Google removed more than 8,13,000 apps from its Google Play Store and Apple from its App Store. Know what is the reason behind banning the app.
Google and Apple have banned millions of apps from their stores. Pixalate’s ‘H1 2021 Delisted Mobile Apps Report’ revealed that over 8,13,000 apps were removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in the first half of 2021. Before delisting, over 8 lakh apps were downloaded from Google 9 billion times. Play Store.
According to Pixalet of California, these apps had 21 million customer reviews and ratings before they were removed from Apple’s App Store. This is the reason why millions of users are expected to have apps on their smartphones despite being removed from the App Store.
According to the report, 86 percent of mobile apps from the Google Play Store and 89 percent of mobile apps from the Apple App Store targeted children 12 years and younger. It also noted that 25% of Play Store apps and 59 percent of App Store apps had no privacy policy.
The report further stated that 26 percent of the apps were removed from the Russian Google Play Store and 60 percent of the apps were listed on the Chinese App Store. There was no privacy policy on the Chinese App Store.
Learn Why
Deleted Apps About 66 percent of deleted Google apps had at least one dangerous permission. This dangerous permission is also called runtime permission. Due to this these apps have easy access to the data, which starts affecting the performance of the system and other apps. Removed Many apps had access to the camera. Apart from this, there was also a GPS core in them.
