My take is AI assisted review. Not replacing humans. Helping them. Let AI catch the obvious stuff so reviewers can focus on the judgment calls. I wrote the whole breakdown on Substack.
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/the-app-store-has-a-vibe-coding-problem
What are your review times looking like? I want to know if it's just us.
#VibeCoding #AppReview #iOSDev #IndieDev #Swift #Apple #AppStore #iOS #RejectedByAppReview #IndieApp (4/4)
@9to5Mac
"Your app [...] is still in review, and the review process is proceeding as normal."
It's been in review for 25(!) business days now. #RejectedByAppReview
I don’t even know why I bother creating in-app events for major updates. This year I wrote the most generic copy possible, specifically to avoid mentioning iOS 26 in an event that’s literally about iOS 26, and Apple still wasn’t happy with it.
How exactly does “Fresh Design and AI Features” use iOS terms in an inappropriate way? Is “AI” considered an iOS term? What about “Fresh Design”?
@rejected My keyboard extension app got rejected for "App Completeness".
You can define text snippets that you can paste anywhere, so I thought a good example snippet would be to have a "Lorem Ipsum" text.
Naturally Apple saw this not as an example but as "content that is not complete or final" #RejectedByAppReview #iOSdev
Rejected by Apple iOS app review:
First we were rejected for having a restore purchases button when we only have consumable purchases and restore purchases does not apply to consumable purchases.
We removed the button and resubmitted.
Now we got rejected for not having a "restore purchases" button.
I know App Review might have a lot of work. But being rejected because the app is « unfinished » and shows placeholder text as Lorem Ipsum, in the Lorem Ipsum Generator tool, is bafling.
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