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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon efremidze

Apple rejection

Open cyril94440 opened this issue 7 years ago • 16 comments

We created something similar at SoundR (you can check our app on the AppStore). But now, Apple refuses updates because "it's too similar to the Apple Watch interface and could be confusing for users..."

cyril94440 avatar Apr 04 '17 05:04 cyril94440

Thanks for the tip. However Apple music uses this interface, I don't understand why they would block an interface they introduced. Ill do some investigation. Is it Design 4.2.4 on the Review Guidelines?

efremidze avatar Apr 04 '17 08:04 efremidze

No it's 5.2.5, we didn't say anything about the Apple Music interface because it would be against that same guidelines stating: "Don’t create an app that appears confusingly similar to an existing Apple product, interface" Appeal rejected, we are changing the interface...

cyril94440 avatar Apr 04 '17 10:04 cyril94440

I will do some research to find a solution.

efremidze avatar Apr 04 '17 19:04 efremidze

Awesome, if you find something that would be so helpful! Cheers

cyril94440 avatar Apr 05 '17 06:04 cyril94440

Hi I am going to implement the same, Will apple rejects the build. We are only developing for iPhone's not for the iWatch. Suggest me.

strikernani avatar Apr 13 '17 11:04 strikernani

I don't know whether they will. I haven't heard this from anyone else.

efremidze avatar Apr 13 '17 16:04 efremidze

Hi guys, @strikernani and @efremidze any news as to whether Apple would reject this library?

doronkatz avatar May 20 '17 22:05 doronkatz

I still haven't heard of any rejections

efremidze avatar May 20 '17 22:05 efremidze

We are still in the process of getting approved again on the AppStore. They asked us to put the gravity center point at the bottom instead of the center of the screen and change the shape of the bubbles to something other than circle... You can check the app as it is rejected on the AppStore, it's called soundR. The current version is the last that has been accepted.

cyril94440 avatar May 21 '17 09:05 cyril94440

Anyone got approved with this?

alexandre-g avatar Nov 30 '17 08:11 alexandre-g

Honestly, might just be bad luck on your part @cyril94440, App Store reviews just require some luck. A lot of things are just fine until at some point it's a problem all of the sudden. Their review process is not uniform in any way.

I don't think it's an issue with the library, I could be wrong of course, but the lack of complaints from other people seems to indicate it's just bad luck.

JoniVR avatar Nov 30 '17 21:11 JoniVR

I haven't heard any rejections recently regarding this library.

efremidze avatar Nov 30 '17 21:11 efremidze

@efremidze have you heard of anyone being approved though? E.g. is the lib used by anyone who has an app published on App Store

az-oolloow avatar Jul 05 '19 04:07 az-oolloow

Yeah we've never had problems with approval with this

alexandre-g avatar Jul 05 '19 04:07 alexandre-g

It's probably because our app is also a music app. Since we changed the circle shape to a hexagonal one, we got approved again... Might be bad luck indeed. Btw, we don't use the Magnetic library but did the exact same interface with SpriteKit because we didn't know of Magnetic at the time ;)

cyril94440 avatar Jul 05 '19 08:07 cyril94440

Thanks for the SpriteKit Floating Bubble Picker! FYI, used this in an app 'Time to Guess', and it was published in the store today (also source available: https://github.com/timetoguess/What-s-It).

timetoguess avatar Sep 05 '19 05:09 timetoguess