Apple removed scam app Freecash from the App Store this week after the app spent months harvesting data from iPhone users, reports TechCrunch. Freecash reached the number two spot on the U.S. ‌App ...

Apple is shooting itself in the foot with how often it lets flagrant scam apps into the App Store. It's doing so at precisely the time is needs to do better for iPhone user safety. In just the last ...

Macworld examines how Apple’s App Store vetting process failed to prevent major scams, including a fake Ledger Live app that stole $9.5 million from crypto wallets and affected over 50 victims. These ...

Apple’s App Store saw 235,800 new apps in the first three months of 2026, according to new data published by The Information on Sunday, up 84% from the same time period last year. The meteoric rise in ...

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Apple is taking a tough stance on vibe-coding apps as the company is blocking updates or removing those apps from the App Store. Affected apps include Replit, Vibecode, and Anything. While Replit and ...

What’s behind a new wave of apps in Apple’s App Store? It’s probably two words: vibe coding. The App Store was flooded with 235,800 new apps in the first quarter of this year—an increase of 84% over ...

In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a ...

Apple is preparing to take its App Store fight with Epic Games back to the Supreme Court. In a new filing, the iPhone maker said it plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review another aspect of this ...

Apple’s App Store is under siege, and the culprit is vibe coding — AI tools that let anyone build apps by describing what they want in plain language. New app submissions surged 84% in a single ...

Apple told Cointelegraph that the fake Ledger Live app was removed and that the developer was terminated from its app store. Apple has confirmed it took down a malicious app that impersonated the ...