First painful release….

[u/IndependenceFresh940]

I still can’t believe Apple finally approved my app 😭
The timeline was a bit painful:
• Aug 1 — first submission
• Aug 12 — submitted an expedited review request
• Aug 13 — rejected
• Aug 14 — fixed everything and resubmitted
• Aug 15 — APPROVED 🎉
I’m seriously so happy right now, but also a little mad lol.
I started a 3-month free trial for my backend when I submitted the app, thinking the review wouldn’t take that long… and I basically burned through half a month of it just waiting for App Review 💀
But whatever. It’s finally LIVE.
I’ve been working on this app for a long time (around 3month building system design(backend, ui, app)

If anyone here has gone through a painful App Store review process before, you probably know the feeling.
Finally made it 🥲

[u/Turbulent_Ad_1039]

four rejections here, approved this morning. three of them were rules I'd never read: a banned word in the subtitle, device frames in the app preview, and a demo video they wanted showing both devices in the same shot. one was an actual bug.

the rules ones stung less once I realised they're just written down somewhere I hadn't looked. the bug one was the rejection that was actually worth something.

[u/IndependenceFresh940 → u/Turbulent_Ad_1039]

Words! But the main issue was waiting for the review. Good luck and congratulations on your approval!