Has anyone else been experiencing unusually long app submission review times?
We submitted our app for review almost a week ago (6 days) and the status is still "waiting for review". It's never taken this long before. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing unusally long wait times due to their review team being backed up, or if something unusual is up with our app...
I have the same reply from Apple. It has been 10 days from the last submit. Have you solved the problem.
We believe the long 'waiting for review' time is for the release of iOS 11 and the new App Store etc., so that all app names starting from today, must be 30 chars or shorter, do all of you have long app names?
19 days until now. Still be "Waiting for Review". And our app has only 10 chars named.
My app - 23 days and still "waiting for review" How can you run a business with this kind of service?
On the other hand, I submitted an app update (for iOS 11) on Sunday evening (9/17). It went to In Review in about hour and was approved for sale the next day (9/18), just in time for the iOS 11 release.
Mine is also waiting for review since Sept 13th.
I think all these apps that are taking a long time to get In Review must have been selected for a reason, don't think we have been just randomly selected.
Have all of your apps been Removed From Sale by Apple in the past?
My apps too in review for a week+ now. And funny thing is an update i uploaded just a day ago has been approved while others still in queue waiting for review. Apple though smh
Looks like this is happening again.
On appreviewtimes.com i see recent trend had been 1 day.
But for me , i have two new apps submitted and both had been "waiting for review" for 5 days already.
Usually I might have long "in review" times sometimes, but haven't had long "waiting for review" time for almost two years now.
My app is a totolly new app. It has been in "Waiting for Review" for 35 days, every since Sept. 27. I uploaded one week after iOS 11 released. Now iOS 11.1 released and it is still in "Waiting for Review".
Any suggestion?😟
Hi,
Our App was stuck in waiting for review stage from Sept 13 - Nov -02.
On Nov -2 we removed that version of the app & uploaded a new one, hoping our luck will change.
Still,no change the app is still waiting for review.
In the same time we have published at least 5 updates on Google Play Store.
I am at loss of words to describe this behavior from apple.
And I am crying bout waiting a week now. Whats happening there? If only apple told us anything....
We have the same problem. It has been waiting for review since November 8th. There is a crash that is causing our users a LOT of issues and we are stuck.
I have one new app that had been in review for 21 days when I self-rejected and tried again. Still no luck. I have 14 (of about 85) apps that are likewise in limbo for about a week now even though all others were approved within 24 hours of the latest update. ITC support hasn't been any help, unfortunately. They said they "escalated" it, but nothing happened.
Hi Alifar,
What happened later? Was the update eventually approved?
Thanks
Same situation here. It's so painful. Was your app approved later?
Hi Zhaoxin,
We had the same horrible thing. My app has been in "Waiting for Review" since Nov 28. Was your app eventually reviewed?
Thanks,
Did it go to "In View" in the end?
Well apparently the process goes like this
1. You submit an app
2. App reviewers rejects your app for whatever random reasons. But without explaining to you EXACTLY what they want to see.
3. You try to guess what they want to see and submit a new version to review.
4. App reivewers rejects again because you guessed it wrong in step 3.
5. Reviewer then subjectively decide you are some kind of a bad developer and flags your account.
6. Any subsequent apps submitted then gets ignored for an indefinite amount of time.
so now #5: you are flag as the bad developer and flag the account for long time reivew
LOL
Same thing here ,while people keep posting " Apple review times under 1 day ! " at iosreviewtimes website, this is what happened:
My app stuck at "In review for 6 days "
I have rejected the binary and sent again. In less than 24 hours they rejected my app and they also found a policy violation which they accepted months ago and removedit from sale.
I have fixed the problem and sent a new update in 6 hours on the midnight of 19th dec and guess what ? still watiing for review.
My app is removed from sale , I have lost a competetive situation with other apps after investing many dolllars with search ads , and my app is not reviewed until holiday to keep it offline. I don't want to believe in this but sometimes I start to think that this is a general attitude by Apple towards some developers.
Looks like 2 days so far, must be one of those "Apple Special Slow Down Process" feature designed to push their customers to go and buy an Android device maybe ?
This step took 3.5 minutes on Google when I deployed the same app (Android version) to the Google Play Store --> Anyone who tells me Apple products are the way to go are only interested in one thing: Fashion!
We submitted on 28th of Dec 2017 and we are still Awaiting for Review until this second.
With communicated emails to their review team who get back always with their understanding to your issues but never sorted anything.
May God Bless steve jobs soul at this occusion as I dont think that apple store situation would be that bad compared to google play if he is still alive.
Same for us. "In Review" since Jan 17.
Stuck "waiting for review" for 7 days. Steps below:
1. App submitted to Apple on January 18, reviewed and passed within 2 hours.
2. App rejected by developer on January 19 as we last minute noticed a large bug.
3. App submitted to Apple on January 19.
4. App now rejected by Apple on January 19 even though the only change was a bug fix.
5. Stuck "Waiting For Review" until at least today, January 26th.
Looks like we have been flagged for two rejections in a row? (Even though one of them was by us).
Starting to wish we had just released on January 18th with the bug... That's the kind of mindset Apple puts you in with this behaviour 😟
>even though the only change was a bug fix.
Unless it was a meta data change that didn't require a fresh binary, they don't know what was changed, and are obligated to run it thru the same process as before..
And speaking of mindset, perhaps review noticed you originally jumped the gun, and are now waiting to be sure you're serious. Nothing like wasted process to discourage trust. I can imagine they see quite a bit of that day-to-day.
