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App Sessions

Analyze how often people open your App Store apps, and the average session duration.

Overview

Use these reports to understand how often people open your app, and how long they spend in your app.

  • Territories: Worldwide

  • Platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS

  • Availability:

    • Daily: Every day

    • Weekly: Every Friday for the previous week (Monday to Sunday).

    • Monthly: On the fifth day of the following month.

  • Completeness: Within five days. Weekly and monthly reports are complete by default.

  • History: On request, data is available beginning from January 1, 2024.

  • Privacy:

    • Includes data from users who have opted to share their data with Apple and developers. Data is provided only when events exist from at least five users for the respective report.

    • Data is available in two reports: standard and detailed. Standard reports include fields not easily related to uniquely identifiable user data. Detailed reports include all fields and also include additional privacy measures for the data, to help protect uniquely identifiable information for individuals. Download the standard report unless you need to analyze the unique fields in the detailed report. To learn more, see Protecting user privacy in report data.

The Analytics Reports framework delivers new portions of report content as instances. Each instance can contain one or more batches of data, to accommodate late-arriving events, or in rare cases, data corrections. To learn more, see Data Completeness and Corrections.

Report Fields

Report Field

Description

Data Type

Standard Report

Detailed Report

Date

Date on which the event occurred. For weekly and monthly instances, this column represents the first day of the week and month, respectively.

date

App Name

The name of the app provided by you during app setup in App Store Connect.

string

App Apple Identifier

Your app’s Apple ID.

integer

App Version

The version of the app being associated with the session.

string

Device

Type of device on which the event occurred

string

Platform Version

The OS version on the device associated with the session.

string

Source Type

Where the user discovered the app associated with the session.

string

Source Info

The app referrer or web referrer that led the user to discover the app.

string

Campaign

The Campaign Token of the campaign created in App Analytics. Column available starting November 19, 2024.

string

Page Type

The product page type which led the user to download the app associated with the session.

string

Page Title

The name of the product page or in-app event page that led the user to download the app associated with the session.

string

App Download Date

The date on which the app was downloaded onto the device. This field is only populated if the download occurred in the previous 30 days, otherwise it is null.

date

Territory

The App Store country or region in which the session occurred.

string

Sessions

The number of sessions. Based on users who have agreed to share their data with Apple and developers.

integer

Total Session Duration

The total duration, in seconds, of all sessions being reported.

integer

Unique Devices

The number of unique devices contributing to the total number of sessions being reported.

integer

Glossary

Dimension

Value

Definition

Source Type

App Store search

Your app was viewed in the search tab on the App Store. Includes Search Ads and suggestions in App Store search.

Source Type

App Store browse

Your app was viewed while the user was browsing the App Store. Includes all App Store tabs excluding the Search tab.

Source Type

App referrer

A link to your app’s product page was presented to the user in another app.

Source Type

Web referrer

A link to your app’s product page was presented to the user on a website.

Source Type

App Clip

Your app was presented to the user in an App Clip.

Source Type

Notification

Your app was presented to the user in an App Store generated notification.

Source Type

Unavailable

The source type is unavailable. Includes apps downloaded using App Store gift cards, promotional codes, or Mobile Device Management software.

Page Type

Product page

The user downloaded your app from your app’s product page.

Page Type

In-app event

The user downloaded your app from an in-app event page.

Page Type

Store sheet

The user downloaded the app from a store sheet in the App Store.

Page Type

No page

Your app was presented in a list view to the user and there was no page title associated with the download.

Page Type

Notification

Your app was presented to the user in an App Store generated notification.

See Also

App Usage