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    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2020-01-13</periodOfReport>

    <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001492422</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>APLS</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001543112</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Morningside Venture Investments Ltd</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>2ND FLOOR, LE PRINCE DE GALLES</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>3-5 AVENUE DES CITRONNIERS</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>MC 98000</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>O9</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode></rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription>MONACO</rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>0</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>1</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <nonDerivativeTable>
        <nonDerivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2020-01-13</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <deemedExecutionDate></deemedExecutionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>P</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionTimeliness>
                <value></value>
            </transactionTimeliness>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>540540</value>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>37.00</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>12556342</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Frances Anne Elizabeth Richard, Jill Marie Franklin, Peter Stuart Allenby Edwards and Raymond Long Sing Tang, the directors of Morningside Venture Investments, Ltd. (&quot;MVIL&quot;), share voting and dispositive control over the shares held by MVIL.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Jill Marie Franklin</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2020-01-20</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Frances Anne Elizabeth Richard</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2020-01-20</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
