Apple is Now Rejecting Apps With Pricing In Their Title

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Posted March 29, 2017 at 1:29pm by iClarified

Apple has started rejecting app submissions with pricing information in their title and screenshots, reports VentureBeat.

For years, some developers have put the word 'free' in their app names to try and gain more attention from users browsing the App Store. Previously, developers were discouraged from doing so; however, iTunes Connect is now rejecting submissions.

Here's the error message being presented to developers:

Your app’s name, icons, screenshots, or previews to be displayed on the App Store include references to your app’s price, which is not considered a part of these metadata items.

Please remove any references to your app’s price from your app’s name, including any references to your app being free or discounted. If you would like to advertise changes to your app’s price, it would be appropriate to include this information in the app description. Changes to your app’s price can be made in the Pricing and Availability section of iTunes Connect.

Apple confirmed the change but declined to comment.

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Apple is Now Rejecting Apps With Pricing In Their Title

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D4xM4Nx - March 30, 2017 at 7:54am

Irrelevant. What Apple needs to do away with, are annoying 'freemium' apps leeching small IAPs or even 'Pay2Win' regardless of demand.

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Bob Dobbs - March 30, 2017 at 5:59am

Pricing isn't what bothers me. It's the trend to to create 8 bit looking games. If I wanted to play 8 bit looking crap, I would have kept my Atari from the 80s. It's not reissuing old stuff that bothers me but creating new stuff that looks old.

Rob D. - March 29, 2017 at 9:31pm

Pricing is already visible from the search. Guessing you either don't download much or don't use iOS.