Hi everyone, I submitted my app for App Store Review almost two weeks ago, and the submission has been stuck in “In Review” status ever since. I understand that review times can vary, but this seems significantly longer than the usual review period. There haven’t been any requests for additional information or clarification from the App Review team, and the status hasn’t changed during this time. Has anyone else experienced an unusually long review period recently? Is there anything I should do at this point, or is it best to continue waiting? I’d appreciate any advice or insight from developers who have experienced a similar situation. Thank you!

Hi all, My app has been stuck in the "Waiting for Review" status since August 13 (US Time), and today is August 23. It has been 10 days without any status updates or messages from the App Review team. App ID: 6800282515 Submission Date: Aug 13, 2026 Developer Support Request Submitted: Aug 19 (No response yet) Expedited Review Requested: Aug 20 (No response yet) Current Status: Waiting for Review Since both support inquiries and expedited requests haven't received a reply after several days, I am concerned there might be an internal system hold or communication breakdown regarding this submission. Could someone from Apple please look into this or advise if any additional documentation/action is needed from my side? Thanks for your help!

Hi, My first app has been stuck since 14 August. App Review asked for more information. I sent it all back the same day. An hour later they replied: "Thank you for providing this information. We will continue the review, and we will notify you if there are any further issues." That was three and a half weeks ago and I have heard nothing since. I asked in the same thread on 2 September, no answer to that either. It still says Unresolved Issues and I haven't touched the build or the metadata since 14 August. So five weeks after submitting I'm sitting here with an app I can't release and nobody answering. It's getting to me, I won't lie. How do you get a submission unstuck? Is there anything I should be doing on my side? BlissGuru, Apple ID 6793882449, submission ID f3b964a4-7fdd-4190-9958-db93fc19958e, submitted 31 July. Thanks, Vincent

