App Store Rejected? 4 Compliance Mistakes Social App Developers Keep Making

TL;DR After 7 years building social apps for global markets, here are 4 compliance and localization traps I see developers fall into repeatedly: Vocabulary in store metadata that platforms read as dating-suggestive Reviewer notes that surface the riskiest version of your app first The in vs id vs IN localization code mess (Hindi vs Indonesian vs India) Treating content moderation as a bolt-on instead of as architecture Concrete word lists, code references, and platform differences below. For the