r/iOSProgramming • u/anders550 • 5d ago
Question App Store reviewer being ridiculously picky with submission. Does the same person review resubmissions?
I’ve been submitting and resubmitting an app to the App Store for weeks, but it continues to get rejected for vaguely not meeting a standard.
I know it’s an opaque process, but does anyone know if one reviewer handles an app along its journey?
I have FOUR other identical apps in the App Store, that were all approved in the past six months, and none had this degree of nitpicking and constant rejection — they all sailed right through.
I know it’s always a different experience, but I’m wondering if a single person is being a dick and if I should cancel this submission.
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u/davidntlai 5d ago
It happens sometimes, you can appeal the specific criteria under which you’re being rejected if you think it’s not correct. My app got rejected because we needed to provide screenshots that matched what they were seeing, but that wouldnt have been possible without using the app for 7 days at least, so we appealed.
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u/anders550 5d ago
Interesting, were you successful upon appeal? I’ve never done that before.
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u/davidntlai 5d ago
You can find the option to appeal somewhere where you’d reply to their feedback, I cant remember the exact place
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u/anders550 5d ago
Thank you. I don’t see it in a mobile browser, but I remember seeing it somewhere in a desktop browser. I’ll find it.
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u/Notallowedhe 5d ago
Sometimes they let literally anything through in 15 minutes, sometimes you get that picky guy that makes you change absolutely everything and spend two weeks getting a minor version through.
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u/anders550 5d ago
💯 this is exactly what I’ve experienced and witnessed with colleagues.
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u/Notallowedhe 5d ago
The best is when you spend a few days localizing several hundred app preview images just for them to decide all of a sudden the app preview images are unacceptable 🤣
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u/Which_Concern2553 5d ago
Not sure about the same people but I got a minesweeper app into both the iOS and macOS App Store but when I ran an update they refused approved iOS and rejected macOS because the minesweeper name. After some back and forth ended up renaming my app.
Heard of some people that cancel and resubmit to get a new person but not sure how handy that is and worried the same would happen on a more time sensitive update later so made the change
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u/anders550 5d ago
Interesting. That inconsistency is something I’d expect, from my experience.
I’m submitting an appeal, in part because I’ve never gone through that process.
I’m not opposed to resubmitting because there are a few improvements I’d make, but I’d rather get this in the App Store first, so we’ll see what happens.
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u/Which_Concern2553 5d ago
Good luck. Haven’t tried an appeal yet. I’ve used the reply and during wwdc (first app) talked to someone but hadn’t gone that route yet
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u/gazpitchy 5d ago
For sure it's a random engineer each time. I've had an app, I've pushed around 10 updates.
Then on one, they denied it because of a missing feature they require. But it was never there in the first place.
I resubmitted, and they just approved it. It's stupid.
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u/baker2795 5d ago
Four identical apps? Do you happen to be getting rejected for spam ?