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Quelqu'un aurait ce ventilateur de plafond chez lui, le modèle-là exactement https://www.create-store.com/fr/acheter-ventilateur-de-plafond-a-pales-retractables/201224-wind-clear-lamp-ventilateur-de-plafond-40w-silencieux-avec-pales-retractables-et-lumiere-led.html?id_c=533551 je ne trouve pas de vidéos sur Internet qui le font voir en condition réelle, et les photos du site, ce sont toutes des trucs mal faites en IA. J'aimerais bien me rendre mieux compte de ce que ça donne. Merci :)

I've already spent a lot of time to find something for the rack/trunk, but now I'm looking to put some water bottles on the fork and what I see is a single bolt. Do you have any idea where I can find accessories for that? Or even some key work I should look for? Thank you :)

Hey fellow devs, I want to share my experience with someone who's been stuck in a rejection loop for weeks. Maybe some of you have faced this too, and want to talk about it. Because it's rather exhausting, almost depressing.

About the App: It's a native iOS media caching browser (I mean it is now, but it was more of a media download manager when I started). It works 100% with local processing. So, no servers, privacy-first. Find it here: MVO Media Cache Browser

The obvious problem: Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal.

Of course, I was not naive and knew that I will have to fight for it.

Here's the timeline of what I tried:

Attempt 0: Send it like that to get started.
→ Rejected with "Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal" and not explanation, no detail, no human text. Only the basic

>Issue Description The app contains content or features that may violate the rights of one or more third parties. Specifically, the app provides potentially unauthorized access to third-party audio or video streaming, catalogs, and discovery services. The app and its contents should not infringe upon the rights of another party. In the event the app infringes another party’s rights, you are responsible for any liability to Apple because of a claim.

Attempt 1: Technology Neutrality Argument Argued that my app is a neutral tool. Like selling knifes, if someone cuts meat or harm people, that's on them.
→ Rejected with "Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal" and not explanation or details.

Attempt 2: Tried the GDPR Article 20 data portability approach. Talking about EU private copying exceptions. Even submitted a formal signed legal certificate (PDF).
→ Rejected with "Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal" and still not explanation or any details.

Attempt 3: Onboarding Disclaimer Then I added a 3-screen onboarding flow. Explicit text: "Do not use this app to download copyrighted content. You are responsible for your actions." Made the UI super clean, no hint of downloading functionality.
→ Rejected with "Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal". No text.

Ho, no, I'm lying, they put some text: "Upon further review, we identified additional issues that need your attention." and gave me the same 5.2.3

Attempt 4: Complete Pivot Rebranded entire App Store presence. Changed description, screenshots, keywords. Presented it as a "standard web browser with aggressive media/page caching for low-connectivity environments." Removed any reference to "downloader."
→ Rejected with "Guideline 5.2.3 - Legal".

I was not that much surprised, but the main problem for me here was that the review does not give any clues about what I could do to make it pass. At this point, I spent weeks going back and forth. Each appeal took 3 to 5 business days.

I got frustrated by the lack of feedback, almost gave up on publishing entirely.

The "Workaround"

The only thing that finally worked: Hardcoded blacklist of litigious commercial domains : the obvious one YouTube and many others.

Now, if a user tries to cache media from these, they see an explanatory message: "This domain is blocked for legal reasons." What a sad twist.

I've sent it to review again not waiting for much at this point. It passed. So, you could say that's success, and yes the app is technically published, but it doesn't work the way users will probably expect. Many will go for this app hoping to download from YouTube/etc. They won't find that feature and may let bad reviews.

Honestly, I'm tired enough that I've kinda abandoned the whole fight at this point, it is so restricted that I'm still hesitating to invest marketing into it.

Has anyone else dealt with 5.2.3?
- What worked?
- Is this "blocking everything dangerous" strategy sustainable long-term?
- Should I push back harder, or accept this limitation and work my marketing message around?

Happy coding everyone!

Developer Disclosure: I am the creator and developer of this app

Answer

Native SwiftUI app for offline access to web video/audio 100% local on-device processing. No ads, no tracking, no remote servers.

Better

Unlike cloud-based downloaders that route your data through shady third-party servers, MVO processes everything locally inside the iOS sandbox via a Swift + yt-dlp engine. It has AirPlay compat, Background audio, all the cool Apple things are supported. Storage toggle between full video or audio-only to save space.

Some commercial streaming domains are hard-blocked at code level. This was required after fighting App Store Guideline 5.2.3 rejections for weeks. Works fully with open-content platforms like TED (CC licensed), podcasts, openly licensed media, tbh a lot is still accessible.

Cost

Freemium: 10 saved favorites free so you can test, or even live like that if you delete thing on the go. Or $1.99/mo to have it unlimited and support my work.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6771783869?pt=979843&ct=r2&mt=8

Happy to answer questions about the tech stack or the App Store review journey (that was not fun, and I almost dropped it).

Also, I wanted to thank everyone that helped me during the beta! Almost 100 persons 🙏

Hello, I have bundled yd-dlp into an iOS app and most of the websites work except SoundCloud.

I mean, it may not even be related to the app thing as it does not work on my desktop either.

