The last message was on the 7th Jan to which I corrected the problem (was a setting within the app store). If I were you, i would look for one or more changes and/or fixes so that I could submit a software update. I would then mention that the last dispute has already been corrected on your side and that you are not trying to evade rejection in App Information.

I asked Gemini about marketing a free iOS app two weeks ago, and it said Product Hunt is the one to use. You have to keep your account for at least one week to have your app profile posted if I remember correctly. What they do is publish a new letter every day, which will be sent out to subscribers, I think, to feature software products. I haven't had my iOS posted there. So don't trust me and take my word for it.

Where!? To my knowledge, you will see an update link or equivalent at Developer/Account only when you have 30 days or less till renewal. I can be wrong.

Whether you like it or not, that's not how they review your app. Whether it's only for iPhone or not, they will use an iPad to see how it works.

You mean that you have invited yourself, already? If that's case, the only reason I can think of is that you may be using a wrong email address. If I remember correctly, you cannot use your Apple ID email address to test-flight your apps. I can be wrong. I haven't used TestFlight for 4 or 5 years.

The app needs to register for Apple Push Notifications (APNs) to retrieve the device token and register it with a backend service (PlayFab). You need AppDelegate for that. If I remember correctly, it's phasing out, so I don't know how you do it without it, though.

Do you really have to use Xcode to manage Git repositories? I use Sourcetree and GitHub Desktop.

the system (iOS) will/should then vend to my app the previously tapped cloudKitShareMetadata (or share url) The verb 'to vend' means to sell (something). So what do you mean by that? Isn't it just the matter of having the app access the CloudKit record type and then create a new record when it starts up for the first time? I would stay away from it, but if use of the CKShare object works, that's good for you. I was forced to change my plans twice after I didn't get the result I wanted with it in December.

I am afraid your statement is quite confusing. You first talked about what happened in 2012. You talked about it again in the middle. You talk about whatever happened in 2019. You then talk about having purchased iPhone 17. Yet, I can hardly tell where you are having difficulty. Are you having difficulty creating an Apple ID? Or are you having difficulty enrolling yourself in the developer program? If it's the former, this isn't the right place to ask your question as Apple people often explain that this place is intended for software developers. If it's the latter, where does your iPhone 17 come into play? As long as I watch the YouTube video titled 'How to Enroll in Apple Developer Program (Step-by-Step)' with a British accent, I don't see the button you refer to as 'the registration button.' The following is a list of buttons I see in the video. Start your enrollment Continue Purchase Meanwhile, I had to create several new Apple accounts in order to test a new iPhone app that uses iCloud accounts in November and December. I remember that creating an each account required me to authenticate my ID with an iPhone. That being said, it sounds like you haven't reached a point where you are trying to enroll yourself in the developer program.

I use custom app icons on my Home Screen, and the entire reason they work visually is because they do not have borders. What are custom app icons? Toolbar button images, maybe? a design choice that many users did not ask for and cannot customize. How do you know? Who are they? I like the glass effect, though, to some extent. Please consider making the icon borders optional or allowing users to revert to the previous borderless icon behavior. Make them optional to whom? To the app developer? If so, what if the user wants them?

Is it realistic to expect App Store review approval when requesting Full Disk Access? Under what conditions or use cases is such permission typically accepted by Apple? You haven't really said how you intend to implement what you call 'Full Disk Access.' I currently have two desktop applications with the 'Full Disk Access' capability with read/write permissions. If that's what you are talking about, your application is allowed to have read and write permissions, as opposed to just 'read' if the application is designed to save files to the disk. So, again, Is it realistic to expect App Store review approval when requesting Full Disk Access? Under what conditions or use cases is such permission typically accepted by Apple? I would say 'Yes.' But reviewers are not predictable. I had one desktop application rejected by a reviewer 6 or 7 years ago. His or her reason was, as I recall, the application did not write files to the disk when in fact the application did use NSSavePanel to let the user save files to the disk. I had the rejection reversed soon, but you know... That's how the review process works. Actually, I may be wrong in my earlier statement. I am not certain how one of my desktop applications has gained the Full Disk Access' status although it has read/write permissions. I have a lot of home-brewed desktop applications with read/write permissions, but they aren't listed in Full Disk Access.

I submitted my first app to approval process last week. Within couple days it was accepted and state changed to 'Ready for Distribution'. It has been in that state for a week. So what's the issue? Are you saying that the status is 'Ready for Distribution' but that the app is not being distributed? Or are you suggesting that there should be another status after 'Ready for Distribution'?

Where does that file extension (.icon) come from? I have never heard of it. The macOS system traditionally uses 'icns' as an icon file format. But not really any more...

It looks to me that the icon above is a result of the iOS 26 glass effect.

The Appeals Board was quite neutral till 15 years. Then they started to side with reviewers some 7 or 8 years ago even when the reviewer was totally out of line. That was a dark age. I don't deal with the Appeals Board now only because they are typically 2 or 3 weeks behind. By the time I hear from them, I often manage to convince the reviewer that they are wrong. That being said, unless you are confident that you can change reviewer's mind, you don't want to take the case to the Appeals Board. Now, I'm afraid you are at the end of the rope. There is no way around it once the Appeals Board rejects your case. You probably don't want to hear it, but if I were you, I wouldn't waste any more time on this case, accepting a financial loss and moving on to a next project.