Title: Apple has twice rejected a minor update to my Hacker News app for iOS, Octal [1], for breaking Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage [2]. For the first rejection, they included a screenshot of the app&#x27;s search functionality, searching for the term &quot;Covid&quot;, which obviously contains HN submissions with &quot;Covid&quot; in the titles. For the second rejection, they included a screenshot of the app&#x27;s main &quot;Top Stories&quot; view, which happened to have a COVID-19-related submission [3] as one of the top stories. Have any other iOS app developers out there encountered this issue with App Store Review?<p>Apple&#x27;s rejection notes:<p>&gt; We found in our review that your app provides services or requires sensitive user information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, services and information related to it are considered to be part of the healthcare industry. In addition, the seller and company names associated with your app are not from a recognized institution, such as a governmental entity, hospital, insurance company, non-governmental organization, or university.<p>&gt; Per section 5.1.1 (ix) of the App Store Review Guidelines, apps that provide services or collect sensitive user information in highly-regulated fields, such as healthcare, should be submitted by a legal entity that provides these services, and not by an individual developer.<p>&gt; Next Steps<p>&gt; To resolve this issue, your app must be published under a seller and company name of a recognized institution. If you have developed this app on behalf of such an institution, please advise your client to add you to the development team of their Apple Developer account. If your client does not yet have an Apple Developer account, they can enroll for one as an organization through the Apple Developer website.<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;octal-hacker-news&#x2F;id1308885491<p>[2] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.apple.com&#x2F;app-store&#x2F;review&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;#data-collection-and-storage<p>[3] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24384308
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