Apple is preparing two changes for developers that have nothing to do with this month’s device launches: new App Store product page art due this fall, and a fifth in-person Developer Center opening in Berlin later this year. Apple has confirmed both in its own developer news posts, but has not given either one an…
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Apple Rewrote Its App Review Guidelines Twice in 2026: What Actually Changed
Apple revised its App Review Guidelines twice in 2026, on February 6 and again on June 8, and one of the changes now lets Apple remove long-standing apps from the store simply for not attracting customers. Both updates are posted on Apple’s developer news page in Apple’s own wording, without a redline showing the previous…
Apple Disclosed 2,045 Government App Takedowns, and Russia Accounts for More Than Half
Apple’s own App Store Transparency Report lists 2,045 apps removed worldwide at the request of governments, with Russia responsible for more than half of that total on its own. The figures come from Apple’s legal site, not from a leak or a rival’s estimate, and Apple frames every removal as limited to the country whose…
Telegram's App Store Removal Lasted About 40 Minutes, and Apple Explained Why
Apple removed Telegram from the App Store for about 40 minutes on the night of Monday, August 3, 2026, after a review found content that violated its rules against child sexual abuse material, then restored the app once Telegram removed the content and banned the account that posted it. Apple confirmed both the removal and…
Apple Sets an April 2027 SDK Deadline for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS
Starting in April 2027, Apple will require every iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS app or game submitted to App Store Connect to be built with that platform’s 27-generation software development kit or later. Apple published the requirement inside a September 9, 2026 developer news post that also declared the six new operating systems ready…
Apple Has Not Set a Commission Rate for App Store Link-Out Purchases in the US
A federal appeals court’s ruling already requires Apple to let App Store developers in the United States link customers out of an app to finish a purchase on the web. What that same ruling left open is whether Apple may charge a commission on those purchases at all, and if so, how much. As of…
App Store Age Ratings: Every Deadline on Apple's 2026 Compliance Calendar
Apple’s App Store age-rating questionnaire now includes new social media questions, and developer responses to them became required in September 2026, the most current entry on a rolling compliance calendar that runs back to July 2025. Apple has published eight separate age-rating and age-assurance changes over that period, each with its own publish date and…
Apple's Developer Program License Agreement: Two Updates Due Before October 1
Apple has published two separate updates to its Developer Program License Agreement this year, one carrying new European Union terms and one carrying new Brazil terms, and both require a developer’s signature before Thursday, October 1, 2026. Apple’s developer news dated the EU version August 18, 2026, and the Brazil version June 18, 2026: two…
Apple's EU App Store Deadline: What Developers Must Do Before October 1
Apple’s new business terms for apps in the European Union take effect Thursday, October 1, 2026, which by September 12 leaves developers under three weeks to act. Apple’s own pages point to four things to check before then: sign the updated developer agreement, choose payment options with a 12-month lock-in in mind, confirm marketplace eligibility…
Apple's New EU App Store Terms Take Effect October 1: The Full 26/20/15/5 Rate Card
Apple’s new business terms for apps distributed in the European Union take effect Thursday, October 1, 2026. The change replaces the Core Technology Fee with a flat 5 percent Core Technology Commission, eliminates two other fees outright, and folds everything into a single rate card of 26, 20, 15 and 5 percent depending on how…