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App Review Rejection Decoder
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The message
Paste what App Review sent you
Guidelines read 2026-08-22
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This decode reads the guideline numbers your message cites and shows what each one asks for. It does not predict whether App Review will accept a resubmission, and it is not legal advice.
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Guidelines covered here
23 of the guidelines behind most rejections. Apple’s full list is longer; every entry links to its section.
How it works
- Paste the Resolution Center message. The text stays in this browser and the guideline numbers are read out of it locally.
- Each cited guideline opens with Apple’s own section title, what it asks for in plain terms, and what usually causes that rejection.
- Work the fix list. Green items have a yes-or-no answer you can check before resubmitting. Blue items need someone to make a call.
Limits
- This is a reference, not a prediction. It cannot tell you whether App Review will accept a resubmission, and it is not legal advice.
- It matches a number only when the word “guideline” precedes it, so a message that never cites one returns nothing. That is deliberate: a bare “2.1” also appears in version strings and prices.
- It covers the guidelines behind most rejections, not all of Apple’s. A cited guideline it does not carry is reported as uncovered rather than quietly dropped.
- Apple changes the guidelines. Every entry carries the date its section title was read and links to the live section.