As a developer the app store just feels kind of rigged, and you will never get a reasoned reply to your concerns. Here are two examples which aren't revealed by the new transparency report. I had 10 solitaire variants. My competitor had 10 variants. New rule 4.3 brought in which is fair enough, except that afterwards Apple removed my solitaire variants but allowed my competitor to keep all of theirs. Search for Chess on the app store (note I also have a chess app). Why does an old app with a rating of 3 stars and just 18 ratings come above Magnus Carlsen's app with a 5 star rating? He is the number one chess player in the World and his app is superb. It is exasperating and you will only get a Thank you for your concerns, we have passed them to the relevant department kind of reply. You never hear from them again on the subject. There are 1000s more examples ... The only way Magnus can rectify this is, I poresume, by buying Apple Search Ads.
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This seems like a bug and you can report it directly to apple at https://feedbackassistant.apple.com You could also first check if it is still in the latest version of Xcode (4.3), as it might already be fixed.
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Hi, we submitted our app for review after 1 year of development, and 4 months waiting to finally make payment and enable developer account. After review, app was rejected for 4.3 reason design spam as there are already lots of dating apps in the store reason. We have a unique audience and features (of course also common features like other dating as cannot be avoided chat, some like function etc), and a lof of users were looking forward to our ios version, they are still using the web and ask us every day when they can use ios app. App got rejected and what is unfair is that we can mention at least 5 apps that are total trash in terms of features that do exist in app store same category and are our rivals published without any problem. We submitted after 2 weeks a totally new concept for the app, new menus, animations etc to make it more unique so is not anymore under design spam. Now it was rejected again for same reason and we are out of ideas what to change for the next submission. Our designers a
How to link binary resources folder in package.swift file from Swift Playgrounds. Given that I cant manually edit the package.swift file. How do I navigate to resolve this? Currently, my targets looks like this: targets: [ .executableTarget( name: AppModule, path: . ) ] I would like to link the resources folder like this: targets: [ .executableTarget( name: AppModule, path: ., resources: [ .process(Resources) ] ) ] Playground Version: 4.3 Please let me know. I am few hours away from the swift student challenge submission. Kindly acknowledge. PLEASE HELP!!!
I am writing to make a complaint about the fake activities of two app creators , which you should take a serious action against them. PDF Scanner & Editor + (https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/hq-tools/id1676624003) Good PDF Editor (https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/khelp-tim-tov/id1650247356) Previously, I had reported these two apps, (https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/718992 ) and now again. These two apps are using spamming strategies and tries to exploit App Store leaks on their marketing.
These two apps are exactly same as each other, and it has been creating by one creator, With Different name, But even the seller name has same pattern, Both has TOV expression at the end, It is obviously shown these two apps which are exactly same as each other, has one Creator. Seller: SKOL LTD, TOV Seller: KHELP TIM, TOV Recently Appstore took an action against a leak of the Appstore and those creators who used the word Good in the title of their App Event or name of the app, Now if you look at these
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App Store Distribution & Marketing
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App Store Connect
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Our team members are so upset and exhuasted about the guideline 4.3. We have spent 60 days on the app submission but still get no luck to be approved and no black and white instruction to improve. We post here for intelligent solution.This is our situation -We are developing an IOT project ( a digital photo frame ), the end-products of this project is: a digital photo frame and the APP.The APP is simply a photo/video transmission tool which transmit the media on the phone to users' digital photo frame.Here comes the issue:1. We have our own branding digital photo frames products and our own app on the market.2. We are also the OEM of other digital photo frames products which have different brands from us. Our clients need the full solution - their own branding app which have very similar functions with our own branding app( this breaches the annoying and irrational guideline 4.3)What we have done:1. Completely new design of home page / splashscreen / app icon / app description / app name.2.
my Chinese Chess Game be rejected 2 times. the reason: We continued to notice 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. What I'm more curious about is where is the measurement standard for this sentence? According to this reply same feature set as other apps , should APPLE STORE have only one chess games, and the others are considered spam? but why there are so many Chess game there? do they have different features? based on that reply, I think, I am not a chess player. or I am not playing IOS chess game. my APP should be the strongest AI already. have Large End Game Database for play. have self define board for play With AI. any suggestion of make different features set?