I would like to report a serious and repeated pattern of potentially misleading and impersonating applications published on the Mac App Store under the seller/developer name Mihai Graure. This is not a complaint about one isolated app. The same developer has published multiple applications using the names, branding, interfaces, and visual presentation of major services including LinkedIn, Zoom, Google Drive, Twitch, X/Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Gmail. Reported applications: Desktop App for LinkedIn https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desktop-app-for-linkedin/id6786838795?mt=12 Desktop App for Zoom https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desktop-app-for-zoom/id6796387421?mt=12 App for Google Drive & Docs https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-for-google-drive-docs/id6792317542?mt=12 App for Twitch https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-for-twitch/id6797809667?mt=12 Desktop App for X (Twitter) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desktop-app-for-x-twitter/id6786838258?mt=12 App for TikTok https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-for-tiktok/id6783051609?mt=12 App for Facebook https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app-for-facebook-%C2%BA/id6770487788?mt=12 Apps for Instagram https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apps-for-instagram/id6778116535?mt=12 Desktop App for Gmail https://apps.apple.com/us/app/desktop-app-for-gmail/id6770216468?mt=12 My main concern is the overall presentation of these apps to customers. The developer uses the names of globally recognized services directly in the app titles. A user searching for Gmail, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zoom, TikTok, Twitch, Google Drive, or X could reasonably believe these are official desktop apps or apps authorized by the companies that operate those services. The concern is not limited to the names. The apps also appear to reproduce or closely imitate the official user interfaces, layouts, navigation, branding style, and visual presentation of the services they reference. The App Store screenshots appear identical or extremely similar to the official interfaces users already recognize. This combination can create a very strong impression of legitimacy: the official product name is used in the title, the screenshots closely resemble the real service, the UI looks like the official product, and the app is presented as a dedicated “Desktop App” or “App for” that service. I specifically request that Apple compare the screenshots and the actual installed apps side-by-side with the official websites and applications of the corresponding companies. Apple should verify whether the developer has authorization to use these product names, trademarks, branding, interface elements, screenshots, layouts, graphics, and other protected material. Some listings may contain a non-affiliation statement, but this appears only at the end of the description, after the customer has already seen the app name, icon, screenshots, branding, and official-looking UI. In my view, a statement buried at the end of the description does not remove the misleading impression created by the rest of the listing. Many customers make download decisions from search results, titles, icons, screenshots, and the first part of a description. Apple should therefore review the complete presentation rather than treating an end-of-description disclaimer as sufficient where the rest of the listing may strongly imply official affiliation. This also appears to be a systematic developer-account-level pattern. The same seller has published at least nine apps targeting unrelated major brands operated by different companies, including Microsoft/LinkedIn, Zoom, Google, Amazon/Twitch, X Corp., ByteDance/TikTok, and Meta. The repeated strategy appears very similar across the portfolio: use the established service name, present the product as a dedicated desktop app, and reproduce or closely resemble the official interface and visual identity. Because the same pattern is repeated across many unrelated brands, I ask Apple to investigate the entire developer account rather than reviewing each listing in isolation. I believe these apps warrant investigation under App Review Guideline 4.1 — Copycats, as well as any applicable rules concerning intellectual property, misleading metadata, impersonation, trademark use, spam, and developer conduct. Please investigate whether: the apps impersonate or closely imitate established services; another company’s brand or product name is being used without authorization; the UI substantially reproduces the official product experience; App Store screenshots reproduce or closely imitate official interfaces; users could reasonably mistake these apps for official or authorized products; the developer has permission from each affected company; protected trademarks, graphics, layouts, screenshots, or visual assets are being used without authorization; this represents repeated copycat or misleading behavior across one developer account; the overall presentation is designed to benefit from confusion with established brands. I respectfully request that Apple App Review, Trust & Safety, and the appropriate Developer Program enforcement team conduct a full investigation of this developer account and all associated apps. Please review the actual installed applications, not only the written descriptions. The UI, screenshots, naming, branding, and full customer experience are important when determining whether these apps are misleading or impersonating legitimate services. Apple should also require the developer to demonstrate valid authorization from the companies whose names, products, and visual identities are being used. If Apple determines that these apps involve unauthorized brand use, repeated impersonation, copycat behavior, misleading presentation, intellectual-property misuse, or other Developer Program violations, I request removal of the affected applications and appropriate account-level enforcement, including termination of the Apple Developer Program account if warranted. This appears to be a repeated pattern involving multiple major brands, not an isolated naming mistake. I therefore ask Apple to investigate the complete developer portfolio and take appropriate action to protect Mac App Store users and preserve trust in App Store search results and developer identity.

