An ITMS-91061: Missing privacy manifest rejection email looks as follows: ITMS-91061: Missing privacy manifest- Your app includes "<path/to/SDK>", which includes , an SDK that was identified in the documentation as a privacy-impacting third-party SDK. Starting February 12, 2025, if a new app includes a privacy-impacting SDK, or an app update adds a new privacy-impacting SDK, the SDK must include a privacy manifest file. Please contact the provider of the SDK that includes this file to get an updated SDK version with a privacy manifest. For more details about this policy, including a list of SDKs that are required to include signatures and manifests, visit: https://developer.apple.com/support/third-party-SDK-requirements. Glossary ITMS-91061: Missing privacy manifest: An email that includes the name and path of privacy-impacting SDK(s) with no privacy manifest files in your app bundle. For more information, see https://developer.apple.com/support/third-party-SDK-requirements. : The specified privacy-impacting SDK that doesn't include a privacy manifest file. If you are the developer of the rejected app, gather the name of the SDK from the email you received from Apple, then contact the SDK's provider for an updated version that includes a valid privacy manifest. After receiving an updated version of the SDK, verify the SDK includes a valid privacy manifest file at the expected location. For more information, see Adding a privacy manifest to your app or third-party SDK. If your app includes a privacy manifest file, make sure the file only describes the privacy practices of your app. Do not add the privacy practices of the SDK to your app's privacy manifest. If the email lists multiple SDKs, repeat the above process for all of them. If you are the developer of an SDK listed in the email, publish an updated version of your SDK that includes a privacy manifest file with valid keys and values. Every privacy-impacting SDK must contain a privacy manifest file that only describes its privacy practices. To learn how to add a valid privacy manifest to your SDK, see the Additional resources section below. Additional resources Privacy manifest files Describing data use in privacy manifests Describing use of required reason API Adding a privacy manifest to your app or third-party SDK TN3182: Adding privacy tracking keys to your privacy manifest TN3183: Adding required reason API entries to your privacy manifest TN3184: Adding data collection details to your privacy manifest TN3181: Debugging an invalid privacy manifest

Hello, I'm experiencing a serious issue with my Apple Developer account. Every app I submit stays in "Waiting for Review" for more than a month. This is not happening with just one app—it affects every app I submit. Here are the details: Every submission remains in Waiting for Review for over a month. The status never changes to In Review. I have already contacted Apple Developer Support. I also submitted an Expedited Review request, but the apps are still waiting. The apps fully comply with the App Store Review Guidelines and are complete and functional. At this point, I'm trying to understand whether there could be an issue with my developer account or if there is another reason causing all of my submissions to remain stuck in the queue. Has anyone experienced the same issue recently? If an Apple engineer sees this post, I would greatly appreciate any guidance or if my account could be checked. Thank you.

I'm looking for advice because I've been facing the same issue with every app submission on my Apple Developer account. Every app I submit remains in "Waiting for Review" for more than one month. The status never changes to "In Review", regardless of the app. Here's what I've already done: Contacted Apple Developer Support. Submitted an Expedited Review request. Waited well beyond the normal review timeframe. Verified that my apps are complete, functional, and comply with the App Store Review Guidelines. The problem is not limited to a single app. It affects every new submission and every app update I send for review. At this point, I'm wondering if there could be an issue with my developer account that is preventing my submissions from entering the review process. Has anyone experienced a similar situation? If so, how was it resolved? If an Apple engineer or App Review team member sees this post, I would be very grateful if someone could check whether there is an issue with my developer account or advise me on what I should do next. Thank you very much for your time and any assistance.

Our organization enrollment has been showing "Your enrollment is being processed" since March 11, 2026 — more than four months, with no change in status. Enrollment ID: 827PLC4U54 What we have verified on our side: The Apple ID on the account is active with two-factor authentication enabled. The D-U-N-S lookup resolves our legal entity correctly, and the account page shows the entity name as submitted. We have received no email from Apple requesting documents, verification, or any further action since the initial acknowledgment in March. We are not aware of any verification phone call. We have not cancelled or resubmitted the enrollment, and we have not been asked to pay. The account page shows no pending action on our side, so we have no way to tell what the enrollment is waiting for. Could Apple Developer Support please review enrollment 827PLC4U54 and let us know what is blocking it, or what you need from us? We can provide any documentation immediately.

An unexpected error was encountered when submitting for review. If the issue persists please contact us I can no longer submit iOS app for review. Always show this error. I am using Safari latest version - 16.4 MacOS Version - Ventura 13.3.1 Xcode - 14.2 Appreciate any leads. Thank You!

