Hey all. I shipped a small iOS app in late March called \*\*SpeakCove\*\* — a document-to-speech reader (PDF, ePub, DOCX, MOBI, FB2, HTML, plain text) with on-device neural voices. Everything runs offline, no accounts, no tracking. Built it because I kept wanting to listen to PDFs on walks and hated that every decent TTS reader was either subscription-locked or phoning home with my documents. [apps.apple.com/.../id6760540041](apps.apple.com/.../id6760540041) if you're curious. 1.0 shipped fine. Then I submitted \*\*1.1.0 on April 3rd\*\* with voice quality improvements and some UX fixes. It went "In Review" on \*\*April 6th\*\*. Today is April 24th and it's still there. No rejection, no communication, nothing: preview.redd.it/.../cnmoqp4l86xg1.png 18 days of radio silence on a minor update feels off, especially when 1.0 went through normally and the app has no server-side component for Apple to even scrutinize. A few questions for anyone who's been here: 1. Has App Review gotten noticeably slower/quieter in the last month or two for anyone else? 2. What's actually worked to get a stuck review moving — formal escalation form, phone support, something else? 3. Is there any signal in the timing itself (e.g. "if it's been 14+ days, it's usually flagged for something specific")? Should I cancel and resubmit? I'm afraid to start at the very beginning of the queue again :(

For context, I am a frequent app dev with 5 apps on the app store - each is a different type of app and two don't require sign in. Every time I'm updating monthly, the review times are longer. When I started this 3 yrs ago it was at 12 hours max for updates. In May of 2025 it was at 30 hours. Now it is at least 48 hours per update. Not even an initial release - just an update. This is across the board for all of my apps, include ones under another team I work with under an LLC that I don't own. This is starting to get a bit concerning since Android releases updates within 40 minutes every time (non-LLC).

48 hours and counting since I submitted my app, still in "Waiting for Review". Is anyone else experiencing long wait times?