# Updated App Review Guidelines are now available — retained record

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Updated App Review Guidelines are now available
October 16, 2026
The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support new features, updated policies, and to provide clarification.
App Review Guidelines
- Before You Submit: Added links to additional documentation.
- 1.2: Clarified app content and app types that are subject to this guideline, and potential Developer Code of Conduct violation for failing to implement appropriate safeguards or remediating violations after notice.
- 2.3.14: New guideline covering creative assets.
- 2.5.19: New guideline clarifies long-standing policy on hidden, dormant, or undocumented features, formerly covered in Guideline 2.3.1.
- 3.1.1(a): Removed bullet point on Music Streaming Services Entitlements, which is now incorporated in the bullet point on StoreKit External Purchase Link Entitlements; clarified that links may be provided to a permitted destination.
- 5: Clarified that apps found to facilitate human trafficking and/or the exploitation of children will be removed from the App Store and blocked from alternative distribution.
- After You Submit: Added links to additional documentation.
Translations of the updated guidelines will be available on the Apple Developer website within one month.
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