Update or unpublish an app

Two different changes

Editing the listing and shipping new code are separate operations with different consequences. The difference matters, because one goes back through review and the other doesn't.

Editing the listing

Title, description, About, price and tags are edited from Edit listing on the app's page. They save immediately. The app stays live, its status doesn't change, and it does not go back through review — the code hasn't changed, so nothing about its security has changed either.

The form overwrites with whatever is on screen. It arrives prefilled with the listing's current values and sends all five fields on save, so an untouched field keeps what it had — but anything you clear is cleared. Emptying the About box removes the About section.

Images save on their own, as you make each change — they're not part of the save button and aren't rolled back if the rest of the form fails.

The address is frozen. Your app's URL was generated from the title when you published, and editing the title afterwards doesn't move it. Links people already have keep working.

Shipping new code

To ship a new version, resubmit the app from your dashboard. You must own it.

1. It returns to pending review. New source means a new security scan and a new review, same as a first submission.
2. Your live version stays up while the update is in review. Buyers keep using the current version, so an update that comes back for changes never takes your app offline.

Updates count against your 3 submissions per 24 hours limit, same as new apps.

Changing just the price

That's an edit, not a resubmission — it saves immediately and skips review entirely. Existing buyers are unaffected: a purchase is complete at the price it was made at. See Set a price.

Taking an app down

Ask support — there is no self-service unpublish. Taking a live app down is not something the Edit listing form can do, and it is not a setting on your dashboard. To take one down, contact support: Get help.

This is deliberate rather than missing. A listing's status is what records that it passed security review, so if you could write it, you could also write it back — and "unpublish, change something, republish" would be a way around review. The edit form can change your title, description, About, price and tags, and nothing else; status is not on that list for the same reason your app's source isn't.

When an app does come down:

• The listing disappears and no one new can buy it.
• People who already bought it keep their access. Taking the listing down removes the listing, not their purchase. Their copy stays reachable from their library.
• It stops counting against your published-app cap, freeing a slot.

It is not a way to undo sales. Money already earned stays earned, and buyers whose purchases are still inside their 14-day refund window can still refund them.

Removing an app entirely — including for people who already bought it — is not available at all, because it takes away something buyers paid for. If an app has to come down completely (a licensing problem, a security issue you found), say so when you contact support.

One case where it happens without asking: closing your account takes your published apps down as part of that. See Set up your account.

If your app is taken down

Panoply can remove an app that fails review after the fact or violates the rules. You'll be told why and you can appeal. See Report a problem.