2023-05-16 19:31:52
How do we see that WWDC is approaching? To the fact that Apple is making eyes at developers. After this study extolling the merits of the App Store for “small” developers, here is the annual survey around shop security.
In 2022, the manufacturer estimates the losses avoided by App Store customers at $2.09 billion, or $500 million more than in 2021. 714,000 accounts were banned from transactions, and nearly 3.9 billion bank cards have been blocked. Similarly, Apple rejected nearly 1.7 million apps from submission because they failed to meet security, privacy, and content criteria.
Apple touts its fraud prevention tools on the App Store
For the whole of last year, Apple took down 428,000 developer accounts due to their potentially fraudulent activity — the previous year, that figure was nearly doubled to 802,000 accounts. According to Apple, new methods and additional security protocols have enabled the App Store to prevent the creation of malicious accounts upstream. Apple rejected 105 million account creation attempts last year.
282 million user accounts associated with fraudulent or abusive activity were deleted, while the creation of 198 million new accounts was blocked before they were even created.
The manufacturer also explains that it has protected its users from 57,000 dubious applications from illegitimate stores, “ that don’t have the same App Store security and privacy protections “. These unauthorized stores distribute dangerous software that imitates popular apps or alters them without the consent of their developers.
This stat is particularly interesting because the security argument is repeated over and over once more by Apple to prevent sideloading on the iPhone — in Europe, the company will have no choice but to allow the installation apps outside of the App Store under the DMA.
How DMA will change Apple’s habits in Europe
We also learn that the App Store teams examine more than 100,000 apps per week, 90% of them being targeted within 24 hours. In 2022, 6.1 million apps were reviewed, and 185,000 developers took their first steps on the shelves of the store (sometimes helped live on the phone: Apple reviewers spent 20,000 thread to developers last year).
Among the reasons for the rejection of 1.7 million apps, Apple lists the presence of these undesirables:
- malicious code to siphon credentials from online services;
- undocumented or hidden functions;
- data collection tools without consent.
153,000 apps were rejected because they were spam, clones, or attempted to deceive the user. Apple also monitors comments and ratings left on the App Store: more than a billion were sifted through the store in 2022, and 147 million were blocked and deleted.
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