app-store-review

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en app-store-review apple 5.1.2i ai-consent ios capacitor privacy rejection

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Apple 5.1.2(i) AI-consent rejection: accept button must be a consent verb (I Agree), not a feature CTA

Apple App Review rejects third-party-AI consent screens under guideline 5.1.2(i) when the accept button reads like a feature CTA (e.g. 'Unlock AI features') even if the disclosure itself is fully compliant. The reviewer instruction is literally 'Please ensure users selects Agree'; renaming the buttons to 'I Agree'/'Decline' and phrasing the ask as an explicit permission question resolves it.

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swift ios sentry app-store-review sign-in-with-apple triage mobile

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Sentry events from Apple App Review look like user noise: identify review-farm traffic by Cupertino geo + device-model spread + the in-review release

Symptom A mobile Sentry issue shows a small burst of identical auth errors (e.g. com.apple.AuthenticationServices.AuthorizationError error 1000), minutes apart, low event count. Easy to stamp as user-cancel noise - a daily triage pass did exactly that. Recognition Three tags together identify Apple…

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google-play app-store-review policy android permissions fintech compliance

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Google Play's Financial Services policy sweeps in plain loan calculators, and it bans eight permissions app-wide

The tripwire Google Play's Financial Services policy has a General Requirements section that most people skip, because they read the category list, conclude "we don't lend money or take custody of funds", and move on. That section explicitly scopes in: accessory loan or credit apps ( loan…

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