App Store rejection
Extended Review warning
Your rejection ends with a paragraph about longer reviews and removal from the Apple Developer Program. The next submission matters more than usual. We make sure it's the right one and stay on it until it's approved. Fixed price, half paid only after approval.
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The paragraph you got
It usually comes at the end of the rejection, after the main guideline:
Extended Review: This app was found to include one or more issues that present significant safety, security, or quality concerns to users. Repeated submissions of apps with these issues will result in extended review times. Accounts that repeatedly submit apps that do not follow the App Review Guidelines and the Apple Developer Program License Agreement face removal from the Apple Developer Program.
We see it most often together with Guideline 4.3(a) spam rejections. The last line of that paragraph, about removal from the Apple Developer Program, is the account-level risk covered by Guideline 5.6.
What it actually means
It's not a separate rejection. It's a warning attached to the main one: resubmitting the same problem will make reviews slower, and an account that keeps doing it is at risk.
The paragraph doesn't say your account is being removed. It says what happens if the pattern continues. What you send next is what counts.
Why guessing is expensive
- Every resubmission that doesn't fix the real issue makes the next review slower, for this app and possibly for your next ones.
- Sending several similar apps or quick variations to "see what passes" is exactly the pattern the warning describes.
- Moving the app to another developer account doesn't reset anything. Multiple accounts are one of the things Apple lists as a spam factor.
- If you have live apps, they sit on the same account as this one.
What we do
- Read the main rejection and find what Apple actually matched or flagged.
- Stop the loop: tell you what not to submit, and in what order to send your apps if you have several.
- Fix what has to change and write the reply to App Review before anything is resubmitted.
- Stay on it through every round, and the App Review Board appeal if it comes to that.
You keep your code and your account. We never ask for your Apple ID password. If we need access, it goes through an App Store Connect user with the App Manager role.
Fixed price
Reviewer Reply
$99
Regular price: $190The diagnosis of the main rejection, a plan for your next submissions, your reply to App Review, followed until Apple decides. No code changes.
Rejection Fix
$249
Regular price: from $490Everything in Reviewer Reply, plus the changes, the resubmission and every round for the same issue.
Several apps rejected at once? Send them all, we'll quote per app.
50% to start, 50% after Apple approves the submission. If Apple does not approve the submission for the guidelines we fixed, we keep working on those guidelines at no extra cost for up to 3 resubmissions within 60 days. If it still is not approved, you do not pay the second half. If your app is built on a template that other apps already ship, we'll tell you upfront that the guarantee doesn't cover it.
Proof
4.3(a) Design Spam · App concept review
So I was facing this issue where one of my app got design spam twice. And seeing other on X also getting it more frequently now I got real demotivated and there was this fear in me that my next app will probably get design spam too because already there are other similar apps. In my case I was not having an issue with binary or metadata as I create things from ground up the main issue was app concept.
After talking to team I got to know that we can do consultation call with apple review team even before submitting build. The team also emphasized that first screenshot should highlights your unique features that no one have.
Going forward I will now try consultation calls with the apple team and also will highlight my unique features instead of the most popular and famous one.
An app we worked on went through 7 rejections and was approved on round 8.
Questions
Is my account about to be removed?
The paragraph doesn't say that. It warns what happens if apps with the same issues keep being submitted.
How long is an extended review?
Apple doesn't publish a number. Expect it to be slower than your usual reviews.
Should I stop submitting completely?
Stop resubmitting the same thing. Reply first, fix the real issue, then submit once.
I have several apps rejected with this warning. Where do I start?
With one app, the most distinct one, and only after the reply is in. We plan the order for all of them.
How fast do you answer?
Free triage within 12 business hours.
Do you need my Apple ID password?
No, never. Access goes through an App Store Connect user with the App Manager role.
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Written by Ivan Bilousov, founder of Verdict Studio · Updated