update an app to the appstore: review time,and rate on the store?

Question

This is so frustrating ! i have upload our app to the appstore, and after 8 days it was approved , then i have download it and discover that the accelerometer is stuck!

so i went to itunes connect,change the release date to a future one, unchecked all the stores in the world, and it says: removed by developer. thats what i wanted. instead of deleting it.

then after couple of hours: I found the bug,changed that,upload an update (1.1), and now its in "waiting for review " again.

questions are:

1. is it take the whole process again? exactly? one more week ?
2. my place in the app store: will it be as i just post a new app? so they will put me in the new apps at the store? (as they did at the first time) ? OR they just put you at the end somewhere ?

i mean- do you get the same opportunity to be IN THE FRONT LINE FOR A WHILE - as a new app (i was at the 10 place of the new releases) ?

edit : the problem is, that i have sent an update to an app that is no longer at the store cause i have unchecked all stores from it, and changed the release date to a future one. so i wonder if in that case i will not be rejected,because its an update for somthing that is not at the store and not avliable for any store in the world! thats the only way for me to take it off the store and instead of erase it !

thanks a lot .

Answer 1

1) Yes. The review process will be started from scratch again on your app update.

2) Your app at v1.0 is already live - when you post an update (or a new app altogether) that gets approved, there's a tiny tiny chance it may get selected under the "What's Hot" section of your primary category on the Appstore. It will always appear under the "All Apps" section too, as an app that was recently released or updated.

Any rank in the charts will be unaffected by the update - but an update tends to boost interest and visibility.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Every time you submit your app to iTunes Connect it has to go through the review process. Yes, even for updates. But often the updates are approved faster, especially if you just state that one or two bugs were fixed. I don't know about the ranking, but I doubt that an update influences it.