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> Ours was in review by Apple for over a month. ?! That's crazy talk - I've not seen a review process for a new app take more than a few days in recent memory.
by eric_h 9y ago
> Ours was in review by Apple for over a month.
?! That's crazy talk - I've not seen a review process for a new app take more than a few days in recent memory.
I guess using the Face ID API marked your app for more thorough review?
- yeldarb 9y agoYeah, they are pretty thoroughly vetting any app that uses the TrueDepth APIs. Even had to go as far as talking with them on the phone a couple times to reassure them we weren't using "face data" in any nefarious ways. (We're not; everything is kept on device)
- eric_h 9y agoThat sucks - I was on a team that released a fully legal (in the USA) gambling app a few years back and while we had to have a few back and forths, it definitely didn't take a month to get approved. At least you finally got it out!
- eric_h 9y agoIt just occurred to me that I'm not sure how they can even be sure that you were telling them the truth. Not that I'm suggesting otherwise, but within the scope of the tools they have available to them while doing the review, what's to prevent you from saying "sure, we're keeping everything on device" when in fact you're building an international database of faces that you intend to sell to a nefarious government actor.
- yeldarb 9y agoYeah very true. One of the things they did was make us explicitly state in our privacy policy how (and what for) we used data from the TrueDepth APIs. So I guess at least someone would have legal recourse against us in that case.