my app was creating problem with deseign spam but somehow i managed to make it work and get accepted by apple store but now while updating it, it still showing same issue 4.3 spam I am totally ****** off and losing hope for my business, can anybody have any solution
Hi - After having spoken with Apple directly regarding 4.3 Spam Guidelines, (they were no help), I'd like to put this out to apple developer community for thoughts and feedback. Our business operates in such a way that it requires our customer to have their own branded app/experience. As we all know, managing multiple Apple Developer accounts, codebases, QA testing processes is an absolute nightmare and we would like to avoid this if possible. I don't think we can, but seemingly, other companies have not followed these guidelines and their apps are still in the AppStore, for now... https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/yardi-systems-inc/id425728804?see-all=i-phone-apps https://apps.apple.com/au/developer/buildinglink-com/id355921358?see-all=i-phonei-pad-apps How is this so? Are these companies infringing on these guidelines? How are they 'getting away with this'? Is it just a matter of time before Apple comes down hard on these companies for their app listings? And what is the best advice moving forwar
same here, I highly believe my App's feature set is unique but still get the 4.3 spam rejection. Really have no idea how the review works, and they never give reason but copy of 4.3 guidline. Also no reply from the appeal.
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Hi, What does your app do, that you got flagged for SPAM? Guideline 4.3 - Design 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.
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They rejected and reviewed it twice ( I did not submit anything). This is what I got after the status was changed several times: Hello, Thank you for your continued patience. We are writing to let you know that we have completed our evaluation of your app and account. Upon further review, we found that your app does not comply with the following guidelines: Guideline 4.3 - Design - Spam Your app has similar features to others. As such, it duplicates the content and functionality of many other similar apps currently available on the App Store. While these app features may be useful, informative or entertaining, we simply have enough of these types of apps on the App Store, and they are considered a form of spam. Next Steps We encourage you to review your app concept and incorporate different content and features that are in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. You can avoid delays to future submissions by ensuring your apps don’t attempt to mislead or harm customers or undermine the review
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update Ok so i received another notice saying im violation the spam policy i deleted the duplicate submission, im not sure what the problem is now. maybe they didnt see the duplicate was deleted i replied back on the app store connect site clarifying Guideline 4.3 - Design 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. app id 1665868224
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struct TideForecastInfoView: View { var geometryProxy: GeometryProxy var body: some View { VStack { getHeaders(geometryProxy) TideForecastEntryView(geometryProxy: geometryProxy) .padding(2) } .background(.white) .clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 14)) .shadow(radius: 8) } @ViewBuilder func getHeaders(_ geometryProxy: GeometryProxy) -> some View { HStack { HStack { Text(tide) .frame(maxWidth: geometryProxy.size.width * 0.25) Text(time) .frame(maxWidth: geometryProxy.size.width * 0.5) Text(height) .frame(maxWidth: geometryProxy.size.width * 0.25) } .padding(8) } .frame(maxWidth: .infinity) .background(.gray) } } struct TideForecastEntryView: View { var geometryProxy: GeometryProxy var body: some View { HStack { Text(High Tide) .frame(maxWidth: geometryProxy.size.width * 0.25) Text(1:08 AM (Tue 03) January) .frame(maxWidth: geometryProxy.size.width * 0.5, alignment: .leading) Text(1.31 m (4.3 ft)) .frame(maxWidth: geometryProxy.size.width * 0.25) } } } Result looks like this 03 should be on th
I could not get it wrapping at the right place. It looks like SwiftUI wraps to balance as much as possible to have same length text on both lines. No way to directly ask for a lineBreakMode, unless you go through UIViewRepresentable https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58469001/how-can-i-get-text-to-wrap-in-a-uilabel-via-uiviewrepresentable-without-having/58474880#58474880 . how to vertical align top for text High Tide Declare in the HStack (see below) I tested with a longer text just to check Text(1:08 AM (Tue 03) January and more) Why do you define explicit GeometryProxy var ? How to you call to initialise (in SceneDelegate for instance). I changed as follows to be able to test struct TideForecastInfoView: View { // var geometryProxy: GeometryProxy var body: some View { GeometryReader { geometryProxy in VStack { getHeaders(geometryProxy) TideForecastEntryView() // geometryProxy: geometryProxy) .padding(2) } .background(.white) .clipShape(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 14)) .shadow(radius: 8) } } @ViewBuilder
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