{"id":36972,"date":"2022-09-08T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36972"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:19:46","slug":"apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Still Sitting on Entitlement Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timohetzel\/status\/1564246095550627841\">Timo Hetzel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timohetzel\/status\/1564246095550627841\">\n<p>Let me check my CarPlay entitlement request&#8230; &#x221E; days and counting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gernot\/status\/1564519313993830403\">Gernot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gernot\/status\/1564519313993830403\">\n<p>The fact that developers think about separating an app and degrading the user experience because of app review times should sound your alarm bells. Same for HomeKit. Please fix review times for apps with special entitlements.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/palmin\/status\/1567177532625018883\">Anders Borum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/palmin\/status\/1567177532625018883\">\n<p>Apple engineers at WWDC:\nCan&rsquo;t wait to see what you build.<\/p>\n<p>Apple App Review:\nWe can wait and you will wait.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waynedixon\/status\/1567508159572463616\">Wayne Dixon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/waynedixon\/status\/1567508159572463616\">\n<p>I submitted an entitlement request 3 weeks ago and still haven&rsquo;t heard anything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/mac-app-store-and-investing-engineering-time\/\">Mac App Store and Investing Engineering Time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/05\/apple-sitting-on-applications-and-requests\/\">Apple Sitting on Applications and Requests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/23\/requesting-entitlements-still-broken\/\">Requesting Entitlements, Still Broken<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests-update-2022-09-09\">Update (2022-09-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oskargroth\/status\/1564187577128820740\">Oskar Groth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oskargroth\/status\/1564187577128820740\">\n<p>Finally got approved for a DriverKit entitlement after just <em>checks calendar<\/em> 445 days &#x1F480;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests-update-2023-02-03\">Update (2023-02-03): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aaron_pearce\/109788091412917997\">Aaron Pearce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@aaron_pearce\/109788091412917997\">\n<p>Been trying to get an advanced HomeKit entitlement since July last year. Last update I heard was in December when I asked for an update and got back that it was escalated. Nothing since.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests-update-2023-07-14\">Update (2023-07-14): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nckh_\/status\/1678962377918935040\">Greg de J<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nckh_\/status\/1678962377918935040\"><p>160 days since my request to default-browser-requests@apple.com for \n<a href=\"https:\/\/quiche.works\/browser\/\">@quichebrowser<\/a>. Takes ~5 weeks to get a reply, where they ask information I already provided, or give wrong instructions contradicting Apple docs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests-update-2025-05-19\">Update (<a href=\"#apple-still-sitting-on-entitlement-requests-update-2025-05-19\">2025-05-19<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nu\/@2ndNatureDev\/114519008459549025\">Brian Gerfort<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nu\/@2ndNatureDev\/114519008459549025\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been waiting 4 months for an entitlement &#x1F937;&#x200D;&#x2642;&#xFE0F;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nu\/@pmdj@mstdn.social\/114524627245368944\">Phil Dennis-Jordan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nu\/@pmdj@mstdn.social\/114524627245368944\">\n<p>Same (or rather my client is) - it&lsquo;s not even a from-scratch request; they already have USBDriverKit and a few other DriverKit family entitlements. Now we need to add an audio driver, but Apple seems to be trying to run down some kind of clock of theirs. Contacted developer support, but nothing so far beyond a &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll forward it to the relevant team&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timo Hetzel: Let me check my CarPlay entitlement request&#8230; &#x221E; days and counting. Gernot: The fact that developers think about separating an app and degrading the user experience because of app review times should sound your alarm bells. Same for HomeKit. Please fix review times for apps with special entitlements. Anders Borum: Apple engineers at [&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":"2022-09-08T18:37:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"f4dfa7b9-a914-4c18-8e02-6765f66a03ba","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-19T14:19:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9N-nuakUTBiOAmdl9moDug","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":[1846,91,794,2518,1326,31,2078],"class_list":["post-36972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-review","tag-appstore","tag-carplay","tag-entitlements","tag-homekit","tag-ios","tag-ios-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972","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=36972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47801,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36972\/revisions\/47801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}