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Here's Why Apple Rejected Your iOS App

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-can-keep-it dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes Everybody knows that Apple runs a tight ship when it comes to approving iOS apps for its App Store, rejecting software because it features porn, allows gambling, installs types of executable code, etc. But Apple also denies apps for some pretty esoteric reasons, many of which are only just coming to light. Want to have an App that uses GPS to automatically control a real-world aircraft or automobile? Sorry, that's not allowed, presumably because Apple doesn't want iOS to serve as a drone controller. (Imagine the liability issues.) Also, apps that report your location to emergency services are forbidden, as well as any that misspell Apple product names ("iTunz" will never make it through, no matter how much you beg). Even if Apple's not sharing the exact reason why it just rejected your app from its store (what the heck does "Not enough lasting value" mean?), you can check out Apple's own page on the top reasons for iOS app rejections."

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  1. drone controller by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny a long-awaited APM drone controller app was just approved yesterday.
    https://itunes.apple.com/app/mav-pilot/id649233096

  2. Um... by Shoten · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, that's not allowed, presumably because Apple doesn't want iOS to serve as a drone controller. (Imagine the liability issues.)

    Someone hasn't heard of Parrot, who make some of the best consumer drones there are, which are all controlled by iOS devices running apps that are available on the App Store.

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  3. That'll show 'em. by Brannon · · Score: 2, Informative

    All those billions of iPhone users won't have access to your critically super-important app, left only to make due with the literally 1 million other apps that are available on Apple's app store.

    And think of Apple, having to wallow in misery that your app isn't available to their customers; forced to lead a hopeless existence of swimming in their hundreds of billions of dollars like Scrooge McDuck while not even knowing that you or your breathlessly important app even exist.

  4. Someone who knows about the subject by gnasher719 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a link to a site that _really_ knows everything about app store guidelines and rejection reasons:

    https://developer.apple.com/ap...