Apple Reminds Developers About $250 to $30K Payments From Apple Lawsuit Settlement

Apple reminded developers that they can submit a claim for the Small Developer Assistance Fund, a pool of money that Apple is providing to developers as part of a $100 million class-action lawsuit settlement over its App Store policies.

Developers have until May 20 to make a claim through the Small Developer Assistance website, which has tools for estimating payments. Developers can claim between $250 and $30,000 for their historic participation in the App Store.

To be eligible to submit a claim to the website, developers must meet the following criteria.

• Was sold for a non-zero price;
• Was sold via Apple's iOS ‌‌App Store‌‌ between 2015 and 2021;
• Earned, together with any other iOS applications or in-app products (including subscriptions) sold through all of your associated developer accounts, proceeds equal to or less than $1,000,000.00 through the ‌‌App Store‌‌ U.S. storefront in every calendar year from 2015 to 2021 in which you had a developer account.

Approximately 67,000 developers are eligible. Developers who earned less than $100 will get a minimum payment of $250, while those who earned more than $1 million will get a higher-end payment. Minimum payments are subject to change.

A group of developers accused Apple of using its App Store monopoly to impose profits on them. The App Store Small Business Program dropped the commission that small developers have to pay to 15 percent, an issue that was largely addressed by the developers, who were unhappy with Apple's 30 percent cut of App Store sales.

Apple agreed to give $100 million to developers and allow them to use email to share information about payment methods outside of the App Store.

The Small Business Program and the App Store were retained by Apple.

There will be a final approval hearing on June 7, 2022, after the May 20 deadline for submissions passes. If there are objections, how long it takes to resolve them, and whether the agreement gets final approval from the court, thePayout date will vary.