Hello, All of my submissions across my account have been stuck in review for many weeks, which is well outside my normal turnaround. These are apps that have historically been approved within 24 hours or 2-3 days. Those updates are time critical. Singapore MRT just updated on 12 July. We are losing installs and impressions largely because of this, especially no reason is given. App: Singapore MRT Map Route Apple ID: 536957287 / Version: 3.0.1 App: Singapore MRT Map Route(Pro) Apple ID: 475976737 / Version: 3.0.0 App: Epic Cards Battle Apple ID: 1003611640/ Version: 2.6.3 On my side everything appears complete: metadata, build, review notes, demo account credentials, and all agreements in Agreements, Tax, and Banking are accepted. There are no messages in Resolution Center and App Store Connect shows no action required from me. I have contacted Developer Support but have not received a actual response. Could someone please confirm whether these submissions are correctly queued, or whether something is blocking them that requires action on my side? Thank you.

Hello, My iOS app, Chef Library, version 1.2.0, has remained in “Waiting for Review” for several days. App Store Connect shows no unresolved issues, missing information, or messages from App Review. I contacted Apple Developer Support on July 28 and followed up again on July 30. Both messages appear under support case 20000121706395, but I have not received a response and the review has not started. The submission details are: App: Chef Library Platform: iOS Version: 1.2.0 Current status: Waiting for Review Support case: 20000121706395 Could an Apple representative please check whether this submission is progressing normally or whether it has become stuck in the review queue? If anything is required from me, I am ready to provide it immediately. Thank you, Bart

Team ID: 63XFUNLKTY App: TabUp Build: 1.0.0(10) Submission ID: 43c1231c-7b80-44c6-91af-f45aff050530 -- It has now been more than 56 working business hours since I submitted my build for review, and the submission is still showing "Waiting for Review." My Agreements, Tax, and Banking information are all active, and all required metadata, privacy details, age rating, and export compliance information have been completed. I've also spent over two hours on hold with Developer Support without being able to speak to anyone or get an update on the status of my submission. I invested a significant amount of time building this app, and the lack of any progress, feedback, or estimated review timeframe has been extremely frustrating. As an independent developer, delays like this directly affect my ability to launch, gather user feedback, and begin generating revenue. I understand that review times can vary, but this delay seems unusually long compared with Apple's published expectations. Is there anything that could be causing a submission to remain stuck for this long? Any guidance from Apple or other developers who have experienced this would be appreciated. Thank you :)

Hi everyone, We're experiencing an unusually long App Review delay for our tvOS application and wanted to check if anyone else is seeing the same behaviour or has any suggestions. App Details Platform: tvOS Xcode Version: 26.4.1 Submission Type: App Update Distribution: App Store Status: In Review Issue We submitted an app update last week, and it remained in the "In Review" state for approximately one week with no updates. Since there was no progress, we rejected that submission, uploaded a new build, and submitted it again. The new build has now also been "In Review" for the last 5 days. Apple has not rejected the app or provided any review notes or requests for additional information. The status simply remains "In Review". What we've tried Submitted an Expedited Review Request. Contacted Apple using the App Review "Contact Us" option. We have not received any response to either request. Since there is no rejection or feedback, we don't have any indication that there is an issue with the app itself. Questions Is anyone else currently experiencing unusually long review times for tvOS apps? Is this likely to be an App Review backlog or a known issue on Apple's side? Has anyone had success getting a response through App Review support or Developer Support in a similar situation? Is there anything else we can do besides waiting? Any insights or recent experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello Apple Developer Community, My app, Apple ID: 6794291305, has been stuck in the “Awaiting Review” status for 5 days now, which seems unusually long compared with the review times I normally expect. I understand that review times can vary and that some submissions may require additional time. However, I’m becoming concerned because we are approaching our marketed release date, and the prolonged review could affect our planned launch. There have been no requests for additional information or other updates regarding the submission so far. Has anyone experienced an app remaining In Awaiting Review for this long recently? Is there anything I should do at this stage, or is it best to continue waiting for the review team to complete the process? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hello everyone, I’m writing this post in the hope of hearing from other developers who may have experienced a similar situation, and to better understand whether this level of action without transparency is common. Our company, VISION VENTURES TEKNOLOJİ TASARIM VE PAZARLAMA A.Ş., is the developer of Watchlabb, an app that has been available on the App Store for approximately six months. Watchlabb is not an online watch retailer. We do not own watches, buy watches, or sell watches. Our platform simply connects independent buyers and sellers of authentic watches, allowing them to publish listings, create auctions, and communicate directly with each other. From the very beginning, our goal has been to build one of Turkey’s safest marketplaces for authentic watches. To achieve this, we have invested significant effort into protecting users by: Reviewing listings before publication. Rejecting counterfeit and replica watches. Verifying user identities. Moderating marketplace activity. Building a transparent and trustworthy environment for collectors and buyers. In other words, our platform exists to prevent fraud, not enable it. Despite this, Apple terminated our entire corporate Developer Program membership under Section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement. The notice states that Apple has “documented indications of fraudulent conduct associated with your account.” However, it does not explain: What specific conduct allegedly violated the agreement. Which feature, transaction, listing, or activity is involved. Whether the concern relates to a specific user. What evidence led Apple to this conclusion. Before the termination: We never received a warning. We were never informed that our account was under investigation. We were never asked to provide additional information. We were never given an opportunity to explain or correct anything. Even more confusing, our latest app update was approved through App Review just three days before our developer account was terminated. This decision affects much more than our company. We currently have approximately: 2,800 registered users, hundreds of active listings, ongoing auctions, professional stores operating on our platform. Many businesses rely on our application to reach customers, and many users depend on it to buy and sell authentic watches safely. As a registered company, we have contractual obligations, commercial partnerships, and responsibilities toward both our sellers and our users. Having our entire developer account terminated without knowing what specific conduct Apple believes occurred has placed both our business and our community in an extremely difficult position. We fully support Apple’s efforts to protect users and maintain the integrity of the App Store. Those are values we share. What we struggle to understand is how such a severe action can be taken without identifying the specific facts behind the allegation or giving a company the opportunity to respond before permanently terminating its developer account. Has anyone else experienced a similar situation? Were you able to obtain more detailed information from Apple or successfully resolve the issue? Any advice or shared experience would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi, I feel like there's been some miscomunnication with the app review team. I have been replying to the rejection and re-submitting and my comments don't seem to be read and I get the same rejection parroted out with not much clue about which action I really need to take as it's quite vague. Does the App Review team reply to the rejection without me having to re-submit? Maybe I'm just not being patient enough or I'm using the submission process wrong.

