Just wondering, did anyone here try to publish an iOS app with a JUCE UI recently, and what was your experience? I had quite an annoying one, and it’s not finished. First of all they took weeks to just look at my app, and then it was first refused for a metadata issue (honestly, that was my fault, the description text could be read as overpromising on the features). But then they refused by saying the app had a “crowded interface” or “was laid out in a way that makes it difficult to complete tasks” and mentioned general design principles, App Store design requirements, and Accessibility. I have no idea what to make of that.
I assume they might have an issue with the custom keyboard, but I need so many custom features on this keyboard that it doesn’t make sense to even try to wrangle the native keyboard into doing what I want. And ideas?
BTW it’s an app that let’s you chat on an audio frequency spectrogram and is meant to get young people interested in radio communications.
If possible, I’d try and use the native keyboard, and maybe add a floating toolbar above it with your custom options.
And on review turnaround time… yeah it sucks. Review times ballooned around April this year thanks to Claude et al. A week is pretty typical, and one of my apps took 10 days.
I love that the submission message in App Store Connect says “this may take up to 48 hours”
Once you get 1.0 approved, updates seem to get through in a day or two.
Well, I’ll keep trying. I finally found a picture they attached. Apparently they didn’t like the font size of a message that says “Output level low - others might not hear you”. So the refusal was not as vague as I had thought originally. To me it’s perfectly readable, though. But probably it’s like 0.5 points smaller than the UI guidelines or so. Also, it’s larger than the frequency labels, but they complained about that particular text. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Now I’m really unsure if I have to make the frequency labels 2 times their current size to be at least the size of the UI font in the header bar. That would look pretty ugly, but if Apple wants an app that looks like Playmobil, they’ll get that…
Reviews are also quite inconsistent. I had an update rejected by someone very picky, while the issue he reported had been directly approved in the previous update.
