[komocode]

How do you know Uber and Grab? (Grubhub?) were never rejected? You're assuming they passed every single review which I think it's highly unlikely.

Considering 40% of all submissions in the past week (shown on Apple's website) get rejected, it's entirely possible they were rejected using phone number input and after explaining to Apple their purpose, they were finally accepted. You're bound to get 1 or 2 apps erroneously rejected considering they go through 100k submissions every week.

It also says the app store team takes 1000 calls every week to discuss the rejections. It's not just you or small devs.

[syn-mcj]

Fair enough, although I don't see why the constant rejection and need to explain the same thing to Apple again and again seem like a normal thing to us. Their review process is too rigid and their control over your app updates is too tight, which is why they are now getting bunch of other problems with companies like Epic.

Speaking of Epic, maybe you're right and it's not just small developers.