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Two separate regulatory changes now govern how apps reach phones in Brazil: Apple's CADE settlement opened alternative marketplaces and alternative payments on iOS 26.5, and Google requires registered apps on seven
Apple's creative assets reach App Store product page headers and search results in iOS 27, and Asset Library decouples artwork review from binary releases. Here is what to produce, what gets rejected, and how to test it.
Apple's creative assets arrive on the App Store in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, adding a product page header and a search results asset to the artwork you already maintain. The constraints are unusual, the templates are free
India is still the world's largest app download market, but Q2 2026 was the quarter it started paying: $345 million in consumer spending, up 35% year on year. The ASO levers that matter have changed with it.
A wave of 2026 laws made age assurance a shipping requirement for apps, not a nice-to-have. This is what Google Play Age Signals and Apple's Declared Age Range API actually require on Android and iOS, the region
The Liquid Glass panic has a date attached to it: April 2027. Apple has not published that deadline anywhere. Here is what Xcode 27 actually changes for your app, what Apple's own pages do and do not require, and how
Apple's age rating questionnaire started asking about social media capabilities on 9 July 2026, and answers become mandatory in September 2026. That question is the visible tip of an age-assurance stack that also
A 2026 how-to for iOS teams: request the External Purchase Link Entitlement, configure Info.plist and StoreKit, present Apple's disclosure sheet, and model the EU fee stack before you ship.
