Patternz - logic puzzle game - submitted on August 5, approved today (11 days).
iScore Baseball - sports scorekeeping application - submitted version 2.0 on July 15th, couple of emails from Apple along the way, but still no approval after a full month. When we initiate emails, we get canned responses. It is a full featured application with a lot more capability than most applications, so we understand it taking a while, but over a month? Makes it hard to do business.
It is a full featured application with a lot more capability than most applications, so we understand it taking a while, but over a month? Makes it hard to do business.
How much more full featured? Your last one got approved in 11 days. My reason for asking is that I have a simple one in that is now on its 19th day with no delay emails from Apple. Is the App Store review process a crapshoot? Based on my reviews of posters here the last 3 months...it seems that half get approval before the average days in, and the other get approval beyond the average days. So Apple's statement that 95% get approved in 14 days or so is BS. And from my horrible experience, the last three months approvals and update approvals have taken far longer than 14 days. And yet others here get approvals in 7-11 days. Do I need to KY my binary?
Question: For you and anyone else on this board. I am now running into another app store boondoggle. I am about to submit another new app, and have already done the submission but not yet uploaded the binary. I want to change the parental ratings but find the area is now grayed out. Meaning, it cannot be edited although Apple states in their FAQ that you can. If I upload the binary now, before changing it, Apple will most likely reject the app, and tell me to resubmit and up it to 17+. A few weeks ago, you could easily edit that section...now for that last 4 days or so, it is not editable. Any suggestions?
Finally, if any of you are having problems with your phone no longer being provisioned after upgrading to 3.0.1, you need to open terminal and do a simple command to get your SDK to allow your phone for testing. I'll will post a link to the command if needed.
Last edited by Not_Appy_At_All; 08-18-2009 at 09:27 PM.
Apple's statement that 95% get approved in 14 days or so is BS.
They dropped those 95% down to 88%, when they updated their website on august 14th. I doubt it makes a big difference anyway. It's a freakin' lottery every time
Updates to my Gong and Tambourine as well as the release of my new app Aura Trainer (see signature below) were all just approved recently at pretty much exactly the 14 day mark for all of them.
Buttons do not do what they say. Hit a cancel button on an upload and it does NOT stop the upload. Close down the page...and it does not stop the upload. I used application loader to upload a binary...and cancelled out of it. An hour later I tried to upload it again, and it said...sorry, you cannot upload at this time, a previous upload is in process. (*&^%
Rebooted.
Did an upload on another binary...used Application Loader. And the )(**&^% POS iTunes page still shows after one hour...upload binary. Where's the "In Review" status?
So, do I upload again...or wait some more...or try GULP the iTunes Connect to upload where it has been timing out all day now.
A Billion dollar company with candle wick technology. No wonder they are so closed off with their internal culture. If they let the truth out, you'd see that the Emperor Jobs has no clothes.
This App Development can really eat up your time, trying to FIX their glitches.
Leaving the fun productive creative work to fall by the wayside.
Enough said.
Last edited by Not_Appy_At_All; 08-18-2009 at 04:18 PM.
Sigh anyone having any luck with emails to appreview? I am just getting canned responses and its been 3 weeks now.
Rich
Well I received my first non cann'ed email last night notifying me SleepButton has been accepted and it should be ready shortly. So my total wait time is 7/27 - 8/18 (at 9:53pm).
After me slating them for not replying ever, I actually got one today, a week after I sent it
It said sorry for the delay on my 5-week review so far...
However, I did get another approval through today for an update in 10 days, including 4 weekend days, which is the quickest I've had for some time!!
Well, that is good news. And the rest of you who are getting more personal emails.
My experience yesterday was better too, with one major exception.
Got a rejection email, due to a minor technical screwup on my part. But instead of a canned rejection that usually has you scratching your head wondering just what they want me to change, it gave CLEAR instructions on how to correct the problem. Step by step, as if it were a recipe. Then they also gave a contact site for technical problems should we need more help. Now that was a pleasant surprise. It was a non-canned response.
