App transfer criteria

The app must meet the following criteria to be transferable:

• Both the transferor and recipient accounts can’t be in a pending or changing state, and the latest version of their paid and free agreements in the Agreements, Tax, and Banking section must be accepted.

• The app must have had at least one version that's been released on the App Store.

• The app can’t currently be available for pre-order in any countries or regions.

• The app should have one of the following app statuses:

  

  Ready for Sale

  

  Prepare for Submission

  

  Ready for Review

  

  Developer Removed from Sale

  

  Invalid Binary

  

  Developer Rejected

  

  Rejected

  In-app purchase products should have one of the following statuses:

  

  Approved

  

  Ready to Submit

  

  Developer Removed from Sale

  

  Rejected

• In-app purchase product IDs on the app can’t be the same as product IDs on any apps in the recipient’s account.

• TestFlight beta testing should be turned off for all beta versions of the app. You must remove all builds and testers from the app you want transferred and clear each information field below Test Information for every localization.

• All Xcode Cloud related data from the app you want transferred must be removed. Remove all Xcode Cloud data from Settings under the Xcode Cloud tab in App Store Connect.

• Mac apps that have used the sandbox environment and share the Application Group Container Directory with other Mac apps can't be transferred.

• Apple Arcade apps can’t be transferred.