App Store Guides

Apple quietly removes thousands of App Store ratings every month. Here is why ratings disappear, how to tell a purge from a reset, and which apps lost the most this month.

App Store reviews disappear more often than you think, and most of them are 5-star. Why Apple removes reviews, what gets deleted, and how to check your own app.

Thousands of apps disappear from the App Store every month. The real reasons apps get removed, what happens to users who already have them, and a live list of recently removed apps.