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Re:App Review process updates by Gaelan on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:51AM (#24332655)
What used to happen is this:

You release version v1.0, with something that's borderline under Apple's policies. Apple approves it.

You release version v1.1, with just bug fixes. Apple decides what you did in 1.0 wasn't OK after all, so you can't release your bug fix until you're removed whatever apple thinks is noncompliant.

This happened with Hey, for example.

Re:App Review process updates by fooey on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:55PM (#24333362)
This happens to us constantly

We sell a business tool, once the business account is upgraded, the rest of it just pay per seat linked to that org. All our sales are done over the phone, so we don't need to accept payments in app. We never ever tell you in the app how you can upgrade to the premium version. We never even link to our own damn website out of fear of Apple's wrath.

About 1/4 of the times we submit big fixes or feature updates we lose the game of Apple Review Roulette, and get denied. So we have to do an appeal and explain it all, again, and so far at least, the 2nd tier always approves it.

Practically, it just means that everything we do with Apple, you have to plan for it to take 2 weeks

Re:App Review process updates by valuearb on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:27PM (#24333739)
You kids have it easy. My first App was held up for 6 weeks due to its name! Back then even standard App Review with no problems took a week minimum.

It is so much faster now.

Re:App Review process updates by heavyset_go on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:16PM (#24333615)
> Practically, it just means that everything we do with Apple, you have to plan for it to take 2 weeks

Not only that, there is always the chance that 2nd tier support will stop approving your app and then your users will be stuck with a version of the app that needs bug fixes that Apple won't allow to ship.

Re:App Review process updates by cptskippy on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:12PM (#24332846)
That happened 3 years after our app launched, a reviewer decided we were violating a guidelines and held up all our App releases until the WWDC when they announced changes to the guidelines that would permit what we were doing. We still had to an an executive involved for them to re-review the app and approve our backlog of bug fixes.
Re:App Review process updates by the_gipsy on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:26PM (#24336133)
Happened all the time at my old job.

I will never, ever, work on apple software again.