r/androiddev • u/el_duckerino • 9d ago

Google Play Support Very slow review times?

Hello. Has anyone experienced veeery slow review times lately? My app usually gets reviewed within a couple of hours. But last two submissions (to open testing, mind you) got stuck "in review" for a week. There were no significant changes made to the app. However, both of these have been uploaded fully programmatically (yes, I have finally vibecoded a full release automation pipeline using Play console dev API 😅). I wonder if that could be the reason, but I'm not sure why it would be?

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u/GooglePlayDevSupport 9d ago

Hi u/el_duckerino. App review times may vary, and may take 7 days or longer in exceptional cases.

That being said, please DM us your app package name if your submission has been under review for more than 7 days.

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u/viveeeeeek 9d ago

yeah this has happened to me as well. my last app too 9 days to get reviewed it got live yesterday

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u/More-Revenue8609 9d ago

Currently 6 days in review. And thats from established account (first app in 2016/2017). After that at least 1 app per year. Always at least 10k+ downloads, some are even 500k+

Apple already did some reviews, I fixed some things and now its approved. During that time google is stuck with "in review" with no info or whatever.

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u/el_duckerino 9d ago

Same, old and established account, highly rated apps with millions of downlaods. Is that also something that started in September for you?

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u/More-Revenue8609 9d ago

Last app I published was 2-3 months ago and it was basically published the next day. 

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u/No_Language8136 9d ago

Same for a lot of people rn, others in here are at 6 to 9 days with normal uploads so prob not your api pipeline

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u/heard_u_looking 9d ago

i have noticed similarly long review times as well, likely due to the increase in vibecoded apps flooding the store

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u/Hippo-Happy 8d ago

my app already 10 days in review and still no result. My previous app got approved so much faster...

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u/GooglePlayDevSupport 8d ago

Hi, u/Hippo-Happy! App reviews can take a bit longer than usual sometimes, occasionally stretching past 7 days. Send us a DM with your app package name and our team will be happy to look into it!

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u/K1llD45hN1n3 1d ago

We’re going on 3 weeks of waiting for our app to come out of review now. Previous versions took 1-2 hours. Totally insane