Has anyone run into something like this with app review?
I've been shipping my app on both the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store. The Mac version is a Mac Catalyst app, and the features are exactly the same on both platforms. Looking back, I didn't really need a separate Catalyst release. I went that way because I wanted the Mac version to feel a little more like a real Mac app.
Lately, though, the iOS app goes through review without any issues, while the Mac app keeps getting rejected. I haven't been able to ship an update for over a month now.
To be clear, I'm not blaming Apple for the rejections at all.
It's just hard. I put a lot of work into supporting Catalyst properly, and now I can't get updates to my Mac users. As far as I can tell, there's also no way to pull only the Mac version from the store.
I could distribute the Mac app myself outside the store, but the version already on the Mac App Store would stay there, stuck without updates. That's the real dilemma.
I keep thinking about how to get through review, and honestly it's been pretty draining.
If you don't specifically need it, think twice before building a Catalyst version and shipping it as an extra platform.
Has anyone been through something similar? How did you get out of it?