Hi everyone, I’m seeing a consistent one-day discrepancy between the expiresDate returned by the App Store Server API and the “Expires on” date shown in the iOS Settings / App Store subscription list. I’d like to confirm whether this behavior is expected or if I’m misunderstanding the way Apple rounds dates. Reproduction steps Step Action Result 1 Purchase a 1-month auto-renewable subscription on 23 June 2025 14:00 JST (UTC+9) Transaction succeeds 2 Immediately fetch the transaction with GET /inApps/v1/subscriptions/{transactionId} Response contains "expiresDate": "2025-07-23T05:00:00Z" (= 23 July 2025 14:00 JST) 3 On the same device open Settings › Apple ID › Subscriptions (or App Store › Account › Subscriptions) UI shows Expires on: 22 July 2025 The same happens for every monthly renewal and on multiple devices. Region is Japan, device time zone Asia/Tokyo. What I understand so far (and my hypothesis) Apple’s docs say a monthly subscription renews “on the same calendar date” of the next month, so renewal in this example is 23 July. If the renewal is scheduled for 23 July at 14:00 JST, the subscription is fully usable until the end of 22 July in calendar terms, because the new billing period starts the moment the 23rd begins in Apple’s canonical time zone. Therefore, it might be intentional for the UI to display 22 July—i.e., “you can keep using it through the 22nd; on the 23rd it renews.” This hypothesis makes sense internally, yet it still looks confusing to end users who read “Expires on 22 July” and assume access ends at 00:00 on the 22nd, a whole day earlier than in reality. Questions Is showing the day before the renewal date the official/expected behavior? If so, could Apple clarify that the “Expires on” label represents the last full calendar day rather than the exact expiry timestamp? Which value should we surface in-app when telling users “Your subscription is valid until …”? The server’s expiresDate (precise to the second, converted to user time zone), or A UI-style date that’s one day earlier, matching Settings / App Store? Does Apple have a public document describing this rounding/visual convention? Have other developers encountered user confusion about the apparent 1-day “shortening” and, if so, how did you word your in-app messaging? Any insight from Apple engineers or fellow developers would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

会员等级进行升级？需要按天计算费用，像爱奇艺这样是怎么做的？

アプリ内課金を実装しようとしていますが、サーバサイドのセキュリティに関してについて質問です。 StoreKit２を使えばアプリとApp Store Connect間のレシート検証は不要だが、 購入情報をサーバーで管理する場合は アプリからサーバーに購入情報を渡す際にレシート検証する必要があると考えるがその認識であっているか教えていただきたいです。

Hi Team, I’ve successfully implemented the subscription flow for my app. However, I’m currently facing challenges related to testing the cancellation behavior for auto-renewable subscriptions. Specifically: I’m unable to locate the correct payload structure for the following test endpoint: https://api.storekit-sandbox.itunes.apple.com/inApps/v1/notifications/test I’m also unclear on how to simulate or complete the full lifecycle of a subscription (including cancellation) using Apple’s sandbox environment or APIs. Could you please guide me on how to: Retrieve or construct the proper payload for the test notification API? Simulate a cancellation flow end-to-end in the sandbox for auto-renewable subscriptions?

We offer a 3-day free trial, and our paywall clearly states that users will be charged after the trial ends. However, some users request refunds after the charge - even after fully using our app for days or even weeks. In some cases, refunds are approved despite the users having consumed our AI processing services for up to a month. Since our app relies on backend AI processing, each user session incurs a real cost. To prevent losses, we utilize RevenueCat’s CONSUMPTION_REQUEST system and have set our refundPreference to: "2. You prefer that Apple declines the refund". Until recently, Apple typically respected this preference, and 90% of refund requests were declined as intended. However, starting about a week ago, we observed a sudden reversal: Apple is now approving around 90% of refund requests, despite our refund preference. As a result, we are operating at a loss and have had to halt both our marketing campaigns and our 3-day free trial. We’re trying to understand whether this shift is due to a change in Apple’s refund policy, or if we need to handle CONSUMPTION_REQUEST differently on our end. Has anyone else experienced similar changes? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, I added new In-App Purchase into my app, it was approved on 2nd of Oct but now 7th of Oct I still cannot see it in the list of products coming from Store. I already have 2 subscriptions and 1 In-App purchase in my app, but the new In-App purchase is still not coming from the store in available products. What could cause this?

