Blocks submissionApp Store

Nothing the app says presents location as an emergency service

The question Read the listing text and the purpose strings. Does anything promise emergency response, guaranteed alerts, or that help will be sent? A denial ('this is not an emergency service') is required and is the opposite of a violation.

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 submitted and in review, published

The rule, in our words

• App Review Guidelines: Use location only where it is directly relevant to the app's features, notify the user and obtain consent before collecting, transmitting or using location data, explain the purpose in the app; location APIs should not be used to provide emergency services or autonomous control of vehicles, aircraft or other devices (small devices like toys, lightweight drones and car-alarm remotes excepted).
• App Review Guidelines: An app that behaves in a way that risks physical harm may be rejected. Medical apps face extra scrutiny: accuracy claims about health measurements must be backed by disclosed data and methodology or the app is rejected; apps claiming to take x-rays or measure blood pressure, body temperature, glucose or blood oxygen using only device sensors are not permitted; users should be reminded to consult a doctor; drug-dosage calculators must come from manufacturers, hospitals, universities, insurers, pharmacies or FDA-type approval; no encouraging tobacco, vaping, illegal drugs or excessive alcohol, and no facilitating sale of controlled substances (with licensed exceptions); DUI checkpoints only from law enforcement, and apps should never encourage drunk or reckless driving; apps should not urge users into bets, challenges or device use that risks physical harm.

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

• Google requires a Play Console health declaration and a specific disclaimer sentence in the description; Apple bans the named sensor-only measurements outright and restricts dosage calculators to manufacturers, hospitals, universities, insurers, pharmacies or FDA-type approval. partial
• Apple bans encouragement of legal-but-harmful use (alcohol, vaping) and adds DUI-checkpoint and reckless-driving rules; Google bans depiction of minors using substances. partial
• Apple's rule applies to all users; Google's applies where the app appeals to children. partial
• Google requires the smallest scope (coarse over fine, location button for one-time uses), makes the location button mandatory for transactional precise uses in apps targeting Android 17 (API 37), requires a Play Console declaration for every ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION request, bans sale of location data, and sets a compliance date of January 27, 2027 with 30-day self-extensions; Apple sets no scope tiers or declaration. google-stricter

Check your app

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

The report names this rule as apple.location-not-emergency and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.