Hi,
Our submission has been in "Waiting for Review" for 11 days with no status change, and I would like advice on whether to keep waiting or to submit a newer build.
Details:
- App: StarTarot: Your Day, Charted
- Apple ID: 6807977612
- Version / build: 1.2.6 (39)
- Submission ID: 24f9028e-038f-4d18-9eaf-9a3ca0ccdd70
- Submitted: 9 September 2026. It has never moved to "In Review".
- I also contacted App Review Status through the Contact Us form on 18 September 2026 (Case ID 102967722276) and have not received a reply yet.
Background, in case it matters: an earlier submission of this app was rejected under Guideline 4.3(b) as duplicating widely available astrology apps. We did not resubmit the same thing. We reworked how the app presents itself and submitted a new build, because the part that makes it different was not visible from the product page.
The app is built around "Today", a daily practice that works as a loop rather than a one-off reading: a digest computed for that specific date from the user's own birth chart (Swiss Ephemeris, NASA/JPL DE440); on some days one small concrete action chosen to fit the day, including the weather and daylight where the user lives; an evening check-in, after which the app asks whether that action happened and adapts what it suggests next; a memory of short facts that the user can review and erase, used only with explicit consent; and an astrologer the user can talk to about timing, a decision or another person. Elsewhere in the app there is astrocartography drawn on a world map, a Human Design bodygraph, recognition of a physical tarot deck photographed with the camera, and eclipse and planet visibility computed for the user's own coordinates. Our 78-card text corpus is published openly under CC BY with a DOI.
My questions:
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Is 11 days without moving to "In Review" expected at the moment, or does it suggest this submission needs attention?
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We have a further updated build ready (an interactive calendar among other changes). Should we wait for the current submission to be reviewed, or replace the build? We would rather not resubmit repeatedly, since that is discouraged.
Thank you.