Hello everyone,
I’m a developer working for a client company, and I’m trying to publish an iOS app from their Apple Developer account.
The app is 100% original and fully developed by me and my team (no templates, no third-party source code reuse, no republished app).
During development, I previously uploaded internal test builds of the same project to my personal Apple Developer account for testing purposes, using a different Bundle ID. Now that we are ready to release, we submitted the app from the client's account, and the submission appears to be blocked/rejected due to similarity/duplicate detection (Design Spam: 4.3.0).
My questions:
What is the recommended Apple process in this situation?
Is App Transfer required/expected even if the previous builds on my account were only for internal testing and never publicly released? If App Transfer is not applicable, what is the best way to document that this is the same original app, now being published under the client’s account (authorization/ownership)?
Does removing/deleting the test app/builds from my personal account help at all, or is it better to leave history as-is and only provide an explanation to App Review?
Any guidance from developers who faced a similar issue (or from Apple engineers) would be really appreciated. Thank you.
