Evan ColemanJun 24, 2025
Simon B. Støvring

To: Apple

Your app, Wallet, has been rejected.

Your app displays advertising in notifications, which is not compliant with the App Review Guidelines and violates guideline 2.5.18. Ads must be confined to the main app binary.

Please remove the ads from the extension and resubmit.
https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/114738626109660386

Jun 24, 2025 at 2:37pmIvory for iOS
Show threadDer rote Ritter ✅Jun 24, 2025
@simonbs Do as I say, not do as I do
Show threadNMDoernerJun 24, 2025

@simonbs

For me, the "Wallet.app" ONLY displays a massive shitty Apple AD, and nothing else. 🤮

I have thus demoted Wallet to a crApp.

Unfortunately, due to the monopoly of Apple, I cannot write my own app for that.

Show threadVorsosJun 25, 2025
@cdfinder Not quite the same thing. Wallet is the app which saves most credit cards, so it is asking you to do that. ‘Apple Pay’ in this context is just the tap-to-pay mechanism, even if you only add a generic Visa card.
Show threadNMDoernerJun 25, 2025

@Vorsos

That is not the point.

Apple is only showing that creepy ad, with no way of removing it without subscribing to crApple Pay, which I do NOT want.

But I cannot see my real cards or tickets, as the non-removable ad is blocking them.

Disgusting upsell and misuse of the monopoly, just like the illegal notifications that nobody else is allowed to do that way.

Show threadAndyJun 24, 2025
@simonbs is this about the Fandango ad I got notified about this morning? What kind of shovelware BS was that, Apple...
Show threadMatt GoddenJun 24, 2025
@simonbs "In light of convicted antitrust violator Apple's ongoing malfeasance, and recidivistic behaviour with regards to competition law; the court hereby imposes a permanent ban on Apple owning, operating, or holding an investment in any form of direct-to-consumer software retail business. Apple is hereby permanently prohibited from direct to consumer; selling, renting, offering by subscription, or bundling with hardware, any software beyond a regulated Minimum Viable Operating System."
Show threadJason Anthony GuyJun 25, 2025

@simonbs wrong guideline.

You want 4.5.4.

(Note that iOS 26 still fails because it’s opt-out, not opt-in.)