I paid the $99 annual Apple Developer Program fee and submitted my first iOS app with the understanding that App Review would normally take approximately one or two days. It has now been six days, and the submission is still sitting in “Waiting for Review.” There has been no review, no request for additional information, no explanation, and no indication that anyone has looked at it. I understand that review times can vary, especially for a first submission, but six days without even entering review seems excessive. Developers are required to pay Apple before they can distribute an app, yet there appears to be no meaningful service-time commitment or communication when a submission remains untouched. Is this currently normal for first-time app submissions? At what point is a developer supposed to conclude that the submission is stuck rather than merely delayed? At this point, I am also wondering whether I should request a refund of the $99 membership fee, since the primary service I paid to access has not been provided within anything resembling the expected timeframe.

Hi, I have a submission (App Store Connect ID: 6754396289) that has been stuck in "InReview" status for almost 3 months now. I tried with support multiple time but always received a generic reply. I am experiencing ususually long delay and would Appreciate any guidance from Apple Review or other developers. Can the Apple Review team check why submission iD:6754396289 is Stuck in "InReview" status and what information is needed to move it forward?

My first app submission has been in "Waiting for Review" for nine days and has not yet entered review. App: Shotaway — Screenshot Cleaner App ID: 6789611184 Version: 1.0 (build 1.0.0 (7)) Submission ID: e8b8c4ea-6107-4688-a630-102479bfd5d4 Submitted: July 19, 2026, 5:52 PM KST Platform: iOS Current status: Waiting for Review Four other submissions from the same account are also still waiting: Warmthly: Keep in Touch 6789600652 submitted July 23 Fanspot: K-Pop Fan Map & Cafes 6789989805 submitted July 24 Stampic: Travel Photo Map 6789523290 submitted July 24 NanaFrame: Family Photo Widget 6790092570 submitted July 25 I checked the Contact the App Review Team form, but none of the available topics match a status question, so I am posting here instead. Since all of these were prepared the same way, I am wondering whether I made a mistake that applies to all of them. If there is missing or incomplete information on my side, I would like to correct it. I am not requesting an expedited review. I only want to know whether something on my end is blocking these submissions. Thank you.

Hi everyone, Looking for advice or visibility from anyone who has faced a similar pattern. My app “Dance with Lorenzo Tahiti” was reviewed normally on June 5–6 (reached “In Review,” got rejected with feedback, fixed and resubmitted on June 7, reached “In Review” again). Since June 21, every submission has gone straight to “Waiting for Review” and never progressed to “In Review” again — not on June 21, not on July 7, not on July 14 (tried resubmitting 3 times that day alone). Each time I cancelled and resubmitted hoping to reset the queue, but the pattern repeats. Current build: version 1.0.13 (28), submitted July 14, still “Waiting for Review” 13 days later. Also opened a support case with Apple Developer Program Support (case ID 102949355152) — received only an automated acknowledgment so far, no human response yet. Has anyone experienced submissions falling out of the reviewer-assignment pipeline like this after a cancel/resubmit cycle? Did filing a Feedback Assistant ticket, or a completely new version number, help unblock it? Any guidance appreciated — this is affecting real students waiting on scheduled content.

