{"id":2300,"date":"2015-07-22T07:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2015-07-22T07:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:48:56","slug":"apple-blocks-ios-beta-users-from-submitting-app-store-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Apple blocks iOS beta users from submitting App Store reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After rolling out its fourth iOS 9 beta on Tuesday, Apple blocked beta users from submitting App Store reviews. Attempting to do so throws up an error message that reads, \u201cYou can\u2019t write reviews while using a prerelease version of iOS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>iOS developers have long been unhappy\u00a0about receiving bad reviews from beta testers, who install prerelease software\u00a0early and then complain that their apps don\u2019t play nicely with it, causing App\u00a0Store rating to drop.\u00a0Unfortunately, there was no way to combat the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has finally listened\u00a0to developers and made it impossible for those running beta releases to submit App Store reviews. After installing the latest iOS 9 beta 4 updates, users will run into an error message when attempting to write a review.<\/p>\n<p>iOS developers will continue to update their apps for iOS 9 ahead of the update\u2019s public release this fall, of course, but they are no longer forced into rushing fixes to avoid poor reviews from those on unsupported iOS versions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orbuch\/status\/623724857570758656\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RYAN ORBUCH<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">VIA<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2015\/07\/21\/app-store-reviews-beta\/#more-389749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9TO5MAC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After rolling out its fourth iOS 9 beta on Tuesday, Apple blocked beta users from submitting App Store reviews. Attempting to do so throws up an error message that reads, \u201cYou can\u2019t write reviews while using a prerelease version of iOS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","tag-apple","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}