{"id":27326,"date":"2019-11-21T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27326"},"modified":"2021-05-19T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:25:04","slug":"sf-viewer-removed-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/21\/sf-viewer-removed-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Viewer Removed From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sf_viewer\/status\/1188171317591195648\">SFViewer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sf_viewer\/status\/1188171317591195648\">\n<p>Are you a designer or developer who wants to view, compare or export SF Symbols on your iPhone or iPad? Check out SF Viewer <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/sf-viewer\/id1483864767?ls=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaron_pearce\/status\/1191801337417060352\">Aaron Pearce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaron_pearce\/status\/1191801337417060352\">\n<p>Just received a phone call from Apple regarding SF Viewer. They have made the decision to remove it from sale as its concept is not acceptable under their guidelines\/license.<\/p>\n<p>I may look to tidy up the code base and open source it in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>It was rejected due to allowing users to export symbols to various formats and view the additional internal metadata of the fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly I was somewhat surprised that it even passed review once so this was an outcome I was expecting eventually. It was a very grey area of the rules.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It seems like without the export feature it would still be useful and hopefully non-controversial.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/10\/sf-symbols\/\">SF Symbols<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"sf-viewer-removed-from-the-app-store-update-2019-11-26\">Update (2019-11-26): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffhackworth\/status\/1197581068066529280\">Geoff Hackworth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffhackworth\/status\/1197581068066529280\">\n<p>I was sad to see SF Viewer go, but there&rsquo;s another solution! Browsing system images is one (of many) features of my <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/app\/id1054670022\">Adaptivity<\/a> app. Supports multiple windows on iPadOS 13. 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