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App Review Information — MegaPDF iOS

Apple rejected submission 17d75c27-bffc-4e94-b0de-a91ad6e16591 (2026-08-14) under Guideline 2.1 — Information Needed. Nothing was reported as broken.

The Notes field was not empty — it held 357 characters covering roughly items 3 and 4:

MegaPDF is a local-only PDF form filler: no account, no server, no network access. To test: open any PDF via the Files picker (any form with checkboxes works - e.g. an IRS form), tap a checkbox to check it, tap Sign -> Draw to create a signature, tap the page to place it, then Save. The app writes back to the original file via the system file coordinator.

That was accurate but far short of Apple's checklist: no screen recording, no list of devices tested, no statement about external services, regions or regulated material. The replacement below answers all seven points explicitly, because a 2.1 rejection is answered by completeness, not brevity.

Paste the block below into App Store Connect → your version → App Review Information → Notes (replacing what is there), and reply to the Resolution Center message with the same text plus the screen recording. Keeping it here means the next submission starts with it already written.

Notes field text

MegaPDF has no accounts, sign-in, purchases, subscriptions or shared user content, and makes no network connections. Every feature below is reachable on first launch with nothing to enter.

3. What the app does, and for whom MegaPDF fills in, checks, signs and corrects PDF forms entirely on the device, for people sent a form who need to complete and return it. The document never leaves the device.

4. Reaching the main features Any PDF works. The form in the attached recording is at https://github.com/SlyWombat/MegaPDF/blob/main/docs/review/MegaPDF-Test-Form.pdf

  1. Home → Open PDF → the Files picker → choose a PDF.
  2. Check a box: tap a checkbox or an empty printed square; tap again to clear. Fill a form field: tap a form's own text box; a sheet opens with its current value, type and tap Done. Undo restores the previous value.
  3. Sign: Sign → Draw (finger or Apple Pencil) or Photo (a photo of a signature; the background is removed) → tap the saved signature → tap the page to place it; drag to move, handles to resize.
  4. Add text: Add text → tap a blank line → type, pick size and font → Add.
  5. Change the document's own text: tap a printed line, retype it, Save. It keeps its size and font; Undo restores the original exactly.
  6. Search: the magnifier → type a word; arrows step through matches.
  7. Save: Save writes back to the original file ("Saved" confirms); Save a copy (under More) writes a new file through the Files picker.
  8. Redact: More (⋯) → Redact → drag across what must come out; tap a mark to move, reshape or remove it. Save confirms, offers Overwrite the original or Save as a copy, and says what was removed. The content is taken out of the file, not covered.
  9. Protect: More → Password… sets, changes or removes a document password. A protected PDF asks for it when opened.
  10. Open with: in Files, long-press a PDF → Share → MegaPDF (or from a Mail attachment). With unsaved changes open, an alert asks Save / Discard / Cancel first.
  11. Share: More → Share opens the system share sheet. With unsaved changes, an alert offers Save, Share without saving or Cancel.
  12. Export as Markdown: More → Export as Markdown writes the text as a .md file through the Files picker; the PDF is not changed.
  13. Find on a scanned page: in a PDF that is only pictures of pages, search for a word. The pages are read on the device (Vision), with progress and Stop; hits from a scan have a dashed edge and a note. Nothing is sent anywhere or written to disk.
  14. Print: More → Print opens the system print sheet with the document as it is on screen, signatures and ticks included.

1. Screen recording Attached: MegaPDF 2.1.1 on an iPhone 17 Pro Max simulator, iOS 26.5: cold launch, open the form from Files, tick and clear boxes, draw and place a signature, search, save, reopen from Recents, the Photos picker. The other steps need only an open PDF.

2. Devices and OS versions tested iPhone 17 Pro Max and iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) simulators on iOS 26.5.

5. External services, tools or platforms None. No network requests: no analytics, crash reporting, advertising, sign-in, payments, AI services or server. One embedded open-source library, PDFium (BSD-3-Clause), works offline. The only outbound link is "view the source" on the About screen, which opens GitHub in Safari.

6. Regional differences None. English (en-CA) and French (fr-CA, fr), following the device language.

7. Regulated industry / protected third-party material Not applicable: a general-purpose document utility working on the user's own files.

Permissions and privacy No permissions are requested. Signing from a photo uses PhotosPicker, which runs out of process and returns only the chosen image. No data is collected; privacy policy: https://electricrv.ca/megapdf/privacy/

Notes field text (macOS)

MegaPDF for Mac is the same app as the iPhone version, on the same record: no accounts, no sign-in, no purchases, no subscriptions, no user-generated content shared with anyone, and no network connections. Every feature is reachable on first launch with nothing to enter.

