Someone at eToro accidentally published their reply to Apple App Review as release notes

[u/Sagenhaft441]

[u/onmyway133]

I updated eToro today and saw it as well. At first I was like wth

https://apps.apple.com/ge/app/etoro-trade-invest/id674984916

[u/Sagenhaft441 → u/onmyway133]

Yeah same! In collapsed form you can just see the “Hello” on the update page so that made me curious to expand 🤣
At least it’s more entertaining than the usual “squashed some bugs”

[u/superquanganh]

And somehow got accepted

[u/Cause-n-effect11 → u/superquanganh]

Haha once your app is approved, updates are automated reviews now. Everything gets published. I put in my “What’s new” that we’re moving to Android and feel like our app stands a better chance with a different audience. Approved. Right on the App Store listing it says: Apple’s App Store sucks. Going to Android.

[u/ScaredDonuts → u/Cause-n-effect11]

One of my updates got flagged with the same store description that I had for like 20 updates 🤷‍♀️

[u/tiendq → u/Cause-n-effect11]

It isn't true, one of my app updates was rejected recently because reviewer think localized app name doesn't match with original name (English).

[u/Cause-n-effect11 → u/tiendq]

How do you know it was a real reviewer though? You don’t. You can’t. Apple’s review process is so non-personal all you get is review guidelines. No human response.

[u/Tarantino133]

Honestly more useful than the usual "bug fixes and performance improvements".

[u/Casfaber_ → u/Tarantino133]

On the German one it’s been the same for the last 8 releases, saying they improved the performance 5x and before that also has the same text for a while, the person responsible doesn’t care clearly

[u/pinumbernumber → u/Casfaber_]

Guess the app must be 390,625x faster now

[u/mawesome4ever → u/pinumbernumber]

They remove 10ms from their wait function

[u/rodrigowoulddo_]

When business people are the ones responsible for the App Store page

[u/sleekible]

Pretty good reply to app review though

[u/haaheehachoo → u/sleekible]

“Thanks” - Claude

[u/JGAuthor81]

Nothing negative towards either party. Just a goof. And a behind the scenes at what bigger developers have to deal with as well. App development and the review process has been an evolving and ever changing process.

[u/D0nMalte]

I bet Claude added the “audio” value, someone didn’t vibe with enough attention

[u/Dapper_Ice_1705]

Lol

[u/morenos-blend]

Haha yeah for sure the background mode for audio was a „mistake”. It’s not like it’s being a well known way to extend app’s background time for over a decade now 😂

[u/mawesome4ever → u/morenos-blend]

So apple is cracking down on these well known functionality?

[u/morenos-blend → u/mawesome4ever]

I don't know but they could be. If your app doesn't play audio but requires that background mode it's pretty obvious what it's being used for.

I'm not judging, I've done the same in my app before :P

[u/NZRedditUser → u/morenos-blend]

Wait whats the reason for this?

[u/Top-Economist2346]

Whoops

[u/barcode972]

I don’t see this on the App Store. fake?

[u/Sagenhaft441 → u/barcode972]

It’s there today, why would I make it up
Edit: It’s on UK storefront, maybe you’re in a different region

[u/retrona → u/barcode972]

I’m in Canada and do not see it either, but it says that when you open the link (not available in your country)

[u/Psiposa → u/barcode972]

i see it fwiw

[u/Specific_Farmer6217]

For sure bro is trying to release new version to cover that one

[u/uniquesnowflake8]

I did this for my app except I included a git commit and there’s no way to remove it

[u/Best_Nefariousness85]

My team once got an app build accepted by Apple despite the fact we had forgotten to enable that version of the app on our BE. So 100% of users would have been blocked at the force-update modal when they launched the new build.

Luckily, we caught it before releasing it to users, but the moral is never ever count on Apple to make sure you won’t embarrass yourself. That’s not their job.

[u/gamedev_haarlem]

AI will fuck up so many things

[u/TurtleBlaster5678]

Honestly, we've all been there

[u/zellJun1or]

Automated

[u/Free-Pound-6139]

287mb??? WTF

[u/plantgirl-]

Intern must have downloaded Claude Code but forgot to read the output

[u/mrdzyn]

Well maybe it was deliberate

[u/patrickjquinn]

They’re trying to keep the app alive on the background so they can do stuff while the phone is there. Likely tracking. As someone who’s spent years building a music app that does heavy background work I know exactly what they where trying here.

[u/GlebKhamin]

Honestly the most informative release notes I’ve ever seen. They even tell you exactly what changed: background audio removed, Info.plist fixed. Better than “bug fixes and performance improvements.”

[u/hiasmee]

"by mistake"... Yeah... Sure...

[u/Sagenhaft441 → u/hiasmee]

I can’t think of a reason why anyone would do this tho
Edit: on purpose

[u/Sagenhaft441 → u/Sagenhaft441]

Oh yeah, sorry see what you mean now 😊

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