{"id":28908,"date":"2020-05-11T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28908"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:37:15","slug":"apps-that-cant-be-transferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/apps-that-cant-be-transferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps That Can’t Be Transferred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Chapman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Looking again<\/em> at implementing CloudKit for syncing and again<\/em> getting hung up on the whole “I can no longer transfer this app to another account” thing<\/p>\n

Is it really worth setting up a separate LLC and dev account for each app for the rare chance I may want to transfer later?<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

It’s not about iCloud data not transferring, it’s that Apple literally won’t let you transfer the app to a different account at all of you’ve enabled the CloudKit entitlement. So you’d have to give up the entire account<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Jurgis Kirsakmens<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iCloud entitlement, Catalyst app, Passbook entitlement, apps with App Group Container, Sign in with Apple - any of this makes app un-transferable<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2020-07-29): Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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App Store Connect protip: never, in a million years, put your app into an app bundle. Holy crap. It locks you into so many restrictions, forever, and there’s no way back out of it; you can never remove your app from a bundle, and you can never delete a bundle completely<\/p>\n

It is absolutely insane that bundles, which should be a temporary marketing feature<\/em>, permanently taint your app record. Who in their right mind designed this system? What developer would ever use it if they knew?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n