u/hjl113

I've had Apple Watch 6 and Ultra now for years and I realized my routine is: wake up, look at the score, feel vaguely judged, change nothing. The data says what happened but never why, so there's nothing to act on.

I even tried to record blood pressure some times but not sure what to do with the data.

Curious what this sub does. Has anyone actually connected a score to a specific habit and fixed it? What did it take?

Not naming the app because this isn't a promo post, it's a therapy post.

Rejection 1 (Apple): EULA wording. Fixed in a day. Annoying but fine.

Rejection 2 (Apple): my annual subscription card showed "per month" pricing more prominently than the total yearly price. There's a specific guideline for this (3.1.2c). I'd read the guidelines twice and still missed it. Fixed, approved.

Then Google. My app touches health data (voice journaling crossed with sleep/heart data from your watch), and Google's health policy machine decided the whole app was out of policy. Suspended, not rejected. Suspended means the package name is dead forever. I appealed with a detailed explanation. Denied in what felt like minutes. I'm still not convinced a human read it. Only path forward: new package name, new listing, republish from zero (so much pain in the a$$), this time with a wellness disclaimer and the minimum possible health permissions. Approved.

Lessons, in case they save someone a month: the two stores are different countries with different laws, passing one means nothing for the other. Health-adjacent categories get machine-reviewed harshly, ask for fewer permissions than you think you need. And a suspension kills the package name permanently, so if you're in a sensitive category, maybe don't launch on your "real" identifier first.

Happy to answer anything. What's the worst review outcome you've eaten?

Solo, first consumer app, health/journaling space. The standard advice is go broad, journaling is massive.

I'm trying to do the opposite: only targeting people who already own an Apple/Android Watch, Oura, or Whoop. They spent real money to track their health, and they hit one specific annoyance my app fixes. The thinking is that I'd rather be loved by a tiny audience with a burning problem than ignored by a huge one with a mild problem.

The scary part: if the wedge is wrong, I've spent my whole launch on a market that was never there.

Anyone who started deliberately narrow: did it compound, or did you quietly widen within a few months anyway?

Much appreciate any feedback.