My app was recently removed from the play store for missing the privacy policy inside the app.
APK REQUIRES VALID PRIVACY POLICY Your app is uploading users' Primary Account information to ************ without posting a privacy policy in both the designated field in the Play Developer Console and from within the Play distributed app itself.
I fixed this issue in the app and created a new release, but for some reason, the status of the review is stuck at Ready to send for review. How do I change this to In review?
You need to go to publishing overview (left side under dashboard) and confirm again. Then the status should change to "in review" after a while.
Pretty unintuitive, nothing else points to that.