Latest App Store news

Apple blocked $7 billion in fraudulent App Store purchases in 4 years

Apple's antifraud technology has blocked more than $7 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions in four years, the company states in its latest annual fraud prevention analysis.
- Bill Toulas
- May 15, 2024
- 01:42 PM
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Fake Leather wallet app on Apple App Store is a crypto drainer

The developers of the Leather cryptocurrency wallet are warning of a fake app on the Apple App Store, with users reporting it is a wallet drainer that stole their digital assets.
- Bill Toulas
- March 11, 2024
- 10:54 AM
- 0
Fake LastPass password manager spotted on Apple’s App Store

LastPass is warning that a fake copy of its app is being distributed on the Apple App Store, likely used as a phishing app to steal users' credentials.
- Bill Toulas
- February 08, 2024
- 12:02 PM
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Apple says new App Store API rules will limit user fingerprinting

Starting this fall, Apple has announced that developers will be required to provide a reason for using certain APIs that can collect information from their apps' users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 28, 2023
- 04:26 PM
- 0
Flipper Zero now has an app store to install third-party apps

The Flipper Zero team has launched its very own 'Flipper Apps' mobile app store, allowing mobile users to install 3rd-party apps and extend the functionality of the popular wireless pen-testing tool.
- Bill Toulas
- July 24, 2023
- 01:22 PM
- 3
Apple blocked 1.7 million apps for privacy, security issues in 2022

Apple's App Store team prevented more than $2 billion in transactions tagged as potentially fraudulent and blocked almost 1.7 million app submissions for privacy, security, and content policy violations in 2022.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 16, 2023
- 02:06 PM
- 1
Russia demands answers after Apple kicks VK apps from App Store

Russian telecom watchdog Roskomnadzor demanded explanations today from Apple regarding the removal of all VK apps, including the app for the country's largest social network VKontakte, from its App Store on Monday.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 28, 2022
- 09:40 AM
- 1
Apple blocked 1.6 millions apps from defrauding users in 2021

Apple said this week that it blocked more than 343,000 iOS apps were blocked by the App Store App Review team for privacy violations last year, while another 157,000 were rejected for attempting to mislead or spamming iOS users.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 04, 2022
- 11:05 AM
- 1
Netherlands orders Apple to offer more App Store payment methods

The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) in the Netherlands is pressing Apple to lift App Store payment restrictions in the country.
- Bill Toulas
- October 07, 2021
- 09:16 AM
- 2
Google Play Store to add privacy information for all Android apps

Google announced the future introduction of a privacy information section on the entries of Android applications listed in its Google Play Store digital distribution service starting with Q1 2022.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 06, 2021
- 12:00 PM
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