Apple has removed many apps from the App Store in recent months to maintain quality.
Apple has clearly moved past this period of struggling to have more apps than anyone else on the App Store and has focused on quality over quantity. With curiosity, in recent years, the App Store has not increased in number of applications, it has decreased due to massive app recalls.
And recently, Apple decided to eliminate a good number of apps that hadn’t been updated for years. According to data from Fineballduring the second quarter of 2022, Apple removed 439,000 apps from the App Store, and that number hit 540,000 in Q3 since we are in 2022.
The App Store has fewer and fewer apps, Apple has removed 500,000 obsolete apps
App Store apps have fluctuated slightly over the years, but the latest quarter highlights an accelerating decline in apps.
Apple removes apps to maintain ‘quality’
Based on shared data, apps and games available on the App Store They have gone from 2,184,456 at the start of the year to 1,642,759 applications today.. A record of more than half a million applications in just a few months.
It should be noted that removing apps from the App Store is a perennial practice started by Apple as part of maintaining quality on the platform. However, the recent increase in deleted apps can be attributed to various decisions taken by the company to improve the user experience.
In April 2022, Apple notified developers that it would launch a plan to remove old apps that hadn’t been updated for a while. Apple has never set a minimum time to update apps, but it’s clearly a necessary rule.
The App Store is many years old, and the total number of apps has gone up and down over the years, usually due to these types of actions by Apple. Other app stores, such as Google’s Play Store on Android doesn’t take this kind of measure and already has more than three and a half million appsmore than double that of the App Store.
Nail Apple’s important decision to maintain good quality in your app store. It is true that fraudulent applications have also been eliminated in recent months, but their number is nothing compared to that of obsolete applications.
