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Reply to Original game with 1.84M-subscriber community rejected 3x under 4.3(a) Spam — appeal filed, what else can we do?
There is no single, useful piece of information with which a total stranger can assist you. All you write is that your game has been rejected 3 times. That's all. Rather, you write some irrelevant aspects. Why should anybody need to now how many times your YouTube channels have been viewed? Why does anybody need to know about your Google Play game? If that really matters, submit your game to Google Play. Basically, you are not helping yourself AT ALL. There is no app description. There is no list of keywords. You don't write the exact rejection statement. You rather twist and rephrase it to make it sound as if you didn't deserve rejection.
Aug ’26
Reply to Pending Termination Notice Under 3.2(f) and 5.6.2 - No Explanation of What Is False
There have been a lot of developer accounts being terminated with the same notice lately. Your best bet is search the forums for 'Termination' or make a search engine search. I think I have read a successful story only once over 15 years in avoiding termination somewhere. The problem is that Apple has not told me what information is allegedly false or fraudulent. If I were Apple, Inc., I wouldn't tell you, either, because you would come back one year later and then concoct a more sophisticating scheme to cheat the system to avoid getting caught for the 2nd time.
Aug ’26
Reply to Apple taking too long to review my brand new app
The email I received by Apple upon submitting my new app said that 50% are reviewed within 24 hours, and 90% are reviewed within 48 hours. The average wait time for iOS is 2 weeks, 1 week for macOS, if not longer. I don't have a problem waiting for 2 weeks because it was a lot longer 15 years ago. Yet, I wish they stop misrepresenting themselves by saying an app will be reviewed within 48 hours. I find it quite uncomfortable knowing they continue to misrepresent themselves at the same time they terminate developer accounts for a fraudulent activity.
Aug ’26
Reply to Extremely Delayed App Review
They don't tell you exactly what has caused your app to be rejected. That's how things worked 15 years ago. And that's how they work today. So I'm certain that bringing that up today is not going to get you anywhere. It seems to me that your best possible approach to tackle rejection is to have a sit-down session. I don't really know how it works. Apple, Inc people mention this appraoch from time to time if you are patient enough to read dozen topics.
Aug ’26
Reply to 15-year account flagged for termination over one unreleased app — seeking advice
App Review Board is going to terminate our account because a new app had been rejected multiple times in review process and remain unresolved . What does 'multiple times' mean? Twice? Five times? Ten times? Why do you repeatedly mention Google's Play Store? What does your termination have to do with it? If you have kept your account for 15 years, how do you not know that you can get your account terminated if you keep submitting the same software title without resolving underlying issues?
Aug ’26
Reply to Stuck in App Review limbo after 4.3(b) rejection, resubmission, and appeal
I was surprised by the decision because the app contains proprietary content developed specifically for the product, along with functionality that strongly differentiate it from other apps in the category. It seems that you don't fully understand what the reviewer means. Have you searched the site for that? There are a lot of topics in the same nature. Nobody cares about somebody else's business because doing so wouldn't pay their bills. Neither do I. I don't even read every line because I have better things to do so that I can put food on the kitchen table.
Aug ’26
Reply to Guideline 5.2.3: what does "limit your app to streaming open-source stations only" require in practice?
I'm not going to read every line that you have written since I have better things to do. I'll only give you a hint because I want you to find an answer for yourself and because that's a trade secret. Just because you claim that you use an open-source streaming database, the reviewer is probably not going to believe it at face value. At least, you would not convey the claim to users. If that doesn't click, I would download similar applications using the same open-source streaming database instead of seeking an easy answer from a total stranger.
Aug ’26
Reply to Guidelines 4.2.6 and 4.3: per-studio branded builds of a B2B SaaS app which model applies?
I'm not going to read every line you have written. If it's your client that owns the app, then they have to be the account holder, to my knowledge. That's the rule change they made around 2018 if I remember correctly. You can have them create an account and give you the Developer role or equivalent so that you can develop and publish THEIR app. If you work for clients, you are supposed to know that.
Aug ’26
Reply to Several apps stuck in “Waiting for Review” for over one to two weeks – anyone else experiencing this?
This is unusual compared to my previous submissions It's not unusual to me. The queue has been a lot longer since the end of the last year. The queue was a lot longer 15.5 years ago. Depending on the development platform, you can end up waiting for at least two weeks. I have three new boys waiting in the queue. I don't make a big deal about it. I care more about reviewer's competence. Some of them don't even know how to scroll a webpage or don't bother to scroll further down and reject submission by saying users have no way of posting a support question. I don't want that kind of stupidity from a professional reviewer.
Aug ’26
Reply to Original game with 1.84M-subscriber community rejected 3x under 4.3(a) Spam — appeal filed, what else can we do?
There is no single, useful piece of information with which a total stranger can assist you. All you write is that your game has been rejected 3 times. That's all. Rather, you write some irrelevant aspects. Why should anybody need to now how many times your YouTube channels have been viewed? Why does anybody need to know about your Google Play game? If that really matters, submit your game to Google Play. Basically, you are not helping yourself AT ALL. There is no app description. There is no list of keywords. You don't write the exact rejection statement. You rather twist and rephrase it to make it sound as if you didn't deserve rejection.
