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Apple Says Apps Supporting Account Creation Must Offer Account Deletion Starting Early Next Year

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Apple today reminded developers that App Store apps that allow for account creation must also allow users to initiate deletion of their account from within the app starting early next year. The requirement applies to all app submissions starting January 31, 2022.

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The requirement follows updates to the App Store Review Guidelines in June. Apple encouraged developers to review any laws that may require them to maintain certain types of data, such as electronic health records, sales records, and warranty records.

As discovered earlier this week, Apple also confirmed that a revamped "Report a Problem" link has returned to App Store app pages on iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey so users can more easily report concerns with apps they've downloaded, such as scams. This feature is currently available for users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, and Apple says it will expand to other regions over time.

"Problematic apps diminish the App Store experience for users and developers, and we're constantly expanding techniques to identify even more types of problematic content for removal," said Apple. "If we suspect that a developer has engaged in purposeful manipulation, fraud or abuse, we will notify them and take action. Consequences may include removal of apps and may impact their Apple Developer Program membership."

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This is reasonable. Many apps will have to update. Also, I hope that Apple will not let them get away with it if they add the option in the app but make it almost impossible to find.
 
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This is great. I have been living with Koingo for nearly a decade and none of the over-the-counter solutions seems to have cleared it up for good.
 
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The EU has been pushing this for some time. It's been tagged with the line 'Right to Be forgotten'. It started with law suits against Google where individuals said they had the right to not keep showing up in search results. Then many EU citizens started complaining that Facebook was making it extremely difficult for users to delete their accounts and when Facebook eventually did, it was found that Facebook had still kept the users account, nothing was actually deleted, it just did not show up in the program. The EU then tagged this issue with Facebook under the 'Right to Be forgotten'. I have no doubt the EU will do the same with account deletion of app's in the app store, have it come under the 'Right to be Forgotten'.
 
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