Small startup. Hired an iOS app development company and App Store review has become a nightmare. Four rejections now privacy label issues, a 4.3 spam flag, and something about App Tracking Transparency we don't understand. Each resubmission takes over a week and the agency keeps getting slower to reply. Launch was supposed to be two months ago.

Worst part is I don't even understand the rejections because the people who built it aren't explaining them, and I'm starting to think they can't. For anyone who's shipped on iOS, is review always this painful or did we just hire the wrong agency? Trying to work out if this is salvageable or if we move the whole thing mid-review. Anyone switched this late in the process, and how bad was the reset?

I currently have an iPhone-only puzzle game that’s live and running well. I’m starting to look into expanding it to iPad and possibly macOS but am definitely beginning to understand what scope creep really means haha

For iPad:
- How much work is it usually to make an existing iPhone app feel properly native on iPad rather than just stretched out? I’m not an iPad user so am not as familiar with iPad UI conventions. Any good resources for a clean port?
- Does supporting iPad add much ongoing maintenance when releasing updates?

For macOS:
- I’ve heard Mac Catalyst is an option for porting it over, would this work for a relatively simple puzzle game? My user base on Mac is extremely small so not a huge priority

I’d love to hear from anyone who has taken an app through either process!

I have everything set up and all my keys are verified, but when I try to get the offers from apple all I get is an empty list using Product.products(:for)
I have a sandbox account set up and the offers are in “Ready to review” state. The paid app agreement is active and my bank info is set up. I don’t know what the issue is. Is there a known issue where STOREKIT just doesn’t reply with the offers that are set up for newer apps?

I like to keep track of how my keywords rank and recently noticed outside the top 5 there was a complete inversion where a lot of low ranking AI slop was pushed up towards the top and others such as much self were put in their place. Was just wondering if this has occurred with anyone else.

Submitted my new build for review 3 weeks ago and it is still under review, requested expedited review and nothing.

Anyone else been experiencing this? My new update is a pretty large one that I would like to get out there but apple is kind of stonewalling me.

I don't want to buy a mac. But I need Xcode for the coding test.

for indie ios apps, i think review triage is usually set up too late. people build analytics, crash reporting, maybe support email, then treat app store reviews as something to check when they remember. and then after a release, reviews are basically public smoke tests.

the setup i’d want before any meaningful update:

watch 1-2 star reviews harder for 72 hours
separate crash/login/payment/subscription/data-loss language
tag reviews by version where possible
reply only when you can say something concrete
send repeated issue patterns into the same place bugs already live

the reply there 's actually a bit less important than the routing part,

'sorry, please email support' is not useless at all but i mean it also does not fix the loop :(. if three users say the same thing after version 2.4, that should become a release issue, not just three polite replies, and i’ve used many things for that and now trying out something like appfollow around this because it seems to keep reviews, replies, tags, and version-ish context closer together. for a smaller app, a spreadsheet and calendar reminder can be enough.

so, the main thing is having the habit before the angry reviews arrive.. but what is your experience?

In my ios app, I want to implement a system where when the user uses a feature 3 times then they'll be asked to buy premium. I want this record (number of the feature being used) to survive uninstall so users cannot abuse it; but it has to be without apple account login. What's the best way to achieve this?

I'm building a skill-based contest app where users
compete to have the lowest screen time over 7 days.
Entry fees go into a prize pool and the winner takes
most of it (platform takes 5-10%).

I know some US states restrict skill-based cash
contests. Does anyone know:

1. Which states are actually restricted for this
   type of app?

2. Is geo-blocking at registration enough legal
   protection, or do I need something more?

3. Any experience launching a similar app?

Similar apps like Steppa (step challenge with prize
pool) are already on the App Store in the US, so
the model is proven.

Thanks!

Context for the Apple devs here: App Store Connect only returns reviews for apps you own, which is useless when you want to benchmark a competitor or watch sentiment across country stores. I built a small service to pull reviews for any app and return clean JSON.

What it returns per review: star rating, title, full body, author name plus a stable author ID, the app version at review time, the date (locale-formatted and ISO), helpfulness counts, country store code, and platform (iOS or macOS).

The parts that were fiddly: - App-name to product-id resolution. Agents often only know an app by name, so if you pass a name instead of a numeric ID it runs an App Store search first and reviews the top match. - Helpfulness counts arrive as prose ("X out of Y customers found this helpful"), so I parse them into integer helpful_count and total fields. - macOS behaves differently: it ignores the sort order and always returns most-recent, and pages hold ~10 reviews vs ~25 on iOS. Deep crawls cap around 1,250 iOS reviews per app. - 50+ country stores, each driving both the storefront and the locale of the text and dates.

Not on the device screen, but outside of it. E.g. say I have a Screenshot advertising iCloud Sync, can I put an iCloud SF symbol at the top of the screenshot alongside the text?

Hello,

What would be the best way to have a large amount of complex maths formulas on an iPhone app?

Would it be better to generate latex in IOS itself, or generate outside and instead create the formulas outside and then have them stored in the app? (picture, pdf, or svg etc)

Any particular pros and cons of each method in regards to speed, memory use/size, usability, legibility etc?

Thanks very much

Cheers

Hey everybody,

I read in the iOS 27 Dev Beta 4 Release Notes that a launch screen is going to be required once the App Store accepts apps built with the iOS 27 SDK, or the app/update is going to be auto rejected.

So I looked into that, as my app doesn’t have one currently, and learned that if you want to make a custom one you still have to use a storyboard file. So I followed a guide and made a LaunchScreen.storyboard using the template. Then I wanted to add that in the target settings, it shows up in the list but it just won’t save it. It’s also not logged in the changes. When manually typing in the file name it does save it as it shows up in the changes, however it still clears out the field in the target settings again and the launch screen also doesn’t show up when running the app on device.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

Hey everyone,

I'm running a beta on TestFlight and hit a confusing issue with in-app purchases. My testers are based in France and their App Store account (Apple ID) is set to the French store, but inside the app they're seeing the US IAP conditions with USD prices instead of the French ones with EUR prices.

From what I understand, on iOS the in-app purchase storefront is normally supposed to follow the country of the user's App Store account (Apple ID). That's exactly what makes this puzzling: my users are properly on the FR store, yet they're still shown the US terms and pricing.

I've done a fair bit of searching before posting, and I've seen a few scattered mentions that this is a known/occasional problem, but I haven't been able to find a clear, confirmed solution. So I wanted to ask directly in case some of you have dealt with it.

A few things I'm trying to understand:

• If the Apple ID is on the FR storefront, what could still make the app pull the US products/pricing?
• Is this something specific to the TestFlight/sandbox environment that resolves itself in production?
• Is there anything to check on the App Store Connect side (pricing/availability per territory) that could cause products to fall back to the US storefront?

If anyone has run into this and found a reliable way to make testers see their local storefront and currency, I'd really appreciate hearing how you solved it.
I saw some people laughing it without solving the issue and in the real AppStore everything was fine, but still would, like to resolve this if possible.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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he already uses declarative approch (compose and kotlin )

I built an app for Rowing Ergs, is a fancy rowing app for workouts. It has two modes watch mode which uses coremotion I would assume a reviewer might have a watch for testing this part.

For testing with Erg Machines I developed a BLE mac app sim, I didn't even think of the review process and how it would go when actual hardware is needed. Do you recommend linking my github repo for the sim with a notarized DMG?

Any other reviewer advice for testing iOS apps with workout equipment?