iOS IAP - Unavailable product

Hi everyone,
Need some help with restore purchase on iOS.
So I have some non-consumable items that some of the users bought.
I decided to remove them from the app so users will no longer be able to buy them, but users who bought in the past could still restore.
So in the AppStore connect website, I removed the items from sale but did not delete them.
But now, I’m getting “Unavailable product xxx.xxx.xxx” when trying to restore..... any ideas?

 

If you sell a product, you need to allow the users to restore them so they need to be available for sale. Just remove the product from your app, not the store. But even then, that would be quite confusing for your customers. Basically once you sell a product once, don't touch it.

 

I could not find something in the official documents that confirms or denies that this is possible.
But this post claims it should work:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29977331/iap-restoring-a-purchase-no-longer-for-sale
Please advise....

 

Not sure what you're asking, try it and see! We have no control over the behavior, we are a pass-through service for the store API.