As many developers have already experienced (see https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/82935, https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/82964, https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/46910), Apple started to agressively apply the 4.3 guideline asking the developers to consolidate their existing apps into 1 container app. We experienced this ourselves recently.Our apps are designed to help people pass their UK theory test. As there are 5 different vehicle categories (which are not related to each other in any way) we obviously have an app for each of these categories. Apple is asking us to bundle cars, motorcycles, lorries, etc all into one container app.We already responded to the App Review team highlighting many reasons why we believe that this is a wrong application of the 4.3 guideline. Some of these are listed below:We develop all the code ourselves and we do not use any commercial templates.These apps target different sets of users (even the age profile is different)These apps co
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If you are talking about FastFinga 3, I already got approved from Hasegawa san from Apple Review Board. He clearly said that Handwriting Keyboard is not similar to FastFinga 3 because Handwriting Keyboard is a keyboard extension, although he ordered me to remove FastFinga version 2 because keeping multiple versions is against Guideline 4.3 and not allowed on App Store.Even he said that I still doubt Handwriting Keyboard was rejected because of FastFinga 3. I think the review team is very confused and not operating well. FastFinga is more like a drawing app. Handwriting Keyboard is a keyboard extension, which contains handwriting recognition engine. It is like Apple's built-in Simplified Chinese Handwriting Keyboard.
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I got another Guideline 4.3 rejeciton today.This time it is a keyboard extension that enables Japanese and English handwriting (handwriting recogniton) system wide.View on App StoreI immediately appealed to the review board, but even the appeal was rejected just in an hour. They said they gave us all the reasons (yes, made from a template as usual) and my request for detailed explanation was denied.-----We got a phone call on June 6. Finally they decided that the app is unique enough to be appoved. It took several weeks to get attention from the review board this time again. The resolution centre was purly waste of time. It did not resolve anything.
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Those of us without an AppAnnie account couldn't see the link. Maybe the release dates are updates? He might be trying to consolidate apps and got a reprieve from the 4.3 requirements for updates
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I have loyal users of many years. Not many, but they have supported Apple's products for many years.Apple just keep on damaging user experience by rejecting the updates because of guideline 4.3.I have to explain to users that I can't update our productivity apps because Apple just don't allow updates even though the updates are ready to be released only if Apple allow to do so.The apps are keeps on crashing on users' phone and users are unable to access their data accumulated on their phone for several years. I don't understand why Apple keep on damaging tthier reputation by donig this.I am not being harrassed by Apple, but users are.
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that is why I had given Appannie link where we can see the release date of the app. Even though copyright is 2017 but release date is this month and its same app so many times. 4.3 is being torn apart by this guy but how?http://prntscr.com/jemzzd
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DisplayLink is aware of this ploblemhere is official statemant:http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/macosImportant Information about macOS 10.13.4 updateWe have become aware that installing macOS release Version 10.13.4 will cause DisplayLink connected displays to go blank after the OS upgrade, with the current DisplayLink driver [4.1] installed. Functionality such as Ethernet and audio, where implemented, is unaffected. We have alerted Apple to this issue and are working hard to find a resolution. These features continue to work as expected in 10.13.3.In the meantime, we have a new driver [4.3] that will enable clone mode, but not mirror or extended mode displays in 10.13.4. If you require mirror or extended mode displays, we recommend that you stay on macOS 10.13.3 or earlier at this time.