I'm building a custom keyboard extension that offers voice dictation. Because keyboard extensions are constrained (memory cap ~30–48 MB, restricted audio session access), I delegate recording to my container app: User in a host app (e.g., Safari) taps the mic in my keyboard extension. The keyboard calls extensionContext.open(URL("myapp://dictation")) to launch the container app. The container app records audio via AVAudioEngine + SFSpeechRecognizer, writes the final transcript to the App Group, and signals completion via a Darwin notification. 4. The user is expected to be returned to the original host app (Safari) automatically so they can keep typing. The problem (step 4): On iOS 26.4 I can no longer identify which app was the host. Every previously-known path returns nil for the keyboard extension's host: parent.value(forKey: "_hostBundleID") → returns the literal string parent.value(forKey: "_hostApplicationBundleIdentifier") → returns NSNull xpc_connection_copy_bundle_id on the underlying XPC connection (via PKService.defaultService.personalities[…]) → returns NULL NSXPCConnection.processBundleIdentifier on extensionContext._extensionHostProxy._connection → returns nil proc_pidpath(hostPID, …) → EPERM from the keyboard sandbox LSApplicationWorkspace.frontmostApplication → selector unavailable from the extension RBSProcessHandle.handleForIdentifier:error: → returns an RBSServiceErrorDomain error Without the host's bundle ID, the container app has no way to call LSApplicationWorkspace.openApplicationWithBundleID: (the technique that worked on iOS 25 and earlier). UIApplication.suspend() correctly sends the container to background, but iOS treats us as a "fresh launch" — it returns the user to the Home Screen instead of Safari, because the container app was launched by an extension, not directly by Safari. KeyboardKit's maintainer reached the same conclusion (issue #1014) and shipped 10.4 without the feature. My questions: Is there a public, App-Store-safe API in iOS 26+ for a custom keyboard extension to identify its host application, or for the container app (launched via the extension's openURL) to identify which app initially hosted the extension that opened it? UIOpenURLContext.options.sourceApplication reports the extension's own container, not the actual host. 2. Is there a public mechanism for "return to source app" when the container app was launched by an extension's openURL? Equivalent to the ← Source affordance iOS shows for normal inter-app openURL, but triggered programmatically by the launched app. 3. Some popular keyboards (e.g., 微信输入法 / WeChat Keyboard) still appear to round-trip through their container app on iOS 26.4 and return the user to the original host — including the iOS ← WeChat back affordance in the host's status bar afterward. What's the recommended approach to achieve this? If it requires a specific scene-activation flow, NSUserActivity pattern, or extension-context configuration, please point at the relevant docs. 4. If there is no public path today, is FB22247647 (or a related radar) the right place to track this? Should developers in this position migrate to in-extension audio capture (which has its own significant constraints in keyboard extensions)? I'd much rather not rely on private APIs. Concrete guidance — or even an acknowledgment of which direction Apple intends — would help thousands of custom-keyboard developers who currently have a degraded voice-input experience on iOS 26.4+. Tested on iPhone 12 Pro Max running iOS 26.4.2 (build 23E261), Xcode 26.x, Swift 5. Thanks!

Calling AppStore.requestReview(in:) with a valid, foreground-active UIWindowScene never presents the rating/review sheet on iOS 27 Simulator. The identical code works correctly on iOS 26 and earlier Simulator runtimes. Repro: if let windowScene = UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes .compactMap({ $0 as? UIWindowScene }) .first(where: { $0.activationState == .foregroundActive }) { AppStore.requestReview(in: windowScene) } Fresh Simulator install (Erase All Content and Settings first, to rule out the 3-per-365-day throttle). Run on iOS 27 Simulator → no sheet appears, no error, no console output. Run the identical build on iOS 26 Simulator → sheet appears as expected. Also tried: The SwiftUI @Environment(.requestReview) action (RequestReviewAction) instead of the UIKit windowScene call — same result, no prompt on iOS 27 Simulator. Ruled out an Xcode/Simulator-runtime version mismatch: reproduces both with an older Xcode + separately-downloaded iOS 27 runtime, AND with the matching Xcode 27 beta + its bundled iOS 27 Simulator. Checked the iOS 27 beta release notes — no mention of requestReview/StoreKit review prompt changes. Environment: Xcode [fill in version/beta] iOS 27 Simulator (beta [fill in]) Simulator device: [e.g. iPhone 16] Expected: Review prompt presents (subject to the documented frequency limit), matching iOS 26 behavior. Actual: No prompt, no error, on both the UIKit and SwiftUI review-request APIs.

