The 15-Point App Store Pre-Flight Checklist (Free)

Run this before you hit Submit.

15 checks. 10 minutes. Catches the rejection causes behind ~80% of first-round rejections — performance, metadata, and the account-health signals nobody checks until it's too late.

Apple's 2025 Transparency Report: 9.1M reviews, 2.09M rejections — a 23% rejection rate. Most of those were a 10-minute pre-flight away from passing.

This checklist is not theory. It's the one we run before every single submission — built from 40+ submissions across 17 apps (iOS + macOS, 4 languages), including an account-level Guideline 4.3 spam strike that hit 27 apps in 14 days and got every single one back on the store.

What's inside

• 15-point pre-flight check — account health, metadata, screenshots, IAP wiring, builds
• The 6 submission-day steps that prevent most first-round rejections
• Real traps: the 2007×2853 screenshot fail, the version-number trap that orphans your build, the upload that silently needs uploaded:true
• The "Nine Questions" structure for answering Guideline 4.3 (with a real example)

Who it's for

• Indie devs shipping their 1st–50th submission
• Agencies / freelancers submitting client apps
• AI-assisted devs (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex): metadata and template surface area is exactly what gets AI-built apps flagged

Not for

Anyone looking for a guarantee. Nobody can guarantee Apple. This raises your first-pass odds and cuts recovery time from weeks to days.

Upgrade path

• $29 — The 60-Point Checklist + 12 Resolution Center reply templates (incl. the 3,994 vs 4,046 character-count live-fire rule)
• $49 — Pro: the full Guideline 4.3 Verdict File + AI Pre-Flight Agent Prompt (paste into your AI coding agent, it audits your project like a reviewer)

30-day refund, no questions. If this catches at least one thing you'd have missed, it's done its job.

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