Apple to detail why some apps are removed from the App Store - 9to5Mac

For example, 30,000 apps were removed from the Chinese App Store in 2020 to comply with local regulations. In 2021, some bible and even study tool apps for iOS were “inexplicably” banned from ... Read More

Apple removes over 100 ChatGPT-like apps from China's App Store

Apple has previously purged around 30,000 games from China's App Store, then 94,000 more, and then 44,000 that China said did not have the correct licences. Now it's targeted a much smaller number ... Read More

Apple pulls dozens of ChatGPT-style apps from China App Store ... - 9to5Mac

For example, Apple removed thousands of games from the App Store in China over the last several years due to rules that require game developers to receive approval from regulators in the country. Read More

Generative AI services pulled from Apple App Store in China ahead of ...

Multiple generative AI apps have been removed from Apple’s China App Store, two weeks ahead of the country’s new generative AI regulations that are set to take effect on August 15. Read More

Apple will soon reveal more on why it removes certain apps from the App ...

Apple is known for removing apps that don’t comply with its guidelines. The tech giant removed as many as 30,000 apps from the Chinese App Store in 2020. Read More

Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads from App Store in China after demand by ...

Apple has complied with Chinese government demands to remove messaging apps from its App Store. Apple CEO Tim Cook is pictured holding an iPhone 14 in Cupertino, Calif. in 2022. Getty Images ... Read More

Social Media Apps May Disappear From Apple's App Store in China

Apple has previously removed apps from its App Store in the country at the request of the government, including thousands of video games in 2020 that did not have a government license to operate ... Read More

Germany wants Google and Apple to ban China's "illegal" DeepSeek AI — after it failed to comply with data protection laws

Germany's data protection commissioner has reported DeepSeek AI to Google and Apple as "illegal content" in a move that could lead to a ban. Read More

Apple promises to explain why it removes apps from the App Store ... - BGR

Apple has often been criticized for removing apps from the App Store at the request of certain states. China is one of them. The local App Store doesn’t have encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal. Read More