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Start Submitting Your Mac Apps to the Mac App Store Today

The Mac App Store will be opening soon. You can get ready by submitting your Mac apps for review now. Log in to the Mac Dev Center for details on setting up an iTunes Connect account, creating Apple-issued Mac Distribution Certificates, and preparing your apps for the review process.

Mac App Store Review Guidelines

All Mac apps submitted to the Mac App Store will be reviewed to ensure that they are reliable, perform as expected, and are free of explicit and offensive material. To assist you in preparing your apps, we have detailed the review criteria in the Mac App Store Review Guidelines . If your app does not follow the Guidelines, the App Review Team will notify you about the changes you need to make before it can be posted to the Mac App Store. Visit the App Store Resource Center to learn more about the app approval process.

Three New App Status Indicators in iTunes Connect

We’ve added three new status indicators to iTunes Connect which give you a more precise indication of the state of your app when you are submitting your binary for approval. Prepare for Upload indicates that you have created a new version, but you have not yet clicked the Ready to Submit Binary button, which indicates that you are ready to deliver a binary through Application Loader. This state’s status color is yellow. Pending Developer Release indicates that the version of your app has been approved by App Review and you have turned on the Version Release Control, but have not yet clicked Send Version Live. This state’s status color is yellow. You should also see a pending action symbol on the version. Your version will remain in this state, and thus will not be live on the App Store until you click Send Version Live. Processing for App Store indicates that the version is being processed to go live on the App Store. Once the processing is complete, the version state will change to “Ready for Sale.” This state is very temporary (1-2 hours). This state’s status color is yellow. For more information, refer to the App Store Resource Center, App Store Approval Process section.