The much ballyhooed introduction of static analysis tools to the App Store review process has added new layers of headache for many iPhone developers (us included), but there are signs that this process is being eased a bit. Our most recently accepted update (for our file-sharing app, DropCopy) included the by-now usual ‘unauthorized private methods’ rebuke but this time Apple chose NOT to reject the app. Instead it encouraged us to take care of the unauthorized method issue in our next update. Since these ‘unauthorized private methods’ are almost entirely false-positives at this point (methods that we ourselves created that have analogous names somewhere in Apple’s gargantuan code-base) this is a welcome change of policy on Apple’s part.