"In Review" - 96 hours+
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"In Review" - 96 hours+

I've seen dozens of posts waiting for review for 1, 2 or even 3 weeks.
Been there, too.
But - being In Review for four days?
That's a first for me. Should I worry?

u/VladFein — 4 days ago
▲ 5 r/iOSDevelopment+1 crossposts

"iOS Development" vs. "iosdev" - what's the difference?

Full description looks very similar:

iOS Dev 

A subreddit focused on iOS development 

 Created Oct 13, 2010

 Public

17K  Weekly visitors

684  Weekly contributions

iOS Development 

A subreddit for all things in iOS Development. 

 Created Apr 27, 2014

 Public

3.5K  Weekly visitors

151  Weekly contributions

How do you chose where to post? And what to read? :)

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u/VladFein — 11 days ago
▲ 1 r/iosdev

Motivational tools

I work full time on my multiple iOS apps. With a mix success (in a none-to-moderate range).

At times it feels like: is it worth it?

Yes, it’s also a hobby, and I enjoy doing that. Most of the time.

So for extra motivation, I wrote a little tool that notifies me whenever a purchase is made, with a sale amount.

Helps me a little.

What do you do? For motivation, I mean.

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u/VladFein — 11 days ago

A gift that keeps on giving :(

Over 10 years ago (2014), Apple gifted U2’s album Songs of Innocence to all iTunes Store customers.
Myself included.
I'm not a fan of U2, and specifically - that album's artwork.
Have deleted it from my library dozens of time - it comes back like a phoenix.
Survived multiple device changes. At the moment, there is nothing in my library, but that album.
Occasionally, it starts playing when I start my car, even though the Music app was never opened.
And, of course, with that cover displayed on Car Play.
Is that a curse?
How does one delete it? Permanently?

UPDATE 8/1/26 - 10:00 AM PDT
Thank you for multiple great suggestions!
I realized that I made that "perfect storm" situation by procrastinating; was going to bring my music collection over. Until that time, it was the ONLY album, so it naturally dominated.
Following some advice, connected the phone to my Mac, deleted from the phone and did "Hide..." on a Mac. (Why it's not a DELETE?), Synced. Moved a few other albums over. Fingers crossed!

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u/VladFein — 20 days ago

Fein Solitaire 3.7 - Keep your streak!

A cool new feature for those playing Daily Games: the games that you risk breaking a streak on are elevated to the top of the list, to bring them to your attention.

Still FREE. NO ADS ever!

Thank you, and your feedback is always appreciated!

u/VladFein — 21 days ago

AppStore search - catch 22?

It appears the the search won't show your app unless it has many downloads, and it won't get downloaded until it shows up in search...

What's the way out?

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u/VladFein — 1 month ago

What's the ... what?

Happened to me few rounds ago. Didn't realize the Level # is not in a screenshot.
I am on 14,045 now, so around 14,030-14,040.
This is an opening scene. NO MOVES! Had to use my arrow to clear something.
Is that fair?

u/VladFein — 1 month ago

Costco (US) - what's the deal???

Caught MacBook Air M5, 13" at the old price of $949, a few times.
Ordered, the order was cancelled by Costco.
Tried again - same.
Found it was available again today - ordered, and my wife ordered one.
Guess they will cancel those orders, too?
The page says:
Price valid through 7/12/26

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u/VladFein — 1 month ago

FeinSolitaire 3.4 with Design Presets is released!

https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198

Choose the design that matches your taste, and more importantly - your screen size!

If you would like to tweak it - open a Designer after selecting a preset and adjust any or all parameters.

Thank you, and your feedback is always appreciated!

u/VladFein — 2 months ago

Sequence 5.1 with Design Presets is released!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sequence-feingames/id6747093331

In response to player's feedback (that the build-in Card Designer is too intimidating to use), I've build a few presets designed for different screen sizes.

If you would like to tweak it - open a Designer after selecting a preset and adjust any or all parameters.

Thank you, and your feedback is always appreciated!

u/VladFein — 2 months ago

I released Fein Solitaire 3.2 – a collection of 100+ games, localized in 6 languages!

https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198

Available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Completely free with no ads: No annoying interruptions. Don’t be concerned about “In-App purchases” - there is NO paywall or upsell. Tips are welcome!

Private: no tracking or data collection. Works offline!

Easy to navigate: letter indexed list, search, filter. Mark a handful of games as your favorites, hide the rest.

Unlimited Undos: Experiment with different moves without fear.

Hints: Get help when you're stuck.

Card Designer: An ultimate tool that allows you to create the deck YOU like!

Daily Challenge: compare on the “apples-to-apples” scores with other player. Same game for everybody in the world, for each game. Also playable offline - your score will be uploaded to the Game Center when connection is available.

Competitive: four leaderboards for each solitaire on Game Center: Number of Wins, Best Time, Longest Win Streak and Daily Challenge Streak.

Eye-friendly: trying to utilize your entire screen to maximize the card size.

Finger-friendly: customizable gesture assignment.

The collection includes all popular and some not-so-much games. Please comment here if you want YOUR favorite solitaire added!

u/VladFein — 2 months ago

[DEV] I released Fein Solitaire 3.2 – a collection of 100+ games, localized in 6 languages!

https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198

Available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Completely free with no ads: No annoying interruptions. Don’t be concerned about “In-App purchases” - there is NO paywall or upsell. Tips are welcome!

