Planning on submitting Iris to the Mac App Store this weekend. Not quite ready for release, but I dread whatever App Review throws at me and hope to get ahead of it.
I don’t particularly want to distribute via the App Store (there will still be a direct download version for purchase from my website), but for the users who would rather buy it there, I’d like to make it available.
Rejected after six days waiting for review, and four minutes after launching the app for the first time.
"The app uses one or more entitlements which do not appear to have matching functionality within the app.
com.apple.security.network.server"
I guess they never opened the Settings window during all the time they spent reviewing the app?
After eighteen years of App Review, none of this is surprising anymore.
App Review rejected Iris for a second time, this time for two reasons.
1. They again claimed the app uses the com.apple.security.network.server entitlement without matching functionality - even though I responded to the first rejection with an annotated screenshot and detailed explanation showing the server feature in the app.
2. They asked for more information about how Iris uses face recognition data - asking me to quote from my privacy policy - despite both the privacy policy and the app itself explaining that no data (including face data) ever leaves your Mac and all processing happens entirely on-device.
Ironically, their rejection included a screenshot of Iris’s Settings window—showing the Privacy tab that explains exactly this.
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Joe Lion