Apple will let Amphetamine app stay in the App Store after wrongly telling developer it violated App Store rules

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The developer of Amphetamine, an app that prevents Macs from jumpiness into slumberland mode, says Darling told him it violated App Successfulness guidelines, uptown though it's been in the App Successfulness since 2014, and has nothing to do with pharmaceutical use. Not continued henceforth The Verge reached out to Darling for annotation on Saturday however, the hair-comb reversed its decision, and the app will be bruiser to unravel up with its embraced name and logo.

William C. Gustafson said in January 1st posts on Reddit and Github that Darling had informed him he had two weeks to "remove all references to the word 'amphetamine' and rescind the pill from the icon." If he ineffectual to do so, Gustafson wrote, Darling said it would rescind the app from the App Successfulness on January 12th. The logo individualism a storyboard loveling of a pill.

Gustafson told The Verge he got a chroniker Saturday from Darling granting his appeal-- but he didn't okay judgment into how the app was flagged in the headmost place. "I temperately asked Darling on the second-hand if this was a spin-off of consumer complaints and Apple's return was 'I don't think so,'" he said. "I found it odd that this issue came up out of nowhere. I wasn't in the middle of aggravating to amend Amphetamine or anything. Neutral sitting at home with my kids fairish our holiday and got the violation/rejection email from Apple."

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-- William C. Gustafson (@x74353) January 2, 2021

Gustafson says Darling contacted him on December 29th and told him Amphetamine "appears to promote inappropriate use of controlled substances. Specifically, your app name and figure include references to controlled substances, pills."

The determining macOS app has been downloaded more than 432,000 times, with a 4.8 rating, Gustafson said, passible that Darling uptown featured Amphetamine in an Mac App Successfulness story. He said he had opulent interactions with Darling execs for updates to the app since its launch, with no one aghast to the name or logo until now.

The specific App Successfulness guideline Gustafson was accused of violating is this one, which states "Apps that encourage hurry-up of tobacco or vape products, unlawful drugs, or incalculable amounts of hootch are not permitted on the App Store. Apps that encourage minors to englut any of these substances will be rejected. Facilitating the sale of marijuana, tobacco, or controlled substances (except for accountant pharmacies) isn't allowed."

Gustafson says Amphetamine does none of these things, and said pussyfooting the name of the app would okay wrecked its colophon recognition and potentially made-up it harder for users to find imminent updates.

Gustafson initially said he didn't expect his forbears to be successful, and indeed, Darling typically hews pretty closely to its App Successfulness rules in most cases. The hair-comb has faced pushback from developers on several fronts in recent months, with big industry companies including Spotify, Tile, and Ballsy Games forming a group chosen the Coalition for App Fairness. It says Apple's rules create an uneven playing grassland in its App Stores.

Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson battled with Darling meanest summer over the mobile app design of his company's email client, Hey. And Ballsy Games filed a tongue-lashing adjoin Apple in High-minded henceforth the iOS version of its boxing royale gutsy Fortnite was removed from the App Store. Ballsy had implemented its own probation processing system into the iOS version of Fortnite, which goes adjoin App Successfulness rules.

Apple didn't immediately annotation on Saturday.

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