Apple And Google Immediately Remove Obsolete Applications In The App Store And Play Store, These Are The Terms!

The obsolete android app in the Play Store was immediately removed by Google. (photo: doc. pixabay)

JAKARTA - According to a new study, there are currently more outdated apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store than frequently updated ones

A study from analytics firm Pixalate, titled The Abandoned Mobile Apps Report, shows that Apple's recent announcement that it will soon start removing apps that haven't been updated for quite a while makes a lot of sense despite the fact that it wasn't well received by developers.

To compile its report, Pixalate crawled the App Store and Play Store looking for what it thought were abandoned apps or those that had been two years or more without being updated. The analytics company found more than 1.5 million abandoned apps among more than five million apps it checked.

While both mobile app stores are filled with abandoned apps, Pixalate only found 1.3 million recently updated apps and those that have been updated in the last six months.

For example, Apple recently updated its App Store policy to classify apps that have gone three years without an update as abandoned apps. The iPhone maker has said that it will start removing them along with apps that have failed to reach a certain number of downloads over the past year.

Once Apple marks an app as “obsolete”, its developers will have 90 days to make changes to the app before it is completely removed from the App Store. However, obsolete apps will only be removed from the company store and not from the user's device.

Meanwhile, Google announced in April that it would start removing outdated Android apps by the end of this year. Unlike Apple, the search giant will hide app pages and block installation on Android smartphones running a higher version of the mobile operating system or beyond two years of the app's target API level.

If you are an app developer who hasn't updated your apps for a long time, then now is the time to do so before they are removed from the App Store or Play Store.