Blocks submissionApp Store

Ratings are requested only through Apple's review prompt, never a custom one

The question Does the app ask for a rating or review? If so, does it use SKStoreReviewController or requestReview, and never a custom dialog or a gate that blocks use until rated? Cite the strings or code references you found.

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: Treat everyone with respect in reviews, support and dealings with Apple; apps should never trick users into purchases, force unnecessary data sharing, raise prices deceptively or charge for what is not delivered; use Apple's review-prompt API, not a custom prompt; keep developer identity truthful and current; never manipulate charts, search, reviews or referrals; sustained poor quality may be a factor in judging whether the developer follows the Code of Conduct.

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 principle; Google names incentivised ratings, coupon-bearing reviews and rewarded installs. same
• Google adds primary purpose, country of origin and a ban on coordinated concealment across apps or accounts. same
• none on principle. same
• none. 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.5.6.1.system-review-prompt-only and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.