{"id":30652,"date":"2020-11-11T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30652"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:02:18","slug":"mask-wearing-sticker-apps-now-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/11\/mask-wearing-sticker-apps-now-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask-wearing Sticker Apps Now Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/11\/10\/21559603\/apple-stickers-mask-covid-19-ios-app-store-guidelines\">Sean Hollister<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/11\/10\/21559603\/apple-stickers-mask-covid-19-ios-app-store-guidelines\"><p>How could a friendly sticker wearing a mask be an inappropriate reference to COVID-19, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/10\/3\/21500163\/apple-emoji-mask-medical-face-2020\">when Apple has its very own mask-wearing emoji<\/a>? That was the question on my mind, so I reached out to Apple yesterday. <\/p><p>This morning, Apple replied that <em>not only<\/em> does the company not have any rules about mask-wearing stickers, but that both of these examples are totally OK &mdash; and both developers have since confirmed that Apple has approved their apps.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s not quite clear why they were rejected to begin with, but Apple says it&rsquo;s been careful only to let medical institutions and official health agencies mention &ldquo;COVID-19&rdquo; in their app names or metadata[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/30\/latherapp-rejected-from-the-app-store\/\">LatherApp Rejected From the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/new-app-store-guidelines-for-push-notifications-and-more\/\">New App Store Guidelines for Push Notifications and More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hollister: How could a friendly sticker wearing a mask be an inappropriate reference to COVID-19, particularly when Apple has its very own mask-wearing emoji? That was the question on my mind, so I reached out to Apple yesterday. This morning, Apple replied that not only does the company not have any rules about mask-wearing [&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":"2020-11-12T01:02:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"01e708e2-f866-4b16-8915-cddefc264c38","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-11-12T01:02:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAecI4vhmSxaJFc3e_CZMOA","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":[130,1931,31,1837,26],"class_list":["post-30652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rejection","tag-covid-19","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652","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=30652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30653,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30652\/revisions\/30653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}