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oivvio
oivvio

Reputation: 3156

App store review process for apps that rely on specific geolocation

I'm getting ready to submit an App that relies on the user being at specific locations to watch a video. (Kind of a mashup of geocaching and youtube.) Needless to say none of these videos are anyway near Apples headquarters. So how will the App store review people be able to properly review the App? Do I have to provide test data in their vicinity or can I instruct them to fake their geolocation to a location that works?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 615

Answers (4)

MrDB
MrDB

Reputation: 659

Recently had to deal with this myself... submitted a location specific app without any extra review notes, and the app got rejected. In the rejection notice I was given the instruction to create a video of the app in action and then provide a link in the review notes.

So I used another iPhone to take the video, put some basic explanation text in the video using iMovie, uploaded to YouTube, put the link in the reviewers notes, re-submitted the app and then 5 or so days later it was approved.

Upvotes: 2

JiangCat
JiangCat

Reputation: 125

As I understand, they review team does NOT test the usability nor stability of your app during app reviewing. All you need to do, is to provide an testing account, and some sample data, screenshots to them helping understand how your app works. If the app does not show any data because of a reasonable circumstance, it's not the problem of your app quality nor user usage, but data coverage. So you won't have problem with it.

Upvotes: 0

David Da Silva Contín
David Da Silva Contín

Reputation: 1051

The iOS Simulator can 'fake' its location :) Though I doubt what they DO review in their process, because once they accepted one of my Apps' update which crashed upon launch...

Upvotes: 2

user187676
user187676

Reputation:

I guess the best way is to just submit it once, wait ~7 days and see what they have to say, but since they have special toolchains to test apps, it shouldn't be a problem.

Just make sure to mention it in the review notes.

I've submitted an update to an app once that requires an user and password to login, and gave them a test user. When I checked the server logs, they never logged in once - but the app was still approved.

Upvotes: 2

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