News On App Stores, October 2022

App Store 

Apple pauses the advertisement of gambling apps on App Store

Apple increased the ad space in its App Store in pursuit of bigger revenues from advertising, but that backfired. There was a public outcry shortly after as some of those ad slots were purchased by gambling services.

Full content and details (external sources): GSMArena

New ad placements from Apple Search Ads now available on the App Store

Apple Search Ads makes it easy to promote your app on the App Store. And now with the new Today tab and product page ad placements, you can drive discovery of your app in more moments across the App Store.

Full content and details (external sources): AppleDeveloper

App Store guidelines updated: new rules for apps with NFT and ad managers

Apple has updated the App Store guidelines to have specific mentions of apps with NFTs, as well as introducing new rules for advertising management apps.

Full content and details (external sources): 9to5Mac

Google Play Store 

India demands third-party Android app stores in Play Store 

India is the latest country to hit Google with a multimillion-dollar fine for its practice of requiring certain apps to be installed on Android phones

Full content and details (external sources): 9to5Google

Google Play system updates: Fix for Google Wallet with Pixel 7 face unlock

Google is beginning to reveal the improvements coming to Android phones, TVs, watches, and more, including a fix for using Google Wallet with Face Unlock on the Pixel 7.

Full content and details (external sources): 9to5Google

Huawei App Gallery

Huawei AppGallery 12.5.2.300 update brings new security improvements

Huawei has released a new AppGallery 12.5.2.300 update.

Full content and details (external sources): HuaweiCentral

Huawei improves AppGallery games section

People from the global gaming industry were given insight into how they could achieve an improved return on their considerable investment in new and existing games to boost AppGallery for game distributions.

Full content and details (external sources): HuaweiCentral

Huawei AppGallery Connect services now supports HarmonyOS apps

Huawei has finally upgraded AppGallery Connect and added the full-lifecycle services support for HarmonyOS apps. 

Full content and details (external sources): HuaweiCentral