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4. 3 Design: Spam
Guideline 4.3 - DesignWe noticed that your app provides the same feature set as other apps submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language, which is considered a form of spam.The next submission of this app may require a longer review time, and this app will not be eligible for an expedited review until this issue is resolved.
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Feb ’19
Guideline 4.3 Rejected
Guideline 4.3 - DesignWe noticed that your app provides the same feature set as other apps submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language, which is considered a form of spam.The next submission of this app may require a longer review time, and this app will not be eligible for an expedited review until this issue is resolved.*************************************************************************Do we need to return to the era of repeated wheel building?*************************************************************************First of all, please forgive my poor English. My English is very poor, so I used translation tools.Get down to business:The APP submitted for review has not been released successfully for more than four months, with a delay of 2 months, 4.3 rejected twice and 2 months.The newly submitted APP was originally intended to be the APP before the update of the updated version. However, due to the large UI adjustment, it was submitted as a new APP because t
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Feb ’19
Tagged for 4.3 Design / Spam
Well it finally happened to me. I have been waiting for it. I got for rejected for spam, on a new Sudoku App. I have a Calcudoku App. A Nurikabe App. A Kakurasu App. All with the exact same interface.And I uploaded a Sudoku App, and got tagged for similar design Spam.There is ZERO way to combine the apps, unless I want to spend a few years.I can understand how the reviewer rejected it.But the 'spam design' is actually a GOOD thing. Having a similar design for completely different puzzle games add a familarity to the user. SO he / she only has to learn a new game and not a new interface.Obviously these reviewers are not programmers, and they just follow a checklist. Ironically, this is one of my best coded apps. I computer generated Sudoku Puzzles, not an easy thing to do. (They have TED talks on it)There is nothing I can do but appeal. There is no way to fix this. It is really quite depressing. I hope some of these these App reviewers are programmers, and my appeal is accepted.
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Feb ’19
4.3 Spam issue and Apple isn't answering
Hi,We are developing a dating app and got rejected by the Appstore several times. So I decided to change our business model, marketing, and took out certain functions after having a phone call with apple.I deleted the old bundle, and created a new one.Now I got rejected again for 4.3 Spam issues. However, I deleted the old bundle BEFORE submitting the new one. The bundle is the only one I have in my developer account. All I wanted to have is a fresh start. I tried to clearify that but now Apple isn't responding since 7 days. We noticed that your app provides the same feature set as other apps submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language, which is considered a form of spam.The next submission of this app may require a longer review time, and this app will not be eligible for an expedited review until this issue is resolved.Any idea how long I have to wait for an answer, or is that some kind of unlimited time ban?
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Jan ’19
My App Rejected 4.3 Design: Spam
hii submitted app yesterday to review, This morning I was surprised that the application was rejected, Reason 4.3 Design: Spam.And I've introduced an application programmed by myself, and a unique design.This message I receivedGuideline 4.3 - DesignWe noticed that your app provides the same feature set as other apps submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language, which is considered a form of spam.The next submission of this app may require a longer review time, and this app will not be eligible for an expedited review until this issue is resolved.what should I do ?
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Jan ’19
Reply to Distributing the same application to 2 different publishers
The recent 'spam' objections are all directed to the same developer publishing similar versions of the same app for different 'stores' (i.e. multiple apps for different Barber Shops - one for in each town in California). While your app is the same it will hit the App Store from two different developer accounts so the App Store will not apply that recent concern to the two apps. But your app does have similar code so it still violates the 'spam' 4.3 guideline; but does it? Won't the versions be localized differently; one in Chinese the other in English? If so, go for it.
Dec ’18
app reviews are missing
Yesterday I had 102 ratings for 4.6 star average and today it shows 45 for a 4.3 star average. I have not released a new versione or submitted a new one for review in the past 7 days. Why would more than 50% of my ratings suddenly disappear?I did reduce the price from 1.99 to .99 about 10 days ago. Does this affect it?This is incredibily frustrating since January and February will be my biggest months for sales and in the past 3 weeks competing apps have hit the app store.
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Dec ’18
Color Contrast Calculator in Xcode
I have an issue about 'Color Contrast Calculator' tool in Accessibility Inspector from Xcode.For same foreground color #067AB4 and background color #F5F5F5, the color contrast ratio calculated by 'Color Contrast Calculator' is 5.5: 1, but is 4.3:1 by other tools like 'Colour Contrast Analyser' or https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/So with the same foreground and background color, why the color contrast ratio is difference with other tools?
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Dec ’18
App forwarding for consolidated apps. Redirect to container.
So I've got a lot of apps that have been consolidated into a container app. Like many of you, I got the 4.3 messages. After some grimacing, I can see the silver lining - for devs, for users, for Apple. But I really wish iTunes Connect would add a forwarding option in our Removed from Sale apps that redirects to the container app. I added a bug-report (feature request) for this already, but I'm hoping more devs ask for this. Reasoning...1. There's gotta be millions of dead app store links already floating around the internet. Why have those links go to this message This app is no longer available in your country's store, when it can just jump to a live app? We can update our own websites, but some blogger that wrote about an app 3 years ago, isn't going to update their links. 2. Its also a dead end for actual App Store users going through their old Purchases. Doesn't need to be. Let us recapture those users. 3. Consolidation was / will be a big ask for many of us. And like I said, I can see the benefi
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Nov ’18
Why Apple review team start marked all stickers pack as Spam ?
I have more then 100 stickers pack for iMessage in AppStore. Week ago all my stickers pack for iMessage was marked as spam . Now I can't publish new stickers or update old.____4.3 Design: SpamGuideline 4.3 - DesignYour app provides the same feature set as many of the other apps you've submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language. Creating multiple Bundle IDs of the same app is not appropriate.To resolve this issue, please combine apps with similar feature sets into a single container app. You should differentiate varied content within your app by categorizing elements into groups, using the in-app purchase API, and location services to deliver content to users.Once you have done so, please reply to this message via Resolution Center indicating the app name and Apple ID of any container apps submitted under your Apple Developer Program account._______With the release of XCode 10 in 2016, functionality for creating sticker packs without using code was added to XCode as separate t
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Nov ’18
Reply to Whatsapp Sticker Apps Getting Rejected
And as assumed, it got rejected:From Apple4. 3 Design: SpamGuideline 4.3 - DesignWe noticed that your app provides the same feature set as other apps submitted to the App Store; it simply varies in content or language, which is considered a form of spam.The next submission of this app may require a longer review time, and this app will not be eligible for an expedited review until this issue is resolved.
Nov ’18