Updating an App vs Resubmitting: What Triggers Full Re-Review
Not every update goes through the same review depth as your original submission. Minor updates to an app with a clean policy history and no new sensitive permissions often get a lighter, faster review pass. But certain changes — adding a new sensitive permission, changing your target audience, or modifying ad SDK behavior — can trigger a review as thorough as your initial submission.
The surprise for many developers: adding a single new permission to an otherwise minor update is enough to reset your review to the more thorough path, even if the rest of the update is trivial.
The fix
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