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We did this as well. We removed all but one app in our series, submitted it and it was rejected for 4.3.In our case, we had initially consolidated our series into a container. We removed everything but the container and sold it for one month. The sales as expected were horrible because the marketing suffers terribly and the app icon is super-generic. We've been selling for years and know roughly what to expect for any given week in the app store. The container sold far worse than our series of apps individually. The sales of the container were also worse than our top selling app by itself. So, we decided to discontinue the container and sell only our top seller. This where we are now -- rejected for 4.3 design spam with no other apps like it in the store.We've only received the 4.3 templated response in the resolution center. Last week we had call with the App Store. We had the impression from the call that this course of action was OK (though they wouldn't say definitively), so we
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apple Rejected my app , And send me this letter :Guideline 4.3 - Design - SpamWe noticed that your 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, which is considered a form of spam.The following apps were found to provide different content but are identical in functionality:drift starsNext StepsWhen creating multiple apps where content is the only varying element, you should offer a single app to deliver differing content to customers. Alternatively, you may consider creating a web app, which looks and behaves similar to a native app when the customer adds it to their Home screen. Refer to the Configuring Web Applications section of the Safari Web Content Guide for more information.please help me
Hi, I uploaded a build version with 4.9, previous was 4.3. App has uploaded successfully and showing version no 4.9 but I am looking OPEN button instead of UPDATE. I wait for to see UPDATE button instead of open more then 24 hour, but till now It is showing OPEN button. Please help me.Thanks in advance
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The guy who made a phone call said that my account is flagged as a spammer.I'm making apps since 2009.He said these things made me a spammer.releasing upgraded version as a separate app without removing the previous version.releasing free version and paid version (aka PRO version) as separate apps. ... this used to be allowed, but not anymore. Developers must use in-app purchase.Spam does not necessariy mean releasing many apps that were made from a single template. If the functionalities of two or more apps are very similar even though they have been built from scratch separately (like making an upgraded version from scratch), they become spams.And the similarity is decided by Apple, not by actual users who actually use the apps. This decision is mainly made by their appearances such as icon, UI, etc. They often refer to these elements as framework. Thus, when they say your apps share the same framework, it does not mean the apps use the same template framework. It simply means, they look too similar.Once yo
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I got another phone call from Apple.• My account is flagged as a spammer. (It's sad)• The original rejection reason 4.3 is nothing to do with the quality of the app itself. It's based on the spammer flag that is added to my account.• I have to appeal to the review board when I got rejected.• App Review Board originally maintained the rejection, but they have changed their decision last week. They will approve AB Player as an independent app.• That decision hasn't gone through to the reviwer yet. That's why I got rejected yesterday again and I got another copy&paste reply from the reviewer a few hours before the phone call.The above was the fact heard from Apple.The reviewer (who reviews apps on firsthand) thinks I'm a spammer so he doesn't think anything, just copy & paste Guideline 4.3 rejection.That's why he can't tell any particular rejection reason and he doesn't reply anything other than copy&paste message. (Don't waste your time by trying to communicate with the reviewer.)
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Hello,I have an iOS game and recently I wanted to post an update to iTunes connect. Update was not accepted, as game crashed when they tested it. They sent me crash report, and I would ask for some help with it, as I have no experience with that kind of stuff. It never happened before (that is probably around 5th update of that game).Game is developed in Unity. I tested it on multiple iPhones and it never crashed, but I see that crash report mentions iPad, so i will try and test it on iPad also.I would appreciate any help with interpretation of that crash report.Regards, L{app_name:skyball,timestamp:2018-03-01 20:30:37.54 -0800,app_version:4.2,slice_uuid:79e74b98-d81e-3e81-8d21-1c43cab82d89,adam_id:0,build_version:1,bundleID:co.reachmobinc.skyball,share_with_app_devs:false,is_first_party:false,bug_type:109,os_version:iPhone OS 11.2.5 (15D60),incident_id:7A9C61B7-5E09-4A83-B70E-C65E7887F192,name:skyball} Incident Identifier: 7A9C61B7-5E09-4A83-B70E-C65E7887F192 CrashReporter Key: 16d172a5bb125bff98f7c1cc5a0444
The same, but before approve I got 4.3 Design Spam rejection and then send appeal.
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We got another app rejected because the app is not compliant with Guideline 4.3View on App StoreThis app displays waveforms of a sound file (typically spoken words), enables users to clip a certain area, make a sound clip playlists, convert it to MP3 using LameMP3 library, etc.We don't have any similar apps. We believe the store is not saturated with similar apps. The standard of the guideline 4.3 is getting very strict recently.
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