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Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos


Halide may have been featured during the iPhone 16 keynote, but it seems that wasn’t enough to protect it from...

Halide may have been featured during the iPhone 16 keynote, but it seems that wasn’t enough to protect it from an over-zealous App Store reviewer. Lux co-founder Ben Sandofsky shared that the latest version of Halide was rejected from App Store … The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn’t descriptive enough.

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