Engineering, integration, and operations writing on App Store Connect webhooks and App Store Server Notifications V2.
· 11 min read
A production-tested walk-through of verifying Apple's ES256-signed webhooks in Ruby — the x5c chain, Apple Root CA G3, the marker OIDs almost every tutorial misses, freshness windows sized to Apple's retry schedule, and the three nested JWS layers you actually have to decode.
Ruby App Store Server Notifications Security iOS
· 12 min read
Every realistic way to get App Store Connect and App Store Server Notifications V2 events into Slack — DIY incoming webhooks, the OAuth-app route, and the per-event filtering, private-channel, and signing-key gotchas nobody mentions until you hit them.
Slack App Store Connect App Store Server Notifications iOS
· 4 min read
Apple's new commitment plans — an annual subscription paid monthly — arrive as ordinary renewal events, indistinguishable from a regular monthly sub unless you decode two new payload fields. Juice Machine now surfaces the plan type and commitment progress on every notification, across every channel.
App Store Server Notifications Subscriptions iOS
· 5 min read
Last week we published our WWDC 2026 wishlist for the App Store webhook ecosystem. The scorecard is in: no new webhook events, no ASSN V3, no replay tooling — but 12-month commitment plans ride on Server Notifications V2 with new payload fields worth decoding, and there's a new server-to-server Retention Messaging API.
WWDC App Store Connect App Store Server Notifications iOS
· 8 min read
WWDC 2026 is next week. Here's what we're hoping Apple announces to fix the App Store webhook ecosystem — more events, better tooling, a few format cleanups, and a couple of things we're probably never getting.
WWDC App Store Connect App Store Server Notifications iOS
· 6 min read
TestFlight feedback emails get missed all the time — wrong inbox, spam filtering, sheer volume. Apple's betaFeedbackCreated webhook is the fix: every comment in Slack the moment it's submitted.
TestFlight App Store Connect Slack iOS
· 7 min read
fastlane's default upload behaviour blocks a CI runner for 5–25 minutes polling Apple while a build processes. Here's the one-line change to remove the wait — and the webhook setup that still notifies your team (Slack, Teams, Discord, PagerDuty, email, or any HTTP endpoint).
fastlane CI App Store Connect iOS
· 6 min read
Apple ships two completely different webhook systems for iOS developers, and the docs barely acknowledge each other. Here's what each one is for, how to tell which you need, and the awkward truth that most teams need both.
App Store Connect App Store Server Notifications iOS