Apple seems to want to do a big spring cleaning in the App Store. With this in mind, the apple firm announced: To make it easier for customers to find apps that suit their needs, we want to make sure the apps available on the App Store are functional and up-to-date. We have an ongoing app review process, removing apps that no longer work as intended, don’t follow current review guidelines, or are out of date.
Apple will therefore re-evaluate all applications and specify that applications found to be faulty and which will not be updated within the following 30 days will be deleted.
Presented like this, it seems legitimate on Apple’s part, but it seems that the reality is a little more brutal.
As we can see on Twitter, Apple sends emails to developers to inform them that their applications have been removed for reasons that seem quite arbitrary, and not because they do not work as expected.
Thereby Protopop Games is told that his app is being taken down simply because it is over two years old.
BobbyW sees its perfectly functional application on all devices removed because it has not been updated for more than two years.
Does this mean that 2 years is an expiry date for applications on the App Store? Things seem much more arbitrary, as indicated by emilia : your application has not been updated for a significant period of time.
For some time, in other words. As for the canon of Fernand Raynaud…
Updating an app that works perfectly for nothing is therefore the way to avoid getting kicked out of the App Store.
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