Apple might finally start to clean up the junk clogging the App Store

Macworld An update to its App Review Guidelines might give Apple the excuse it needs to start clearing out the tens of thousands of garbage apps cluttering up the App Store. As noticed by our friends at TechCrunch, there’s new language in the document that gives Apple the authority to remove low-effort apps from overcrowded categories. Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference this week, where it introduced dozens of new APIs, tools, and guidelines for developers, including an update to its App Store criteria. The App Store Guidelines have had a rule for many years known colloquially as “the fart rule,” which allows the company to reject app submissions for overcrowded categories unless the app provides some sort of unique, high-quality experience: The App Store has enough fart, burp, flashlight, fortune telling, dating, drinking games, and Kama Sutra apps, etc. already. We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience. The new