In April this year, Apple revised its App Store guidelines to allow retro game emulators to be placed on the shelves However, some developers tried to place PC emulators on the App Store, but they were rejected by the Apple team. The official explanation at the time was that the emulator was limited to game consoles, but not PCs; however, Apple had just revised the App Store guidelines and agreed to launch the first PC emulator program.
In the recently revised App Store guidelines, Apple specifically allows PC emulators to download games, and has also updated the notarization guidelines applicable to third-party applications published outside the Store EU App These changes will make PC emulator applications The approval process becomes simple. In the revised “Program Authorization Guidelines” Section 4.7, mini-applications, micro-games, streaming games, chatbots, plug-ins and game emulators are permitted. Additionally, Section 4.7.2 prohibits applications from extending or exposing native platform APIs without Apple’s permission, and Section 4.7.3 states that applications may not share data with any individual software within the application without user consent or privacy rights.
This change in the App Store guidelines was announced after Apple allowed the PC emulator UTM SE to launch. Apple rejected UTM SE in June because it was a PC simulator.
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