Apple Pauses App Store Approvals Ahead of Sept 9th Announcement?

Apple has paused App Store approvals in preparation for what may be a change announced on Sept 9th.

The administrator of monappstore.com has informed HardMac that there have been only 7 approvals since September 4th. This is a drastic change from the usual 400+ approvals per day.


I manage the monappstore.com site and thus supervises regularly the new applications that are available at the AppStore. I think that something important is being prepared at the level of the AppStore, surely in connection with the special event of tomorrow because there has almost been no new application published since September 4. It is rare to see such a pause (4 days) in the continuous flood of releases. I noted only 7 applications with a release date after the 4/9 whereas on the previous days there was an average of more than 400 per day…