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Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Re: Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Post by darkheartfelt »

arvin wrote: post #10
sradu wrote: post #7

Same thing on the iOS App Store. I submitted a new app which took 12 days to go in review. It was rejected for a valid reason (I was saving temp data in Documents/). The fix took 20 minutes to implement but I'll likely have to wait another 12 days. I wish Apple had a system similar to Debian's lintian which would look into your code and gave your warnings for bad stuff.

Similar to my app also, submitted app to iOS App Store took 11 days to go in review, then took 17 days to be accepted to the app store.

Yeah well it doesn't take 2 months just to get a response on iOS. There's a huge disparity between the review times.

Re: Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Post by dpcan »

Just because sometimes posts like this that make the front-page of major social sites get taken as gospel, I'd like to add that all 3 of my iOS games took about 14 days to get reviewed, and approved within ~48 hours. They are mostly simple games and I don't do anything out of the ordinary. It didn't seem unreasonable at all to me.

Re: Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Post by darkheartfelt »

dpcan wrote: post #12

Just because sometimes posts like this that make the front-page of major social sites get taken as gospel, I'd like to add that all 3 of my iOS games took about 14 days to get reviewed, and approved within ~48 hours. They are mostly simple games and I don't do anything out of the ordinary. It didn't seem unreasonable at all to me.

Again, @dpcan that's a different app store.

Re: Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Post by kpao »

sradu wrote: post #7

Same thing on the iOS App Store. I submitted a new app which took 12 days to go in review. It was rejected for a valid reason (I was saving temp data in Documents/). The fix took 20 minutes to implement but I'll likely have to wait another 12 days. I wish Apple had a system similar to Debian's lintian which would look into your code and gave your warnings for bad stuff.

We have experienced similar wait times, 13 days for the last one, and we got rejected for a valid reason as well... It's just frustrating to have to wait that long when it took just a few days a couple of months ago.

I really wonder what could have happened recently to have review times jump from 7 days to 13...

Re: Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Post by robterrell »

In my experience, being "in review" for a very long time means that something in your app has triggered an internal discussion. Since it's internal, it's entirely opaque to you. Imagine that there is a group of people wrangling their schedules to meet a few times and talk about your app, if it helps. It might even be true.

But aside from that possibility, I know that iOS review times have grown lengthy due to the huge number of apps being readied for the iOS 6 / iPhone 5 release. Pure speculation on my part, but I guess it's possible that Mac app reviewers have been temporarily reallocated to iOS app reviews.

Re: Mac App Store taking two months to review my app (video)

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Post by namityadav »

robterrell wrote: post #17

In my experience, being "in review" for a very long time means that something in your app has triggered an internal discussion. Since it's internal, it's entirely opaque to you. Imagine that there is a group of people wrangling their schedules to meet a few times and talk about your app, if it helps. It might even be true. But aside from that possibility, I know that iOS review times have grown lengthy due to the hug…

In my experience, being "in review" for a very long time means that something in your app has triggered an internal discussion.

This!

My first iOS app for my previous startup got stuck in the review process for almost a month. In the end, Apple's review team called me about some clarifications. Turned out, they were trying to decide whether they wanted to approve some of the things our app was doing. After a couple of calls, they approved it.

For my current startup, we've again been stuck in the review process for almost a month. I can see from our logs that different reviewers have tried the app over the last month. Yesterday, Apple's review team informed me that they need to talk to me about the app. Let's see what the hold-up is this time.

In any case, I'm just glad that they reach out to us to resolve the issues/get clarifications instead of just rejecting the apps.

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