Welcome to the review process - if it's your first time submitting - be prepared for minor inconveniences to be pointed out for you to change! Or, you might get lucky 1st time round.
For 2 of my previous submissions (one an update, one an app) I was basically "waiting for review" for 7 days. Then it took 1 day in the "in review" state and it was approved/released.
I have since submitted another app and it was the usual until I got in review. I am now "4 days" and waiting in the "in review" state. This was after the normal 7 day "waiting for review" state. So the total being around 12 days since submission. This is my first OS 4 app so maybe they're looking at different things...but from the sound of it...on day 14 I'll get another "status" update and we'll see whats what :-/
4 days is not bad i remember back in the good old early days around 08 you had to wait 2-3 weeks. and then if you get a rejection, it would take another 1-2 weeks.
14 days now total in waiting since submission. The sad part is I don't think they're even looking at it. My app implements cocoslive and I do not see any new scores posted (meaning they probably haven't even launched the app). Sigh :-/
There is a difference between In Review and Waiting for Review though. In Review for that long is odd I feel. I once had an updated locked in at the "Upload Accepted" stage and I had to write and call and write to iTunesConnect to have it fixed. The system has bugs - this is far from a well-oiled machine. I find being proactive regarding these things is best, since it generally takes Apple 1-2 weeks to even reply to you in the first place.
There is a difference between In Review and Waiting for Review though. In Review for that long is odd I feel. I once had an updated locked in at the "Upload Accepted" stage and I had to write and call and write to iTunesConnect to have it fixed. The system has bugs - this is far from a well-oiled machine. I find being proactive regarding these things is best, since it generally takes Apple 1-2 weeks to even reply to you in the first place.
I don't think there is any difference between "In Review" and "Waiting for Review". It's just something Apple uses to make it seem like there is progress to the user. I've been "In Review" after 5 minutes and stayed there for a week. I've also been "Waiting for Review" for a week, and "In Review" for 5 minutes. So from my perspective, I treat them the same. You are waiting for approval, period.
I don't think there is any difference between "In Review" and "Waiting for Review". It's just something Apple uses to make it seem like there is progress to the user. I've been "In Review" after 5 minutes and stayed there for a week. I've also been "Waiting for Review" for a week, and "In Review" for 5 minutes. So from my perspective, I treat them the same. You are waiting for approval, period.
I would like to disagree with you here.
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I've had the same experience and I can come up with two reasons:
1. Sometimes the reviewer actually gives a damn and tests the app thoroughly, and sometimes the review doesn't give a crap and let's the app through with little to no testing.
2. Apple wants to keep it's 7-day approval statistics over 80%.
I know this to be true because I accidentally submitted an app that would crash on launch on the iPad and it went through no problem...and it was one of those 7 days "Waiting for review" and 5 minute "In review" thing.
At one point I thought Apple was lying about their stats on apps being approved within 7 days...but I quickly realized that some reviewers wait until the 7th day and then put it "In review" for no more than half an hour before approving it...doesn't matter if the app is simple or complex, buggy or not...it goes through. I'm pretty sure it's to keep the approval over 80%...or it would be much, much lower otherwise.
I've only had one update approved in less than 7 days. Every other app I've submitted, every other update I've submitted have taken either 7 days exactly or more...of course, the record was a whopping 2 months...when I released my first app last November (submitted in September, released in November...no rejection or anything, just a 2 month wait).
Honestly, the Approval Process is garbage. It's not stopping crap apps from flooding the App Store yet it prevents anyone from quickly updating their apps. IMO, the Approval Process does nothing to the quality of experience for customers and just irritates developers.
Last edited by Picklefoot; 10-08-2010 at 01:23 PM.
4 days in "Waiting for Review"
. Just give them a time to troubleshoot problem if it is more than 3 weeks then it is reasonable to ask.
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