Uninstall an app in iTunes Connect

Question

Apple introduced the ability to uninstall the application. Quoting the iTunes Connect Guide:

If you created an application in iTunes Connect that you no longer need to see or manage, you can remove it from your View iTunes Connect. Uninstalling the application will not allow you to reuse your SKU or application name, and you will not be able to restore the application after uninstalling it.

So far so good. Then this is a bit confusing:

If you are selling your application to another developer for your own distribution and you need to remove it from iTunes. Connect your account, we recommend that you use the "Delete" application so that the name of the application is released for their use.

Does this mean that I cannot reuse the name in my account, but there will be other accounts? Has anyone tried this?

Answer 1

Refer to Uninstalling an Application from Sale (p. 92) in iTunes Connect 6.3 Developer's Guide

• Click "Rights and Prices"
• Go to the section of trade territories. There is a link at the end.
• Click the Cancel All button to uncheck all areas of the application store.
• Click the "Save Changes" button.

After removing all the designated territories, the flags from your application in the "Rights and Prices" section, the status of the change in Developer Removed from Sale and your application will not be visible on the App Store for 24 hours.

Answer 2

It is possible to save the situation. I also made a mistake and forgot to enter the com.XX part when entering the Bundle identifier. My application was not online yet, but once you submit the BundleID, it cannot be changed.

What you can change is the "Application Name". In this way:

• Change the application name to something fake
• Add a new application, now using the correct package identifier and enter the original name
• Download all

Answer 3

You can reuse the application name of the application that you deleted if you change the default language for the application information.

Full details here: http://hesh.am/2012/01/recovering-a-deleted-app-name-in-itunes-connect/

Answer 4

I just ran into this today while trying to introduce my application. I used the wrong package identifier, and I believed that uninstalling the application from iTunes Connect would release the application name and SKU for reuse when I recreated the application. Not this way. Now I get these two errors:

• The SKU number you have already entered.
• The name of the application you entered has already been used.

You are right when you say that their documentation is confusing. What is Uninstall Application and how is it different from Uninstall Application button in iTunes Connect?

I just hope that I'm not screwed to the fact that my application name is not available forever. I contacted the support, so I hope ...

Answer 5

Simple steps to uninstall / remove an application from iTunes Connect:

iTunesConnect> Application> Rights and Rates> Specific Stores> Cancel All> Save

Change application status: Developer removed from sale

After 24 hours, the application will be deleted.

Answer 6

when you uninstall an application from iTunes Connect, you cannot download with the same application name and SKU in the same Apple ID. This resource is intended to transfer the application to another company or individual developer. Ex. when the app was sold.

Answer 7

Follow below.

• Sign in to your iTunes Connect with your developer ID: https://itunesconnect.apple.com

• Click application icon

• Click "Rights and Prices"

• Bottom This app will be available in all App stores worldwide. Or you can select certain stores "here." Click here to open all specific app stores.

• Click the "Deselect" button to uncheck all areas of the application store.

• Click the "Save Changes" button.

• Now that you’ve saved all this and return to the main screen of the application icon. Another "Uninstall Application" button will appear after "Configuring iAd Network".

• Click the "Delete" button and read the instructions.

• Your app will disappear from the app store within 24 hours.

Answer 8

Refer to: see the “Removing an Application from the Sale” section (page 92) in the iTunes Connect 6.3 Developer's Guide

Follow the instructions below:

Click "Rights and Prices"

Go to the section of trade territories. Nearby is a link.

Click the "Deselect" button to uncheck all areas of the application store.

Click the "Save Changes" button.

Now, when you save all this data, and then return to the main screen of the application, another button will appear, which will appear under the name "Delete Application" located after "Configuring iAd Network"

Click on the "Uninstall Application" button and read the instructions.

After removing all the assigned flags from your application in the "Rights and Prices" section and clicking on "Delete Application", the status will change to "Removed from Sale" and your application will not be visible on the App Store for 24 hours. The name that you used for your application will also be released for use by other developers.

Hope this helps !!!