Apple to begin removing abandoned and problematic apps from App Store next week

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• Reply 21 of 25

  asdasd Posts: 5,686member

  September 2, 2016 8:56AM

  This sounds good in theory but in practice lots of people will get a new phone and find a favourite app missing from the App Store when they try and download. 
  
  It seems more like a quick fix for a bad search algorithm than anything. 
• Reply 22 of 25

  right_said_fred Posts: 803member

  September 2, 2016 3:30PM

  asdasd said:

  This sounds good in theory but in practice lots of people will get a new phone and find a favourite app missing from the App Store when they try and download. 
  
  It seems more like a quick fix for a bad search algorithm than anything. 

  Problematic and bad apps need removing, whatever clever search algorithm is put in place. Especially when if you already had that bad app, you can still DL it
• Reply 23 of 25

  SpamSandwich Posts: 33,407member

  September 2, 2016 3:55PM

  jensonb said:

  Good move. I'd also like to see them enforce a requirement for Apps to be optimised for iPhone 6 & Plus sized displays. My carrier's Wi-Fi calling and messaging App is still running in stretched iPhone 5 format two years after the iPhone 6 came out. That is all the way crazy.

  Would be nice if Periscope (by Twitter) had a native iPad format.
• Reply 24 of 25

  dysamoria Posts: 3,430member

  November 5, 2016 8:22PM

  So two months later and they've removed how many abandoned apps so far? I still see a ton.