Hello,
I didn't recover my account. I think it is very difficult to recover if they flag it for deletion, I tried to contact them and after a year I wrote a letter to reinstate the account that was rejected. I think they shouldn't be so hard with small developers that had an account for so many years without any problem. I believe that the rules for enterprises are different and that is unfair.
Right now I am working as a freelance, but I think never will be the same. I loved my job, I was a small developer with some apps that people really liked, I even still get emails asking about my apps.
I hope all of you get your accounts back and the review system improves for small developers.
Thanks for reading.
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I had the same situation a couple of years ago, it is sad what the AppStore has become. They don't care about freelancers or indie developers, for them, the money is enough with the big companies, even they have different review rules. I loved to develop my apps but now I had to find other jobs.
¿Did you get your account back? I've been waiting for months but I haven't got any answer.
Hello, many people are having the same problem. They don't explain anything because they don't care about indie developers anymore, they don't put Facebook or google under investigation, we know they haven't complied with the guidelines in the past.You will be under investigation for weeks or months, if your business plan can handle it, if not you are doomed. good luck!!
Hello,I was checking the code and just found that I left a code that connects to the AppStore and checks if you have the last version of the app. Maybe the reviewer thought that this was made to change the app behavior during the review. I should have checked it before, but now it's too late. I will try to contact support but I think now is almost impossible to recover the account.Anyone has been able to contact the review team from a deleted account?thanks
I used some external libraries for ads, appodeal, which includes some other ads libraries. Also for chromecast. And other small libraries. But I had used them in other apps without any problem.I received the first message on a Friday, and I wrote the response. The next Monday, more or less at the same time, the second one confirming the deletion:During our review, we found a pattern of manipulative or misleading behavior that violates the Apple Developer Program License Agreement. These behaviors can include, but are not limited to, inaccurate metadata describing your app or service, misleading app content, engaging in inauthentic ratings and reviews manipulation, providing misleading customer support responses, providing misleading responses in Resolution Center, engaging in misleading purchasing or bait and switch schemes, and other dishonest or fraudulent activity within or outside of the app.
Hello,Thanks for your response. It was rejected several times, but in that time they approved many other versions of the other apps. I develop with XCode and most of the code was written by me in objective-c and swift.I think they could remove only that app or put my account under investigation. I have read several posts here and in other forums and if you get a notification for deletion, in most of the cases your account will be deleted, not like when you are under investigation. I think it also depends if you are a big company or an individual.My account already has been deleted, I explained the situation and what happened on the appeal, but I didn't think telling them about removing that specific app. Some days after, they only sent me an automated response to tell me that the account was going to be deleted.And now I am getting a lot of users complains, because they recover an update or transfer to a new device and they can't install the app and access their files.Thanks