App Store 4.7 rejection: Mini apps, hosted software, and emulators
By The Draftbit team · Updated
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This guide is for iPhone and iPad apps offering eligible mini apps, games, chatbots, plugins, or emulator game downloads.
Your app can be rejected because of software it hosts, even when that software isn’t included in the original download. Apple’s 4.7 permits specified kinds of hosted software but makes the host responsible for its compliance.
Inventory what people can open
List mini apps, mini games, streaming games, chatbots, plugins, and any game downloads offered by an emulator. We’d test content added after installation as carefully as the initial catalog.
The allowance isn’t permission for every kind of downloaded code. Check the exact categories Apple names and 2.5.2 where the architecture falls outside them.
Work through the additional conditions
The child rules below cover moderation and purchases, access to native APIs, consent for sharing data, a complete software index with universal links, and age restrictions. Each hosted item also needs to satisfy the other relevant review guidelines and laws.
Test the host with representative items, including a newly added one and restricted content. Give Apple the catalog, access instructions, and explanation of how you check third-party software. Removing one reported item is only part of the fix if the same problem can recur elsewhere.
Messages this guide can help with
App Store 4.7 rejection; app store 4.7 denial; Guideline 4.7; Mini apps, hosted software, and emulators
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 4.7 Checked 22 September 2026