Sarafan Mobile is a company that develops photo and video applications for iOS and Android devices. Some of their apps include Boomerang Video Maker, Reely Templates, Oddy Side by Side, Rolly AI Chatbot, and Text on Photo Editor – Fontly. Sarafan Mobile, a Chilean photo application developer, recently made a post on X (formerly Twitter). The developer made a couple of claims in the post. Founder of Sarafan Mobile, Viktor Seraleev posted on X and lamented the agony his team and their families are facing due to Apple’s action. Seraleev said
Apple’s Response
With regard to all the claims that Sarafan and its founder Viktor Seraleev made, Apple has responded. An official statement from Apple says
“Upon further review of the activity associated with your Apple Developer Program membership, we have determined that your membership, or a membership associated with your account, has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity. Therefore, your Apple Developer Program account has been flagged for removal. If you would like to appeal this termination decision to the App Review Board, you must do so within 30 calendar days.”
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Apple continues
“We have found a pattern of manipulative or misleading behaviour that has led to the termination of your Apple Developer Program membership. These behaviours can include, but are not limited to, inaccurate metadata describing your app or service, misleading app content, engaging in inauthentic ratings and reviews manipulation, providing misleading customer support responses, providing misleading responses in App Store Connect, engaging in misleading purchasing or bait and switch schemes, or other dishonest or fraudulent activity within or outside of the app.”
Although Apple made claims that Sarafan has “manipulative or misleading behaviour”, the company did not provide any evidence.
Final Words
Fonder of Sarafan Mobile, Viktor Seraleev has lamented that Apple removed its developer account. The company claims that it does not know why Apple did that. However, Apple said that it found a pattern of manipulative or misleading behaviour that has led to the termination of Sarafan Mobile’s Apple Developer Program membership.
If you found the article difficult to understand, here is a very short summary. Apple thinks that Sarafan apps have manipulative or misleading behaviour. For this reason, it blocked Sarafan’s developer account with $108,878 in it. Sarafan disagreed with Apple and sent an appeal to Apple. Apple also did not accept the appeal and it upheld the ban.
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