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App Store Review

Apple's vetting process for iOS app submissions, used to catch malware, policy violations and other issues before apps reach the App Store.

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buildOne report1 publisher

Messenger Pro built its real payload in four stages after it cleared Google Play review

CERT Polska found that Messenger Pro cleared Google Play review as a 40MB base APK whose malicious loader was 0.552% of its code. Its real payload never shipped to the store; stage two pulled it from an Alibaba Cloud bucket only after install.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

Shorebird's Dart-only patches swap store review for the user's next app restart

A one-line logic error took about 8 hours to fix on Android and 12 on iOS through the stores, so one Flutter team moved Dart fixes to code push, where the wait is a background download and a restart.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption30
Hype gap+12
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence48
buildOne report1 publisher

Seal's only pre-release design review came from the agent that wrote much of its code

Jason Page has submitted his encrypted inheritance app to Apple with public source, a default release schedule of 90 days of silence plus 35 cancellable days, and a published list of what has not been tested.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption6
Hype gap−20
Incentives55
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

An expired Apple developer membership removes an already-shipped app from the App Store

Apple charges 99 USD a membership year, about 9,500 rupees at September's rate. That membership is what keeps an app downloadable. When it lapses, existing installs keep working and everything else stops.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives72
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Apple's 2024 transparency report prices App Review at one rejection in four submissions

A 25 percent rejection rate across 7.77 million submissions is stable enough to put in a release schedule. The per-guideline percentages that circulate alongside it were never published by Apple at all.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption70
Hype gap+10
Incentives72
Confidence48