Run a Compliance Scan Before Submission or Expect Rejection

Your First App Compliance Scan in 2 Minutes

You've built your app, tested every feature, and you're finally ready to submit. Then the rejection email hits. Something about missing privacy labels, an incorrect permission description, or a bundled SDK that violates platform guidelines.

Sound familiar? It happens to teams of every size, and it almost always costs days of back-and-forth. Most of these issues are detectable before you ever hit "Submit."

Here's how to run your first compliance scan with AppCompliance. You'll need an IPA, APK, or AAB file and about two minutes.

What do you need for your first scan?

• An IPA file (iOS) or APK/AAB file (Android)
• An AppCompliance account
• Two minutes

That's it. No SDK to install, no code changes, no pipeline setup. Upload a binary and AppCompliance checks it against 137 technical checks mapped to actual App Store and Google Play review guidelines.

Step 1: Create your account

Head to appcompliance.io and sign up.

Each scan runs against all 137 App Store and Google Play checks.

Step 2: Upload your binary

Once you're in the dashboard, select your app (or create one) and upload your IPA, APK, or AAB file.

AppCompliance works with your compiled binary directly. That matters because lots of compliance issues live in the final artifact, not in source code. Bundled SDKs, embedded fonts, entitlement configs, privacy manifest entries, permission declarations. All of that exists in the binary. Source code scanning alone would miss a lot of it.

The scan runs through each rule and results show up as the analysis progresses.

Step 3: Review your findings

Your scan results are organized around findings. Each one is a specific compliance issue detected in your binary.

They're grouped by severity:

Severity	Meaning	Recommended Action
Critical	Very likely to cause a rejection	Fix before submitting
High	Significant gaps that frequently lead to review problems	Fix in current release
Medium	Worth fixing, but may or may not trigger a rejection	Review and assess
Low	Best-practice recommendations	Fix when convenient
Info	Useful context about your binary, not necessarily a problem	Awareness only

Look for submission blockers first. These are findings tied to known rejection reasons. If anything comes back as critical, start there.

Every finding includes remediation guidance: what was detected, why it matters, and what to do about it. AppCompliance won't tell you what your app should do. It tells you what the platform guidelines expect and where your binary doesn't match.

How do you work through your scan results?

A first scan often turns up more findings than expected, especially for apps with a long history or lots of third-party SDKs. Don't panic.

1. Critical findings first. Read the remediation guidance and address them in your next build.
2. High-severity next. Common rejection triggers worth fixing before submission.
3. Medium and low on your own timeline. Real improvements, but less likely to block you.
4. Re-scan after changes. Upload your updated binary to confirm fixes and catch anything new.

No tool can guarantee approval. Store reviews involve human judgment and factors beyond technical checks. AppCompliance surfaces the known, documented requirements so you're not blindsided by the preventable stuff.

Next steps: automate it

Manual scanning before each submission works fine. But compliance issues are easiest to fix when they're caught early, as part of your regular build process.

AppCompliance plugs into your CI/CD pipeline. There are integrations for GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Codemagic, Jenkins, CircleCI, and more. Once connected, every build gets scanned automatically and your team sees findings alongside their build results.

Higher tiers unlock team collaboration, API access, and monitoring that tracks your compliance posture across builds.

But none of that is required to get started. Upload a binary, check the findings, fix the blockers, ship with more confidence. That's the whole idea.