Apple decided to do good cleaning in the App Store And what better time for this than the one we are in, in the middle of spring, in the time of renewal and dusting of everything that winter has left… and not only that, because this spring cleaning is not typical.

According to various social media developers, Apple has been sending alerts for several days to those who have apps in the App Store that they haven’t updated. “a considerable amount of time”to have some freedom to do so, or to watch your creations swept from the store.

“You can make this app available to new users to discover and download from the App Store by submitting updates for your review within 30 days“, Indicates a message that the company sends to developers warning that” if no update is sent within 30 days, the application will be withdrawn from sale “.

Of course, the complaints did not appear slowly, but the truth is that the measure makes a lot of sense: all software is vulnerable to vulnerabilities that threaten system security, and an application that is not updated tends to create this and other problems. However, there are more special exceptions that society would not have to reckon with.

.@Manzana subscribes to a few of my old b / c games that “haven’t been updated in a long time”

Games can exist as completed objects! These free projects are not suitable for updates or live service model, they are finished works of art from years ago. pic.twitter.com/iflH70j7q4

– emilia ✨ (@lazerwalker) April 23, 2022

And the point is that not all applications are designed to connect to the Internet, such as Los game developers they are the ones making the most noise in this regard, as there are many cases – mostly very simple games – that do not require an update … but they will have to have it if they want to continue to be in the App Store.

Be that as it may, Apple does not specify what type of update they should receive, so all indications are that they only want to verify that someone still cares about the applications. So just updating the process should have enough.

In any case, this is not the first time Apple thoroughly cleans the App Store. The previous one was in 2016 and the conditions were similar to the present: the developer of any application that has not received updates for more than three years will have a deadline to resolve or will be out of order.

In addition to this spring cleanup, which began on the App Store, Apple announced that it is “implementing an ongoing application evaluation process, removing applications that no longer function as intended, no longer follow current review guidelines, or are out of date.”