Apple first App Store Transparency Report explaining app rejections, government requests, etc.
Report claims that 1,679,694 of 6,101,913 app submissions were rejected.
App submission rejections by App Store Review Guidelines section:
- Safety: 92,598
- Performance: 1,018,415
- Business: 152,391
- Design: 212,464
- Legal: 441,972
- Other: 79,736
Also report includes number of terminated user accounts – 282,036,628.
Apple declares number of total number of developers – 36,974,015 and number of developer accounts terminated – 428,487.
Apple Legal: 2022 App Store Transparency Report (PDF)
References:
- Apple Publishes First-Ever App Store Transparency Report
- Apple shares its first ‘App Store Transparency Report’ with data on app rejections, gov requests, more
Recommendations
Developer:
Business as usual.QA engineer:
Business as usual.PM/DM:
Study the report, adjust development reports to avoid rejections.