Expedited review

An expedited review is a request asking Apple to move your submission up the App Review queue, granted at Apple's discretion and not something you are entitled to.

You ask through Apple's developer contact form, in the App Review section, not through Resolution Center. The form wants the app, the version, and a reason. The reason is the whole request.

What Apple has said it considers: a critical bug affecting users of a live app, and a time-sensitive event your release is tied to. In practice the requests that land are concrete and verifiable. "Our 1.4.1 fixes a crash on launch on iOS 18 affecting all users" reads very differently from "we would like to launch sooner".

Two things it does not do. It does not skip review, so a build that would have been rejected is rejected faster. And it does not raise your priority for the resubmission if you are rejected, unless you ask again.

Treat them as a limited resource. Apple has stated that expedited requests should be used sparingly and that overuse is taken into account on later requests. There is no published quota, so nobody can tell you the number, but the pattern is consistent enough to plan around: keep them for outages and real deadlines.

Do not build a release schedule that assumes one will be granted.

See also: App Review, Resolution Center, App Review Board.