It seems Apple has started a new cleanup of abandoned apps

It seems that Apple has launched a new round of removing applications from its App Store, particularly those that developers have not touched for a long time

In a message sent to the affected developers, Apple said: “This app has not been updated for a significant time and is scheduled to go on sale in 30 days. No action is required to keep the program available to users who have already downloaded the program. “

He added that the app will remain in the Apple App Store if the developer submits an update for review within 30 days. “If no update is sent within 30 days, the program will be removed from sale,” said the tech giant.

It is unclear what Apple considers a “significant amount of time.”

As noted in Edgethe move has upset many affected developers, especially those who do not have time to update their work.

“It’s hard to break away from current projects to update old ones, just to keep them in store,” – developer BobbyW said on Twitter on Sunday.

Protopop Games developer Robert Kabwe, who also received a warning from Apple, described the company’s move as “cool”.

“I’m sitting here on a Friday night and working on myself [the] “Bone after my daily work, trying my best to make a living from my indie games, trying to keep up with Apple, Google, Unity, Xcode, MacOS, which are happening so fast that my head is spinning, and working on the old devices are worse, “- Kabwe said on twitter.

Meanwhile, coder Simon Barker wrote: “This morning I received an email saying the same thing about one of my apps. It hasn’t received any crash reports, still downloads after five years, doesn’t need v2, and Apple decided it was time to go due to rapid version changes. I don’t have time to push for significant change. “

As you know, Apple conducts periodic cleansing of abandoned apps to keep its store filled with recently updated software. In 2016, for example, it is sent out a similar message for developers by warning them to update their program or risk seeing it download from the store. In this particular round of exclusions, the company reportedly removed nearly 50,000 apps in the first two months.

It is unclear whether the current purge is part of a long-running campaign or whether Apple has recently begun stepping up its efforts on this front. In any case, the company hopes that its message will encourage active developers to update their programs, which will allow them to stay in the store.

Digital Trends has contacted Apple for more details on its apparent step in removing running apps from the App Store, and we’ll update this article when we get a response.

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