I applied a week ago to Apple via internet to join the Iphone Development Program, and sent 'em my $99.00.
I was of the impression that generally, the response was quick. However, other than an email acknowledging my purchase, I have not seen anything at all.
Would some kind soul explain to me what to expect, and when?
Thanks in advance for any information.
John Doner
You'll get a phone call that verifies your credentials in about 2-4 weeks and then you're good, ie. you can get your code provisioning certificates and start submitting apps.
I'd recommend emailing apple (devenroll#apple.com) or use the contact form here: http://developer.apple.com/contact/
I registered a few weeks ago and received my activation within a few hours - no phone call from apple or anything beyond the initial $99.
I initially signed up for the iPhone developer program when registration was opened wider after the initial rush. It took about a week, I never had to talk to anybody on the phone and got the acceptance email. Once you get the email you need to activate it, but that will all be explained in the EMail.
I do most of my non-accelerometer development in the simulator and double check everything on my iPod after things are working in the simulator.
I had the same scenario as you last summer and had to call up Apple Developer Tech Support. They finished setting me up right away.
The phone number to call is found here: http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html
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A simple question that requires an immediate answer. My developer program (for ios) is going to expire in a few days time. I still have 2 Incident supports left from apple.
My questions are
1) I am going to release one more app in a few days time and generally it takes week or two to get approval. If my developer program gets over before the approval; will it gets published?? assuming that its free from bugs.
2) if not what can I do ? want to use the incident anyways.
ps: I will not be able to join the program for some time since I do not have money left.
appreciate your time. thanks
If your developer program expires, your app will not be available for download (see https://developer.apple.com/support/renewal/).
If you want to sell apps via the app store then you will have to wait until you renew your developer program.
Found answer to question 2 so reposting it so that it may be useful to others searching the same.
If i renew my membership before it expires, will my TSI gets carry forwarded? ? i means 2 + 2 ?
Apple Developer Program and Apple Developer Enterprise Program
Included with each enrollment are two Technical Support Incidents, which will expire at the end of your membership year. You will receive two new TSIs when you renew your membership.
more information here: https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/
After getting my iPhone stolen several times, i thought a utility app that would only allow a user to power off the iPhone if he/she has passed the authorization screen (keycode/fingerprint). This would leave a good amount of time for the owner to be able and track their phone and would prevent thiefs from turning it off so findmyiphone won't work.
I asked on the ios developer forums but no answer. I know that it will most likely not get authorized in the appstore (at least for now), but would still love the functionality on my phone and hopefully others.
Thanks for the help!
Possibly with a jailbreak. But i'm pretty sure that the api's aren't exposed, and the functionality would not be allowed.
No it is impossible, period!
There is only one button in the device and you want to disable it, come on, and how do you feel if you get an app you can not dismiss it?
Just checked the status on one of my iPhone applications and noticed it was rejected. However, due to complications the email account I have on the account is unavailable. So, that leaves me with absolutely no clue as to why the app was rejected.
Is anyone aware of any areas on apple's site that allows you to research why a specific app was rejected? Or am I stuck waiting the 2-3 days for a response from Apple support?
I think at the Resolution Center you can get your information. Take a look at http://developer.apple.com/appstore/contact/appreviewboard/index.html
There are can be variety of reasons for rejection. Known list of possible reasons will not help you, cause you really need to know exactly why they rejected it. Sometime you don't even need to re-submit application but simply change description.
You really should have email account available when doing any AppStore related activity.
I am unaware of any area on Apple's developer connection that lists this info. If your email server has been sending all your email to /dev/null, your best bet, after you fix and test your ADC email account, might be to resubmit the exact same binary again, with an explanation in the update notes, as that could well take less time than waiting for Apple support.
To solve this issue you would need or to email them again asking for a reply on the rejection message that states the reason for it, or resubmit the app and wait for them to review and reject it again.
Be sure to setup an email account that you are able to monitor.
The review after rejection starts usually quicker than when submitting a new app or new update, and so you would have a feedback in 2 or three days, that would be the same time they would take to reply you with previous rejection reason (if it is possible).
I would go for:
Setup the email and other info.
Resubmit the app and wait for the rejection again.
Good Luck!
Here is a good list of reasons that app's have been rejected for and it explains all of them.
http://iphoneincubator.com/blog/app-store/rejections
The 1.1 update of my App got rejected. Then, after making a change I uploaded it using the Application Loader, during uploading the Application Loader froze and I had to kill it myself. Then the status changed to “Upload Received”. So it seems the binary was uploaded anyway.
But now, it has been in “Upload Received” for 6 days (144 hours!). Normally it changes from “Upload Received” to “Waiting for Review” in a couple of minutes. iTunes Connect FAQ: “If your app has been in the Upload Received state for more than 24 hours, you should contact iTunes Connect Support through the iTunes Connect Contact Us system.”. Apple has not responded yet to my contact forms, I’ve used the contract form three times now….
In the meantime, when in status “Upload Received“ you can’t reject binary.
I'm not going to upload it using a different App name / ID, as my reviews and top list positions will be gone...
Any advice? Just wait? Anyone knows how to deal with this situation?
Cheers Jeroen
FYI, I fixed this by editing the screenshots and re-saved the metadata.
This issue was resolved by Apple on sep 3rd, after calling them (http://developer.apple.com/contact/phone.html). The phone call resulted in swift escalation within Apple.
They resolved it by putting my App in status "Waiting for review". After that, the normal process applied, after a couple of days it changed to "In review" and after 7 days total it changed to "Ready for sale".
So calling Apple would be the best action if the mails just won't get it done. I got some really standard email responses that didn't really indicate they were looking into the matter.
There is a specific selection under contact us for this very issue. Seems to be common for them to have this under the drop down. i would use this selection under contact us as it probably goes to a specific person that handles this issue.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Why is my app in Upload Received status for over 24 hours?
If your app has been delivered successfully but has the Upload Received status for more than 24 hours, there may be an issue with your binary. For additional support, use the Contact Us module.
If your app has been in the status Upload Received for over 24 hours, contact us.
I've been waiting on an iPhone app to go through the app store approval process. It's been in the queue for about two weeks now.
Apple recently added something to the dev center about reachability, pointing developers to their sample app. In my app, I'm posting to a URL on my server using HTTP - but I'm not doing a reachability check first. If the user tries to submit the request, it will eventually time out and they will see an error.
What are the chances that Apple will fail this app? I'm wondering if I should just quickly implement reachability and "reject binary" myself, submitting a new version. Might save me a couple of days if I'm just going to get rejected anyway.
Implement reachability, if your app uses the web and when there is no connectivity the app doesnt say something along the lines that "this is not working because you have no internet access" then 95 percent it will be rejected by apple
Sounds like you answered your own question to me - not handling that case is a serious UX problem you should definitely fix.
If I were expecting to deal with a reasonable, smart approval process, I would do exactly that -- fix the app to match their new documents. It's a classy move, implying you'd be a good citizen.
You may want to rely on someone who's been through the iPhone app store, though, for an answer with the right amount of cynicism.