# Apple's App Store Section 2.5.2 and Restrictions on Runtime Code Downloads

DevFeed: [Apple's App Store Section 2.5.2 and Restrictions on Runtime Code Downloads](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fixing-section-2-5-2-27359.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://saagarjha.com/blog/2020/11/08/fixing-section-2-5-2/>)

Published: 2020-11-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Saagar Jha](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/saagar-jha.md>)

Topics: [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines Apple's App Review restrictions on downloading additional code at runtime, focusing on section 2.5.2 and its earlier formulation as section 2.7. It explains that the rule supports the premise of reviewing an app's behavior on a submitted build.

## Source excerpt

From its inception, applications that wished to make themselves available on the iOS App Store--the de-facto mechanism of third-party software distribution on the platform--have been required to conform to a set of guidelines laid out and enforced by Apple's App Review process. Apple's list of guidelines have expanded and been amended through the years, but the focus has largely remained the same: preventing the distribution of applications that are fraudulent, malicious, contain questionable or illegal content, or undermine Apple's business interests. Much has already been said about the review process as a whole or Apple's choice of guidelines, but we are going to focus on one guideline that may be one of the most important of them all: the rule that dictates restrictions on downloading additional code at runtime. For the last couple years, this rule has lived in section 2.5.2 of the guidelines, and this is the name that we will be using to refer to it.