Hi everyone, I’m a developer maintaining an existing app that has been live on the App Store for many years. We regularly submit updates, and normally our submissions are reviewed and approved within 48 hours without any issues. However, I’m currently experiencing an unusual situation and would appreciate some advice. 19 August: I submitted a new version of the app. It went into review but was rejected under: Guideline 1.1 - Safety - Objectionable Content The app’s marketing includes terms or images that reference objectionable content or services. These references can be found in the app’s metadata, including, but not limited to, the following metadata field(s): description and name. I’m not sure what triggered this rejection because the app name and description have not been changed for years. The app has been live and regularly reviewed during that time without this issue. The rejection also did not identify the specific wording or content in the app name or description that was considered objectionable. I responded to the review team explaining the situation and asked them to identify the specific part of the metadata that caused the issue so that we could review and update it if necessary. However, I did not receive any further response. I also submitted an appeal, but I have not received a response after several days. 21 August: Because we still need to maintain the app and release updates, I cancelled the previous submission and submitted a new version for review. However, this submission has also remained pending and has not moved forward to review. 25 August: I cancelled the submission again and created another submission containing both maintenance updates and a big launch for a new country. This update is important for our business because the new operation is scheduled to launch on 1 September. We need the app update to be reviewed and approved before then. I have also submitted an expedited review request and a new ticket, but it still hasn’t moved forward or been reviewed. My questions Is there anything I can do to get the current submission reviewed, given that the previous submission was rejected and the appeal has not received a response? Could the previous Guideline 1.1 rejection be causing the subsequent submissions to remain pending? Should I continue waiting for the current submission, or is there another recommended process for escalating this situation? The delay is now becoming critical because the new country launch is scheduled for 1 September, and not having the required app update available by then would significantly affect our business operations. Any advice from other developers who have experienced a similar situation would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Dear all, Is there any way to contact Apple dev team by phone ? They aren’t responding to mails, neither by messages from the App connect. It’s been 2 weeks and still no update and now the deadline is reaching tomorrow. Anyone can help please ?

Hello Apple Developer Community and Apple Support Team, We are seeking guidance regarding our Apple Developer Program account (Account Holder: Rami Waleed Mohamed Gallo), which was closed under Section 3.2(f) on August 23, 2026. We deeply respect the App Store Review Guidelines and the standards Apple sets to keep the ecosystem safe and trustworthy. We take these rules very seriously. Following our Notice of Termination, we submitted a formal appeal to the App Review Board and provided detailed clarification regarding our applications and operations. Our account has been closed since August 23, 2026, and we have not yet received a status update or guidance regarding our appeal (Reference Case ID: 20000149214883). We have been a dedicated member of the Apple Developer Program for over 4+ years, managing over 25+ applications serving active corporate clients (including enterprise logistics, automotive, and healthcare applications) and thousands of daily active users. The account termination and loss of backend services (such as push notifications) is causing severe operational disruption for these businesses and end-users. We are fully committed to cooperating with Apple, providing any requested business or identity verification documents, and implementing any necessary compliance processes to resolve this matter and rebuild trust. We would be extremely grateful for any guidance from the Apple Team or the community on: Identifying the specific application, incident, or action that led to the termination, so we can address and fix the root issue immediately. How to confirm our appeal and materials are under active review by the App Review Board. Any additional steps or escalation paths we can take to clarify this situation. Thank you for your time and assistance. Account Name: Rami Waleed Mohamed Gallo Support Reference Case ID: 20000149214883

Hello, My app was rejected under Guideline 4.3(b) and I submitted an appeal to the App Review Board on 27 August 2026. I sent a message in Resolution Center the same day. That is the only appeal I have submitted. Since then I have no way to tell whether the appeal was actually received: No case or ticket ID was issued. Nothing appears in App Store Connect. Nothing appears under Contact Us. The only reply I received restates how to submit an appeal, so it does not confirm that one is open. My questions: Is there any way to verify that an App Review Board appeal is open? Is the complete absence of a case ID expected? App ID: 6790171857 Thank you.

Hi App Review, I have an update to a live app that has now spent roughly 10 weeks unable to get through review, across two separate submissions, and I'd appreciate someone checking whether it's genuinely queued or whether something is holding it. Timeline: 16 June 2026 — v1.1.0 submitted. Sat in "Waiting for Review" for 5+ weeks, never moved to In Review. No Resolution Center message, nothing action-required. 23 July 2026 — after that submission showed no movement, I removed it and submitted a fresh build of the same version. It has now been in "Waiting for Review" for 38 days, again with no reviewer pickup and no Resolution Center message. v1.0.0 reviewed and approved normally on 8 June 2026, so the app and account have a clean prior review. The resubmission has been left completely untouched — no edits, no cancellations — so this is not a case of repeated changes resetting the queue. Two clean submissions of the same update have now stalled identically. What I've already checked on my side: no Resolution Center messages, no action-required banners, build shows valid and correctly attached to the version, export compliance answered, and Agreements/Tax/Banking all current. I've also raised support case 102923511308 and submitted an expedited review request, neither of which has changed the status. Could someone confirm whether this submission is proceeding normally, or flag if anything is required from me or if it needs to be looked at manually? Happy to provide the submission ID or any other detail. @Apple

