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Don't make any of those categories/icons rounded rects with a label though. I just got rejected for that and had to remove the rounded rect part. I had been usi

Don't make any of those categories/icons rounded rects with a label though. I just got rejected for that and had to remove the rounded rect part. I had been using them in a manner similar to Panic's Status Board app to handle configuration of a photo sales app[0]. 0: http://studioproapp.com http://studioproapp.com

kalleboo 13y ago
You got rejected for using rounded rects? What rule did they invoke?
- mst 13y ago
  My guess would be "given the iOS 7 aesthetic, this looks like a button".
- rbritton 13y ago
  8.3: Apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product or advertising theme will be rejected We found that your app is too similar to iOS springboard icons, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. Specifically, the rejection relates to the use of rounded icons like Apple's iOS springboard icons.
  - Greenisus 13y ago
    I was rejected in a similar way for my very first iPhone app many years ago. I wrote the Slicehost app, and it had a tab for managing DNS. I had a friend draw the icons for me, and for DNS I went with a globe. The globe my friend drew looked a lot like the globe used for switching your keyboard to another language, so they rejected me for that. I changed the DNS icon to something else and resubmitted and it was accepted. The funny thing, though, is that I submitted two versions of the app: a paid version and a free version. They both had the globe icon, and one of them was accepted with it.
    - e12e 13y ago
      Perhaps they don't actually review all parts of all apps? Would make sense to do some sort of statistical testing. Unless you told anyone (and people started submitting 10 (identical) versions of every app) -- you could probably be about as effective as if you did fully check every app...
      - Greenisus 13y ago
        I think the real answer is that human beings are reviewing the apps. (Machines now at least check for apps making private API calls and stuff like that, but that wasn't the case in the beginning of the App Store.) There are a lot of different reasons for rejecting apps, and there are a lot of apps being submitted every week, so it makes sense for violations to occasionally slip through the cracks.

kalleboo 13y ago

You got rejected for using rounded rects? What rule did they invoke?

mst 13y ago
My guess would be "given the iOS 7 aesthetic, this looks like a button".
rbritton 13y ago
8.3: Apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product or advertising theme will be rejected We found that your app is too similar to iOS springboard icons, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. Specifically, the rejection relates to the use of rounded icons like Apple's iOS springboard icons.
- Greenisus 13y ago
  I was rejected in a similar way for my very first iPhone app many years ago. I wrote the Slicehost app, and it had a tab for managing DNS. I had a friend draw the icons for me, and for DNS I went with a globe. The globe my friend drew looked a lot like the globe used for switching your keyboard to another language, so they rejected me for that. I changed the DNS icon to something else and resubmitted and it was accepted. The funny thing, though, is that I submitted two versions of the app: a paid version and a free version. They both had the globe icon, and one of them was accepted with it.
  - e12e 13y ago
    Perhaps they don't actually review all parts of all apps? Would make sense to do some sort of statistical testing. Unless you told anyone (and people started submitting 10 (identical) versions of every app) -- you could probably be about as effective as if you did fully check every app...
    - Greenisus 13y ago
      I think the real answer is that human beings are reviewing the apps. (Machines now at least check for apps making private API calls and stuff like that, but that wasn't the case in the beginning of the App Store.) There are a lot of different reasons for rejecting apps, and there are a lot of apps being submitted every week, so it makes sense for violations to occasionally slip through the cracks.