{"id":30331,"date":"2020-10-02T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30331"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:04:44","slug":"another-developer-account-nearly-terminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/another-developer-account-nearly-terminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Developer Account Nearly Terminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bigdondon\/apple_developer_issue\/blob\/master\/Readme_EN.md\">Liu Qia<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cyanapps\/status\/1309790668420648962\">Ying Zhong<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bigdondon\/apple_developer_issue\/blob\/master\/Readme_EN.md\"><p>There are currently 8 apps. Among which the &ldquo;RedLine&rdquo; (aka &#x7EA2;&#x7EBF;) is from January 2019 to the present, there are more than 280k users, and they have been featured by AppStore Today many times, as well as by multiple media.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>For more than a year, my apps&rsquo; reviews and account status are all very good. Until two weeks ago, I submitted a newly developed app called &ldquo;One Aim&rdquo;. This is a simple, clean, single-function app. Like my other works, I did it myself from design to development.<\/p><p>On the evening after submission [of 1.0.1], the app changed status to &ldquo;in review&rdquo;. Two days later, the review was rejected, and a notice was received saying that the review needs to be extended, and no details were given.<\/p><p>By the morning of September 23, I received a notice saying that my developer account or other accounts associated with the account were fraudulent, and decided to terminate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He appealed but was never told the reason, so soon the &ldquo;investigation was over and the termination was confirmed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After going public with the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/bigdondon\/apple_developer_issue\/blob\/master\/Readme_EN.md\"><p>I received a call from the Apple review team on the morning of October 2nd, telling me that my developer account will not be terminated. After I clearly stated that I have not violated the Apple Developer Guidelines, she hopes to continue developing and submitting apps in compliance with the guidelines in the future, and sent me the reason for rejection of the app which caused this incident, and told me to resubmit it for review after modification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/24\/apple-explains-benefits-of-the-app-store\/\">Apple Explains Benefits of the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/25\/developer-accounts-nearly-terminated\/\">Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/apple-remote-kills-long-time-developers-apps\/\">Apple Remote-Kills Long-time Developer&rsquo;s Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/guilherme-rambo-locked-out-of-apple-developer-account\/\">Guilherme Rambo Locked Out of Apple Developer Account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/05\/apple-removed-dash-from-the-mac-app-store\/\">Apple Removed Dash From the Mac App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu Qia (via Ying Zhong): There are currently 8 apps. Among which the &ldquo;RedLine&rdquo; (aka &#x7EA2;&#x7EBF;) is from January 2019 to the present, there are more than 280k users, and they have been featured by AppStore Today many times, as well as by multiple media.[&#8230;]For more than a year, my apps&rsquo; reviews and account status [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-02T19:54:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"526b0b07-e3a5-43ca-bbd3-82f1160a3f4d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-04-08T14:04:47Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUmsLB-OlQ8q704LxFgo_TQ","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":[91,2749,31,1837,71],"class_list":["post-30331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple-developer-account","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331","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=30331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30332,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30331\/revisions\/30332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}