I can no longer leave an app review in the iTunes store

Over FIVE YEARS on and Apple continues to ignore this bug. And yes, it is a bug because the error message is incorrect.

At the very least, Apple should change the text of the error message to cover ALL the situations that can cause it to appear.

Apple should take pride in its App Store, but apparently "better than the Google/Android App Store" is the limit of their ambitions.

Same exact problem here. At this point I suppose they are not going to fix it. 😐

So we're in 2016 and this App Store review & rate problem still persists! I bought an iPad Air in 2014 and I've never been able to leave a review. Always the same issue: "you have to own the app first". But I have already downloaded the app(s) I want to review. This is strange!

Same problem, I think in this case because my wife bought it and I was entitled to download under family sharing.

Have any of you changed the country of the App Store?

I Believe that this is happening to me with the apps download under other country app store once I try to review them while using the App Store from another country.

The same issue got reproduced for us.

Scenario: We have two apps Say A & B.

User can review for A / B or both only if user downloads A + B at least once on any device.

Hopes the given scenario helps to debug the issue.

Same issue here trying to review it on my iPhone . I have same app on my iPad.

Cant review it but i can open it from the same window. A bug that has not been fixed in 6 years?

Perhaps it's not a bug. Maybe you have been blacklisted from leaving a review on particular apps?

The same issue. I think that is because of the beta I tested with my Apple ID, because some of my apps are not in my purchase list and exactly these apps I cannot rate. If it is true, then, god ****, Apple, don't you really care anymore?

this happened to me too in the past for some apps on iOS 8, now it's doing that again on iOS 9, really annoying!

Same thing for me. I can't post a review on Pokémon GO.

I have this problem too. It looks like for me that this problem occurs when you switch between app stores of different countries. First I was on app store of country 'A' and downloaded few apps. Then I switched to country 'B' when I moved there and I can't rate or review apps purchased when I was on country 'A'. I get the same error message. I do receive the updates of those apps.

Also, another issue is that the apps I had purchased when I was on country 'A' never show up in the purchased list of country 'B' even though I delete and re-install them. I was able to download the free and paid apps again (without having to pay for them once again on country 'B' store) but still they never show up in the purchased list. I bought a new iPhone and had set it up from scratch (with B app store). But still I don't see my apps I purchased on 'A' on this phone's purchased list.

Yes, it really frustrating to not have the choice of reviewing and rating the apps. Apple should listen to its users and rectify this problem.

It's been almost 6 years, face it - no f*cks were given by Apple and non will be, we're on our own.

Like so many others lo these many years, I can't review anything, either. No amount of resetting or redownloading or anything matters. Apparently I don't any of the dozens of apps I've purchased. I don't own anything I've purchased recently or long ago, on the same device or a different one. I've never failed to be constructive with my reviews back when I could write them and I've tried every trick suggested. When the same issue is known for many years and no one can be bothered to even fix the error message, you know Apple support is truly second class.

I have the same issue! ***!!!!!!! Seriously?!?!?!?!? Do reps or anyone concerned with helping rebview these forums anymore?