do any of you know if it's possible to update it, and what's the risk?
If the status of your app is Prepare for Submission, you can change your app name. In the past I renamed my apps on the App Store several times, but I'm NOT required a new AppId.
In the past I had to rename an App on the App Store. At that time it was all bad news. Since the new name required a new AppId all of my existing customers could not receive updates to the program. And, since it wasn't a subscription model, I had no way to contact them and so was only able to lament this in the product description. I can only hope that it's better now.
Imagine that we have bought other application, then transfer it to our accounts in application stores. Seems like it's possible for all 3 major smartphone platforms.
Imagine then that we bought app for great community, not for app features. Could we publish our own app as an update for bought app?
P.S.: we don't consider possible negative reaction from community, only tech and legal possibility. Also we don't consider that at least in Apple App Store publishing absolutely the same app with different bundle id counts like spamming.
For Google Play techincally it is possible to transfer a app from one account to another and yes you can publish other app as the update for the existing one as long as your app has the same package name as the existing one.
http://phandroid.com/2012/06/21/getting-acquired-how-to-transfer-ownership-of-your-android-app-or-game/
My company had outsourced an iOS app to another company, and they published the app on the App Store using their Apple ID. The app have been available for download for a few months and has a number of users. Now my company developed a slightly newer version of the app and would like to distribute the app using our own Apple ID. What's the correct way to do it? The major concerns we have are:
Should we submit the newer version using our ID before or after we take the old app down from the App Store. Would it happen that the newer app get rejected because Apple feel the two apps are too similar? (Actually they are quite similar, for that the update is slim.)
Is there a graceful way to notify the currently online app's users that they should switch to the newer app? And How to coordinate it, since the newer app may take a certain amount of time to get approved.
Thanks.
There are some different scenarios here, I am going to try to address some of them to see which one helps you the most:
1-)You have a current application that contains no use of push notification and no use of in app purchase. This is the easiest one. Basically, It does not matter what version the user has had before. You can remove the old one from the previous developer account and add it to the new developer account. By completely removing the previous application (not just from the app store listing, but from the developer account), you can reuse the bundle ID. When the user reinstall the app, the user will be able to replace the old application with the new application (note that the new application will not appear on the user's update list).
2-)You have push notification. Here, you will have to keep the old application if you wish to maintain the push notification certificates, so, the new application will have to use a new bundle ID, which means that the app will appear on the user as a new application, and the user will be able to have both app simultaneously.
3-)You have in app purchase and subscriptions. You will need to remove the old in app purchase entries from the old developer account, and add it to the new account (if you wish to reuse the product id, if not, you will have to create it either way).
I am not sure what kind of measure you need to take if you are using iCloud and/or other services. Best course of action is to contact Apple developer support. They will give you some guidance on what to do with your specific case. Also, when submitting, make sure to point to the reviewer that you are trying to move the application from one company to another. I think they can access review notes from the review to the previous submission(instead of reviewing it as a new app), and speed up the process.
Edit: You can not transfer apps between companies using iTunes connect. More information here: link
Is it possible to have the same identical app on App Store, but under two different developer accounts, and slightly different names?
I need to move an app from one dev account to another, but I would like it uploaded on the new account before removing it from the old one.
Anyone have experience with this?
The two apps will have to have unique and different iTunes Connect names and different Bundle IDs. The only sure way to determine whether or not this is possible is to submit the new app, and see if Apple approves it.
I've seen the same app "Smart Alarm Clock" by Arawella corp being sold both as a free version and as a paid version. They essentially have the same app twice in the app store, just with different icons. If a company that big can get away with that, you can probably too (paid and free version)
We have an app on the app store that we need to remove. As such we have a new version to upload as a completely new app with a new app SKU and Id but we want to offer a free upgrade for those who have purchased the original version.
Is there a way to do this?
But if you're willing to give new App for free for everybody who's got an old one why do you create a new application and not just update old one? You can change anything you want about app except SKU# as I understand. Do you have anything tied to old SKU# or you have other reasons to create a new app?
I agree with the other posters. Apple does not have a mechanism to do this.
What you can do:
-make a black and white or very washed out icon for the old app
- change the app description to say that this is an old version / no longer supported / deprecated and to search for the new version.
- Make sure the new app title show something like NEW, 2.0 or some signifier to draw attention
I have not heard or seen anything about it. Only thing that comes to my mind is to give a promotion code. This of course opens up some other questions:
How to communicate that to your customers?
How to secure that it is not explored by users who have not bought the first app?
Don't have any good answers to that (time limited offer?) but maybe it could lead you to some new ideas.
Good luck!
Unfortunately there's no real way to do this. Apple intentionally keeps information about the users of your old app private.
Well, there's one way I can think of, but it requires some forethought (and I'm not certain it would be ok by Apple) and it would cost you a bit: When your old app runs it contacts a server of yours with the device's UDID, which you save on the server. Then you show an alert in the old app that tells existing users to contact you via email with their UDID (you could make it easy on the user by putting together the email in-app with the UDID in the subject or body). You then send a gift of the new app (via iTunes) to every user that emailed you that way.
You'd take a 30% hit (Apple's cut) but the rest of the gift price would end up back in your bank account. People who pirated the app would get the offer, too, and there's no way you could tell a pirating user from a valid user. But it would more-or-less work.