Hi. I’m stuck in the same “app name mismatch” verification loop reported by others on this forum, and I’ve exhausted every content-based fix I can find documented.
The error I’m getting: “The app name shown on your OAuth consent screen does not match the app name on your home page.”
What I’ve verified: the app name “Melody String” is identical, character-for-character, across:
- The homepage’s tag
- The visible H1 heading (with an explicit id=“app-name”, per a suggestion I found in another thread here)
- The “About” section heading
- og:site_name and og:title Open Graph meta tags
Live homepage: https://melodystring.com
What I’ve tried, over 5 distinct content revisions across several days (each verified live and given real time — hours to overnight — before re-checking, to rule out simple caching lag):
- Added a basic About section naming the app
- Expanded it with a fuller functionality description
- Added a tag
- Split the privacy policy onto its own separate URL (/privacy.html), linked from the homepage, per Google’s own homepage-requirements guidance
- Added the Open Graph tags and id=“app-name” attribute
One more thing that suggests this may be a stale-data issue rather than a actual content problem: the Verification Center at one point showed a review result dated several days before most of these fixes existed — the app name mismatch was the only issue still listed even after a related “purpose not explained” finding cleared.
I’ve also since resubmitted for further review multiple times and have not received the promised confirmation/status email, despite Google’s own message stating one should arrive within days (I’ve verified my email settings are correct on things like Essential Contacts, etc. etc. and confirmed I have gotten emails but not related to this). I’ve since found several other people in these forums reporting the exact same missing-email experience, so this doesn’t appear to be isolated to my project. I even tried going “back to test,” then published again and re-did the process. Still the same issue. My app cannot be “internal” so I have to follow this process.
Domain ownership is verified via Search Console. Has anyone actually gotten a moderator or Google staff member to manually intervene on either of these two issues — the app name mismatch loop, or the missing verification emails? It seems I am completely stuck at this point w/ no path forward. Any confirmed fix beyond “make sure the name matches” (which is already true here) would be hugely appreciated - pls help!