title: Android app suspended from Google play, can't get it reinstated
body: <p>Google has apparently decided to crack down on usage of Chinese SDKs, because both a client and a colleague got their apps suspended from the Play Store for using an old version of a Chinese SDK*.</p>
  
  <p>My client got the following email:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Hi Developers at {company name},</p>
    
    <p>After review, {app name},
    {app package}[Version:12725], has been removed from Google
    Play because it violates our personal and sensitive information
    policy. This app won’t be available to users until you submit a
    compliant update.</p>
    
    <p>Here’s how you can submit your app for another review:</p>
    
    <p>Review the Personal and Sensitive Information policy and make the
    necessary changes to your app. Make sure your app is compliant with
    the User Data policy and all other policies listed in the Developer
    Program Policies. Remember that additional enforcement could occur if
    there are further policy issues with your apps. <strong>Your app is using the
    AliPay SDK which is uploading the users' phone number without proper
    disclosure</strong>. Make sure to also post a privacy policy in both the
    designated field in the Play Developer Console and from within the
    Play distributed app itself. Please upgrade AliPay SDK version to
    15.5.5 or higher. Sign in to your Play Console and upload the modified, policy compliant APK. Make sure to increment the version
    number of the APK. Submit your app.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The colleague got a very similar email regarding usage of an SDK by Xiaomi.</p>
  
  <h2>TL;DR</h2>
  
  <p>We both quickly updated the apps according to Google's instructions and submitted new versions (with new versionName and versionCode).</p>
  
  <p>It's been 3 days and 4 versions since and the apps were not reinstated to the store yet. </p>
  
  <p>What are we doing wrong?</p>