{"id":3252,"date":"2012-03-15T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T18:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:24:31","slug":"100-reasons-of-app-rejection-for-appstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/100-reasons-of-app-rejection-for-appstore\/","title":{"rendered":"100+ Reasons of App Rejection for AppStore;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3253\" title=\"appStoreRejection\" src=\"https:\/\/AasimNaseem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/appstorerejection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>What !!! Rejected ?? but why ??? oh Damn it &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a tiring days and sleepless nights, busy weekends and thoughtful breaks, getting rejection from <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/genre\/ios\/id36?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AppStore<\/a> is worst; No one wants to see a red label, against his\/her app over itunes, saying rejected; There could be many reasons, really they are MANY, 100 plus, and any single of them can ruined your efforts and excitement within a second;<\/p>\n<p>No doubt we all take care of some common points that may lead to app rejection, like purchase transaction out side the Apple&#8217;s platform, icon\/splash image with proper dimensions etc, but again there are many others too that can be surly neglected without going through the list of possible rejection reasons; Before approaching to <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/genre\/ios\/id36?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AppStore<\/a>, one responsible authority from development squad (your QA guy, technical lead) should carefully revise each aspect that can stop your app to reach <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57349631-37\/iphone-users-downloading-more-than-5-million-free-apps-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millons of iOS users<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Apple has a brief public guidelins for AppStore review; They have divided it into many different categories, making it easy to revise the functionality of your app with every possible angle; They includes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Terms and conditions<\/li>\n<li>Functionality<\/li>\n<li>Metadata, ratings and rankings<\/li>\n<li>Location<\/li>\n<li>Push notifications<\/li>\n<li>Game Center<\/li>\n<li>iAds<\/li>\n<li>Trademarks and trade dress<\/li>\n<li>Media content<\/li>\n<li>User interface<\/li>\n<li>Purchasing and currencies<\/li>\n<li>Scraping and aggregation<\/li>\n<li>Damage to device<\/li>\n<li>Personal attacks<\/li>\n<li>Violence<\/li>\n<li>Objectionable content<\/li>\n<li>Privacy<\/li>\n<li>Pornography<\/li>\n<li>Religion, culture, and ethnicity<\/li>\n<li>Contests, sweepstakes, lotteries, and raffles<\/li>\n<li>Charities and contributions<\/li>\n<li>Legal requirements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find them at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/appstore\/resources\/approval\/guidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App Store Review Guidelines &#8211; App Store Resource Center<\/a>. One common term\u00a0.i.e.\u00a0<em>will be rejected\u00a0<\/em>is used in the \u00a0guidelines\u00a0this much times that at a certain point, you (like me) will start feeling that they are not ready to approve your app at any cost; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The total of all clause for all categories is more then 100; \ud83d\ude42 So have a reasonable time slot for\u00a0guidelines\u00a0review activity, while scheduling your project;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s04.flagcounter.com\/count\/y2h\/bg_FFFFFF\/txt_000000\/border_FFFFFF\/columns_6\/maxflags_248\/viewers_0\/labels_1\/pageviews_1\/flags_0\/\" alt=\"free counters\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What !!! 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