Posts tagged with: Receipt Validation

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All Development AI Apple Vibe Coding SwiftUI Announcements

A security guard in a dark uniform standing alert on a grey floor, arms at their sides.

StoreKit 2, Part 3: Server-Side Receipt Validation in 2026 (App Store Server API)

Day 17 of the 30-day iOS series, the finale of three on monetization. You can't trust the client — here's the minimal App Store Server API workflow for BrewLog: Server Notifications V2, JWSTransaction decoding, a Cloudflare Worker, and three pure Swift tests that prove the entitlement logic without ever calling Apple.

June 16, 2026 13 min read

Crumpled paper receipts on a dark surface — the analog metaphor for the App Store transactions your app keeps treating as valid long after Apple has refunded them.

StoreKit 2 Subscription Fraud

iOS Refund Abuse Has a TikTok Tutorial Now. Your Client-Side Receipt Check Is the Cashier Who Looks Away.

Subscription refund fraud quietly climbed past 11% on iOS in 2026, fueled by TikTok scripts and a 90-day Apple refund window most indies never reckoned with. Client-side receipt verification can't see any of it — and the gap between StoreKit's ‘.verified' and what your business is actually owed is now too big to ignore.

May 12, 2026 11 min read