Consumable In-App Purchase and Restore Button

Question

The Restore IAP button is required to all apps now, and if they don't have Apple will reject the app.

The questions is, what about consumable items? It seems logical that you can't restore them, since the user will spend the extra coins on the game and that's it.

I'm storing the coins using NSUserDefaults, so if the user deletes the app he will lose everything, unless he syncs through iTunes. iCloud backup to sync devices will be added in a future update, but I guess this has nothing to do with the question, that is...

Consumable IAP can/must be restored?

I'm just afraid of getting a rejection and delay even more my new game.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Consumables are not to be restored, just as you were reasoning in your original question.

Answer 2

From Apple's In-App Purchase Programming Guide

Consumable products, by their nature, aren’t synced or restored. Users understand that, for example, buying ten more bubbles on their iPhone doesn’t also give them ten more bubbles on their iPad. All other types of products are made available across all of the user’s devices. They’re also restored so users can continue to access their purchased content even after buying a new device. StoreKit handles the syncing and restoring process for auto-renewable subscriptions and for non-consumable products.