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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:12:35+00:00

Sorry for that millionth question on autorenewable subscriptions, but i don’t get it. I’ve

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Sorry for that millionth question on autorenewable subscriptions, but i don’t get it.
I’ve done everything as describet in Apples In-App Purchase Guidelines but it didn’t solve the problem.

My problem is that i have created autorenewable subscriptions but they won’t be autorenewed.

I’ve create a Payment Transaction Observer class, which implements the SKPaymentTransactionObserver interface. This class will be installed as a paymentObserver at Application startup in the viewDidLoad: method.

PaymentTransactionObserver *observer = [[PaymentTransactionObserver alloc] init];

[[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] addTransactionObserver:observer];

In the paymenttransactionobserver i have the paymentQueue:updateTransactions method: (same as describet in Apple’s documentation)

  • (void)paymentQueue:(SKPaymentQueue *)queue updatedTransactions:(NSArray *)transactions {
    for (SKPaymentTransaction *transaction in transactions) {
    switch (transaction.transactionState) {

        case SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchased: 

            [self completeTransaction:transaction]; 

            break;

        case SKPaymentTransactionStateFailed: 

            [self failedTransaction:transaction]; 

            break;

        case SKPaymentTransactionStateRestored:

            [self restoreTransaction:transaction]; 

            break;

        default:

            break;
    }
}

When i buy a autorenewable product, the product will successfully be purchase.
But it will never be autorenewed. I thought of, that the transaction observer, somehow will get deallocated, but it won’t (Otherwhise, i would be notified by the debugger). I also though, i did remove the observer but it will never be removed.

I used the debugger to ensure, that the updateTranscations: method will get called, but nothing. When i buy a test product (in sandbox-mode) with autorenewal time of one week, the method should get called after 3 minutes, but it wont.

What am i doing wrong?

Can anybody help?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If a subscription is autorenewed, the transaction won’t pass the paymentQueue:updateTransactions method. The renew just happens on the Store. If you want to test for it you have to either:

    • Revalidate the receipt on your application server, if you store the receipt there.

    • Revalidate the receipt on ur iOS client

    (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/VerifyingStoreReceipts/VerifyingStoreReceipts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008267-CH104-SW1)

    In order to avoid testing for an autorenew each launch/activation you should store the endDate of the subscription period to test for a renew afterwards.

    Also see:

    http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/RenewableSubscriptions/RenewableSubscriptions.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008267-CH4-SW4

    However, there seems to be a bug in the sandbox. Subscriptions sometimes get renewed, sometimes not. Hard to test….

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