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Manage submissions to App Review

Remove a submission from review

You can remove an app from the review and release process if the app is in one of the following states:

  • Waiting for Export Compliance

  • Waiting for Review

  • In Review

  • Pending Developer Release

  • Pending Apple Release

Learn how to remove a submission from review with the App Store Connect API.

Required role: Account Holder, Admin, or App Manager. View role permissions.

Remove an app from the review and release process

  1. From Apps, select your app.

  2. In the sidebar, click the app version that you want to remove a build for.

  3. In the message that appears at the top, click “remove this version from review.”

    On top of the app version detail page, there is text stating, “You can only edit some information for this version. To edit all information or submit a new build, remove this version from review.” The “remove this version from review” part is clickable.

  4. In the dialog that appears, click Remove.

The app is removed from the queue and the app status changes to Developer Rejected. If you resubmit the review process will start over.

Cancel a submission

  1. From Apps, select your app.

  2. In the sidebar, click App Review.

  3. Under In Progress, click View next to the submission.

  4. At the bottom of the page, click Cancel Submission.

    On the iOS Submission page, the submitted app version is listed under “Items Submitted (1).” At the bottom left, there is a clickable link to cancel the submission.

  5. Click Confirm.

The submission will be canceled and any items that were marked as Accepted will need to be resubmitted. If the submission included an app version, the app status will change to Developer Rejected. If you resubmit, the review process will start over.