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> Specifically, your entertainment or gaming app inappropriately references the COVID-19 pandemic in the metadata or binary. Entertainment or gaming apps that d
by threeseed 6y ago
> Specifically, your entertainment or gaming app inappropriately references the COVID-19 pandemic in the metadata or binary. Entertainment or gaming apps that directly or indirectly reference the COVID-19 pandemic in any way are not appropriate for the App Store.
What does a screensaver have to do with COVID ?
Given the incredibly sensitive situation everyone is in with vaccines about to be rolled out I can understand why Apple would be wanting to prevent misinformation.
- seszett 6y ago> What does a screensaver have to do with COVID ? One of the modes ("hacks") it provides shows animated viruses bouncing around the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDxZXbO8mY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJDxZXbO8mY
- owl57 6y agoSo, the message "Stay the #@$! home" with a shiny virus animation is somehow inappropriate in an app classified as "entertainment". Idk, maybe they even have a point. Games are usually meant to distract from immediate problems in the physical world, not to remind.
- user-the-name 6y agoFirst entry from changelog at the top of the article: > New hacks, covid19, headroom, sphereeversion and beats