{"id":48816,"date":"2025-08-07T17:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48816"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T22:37:12","slug":"screens-rejected-from-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/07\/screens-rejected-from-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Screens Rejected From the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@vandal\/114979288977279826\">Luc Vandal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@vandal\/114979288977279826\">\n<p>I never thought Screens would get rejected for actually asking users to opt in to share anonymous statistics data.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This has been in place for almost a year now. Mac and Vision went through right away.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You want to be transparent to your users and your app gets rejected for it. During that time, some apps hide stuff from their users and scam them with $19.99\/week subscriptions for wallpapers. Yes, users as definitely safe on the App Store. &#x1F926;&#x200D;&#x2642;&#xFE0F;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/tea-and-the-app-store\/#tea-and-the-app-store-update-2025-08-04\">was saying<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/allowing-bug-fixes-and-challenging-the-guidelines\/\">Allowing Bug Fixes and Challenging the Guidelines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luc Vandal: I never thought Screens would get rejected for actually asking users to opt in to share anonymous statistics data. [&#8230;] This has been in place for almost a year now. Mac and Vision went through right away. [&#8230;] You want to be transparent to your users and your app gets rejected for it. [&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":"2025-08-07T21:58:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"b8c28f7d-2335-462c-85ea-a21a5ebbe5dc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-07T22:37:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuMKPfSM1RiyF6qIaXrvl3A","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":[91,130,31,26,936],"class_list":["post-48816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-screens"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816","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=48816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48821,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48816\/revisions\/48821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}