{"id":47993,"date":"2025-06-07T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47993"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T13:42:21","slug":"clip-rejected-via-notarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/07\/clip-rejected-via-notarization\/","title":{"rendered":"Clip Rejected via Notarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@rileytestut\/114631624094175561\">Riley Testut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@rileytestut\/114631624094175561\"><p>The latest Clip update has been stuck in Notarization for 3 days now. I swear if Apple announces a clipboard manager at WWDC&#8230;<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Update: it was rejected because the keyboard extension doesn&rsquo;t do anything if Full Access isn&rsquo;t enabled &#x1F644;<\/p><p>Even though the previous submissions also didn&rsquo;t do anything without Full Access enabled&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Recall that iOS&rsquo;s notarization for apps outside the App Store has a human review component, but that Apple said it would be about &ldquo;security and privacy and to maintain device integrity.&rdquo; Apple has been harassing Testut&rsquo;s apps ever since the debut of App Marketplaces, last year rejecting Clip with a false statement about how it uses push notifications.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@prrtzt\/114634749001280148\">Pierre Tzt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@prrtzt\/114634749001280148\"><p>How is it the job of notarization to give this kind of feedback? The abuse of power is insane here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@simonbs\/114634471500175177\">Simon B. St&oslash;vring<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@simonbs\/114634471500175177\">\n<p>I thought this was the kind of rejection third-party app stores would avoid &#x1F61E;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/26\/mini-vmac-for-ios-rejected-via-notarization\/\">Mini vMac for iOS Rejected via Notarization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/alternative-distribution-for-ipad-apps-in-eu\/\">Alternative Distribution for iPad Apps in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/eu-ios-envy\/\">EU iOS Envy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/12\/delta-1-6-rejected-from-the-app-store\/\">Delta 1.6 Rejected From the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/05\/epic-games-store-blocked-via-notarization\/\">Epic Games Store Blocked via Notarization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/14\/utm-blocked-outside-app-store-via-notarization\/\">UTM Blocked Outside App Store via Notarization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/20\/dma-compliance-workshop-notarization-and-core-technology-fee\/\">DMA Compliance Workshop: Notarization and Core Technology Fee<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/17\/ios-notarizations-human-review\/\">iOS Notarization&rsquo;s Human Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"clip-rejected-via-notarization-update-2025-06-09\">Update (<a href=\"#clip-rejected-via-notarization-update-2025-06-09\">2025-06-09<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114644212271604381\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114644212271604381\"><p>Apple is using &lsquo;Notarization&rsquo; as just another form of App Review. And probably violating the DMA, again, in the process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pieteromvlee\/114649624087614882\">Pieter Omvlee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@pieteromvlee\/114649624087614882\"><p>I don&rsquo;t know what Notarization means anymore today but if it means this, that&rsquo;s really bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/1l5wrsh\/michael_tsai_blog_clip_rejected_via_notarization\/\">Reddit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Testut: The latest Clip update has been stuck in Notarization for 3 days now. I swear if Apple announces a clipboard manager at WWDC&#8230;[&#8230;]Update: it was rejected because the keyboard extension doesn&rsquo;t do anything if Full Access isn&rsquo;t enabled &#x1F644;Even though the previous submissions also didn&rsquo;t do anything without Full Access enabled&#8230; Recall that [&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":"2025-06-07T20:03:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"f54f2d76-ba90-45fb-b9a5-6b86a738400b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-06-09T13:42:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9U8tdrqQRfu5pWuGpzhACw","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":[2542,1961,31,2586,26,1842],"class_list":["post-47993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-marketplaces","tag-clip","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-iosapp","tag-notarization"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47993","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=47993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48007,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47993\/revisions\/48007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}