Age rating, category, price and availability
Answers for App Store Connect's age-rating questionnaire, in the 2025 version with the 4+, 9+, 13+, 16+ and 18+ ratings, plus the other settings Dinis enters by hand. Expected result: 4+.
Age rating questionnaire
| Question | Answer | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Parental controls / in-app controls | No | None in the app |
| Age assurance | No | No accounts |
| Unrestricted web access | No | Web views stay on each site's own host (WebsiteView.swift:212); any other link opens in Safari. Only true once R1 and N4 are fixed: R1 is fixed on rc2 (WebsitesPublic.json). N4 is fixed on rc3: WebPage sends links to other sites to Safari (see network-audit.md). |
| User-generated content | No | No posts, messages or comments; PTLanes is not linked |
| Messaging and chat | No | No user-to-user messaging. Ask is a question-and-answer assistant, not chat between people. |
| Advertising | No | None |
| Cartoon or fantasy violence | None | |
| Realistic violence | None | |
| Prolonged graphic or sadistic violence | None | |
| Profanity or crude humor | None | |
| Mature or suggestive themes | None | |
| Horror or fear themes | None | |
| Medical or treatment information | None | |
| Alcohol, tobacco or drug use or references | None | |
| Simulated gambling | None | |
| Sexual content or nudity | None | |
| Graphic sexual content and nudity | None | |
| Contests | None | |
| Guns or other weapons | None | |
| Health or wellness topics | No | |
| Gambling (real money) | No | |
| Loot boxes | No |
From rc8 on, Ask is not in the App Store build, so no generated content: the questions about AI or generated content do not apply. (In build 204, Ask produced AI answers about the program, on request, behind a consent step.)
Made for Kids: No.
Category
- Primary: News. This matches
LSApplicationCategoryType(public.app-category.news) and the newsroom behind the app. - Secondary: Business. That is where people look for a conference app.
Price and availability
- Price: Free (tier 0). No in-app purchases.
- Availability: All countries and regions. Participants travel from many countries, and their phones stay on their home App Store.
- Distribution: Public on the App Store, as Dinis decided today. The readiness pack recommended Unlisted for the Team app; that advice is about the Team app, not this one.
- Pre-orders: No.
- Release: "Manually release this version". The conductor releases it once Apple approves, so it does not go live mid-change.
- iPad: Yes (universal app). Release supplies iPad 13" screenshots.
- Apple silicon Macs and Apple Vision Pro: Untick both. The app has not been tested there, and a reviewer may open it on a Mac.
Export compliance
ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption = NO is in the build, so App Store Connect does not ask the question again. Basis: only Apple's encryption is used (CryptoKit, the Keychain, HTTPS). The yearly self-classification report is a legal call for Dinis (readiness decision 5).