Private: no tracking or data collection. Works offline!

Easy to navigate: letter indexed list, search, filter. Mark a handful of games as your favorites, hide the rest.

Unlimited Undos: Experiment with different moves without fear.

Hints: Get help when you're stuck.

Card Designer: An ultimate tool that allows you to create the deck YOU like!

Daily Challenge: compare on the “apples-to-apples” scores with other player. Same game for everybody in the world, for each game. Also playable offline - your score will be uploaded to the Game Center when connection is available.

Competitive: four leaderboards for each solitaire on Game Center: Number of Wins, Best Time, Longest Win Streak and Daily Challenge Streak.

Eye-friendly: trying to utilize your entire screen to maximize the card size.

Finger-friendly: customizable gesture assignment.

The collection includes all popular and some not-so-much games. Please comment here if you want YOUR favorite solitaire added!

u/VladFein — 2 months ago

Is Solitaire dead?

This is most "vibrant" solitaire community I found online - not counting those around a very specific publisher.
Is the game dead? (It was suggested to me in another sub.)
It is both relaxing and brain-stimulating, depending on the variant you choose.
Quick win or long strategy battle - your choice.
I am patiently (pun intended) waiting for the Renaissance.

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u/VladFein — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/iosdev

Do free apps deter users?

I publish free apps (games), trying to get some downloads.
Assumption was: who would pay for an unknown app if there are so many well-known, established competitors?
I also have no ads, and state this in the "Promo Text" in AppStore.
I do have a tip jar, which results in a somewhat ambiguous:
"In-App Purchases - Yes"
Am I doing it wrong?

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u/VladFein — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/solitaire+1 crossposts

Daily Challenge is now in each of 97 Fein Solitaire games!

Every day, a random shuffle is selected for each game, the same for everyone in the world.

https://apps.apple.com/app/fein-solitaire/id6755098198

A win on the challenge’s date is counted toward your streak.

You can make up past dates to fill your calendar, but the streak will not be affected.

Future dates are not available.

Every Daily Challenge win is marked in the calendar. Wins on the challenge date are highlighted.

Note that there are week, month and year modes.

Start your engines!

u/VladFein — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/iosdev+1 crossposts

AppStoreConnect API sucks!

My app may be atypical. It’s a solitaire collection of almost 100 games.

I know for a fact that it is not unique in the scale either.

The issue is creating hundreds of Game Center Leaderboards.

I use separate boards for number of wins, best time, longest streak.

Developed a tool to create boards and add them to the proper sets via API - works OK.

Just added a new set, for the daily challenge. My tool created all 100 boards, easy.

The next step is to add them to  review for submission. My attempt to automate that piece of API failed, even with Claude’s help :)

So what do you do for multiple boards?

Click on each board, wait for page update, click “Add…” button, wait for update with animated sliding panel, click on a field to close it, clic to go back to the set, wait for page update.

TRY to remember what board did you click last. Wasted some time on going into already added boards, missed a couple - that’s fun to figure out which ones.

Did that, took me almost 40 minutes of clicking and waiting. Submitted.

Unfortunately, noticed an issue in the code. Recalled the submission, fixed the issue, went to submit again.

Guess what - need to re-add all 100 boards again! I know, this was my fault… 

u/VladFein — 2 months ago

Looking for YOUR favorite solitaire to add to my collection

So far I have 97 games. That includes relaxed version of many of them. Plus single, double and triple deck variants of a few. Plus draw 1 or 3 options for a couple.

What would YOU like to play?

The base list of 62 games:

Solitaire
Alaska
Algerian Patience
Ali Baba
Australian Patience
Baker's Dozen
Baker's Game
Beleaguered Castle
Big Ben
Big Forty
Big Harp
Blue Moon
Canberra
Canfield
Castles in Spain
Cell Eleven
Citadel
Clock
Corners
Crazy Quilt
Czarina
Easthaven
Eight Off
Fan
ForeCell
Fortune's Favor
Four Seasons
FreeCell
Golf
Grandfather's Clock
Indian Carpet
Josephine
Klondike
La Belle Lucie
Little Windmill
Martha
Medici
Montana
Monte Carlo
Mount Olympus
Napoleon at St. Helena
Napoleon's Square
Osmosis
Penguin
Pyramid
Raw Prawn
Royal Family
Royal Parade
Russian
Scorpion
Seahaven Towers
Spanish Patience
Spider
Spiderette
Storehouse
Tasmanian
Three Cells
Trefoil
Tri Peaks
Tut's Tomb
Wasp
Westcliff
Yukon
u/VladFein — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/iOSDevelopment+1 crossposts

Game Center Leaderboards limits

What I got from the docs:
- 500 hard limit
- max 100 per set

I have a solitaire collection (97 so far), each with wins, best time and longest streak boards.
Getting to the limit.

What do you do?

AI suggested that "most professionals use their own servers" - is that true?
I would like to be in the business of perfecting my games, not of maintaining boards.

u/VladFein — 3 months ago

Well, that hurts!

I am putting my sweat (not blood and tears yet) into a game app.
Started slow, a couple hundreds of downloads in 6 weeks.
Had five 5-star ratings (no reviews), some probably from the friends and family.
Today woke up to a 1-star, also no review (from Australia).
WHY? It's a free solitaire game. You don't like it - move on.
What motivates people to do that???

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u/VladFein — 3 months ago