有人遇到这个问题吗,在支付的时候提示未知错误,具体的错误信息如下: 交易失败,outTradeNo:2025022631999900326, productId:com.f6car.p0001, error:Err-or -Domain=SKErrorDomain Code=0 "发生未知错误" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=发生未知错误, NSUnderlyingError=0x302f50120 {Error Domain=ASDServerErrorDomain Code=3512 "无效的应用程序外部版本。" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=无效的应用程序外部版本。}}} 寻求解决方案,感谢.

According to the App Store Server API documentation , https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreserverapi/price the price field "shows the total amount of the transaction for the quantity the customer purchased." However, in actual transaction notifications and responses from App Store Server API, the price field appears to represent the unit price, not the total price. For consumable in-app purchases with quantity > 1, the price field equals the unit price of a single item. The total user payment is only correct after multiplying by the quantity. When quantity > 1, the actual amount paid by the user only matches price × quantity, which contradicts the documentation. Please confirm whether the price field is intended to be: The unit price of a single item (requiring multiplication by quantity), or The total price including all quantities (as currently documented). If the former is correct, please update the documentation to clarify that the value represents the unit price, not the total amount.

Hi To test SkAdNetwork, I installed the profile from the documentation (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/testing-ad-attributions-with-a-downloaded-profile) on my ios device. and turned off and on Allow Apps to Request to Track to change the idfa value. In this state, I installed the app (bundle id: id436731843) using SKAdNetwork with the following values at April 8th AM 01 (UTC) SkAdnetwork version: 3.0 fidelity fidelity=0, nonce=b3346a51-f7b5-42a2-a508-775a62317c83, timestamp=1744076349671, signature=... fidelity=1, nonce=b3346a51-f7b5-42a2-a508-775a62317c83, timestamp=1744076349672, signature=... itunesitem=436731843 network=87u5trcl3r.skadnetwork sourceapp=1220307907 I was hoping to get a postback after , but after a day, the postback is still not delivered. Any idea why the postback is not delivered? Thank you

Hi Apple Developer Team, I'm looking to confirm some technical details regarding the pre-order flow and App Store receipt handling. Specifically, I have the following questions: Q1: After a user installs an app via pre-order and launches it for the first time, will a valid App Store receipt be available immediately via [[NSBundle mainBundle] appStoreReceiptURL]? Are there any known cases where the receipt might be missing or invalid, requiring a manual refresh (e.g., via SKReceiptRefreshRequest)? Q2: Is the pre-order flow currently supported in the sandbox environment? Specifically, is it possible to simulate pre-ordering an app and installing it in a sandbox or TestFlight environment, in order to test receipt generation and related logic? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstorereceipts/responsebody/receipt Q3: The receipt field in the App Store receipt structure is marked as deprecated. Is it still acceptable to use this field for validating receipts? Has Apple announced any timeline or system version in which this field will be fully removed or unsupported?

I get crash reports which I can't reproduce when trying to present an SKStoreProductViewController : Fatal Exception: UIApplicationInvalidInterfaceOrientation Supported orientations has no common orientation with the application, and [SKStoreProductViewController shouldAutorotate] is returning YES No matter what app Deployment info orientation I try I can't get my SKStoreProductViewController shouldAutorotate property to return YES. It is always false. Does anyone knows why or how to get an SKStoreProductViewController to return shouldAutorotate YES?

Background: My app uses a third-party SDK for payments, and it uses Original StoreKit internally for IAP payments. Now I'm getting ready to migrate to StoreKit2, and during the transition, users may use either method to initiate payments, and there's no way to avoid the coexistence of StoreKit2 and Original StoreKit. Problem: When a user has an unfinished transaction, if the app is restarted, both StoreKit2 and Original StoreKit will receive a notification of the transaction: Original StoreKit's '-paymentQueue:updatedTransactions:' method StoreKit2's 'Transaction.updated' method resulting in duplicate calls to the shipping API. My current treatment is to only add '-paymentQueue:updatedTransactions:' to listen for unfinished transactions. Even if the user is using StoreKit2 to initiate the payment, if the transaction is not Finished, it will be fetched via this method after restarting the app to process this transaction. Is this approach feasible and are there any best practices for this scenario? To summarize: Is it feasible to fetch unfinished StoreKit2 transactions via Original StoreKit methods when StoreKit2 coexists with Original StoreKit? Is there a recommended way

My server's access to Apple's payment interface (buy. itunes. apple. com/verifiyReceipt) has been unresponsive since the end of March, and I have been searching for a long time without finding any issues. Normally, even if the data is incorrect, there is still a {"status": 21000} response. We are using Alibaba Cloud's virtual servers here. I don't know if Apple has made any adjustments to the interface. If anyone has encountered this problem, please kindly help to answer it. Thank you all.

