Rift/PCVR: recently published apps missing from Meta Horizon desktop store search
Posting this because I've spent about a month on a support ticket and I've now isolated the problem to something that isn't specific to my app. I'd like to know whether other Rift/PCVR developers are seeing the same thing.
**The symptom**
My PC app is published and publicly live. The PDP loads fine for logged-out visitors, and it shows in My Apps as owned. But it returns nothing in the Meta Horizon desktop app's store search — not on the exact title, not on any partial or keyword variant.
Photo House VR PC — app ID 1792133525093173
https://www.meta.com/experiences/pcvr/photo-house-vr-pc/1792133525093173/
**What I tested**
In the Meta Horizon desktop app's store search:
1. "Overview" (Rift title, published 2022) — returns results normally.
2. "Portal Rush" (Rift title, app ID 26986461677664836, published around late 2024, PDP live at https://www.meta.com/experiences/pcvr/portal-rush/26986461677664836/) — returns similar games, but no exact match. **This is not my app.**
3. "Photo House VR PC" and every partial variant I could think of — nothing at all.
**Why I think this is an index problem, not a metadata problem**
The pattern tracks with publication date rather than with metadata. Older Rift catalog entries are searchable; recent ones are not. Step 2 involves a third-party app I have no control over, so this can't be explained by my keywords, genre, category, or title formatting. I've already been through all of those — including renaming the app to add spaces to the title, which made no difference.
I also noticed my PDP declares its canonical URL as the /pcvr/-scoped path, while older Rift listings (Meta's own First Steps, for example) declare the unified /experiences/<slug>/<id>/ path. I don't know if that's meaningful, but it would be consistent with recent Rift SKUs living only in a legacy index that the desktop client's search doesn't read from.
**What I'm asking**
- Can other Rift/PCVR developers check whether their recently published apps return results in the desktop app's store search? Please reply with your app and roughly when it was published — if this correlates with publication date across several apps, that's a much stronger signal than any one of us reporting alone.
- Can anyone from Meta confirm whether recently published Rift/PCVR SKUs are being added to the index the desktop client's store search queries? This is a different question from whether the PDP is live, which support has confirmed for me several times already.
- Is there a known issue here? If Rift store search simply isn't maintained for new submissions any more, I would genuinely rather be told that directly so I can plan distribution around it instead of spending another month on tickets.
My open support case is #00010458. If you have an open case on something similar, post the number — a previous round of this on the old boards suggested that linked case numbers get more traction than isolated ones.
Happy to run any additional tests that would help narrow it down.