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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
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Apple's App Review Board rejected Dark Hours, an astronomy app, on the false grounds that it contained astrology and tarot features, and upheld the rejection even after the developer escalated through the full appeals process.
This demonstrates that Apple's App Review escalation process can confirm obviously incorrect rejections rather than correcting them, creating an unreliable path for developers to resolve mistakes. For anyone building iOS apps, it shows that even clear factual errors by reviewers may not be fixable through standard appeals.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
Apple rejected Dark Hours, an astronomy app, by incorrectly classifying it as astrology.
The App Review Board upheld the rejection, falsely claiming the app included a live tarot reading feature.
The escalation process failed to correct an easily verifiable factual error, suggesting systemic dysfunction in App Review.
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