"Apps violating guidelines may face removal from the store." Fresh App Store changes, Performance Improvement Plans, Icon Composer 2 tips and gotchas. New Hide My Email problems, group and volume subscriptions, moving subscription handling to your server and loss of App Store Connect's Trends tab.

Chapters

• 00:00  Intro
• 02:14  Apple's crackdown on early review prompts
• 04:05  Removing App Store "clutter"
• 08:47  Developer Performance Improvement Plans
• 13:28  Icon Composer gotchas and tips
• 17:41  Problematic changes to Sign in with Apple & Hide My Email
• 22:38  Group & volume subscriptions
• 30:54  Moving StoreKit handling to your server
• 38:48  App Store Connect loses Trends tab?!
• 41:20  Wrap-up

Finding Drew:

• Bluesky
• X / Twitter
• YouTube
• Github

Finding Dan:

• Bluesky
• Instagram
• Dan’s Certainly Swift blog

Mentioned in this episode:

• Grandma’s Marathon
• App Review Guidelines
• WWDC 2024 App Store server APIs
• WWDC 2026 Group subscriptions
• Icon Composer 2
• Relay Team Finder (TestFlight beta)
• The Midst (app)
• OpenAI omni-moderation API

Drew and Dan in the Morning can be found on:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• YouTube
• Overcast
• Deezer