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It's just a higher priority queue, they can both be fast but the expedited review will always be fast.

In my case the expedited is already 2!!!! times slower. And it's still not over. The review process has not even started for the "expedited" request. Just a day earlier the normal request was already processed and approved. I really appreciate that Apple has worked hard on shortening the regular queue. Is it time for them to start optimizing the "expedited" process so it does happen quicker than the regular one?

Perhaps they should consider removing the "expedited" process altogether to avoid confusion. Or perhaps allow a single request to go in both queues at the same time to see which one wins. I know, it's just me who is having the problem. How do I explain it to my customers who are fleeing my product?

The only appstore that rapidly publishes apps is Google Play, which has a human-review process that takes place usually within hours.

The Amazon App Store routinely takes weeks, and often won't even process revenue or download data for long delays.

The iOS App Store can take up to weeks too.

This is how they work. How you mitigate crashes reaching production must account for how they work. For me that meant adding a QA process before publishing. Unit tests can also help.

I appreciate your advice. But things still fall through cracks. We do have automated tests in place, we have ran manual regression test before and after the release on test devices -- still, the crash happened for 2 most critical clients of ours. Yes, we are going to increase the testing etc, but testing does not solve the problem, it just decreases the chance of the problems to happen. This is not the issue I was trying to bring up here on this thread. The issue is that if the "expedited" review takes significantly longer (perhaps not consistently), is it a red flag for Apple to do something about improving it. If the process was designed to address the critical client's issues -- it currently does not work. I'm loosing my clients and Apple is not there to help. If I only knew what I'm getting into, I would have submitted through regular process, because, as of right now, it takes only a day for review to complete.

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