Apple has launched (PDF) its first App Retailer Transparency Report, as mandated by a lawsuit settlement in 2021. In 2022, the report reveals that over 1.6 million apps have been rejected, 186,195 apps have been eliminated for violating App Retailer guidelines, and China topped the checklist with probably the most government-requested app takedowns. MacRumors studies: In 2022, there have been 1,783,232 apps on the App Retailer, with 6,101,913 whole app submissions obtained and 1,679,694 apps rejected for numerous causes like security, efficiency, design, and authorized. Apple supplies numbers on the precise App Retailer pointers that have been violated by rejected apps, with the very best variety of single rule rejections (149,378) attributable to violations of the Design 4.0 rule and the DPLA 3.2 Fraud rule (32,009). A complete of 253,466 app submissions have been accredited after rejection when builders labored with Apple to resolve points, and 186,195 apps have been faraway from the App Retailer for breaking the App Retailer guidelines. The vast majority of apps faraway from the App Retailer have been video games, adopted by Utilities, Enterprise, and Schooling.
Apple outlines the overall variety of apps faraway from the App Retailer attributable to authorities takedowns, and China is on the prime of the checklist. The Chinese language authorities requested Apple to take away 1,435 apps, however 1,276 of these apps have been video games that have been eliminated for not having the GRN license that China requires. Apple eliminated 14 apps on the request of India’s authorities, 10 apps for Pakistan, and 7 apps for Russia. In different international locations together with Turkiye, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Italy, Latvia, and Nigeria, fewer than two apps have been eliminated on the authorities’s request. Builders appealed 18,412 app removals in whole, and Apple restored simply 616 developer accounts. Apple says that apps which are appealed have been usually pulled from the App Retailer for fraud or illegality, which is why the rejected enchantment quantity is so excessive.
There are 36,974,015 registered builders, and in 2022, Apple terminated 428,487 developer accounts. In line with Apple, builders are faraway from the Apple Developer Program “for quite a few causes,” however mostly due to accounts which are related with different terminated developer accounts. 3,338 builders appealed their App Retailer bans, and Apple reinstated simply 159 accounts. Once more, Apple says that it is because “most developer account terminations which are appealed are faraway from the App Retailer attributable to fraud,” so Apple rejects most of them. 282,036,628 buyer accounts have been terminated, however that quantity does incorporate all accounts created, even these made on the web site by non-iPhone and iPad customers. There have been 656,739,889 common weekly guests to the App Retailer and 747,873,877 common weekly app downloads. Buyer accounts searched the App Retailer 373,211,396 instances on common, and 1,399,741 apps appeared within the prime 10 outcomes of a minimum of 1000 searches. You’ll be able to obtain the report from Apple’s authorized website.
