APPLE NEWS ROUNDUP
APP STORE FRAUD PREVENTED
$1.5 BILLION OF SCAMS STOPPED
> Apple says its App Store team blocked more than 343,000 apps for privacy violations in 2021. The team also rejected 157,000 apps for attempting to spam or mislead. Over 34,500 were removed for having hidden features, while 155,000 baitand-switch apps were stopped. In total, over 1.6 million apps and updates were prohibited in 2021, while $1.5 billion of fraudulent transactions were prevented from happening.