My app was only live for 7 days before I received as been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity.

Thank you for your patience while we thoroughly evaluated the activity associated with your Apple Developer Program membership.

We have completed our investigation and have determined that your Apple Developer Program membership, or another membership associated with your developer account, has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity. This is prohibited by Section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement:

"You will not, directly or indirectly, commit any act intended to interfere with any of the Apple Software or Services, the intent of this Agreement, or Apple’s business practices including, but not limited to, taking actions that may hinder the performance or intended use of the App Store, Custom App Distribution, TestFlight, Xcode Cloud, Ad Hoc distribution, or the Program (e.g., submitting fraudulent reviews of Your own Application or any third party application, choosing a name for Your Application that is substantially similar to the name of a third party application in order to create consumer confusion, or squatting on application names to prevent legitimate third party use). Further, You will not engage, or encourage others to engage, in any unlawful, unfair, misleading, fraudulent, improper, or dishonest acts or business practices relating to Your Covered Products (e.g., engaging in bait-and-switch pricing, consumer misrepresentation, deceptive business practices, or unfair competition against other developers)."

This appeal decision is final, and any subsequent appeals you file will be closed without review.

The guiding principle of the App Store is to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for users and a great opportunity for all developers to be successful. We work hard to make the App Store a trustworthy ecosystem and expect our app developers to be honest with users and with us. Manipulative or misleading behavior degrades user trust in the App Store and is grounds for removal from the Apple Developer Program.

We have found a pattern of manipulative or misleading behavior that has led to the termination of your Apple Developer Program membership. 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 App Store Connect, engaging in misleading purchasing or bait and switch schemes, or other dishonest or fraudulent activity within or outside of the app.

Please remember that pursuant to Section 11.3 of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement, you have certain obligations upon termination including the requirement to immediately destroy all Apple Confidential Information in your possession or control.

This notification is not intended to be a complete statement of the facts regarding this matter, and nothing in this letter should be construed as a waiver of any rights or remedies Apple may have, all of which are hereby reserved.

Because your account has been flagged for removal, any earnings payments are paused. Once your Apple Developer Program membership is formally terminated in our systems, you may petition the App Review Board to reinstate your account by completing this form: Re-instate a Terminated Developer Program Membership. In your petition, provide the specific reasons why the App Review Board should consider re-instating your Apple Developer Program membership. Include details on what improvements you are planning to make to comply with the App Store Review Guidelines, Developer Code of Conduct and Apple Developer Program License Agreement. If you have questions, contact us.

Apple is like a clown, he won't tell you what's wrong with Information about our app: the account is the first time our company uses it, it was banned for no reason, a year of development time is wasted, and now we start to hate Apple lol

Hello,

I'm sorry that this happened to you. Unfortunately, nobody here can tell you or give information regarding why was your account terminated. If you will want to come back into the developer program later, you will need to make sure that you won't make the same mistake and explain the app review board the changes you will make in order this won't happen again.

What was the chronology of the steps you took? Did your app get rejected? Do you think you did something wrong, like purchasing reviews, or impersonating another app (same / similar icon, app name,..). Did you use any third-party libraries in your app, that could steal user data?

I hope you will find the issue and find success on the App Store in the future Best of luck

I continue to find the many posts like this absolutely terrifying.

The message from Apple is don't become dependant on your income from the App Store, as we could turn it off at an moment without properly explaining why, or giving enough detail for you to investigate the accusation.

For how long could you live off your savings, wife's earnings, etc. if this happened to you? If the answer is "not long enough", then stop working on your Apple apps until you've built up a portfolio of income from other sources.

My app was only live for 7 days before I received as been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity.
 
 
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