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Aug ’26
Reply to (BUG) IAPs and first auto-renewable subscriptions stuck in “Ready for Review” but not in Draft Submission
There are answers here and there if you just look for one for yourself. I don't bother with this type of questions because it's just a new user issue and because there will be another topic in the same nature tomorrow.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Pending Termination Notice Under 3.2(f) and 5.6.2 - No Explanation of What Is False
There have been a lot of developer accounts being terminated with the same notice lately. Your best bet is search the forums for 'Termination' or make a search engine search. I think I have read a successful story only once over 15 years in avoiding termination somewhere. The problem is that Apple has not told me what information is allegedly false or fraudulent. If I were Apple, Inc., I wouldn't tell you, either, because you would come back one year later and then concoct a more sophisticating scheme to cheat the system to avoid getting caught for the 2nd time.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Rejected for 3.1.2(c) Subscriptions. Is "Try for Free" too conspicuous now?
Does anyone have advice on how to resolve this? I am currently using "Try for Free" Nobody even knows how that works. What does one get if one taps 'How your free trial works'?
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Aug ’26
Reply to App Store Connect not accepting Builds from Xcode 27 Beta 5
Apple is not currently accepting applications built with this version of Xcode The error message is pretty self-explanatory. So what's the issue?
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Aug ’26
Reply to Apple taking too long to review my brand new app
The email I received by Apple upon submitting my new app said that 50% are reviewed within 24 hours, and 90% are reviewed within 48 hours. The average wait time for iOS is 2 weeks, 1 week for macOS, if not longer. I don't have a problem waiting for 2 weeks because it was a lot longer 15 years ago. Yet, I wish they stop misrepresenting themselves by saying an app will be reviewed within 48 hours. I find it quite uncomfortable knowing they continue to misrepresent themselves at the same time they terminate developer accounts for a fraudulent activity.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Extremely Delayed App Review
They don't tell you exactly what has caused your app to be rejected. That's how things worked 15 years ago. And that's how they work today. So I'm certain that bringing that up today is not going to get you anywhere. It seems to me that your best possible approach to tackle rejection is to have a sit-down session. I don't really know how it works. Apple, Inc people mention this appraoch from time to time if you are patient enough to read dozen topics.
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Aug ’26
Reply to I didn't receive any push notifications from apns on my iPhone
There isn't much information in your statement. No OS version on your device No Xcode version you are using
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Aug ’26
Reply to 15-year account flagged for termination over one unreleased app — seeking advice
App Review Board is going to terminate our account because a new app had been rejected multiple times in review process and remain unresolved . What does 'multiple times' mean? Twice? Five times? Ten times? Why do you repeatedly mention Google's Play Store? What does your termination have to do with it? If you have kept your account for 15 years, how do you not know that you can get your account terminated if you keep submitting the same software title without resolving underlying issues?
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Aug ’26
Reply to I need help/support: its my first ap
It seems to me that you are trying to submit subscription plans alone without a new software version. Other than that, it's hard to tell because there is little followup.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Cannot attach a first subscription to an app version stuck in a rejected submission
The subscription group and the subscription are both Ready for Review but sit in a separate draft, which says "Unable to Submit for Review. Unless you show a screenshot, nobody can probably answer your question. I'm sure nobody will submit a new app just in order to assist you.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Stuck in App Review limbo after 4.3(b) rejection, resubmission, and appeal
I was surprised by the decision because the app contains proprietary content developed specifically for the product, along with functionality that strongly differentiate it from other apps in the category. It seems that you don't fully understand what the reviewer means. Have you searched the site for that? There are a lot of topics in the same nature. Nobody cares about somebody else's business because doing so wouldn't pay their bills. Neither do I. I don't even read every line because I have better things to do so that I can put food on the kitchen table.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Guideline 5.2.3: what does "limit your app to streaming open-source stations only" require in practice?
I'm not going to read every line that you have written since I have better things to do. I'll only give you a hint because I want you to find an answer for yourself and because that's a trade secret. Just because you claim that you use an open-source streaming database, the reviewer is probably not going to believe it at face value. At least, you would not convey the claim to users. If that doesn't click, I would download similar applications using the same open-source streaming database instead of seeking an easy answer from a total stranger.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Guidelines 4.2.6 and 4.3: per-studio branded builds of a B2B SaaS app which model applies?
I'm not going to read every line you have written. If it's your client that owns the app, then they have to be the account holder, to my knowledge. That's the rule change they made around 2018 if I remember correctly. You can have them create an account and give you the Developer role or equivalent so that you can develop and publish THEIR app. If you work for clients, you are supposed to know that.
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Aug ’26
Reply to Several apps stuck in “Waiting for Review” for over one to two weeks – anyone else experiencing this?
This is unusual compared to my previous submissions It's not unusual to me. The queue has been a lot longer since the end of the last year. The queue was a lot longer 15.5 years ago. Depending on the development platform, you can end up waiting for at least two weeks. I have three new boys waiting in the queue. I don't make a big deal about it. I care more about reviewer's competence. Some of them don't even know how to scroll a webpage or don't bother to scroll further down and reject submission by saying users have no way of posting a support question. I don't want that kind of stupidity from a professional reviewer.
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Aug ’26