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With many apps an issue for changelog writers is that often behavior is tied to feature flags, which can be remotely enabled. Thus a new feature is rolled out in the app but only visible to some testers. Only after a while it's enabled for all users. Thus app release is independent from availability of a feature.

That said "Bugfixes and performance improvements" is as useless as it gets ...

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I wonder how those features pass Apple review? It's easy to disable those flags to get review passed and enable them later.

I'm pretty sure that's what Fortnite did right before they got kicked out of the App Store.

Before my company implemented IAP in a few of our apps we did the same thing, but decided the risk was too great. Getting rejected is one thing, but getting your account terminated is obviously a much bigger deal.

You provide Apple with login details when you submit your application. Just enable all the features in advance for Apple’s test account.

It depends on the feature. For things that involve material changes to your app or a feature that you don't want Apple to be surprised about, usually you will include user credentials in your submission that have that feature enabled and give them a heads up. If's a smallish feature, you don't usually sweat app review. It's obviously not a perfect system.

You are supposed to list all the feature flags and explain how to enable them in your review notes.

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