Transaction can not finish in OS26.2 TestFlight

A customer of mine signed up for a free trial. I got a apple server notification with notification type DID_RENEW. What does that mean? Does that mean that they will be charged the subscription price now?

Hello, is it allowed to include the action=write-review URL parameter in customer support emails to direct users to the App Store review page? Example: https://apps.apple.com/app/id[APP_ID]?action=write-review I want to make it easy for customers to leave feedback after positive support interactions, but only if it's compliant.

Is there an API Endpoint that I can call to check if user still have valid subscription? I want to be sure that his subscription renewal was succesful (ie: I dont want to give him another month/year/.. if his latest renewal wasnt successful) Would GET https://api.storekit.itunes.apple.com/inApps/v1/transactions/{transactionId} be the correct API endpoint to call? But I wonder, after subscription auto-renews, do we still use the same transactionId to check whether his subs is still valid?

Hello, I would like to ask about an Apple ID authentication behavior during in-app purchases. Our app uses a StoreKit 1 (SKPaymentQueue-based) implementation, and there are no differences in the in-app purchase logic between the TestFlight build and the App Store production build. However, we have observed that some users are prompted to enter their Apple ID password during in-app purchases. The observed behavior is as follows: On the first in-app purchase, the system prompts for the Apple ID password After the password is entered once, subsequent purchases proceed normally using Face ID (double side-button press) Even after deleting and reinstalling the app, or switching between TestFlight and App Store builds, the password prompt does not reappear if authentication has already occurred This behavior can occur even when the Apple ID already has an active auto-renewable subscription The only confirmed change on our side is: The app is now built with Xcode 26 instead of Xcode 18 Based on this, we are currently considering the following possible causes: A change in purchase authentication behavior due to the Xcode version update Expiration of the Apple ID purchase authentication session after a long period without purchases In addition to these points, we would like to ask: Are there any other common conditions or security policies in iOS or the App Store that may cause the system to require Apple ID password input during in-app purchases? Is this behavior considered expected under certain circumstances? We would appreciate your clarification on whether this is expected system behavior or if there are any implementation aspects we should further review. Thank you for your support.

Hi everyone, I’m facing a recurring issue with my macOS app being rejected during App Store review, and I’d really appreciate any guidance. The subscription flow in my app is implemented using StoreKit, and everything works perfectly in our development environment using a StoreKit configuration file. It also behaves as expected in Sandbox testing and TestFlight — I even had few beta testers confirm that the subscription information is displayed correctly and the purchase flow completes without issues. All required subscription details are configured in App Store Connect: • Subscription duration and the description of the services offered • Price and price per unit where applicable • Paid apps agreement and related forms are correctly filled However, when the app is submitted for review, the subscription screen fails to display the expected information. From what I can tell, the product information fails to load from the App Store in the review environment — even though everything is working fine on our side. We’ve already submitted a video to Apple showing the subscription UI working in the Sandbox environment, but the app continues to be rejected under guideline 3.1.2 due to missing subscription info in the binary. Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior during review? Could there be a caching issue or delay in StoreKit syncing for newly configured products? Any help or suggestions are very welcome. Thanks in advance!

1)What's the relationship between ""Texas, child, 16-17, significant change declined" from my 11:03 screenshot below and "revoking"? ie what situation could someone decline but not revoke or vice versa, what is the purpose of the distinction in testing or legally or implications/implementation 2) What is a cause besides a typo to receive the "Can't trigger notification" titled message after using "Revoke"? you can see by my screenshot by comparing the left and right half there is no title. 3) Even if i find a workaround perhaps my info will help someone else or be an opportunity for improved documentation see: see my 5:54pm second screenshot