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How long does App Store review take?
Estimated wait
~1 day
Based on published sources
Timeline guide
- Faster cases~15 hours
- Average cases~1 day
- Slower casesUp to 1 day
The 24-hour figure is per review attempt — a rejection restarts the clock, so a problematic app can take a week+ across cycles. New accounts and holiday-season freezes are slower.
Apple states that on average 90% of submissions are reviewed in less than 24 hours. Community-measured data (Runway's live tracker) shows a typical end-to-end wait of roughly 12 hours — most of it spent in the "Waiting for Review" queue, with the review itself taking about an hour.
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Outliers exist: first submissions of brand-new apps, apps hit by a rejection-resubmit cycle, and periodic backlog spikes can take several days.
How the process works
- 1Submit for review
- 2Waiting for Review — most of the wait (~hours)
- 3In Review (~1–2 h)
- 4Decision — 90% within 24 h (Apple) ↑ the time on this page
Last updated: 4 Jul 2026
Information is for general knowledge only.