A few months ago we informed you of the announcement that Apple had made in which it stated that it would begin to eliminate all applications that will not be updated for a certain time and that are also not compatible with the latest versions of the company's operating systems, as well as terminals. Well, the purge has already begun. In this first cleaning Apple has eliminated 47.300 applications. Before its elimination the developers were warned by Apple urging them to update their applications and games or to abide by the consequences that have already materialized.
According to SensorTower, the number of apps removed during the month of October it is 238% higher compared to the previous month. Games are the ones that have been most affected by this cleaning, representing 28% of them. Next, the applications that have been most affected correspond to the categories Entertainment with 8,99%, Books with 8,96%, Education with 7% and Lifestyle with 6%. If you make regular use of any of the applications that have been eliminated at the moment, you will be able to continue using them without any problem, but if you delete it from your device, you will not be able to download it again from the App Store.
Apple wants to maintain order and order in its application store so that it does not become what is currently the Play Store, where we can find applications that have not been updated in many years and that are also not compatible with all screen sizes, an aspect that most users do not like.
According to Apple, Cupertino guys review around 100.000 apps every week, between new applications or updates and is currently about to reach 2 million applications and games available on the App Store. With the launch of iOS 10, the number of applications that offer us stickers have increased exponentially, which has contributed a lot to the increase in the number of applications in the App Store.