Major incident
RevenueCat: Apple partial outage for App Store Server API - Sandbox
Oct 21, 2026, 12:51 UTC
started
16:12 UTC
resolved
3 h 22 min
duration
Affected: Apple Sandbox Receipt Server
Current status of RevenueCat: Operational — live RevenueCat status
Timeline
- Oct 21, 2026, 12:51 UTCinvestigatingWe are seeing elevated errors when validating purchases made in Apple's sandbox environment, including TestFlight builds. Since about 06:00 UTC, most sandbox purchases and restores on iOS, macOS, and other Apple platforms are failing to validate, so test purchases may not unlock entitlements. Purchases made with real money in production apps are not affected.
- Oct 21, 2026, 16:12 UTCresolvedThe incident has been resolved. Apple Sandbox App Store API is correctly processing requests.
Updates as published by RevenueCat (original).
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