{"slug": "app-store-review-times-are-failing-to-meet-the-ai-driven-influx-of-submissions", "title": "App Store Review Times Are Failing to Meet the AI-Driven Influx of Submissions", "summary": "App Store review times are failing to keep up with an AI-driven influx of submissions, according to developer Joe Fabisevich, whose Plinky 6.0.4 was approved for macOS in 4 hours but remained unreviewed for iOS after a week. Fabisevich's experience reflects broader complaints from App Store developers about inconsistent review delays.", "body_md": "Joe Fabisevich, on Mastodon:\n\nI submitted Plinky 6.0.4 for review last week. The macOS app was approved in 4 hours, the iOS app is still waiting for review. Sure do love to distribute software distribution this way.\n\nHe’s not an outlier; I see comments like this from App Store developers everywhere I look.\n\n([Plinky](https://www.plinky.app/), by the way, is an intriguing link-bookmarking app that syncs across iOS and MacOS. It’s not for me, but the nature of my work is such that I have very unusual bookmarking needs. Plinky offers a bunch of convenient ways to stash new bookmarks with low friction. It’s a labor of love — it’s totally obvious that Fabisevich himself is the number one user of Plinky, and that’s almost always true of the very best apps.)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/app-store-review-times-are-failing-to-meet-the-ai-driven-influx-of-submissions", "canonical_source": "https://macaw.social/@mergesort/117055390966724799", "published_at": "2026-08-07 17:45:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 12:36:12.214909+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Joe Fabisevich", "Plinky", "App Store", "Apple"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/app-store-review-times-are-failing-to-meet-the-ai-driven-influx-of-submissions", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/app-store-review-times-are-failing-to-meet-the-ai-driven-influx-of-submissions.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/app-store-review-times-are-failing-to-meet-the-ai-driven-influx-of-submissions.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/app-store-review-times-are-failing-to-meet-the-ai-driven-influx-of-submissions.jsonld"}}