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iOS developer training firm Shiny Development has been tracking review times
for iOS and Mac App Store submissions for some time, crowdsourcing data
from developers disclosing their waits in Tweets. The tools provide an
interesting look at how review times have varied over time, and they
reveal that there has been a substantial increase in those times for Mac
App Store submissions over the past six months.
Shiny Development's annual trend graph for Mac apps shows average review times of a few days to a week through approximately April 1 of this year, after which time the trend began a fairly steady rise. That rise has accelerated in recent weeks, with developer reports now indicating that their apps are spending an average of nearly a month in review.
The sample size is admittedly small for Shiny Development's Mac App Store calculations, with 62 reports having been collected over the past 30 days, but the firm reports that the data is generally fairly indicative of broader trends in their experience.
Developers interested in contributing to the project can find tweet their waiting times using the respective #iosreviewtime and #macreviewtime hashtags, and Shiny Development offers a few guidelines on how times should be calculated.
Shiny Development's annual trend graph for Mac apps shows average review times of a few days to a week through approximately April 1 of this year, after which time the trend began a fairly steady rise. That rise has accelerated in recent weeks, with developer reports now indicating that their apps are spending an average of nearly a month in review.
The sample size is admittedly small for Shiny Development's Mac App Store calculations, with 62 reports having been collected over the past 30 days, but the firm reports that the data is generally fairly indicative of broader trends in their experience.
The
averages on this site are based only on the data gathered from Twitter
which are a very small subset of the total number of apps which go
through review each day. However in our experience it does give a
reasonable indication of how review times are changing over time.
The trend for iOS apps
is less severe and is based on more substantial data as would be
expected for the larger iOS App Store, with 471 data points being
included from the past 30 days. Average iOS App Store review times have
been within a range of 3-11 days over the past year and currently sit
at one week after declining from their peak roughly two months ago.
Developers interested in contributing to the project can find tweet their waiting times using the respective #iosreviewtime and #macreviewtime hashtags, and Shiny Development offers a few guidelines on how times should be calculated.
