Impacted app developers, for their part, continue to be up-in-arms regarding the incident – with two popular parental control apps, Kidslox and Qustodio, last week filing an anti-competition complaint with the European Commission’s competition office. Regardless of the reason, the incident has raised questions about how competition is handled between apps and the sometimes-competing platforms that they are sold on. It’s important to understand why and how this happened,” the company said in a Sunday statement, entitled “The Facts About Parental Control Apps.” “We recently removed several parental-control apps from the App Store, and we did it for a simple reason: They put users’ privacy and security at risk. Parental-control apps, which allow parents to keep tabs (and set limits) on their children’s on-phone activities, locations and more, are thus effectively collecting way too much data, Apple said. While it looks like a competitive move, Apple tells a different story: Its aim was to weed out apps that were using mobile device management (MDM) technology it said, which gives third-party control and access over other devices and sensitive information, including location, app use and more.

Among those that have been removed are OurPact, which has 3 million downloads, and Mobicip, which has 2.5 million downloads.

Apple is defending its decision to take down several highly popular parental control apps amidst a firestorm of backlash, saying it did so for “privacy and security” reasons.Īpple came under scrutiny this weekend after a New York Times article alleged that the phone giant had unfairly removed or restricted at least 11 top screen-time and parental-control apps from its marketplace – after creating its own screen-time app.

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