Thursday, 30 March 2017

What’s new in iOS 10.3 for Product Designers & Developers

Source: medium.com --- Thursday, March 30, 2017
Apple released iOS 10.3 to all (compatible) iOS devices this week. The most notable changes are not visible yet, because they rely on designers and developers to take advantage of the newest features. These include in-app ratings, responding to reviews and changing app icons. Let’s take a look at how this all works. In-app ratings Apple made it now possible to ask your users to rate your app without leaving the app, the downfall of this: users not returning to your app. You should still choose wisely when to request a rating from your users. For example after a successful transaction or after watching a few episodes of their favorite TV show. Make sure your user actually uses your app before asking for a rating. Because chances are they won’t rate your app otherwise or worse: a negative review. Filtering reviews is also advised, when you inspect a user had a bad experience with your app, guide them to email or an other form of direct communication that is not the App Store. When you know the user has a good experience, ask them for a rating, but give them the option to skip. The new native rating alert is stars only, so it will be less of an effort to leave a rating (without adding a comment). Also these native rating alerts are extremely easy to implement, it literally takes only 1 line of code: SKStoreReviewController.requestReview() You will also need to import StoreKit , but still, only 2 lines of code. iOS will handle the res ...



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