It has happened to all of us more than once. You start to accumulate files on the hard drive until one day you get tired, and decide cleaning. Or manually, verifying what files you should delete, or automatically, and with a stroke of the pen you leave the hard drive free of obsolete files.
And that’s what Apple is doing. A few weeks ago, someone in Cupertino woke up in the morning and decided that he was tired of seeing so many thousands of apps on the web. app store, and check that some of them are very old that no one downloads. Well, hala, all those, to the trash.
Last week we could already see that some developers were deleting your apps and older games from the App Store. Well today, on the Apple website for developers, the company has confirmed what is happening. Any app that hasn’t been updated in the last three years and isn’t downloaded very often will be removed from the App Store, unless the developer of the app updates it within a short period of time.
As part of the App Store Improvement Program, developers of apps that have not been updated in the last three years and that do not meet a minimum number of downloads, they receive an email from Apple notifying them that their app has been identified for possible removal from the App Store.
Apple initially gave developers 30 days to issue an update to the “marked deprecated” app in order to keep it in the Apple app store. The company has admitted that perhaps those 30 days are not enough to do so, and has decided to extend it to 90 days.
Apple has decided to “clean up” its App Store. Certainly, there are some applications that have not been updated in years, and it is very likely that they no longer work with the iOS, iPad OS Y macOS current. Well, all of those, or they are updated, or they will be eliminated. A good decision.
