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Is Apple reversing course on guidelines 4.3 and 4.2.6? What exactly is the standard now?Before, the 4.2.6 App Store guideline read as follows:4.2.6 Apps created from a commercialized template or app generation service will be rejected.The company’s revised wording now states:4.2.6 Apps created from a commercialized template or app generation service will be rejected unless they are submitted directly by the provider of the app’s content. These services should not submit apps on behalf of their clients and should offer tools that let their clients create customized, innovative apps that provide unique customer experiences.Another acceptable option for template providers is to create a single binary to host all client content in an aggregated or “picker” model, for example as a restaurant finder app with separate customized entries or pages for each client restaurant, or as an event app with separate entries for each client event.https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-revises-its-controversial-guideli

I develop apps for radio stations and WebTVs.Recently I had to update some apps at the same day, because I had to change the streaming url, and all were rejected. Now, even the new apps are rejected.I submitted an appeal explaining that my apps are individually branded, so branding on the home screen, app store searching and the app name matter for my clients. I believe my apps are not creating clutter, each one has unique brand, name, color scheme, background and specific content. That will not confusing users.They replied:We understand that your radio and TV apps are individually branded. However, they share the same concept and feature set. It is no longer appropriate to submit multiple apps that provide the same or similar feature set.To resolve this issue, please consolidate similar apps into a single directory app (for example, all radio apps into one container, and all TV apps into one container) that allows users to select from different channels within the app.These type of one container app with mul

Hello,We’re struggling ourselves with the 4.3 Rule Spam restriction, and we need your guide to know how to proceed without breaking the Apple Rules.Well, our company develop homecare softwares, monitoring health by an app, where user can save and view its historic of health recordings, such as glucose, blood pressure, oximetry and others. Actually we have one app at store, Glico, which registers glucose, meals, medicines and physical activity.The problem is, that we have some contracts to develop new apps, for different companies. They’ll have similar purpose, and also similar design, but their icons, colors, and also some parts of the design will be different between them. As well, they will have some same features, and some others different.Our doubt lies in if and how we can do this without breaking the Apple Rules (in this case, 4.3 Rule Spam restriction, about similar apps), because as a great part of features will be shared between the apps, we will reuse great (or at least some) of th

I have apps that are travel guides and maps for various cities. I just updated them and some got approved but others got rejected with this message: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.In 4.3 Spam in https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#spam it saysIf your app has different versions for specific locations, sports teams, universities, etc., consider submitting a single app and provide the variations using in-app purchase.It says consider not that it's absolutely required. I did consider it and thought it better to have multiple apps because 1) discovery, I can't put the keywords for all the cities in one app and 2) better user experience to have all the data in the initial app download than require seperate downloads from a server.What is the exact policy on this? It seems that many developers are able to have multiple apps with the same functional