[dgellow]

I'm not sure that's true. When you use react native you can update your javascript bundle and push it to an application already deployed to the App Store and that doesn't seem to be an issue. The application can check at startup if a new bundle is available, otherwise defaults to the local bundle.

See the expo documentation for details: https://docs.expo.io/bare/updating-your-app/.

[gorbypark]

Apparently Apple is ok with out-of-band updates as long as they don't add or change features. If it's used to fix a bug then it's ok (at least they haven't cracked down on React-native apps using codepush/expo's auto update feature, yet.). There have been reports of Apple's reviewers asking for clarification on why apps have the ability to update, and as long as the answer is "bug fixes" then they approve the app.