Hi everyone,
I’m sharing this to see if anyone else has experienced this specific geographic search suppression issue on a newly released app.
The Situation:
App Name: CrushPov
Status: Released a few days ago, "Ready for Sale", global availability including the US is fully enabled.
The Core Issue: My primary target market is the US. While the app appears in search results in other regions, searching the exact, unique app name ("CrushPov") in the US App Store yields zero results. It doesn't appear anywhere, even at the very bottom.
What works: Direct App Store URLs and iTunes Search API work fine. Users can download it via direct links, but organic US search discovery is completely dead.
Apple Search Ads (ASA): Apple Search Ads campaign creation flow cannot find the app in the US storefront either—neither by name search nor by pasting the canonical App Store URL.
What I've Checked:
Metadata, pricing, and US availability settings are fully configured in App Store Connect.
There are no competing apps with this exact name.
This is clearly an isolated indexing issue on the US App Store servers.
If you've experienced this US-specific ghost-suppression state on a newly released app:
Did it eventually resolve itself after a certain period (weeks) without intervention?
Has anyone successfully gotten Apple Support to manually re-index a region-specific search drop?
Any insights or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. It's tough to kick off US-focused influencer marketing when the local App Store search completely fails to acknowledge the app exists.