We Switched from React Native 0.70 to Swift 6.0 and Cut iOS App Store Rejection Rates by 60% in 2026

By 2026, our team had spent three years maintaining a cross-platform e-commerce app built on React Native 0.70. While the framework served us well for early MVP development, we hit a wall with iOS App Store review rejections: our average release required 15 back-and-forth iterations with Apple’s review team, delaying feature launches by up to 3 weeks per quarter.

Why We Left React Native 0.70

Our rejection rate wasn’t tied to content violations, but technical edge cases that React Native’s abstraction layer struggled to address.…