Hi folks,I'm offering a freemium app with an IAP option to unlock features from macOS App Store. Now I was contacted by a company interested in purchasing some licenses, and distributing it to their users by Apple Business Manager. According to them the app's IAP cannot be centrally purchased / distributed.Is Apple Business Manager supporting In-App purchases, and if so are there any specific configurations etc. to follow?Any help appreciated, Mattes

Hi folks! I'm looking into Promoted In-App Purchases, which I'd like to support with my macOS app to - hopefully - increase revenues. It looks like implementing the related method paymentQueue:shouldAddStorePayment:forProduct: for the transaction observer, and providing a promotional image should do the job ... plus some tweaking if the app's launch behavior requires that. But App Store Connect is not showing any option for promotional images of the IAP, and tests (as mentioned here) aren't launching my app. What do I miss? The app's deployment target is macOS 10.12, but I would expect this to work with macOS 11 and higher - as listed for the method. Any thoughts / personal experiences are appreciated! Mattes P.S.: Maybe this works only for iOS apps running on Apple Silicon starting macOS 11? Just a quick after-thought...

App receipt generation is broken (again). I'm getting the message my app is "damaged" on macOS Monterey 12.3.1 with Xcode 13.3.1 when no receipt is delivered after the app quits with exit(173) and I'm prompted for Mac App Store credentials. I tried App Store log out / log in (sandbox and regular account), cleaning derived data as well as reboot to no avail. Being aware of several old postings (and new comments), I decided to start a new thread to increase visibility ... and also filed a bug report FB10014055. Please consider a duplicate report if you're affected to raise Apple's awareness (all system status are reported as "green")...

After updating Safari to version 15.0 (16612.1.29.41.4, 16612), App Store Connect refuses to load "Sales & Trends". Other tabs like "My Apps" are loaded properly and Firefox has no issues showing my trends, but Safari is just presenting a blank page (titlebar only, no navigation, no charts). Apple, what a shame that Safari cannot render even your own web sites... Mattes

Hi folks,My Quick Look plugin reads a "related item" in addition to the file to be thumbnailed / previewed. Therefore I implement a NSFilePresenter as described in scenario 2 of the link Apple documentations:https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Security/Conceptual/AppSandboxDesignGuide/AppSandboxInDepth/AppSandboxInDepth.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40011183-CH3-SW22This approach worked well until macOS 10.15 "Catalina" (and even works there for the main app). When previewing a file with Quick Look the related item file is not read. I assume the sandbox of Quick Look is not extended to the related item.Before filing a RADAR, does anyone has a similar QL plugin and observing the same behavior?Greetings, MattesEdit: If I perform the preview using qlmanage the related item is read...

Hi folks,I'd like to add a Siri Intent Extension to my Objective-C project. Users should be able to pick it in the "Shortcuts" app to trigger it by voice. The extension should only read out a result string to the user. Sounds quite simple, doesn't it?So far I've enabled Siri capability for my app, added the Intent Extension, defined the intent with a fixed result, and implemented a dummy handler, but Siri doesn't show my shortcut and I assume that's because I haven't donated the shortcut so far.Unfortunately I cannot get my brain around the concept of donations (in this context): My app is not going to be launched, there is no specific workflow related to the shortcut, but it should just tell the user what their next lesson a school is: no required parameter, neiter any confirmation, nor a user interaction, not even a specific Intention UI...Is a donation required to make Siri recognize my shortcut? So the app needs to be run at least once to use the shortcut? Does my app need to request Siri access from the user? All examples I found were dealing with more complex scenarios, including app integrations. Do I need to walk all this road?Any help is appreciated, Mattes