In 2020, Apple blocked almost a million applications. This is reported in the report on the company’s website.
The material states that Apple moderators carefully checked each of the 1.8 million applications available in the App Store. Also, the service administration monitors the update output. In this regard, about a million program publication proposals were rejected in the past year and about as many updates were blocked.
From the document it follows that 215 thousand programs have been removed due to the fact that too many personal user data collected. 150 thousand applications were rejected due to the fact that they have copied the functions of existing services, 95 thousand programs banned for fraud. 48 thousand applications were deleted due to the presence of “hidden or undocumented functions”. Also in 2020, the moderators were blocked by 470,000 developers accounts, which fell to violation of the App Store rules.
Representatives of the company Tim Cook stated that they were effectively fought with fraud connected with theft of money. In particular, suspicious transactions in the amount of 1.5 billion dollars were rejected, more than three million stolen bank cards were taken away from the service.
“Apple works unnoticed and around the clock to make the App Store safe and reliable place – both for users and for developers,” the company says.
In the summer, researchers from WHITE OPS found a botnet that forced Android users to be deceived to load malicious applications from Google Play. Google specialists delete a malicious program from the application store.