Over the weekend, Apple’s App Store was mired in controversy once more. As per a report by the New York Times, the firm had started pulling and blocking apps that allowed users to controls screentime management in their apps. “Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most…
Over the weekend, Apple’s App Store was mired in controversy once more. As per a report by the New York Times, the firm had started pulling and blocking apps that allowed users to controls screentime management in their apps.
“Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental-control apps, according to an analysis by The New York Times and Sensor Tower, an app-data firm. Apple has also clamped down on a number of lesser-known apps,” The Times reported this weekend.
This was speculated to be due to Apple’s own Digital Wellbeing service competing with these apps. Since iOS 12, Apple has shipped its iPhones with tools that allowed users to curb their own screentime usage.
