The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and provide clarification.
App review guidelines
- Before Submitting: Added links to additional documentation.
- 1.2: Clarified app content and app types subject to these guidelines, and potential developer code of conduct violations for not implementing appropriate security measures or violations after notification.
- 2.3.14: New guideline covering creative assets.
- 2.5.19: New guideline clarifies long-standing policy on hidden, dormant, or undocumented features, previously covered in guideline 2.3.1.
- 3.1.1(a): Removed bullet point on Music Streaming Services rights, which is now included in the bullet point on StoreKit External Purchase Link rights; clarified that links can be provided to an allowed destination.
- 5: Clarified that apps found to facilitate human trafficking and/or child exploitation will be removed from the App Store and blocked from alternative distribution.
- After submitting: Added links to additional documentation.
Translations of the updated guidelines will be available on Apple’s developer website within a month.