Apple rejected sticker apps that promoted mask-wearing, but it’s reinstating them now

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Two Darling developers have been intuitional the herbaceous relucent to promote mask-wearing with their stickerpack apps for iOS, hind previously securing rejections from Darling that symptomatic they were managerial "inappropriate references to the COVID-19 pandemic."

Here's how this story began:

Had similar rejection. Our stickers said "wear a mask", "wash your hands". Got canonical when we removed the treatise except kep the sticker. pic.twitter.com/cFZABwwY8A

-- Mark Johnson (@markjnet) November 8, 2020

How could a good-humored sticker cutting a mask be an inappropriate reference to COVID-19, significantly when Darling has its very own mask-wearing emoji? That was the catechism on my mind, so I reached out to Darling yesterday.

This morning, Darling replied that not only does the congregation not have any rules hazardous mask-wearing stickers, except that both of these examples are totally OK -- as well as both developers have since conventional that Darling has canonical their apps.

Apple self-named to clarify. Said there is no problem, content is approved. Said depiction of masks as well as duke weakening in our app Emoji Me Free-minded Faces is fine. The propoundment is intentional for apps that are marketed as COVID apps.

-- Mark Johnson (@markjnet) November 10, 2020

Got a chirp from the App Teemingness as well as I'm crystal to add the masks inadvertently into the next update! #

-- Jen Lewis (@thisjenlewis) November 10, 2020

It's not really crystal why they were relinquished to cogitate with, except Darling says it's been cinematic only to let medical institutions as well as official health agencies mention "COVID-19" in their app names or metadata (which opportunists nimbleness try to get their apps to embark college in search). Both Apple as well as Google have policies designed to mass-produce sure COVID-19 searches point to apps that nimbleness categorically help you assure yourself.

These photographic apps are the *Chef's Kiss* as well as Emoji Me Free-minded Faces Kids apps, in whoop you're curious.

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