In December of 2020, Apple launched privacy labels for apps in the App Store. The idea is simple enough: show relevant information regarding what an app is doing related to privacy and data to the user. This gives them the power to make a decision, based on that data, before installing the app on their devices.
Privacy labels for apps available in Apple's App Store are meant provide at-a-glance information to potential customers. A way for them to see what an app's asking for before they download it. However, a new report says that many apps are downright showing false information to those customers.
Google has recently pushed several updates to some of its iOS apps on the App Store that now include mandatory information for Apple’s new App Privacy label feature.
Tweetbot has become one of the most prized Twitter third-party apps out there. Now, in its sixth generation, the app focuses on adding new features and changing how customers pay.
At the start of 2020, we chastised Google for failing to update the vast majority of its iPhone and iPad apps on the App Store with the new privacy labels that became mandatory in mid-December. And even though Google keeps insisting that it's not really attempting to take a stand against the new privacy feature from Apple, its recent actions suggest otherwise.
The Fuzion app launched in 2019. The developer found a way to make portrait photography even better with some fantastic effects, and now the app is getting even better.
Earlier this week, Apple seeded the latest developer (and public) beta of macOS 11.2 Big Sur. It didn't come with any major forward facing new features, but it did appear to take one away. It was just a rumor at the time, but now it appears it's officially official.
What started as a dispute in the United States has found its way over to the United Kingdom, as Epic Games continues to duke it out with both Apple and Google.
Parler, a social media network, has been informed by Apple that it has a limited time to enact a form of moderation on its platform or face removal from the App Store.
Google to this date hasn't updated any of its iPhone or iPad apps with the new App Store privacy “nutrition labels” since the new App Privacy feature section has gone live last month.
Amphetamine, a popular macOS app designed to keep a Mac notebook or desktop computer awake for a set amount of time regardless of the user's energy settings and other preferences, won't be removed from the App Store after all, according to its developer William Gustafson.
Apple earlier this year removed thousands of paid gaming apps from the App Store in China, but the total tally could be close to a whopping 100,000 purged games in 2020 thus far.