- App: Flow Connections (iOS puzzle game)
- Submitted: October 1, 2026
- Expedited review request filed: October 6, 2026
- Announced release date: October 9, 2026
TLDR: We kindly request that you please move Flow Connections into review, and please do the same for the other developers who have been waiting. We did our part. They did theirs.
Full Version:
Flow Connections has been sitting in "Waiting for Review" for 5 days. We submitted on time, we filed an expedited review request, and we did everything a small developer is supposed to do. Nothing has moved, and nobody has said why.
We tried to reach someone. The developer support phone lines are shut off. The forums are full of review requests going unanswered; today alone, 12 new posts went up asking for help with stuck reviews, most waiting about a week, several over a month, some reporting 80 days. When we contacted Apple support and asked to be connected to anyone in the Developer Program, including Susan Prescott, Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations, we were told there is no one we can speak to and no one we can email, and that the only option is a letter in the mail. Two support representatives did try to pass a message along, and we're grateful for that. We've heard nothing back, so far.
We have been in the Developer Program for 15 years. That's $1,485 in program fees, before the Macs and iPhones it takes to build for this platform. Our release date was announced to the press and advertised at quite an expense; our TikTok release-date video is approaching 250,000 views, which may not seem big to one of the largest tech companies in the world but it is enormous for a studio our size. Press releases timed to the launch were ready to go. All of that is stalled, and the advertising money behind it is likely gone.
This is our livelihood. It is the livelihood of every developer in those 12 threads, and of everyone else who have been waiting. We need our apps released on the dates we commit to, and we need to know whether the Developer Program is still a program for developers like us. If Apple is turning it into a program for the big publishers and the proven indies only, then tell us, so we can stop spending money on it. otherwise, please, we kindly ask that you review our apps, answer these threads, and turn the phones back on.