App Store 4.5.5 rejection: Game Center player identifiers
By The Draftbit team · Updated
Sources checked
This guide is for iPhone and iPad apps displaying or sharing Game Center Player IDs.
A Player ID can be useful to your integration without being appropriate to display or share. Apple’s 4.5.5 limits Game Center IDs to uses allowed by its terms and says not to expose them in the app or to third parties.
Trace every destination
Check profile screens, debug views, share links, analytics events, crash reports, and backend responses. We’d search for the identifier’s field name through the app and service integrations, since a logging library may transmit it without a visible feature doing so.
Remove the exposure
Keep the identifier within the permitted integration and remove it from public display or third-party payloads. Use an appropriate app-owned identifier for unrelated functionality, without turning that change into a way to trace Game Center identities.
Test the affected screens and inspect network/logging output using a test account. Explain where the ID previously appeared and how the corrected build handles it. For broader harvesting or identity linking, also check 4.5.3.
Messages this guide can help with
App Store 4.5.5 rejection; app store 4.5.5 denial; Guideline 4.5.5; Game Center player identifiers
Official sources
We checked these instructions against the sources below. The console layout may change, and your review decision may call for different steps.
- Apple App Review guideline 4.5.5 Checked 22 September 2026