Many app and game developers for iPhone shared on social networks Here’s a default message from Apple giving them a warning: or update their app within 30 daysor the risk of being removed from the store.

The message is part of what Apple calls “App Store Improvement” and states: Apps that haven’t been updated for a significant period of time they will no longer be for sale and therefore not accessible to new users

Update or disappear

Time is of no use to anyone, nor to app stores. According to Statista, the Apple App Store receives about 30,000 new apps each month for new users, which must compete to appear in searches and recommendations. Therefore, it is not unusual for app stores to take various measures. limit visibility or directly uninstall apps that are not particularly relevant. Abandoned apps that haven’t been updated for a long time are easy victims of these cleanups.

Apple has warned that it will begin removing abandoned apps in 2016, although until now it doesn’t appear that the company has begun to take this restriction seriously. Few app developers have been out of Apple in recent days since their app not updated for “significant time”After 30 days they will no longer be sold.

.@Manzana removes a few of my old games that have not been “updated in a significant time”

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

– emilia ✨ (@lazerwalker) 23 April 2022

And it doesn’t look like a bluff. some developers specify it your apps are already uninstalled While other games like Pocket God remain in the App Store with their last update in 2015 as it hasn’t been updated for a long time. This measure is debatable, especially when it comes to apps or games that run properly even if they haven’t been updated.

Again, There will also be advantages. By forcing apps in the App Store to be up-to-date, it will reduce cases where apps are not properly adapted to the latest iPhone screen formats and/or latest iOS versions.

According to Apple, those apps that haven’t been updated for a long time will no longer be available to new users, but those who have already installed them will still be able to use them. so they also available for new users the only option is to update them, and the time period Apple gives is not very long: 30 days from receipt of notification.

Apple isn’t the only company cleaning up its store recently. Google has been doing the same for a long time albeit in a slightly different way: forcing developers to adapt their apps to new versions of Android, practically forcing them to update.

via | Anger