What it does, and for whom Fills in, checks and signs PDF forms entirely on the Mac, for people who are sent a form and need to complete and return it. The document never leaves the machine. It is sandboxed and opens only the files the user chooses.

Reaching the main features Any PDF works; the blank form used in the attached recording is at https://github.com/SlyWombat/MegaPDF/blob/main/docs/review/MegaPDF-Test-Form.pdf

  1. Launch → Open (or ⌘O) → choose a PDF. Choose several, or open a second one from the Finder while the app is running, and each opens as a tab in the same window; ⌘W closes a tab, ⇧⌘W the window, ⌃Tab switches tabs.
  2. Check a box: click a checkbox or an empty printed square — it is marked at once; click again to clear it.
  3. Sign: Sign → draw a new signature, or use a photo of one (the white background is removed) → click the saved signature → click the page to place it; drag to move, handles to resize.
  4. Add text: Add text → click a blank line → type → Return; the font and size pickers in the toolbar apply to it. Change the document's own text: with no tool selected, click a line of printed text, retype it in place, Return. It keeps its size and font; ⌘Z restores the original exactly.
  5. Cover: paints white over anything, by dragging, and says that it only covers. Redact is the tool that removes: drag over what has to come out, then Save; a confirmation offers Overwrite the original or Save as a copy and then says what was removed. The content is gone from the file.
  6. Find: ⌘F → type → Return steps through the matches.
  7. Save: ⌘S writes back to the file that was opened; Save As writes a copy. Its file-type menu also offers Markdown document: that writes the document's text (headings, paragraphs, lists, filled-in field values) as a .md file and is a one-way export — the PDF is not changed, and the app still asks to save it if it had unsaved changes. File → Password… sets, changes or removes a password; File → Save a smaller copy for email makes a smaller copy. Print (⌘P) uses the standard macOS print panel.

Screen recording Attached: the flow above on a Mac mini (M4) running macOS 26.6.2 — ticks, the signature placed, text added, find.

Devices tested Mac mini (M4), macOS 26.6.2; the sandboxed Store build is exercised end to end inside its container on every CI run (open, tick, fill, sign, type, cover, find, save, reopen, undo, tabs, the Markdown export).

External services None. No network requests, analytics, crash reporting, advertising, authentication, payment or server component. One embedded open-source library, PDFium (BSD-3-Clause), compiled in. The only outbound link is "view the source" on the About panel, which opens GitHub in the browser.

Regional differences None. English (en-CA) and French (fr-CA, fr); the language follows the system setting.

Regulated industry / third-party material Not applicable: a general-purpose document utility working on the user's own files.

Permissions and privacy Sandboxed. Entitlements: user-selected file access, printing, and com.apple.security.cs.allow-jit, which the .NET runtime needs to compile its code; nothing else. No data is collected; privacy policy: https://electricrv.ca/megapdf/privacy/

Item 2 — devices and OS tested (needs filling in)

Apple wants physical devices. Fill in what was actually used, e.g.:

Tested on iPhone running iOS and iPad running iPadOS , both via TestFlight build 27.

For the record, what CI covers: the iOS build and unit tests run on macOS runners against the simulator; the App Store build (0.2.8, build 27) is the artifact under review. Minimum deployment target is iOS 16.0; the app is universal (TARGETED_DEVICE_FAMILY = "1,2", iPhone and iPad).

Item 1 — the screen recording (needs a device)

Must be captured on a physical device on the latest OS, starting from launch, in one take. MegaPDF has no accounts, purchases, UGC or sensitive-data prompts, so only the core flow is needed:

  1. Launch from the home screen — show the app opening cold.
  2. Home screen → tap Open PDF → pick a PDF in Files.
  3. Tap two checkboxes/squares — show them marked.
  4. Tap one marked box a second time to clear it, then tap it again.
  5. Tap Sign → Draw → sign → save → tap the signature → tap the page to place it → drag it onto the signature line.
  6. Tap the magnifier → search a word → step through matches with the arrows.
  7. Tap Save → the "Saved" confirmation appears → Close → reopen the file from the Recents list on the home screen to show the edits persisted.
  8. Tap Sign → Photos once so the system photo picker appears, then close it. Note for whoever films this: no permission dialog will appear — PhotosPicker is out-of-process. The app has no permission prompts to record.

Keep it unhurried; a couple of minutes is fine.