{"id":23725,"date":"2018-12-20T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23725"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:53:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:53:15","slug":"app-store-now-allows-gifting-iaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/20\/app-store-now-allows-gifting-iaps\/","title":{"rendered":"App Store Now Allows Gifting IAPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/12\/19\/app-store-in-app-purchase-gifting\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2018\/12\/19\/app-store-in-app-purchase-gifting\/\">\n<p>Apple today made a tweak to its <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/app-store\/review\/guidelines\/\">App Store Review Guidelines<\/a>, allowing developers to implement a new feature that will let iOS users purchase in-app content as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, iOS users can purchase paid apps as gifts for other iOS users, but there&rsquo;s no way to purchase in-app content as a gift. As more and more apps work on a free-to-try or subscription basis with various content only available through an in-app purchase, this change to the in-app purchase rules makes sense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So I assume this feature isn&rsquo;t coming to the Mac App Store anytime soon. It doesn&rsquo;t even support <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/gifting-mac-app-store-apps\/\">regular gifting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elkmovie\/status\/1075507321424498688\">Michael Love<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elkmovie\/status\/1075507321424498688\">\n<p>Question is whether they&rsquo;re offering an official system for this or whether we have to hack together something of our own; if the latter, it would be yet another disappointing example of Apple punishing devs for offering non-consumable IAPs.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>OTOH, the hopeful spin is that they&rsquo;ve decided to start treating IAPs as equivalent to regular purchases (possibly after some back-end upgrades), in which case we might shortly see the two long-awaited feature requests of IAP Family Sharing + IAP for volume buyers come to pass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/mac-app-analytics-now-available-in-app-store-connect\/\">Mac App Analytics Now Available in App Store Connect<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple today made a tweak to its App Store Review Guidelines, allowing developers to implement a new feature that will let iOS users purchase in-app content as a gift. Right now, iOS users can purchase paid apps as gifts for other iOS users, but there&rsquo;s no way to purchase in-app content as a [&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":"2018-12-20T21:51:12Z","apple_news_api_id":"e6862275-dce4-42c9-bffa-4a8872b50ea4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-20T21:53:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5oYiddzkQsm_-kqIcrUOpA","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":[],"tags":[91,1421,1015,522,31,1610,30,39,1609],"class_list":["post-23725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-appstore","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-family-sharing","tag-inapppurchase","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-14"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725","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=23725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23726,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23725\/revisions\/23726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}