App Store guideline 2.4.2
Apps must be economical with power and must not be able to damage the device. Unofficial explanation, not affiliated with Apple. Apple's text prevails.
- Guideline
- 2.4.2
- Section
- 2. Performance
- This page
- Unofficial explanation, not affiliated with Apple. Apple's text prevails.
- Version
- Guidelines last updated October 16, 2026
- Official source
- Apple's App Review Guidelines
What it means
- Apps should not drain the battery quickly, overheat the device or put needless load on its resources.
- The examples given are encouraging people to put a charging device under a mattress or pillow, and excessive write cycles to the solid state drive.
- Neither an app nor the third-party ads inside it may run unrelated background processes, with cryptocurrency mining as the example.
Apple's text
This page is an unofficial explanation in our own words. Unofficial explanation, not affiliated with Apple. Apple's text prevails. Apple's wording is on its page, linked below.
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