Hi all, Our app (GripCRM, Apple ID 6805156807) was rejected under Guideline 2.1 (Information Needed) on Aug 26, asking for a demo screen recording plus some details about the app (target audience, external services used, device/OS tested, etc.). We replied the same day in Resolution Center with everything requested, including a video attachment. It has now been 10+ days with zero response: no acceptance, no follow-up question, nothing. A few days ago we also submitted a request via the "Contact the App Review Team" form to expedite the review, and got the standard confirmation ("We'll expedite review for GripCRM"). Still no movement since then. Has anyone run into a Resolution Center reply going completely silent for this long? Is there anything else worth trying, or is this just an unusually long queue right now? Thanks in advance.

Our Apple Developer Program membership for BARNEROBE AS was terminated under Section 3.2(f) on August 24, 2026. We appealed immediately and have contacted Developer Support multiple times, but we have received no substantive response. BARNEROBE AS is a legitimate Norwegian company with a genuine business and users. The termination has completely stopped our iOS operations and is causing ongoing financial and business harm every day. We respectfully ask Apple to urgently review and escalate our existing appeal. We are ready to provide any documentation or evidence required. Case ID -1: 20000145845679 Case ID -2: 20000150078655 Case ID -3: 20000147884075 Case ID -4:20000147522352 Case ID -5:20000146688996 Case ID -6: 20000145979328 Despite multiple support requests and our reinstatement appeal, we have received no substantive response or final decision. Our iOS operations remain completely suspended, causing ongoing business and financial harm.

Hi, I am seeing "Waiting for Review" for the past 10 hours, and I do not know why it is taking so long, some of my versions get approved quickly some versions taking a long time. General Information Bundle ID: com.salesforce.pronto.fooddelivery.ProntoFoodDeliveryApp SKU: com.salesforce.pronto.fooddelivery.ProntoFoodDeliveryApp Apple ID: 6756443629 App Name: ProntoFoodDeliveryApp Bundle Short Version String: 1.0.6 Bundle Version String: 2 Please let me know if you need any additional information. My testers are waiting to test the new features. Thank you

Hi everyone, I am preparing to publish my React Native mobile application called ScoreVerse to the App Store and would like clarification regarding developer account requirements (Individual vs. Organization). App Overview & Core Features: Sports Turf & Ground Booking: Users can browse local turf grounds, check available time slots, and book turf sessions for physical sports activities (football, cricket, etc.). Tournament Management & Live Scoring: Organizing local matches/tournaments, tracking live scores, team management, and schedules. Payments: Payments are processed via a third-party gateway (Razorpay) strictly for real-world physical turf bookings and local tournament entry fees (physical services / events, in compliance with Guideline 3.1.3(e) / 3.1.5). User & Admin Roles: Ground owners/managers manage their own turf availability and slots, while players/users book slots and view tournament stats. My Questions: Individual vs. Organization Account: Does Apple App Store Review require an Organization Account (D-U-N-S registered legal entity) for this type of sports turf booking and tournament platform, or is an Individual Developer Account sufficient for initial release? Third-Party Payment Gateway Usage: Since payments are exclusively for physical services/turf rentals in the real world (and not for digital consumable goods or in-app unlocks), will having an Individual Account cause any review rejections under Guideline 5.1.1 / 3.1.3(e)? Account Migration: If we launch initially under an Individual Account, how seamless is the process to convert/transfer the app and account to an Organization Account later once company registration is complete? Any insights from developers with similar booking/sports platforms or App Review moderators would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

