App Store Review Guidelines Monitor
Watch Apple's live Review Guidelines page. Get told which rule would block a ship.
An App Store Review Guidelines monitor watches Apple's policy page for changes that block a ship.
Guideline 3.1.1 does not argue with your sprint plan. A new in-app purchase rule, a kids-category line, or an account-deletion requirement shows up on developer.apple.com. Your PM hears about it from a rejected build. That is a stupid way to learn.
Apple sometimes blogs the change. Sometimes the page just updates. "Last updated" is not an alert. Your release train needs the clause.
Watch the guidelines URL
Paste https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ as a URL watch. Write the rule for your app, not for every developer on earth. Tell me when payments, kids, privacy nutrition, or account deletion language changes. Ignore navigation chrome.
AyeWatch summarizes what the live page added or rewrote. It is the same pattern as platform TOS monitoring. App Review is just the TOS that can stop App Store Connect. Legal teams monitor platform policies for Play, Stripe, and Meta the same way. Separate topics. Separate pings.
Apple often ships a quiet guidelines edit without a WWDC session. The blog post, if it exists, lands after engineering already branched. A URL watch is how you see the clause during planning, not during rejection. If you ship on both stores, Play policy is the second topic, not a bullet inside the Apple rule.
Product and counsel in the same thread
Route to the counsel who owns stores and the PM who owns the next version. If DMA or EU side-loading is in your plan, add that as another watch. EU AI Act compliance monitoring is adjacent if you ship AI features into the EU. Do not mix them into the Apple topic.
AyeWatch for legal is the beat. Templates if you also need a regulatory prompt. Free Preview is six lifetime runs across three topics. Pro is $9/mo. Daily is enough. Push in the week before a freeze.
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This is not legal advice. It will not guarantee approval. It will not read your binary. It will not watch TestFlight. It watches the public guidelines page so a policy change is not a surprise rejection.
Start with Apple. If that alert is specific, add Google Play policy. Then stop until both are quiet. Two store pages beat twenty blogs about "what Apple might do."