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

23 pointsby darkheartfeltover 12 years ago

8 comments

sureskover 12 years ago
This seems like a fairly common thing right now - I've got an update for my app that has been waiting to be reviewed for several weeks now, and lots of others have been reporting waiting times close to a month. Prior to this summer, wait times were usually around a week.<p>Hopefully it is just a temporary slowdown due to Mountain Lion causing a bunch of new app submissions, and not indicative of long-term staffing reductions.
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sraduover 12 years ago
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.<p>I wish Apple had a system similar to Debian's lintian which would look into your code and gave your warnings for bad stuff.
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robterrellover 12 years ago
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.<p>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.
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dazzawazzaover 12 years ago
Counter example: My Mac App Store App (MiniTune) update took 9 days to get in to review and three hours to review two weeks ago. They did take three weeks for the previous release, about 6 months ago.<p>It's a simple app though.
dduckover 12 years ago
I once got into the iOS app store in 2 hours, it was the first time I was sending an app to the store and it was in 2012. So don't count on anything. App Store may come out and ruin all your plans.
ioquatixover 12 years ago
I have the same problem if its any consolation, and in my case, it might have been longer than 2 months..<p>I actually started hammering away at their online contact form for app reviews. After I did that suddenly a few days later it went to "In Review" and then "Preparing for the App Store".<p>If you have a serious bug fix, there is actually an expedited review service which has a theoretical turn around time of 2 days. I used it twice and the first response was within 12 hours and the second time within 48 hours.
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dpcanover 12 years ago
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.
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timmydover 12 years ago
@op - I think your video would be heaps better served with some simple software like <a href="http://www.techsmith.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.techsmith.com/</a> which actually demo's the app ? Wouldn't take you long to actually show what it does ?
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