# Update an ASO app role

Mark a tracked iOS app as your app or a competitor.

## Contract status

Preview contract: these routes and tools are implemented in the shared contract, but the public host, customer API access and OAuth flow have not been deployment verified.

## Endpoint: PATCH /v1/aso/apps/{appId}

- Method: `PATCH`
- Path: `/v1/aso/apps/{appId}`
- Authentication: Bearer API credential or OAuth access token
- Required scope: `content:write`
- MCP tool: `update_aso_app_role`

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `appId` | path | uuid | yes | Tracked ASO app id. |
| `role` | body | mine | competitor | yes | The explicit ownership role. |

## Known errors

- 400 invalid_request for an invalid filter, identity or limit.
- 401 authentication_required for a missing or invalid credential.
- 402 subscription_required when access is not entitled.
- 403 authorization_required for a missing scope or unavailable preview access.
- 404 not_found when the record is outside the accessible catalogue.
- 429 rate_limited; honor Retry-After when present.
- 409 conflict when the write would duplicate an exclusive row.

## Request

Changes the stored role only. It preserves tracked keywords and observations and does not call Apple.

```
curl --request PATCH 'https://api.peekpanda.com/v1/aso/apps/11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $PEEKPANDA_TOKEN" \
  --header 'x-genviral-tenancy: personal' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"role":"mine"}'
```

## Response

The updated tracked-app object.

```
{
  "storeId": "0000000000",
  "name": "Example Calorie Tracker",
  "iconUrl": null,
  "developerName": "Example Labs",
  "primaryGenre": "Health & Fitness",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "ratingCount": 12450,
  "inCatalogue": true,
  "id": "11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111",
  "role": "mine",
  "createdAt": "2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "lastRefreshedAt": "2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z",
  "keywordCount": 1
}

```

## Source

Apple public Search + Search hints. Difficulty from page-one rating counts Apple returns (page_one_median_rating_count: median page-one ratingCount, log10 scale, 1M ratings = 100). Demand is autocomplete order from apple_search_hints (rank + variant count), not volume and not Apple Ads popularity. Apple Ads Insights is not wired. Positions are observed_search_api_position from itunes.apple.com/search us/en_us.

## Refresh

This GET never calls Apple. Snapshots younger than 24 hours are served from storage; hints are reused for 7 days.