AI is turning Apple's app review process into a nightmare for synth developers

A surge of AI-generated iOS apps, with an estimated 10–20 new music apps launching daily, is overwhelming Apple's App Review, with developers including AudioThing, Igor Vasiliev and Sugar Bytes reporting waits of weeks instead of days. Unfiltered Audio's Michael Hetrick said its Sinusoidal Run Rhythm was rejected four times, including a reviewer hallucinating a licensing requirement for the term "Polyharmonic," and released it audio-only. Developer Marek Dendes said his CRUX Synth was rejected four times as "design spam" and "duplicates existing apps," with appeals unanswered.