{"id":29083,"date":"2020-05-28T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29083"},"modified":"2020-05-28T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:23:24","slug":"mac-app-store-review-prompting-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/28\/mac-app-store-review-prompting-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac App Store Review Prompting Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1266005665035796480\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1266005665035796480\">\n<p>When macOS bugs, completely out of developer control, translate into bad reviews &#x1F62D; Anybody on the StoreKit team know why <code>SKStoreReviewController<\/code> can get stuck in a loop on macOS Catalina and keep presenting incessant ratings dialogs even when the app is not running?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The irony is that the whole point of this API was to prevent third-party code from prompting the user too often.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willco007\/status\/1266075683731632128\">Will Cosgrove<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willco007\/status\/1266075683731632128\">\n<p>Virtually all the bad Transmit reviews are due to this bug. We&rsquo;ve been trying to get it fixed for years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xmollv\/status\/1266030467259813893\">Xavi Moll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xmollv\/status\/1266030467259813893\">\n<p>I also got a 1 star rating this morning due to that bug<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/app-store-review-replies-and-prompting-api\/\">App Store Review Replies and Prompting API<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Troughton-Smith: When macOS bugs, completely out of developer control, translate into bad reviews &#x1F62D; Anybody on the StoreKit team know why SKStoreReviewController can get stuck in a loop on macOS Catalina and keep presenting incessant ratings dialogs even when the app is not running? The irony is that the whole point of this API [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-28T20:23:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"a71c1df7-79ea-41d9-92c8-fec64200b2a6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-05-28T20:23:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Apxwd93nqQdmSyP7GQgCypg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,32,39,1666,71,243],"class_list":["post-29083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-15","tag-programming","tag-transmit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29084,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29083\/revisions\/29084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}