"Cannot connect to iTunes Store" during testing

Out of the blue, I've started to get this message when trying to test IAP using TestFlight. On a couple of occassions, the message was different and referred to an inability to create a secure SSL connection. I have gone back and checked multiple prior builds and they present the same issue. I looked at the Developer Status page and everything is green. Is anyone else having this problem?

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Follow-up: just as mysteriously as it began to happen, the issue stopped. I checked production builds back 2 months and confirmed the issue existed in those builds. I can only assume that there was something going on with the sandbox store that has been addressed since I posted my initial question.

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Follow-up: just as mysteriously as it began to happen, the issue stopped. I checked production builds back 2 months and confirmed the issue existed in those builds. I can only assume that there was something going on with the sandbox store that has been addressed since I posted my initial question.

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We are experiencing the same issue since yesterday. Does anyone know whats causing it? Our office is based in Europe.

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We are currently experiencing this error for the last 8 hours. The only message we are seeing from the StoreKit is:

NSLocalizedDescription : Cannot connect to iTunes Store



Our backend services (based in US) are also not able to connect to Apple sandbox endpoints for receipt validation.

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The issue re-appeared for me yesterday, but is only happening on simulators. When I test on actual devices, the sandbox store is reachable as expected.

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My team has been seeing the "Cannot connect to iTunes Store" (quite often) as well "An SSL error has occured and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." (very infrequent). This has been recently without a true understanding as to why. Neither are consistant and only occur when testing IAP with Sandbox users.

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I have been seeing this for several days as well. I am using PHP to call to the sandbox verifyReceipt function and the exact error I am getting when it fails is error 35 with the description as:


OpenSSL SSL_connect: Connection reset by peer in connection to sandbox.itunes.apple.com:443


This is an intermittent problem as it will work without issue sometimes. I thought the issue was resovled yesterday as things were working fine until this morning when it was broken again.

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Happening to me with Test Flight builds. What is going on with Apple?

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Had lots of issues last week with "Cannot connect to iTunes" message.


Started TestFlight today and beta testers cannot connect/purchase IAP. One tester can't even download the app in TestFlight. "Try again later."


Embarrased and dissapointed... 😟

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is it resolved now? as we are experiencing same issue since last Friday.

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I'm getting this error in production and losing subscribers. I haven't done any updates to either the app or the backend recently.

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