• A "trick" for avoiding having to change app name after 180 days...

gyroscope

Hi, as you may or may not know, you can register a game/app name well in advance of actually uploading the binary, 180 days to be precise.

But if you haven't got your binary ready within that time, you will lose your name. (Yes, you will then have to be called George. ;-) OK, I meant lose the name of the app of course… ) Except there's a little workaround I've found on the internet - a post on stack overflow.com written by someone called Sam Budda:

"Here's a dumb way to trick apple. Upload your game binary. Don't worry if its complete or not. Once upload to iTunes is successful, wait a few mins till its status changed to "Waiting for Review", then click on the "Binary" link and hit "Reject this binary". Walla! Apple will not bug you again.

Once you are ready to upload your fully completed game, click on "ready to upload binary" link and your app status will change to "waiting for binary upload" "

I'm not sure it's a dumb way or really tricking Apple but it does get around having to change the name of your app when you are finally ready to upload the binary after 180 days…. I can't see it's wrong to do… or can you?

tatiang

When my app name was about to expire, I uploaded my app that was incomplete at that point. It was rejected and Apple never bugged me about the name again so I figure it out from trial and error.

I don't think it's breaking any rules to do that...

gyroscope

Good one, @tatiang and thanks for confirmation. Useful info to know now. :-)

mounted88

Sounds legit to me

BoomshackBarry

Thanks @gyroscope, I knew this was a little trick along these lines but I kept meaning to Google it to remind myself of the steps. You just saved me the trouble

gyroscope

Thanks as well, @mounted88 ; I wish I'd known this l'il trick six months or so ago when I lost one of my app names after the 180 days were up…. I guess I'll just add HD after the name when it's ready to fire next time. :-)

mounted88

Thanks as well, @mounted88 ; I wish I'd known this l'il trick six months or so ago when I lost one of my app names after the 180 days were up…. I guess I'll just add HD after the name when it's ready to fire next time. :-)

Trick number 2

Edit: I'm over 1000 posts ugh guess I need less time on the forums and more coding

gyroscope

Thanks @gyroscope, I knew this was a little trick along these lines but I kept meaning to Google it to remind myself of the steps. You just saved me the trouble

Glad I helped out, @BoomshackBarry :-)

gyroscope

Thanks as well, @mounted88 ; I wish I'd known this l'il trick six months or so ago when I lost one of my app names after the 180 days were up…. I guess I'll just add HD after the name when it's ready to fire next time. :-)

Trick number 2

Ha, yes, we'll officially call it that then! :-)

Braydon_SFX

Nice trick, Dave! Thanks for sharing!

gyroscope

@Braydon_SFX You're welcome & glad you like it too, Bray. :-)

tenrdrmer

yes it works. We've been doing this since apple introduced the 180 day restriction.

gyroscope

@tenrdrmer Thanks also, Aaron. :-) I didn't realise it wasn't always that way, i.e not always the 180 day restriction...

matarua

I can confirm I researched and talked about this and took the plunge and reserved my game name this way, yet to actually do it tho...

gyroscope

Cheers @matarua I've yet to put this into practice either but I'm about to register a name which I think will need extending in this way in a hundred and eighty days time… here I go… :-)

tenrdrmer

Yeah you used to be able to just reserve names all day long. The only pain was you couldn't change the bundle id so you had to make one for every name you wanted to hang onto.

gyroscope

Ah right, so this way's better I guess, thanks. :-)

matarua

@gyroscope - I have done it with success, cheers, M@

gyroscope

Thanks as well, @matarua, glad to know it's a watertight solution. :-)