Any application, to be available on the App Store, must follow strict guidelines imposed by Apple to ensure the safety of all users: in the event of non-compliance with these rules, an application can be removed from the store at any time. . Apple released a report on the security aspect of its store. In 2020 alone, using human expertise and technology, Apple blocked potentially fraudulent transactions worth more than $ 1.5 billion, protecting customers from attempted money theft and preventing the circulation of nearly a million new dangerous or vulnerable applications. Specifically, more than 48,000 applications were rejected last year because they contained hidden or undocumented functions, and more than 150,000 because they turned out to be spam or deceptive, for example aimed at manipulating the user by pushing him to make a purchase.
Apple then referred to the applications that are modified, after being approved on the App Store, to cause harm to users: obviously applications of this type are immediately eliminated, as well as those that require more data than those really useful for function (in 2020, more than 215,000 applications were deleted for this same reason).
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