Store Launch & Review
Submitting to Apple and Google, through review, into the store — with accounts that belong to you.
- App Store
- Play Store
- Review
How it works
The store launch is where schedules break most often — not because it is hard, but because it rarely gets planned.
What has to be prepared
Name, description, keywords, screenshots in the required sizes, age rating, category, support address. Plus the privacy declarations both stores now ask for in detail: which data is collected, what for, and whether it is linked to the person.
The review
Apple reviews manually, Google mostly automatically with spot checks. The most common rejections at Apple are not technical: a test account that does not work, a feature the reviewer cannot find, a payment that bypasses store billing.
How we shorten it
We attach a note for the reviewer: credentials, where the described feature lives, what to do in which order. It sounds trivial and it is the difference between approval in two days and three rounds of questions.
If it gets rejected
We answer the question, change what needs changing, and resubmit. We have done this often enough to know the usual reasons — and to tell you in advance where your app might brush against them.
- Developer accounts in your name. If the app lives on our account, it effectively belongs to us.
- A privacy policy at a permanent address. Both stores require one.
- A statement of what data the app collects — Apple and Google ask in detail.
- Credentials for a test account if there is a sign-in. Without one, Apple rejects.
The app is live in both stores, with a complete listing, screenshots and age rating.
If you skip this
Treating the launch as a formality means scheduling too little time for it. A rejection costs days rather than hours, and the most common reasons are not technical but missing information.
Where this came up
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