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For the first time ever, Apple has published the App Store Transparency Report. You can read on the company’s website. It reveals several interesting things about the App Store, including the fact that as of 2022 there were 1,783,232 apps on the storefront.
In the document, first seen by (Via ), Apple also revealed that it reviewed 6,101,913 submissions last year (submissions can include updates to existing apps, not just new releases). Of those, it rejected 1,679,694. Amazingly, over 1 million submissions didn’t make it into the App Store for failing to comply with Apple’s display guidelines. The company also rejected 441,972 submissions on legal grounds.
Apple also removed 186,195 apps from the App Store in 2022. Last year, the company fielded 1,474 takedown requests, with the vast majority (1,435, to be exact) coming from mainland China. India was in second place with 14 requests. In the same time frame, Apple says it filed 5,484 appeals, including those that removed apps from the App Store in China. After a successful appeal, it also reinstated 169 apps on the Chinese app store. Last year, iPhone, iPad, and Mac users downloaded an average of 747,873,877 apps per week, which would be an even more impressive number if they didn’t also download an average of 1,539,274,266 apps per week again.
Apple agreed to begin publishing App Store transparency reports in 2021 as part of the company coming to terms with App Store developers. The number of customer and developer accounts deactivated, objective data about search queries and results, and the number of apps removed from the App Store, for various reasons.
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