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App Store readiness checklist.
Know what’s left before you submit.

20 yes-or-no checks taken from Apple’s and Google’s own requirements. Your open items come back in priority order, each with the official page behind it. This checks your preparation, not your approval: only Apple and Google decide review outcomes.

Which stores are you submitting to?

Accounts and build

RequiredIs your Apple Developer Program membership active, enrolled as the person or organization you want shown as the seller?

Apple Developer Program enrollment ↗

RequiredIf your Play Console account is a personal account created after 13 November 2023, has your app finished the closed test Google requires before production access?

App testing requirements for new personal developer accounts ↗Our guide

RequiredIs your upload built with the Xcode version and SDK that Apple currently requires for App Store Connect?

Apple upcoming requirements ↗Our guide

RequiredDoes your Android build target the API level Google Play currently requires for new apps and updates?

Target API level requirements for Google Play apps ↗

RequiredIs your Android release built as an Android App Bundle (.aab)?

About Android App Bundles ↗

RequiredHave you tested the exact release build, installed from TestFlight or a Play testing track, on a real device with every main flow working and no crashes?

App Review Guidelines ↗Our guide

RequiredWill your backend, APIs and third-party services stay live and unchanged while review is in progress?

App Review Guidelines ↗Our guide

RequiredIs every screen, link and string final, with no placeholder text, test data or broken URLs?

App Review Guidelines ↗Our guide

RequiredIf your app mainly shows a website, does it add features, content or interface that go beyond that website?

App Review Guidelines ↗Our guide

Review access

RequiredIf your app needs a login, have you added a working demo account (or demo mode) to App Store Connect’s App Review Information and Play Console’s sign-in details?

Provide information for a complete review ↗Prepare your app for review (Play Console) ↗Our guide

RecommendedHave you written review notes that explain what the app does, its business model, where key features are and which devices you tested on?

Provide information for a complete review ↗Our guide

Privacy and data

RequiredIs your privacy policy published at a public URL, entered in the store listing and easy to find inside the app?

App Review Guidelines ↗Google Play Data safety section ↗

RequiredHave you completed Apple’s App Privacy answers and Google Play’s Data safety form, including data collected by SDKs such as analytics, ads and crash reporting?

App privacy details on the App Store ↗Google Play Data safety section ↗Our guide

RequiredDo your app and its third-party SDKs include the privacy manifests, approved API reasons and signatures that Apple requires?

Third-party SDK requirements ↗Apple upcoming requirements ↗Our guide

RequiredIf people can create an account, can they delete it from inside the app, and, for Google Play, also from a web page?

App Review Guidelines ↗Understanding Google Play’s app account deletion requirements ↗

RequiredIf people sign in with a third-party or social login, do you also offer an equivalent login option that meets Apple’s guideline 4.8?

App Review Guidelines ↗

Store listing

RequiredIf you sell digital features or content, are your in-app purchases complete, submitted with this version and working for the reviewer?

App Review Guidelines ↗Provide information for a complete review ↗Our guide

RequiredDo you have every screenshot and graphic each store requires, showing the app in use rather than a splash or login screen?

Screenshot specifications (App Store Connect) ↗Add preview assets to showcase your app (Play Console) ↗Our guide

RequiredDo your app name, description and screenshots describe only what this build actually does?

App Review Guidelines ↗Our guide

RequiredHave you answered the current age rating questions in App Store Connect and the content rating questionnaire in Play Console?

Apple upcoming requirements ↗Content ratings (Play Console) ↗

Requirements checked against the linked Apple and Google pages on 28 October 2026. Stores change their rules, so each item links its source; where a number changes often, such as a minimum SDK or API level, follow the link for the current value.