{"id":21190,"date":"2018-04-10T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21190"},"modified":"2019-11-18T17:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:00:28","slug":"app-store-subscriptions-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/10\/app-store-subscriptions-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Subscriptions And You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ikennd.ac\/blog\/2018\/04\/app-store-subscriptions-and-you\/\">Daniel Kennett<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iKenndac\/status\/982289773103603712\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ikennd.ac\/blog\/2018\/04\/app-store-subscriptions-and-you\/\"><p>What makes this more difficult is that right now, App Store subscriptions for &ldquo;normal&rdquo; apps (i.e., those that aren&rsquo;t content services like magazines or Netflix) are <em>reasonably<\/em> new, and Apple appears to be finessing the rules over time. This can cause a frustrating situation as you try to do your best but end up getting repeated rejections due to your app not meeting the rules.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, I&rsquo;ve been shipping an app that uses subscriptions for eight months, and have had multiple subscription-related rejections happen between my first release and now due to changing rules and changing enforcement of existing rules. The information in this post is a combination of my experience, as well as conversations with App Review both via email and phone. Hopefully the additional context provided by speaking to a human being from App Review on the phone will be as helpful to you as it was for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Kennett (tweet): What makes this more difficult is that right now, App Store subscriptions for &ldquo;normal&rdquo; apps (i.e., those that aren&rsquo;t content services like magazines or Netflix) are reasonably new, and Apple appears to be finessing the rules over time. This can cause a frustrating situation as you try to do your best but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-10T18:23:06Z","apple_news_api_id":"5a53a61b-db64-49e1-a268-ab8b2dd79237","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-18T22:00:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWlOmG9tkSeGiaKuLLdeSNw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1846,91,1421,31,1472],"class_list":["post-21190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-review","tag-appstore","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-ios","tag-ios-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21191,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21190\/revisions\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}