IOS App Development For Business Best Practices

IOS App Development For Business Best Practices;

The following industry best practices need to be followed while designing iOS apps to ensure maximum compliance with Apple’s app designing and ASO guidelines and to ensure that the iOS app is listed permanently on The App Store.

Usage Of Appropriate Apple Badges;

Only authorized app store badges should be used while embedding a CTA button in The App Store where your iOS app is listed. The badges’ designs vary across iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices.

Moreover, there are three variants of the Apple badges, namely: the preferred badge, the alternative badge, and the localized badges.

The preferred badge has white text with a black background and gray outline. This is the badge that should “preferably be used” in CTA buttons.

The alternative badge has black text with a white background and gray outline. This badge can only be used if it suits your app design.

Localized badges can have the preferred badge’s layout or the alternative badge’s layout. The only difference is that they are employed in countries where English is not the national language like China, Japan, etcetera.

The Apple badges should be used below the iOS app screenshots as they are without even minor modifications to them like changing the color of their outline, modifying their angle, animating them, etcetera.

Having A Minimum Clear Space;

Minimum clear space is the area around the apple badge that needs to be clear or void of images, text, graphics content, etcetera. There should just be a white background around the badge that’s equivalent to a quarter of the height of the badge or 10 mm or 40 pixels. This rule is enforced to enhance the display of The App Store and better user experience.

Image Usage Guidelines;

In case your iOS app can run on all of Apple’s devices like PC, iPhone, iPad, and laptops, you can use Apple’s product bezels to show your app’s display/layout on all the Apple devices.

You must use Apple’s product bezels as they are without adding any graphical modifications like reflections, shadows, highlights, etcetera. The bezels can also not be enlarged, shrunk, cropped, tilted, flipped, animated or modified in any other way.

Last but not least, the images must fit the display cross sections of all Apple devices. Your screenshot app images or other images on The App Store listing section must be realistic and as they appear on your iOS app. Graphical alterations, angle or position alterations, or color alterations to create a high visual impact are not allowed.

URL Address Naming;

The URL of your official website or app can include Apple’s trademark names but only if the trademark names follow your company’s name.

Advertising The Right Message;

The screenshot images and other images that you use to advertise your iOS app on The App Store should not convey the meaning that your company has tied up with Apple in any way.

The images that you use to advertise or give details about your iOS app should also not tarnish the reputation, value, and public goodwill of Apple lest your app can get delisted from The App Store before long.

Push Notification;

Your iOS app should show notifications to the user when the Apple device is locked. When the user taps on the notification, he should be taken to the respective location on your iOS app and not the Apple device’s home screen. Aslo, avoid showing unwanted notifications while your iOS app runs as that will only irritate the user.

Status Bar Icons Display;

Your iOS app should be designed in such a way that even when it’s running, the status bar icons such as battery, WiFi, current time, etcetera on the top of the screen on any Apple device should be visible to the user. This feature will provide a lot of conveniences and operational flexibility to the user. It will enhance the usability of your iOS app.