This is called review gating and isn't allowed: https://appradar.com/blog/ask-users-leave-review-in-app-stor...

Is it actually explicitly disallowed in Apple's guidelines? Their wording almost makes it indicate they want you to only ask for a rating when people are happy with the app:

    https://developer.apple.com/app-store/ratings-and-reviews/
    Make the request when users are most likely to feel satisfaction with your app, such as when they’ve completed an action, level, or task.

I understood that to mean, if you've goals within you app (e.g. CityMapper — completing a journey; Dropbox — uploading a file; some game — beating a level), ask after the user has completed them, rather than what apps used to do (e.g. before you've been created an account, or getting in your way while you're changing some setting). But when they _do_ ask theyre meant to show the rating dialog either way, not first check what rating you would give.

Interesting! It’s obviously been a while since I was in the 3rd party app business because in my day, the use of these was widespread! Nice to see the vulnerability was closed.

Nike Run Club did this to me just last week. The no button leads to a feedback form, the yes button to the App Store.

Unfortunately it's still widespread, as the rating dialog shouldn't come up during the app review process. So it's unlikely to get caught without being reported.

The funny thing is when they do that, you leave a bad review, they delete your review, and then keep begging you to leave a review.

What App Store allows the developer to delete a negative review? That sounds terrible. Apple’s app store doesn’t allow that.