Steve Troughton-SmithApp Store Connect had a big scary overhaul yesterday and now everything is in the wrong place ðŸ«
"Subscription and monetization metrics are now available in the Apps module. Dashboards in Trends will be deprecated starting in mid-2026. App Store Connect will stop generating new Trends reports in 2027"
This is an alarming, unexplained banner for many reasons, but it feels like we're being abstracted from our actual sales data, which immediately makes you wonder if they'll now be able to fudge the numbers like other gatekeeper services
This App Store Connect redesign feels like they're optimizing for big apps doing large numbers they don't have to care about, and completely screwing over developers whose life depends on the 24 hours or last 30 days reports across all their apps. If the 'Trends' module is going away in 2027, like it implies, this is a disaster.
Every app's sales data would now be buried inside the individual app's analytics page, rather than somewhere you can see all apps
More clarification definitely needed!
Axel Le Pennec@stroughtonsmith agree, the overview page is clearly missing.
Markus Müller-Simhofer@stroughtonsmith Haven't had a chance to look at it in detail, but this looks a lot like what was teased at WWDC. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/252/
Ahnaf Mahmud@stroughtonsmith It’s just the analytics that was updated? The whole website wasn’t redesigned
@ahnafm they suggest they're removing Sales and Trends next year, and now that functionality is buried in individual app pages
Mindaugas Rudokas@stroughtonsmith But wasn’t it strange to begin with to have Analytics and Trends as separate things?
And they can‘t start hiding any data from the API layer, can they? Just cutting down on computation part, I suppose. Calc yourself.
@mrudokas only because they called it 'Trends' instead of 'Sales', for some odd reason. It's not weird at all to have sales data separate from fuzzy analytics
Pete Hare@stroughtonsmith would be fun to see what you can do with the App Store Connect API and your friend Codex! https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi/
@petehare you should put the App Store Connect app on macOS! Even enable the iPad version to run
Pratik Patel@stroughtonsmith I wonder if a third party will be able to use the data that Apple does provide to get a better sense of the metrics that we'll be losing.
Greg Pierce@stroughtonsmith On the bright side, these seem to be the fastest loading pages in all of App Store Connect.
@agiletortoise I would hope so, since you now need a dozen more clicks to reach any of them 😂