Why we post here review status question!!!

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I saw a member of the App Review team comment with this...

Posts here are for questions about the App Review Guidelines and how to resolve guideline issues. Your question seems related to a review status question. We recommend contacting Developer Support to receive the most effective assistance.

Sir, we post here because Developer Support does nothing. Our apps keep getting stuck on “Waiting for Review.” for weeks...

Calling the developer support is not possible now due to a three-hour wait, and I did wait for three hours—but guess what? No one cares.

So please excuse us, sir, on behalf of all the developers you are ignoring who post their problems here, because they cannot find another way to be heard.

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Answer 1

Tomato OP

13h

If millions of people try to contact them in the same manner, that's pretty much the same as DDos. I'm not surprised that Apple, Inc. no longer actively answers them. AI boomers don't take No for an answer and submit a binary for the same app tens of times and request assistance several times.

Answer 2

iTarek OP

13h

I'm a 50-year-old developer. I was writing code with the toolchain before Apple even built the App Store. So let's be clear about who's actually in this queue.

If a trillion-dollar company can't handle its own developers' support requests, and can't absorb a change it created itself, then what exactly are the rest of us supposed to do? The problem isn't developers asking for help. The problem is a company that size having no working answer when they do.

My app has been on the store for more than 10 years — since before this AI wave existed. This submission is a critical bug fix. If Apple were being smart about this, they'd fast-track small updates to established apps with a decade-long track record and let the brand-new submissions wait. That's basic risk management. Instead it's inverted.

And look around this forum. The developers stuck in "Waiting for Review" aren't spammers submitting the same binary fifty times. They're mostly long-time, hard-working developers with real apps and real users. That's who's suffering.

So why @Tomato defend this behavior? If you love Apple the way we do, you'd stand up and give them honest advice — not invent reasons to justify what they're doing. Making excuses for a broken process doesn't help Apple. It just helps it stay broken.

Answer 3

Claude31 OP

7h

It looks like there is a systemic problem here. Appstore review process is no more able to cope with the huge flow of submissions (even submitted by robots ?).

I would not be surprised to see significant changes in the submission process in the near future in order to regulate this flow. Not sure billing for submission would be a good option (even with a number of free submissions ), but they have to find something.