What's Wrong with Apple Review?

I submitted a new app in the morning of December 30th, last year. A reviewer picked it up 2 days ago and then rejected it by saying that the Send button remains disabled. Of course, it remains disabled because the user is supposed to select a message out of 300 of them.

The app comes with a how-to-use guide, which states that you need to select a message by tapping the Select button. Now, the reviewer is MIA. I don't necessarily blame the reviewer for not having read the user guide thoroughly. But I wonder why they don't just ask instead of jumping to a conclusion? They often reject the app for simple reasons these days. And they are often wrong. I understand that everybody makes a mistake. But they are wrong 4 out of 5 times. Last year, a reviewer rejected the app by saying that the user is not able to ask a question at the support site when in fact it was just the matter of scrolling down further. This is the type of reasons I strongly suggest they ask instead of jumping to a conclusion and then rejecting the app. It's quite difficult for me to make plans while dealing with reviewers if they are this sloppy.

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@Tomato You could always take this as an opportunity to make the UI more obvious as to what needs to be done.

Perhaps you could change the button to say "Select a message to send", then when the user has selected a message, change the button to say "Send", and enable it?

You could also reduce the clutter by removing all those "Select" buttons, and making each message a button in its own right. Make them all a light blue with rounded corners, and make the selected one that blue colour so it's obvious (and then enable the "Send" button, as above).

Just a thought.

@darkpaw, thank you for your advice. I'm not going to change anything for now. If they believe that the Send button must be enabled, I don't think anything could help. I wish they just asked before jumping to a conclusion.

All the fun is gone. I have little desire left with this app after waiting for 10 days.

FWIW, I've gotten silly rejections like this and it is annoying, but I've just responded with a simple explanation of how the app is supposed to work and then the app always gets approved.

What's Wrong with Apple Review?
 
 
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