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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Founder & developer at @edovia@mastodon.social. Making Screens and other nice things for Apple platforms since 2003.
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Do we need to watch all the iPhone Duo videos before Apple unlocks the Xcode 27.1 beta download?
Fellow Apple devs: are you seeing longer App Review times for macOS apps compared to iOS/visionOS lately?
My iOS and visionOS versions went through review in just a few hours, while the macOS version has been In Review since yesterday.
Just curious if this is a common pattern right now or simply App Review being App Review. 😅
Is this the end for Maestral? It suddenly started running into Dropbox API issues this morning…
Why is this still happening almost 24 hours after the new betas were released?
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I’m thinking about finding a new home for my other app, Motorist.
It’s a stable, profitable iOS app, but with Screens taking most of my time, I can’t give it the attention it deserves anymore.
I’m not in a rush and want it to land with someone interested in maintaining and growing it.
If you’re an indie dev who’d consider taking over an existing app, feel free to DM me.
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/motorist-car-maintenance/id1602075269
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Close to half my iOS submissions get rejected for bogus reasons. Meanwhile, scam apps sail right through App Review. What a system.
Submissions for visionOS and macOS hardly ever get rejected. 🤷♂️
I’ve been receiving “Apple Developer Program License Agreement updated” notifications in Helm and AppFigures, but all the agreements appear to be up-to-date. Has anyone else encountered this issue?
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Submitted two apps 7 hours apart. The second one went into review first and is already approved. The first is still waiting. No explanation, no logic, no consistency. The App Store review process has gotten so bad lately it's starting to feel like 2009. This is not how you treat developers trying to build businesses on your platform.
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Pending Developer Release. What actually happened? 🤷♂️
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Found Apple’s own docs confirming (as we knew) that arm64 in UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities is perfectly valid:
https://developer.apple.com/support/required-device-capabilities/
Xcode even adds it by default. So rejecting a build for not installing on an iPad Pro M4 is… odd. Likely a review glitch. Back “In Review” now. 🤞
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This UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities rejection doesn't seem new:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/98481
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/98537
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/124979
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/792578
Of course, no useful replies to any of those posts. If someone had a similar rejection please let me know how you were able to fix it.
@kcase Congrats!!!
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On the other hand, TestFlight builds were approved within just a few hours of submission. 🤷♂️
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Motorist was approved within a couple of hours. Screens for Mac and iOS still waiting for review 3 days later while the visionOS version was finally approved. Go figure.
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Moreover, build metadata seems to be fine on App Store Connect. Either Xcode 26 RC screws up submissions, the review's device has an issue or the reviewer has no clue.
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Starting to think these rejections might just be some automated process failing to install the app. 🤔
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@yanlu I’m curious to know how and where they obtain that information. It would be helpful for us to double-check.
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@2ndNatureDev I'm not excluding any architectures nor changed anything related. Project is set to Standard Architectures (arm64). Even a new project will include that key in its info.plist file.
And they're complaining they can't install on an iPad Pro 11 (M4), which is arm64.
And AFAIK, arm64 has been the default since iPhone 5s or something.
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@frankreiff They are, but never as much as iOS updates. This is my personal experience of course.
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social I thought they stopped allowing reviews from betas year ago….