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i have been rejected a large number of times for things not on that list that were also nearly always not true. i've appealed and won at least double digit rejections for various apps over the 4 years i've had apps on the store. I think i've had 4-5 updates rejected just in the last 6 months that i've subsequently gotten approved through appeal.

lots of different things but an example: paraphrasing - "you included the audio in background setting but don't play audio in the background so we are rejecting the app"

first off, who cares if i included a setting but didn't make use of it? second, i did in fact make use of it. there was simply a setting for a certain feature that could be either on or off.



Apple has the mindset (and they are not entirely wrong) that if a feature in an app is confusing ("this switch doesn't do anything"), apple/iPhone will get the blame, either directly or by association.


I'm not sure how that applies here? that's not what they rejected. rejected for something in settings file that has nothing to do with what a user ever sees.


>first off, who cares if i included a setting but didn't make use of it?

Were you doing this to avoid having the app killed when it went to the background?


app already doesn't get killed. it's a gps tracking app that has gps in background mode also enabled.




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