The command I have tried is:

yt-dlp 
  --verbose 
  --no-check-certificates 
  --no-cache-dir 
  --user-agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/147.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" 
  --write-info-json 
  --no-playlist 
  --playlist-items 1 
  -f "bv*[height<=720][vcodec^=avc]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[height<=720][vcodec^=avc]+ba/bv*[height<=720]+ba/b[height<=720]/bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio/b[height<=720]/best"
    "https://m.soundcloud.com/1hunxho/change-my-ways"

and it gives the error:

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version nightly@2026.05.25.234532 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds [acf8ab7a6] (zip)
[debug] Python 3.13.1+ (CPython iPhone17,1 64bit) - iOS-26.5-iPhone17,1-arm64-64bit (OpenSSL 1.1.1i  8 Dec 2020)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n5.0.1-4-ga5ebb3d25e (setts), ffprobe n5.0.1-4-ga5ebb3d25e, phantomjs present, rtmpdump present
[debug] Optional libraries: certifi-2026.05.20, curl_cffi-0.15.1b2, sqlite3-3.51.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0
[debug] JS runtimes: deno-unknown (unsupported)
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, curl_cffi
[debug] Plugin directories: /private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/9CA2768B-8DCD-4202-9813-8DE6D5C74C96/template.app/bin/yt-dlp-plugins/yt-dlp-apple-webkit-jsi/yt_dlp_plugins
WARNING: --remux-video is ignored since --recode-video was given
[debug] Loaded 1864 extractors
[soundcloud] Downloading main page
[soundcloud] Downloading JS asset
[soundcloud] Extracting URL: https://m.soundcloud.com/1hunxho/change-my-ways
[soundcloud] 1hunxho/change-my-ways: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] 2312468537: Downloading hls_mp3 format info JSON
WARNING: [soundcloud] 2312468537: hls_mp3 format not found
[soundcloud] 2312468537: Downloading http_mp3 format info JSON
WARNING: [soundcloud] 2312468537: http_mp3 format not found
ERROR: [soundcloud] 2312468537: This video is DRM protected
  File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/9CA2768B-8DCD-4202-9813-8DE6D5C74C96/template.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 763, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/9CA2768B-8DCD-4202-9813-8DE6D5C74C96/template.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py", line 735, in _real_extract
    return self._extract_info_dict(info, full_title, token)
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/9CA2768B-8DCD-4202-9813-8DE6D5C74C96/template.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py", line 373, in _extract_info_dict
    self.report_drm(track_id)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/9CA2768B-8DCD-4202-9813-8DE6D5C74C96/template.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1231, in report_drm
    self.raise_no_formats('This video is DRM protected', expected=True, video_id=video_id)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/private/var/containers/Bundle/Application/9CA2768B-8DCD-4202-9813-8DE6D5C74C96/template.app/bin/yt-dlp/yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1275, in raise_no_formats
    raise ExtractorError(msg, expected=expected, video_id=video_id)

When I try the same on my desktop (exact same command) I have

[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8
[debug] yt-dlp version stable@2026.03.17 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp [04d6974f5] (darwin_exe)
[debug] Python 3.14.3 (CPython arm64 64bit) - macOS-26.5.1-arm64-arm-64bit-Mach-O (OpenSSL 3.0.18 30 Sep 2025)
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 8.1.1 (setts), ffprobe 8.1.1
[debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.02.25, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.8.0
[debug] JS runtimes: deno-2.7.14
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi
[debug] Plugin directories: none
WARNING: --remux-video is ignored since --recode-video was given
[debug] Loaded 1864 extractors
[soundcloud] Downloading main page
[soundcloud] Downloading JS asset
[soundcloud] Extracting URL: https://m.soundcloud.com/1hunxho/change-my-ways
[soundcloud] 1hunxho/change-my-ways: Downloading info JSON
[soundcloud] 2312468537: Downloading hls_mp3 format info JSON
ERROR: [soundcloud] Unable to download JSON metadata: HTTP Error 404: Not Found (caused by <HTTPError 404: Not Found>)
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 765, in extract
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py", line 728, in _real_extract
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py", line 324, in _extract_info_dict
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/soundcloud.py", line 144, in _call_api
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1153, in download_content
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 1111, in download_handle
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 976, in _download_webpage_handle
  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 925, in _request_webpage

  File "yt_dlp/extractor/common.py", line 912, in _request_webpage
  File "yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py", line 4260, in urlopen
  File "yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 117, in send
  File "yt_dlp/networking/_helper.py", line 194, in wrapper
  File "yt_dlp/networking/common.py", line 359, in send
  File "yt_dlp/networking/_requests.py", line 361, in _send
yt_dlp.networking.exceptions.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Not the exact same error, but still not working. Do you have any tips to make it work?

Hello, tbh I love Redactle, and I've made my version called Wikireveal a long time ago. But the problem with those (Redactle included) is that it's quite hard (let's say not ergonomic) to play on mobile.

So I've made an iOS version of wikireveal, you can test it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6766313023?pt=979843&ct=it&mt=8

If enough people like it, and it does not backfire, I'll add features like streaks and other languages. Have a good reveal!