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Hello Apple Developer Community, I hope this message finds you well. My app submission was recently rejected under Guideline 4.3(a) due to the App Review Team's determination that my app shares similarities in binary, metadata, and concept with apps submitted by other developers, with only minor differences. The feedback I received stated: We still found that your app shares a similar binary, metadata, and concept as apps submitted to the App Store by other developers, with only minor differences. Since we do not accept spam apps on the App Store, we encourage you to review your app concept and submit a unique app with distinct content and functionality. I have already made significant efforts to differentiate my app by implementing unique features and functionality tailored to my audience. However, I’d like to better understand: What specific aspects of my app might be contributing to the similarity concerns? How can I further highlight the unique features and functionality of my app to meet Apple's

I am building my 2nd React-Native app which is a very simple Notes app. The functionalities are to be able to add, edit & delete notes. And, on the home page where the user can change the orientation of the notes to be in 2 column like a grid or just a list. My app has been getting rejected for Minimal design guideline & I don't know what to do to make it more complex. My first iOS React-Native app was just a single-page Weather app, again that was pretty simple. So, my question is what do I do? OR is the trick that I just keep doing little changes and try to submit & see which one gets accepted??

My app is completely unique, no other app has the main functionality of my app, and it was not bought template and coded from scratch. It uses Supabase for the backend, for context. I have no idea what to do, I just spoke with a review team member, and he kept saying the same thing, that he's seen similar apps, which when i clarified what the app did he just said that it could be a bought template which was used in fraud, and genuinely did not want to talk about the app so he basically cut the review shortly. I spent a month of my life on this app. I have no idea what to do. It does use Supercell images such as figures, but it follows all the Supercell Fan Content Policy guidelines.

I previously written here, and some advices were to appeal to rejection sending them message describing uniqueness of the app. Nothing is working. In short, i have a vpn app (of course by design shares some concept with other apps that are in the app store). But since the rejection i have completely changed the ui, added built in browser, p2p messenger so users could interact with each other without any interference. The app is completely free with no ads. I thought this is it, there's no way it would reject this time, but... i get a notification with rejection repeating the same old message. I'm extremely frustrated and don't know what to do. Tried changing the logo of the app, the name to Incognito - Messenger, VPN, app store screenshots. I've already appealed with screenshots describing unique features that other vpn apps don't have, but the message just repeats from app review team. Submission ID: 1a49ee0b-c4e2-4a36-8372-e4d3b9a8b13f Does anybody have an advice what i can do?

I’m posting this here as a last resort as I’ve exhausted all options including numerous unsuccessful messages and appeals to the App Review Team and App Review Board. On April 1, 2022, a simple bug fix update was rejected and the app and account was under investigation. This had never happened to me before so I wasn’t sure what was going on. After a couple of days, the App Review Team concluded their investigation and rejected my app due to 4.3.0 spam design (“same features to other apps”). This took me surprise as my app was doing well and offered users unique features not found on other similar apps. These features were added due to request from my customers. I then realized this was most likely caused by a copyright claim my app received in March by another app developer that had a similar app on the App Store. The copyright claim was recently dropped by the complainant as their rights were not being infringed but it appears that my app and account have been flagged as a spammer. All because of a false cop

I have recently made an app whose name is 'campus date'. As you can find on its name, it is dating app. And that app got rejected because dating app is already satuated and my app seems like existing apps. However, my app is rooted in unique intention that is matching from certain university. Especially, in my country (South Korea), there is no dating app that matches users in the same university. I think that makes differences enough but Apple doesn't think that is enough. I have no idea to resolve this situation, what should I do? what feature could be in dating app and make Apple feel different. One of my small ideas is 'recommendation for dating place'. This dating app has users that are in same university, so I would like to recommend some dating place which is located near that university. Do you think this kind of approach is correct? or should I focus on different thing? Any ideas or your experiences, please comment, thank you

So game I created a racing game with open world , all content was made by me from scratch , I understand the appstore was flooded by racing games like mine , but if u compare , test and etc it has been much better , when I started to develop this game , I think about quallity and good experience for users because I've seen what a trash games on the appstore , with screenshots from gta 5 and the game by itself is really just an asset , I aldo bought an asset , but I modified amd added an half of things in this car physics asset , more than half of this asset modified , I'm worked on this game about 4 years , I have big plans for this to update and work more to give to users a console like physics and experience , right now I tried to add some features to my game and adding online mode , the main idea of The game was an open world racing game like forza horizon , with similar car physics , tuning system , and in feature updates with online races , rankings and etc , so what to do right now idk , just to add thi

Hi,I'm looking for some advice here.I've developed a pair of apps following a free/paid paradigm. I did my reasearch the app(s) are unique, I'm not cloning anyones work.The paid version was approved for sale, but the free has been rejected because it was found to provide different content but are identical in functionality - to the paid app. (not true either, the paid has additional content and functionality)It seems to me what Apple are really saying is I must use IAP and the free/paid paradigm is no longer acceptable.I'm not sure how to manage this, perhaps the differences in functionality have been overlooked in the review and I should protest? or maybe I should just accept the policy change and get on with IAP?

After downloading and verifying, the error dialog is:Unable to Install UpdateAn error occurred installing the latest version of watchOS on your Apple WatchButtons: “Close” and “Open App”Rebooted both the watch and phone. Watch fully charged and connected to phone. Phone on charger and at 52%. Both on WiFi.