We are currently waiting for the review of the mobile application. We have a fixed public launch scheduled for Sunday, September 6, coordinated with the basketball club's official launch campaign and communications. We fully understand that review times can vary, but with the public launch now only two days away, we are becoming concerned that we may miss the scheduled launch. Our team is available to respond immediately if App Review requires any additional information or changes from our side. Could someone from the App Review team please check whether there is an issue with the submission or help escalate the review? Submission ID: 3a18ee67-4963-45b0-9a6c-ccd5a64d3d2f App Name: Rytas Apple ID: 6785592104

I've had three apps rejected for spam and I can't get any answer out of Resolution Center. All three flipped to In Review and came back rejected the same minute they went in review. Nobody opened them. There's not enough time in there for a person to have looked at anything. One of them isn't even a new app. It's an update to something that's been live and in good standing for a while, and the build was just a bug fix. Telling me that's a duplicate of an existing app makes no sense. It IS the app that's already shipping. I've got 12 apps out and they're all completely different things. If I were running a template farm you could just look at my catalog and see it. None of my apps resemble each other, and I do consistent updates on all of them. The two new ones aren't much like anything else on the store either. The rejection notice doesn't name a single app I'm supposedly duplicating. Only thing I can think of is that I recently moved my apps from my personal account onto my LLC's account and declared both as commonly controlled. So I probably look like "similar apps across linked accounts" to something automated. But that's just me putting my own apps under my own company, which I told Apple I was doing. Anyone dealt with 4.3(a) after an account transfer? Or seen this instant rejection thing?

hi all Hi all, ClubDraw (App ID: 6761770554) has been in review for 4+ months across 6 submission cycles. Resubmitted 18th August with a formal App Review Board appeal the same day - 16 days with no response. The core issue: Apple are applying Guideline 5.3.4 (gambling licence) to a B2B SaaS platform. ClubDraw enables UK grassroots sports clubs to run their own weekly lotto draws. The clubs are the licensed operators under the Gambling Act 2005. We charge a flat subscription fee only - all draw revenue goes directly to the club. We are not a lottery operator. ClubZap (App Store ID: 1004097048) operates an identical model and is live on the App Store. We've cited this in every response. ClubDraw is also live on Google Play UK without any licence requirement. Guideline 3.1.1 has also been raised - Apple say our club admin subscription must use IAP. It's a B2B SaaS fee charged to club administrators, not a consumer purchase. All other guidelines (2.1, 5.2.1) are fully resolved. The problem: App Review Board appeal not acknowledged. Message thread locked in App Store Connect. Direct emails bounce. Has anyone successfully escalated past the App Review Board? Any advice welcome. Thanks in advance.

Hello, My app has now been stuck in “Waiting for Review” for more than 66 hours after resubmission, with no status change. This is the first public release of the app. I have also experienced unusually long review delays on several previous submissions. In one previous case, the submission remained stuck for nearly a week, and a Contact Us support request also went unanswered for about a week. Once the app actually enters “In Review”, the review itself is usually completed very quickly, which makes me concerned that the repeated delay may be related to queueing or routing rather than the review itself. I replied to App Review and resubmitted the app three days ago, but there has been no further response or progress since then. A priority / expedited review had previously been approved, so I am also concerned that the current resubmission may have lost its priority or may not be correctly routed in the review queue. Could an Apple Staff member please help confirm whether this submission is correctly queued for review, and whether there may be a routing or processing issue affecting it? Submission ID: cb8ae2c6-94ab-463d-b9a6-e218179ecefc Thank you very much for any assistance.

Dear Apple Support Team: My app was submitted for review on August 22nd and has been "under review" for 12 days. I have emailed once with no reply and called twice with no helpful information. I also applied for expedited review on August 22nd LATER, but it is still "under review". If App Review team could respond and help out in any way that would be greatly appreciated, thank you. Case ID: 20000152255277 Submission ID: 091e18de-92b5-4384-9b5c-408467358dfa