SKPaymentQueue addTransactionObserver asking for App Store password on startup after in-app purchase

Question

My app is using in-app purchases, and most of my users can purchase just fine without any problems. For these folks, my app downloads the content after the purchase succeeds

Answer 1

You said:

However, for a growing number of my users, once they complete a successful in-app purchase they are being asked for their App Store password every time the app starts up after that. I believe this is happening on the call to:

[[SKPaymentQueue defaultQueue] addTransactionObserver:observer];

Note that the docs for add(_ observer: / addTransationObserver: state that the call may cause the user to authenticate with the App Store, so this appears to be expected behavior.

// Observers are not retained. The transactions array will only be synchronized with the server while the queue has observers. This may require that the user authenticate.

open func add(_ observer: SKPaymentTransactionObserver)
open func remove(_ observer: SKPaymentTransactionObserver)

So in addition to other answers here, it may be that you should stop calling add observer until you are ready to potentially display an App Store login prompt.