Apple did a major cleanup from the App Store

According to recent information, there was a massive removal of applications from the App Store during the third quarter of this year. Apple had a heavy hand to reduce the number of applications to its lowest level in seven years.

In the third quarter of 2022, a total of 1.643 million applications were registered in the App Store, which compares with 2.184 million in the second quarter. This represents a drop of about 25%, or the disappearance of a quarter of its catalog, with a loss of more than half a million applications.

This summer cleaning is particularly spectacular in its scale, although this practice is not a new one for Apple that justifies improvements in the App Store. In this sense, one measure is to evaluate applications and remove those that no longer work, no longer meet certain criteria or are obsolete.

The information available also highlights that, in the third quarter, the number of applications for the Google Play Store reached 3.553 million, while for the Amazon AppStore there were more than 483 thousand.

It is worth remembering that, since November 1, Google has targeted applications for Android that are considered obsolete. They must be hidden from new users due to insufficient level of Android API.

According to a study carried out by Pixalate, for the second quarter of 2022, more than 1.6 million applications listed on the App Store and Google Play Store had not been updated for more than two years. These so-called abandoned applications saw their number decrease for the App Store between the first and second quarters, while the number of abandoned applications increased at the same time for the Google Play Store.

However, Pixalate found that there were more abandoned apps than recently updated apps for both the App Store and the Google Play Store.

Apple did a major cleanup from the App Store

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