App Store Surfacing Old Reviews From as Early as 2008 for Some Users

[tfigs]

Glad someone pointed this out. I always sorted reviews by most recent. No option to do that in iOS 11. PLEASE CHANGE THIS

 

[luigi408]

This is how it was in betas. Reported it long time ago. I doubt it was a mistake by Apple. Unless they change their minds, this is how it might be from now on. It sucks. New App Store is the only thing I hate about iOS 11.

 

[Cmd-Z]

Make the App Store Great Again /s

 

[fairuz]

Heh, I remember the stupid original Google app. Literally the same as using Safari.

 

[C DM]

Get rid of 32bit apps but keep the positive reviews. Smart.

What does "positive" have to do with any of this (especially given that various examples in the article are quite negative)?

 

[Analog Kid]

This feels like a learning algorithm that's either overspecialized (this user's preferences are identical to Kane Hart and must be shown Kane Hart reviews above all else), or still learning (treat everything equal until you have a reason to prefer something else).

This certainly doesn't feel like an active decision by Apple to push 9 year old reviews until they change their mind...

This is how it was in betas. Reported it long time ago. I doubt it was a mistake by Apple. Unless they change their minds, this is how it might be from now on. It sucks. New App Store is the only thing I hate about iOS 11.

 

[mrz_V1]

Fixed that for you;

SELECT * FROM AppReviews WHERE date > DATEADD(year,-1,GETDATE())

Tim Cook, reach out to me ill take a job.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Why? 32 bit reviews might be useful for those who either don't want to upgrade to iOS 11 or have older devices that can't run it.

32-bit apps haven't been updated in nearly 3 years. They've been long ago abandoned by their developers. No real reason to keep them around anymore.

 

[Paddle1]

Apple has now REMOVED the ability to sort reviews by date from iOS 10. Guess they have no intention of allowing this..

 

[JosephAW]

This is a major fail. The reviews are not even for the current versions.
This is bad for developers who are trying to sell apps but show negitive reviews on something they fixed years ago causing a loss in sales.

 

[Noahsh2]

I’ve noticed that the version history for several apps is showing the most recent couple of updates as happening minutes ago, instead of the usual days, weeks, or months. Not a big deal by itself, but with this old reviews problem I wonder if it indicates some sort of chronological issue with the App Store.

I had the same initial impression but I think when it says “m” it’s supposed to mean months. And they probably won’t have minutes. Probably “today” or “1d” would show up for days but I believe M is months
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Fixed that for you;

SELECT * FROM AppReviews WHERE date > DATEADD(year,-1,GETDATE())

Tim Cook, reach out to me ill take a job.

What? Please explain more in detail so I can figure out how to do this. Thank you

 

[pat500000]

Man....everything has gone crazy for apple.

 

[BlueBook]

I had the same initial impression but I think when it says “m” it’s supposed to mean months. And they probably won’t have minutes. Probably “today” or “1d” would show up for days but I believe M is months
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D’oh! You’re right, “m” is months, “y” is years, “w” is weeks and “h” is hours. Maybe they just tweaked the format in iOS 11 which threw me for a curve.

 

[xpiogus]

It happens to me

 

[routine_analyst]

It takes COURAGE to show reviews out of order. As well as intentionally complicating everything in iOS and the product line.

 

[stevemiller]

"There's bound to be a few bugs" -apple on literally every single thing you will do on your device.

 

[EM2013]

Yep, here's Instagram:

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The heck is a blackberry?

 

[macfacts]

What does "positive" have to do with any of this (especially given that various examples in the article are quite negative)?

Sorry, I meant to say reviews that benefit Apple.

 

[C DM]

Sorry, I meant to say reviews that benefit Apple.

And how do those reviews benefit Apple (again, let's say using various ones that are shown as examples in the article)?

 

[It's a Sweet Cake]

Yes, and that’s super annoying coz reviews showing up are way too old to be relevant... Great way to sort reviews out...

 

[TomaxXamot]

Weird. Yesterday I was looking at a 3rd party Instagram app from the Canadian App Store and the most recent reviews were from 7 years ago so I was wary about whether I should download it.

 

[iGeek2014]

The App Store is a mess. In Spain you can’t go to the wallets compatible apps from wallet or Siri’s from Siri, there is not compatible apps what is a mess

Do you not have this option in Wallet OP?

 

[SOLLERBOY]

I think the issue is that they allowed dens to keep reviews after updates recently. Then they have removed the sorting feature but you can long press on reviews and claim they are helpful so it uses an algorithm to show the most helpful ones even if they are ancient. Really strange thing to do. Who wants to know how an app was 8 years ago?

 

[bwintx]

App reviews that the reader can't sort by date, as well as can't delineate by version, are utterly useless. If something has gone awry with an app on my device, I want to sort by date to see if others are having the same problem. Whoever decided to take away sorting options and the view-only-current-version capability obviously has never installed an app — or is simply a moron.

 

[ElZamo92]

I have accounts in Mexico and Australia, and I see VERY old reviews for apps like YouTube, WhatsApp, Bastion (which by the way doesn’t run on iPhone 8), some going all the way back to 2008.