How Cloud Policies and Store Verification Delayed My Mobile App Release
The app was finished. Everything that actually stopped it from shipping was an identity check — and not one of them is in the SDK documentation.
I am building Kotohira Digital Residents for Shipaton 2026 — a membership app for a Japanese town of about 8,000 people, where a ¥5,000 annual subscription opens a resident card that only completes after you have helped somebody in the town three times.
By mid-August, the code was done. Expo, React Native, TypeScript, react-native-purchases. The test suite was green. A crawler walked every screen in five subscriber states across three dates. I had written a whole article about the checks.
Then the project did not move for ten days.
Not because of a bug. Every single thing that blocked me was a system asking Who are you, and can you prove it— and every one of them failed in a way the SDK...
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