Can I transfer my app after removing iCloud and subscription implementation?

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awesometown OP
Created Jun ’17
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I'm about transferring one of my app to another company who bought my work. After reviewing the guideline here : https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/iTunesConnect_Guide/Chapters/TransferringAndDeletingApps.html


It has following constraints:

Make sure the app uses only technology and content that can be transferred.

  • No version of the app can use an iCloud entitlement.
  • No version of the app can use a Passbook entitlement.
  • The app can’t offer (or have previously offered) in-app purchase subscriptions: auto-renewable, free, or non-renewing.


Since my app originally use iCloud and content subscription in the app, does that mean I can't transfer my app forever?

Or I can transfer the app after the latest version with removing the iCloud and subscription?

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mmSimon OP
Mar ’18

Have you had any success doing this? I'm facing the same situation right now.

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Marcel.Arbo OP
Mar ’18

I would also know if you had any success here or solved your situation.

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Code Yeti OP
Jan ’19

Bump! Would like to know if disabling iCloud will work?

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yomanx OP
Feb ’19

so....??? apple support ???????

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unllkm OP
Apr ’19

WARNING TO ALL DEVELOPERS: Never ever use iCloud in an app. It's not worth it! Using iCloud Entitlements makes your app untransferable and therefore unsaleable FOREVER. Apple has successfully ruined by development carrerr with this operational failure on their end.

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venkatasudhakar OP
Oct ’19

What the possibility if I disable icloude and Passbook and after releasing a build , can we transfer the app to another develoepr account .

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AlexMCC OP
Jan ’20

Disabling iCloud and releasing a new version, doesn't help.

Since you can not force the users to update the app, you will never get rid of iCloud support :-(


That is very odd.

...and not any more helpful for the user, if we now release a new app and take the old app off the store. :-(

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vidhi123 OP
May ’20

Can't apple support help us to get rid of this? This is very odd. There should be some way to transfer app if we disable iCloud and make relaese

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brendanlevy OP
Jul ’20
Would love to know if there are any plans to change this in the future.
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EdouardF OP
Sep ’20
Guys can you please make this happen. This is becoming ridiculous. iCloud disabled for 2+ years, app using iCloud not available anymore for download and you're still blocking us.
Please please please... fix this!
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chaocharleswang OP
Dec ’20
Apple support should do it.
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Danny182 OP
Jan ’21
No, Apple support will not transfer your app if it used iCloud entitlement in past. I am stuck with this problem and can't transfer my app to another account in any way.
This is very strange and needs to be fixed!
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cyberdev OP
May ’21
I am also stuck with the same problem and don't know what to do because the client want his app under is organisation apple account.

Regards
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irinafromvancouver OP
May ’21
Hello,
We are also stuck with an app which we cannot transfer because of the iCloud capabilities. Hoping that there's a resolution to this from Apple as the current account it's under will need to be closed and we need a way to migrate all apps!
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Simon Strandgaard OP
Oct ’21

I'm also getting the error when attempting to transfer app:

iCloud Enabled

You can only transfer apps that aren’t iCloud enabled.

My app uses iCloud for sharing documents between the users own devices. I cannot turn of iCloud, without also breaking the app entirely.

Has anyone ever succeeded with transferring iCloud enabled apps? Am I doomed?

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exabytes-dev OP
Nov ’21

Anyone has any luck with this yet?

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caobug OP
Nov ’21

The same iCloud problem. Is there a solution?

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gzac OP
Jan ’22

Is there a solution?

We have 12k positive reviews, more than 400k downloads, and nothing. Despite this everything will be erased (also we never used iCloud entitlement in production)

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ghowen OP
Feb ’22

I have encountered the exact same problem with my apps that use iCloud, and no help from Apple at all. I think the only thing we can do at the moment is to spread awareness about this to slowly grow the pressure. I have written an article on medium.com with the title "Why iOS Developers Should Never Use iCloud in Their Apps" that summarises the issue: georg.howen.de/why-ios-developers-should-never-use-icloud-in-their-apps-65aa303e4052. Feel free to share it on social media and professional networks to reach as many fellow devs as possible. Maybe this helps to prevent more damage and maybe lead to a fix sometime in the future.

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raffaelpatricio OP
Mar ’22

Is there any position about this? I have the same problem with one app and it's inconceivable this feature block an app transfer, even though the app doesn't use anymore.

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angrynapkin OP
May ’22

Hope this is fixed! It makes it impossible to sell or transfer apps

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rohitbhotica OP
May ’22

Hi - any update on this? Stuck & unable to transfer app.

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e7zdvrhdrhvd OP
Jun ’22

Looks like Apple allows it finally!!! https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/deved688524f

" If your app uses any of the following, it will be transferred to the transfer recipient after they accept the app transfer.

  • iCloud to store user data

  • iCloud containers

  • KVS identifiers

associated with the app "

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