App store review can only catch so much, and isn't able to analyze the actual code. It's one way for them to gate malicious code. And providing extra approval

App store review can only catch so much, and isn't able to analyze the actual code. It's one way for them to gate malicious code. And providing extra approval process for the NFC API is exactly what they're doing here. AirTags actually have a lot of design in them to thwart bad actors so your comment there is incorrect or ignoring all the anti stalker measures in there.