The Apple App Store is a digital application distribution platform for iOS developed and maintained by Apple Inc. The service allows users to browse and download applications that were developed with Apple's iOS SDK. The apps can be downloaded directly to an iOS device, or onto a personal computer via iTunes.
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Apple bans app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity, again (Updated)
Apple removes HKmap.live, a crowdsourced live maps app that protestors in Hong Kong used to track police movements, days ...
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Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)
Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...
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The fastest way to update (and delete) apps on iOS 13
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Apple's revised policy for kids' apps allows devs to collect anonymized data and display ads
Apple has revised its App Store Review Guidelines with regards to kids apps and its upcoming single sign-on feature Sign ...
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Apple denies favoring its own apps in App Store search results (Updated)
A new investigation by The Wall Street Journal has revealed that the company's own mobile apps are often first in App Store ...
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Apple Arcade launches on September 19 at $4.99 a month
Apple today revealed details about its upcoming gaming service, Arcade. Now we know it'll cost $4.99 for the whole family ...
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TikTok is flooded by scammers promoting adult sites
TikTok has been inundated by a slew of scammers seeking to take advantage of its quickly growing userbase – and get them ...
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Instagram and WhatsApp get a 'from Facebook' stamp to remind you who's boss
To be honest, I'm kind of impressed Facebook held out this long. After buying WhatsApp and Instagram several years ago, ...
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YouTube is the world's top-grossing video app with $138M in user spending
Google must be happy. YouTube is the world's top-grossing app in the photo and video software category for a second quarter ...
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The new iOS Photos app makes it easier to manage and edit photos
Photos takes a few cues from Adobe's Lightroom
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The App Store is coming to the Apple Watch
WatchOS hits a major milestone
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Supreme Court ruling means Apple could face lawsuits from lots of angry customers
The United States Supreme Court ruled this week that users could sue Apple for allegedly monopolizing the App Store and driving ...
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Apple announces Arcade, its new game subscription service
Apple today announced Arcade, its game subscription service that claims to span mobile, desktop and other devices. Gamers ...
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This Chinese turn-based singing game looks amazing
Meetup Music (or 音遇) is a Chinese, turn-based singing game that has been lighting-up the country's app stores. We've ...
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Developers are our best bet to stop Apple’s App Store monopoly
Any day now, the US Supreme Court will issue a decision in a case called Apple Inc. v. Pepper, where a group of iPhone users ...
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The best ways to move your music from Apple Music or Google Play Music to Spotify
Spotify’s just launched in India, and I’m excited to try it out. However, I’ve been an Apple Music subscriber for over ...
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Apple's crackdown on screen-recording apps is a privacy win
Apple’s iOS screen recording functionality – which was first introduced in version 11 back in 2017 – comes in handy ...
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This week's Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained
With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the ...
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A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you
As we learned last year, Facebook has a habit of stealthily grabbing customer data to improve its own products and services, ...
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TNW's favorite apps for Windows users in 2018
Microsoft's app store for Windows has become a fairly impressive library of software for users, and we want our readers to ...
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Tumblr reemerges on the App Store after controversial NSFW purge
After a turbulent few weeks, it appears Tumblr may finally be back on track. Its app has now reappeared in the iOS App Store. ...
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Reddit's data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr's NSFW content
After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet ...
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Forget Siri: Here's how to use Google Assistant on your iPhone or iPad
It's safe to say the digital assistant wars are over. Siri, arguably, is awful, and the clear-cut favorite in the space is ...
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Apple acquires Shazam and announces it'll now be ad-free
Apple has officially acquired the musical identification app, Shazam. The hardware giant has also stated that the app will ...
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Internal Facebook note reveals clever 'psychological trick' to attract teenage users
Always on the lookout for novel ways to attract teens, Facebook purchased viral polling app TBH last October. The app fell ...
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Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from the Play Store
All cryptocurrency miners are now banned from Google's Play store. The new ruling came with new updates to Google’s Developer ...
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This app allows you to send rejected emoji to your friends
Declined Emoji: part 1 opens up a world of rejected emoji you never knew existed. Get ready for conversations full of inflating ...