Our app — a screen-time / focus app — has had no App Review activity for two weeks, and we believe the trigger was an automated Guideline 2.5.1 check that froze an otherwise actively progressing review. (This forum account is linked to the developer account in question; we can provide the App ID, bundle IDs, submission IDs, and support case numbers through any private channel on request.) Context: Jul 2–5: Our first submission (Version 1.0.0) was under active review. We went through several ordinary metadata / paywall-related iterations, and the reviewer responded within roughly 24 hours each time. Nothing related to Screen Time was raised in these human reviews of builds 9 and 10. Jul 8: After we submitted build 11 — which addressed the remaining human-review feedback — we received an automated Guideline 2.5.1 (Performance: Software Requirements) message stating that the app uses the Screen Time API but has not been submitted with the Family Controls entitlement, and that review of the submission cannot proceed. All reviewer activity stopped at that point, and there has been none since. What we verified: The Family Controls (Distribution) entitlement is granted to our account and assigned to all four bundle IDs (the main app plus its DeviceActivityMonitor, ShieldAction, and ShieldConfiguration extensions). We verified with codesign that com.apple.developer.family-controls = true is present in the code signature and embedded provisioning profile of every one of the four executables in the submitted IPA — so the entitlement named in the automated message is present in the flagged build. For context: builds 9 and 10, with an identical Screen Time API surface and identical entitlements (verified at the binary level with nm against the submitted artifacts), had been human-reviewed on Jul 2–5 with no Screen Time-related objection. We recognize those builds may simply not have reached the automated analysis stage before being superseded, so we do not draw firm conclusions from that. What we did anyway (build 12, submitted Jul 9): In case the automated check actually concerns the separate com.apple.developer.family-controls.app-and-website-usage entitlement (which we do not request and do not need), we removed every reference from our main app to the APIs associated with it: AuthorizationStatus.approvedWithDataAccess, ManagedSettings.Application.bundleIdentifier, ManagedSettings.Application.localizedDisplayName, ManagedSettings.ActivityCategory.localizedDisplayName, and ManagedSettings.WebDomain.domain. We verified with nm that none of the four executables in the build 12 IPA reference these APIs. The app does not use FamilyActivityData, DeviceActivityReport, app usage events, web usage events, or App and Website Usage data access. No automated message has appeared for build 12. What has happened since: Jul 9–14: No reviewer activity on build 12. We filed an expedited review request and opened two Developer Support cases (Jul 8 and Jul 14). No response to any of them. Around Jul 15: Hoping to clear the frozen state, we cancelled and resubmitted the same Version 1.0.0 / build 12. Around Jul 17: Filed a second expedited review request for the new submission. Jul 22 (today): The new submission has been in "Waiting for Review" since Jul 15, with no reviewer activity and no reply to either support case or either expedite request. What we are asking: Could someone check whether the Jul 8 automated flag is still attached to the app record and blocking reviewer assignment, and help get the current submission assigned to a reviewer? If the automated check flags build 12 again, could the message specify which entitlement and which binary / API references triggered it, so we can address it precisely? We can provide codesign output, entitlement plists, provisioning profile dumps, and nm symbol listings on request. Thank you.

I'm submitting a new version of my app, and after click "submit for Review", it show that: A few more items are needed in order to submit for review The items listed below are required for submission:There are still screenshot uploads in progress. I didn't met this problem before. Is that mean I haven't upload all the screenshot required or it's still uploading the screenshots to App Store Connect's server? Cause before there is a "save" button after you drag images to the screenshots area, now you don't. And I think I have uploaded all the screenshots needed and I waited a day to try submit again, still the same. What should I do?

I am living in China and sure I am a chinese. I and my friends am considering if we can make game on Apple Arcade for world wide market. Unfortunately, we didn't find a way to contact apple. So, can anyone give us some advice about where can we contact apple? We have a demo for our game, anyone can watch this if you have any interest : https://www.taptap.com/app/229223

Hello, My app was reviewed and rejected on June 26, 2026 (3:48 PM). I fixed every issue mentioned by the App Review team and submitted a new build. After about one week, the app was still stuck in "Waiting for Review" and had never moved to "In Review." Thinking there might have been an issue with the submission itself, I canceled it and submitted it again. Submission ID: 0e03f336-27f3-42d0-9d15-a0df4e8ac77a Unfortunately, even after re-submitting, the app is still in "Waiting for Review", and I haven't received any communication explaining the delay. Has anyone experienced a similar situation? If so, how did you get the review process moving again? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I have a multi-platform app in the review process. Two versions are in review. When I submitted the third one, for iOS, the system is asking me to answer the age related questions. The answers are the same as for the other platform versions but the 'SAVE' button is grayed out so the only option I have is cancel. That was a few minutes ago. Now there is an edited button and a View button on the App Information page. But, it still won't let me submit for review. I must be missing something but I can't see it.