App Store XML API going away in November

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Created Jul ’22

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Today I've received an email from Apple telling me that the App Store XML API is going away in November. (See e.g. https://help.apple.com/asc/appsspec/en.lproj/static.html).

I have been using this API for some years to upload screenshots andIAP details (I have an app with a large number of IAPs).

I'd like to thank Apple for giving me three months to implement an alternative. That's much better than the one month warning that they gave me for the last feature that they removed, IAP hosted content.

Still, it's frustrating that I need to do a load of work to replace something that has been working fine for years. Having been an iOS developer since 2008 I've got a lot of accumulated "stuff". These days, I seem to spend more time adapting to things that Apple have deprecated than working on new features. And I constantly worry about what is next for the chop.

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App Store Connect Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’22

Hi @endecotp,

Thank you for your feedback. We know it can be disruptive to have to move off of legacy tools and onto newer ones. We're sorry for any interruption to your development process that this may cause.

We are thrilled for developers to begin using our In-App Purchases and Subscriptions REST APIs and we think that developers will see a huge benefit to adopting them. We highly encourage you to check out our robust API documentation that could help you:

Managing In-App Purchases

Managing auto-renewable subscriptions

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endecotp OP

Jul ’22

we think that developers will see a huge benefit to adopting them

Could you be specific about what that huge benefit is? As far as I can tell, it is providing the same functionality as the old XML API.

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