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Hello,

sorry if this is not the right form section for this question. Im an not a developer but I am testing several beta apps in TestFlight.

Sometime you can purchase in app content for free while using the beta, but this is only working in iOS for me.

In macOS I always get the following message:

Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 09.24.26.png


So are those purchases only available for US-AppStore-accounts? I can't just simply change the Store location in TestFlight. It's bind to the AppStore, what is set to Germany.

Also I get this message, when I click on "change store" and it leads to a "beach ball" when clicking on ok and I have to force quit it somehow.

Screen Shot 2024-07-09 at 09.32.02.png


Sometimes I also get update notifications in the App Store for beta apps with error message when trying to update. Can't remember what it had been, but I think it was also that wrong store thing. So TestFlight-Apps on Mac are always installed as US-AppStore-Apps and don't care about what the AppStore is set to? Is this correct? Or a I doing somehting wrong?

I am using the latest developer beta of macOS 15. But the problems started already on macOS 14 when I installed TestFlight for the first time. It was even worse back then, for weeks and months I couldn't even open TestFlight without getting an error message and don't see anything from the app list. Same on a new Mac a purchased a little later. It seems only the first few days it worked as expected. But automatic app updates where done in the background for already installed apps.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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