Blocks submissionBoth stores

The app never tells people to restart the device or change unrelated system settings

The question From the app's strings and screens: does it ever ask the user to restart the phone, turn off Wi-Fi, disable a security feature, or change a system setting unrelated to its own feature? Asking to allow its own permission is fine. Name the strings you read.

A person or a model answers it from the app's texts and screens; the answer is kept only while the facts it saw are unchanged.

Applies to every app

Checked from built, not yet uploaded, on a test track, submitted and in review, published

The rule, in our words

• App Review Guidelines: iPhone apps should run on iPad where possible; apps should not drain the battery or overheat the device, and may not run unrelated background work such as mining; they should never tell users to restart the device or change unrelated system settings such as turning off Wi-Fi or security features. Mac App Store apps have extra packaging and sandbox rules.
• Deceptive Behavior: No deception of any kind. Title, icon, description, screenshots, category and content rating must accurately describe what the app really does; no impossible features even as a joke; no false claims of being "official" or government-affiliated. Do not mimic OS or other-app functionality or warnings. Device-setting changes outside the app need the user's knowledge and consent, must be easily reversible, may not be done for third parties or advertising, and users may not be misled or incentivised into disabling other apps (except verifiable security services). No tools to fake IDs, passports, diplomas, cards or similar. Any extra asset download must be necessary, prompted, and its size disclosed first. Significant functional changes between versions must be flagged to users and reflected in the listing; core behaviour that differs by geography or device must be prominently advertised. No hidden, dormant or undocumented features, no manipulated media presented as real, and no techniques to evade or behave differently during Google's review. "Prank" or "entertainment only" labels give no exemption.

Okkok never stores the stores' text. Each item above is our paraphrase, and the link is the page it rests on, verified unchanged by fingerprint on every run.

The other store

• none on the joke/prank principle. Apple also bans defamatory, sexual, religiously inflammatory content and profiting from tragedy, which Google places in other content policies not in this bundle. same
• none on principle. Apple additionally requires specific Notes for Review for every new feature; Google additionally bans review-evasion techniques and requires geographic or device-dependent core behaviour to be prominently advertised. same
• Google adds concrete foreground-service rules for Android 14+ (declared type, permission, Play Console use-case description and demo video); Apple states outcomes (battery, heat) rather than mechanisms. partial
• none on principle; Google names Play Protect specifically. same

Check your app

pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app

The report names this rule as apple.2.4.no-forced-settings-changes and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.