personal third-party user data - 5.1.2

Hello everyone,


My app is rejected. Please see below:

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From Apple

Guideline 5.1.2 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage


We noticed that your app collects information about the user’s friends, contacts, or other third-party persons without the knowledge or consent of those parties. Specifically, your app allows users to look up other people using phone numbers


Next Steps


To resolve this issue, please remove any features that collect personal third-party user data from your app.

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My app is a reverse phone number lookup app. It returns details of phone numbers. There are already similar apps in App Store those do the same job. I did not understand why my app is rejected. Any comments?

Your app was rejected because it "allows users to look up other people using phone numbers".


>There are already similar apps in App Store those do the same job.


You are welcome to inform App REview about these apps so they can be removed from the App Store.

What he said, plus approval of other apps by Apple with similar features has no bearing on whether or not your app will be approved.

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