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by bugfix 1867 days ago
It is actually pretty easy. As long as you don't use any private APIs, you can completely change the behavior of your app after the review by changing server side settings.
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Yes, but if they catch you, you’ll get kicked out of the store altogether.
Why? We do it all the times, we ship most of our app behind feature switches and enable them in the future for subsets of users
It depends whether the disabled features break the rules of the App Store, or are fraudulent. Presumably you aren’t doing that.
It is partly an intent issue. If you are attempting to pull one over on Apple by hiding app behavior during review, well, they are not going to be happy about that.

Other folks are also noting that, because humans are sometimes bad at evaluating each others' intent, it is probably a good idea to attempt to make one's intent clear if going this route, lest you annoy the gatekeeper.

Right, but you don't know that they're not rejecting it because of your features being disabled. You only now that they didn't reject it.