A Pre-Submission Checklist Built From Real Rejection Patterns

Pulling together the patterns across common rejection reasons, the highest-leverage checks before you submit are: Data Safety form matches your actual SDK list, privacy policy matches your Data Safety form, target audience setting matches your app's actual content and design, version code is higher than any prior upload across all tracks, and screenshots reflect real in-app content at the correct dimensions.

Most rejections aren't exotic policy edge cases — they're one of these five things being slightly out of sync with the others.

The fix

Fix: before every submission, verify these five points against each other specifically, not just against Play's guidelines in isolation — most real-world rejections are consistency failures between your own artifacts, not policy violations in any single one.

The same check runs automatically when you upload your bundle to the AAB analyzer — permissions, SDK fingerprints, and version info in one pass, free.

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Data Safety generator →

Turns these answers into a Play-ready CSV.

Data Safety guide →

The full method behind the checks.

Short, specific submission fixes.

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