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In my latest apps Apple puts me this message:4. 3 Design: SpamGuideline 4.3 - DesignWe 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.Apps that simply duplicate content or functionality create clutter, diminish the overall experience for the end user, and reduce the ability of developers to market their apps.Next StepsTo resolve this issue, please combine apps with similar feature sets into a single container app (using the in-app purchase API to deliver different content if appropriate).We encourage you to review your app concept and incorporate different content and features that are in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.I try to find out what exactly is container but when I ask them they answer the same answer again. Has someone happened to you? Anyone know what exactly is a container? Thank you

Hi,I created new app and submitted but the answer from Apple is: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.I coded and designed it by myself. There may be similar apps on App Store doing the similar job but that shouldn't make my app a spam! My algorithm is different and my UI is better. Why I can't compete with other apps? No sense.

I've exhausted all avenues getting this resolved; so I'm posting this here mainly to document the absurdity of what happened, and as a warning to other developers.We built an app that was rejected because of its name. We happily renamed the app, creating a new app record because we also wanted to rename the SKU and Bundle ID, and you can't do this any other way.Big mistakeNow there are two factors combining to put us in an impossible situation.The little-known, bizarre limitation of iTunes Connect that An app that has never been approved can never be deletedThe improper enforcement of the 4.3 guideline such that Similar apps you have submitted in the past apparently includes apps that were rejected and are not on the App Store.So now, our New Name app is being rejected for being too similar to our Old Name app. And the Old Name app can't be deleted because it was never approved.To make matters worse, thanks to inconsistent enforcement, our New Name app actually was approved in its first version (1.0)

Hi everyone,I got an application from a market and send to store. But rejected. What kind of changes can I make?We 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:1262896391Next StepsTo resolve this issue, please combine apps with a common feature set into a single container app.You will experience a delayed review process if you deliberately disregard the App Store Review Guidelines, ignore previous rejection feedback in future app submissions, or use your app to mislead or deceive users.Important InformationAs a result of violating this guideline, your app’s review has been delayed. Future submissions of this app, and other apps associated with your Apple Developer account, will also experience a delayed review. Deliberate disregard of the App Store Review Guidelines and attem

I am being completely blocked from creating apps, or even updating apps. This is the message I receive every time:We noticed that your app provides the same feature set as other apps that have been submitted to the App Store (either under your own account or across multiple developer accounts) and simply varies in content or language.Apps that simply duplicate content or functionality create clutter, diminish the overall experience for the end user, and reduce the ability of developers to market their apps.We encourage you to review your app concept and incorporate different content and features that are in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.Best regards,App Store ReviewNo matter what I do I get this for any app I put up. I uploaded 2 bug fixes to 2 apps already on the store, and 1 new app, completely different than any other app I've ever put up, and they all were put into review and rejected in 1 minute. 1 minute for all 3. The reason, is stated above. When I asked about it further I was presen

We have an app which has been in service for quite some time and was built to run on both iPhone and iPod touch devices. It was last updated in 2014 and at the time was set to target iOS 4.3 (which wasn't the latest at the time IIRC but it worked and we didn't need newer features so had left it at that value).With iOS 11, the app no longer works and we're trying to get it updated to work in this environment. After updating the development machine OS and Xcode to the latest and opening the project, one of the mods it required was to target at least iOS 8.0.This brings to mind the iPod Touch. I believe the iPod touch OS stopped moving forward at around v6 or so? I don't think an iPod touch can move up to 8 can it?It was nice that customers could use either an iPhone/iPad or iPod touch to run the app. Is it just understood that you can't target the iPod touch and the newer devices with the same app? Anyone else have experience with a similar issue?If we do update the app to run on iOS 11 will the iPod t

I have separate apps that have the same UI/UX but are different 'under the hood' and each app is distributed to different countries. Under Review Guideline 4.3, Apple are requesting that the apps be consolidated into a single app. My concern with this is that when the container app is released, the users of the existing apps will not be aware of the new update (or any updates after that) because the Bundle IDs will be different.Is there any way to somehow link the Bundle IDs (even if temporarily) so that users of the existings app will be notified that an update is available when the consolidated app is first released?