On the negative, I resubmitted the binary using Application Loader, and it never showed "in review".
Spent all day uploading it along with some new binaries...all of which where successfully uploaded multiple times each all day...but they never showed " in review" status. After 8 hours they still showed as "upload binary". So, tried doing it through iTunes Connect, which usually solves that problem, but is glitchy. Maddeningly, here it would go on endlessly without ever confirming in any way...ie without completing the upload. These are all binaries sized 5 MB to 8 MB...nothing too large. Finally after giving up late last night, a few hours later at midnight suddenly they all showed as "in review". My experience prior to this was that " in review" status shows up right away after the binary load. So, my thoughts on this are...another glitch...that could easily have been corrected by Apple the way Ebay does it.
"Thank you for uploading your 'auction' or 'binary'. It may not show live for a few hours.....etc etc."
That way we don't panic and wonder what the (*&^ is wrong now.
So simple, yet Apple makes it so obtuse.
Last edited by Not_Appy_At_All; 08-19-2009 at 09:54 AM.
I submitted a bug fix update to SwiftBrowser on the 4th, and also created and submitted a lite version the same day. There was a bug in an app store link in the app so I fixed it and rejected both binaries and submitted again on the 5th. Apple looked at the lite version 4 days ago (It has ads.) Still no word yet.
I submitted a bug fix update to SwiftBrowser on the 4th, and also created and submitted a lite version the same day. There was a bug in an app store link in the app so I fixed it and rejected both binaries and submitted again on the 5th. Apple looked at the lite version 4 days ago (It has ads.) Still no word yet.
I submitted a lite version of my game on the 4th, still no word and I know they've already looked at it, on the 12th (due to Anyalytics) which was a week ago. They looked at it for 1 minute and 37 seconds!
I've submitted my first application (Gravity Balls) on the 7th and the app is still being reviewed. (13 days)
waiting..waiting.
I can understand why a lot of developers are complaining. This really is no way to do it. Surely it wouldn't be impossible for Apple to update the status incrementally.
I'm sure things will improve, however. You know how it is with Apple. They keep it quiet, and then suddenly overnight they apply a fix and it works beautifully.
I've had apps in the store for over a year ... right now I'm experiencing the longest waits I've ever had to experience.
I submitted a new app about 4 weeks ago .... I submitted both free(lite)+paid versions on the same exact day. The paid one was approved after about 1.5 weeks (and is currently even featured by Apple, so they don't seem to hate me/it) .... however the free version is _still_ under review, about 2 weeks after the paid one was approved, which is really wierd.
An update to the paid version is also awaiting approval ... generally I haven't had any update approved in about 2 weeks (I have a few other older apps, one of which also has an update that has been waiting well over a week), which is definitely longer than normal, so I'm starting to get nervous. Does anyone have any idea what reasons there could be for particular delays at the moment, or why Apple would perhaps deliberately be lowering priority for some apps, or is it just a big lottery?
In general, I don't want to bitch at all, but it would really great if there was some way that there could be a little more predictability. Anyone know anyway to track a submissions approval?
It's the uncertainty that's the killer. I've a .1 update waiting over a week now. It would be nice if Apple gave set review times , even long ones then you'd know what to expect, but the whole, might be a couple of days might be a couple of weeks thing is a pain.
Submitted on 9th, approved today. The entire process made easier by reading the many, many helpful posts on this website. I never needed to ask any questions as they usually had been asked and answered.
Now THERE's a way to make some money LOL - we need an Apple insider hehe!
My wife's best friend's Husband has worked for Apple for about 20 years, I'm going up there next month and I'm going into Cupertino with him, he's says I will introduce me to people that I can ask questions about the App store and if I can get my App featured!
My wife's best friend's Husband has worked for Apple for about 20 years, I'm going up there next month and I'm going into Cupertino with him, he's says I will introduce me to people that I can ask questions about the App store and if I can get my App featured!
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