Your app has been stuck in “Waiting for Review” for ten days. You have filed three expedited-review requests and five support tickets. A “senior advisor” promised a callback two weeks ago and went silent. Meanwhile, the launch event you planned around your release date is next week. There is no official escalation path for any…
How to unblock a stuck notarization, fix Team ID prefix errors, and survive 3.1.1 review
A notarization stuck “In Progress” for 60 hours. A returning developer’s app failing validation with error 90286 because Automatic Signing prefixed the bundle ID with a 15-year-old Developer ID instead of a Team ID. A Canadian VoIP startup rejected under guideline 3.1.1 with no clear test for whether prepaid calling credits count as “intermediary currency.”…
Native vs Web: Technologies Available to Native Apps but not Web Apps
Progressive web applications have access to many features previously available only to native applications. However, there are still platform capabilities available exclusively to native applications. This article summarizes what are those.
How to Pass App Store Review: Guideline 4.3 Spam
Publishing similar apps is considered spamming. Yet there are valid reasons to develop multiple apps from the same code base. Here is what you need to know to avoid being labeled as spammer by app reviewers.
Look-Alike Apps are Considered Spam by App Review
Some developers’ app updates were rejected from the App Store because their apps look similar. Worse, some others were marked as spammer due to publishing apps that looks like another developer’s app. How can you avoid this?
How to Combine Apps into a Single Container App
It would be a big blow when Apple rejects your suite of apps, call it “spam” and tell you to move into a container app. If this is happening to you, then this article would be a solution to your predicament.
How to Publish White-Label Apps in the App Store
Being a white-label app vendor in Apple’s store is not easy. App Review could label you as a spammer because of a number of similarly-looking template apps and jeopardize your entire developer account.
How to Pass App Store Review: Guideline 4.2 Design – Minimum functionality
Delivering a “minimum viable product” won’t be viable if your app isn’t going to pass App Store Review. Is your app “good enough” for the App Store? Is it appropriate for the App Store and not better off in the web? Read on to ensure your app pass the gates of App Review.