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> They will go to the search bar and type in “milf” or “butts” (I wish I were joking). They’ll try to search for drugs on your marketplace. If your app runs scr

> They will go to the search bar and type in “milf” or “butts” (I wish I were joking). They’ll try to search for drugs on your marketplace. If your app runs scripts, they’ll try downloading something and then yell at you for letting them do it This is all just fictional garbage, which you totally made-up. I’ve been through hundreds of app reviews, and if a problem is ever found (rarely) the reviews are always polite, and carefully worded, erring on the cautious, and with absolutely zero chance that anyone from Apple is ever “yelling”. Incredibly sad indictment of HN that these glaring untruths are given any credence at all.

PaywallBuster 5y ago
op mentions it largely happens for UGC content apps so no surprise you haven't found any such reviews if you're doing completely different apps
LocalH 5y ago
You have fallen into the trap of “it’s not like this for me, so this person is lying”
jjoonathan 5y ago
Well I guess my own experiences with Apple reviews must be fictional garbage too then! (I should clarify that, like GP, I am referring to the substance of the review, not the tone.)
- null_object 5y ago
  > Well I guess my own experiences with Apple reviews must be fictional garbage too then! This has fallen off the front page, so I’m asking out of real curiosity: 1. Have you genuinely had an app rejection that states that the reviewer typed “milf” (or something equivalently unlikely) into a search bar - and that is given as the reason for the rejection? ie: how else does the OP know this is the actual reason? 2. Do you genuinely believe Apple employees have yelled at the OP during an app dispute? I absolutely think it’s just made-up lying fantasies. But I’m willing to reverse that if anyone supplies some contrary proof.
  - saagarjha 5y ago
    Hi! I assure you, everything I wrote is accurate to the best of my knowledge, except for one part I should probably address first: yes, nobody in app review will literally “yell” at you. Their correspondence will be invariably polite; I simply used it as a figure of speech to indicate that they will flag you for something. In a sense, the politeness is even more irritating because you’ll get a message like “sorry, we can’t approve this app” and then a rep will come on and parrot the same thing to you, and regardless of how polite they are you know you’re going to have to deal with a significant headache at best and a complete loss at worst, if whatever Apple wants you to change is integral to your app. Now, to answer the other part: yes, as stupid as it sounds, they do exactly this. I work on iSH and they flagged a build of our app for package management functionality. Ok, we said, that’s not the main purpose of the app, and we don’t want to fight you about it, so we’ll remove it. And they approved it…for a bit, until they rejected it again. Why? “During review, your app downloaded code”. Our app doesn’t download code. What actually happened was that we ship a wget, and the reviewer used this to go to a website and re-download a package manager, and then used that to download code. I mean, what are we supposed to do in response to that? We removed what you wanted us to remove (even if we didn’t have to, based on a close reading of the rules) and if you are going to go and download it again, what are we supposed to do? I’m not really in a position to speak for my employer and their review experience, but the UGC content/porn example is one every social media app knows about. You’ll get a rejection in App Store Connect with the “problematic content” and you’ll go check up on the demo account you gave them and it’ll have these terms in the search history. Blonde, boobs, sexy: it’s the stupidest search queries, but they will absolutely go and type those words into the search field and flag you for it, and your analytics will confirm it.
dang 5y ago
Please make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines. You did that badly here. If your point happens to be correct, this is particularly important, because by posting like this you end up discrediting it. Your comment would be just fine without the first and third paragraphs. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549948) and we've had to warn you about it at least once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109123). Would you please stop posting like this? We ban accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines and ignore our requests to stop, and I don't want to ban you.

PaywallBuster 5y ago

op mentions it largely happens for UGC content apps so no surprise you haven't found any such reviews if you're doing completely different apps

LocalH 5y ago

You have fallen into the trap of “it’s not like this for me, so this person is lying”

jjoonathan 5y ago

Well I guess my own experiences with Apple reviews must be fictional garbage too then! (I should clarify that, like GP, I am referring to the substance of the review, not the tone.)

null_object 5y ago
> Well I guess my own experiences with Apple reviews must be fictional garbage too then! This has fallen off the front page, so I’m asking out of real curiosity: 1. Have you genuinely had an app rejection that states that the reviewer typed “milf” (or something equivalently unlikely) into a search bar - and that is given as the reason for the rejection? ie: how else does the OP know this is the actual reason? 2. Do you genuinely believe Apple employees have yelled at the OP during an app dispute? I absolutely think it’s just made-up lying fantasies. But I’m willing to reverse that if anyone supplies some contrary proof.
- saagarjha 5y ago
  Hi! I assure you, everything I wrote is accurate to the best of my knowledge, except for one part I should probably address first: yes, nobody in app review will literally “yell” at you. Their correspondence will be invariably polite; I simply used it as a figure of speech to indicate that they will flag you for something. In a sense, the politeness is even more irritating because you’ll get a message like “sorry, we can’t approve this app” and then a rep will come on and parrot the same thing to you, and regardless of how polite they are you know you’re going to have to deal with a significant headache at best and a complete loss at worst, if whatever Apple wants you to change is integral to your app. Now, to answer the other part: yes, as stupid as it sounds, they do exactly this. I work on iSH and they flagged a build of our app for package management functionality. Ok, we said, that’s not the main purpose of the app, and we don’t want to fight you about it, so we’ll remove it. And they approved it…for a bit, until they rejected it again. Why? “During review, your app downloaded code”. Our app doesn’t download code. What actually happened was that we ship a wget, and the reviewer used this to go to a website and re-download a package manager, and then used that to download code. I mean, what are we supposed to do in response to that? We removed what you wanted us to remove (even if we didn’t have to, based on a close reading of the rules) and if you are going to go and download it again, what are we supposed to do? I’m not really in a position to speak for my employer and their review experience, but the UGC content/porn example is one every social media app knows about. You’ll get a rejection in App Store Connect with the “problematic content” and you’ll go check up on the demo account you gave them and it’ll have these terms in the search history. Blonde, boobs, sexy: it’s the stupidest search queries, but they will absolutely go and type those words into the search field and flag you for it, and your analytics will confirm it.

dang 5y ago

Please make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines. You did that badly here. If your point happens to be correct, this is particularly important, because by posting like this you end up discrediting it. Your comment would be just fine without the first and third paragraphs. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29549948) and we've had to warn you about it at least once before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109123). Would you please stop posting like this? We ban accounts that keep breaking the site guidelines and ignore our requests to stop, and I don't want to ban you.