I developed a radio app and when I wanted to submit it to AppStore, it rejected my app with the underneath issue, but it is impossible to get documentary evidence form about 5000 online stations, so is there any way to solve it?
Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal
Your app contains content or features that may violate the rights of one or more third parties. Specifically, your app provides potentially unauthorized access to third-party audio or video streaming, catalogs, and discovery services.
Your app and its contents should not infringe upon the rights of another party. In the event your app infringes another party’s rights, you are responsible for any liability to Apple because of a claim.
Next Steps
To resolve this issue, please attach documentary evidence in the App Review Information section in App Store Connect evidencing that you have all necessary rights or permissions to the third-party audio or video streaming, catalogs, and discovery services in your app.
In accordance with section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement, you acknowledge that submitting falsified or fraudulent documentation can result in the termination of your Apple Developer Program account and the removal of your apps from the App Store. Once Legal has reviewed your documentation and confirms its validity, we will proceed with the review of your app.
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Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal
Your app provides potentially unauthorized access to third-party audio streaming services without providing the necessary authorization.
Next Steps
Please attach documentary evidence in the App Review Information section in App Store Connect evidencing that you have all necessary rights or permissions to the third-party audio content.
Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal - Intellectual Property
Additionally, your app declares that it includes the ability to allows users to download music for free without authorization from the relevant third-party sources.
My app not contain third party api but App Store rejected app review. How I can solve this problem?
My App got reject from Apple Review stating this (AUG/2020)
I'm using the youtube data api v3 to get the popular videos by
country and display as a list in the app (App built using Flutter &
include other content tabs too). each list item displaying only the
title, description, thumbnail image and upload date. when click on
list item to stream the video I launch in youtube app. (no steaming
in my app). but apple reject my app stating "Guideline 5.2.3"
Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal
5.2.3 Audio/Video Downloading: Apps should not facilitate illegal file sharing or include the ability to save, convert, or download media
from third-party sources (e.g. Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud,
Vimeo, etc.) without explicit authorization from those sources.
Streaming of audio/video content may also violate Terms of Use, so be
sure to check before your app accesses those services. Documentation
must be provided upon request.
Next Steps
To resolve this issue, please attach documentary evidence in the App
Review Information section in App Store Connect evidencing that you
have all necessary rights or permissions to the third-party audio or
video streaming, catalogs, and discovery services in your app.
I'm not sure which document to upload to pass the apple review or how to resolve this issue.
also In my app i'm not streaming any videos, only redirecting to youtube app. I'm not sure it's violate Terms of Use,
Thanks.
check this on apple developer forum
I found this https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/developer-policies-guide article and in this article I found that it is possible to apply for an API Compliance Audit via this form https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/yt_api_form. Then the result of this audit can be attached to App Review Information section in order to provide confirmation for Apple that app doesn't violate Terms of Use.
I've been reading the documentation about google api services and it doesn't seem clear to me if I'm allowed to use flutter packages like youtube_player_flutter to display youtube videos in a flutter mobile app. I'm talking about a mobile app that you would distribute on google play or the app store.
I've made an app that only searches for and plays YouTube videos. It doesn't download any video/audio. My app just got rejected from Apple. This is the rejection message:
Jul 11, 2020 at 5:20 AM From Apple
5. 2.3 Legal: Intellectual Property - Audio/Video Downloading Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal
Your app contains content or features that may violate the rights of
one or more third parties. Specifically, your app provides potentially
unauthorized access to third-party audio or video streaming, catalogs,
and discovery services.
Your app and its contents should not infringe upon the rights of
another party. In the event your app infringes another party’s rights,
you are responsible for any liability to Apple because of a claim.
Next Steps
To resolve this issue, please attach documentary evidence in the App
Review Information section in App Store Connect evidencing that you
have all necessary rights or permissions to the third-party audio or
video streaming, catalogs, and discovery services in your app.
In accordance with section 3.2(f) of the Apple Developer Program
License Agreement, you acknowledge that submitting falsified or
fraudulent documentation can result in the termination of your Apple
Developer Program account and the removal of your apps from the App
Store. Once Legal has reviewed your documentation and confirms its
validity, we will proceed with the review of your app.
Resources
Review Guideline 5.2 Intellectual Property for more information about appropriate uses of third-party content and services on the App
Store
Review App Store Connect Help for more information on including notes in the App Review Information section of App Store Connect
Please see attached screenshot for details.
You can use youtube videos for only view purpose, can't download youtube videos in flutter app, otherwise google or apple reject your app.
it's not accepted by app store your application will get rejected
DTMF call mechanism is my app.To access the app's feature first the user needs to sign in. If the user is new without any account created he can even sign up. The reasons to get rejected are the following.
11.13
We found that your app provides access to external mechanisms for
purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, which is not in
compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.
New user registration is not appropriate. Please see the attached
screenshot/s for more information.
To be in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines, it would be
appropriate to remove the access to these mechanisms - including fully
qualified links to your site that could indirectly provide access to
these mechanisms, such as links to web pages for support, FAQ, product
or program details, etc.
On occasion, there may be apps on the App Store that don't appear to
be in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines. We work hard to
ensure that the apps on the App Store are in compliance and we try to
identify any apps currently on the App Store that may not be. It takes
time to identify these occurrences but another app being out of
compliance is not a reason for your app to be.
Please help me by giving a solution for this problem. It will be very helpful if I could get the exact reason for rejecting my app.
You are probably trying to sell something, that could be part of your app. For that you should use the IAP api, that means 30% to Apple. You should demonstrate to them that what you sell is not a part of your application or a subscription service.
The whole 11 chapter of Apple store guidelines is about purchasing.
You must be really sure that what you are selling cannot be "part" of your application or you need to use In App Purchase.
Can the user sign up within the app?
If not (if the user needs to open a site to sign app) that is the problem.
You should add a signup procedure inside the app.
Can iphone web apps be sold on appstore, without requiring user to do manual bookmark, etc?
Yes, you can create webapps and put them in the IStore under webapps
As per the page ...
To submit an iPhone web application, review the following guidelines, then log into the submission system using the Apple ID and password associated with your ADC membership.
You must be an Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Online, Select, or Premier member to participate in this program. If you are not a member, you can join for free and then return to this site to complete the submission process.
To be considered, you submission must meet the following guidelines:
You must agree to the iPhone Web
Application Submission Agreement for
all materials submitted for
consideration.
Your submission must conform to the
iPhone web development guidelines in
effect at the time of your
submission.
Your submission should have a
complete feature set (stable releases
and demos are preferred to beta
software).
Your submission (and the content
displayed in or through your
submission) must not violate or
infringe the intellectual property
rights (including trademark rights)
of others. You must either own all
rights to your submission and the
content displayed in or through the
submission or have written
authorization from the owner(s)
thereof.
You must provide at least one working
link to access your submission. By
submitting applications for
consideration to the iPhone Web
Application Submission page, you
understand your submission is subject
to review by Apple. Apple reserves
the right to omit, edit, or reject
submissions.
Just build a hybrid app. Hybrid wraps your html/css/javascript code in a native container which will give your app the ability to be distributed on an app store.
Technically, no. But you could potentially create a native iPhone app that just contains a UIWebView pointing to your mobile optimized site. I highly doubt Apple would approve this but I'm not positive.